North Carolina Newspapers

WEATHER fooler, partly cloudy, with »c*tt<*r*d liffHt shower*. Friday generally fair, continued cooler. SMr? Stmts -Pettis Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON Shoes made out of frogskin have appeared in Louisiana. When they're new, instead of squeaking they croak. VOL. 57—No. 251 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., THU & JR5DA Y, OCTOBER 20, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS POWERS STRUGGLE WITH FOREIGN ISMS' JERUSALEM IS FIRMLY HELD I AFTER ENTRY !ut Rebels Control Wide Segment of Holy Land Beyond It 10PPING UP~UNDER WAY; MANY ARRESTS .'KRl SALEM. Oct. 20. (TP). I n-oops today rounded up i A. ai> prisoners in Old Jeru s alter lifting two-day rebel storming gates ot' cen walls yesterday. The prison r>. ill men, denied being- rebels «v;i' ouestioned. examined f .-r.vv.'.uvi- bruises that might ivv been made by lit'lebutts and tld for identification. Sporadic fighting continued in le Moslem < v. ; te>- «here rebels re making their last stand. The >1 lot" Br:t;s >. occupat r -o tar is i"e Arabs killed a i 1 •' persons tunded, including three Butons. More than 3000 soldiers in the i salem area are conn-oiling "r -nan, Jewish and Av aenian l'a: tors. Mitary authorities • ed that hour modernly :i aied reb 1> might make a mass attack r - surrounding hills and where they an- encamped. Ni-ar'.v II*,000 residents last lie". cringed in their homes in e ;salerr.'s <>ld city where British t.'Os and police .having stormed, v I*"-!- century wa'!*, wired out 1 v.- r.;et ilia resistance ot" Ar ab evls ;n the Moslem quarter's l okf 1 streets. The British forces, including liiterl "Ladies From Hell" of the ilitok W ' -d crack C'old ■ :'ii g-!"> is. -:-ashcd their way i: :g'r the . ga .-s that stood i r t a: i shortly after |wn seized the Id i r.y from the Irab rebels. I I' was a n of Jerusa I' -k thou B troops under PJ®*1 .-.eral R. H. J governor, ■ barricades at P >n the north and »• Stei to the east »":!e Royal air force planes fooped with machine-stuns train i on ir■ <i .tttenni: Arabs. T;t":sr'r^injr plane*, modern I t< *he last siege of Jeru ilem 750 years ago when Saladin er.:e:v<i tht- city and drove out it crusaders. flew over the l-iat. crowded old city last night, roppinir thousands of leaflets in i- -a! languages—linglish, ra'-'.c and Hebrew. The frightened inhabitants— " Armenians. Jews and <-vr'P—weie instructed to re a." their home- during the ror>pi".g up" operations. Thm- was scant possibility that it An*os would be driven out of i* old city because they have in the Mosque area. Br:':>h hi:fhorities. determined to desecrate the Moslem tnf-i. are reluctant to shell or r."ad*» the area. * • Jgh the Christians. Mos and Jews awaiting rescue n old city far outnum !r" ehcls they were help ^ afte a complete breakdown ^ /hnj ity. The police had e"" '"d. their station buimed B': ^i-i-ed a"d snipers command r: 'ho streets. Th" Arab revolt, a protest *• " ' in flux of Jews under <• British mandate, has trained 1 1 i 'hat the British gov ■ d claim control only ;■'mediate regions around • ''jnlquarters. gion controlled by the 1 v;-iional government" r ■ 'ward from Jerusalem r: 1 "it arc, beginning with [•' t towns of Nablus. r and Nazareth; another 1 - • South Palestine sur -T >rd including Gaza, a n r.f the Jerusalem-Jaffa which is Jerusalem's <ea. and a large sec '■ ttiblical Bethlehem. fa. Anna Stubbs Jies In Savannah i t r", i of Mrs. E. L. Bostic U " ith regret of the death lister, Mrs. Anna Stubbs. si'-*"1'' ;t'i. Ga., her home. Mrs. t'JV been ill over a con Jera period and Mrs. Bostic L,! ' ^ *° her bedside recently / •' a critical turn her ill had taken. . < All's Fair at French Marriage Fair Whether they swing it like the couple at the left, or cool their ardor with an ice cream cone like the ones above, French couples at the annual "Marriage Fair" at Meaux, near Paris, enjoy the fete, which is specially designed to enable marriageable young folks to pick out their future mates. Eligibles look forward each year with pleasure toward this unusual French institution. CATS GOING TO TRYON FRIDAY Fans Optimistic as Passing Attack Drill Is Stressed By WILSON AYERS Down on the hijrn school ath letic field Coach John Stephens has been drilling- his Henderson ville Bearcats every afternoon in preparation for the game with the Trvon high Tigers at Harmon field in Tryon on Friday after noon. Although defeated last week by Marion 21 to 7. local fans are an ticipating a victory for the Red and White gridders. Coach Steph ens is drilling the team entirely [>n their passing attack this week. In this department the Bearcats have shown considerable weak ness and loose defense. In 1936 the Hendersonville IYyon game was a 6-6 tie, while last year the Bearcats won 14 to 0. Captain Johnny Magness and Bobby Quarles, who were injured in practice this week, may be out j.f the lineup Friday. However, it is hoped they will be able to play. A large delegation of local fans and hiirh school students are expected to accompany the team. The probable line-up: McCrary, LE; Magness, LT; Sims, LG; Yarborough, C; Coffey, RG; Morris, RT; Drake, RE; Quarles, QB; Sheppard, HB; Chandler, HB; Miller, FB. Subs: Bates, English, Dorn, Reese and Coston. Toomer In Double Eagle Shot Here, First On Course JACK TOOMER, pro at the Waynesville Country club, shot a two, a double eagle on the 155 yard seventh hole at the Hender sonville Golf and Country club yesterday. Toomer hit his second shot on the par 5 hole with a No. 2 iron at a distance of about 185 yards from the green. The ball hit the green and rolled into the cup for a two. On the next hole, Toomer scor ed another two for a birdie. The eighth hole is 210 yards and a par 3. Thus, for two consecutive holes Toomer's score was one-half of par—something of a record in it self. The double eagle was the first ever scored here, and local golf ers said today that only two have ever been scored in official tour naments in the United States. FELLOWSHIP MEETING The Fellowship club will meet tonight at the city hall at 7:30. LABOR BOARD IN SWEEPING RULING AGAINST STEEL FIRM i 1 - ' ! Issuance Sets Stage for Fight Through the Federal Courts I WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (UP) The National Labor Relations I board yesterday iound the Re ! public Steel corporation, Cleve land, O., guilty of seven alleged violations of the Wagner act, scathingly denounced its labor policies and ordered the re-hmng of 5,000 company workers involv ed in the "Little Steel" strike of 11937. The 100,000 word decision was a triumph for the Steel "Workers Organizing committee, an attin ate of the Committee for Indus trial Organization, which made an unsuccessful effort to unionize "Little Steel" after it had organ ized "Big Steel." The verdict, however, was not a surprise. The board made a sim ilar decision months ago and then withdrew it from the courts to correct possible procedural er rors. Counsel for the corporation indicated at that time that the board's ruling would be fought to the U. S. supreme court. In its ruling yesterday, the board held that "the company, not the union, had chosen theuuy to industrial, strife "It accused the corporation of illegal provocative" conduct in reputedlly seeking to deny its workers the right to unionize and added that the "whole history of the com pany's unfair labor practices, cul minating in this lockout of . y 20, had placed the union in a po sition where it had to ?figb its life or be destroyed. Although the board concede that the corporation need not \ employ 11 strikers who were con victed of crimes or pleaded j,ui h to charges of violence Rowing out of the strike, it brushed aside Republic's contention that. other strikers arrested during the <Us pute should be isolated for the same reason. The decisio ^ that the corporation had ltsel: been guilty of brutal acts of vio lence or was responsible for acts of violence during the stnkef.it more serious than those attribut ed to the strikers in question, an^th«* »n.l other reasons it does not lie in the mouth of the corporation to assert that the ot I fenses of its st[ik^a necessarily and of , nr that bar to their reinstatement, or that thev are any less fit to be em ployes than the corporation is to be the employer." On one of its most sweeping de cisions, the board ordered the cor , P°^Reinstate* all striking employes or pay remedial wages dating from five days after the date or reemployment application to the date of reinstatement or place ment on a preferential hiring Reimburse employes allegedly locked out at the Canton, O., Tin plate mill and the Massillon, O., (Continued on page four) HOEY TO SPEAK MONDAY NIGHT Appearance Here Will Mark Opening of Coun ty Campaign Democrats of Henderson coun-1 ty will open their campaign on next Monday night at 8 o'clock at the county court house when Gov. j Clyde R. Hoey comes here for an address. Mr. Hoey will discuss the affairs of state and issues of the state ■ and county campaign. Governor Hoey's reputation as a speaker and statesman is well known here, and a large crowd is j expected to hear his address. Women Dems Of County To Meet 3:30 P. M. Friday; The woman's Democratic organ ization of Hendersonville and Hen derson county has called a meet ing to be held at the city hall for 3:30 o'clock tomorrow, when wo men are urged to attend and men will be welcomed. Addresses will be made by Mrs. H. Walter Fululer, Mrs. John S. Forrest and M. M. Redden. NAZI RIFLED U. S. MAIL SAYS SPY WITNESS r ■_ Britons Intercepted Spy f Ring Letter to Frus ' "....-Irate One Plot ROMRICH "CONTINUES , ON WITNESS STAND » NSW .YORK, Oct. 20. (IT).— Gjicnther Gustave Rumrich, con fessed German spy, testified in federal court today that Private Erich Giaser of the United States army; 'stationed at Mitchell field, gjj-Ye him part of a secret army code book for transmission to Ger many, Giaser is one of three persons oi) trial on spy charges. Rumrich said Giaser pave him only two pages of the manual on radio procedure, used in contact ing army planes in the air. The two final pages, Rumrich said, finally were given to Karl Schleuters, pay-off man for the New York German spy network. < By MARTIN KANE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (UP) — A courier for the German war mini(Cry rifled U. S. mails on the Gerr4gtr liner Europa, a confessed conffaerate in Nazi espionage test'fjed yesterday in a curtailed session of the federal govern mer.2%y trial of two men and a g:^*raa,%ed» a-s -Oermai?-spira. Gustave Guenther Rumrich, twice a deserter from the U. S. army and now a witness to his own participation in what the gov ernment alleges was a comprehen sive espionage machine operated with the sanction of the German Reich, named Karl Schlueter as having bragged that he had ac cess to American mail carried on the German liner Europa, on which he held a job as steward to conceal his real occupation — a payoff man for the spy ring and a messenger for the German war ministry. He also credited Schlueter with hatching a preposterous plot, nev er executed, to forge the signa ture of President Roosevelt to bogus White House stationery in order to obtain American aviation secrets. Rumrich, a sunken-eyed young man who chewed gum monoto nously as he related the numerous details of his service for the ring, said he expressed disbelief at Schlueter's boast about the mail rifling. Schlueter, he said, then turned to Johanna Hofmann, red-haired hairdresser of the Europa, who is one of the defendants, and order ed: "Here, Jenny, get that out of the bag." Miss Hofmann, the witness con tinued, produced photographs which showed a contract between the Bethlehem Steel corporation and Amtorg Trading corporation, a Soviet company. He also pro duced photographs of machinery and cables between Bethlehem executives and Amtorg officials, who were at Zurich, Ewitzerland. "Schlueter wondered why some one in Zurich should write to Bethlehem Steel," Rumrich ex plained, "so he removed the let ters, steamed them open, photo graphed the contents and replac (Continued on page four) Fort Bragg Roads Blocked For 10 Miles As Greatest Night Review Of Anti-Aircraft Guns Is Staged (Captain V. A. Dash, retired, United Press correspondent, last night attended the largest night ; J review of anti-aircraft artillery 11 equipment ever held in the United ■ States. He describes the review ■ in the following story.—Editor's i1 note, United Press association.) I By CAPT. V. A. DASH FORT BRAGG, N. C., Oct. 20. (UP) — The most spectacular • night parade of motorized artil ■ lery ever held in this country — every piece of anti-aircraft artil > lery in the continental United ;! States—passed in review before • Governor Clyde R. Hoey last night under a blaze of lights which ri • vailed the sun itself. The regular garrison of Fort Bragg, under Brig.-Gen William ' Bryden, and the provisional brig • ade consisting of the anti-aircraft ,1 equipment, in all 5,962 officers ■ and men, 649 vehicles and 679 horses and mules, paraded past the reviewing stand in a display of armed might. Great long guns capable of hurling 95-pound shells 12 miles, drawn by clanking half-truck, half-tank monsters; short-nosed howitzers that shoot the same shell, hauled by 11-ton trucks, gave by their passage a hint of our answer to militant countries. But they were dwarfed by the I gigantic howitzers that take five 10-ton tractors to pull them, and which in action shoot 345-pound ' parcels of destruction. Contrasting were a battalion of the powerful midgets of the field artillery, the mountain howitzers, I each broken into six parts and carried on the backs of mules. A touch of the old artillery was giv en by a battalion of horse-drawn French 75's, with all the glamor of the older days as horses pranc (Continued on page four) REPUBLICANS CHECK RECORD ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUESTS HERE FOR NOVEMBER VOTING HoIIinersworth Intim a t e s Validity of Local Absen tee Law Will Be Tested in Federal Court Joe Hollingsworth, Republican member of the county board of flections, was given access to rec ords of absentee ballot applica tions this morning after an ex change of iuioprams yesterday be tween the local member and the state board of elections. Mr. Hollingsworth stated this afternoon that he was being: given a record of all absentee ballot ap plications that have been filed for the November election and that a record was being made in prepa ration for challenges against such ballots on election day. Jake F. Newell, chairman of the state Republican executive com mittee, stated yesterday in Char lotte that the state election board would be asked to investigate in Henderson county before the elec tion on November 8 if any illegal ities or irregularities were found in the examination of the records here. Mr. Newell, according to re ports from Charlotte, made this statement after Attorney General Harry McMullan had ruled at his request that Mr. Hollingsworth had the right to copy the list of absentee voters from the absen tee record here. In the exchange of telegrams ; yesterday b£tw*»en. HendarsooviUe and Chairlotte and Charlotte and Raleigh, R. C. Maxweil, secretary of the state election board, ruled that absentee ballot applications were a public record for public inspection. Henderson county is one of eight in the state with a special absentee ballot law, making it il legal for a person obtaining an absentee ballot to go to the polls on election day and get the ballot | back. Mr. Hollingsworth intimated this morning that this law would be challenged on its constitution ality. He further intimated that a test of the law would be made in the federal and not in the state courts. MAKE OVER 150 C. OF C. DINNER RESERVATIONS C. N. Walker, Asheville Banker, Will Be the Speaker Tonight More than 150 reservations have been made for the annual all-mem ber meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to be held at 7 o'clock tonight at the Skyland hotel, it was reported at noon today. The program, which will include a dinner, will be highlighted by an address by Clarence N. Walker, Asheville banker, and is as fol lows: H. E. Buchanan, toastmaster. Invocation—Rev. A. J. Linn. Group singing—Roy C. Ben nett, leader; Misses Mary Brooks and Kate Dotson, accompanists. Dinner. Introduction of guests—Toast master. Activities of Chamber of Com 1 merce—H. E. Buchanan, presi i dent. Treasurer's report—J. C. Mor row, Jr., treasurer. Reading—Mrs. Jno. H. Farmer. I Address—Clarence N. Walker. Motion pictures (local scenes) —Worth K. Lyerly. Song—"America." Boy Scout Troop 4 Meeting Is Set Troop leaders today promised i an interesting session for mem bers o* Boy Scout Troop 4 Friday ! night at 7:15 o'clock. Each Scout is asked to take a good, strong straight stick to meeting for the purpose of mak-! ing a "fast walking stick" and those who have not taken their I camp lantern to Scout quarters1 are reminded to do so. Changes of interest in patrols ■will be announced. Those who have not finished paying their dues are also reminded to do this at the same time. 1 Germans Present Lindbergh With Service Crdss He ard Ford Now Hold Highest Honor Given Abroad by Berlin BERLIN, Oct. 20. (UP).—Col onel Charles A. Lindbergh, who was denounced by 11 outstanding Soviet fliers as a Nazi "lackey" yesterday was presented the Ger man distinguished service cross by Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Gocring. The cross with the star of the order of the German eagle is the only German decoration available to foreigners. Henry Ford also had received it. Goering presented the decora tion in behalf of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. The American flier is here inspecting German airplane production. "(T:." war department in Wash ington said Lindbergh does not come under the act prohibiting U. S. military men from accepting foreign decorations as army re serve officers ,such as Lindbergh, are exempt from the law's provi sions). Lindbergh holds decorations from other foreign countries in cluding the Royal Air Cross of Great Britain and the Order of Leopold of Belgium. He also is a Chevalier of the Legion of Hon or of France. METHODISTS IN LAST PARLEY BEFORE UNION | Churchmen Throng to Charlotte for WNC Conference CHARLOTTE, Oct. 20.—Meth odists of Western. North Carolina convened at the First Methodist church here this morning at 9 o'clock in the forty-ninth and fi-! nal conference before the union i next spring of all three branches of Methodism. The historic conference, the seventh to be held in Charlotte since the Western North Carolina conference was formed in 1890, will continue through next Mon day at noon, when the appoint ments of the ministers will be | read, and already ministers and laymen from every section of the conference are in Charlotte for the opening session. I Bishop Clare Purcell of ch»r-! lotte, with the nine presiding eld ers of the various districts assist-j ing him, will administer the holy . communion as the conference opens. After the sacrament has ( been administered, the bishop will deliver a 30-minute episcopal ad dress, the only address he will make during the conference, he said yesterday. Organization of the conference will follow. One of the first acts of the conference, it was forecast, will be the election of Rev. E. H. Neese, pastor cf the West Asheville Methodist church,, as clerk of the conference to suc ceed Rev. W. L. Sherrill of Char lotte, who resigned the position , since the last conference after having served without interrup tion for 44 years. Rev. Mr. Neese j has been acting as assistant to Rev. Mr. Sherrill. Another important business mat ter scheduled for consideration at the session this morning, it was revealed, will be the election of representatives of the conference to the general uniting conference of th denomination in Kansas City next spring. Ten ministers and 10 laymen are to be named. The conference has 640 official delegates, including its 303 min isters, it was announced yester day. These delegates and numer ous other convention visitors are being entertained at the homes of Methodists and members of other denominations in the city. The at-; tendance at the conference ses-, sions, it was forecast, would more than double the number of actual delegates. ,. . „ At the session this morning (Continued on page four)* DIES MOVES TO FURTHER ALIEN DEPORTATION U. S. Will Use Pan-Ameri can Meet as Anti fascist Forum PARIS COMMUNISTS SEE 'FASCIST COUP' WASHINGTON, Oct 20. Il'l'l The Dies committee, invcstigsit itiff un-American activities, decid ed today to call upon the labor department to furnish names and records of 3,000 aliens who all<g~ edly are subject to deportation but are still in the United States. Chairman Dies said the commit* tee has received many charges that the labor department is withholding deportation of 3.0UO deportable aliens. FRENCH 'REDS' FEAR FASCIST 'COUP' PARIS, Oct. 20. (UP)— Acit# tion for a strong national union government was increased today with the appearance throughout. Paris of posters demanding that Communists be "thrown out of the French family." The posters were the first con crete evidence of a campaign »o outlaw the Communist party as part of the new trend developing from the four-power Munich agreements. At the same time, tho Communist party political bureau warned the nation it should guard against alleged preparation for a "coup de force" by "secret Hitler Fascist" groupi. TO WORK AGAINST SPREAD OF 'ISMS' WASHINGTON, Oct. 2<T(t!>)* Tho United States will use the forthcoming Pan-American con ference at Lima, Peru, as a for um to combat the spread of Fas cist and Nazi influence in Latin America through the initiation of one of the greatest campaigns to strengthen democracy in the world's history, it was indicated last night. A high government official said the drive against all foreign "isms" probably will be based on the economic principles laid down by President Roosevelt and Sec retary of State Cordell Hull in the New Deal's reciprocal trade pro gram, on its good neighbor policy and on the tenets of international law. Wholesale propaganda cam paigns such as certain totalitarian states are conducting in the Americas to further their political and economic policies will he avoided, it was said, because many of this country's experts feel that much of this propaganda now is defeating its own purposes. Nevertheless, the same experts believe that the propaganda, if continued, may become a real threat to democracy and thus must be counteracted. As a step in this direction, the United States will make known its intention to expedite the reciprocal trade pro gram on the theory that benefits of expanded commercial inter course constitute the most effec tive antidote to European and Asiatic political doctrines in ihe western hemisphere. America's traditional policy «>f avoiding all entangling alliances, it was said, will be scrupulously (Continued on page three) Tuxedo Demos To Meet Candidates W. E. Bates, secretary of the Tuxedo Democratic organization today announced a party meeting at the Tuxedo school house Sat urday night at 7:30 o'clock, with a free oyster supper, and at which all county Democratic candidates will be present. County Democratic Chairman M. M. Redden will be the principal speaker. Everybody will be wel comed. GERMAN CONVICTED OF BEATING WIFE WHO BECOMES U. S. CITIZEN MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 20. (UP). Gerhardt Weyers, a German, was convicted on a charge of assault and battery after his wife testi fied that he beat her and knocked her unconscious because she bo came a naturalized American citi zen. She said they both deoided 'o apply for citizenship papers aft t they were married in 1030. Wey ers, however, refused to complr'e the naturalization, she said, ai d attacked her when she did. Weyers was not sentenced pending filing of a motion for a new trial.