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WEATHER warmer Saturday tiered ihowers and cold Sunday. M'r b! *Ci* (Elu* (untrs Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON Drop kicking it no longer con fined to the sports page. The poli ticians start kicking when the re* lief rolls drop. HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.» SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS * * * * * * * * # # * # * * * * * * *•* ** "•* . S. S. Augusta ,NG READY t PEACE, IS W DECLARED China Governor "to irrender," Japs Of ficially State NESE CIVILIANS iVACUATE HANKOW LnCHAI. 0<t. 22. (UP)— rlcet, fired during the Japan- : celebration of the fall of Can Ltruck the United State, er Augusta, setting fire to , rplane on the ship > deck. Augusta was anchored in the ► ipoo river off Shanghai, pving of the plane was burned, i other damage wai done, protest wa* forwarded to »e»e naval authorities. 10RS PERSISTING L YU SELLS OUT ft'G KONG, Oct. 22. (UP)— alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek _jid on high authority today [ve arrived in Hong Kong, jbly to meet the British ani [dur and discuss peace be China arul Japan. «r military leader of all Chi |r« accompanied by his talent ^me!'ican-educated wife; by i thuii'-'-Hui, China's foreign |ter, u Yule gradiujie, and by I: Ching-Wei, president of the itive council until the war reorganization of the gov ern, when he was stripped of )sts. Chinese credit him both being a "peace at any price" and the originator of the ched earth" policy of de British ambassador. Sir A. Le Kc. , has said that he had htention of mediating the war, reliable reports were received krdav of a joint British-Ger [effort to persuade Japan and a to come to terms. iianjr was in a difficult posi faeed by dissension within ranks of his own followers, Ibiterness among the Chinese | the easy Japanese capture of [on, uiniost without the firing shot. IESE BITTER CANTON'S FALL fright, 1938, by United Press ONG KONG. Oct. 22. (UP) — Yu Han-mou, military com ic cr v; Kwantung province, I' lltc: :• ; to surrender to Ja i" the Japanese announced of fi.v here today. -tatenu-nt was made short |fter the Japanese mechanized ?s r.ao mpleted their seizure tie Kreut South China metropo Canton. the Kwangtung cap ar.<: unile the Japanese were faritig for a triumphal entry the captured city. : was understood that Prince ^niou. eicit st of the brothers of iese Emperor Hirohito, would Impany the conquerors into Jton. j I tement that General Yu 'surrendering" lent color to (Continued on page three) :SBYTER1ANS TO HEAR REV. J. A. ORR Rev. J. a. Orr, D.D., of pburgh. Pa., will preach at the :: s-rvice at the local Pres tr:a: church tomorrow. Dr. [is pastor of the First United w>ytt ; iar. church of Pittsburgh, subject will be, "Knowing "st's Love." Heroine in Fire Courageous Helen Kuzak, above, 19-year-old business girl from Cleveland, 0., roused 26 young women from their sleep and led them to safety when a fire broke out in the Clare Club, Baltimore, Md., residence club. Friends hailed Helen as a hero ine for her coolness in the face of the emergency. DELEGATION TO UNION PARLEY IS COMPLETED Methodists Hear Two Lead ers as Conference Continues CHARLOTTE, Oct. 22.—Wes tern North Carolina Methodists, continuing their forty-ninth and final annual conference before union next spring with the other two branches of the denomination, completed the election of dele gates to the unitine conference yesterday, heard prominent minis ters of the faith in strong mes sages, and prepared to go today into the last half of the epochal meeting. This morning at 9 o'clock the conference resumed the consider ation of business, this afternoon many of the delegates plan to at tend the Duke-Wake Forest foot ball game at Durham, and tonight Dr. G. L. Morelock of Nashville, Tenn., general secretary of the board of lay activities, will ad dress the conference. The conference delegates h»;1 a very full program yesterday and (Continued on page thre«> ORE FRENCH ARRESTS LOOM AS DUCE'S AGENTS INVOLVED ARIS. Oct. 22. — (UP) — famous "Deuxieme Bu *• (,ne of the world's finest ^^r-ospionage machines, hint nitht at a nation-wide spy Jia-U| leading to sensational en°v against Premier Benito ^'ini's secret police, the Ital Ovra. tatsts within the past 48 °f a high official of the : c« alien control department two Italian consular agents Vofis, along with three Mar Iw officials, were be . lfl some quarters to fore P v national scandal. l""1. these arrests and more to ^ rt was reported, close ties ; ^ n ;v Fascist spy ring and &■'J. ee n,a.v he disclosed. were dropped that the Deuxieme Bureau's round-up may bring1 into the open sensations an ticipated last year in a round-up of "Los Cagoulards" (The Hood ed Ones), a rightist organization alleged to have plotted revolution and restoration of the monarchy. The hooded men were alleged to have received large stocks of foreign arms—several arsenals were raided—and to have been supported by French royalists. There were predictions last night that evidence obtained by Spanish loyalist authorities for the treason trial of seven leaders of the Marxist Unification party in Barcelona may be of great im portance to the French round-up because it purportedly shows that foreign agents in Republican (Continued on page five) CZECH - HUNGARIAN BORDER TROUBLE FEARED AS PEACE NEAR IN ASIA'S 14-MONTH WAR ABSENT VOTE MINIMIZED BY MAN ONBOARD Hollingsworth Takes View After Examining Appli cations Here The absentee ballot is "not such a bugaboo as both parties seem to think," Joe Hollings worth, Republican member of the county board of elections, stated this morning after an examina tion of the records of absentee ap plications. A few days ago Mr. Hollings worth was given authority to ex amine and copy the record of ab sentee applications by the state board. Relative to this request, Mr. Hollingsworth stated this morning that this request was made when L. T. Dermid, chair man of the county board, stated that he was unable to find any law making this record public pri I or to the election. Mr. Dermid did not refuse the request to see the record, Mr. Hollingsworth said, but wished authority to do so. | Mr. Hollingsworth stated that his examination of the record showed a total of 306 absentee applications, of which 109 were Republican and 197 Democratic. He stated that no check or in vestigation had been made, but that from his personal knowledge of the people of the county there appeared to be only a few appli cations which would be chal i lenged. C0UNTYG.0.P. WILL COIWENE Platform Convention Will Be Held in the City Tuesday Evening The Henderson county Repub lican executive committee will hold a platform convention in Hendersonville on Tuesday night, October 25, James J. Pace, chair man of the committee, announced today. The party platform for the cam paign preceding the November 8 election will be drafted at this convention, Mr. Pace said. Mr. Pace stated that, in his opinion, the party platform should favor a more conservative county government, taxes favorable to home owners and industry, in creased old age pensions, higher wages for school bus drivers, re lief and assistance for needy, a reduction of unemployment and increase in payrolls throughout the county by closer co-operation with industry, and a long range farm program providing a full time county agent and county demonstration agent. LARGE CROWD TO HEAR HOEY MONDAY P. M. Governor Will Discuss No vember Election Issues; Public Invited A large crowd is expected at the Henderson county courthouse on Monday night to hear Govern | or Clyde R. Hoey, who will dis cuss affairs of state and issues in the campaign to be decided in the i election on November 8. A special invitation to all citi zens to attend the meeting re gardless of political faith has been extended by M. M. Redden, chair man of the Democratic county executive committee. Mr. Redden will preside at the meeting and will introduce Gov 1 ernor Hoey, who is widely known i in this county where he has ap peared on the platform many i times. . Special music prior to the speaking and during the course of the evening will be given by the Rogers String band. War in China Costs Nearly Million Lives; Arabs Ambush Britons t (By United Pre»») Peace in .the war in China; which in 14 months has cost nearly a million lives drew nearer' today. With the fall of Canton Japan ese were definitely in the ascen dancy as their troops pressed close on Hankow, the emergency capi tal in North China, and civilians were fleeing. « With the control of Canton, Japanese are able to choke off supplies of foreign arms and mu nitions, preventing aid from go ing to the beleaguered north and also throttling the trade of Hong Kong, one of Great Britain's most valuable trade outposts. The British are anxious for set tlement, and with Germany, whose interests also are gravely affect ed, the British are understood to be making a joint effort to have Japanese and Chinese come to terms. Meanwhile, in Europe, atten tion centered on the dispute be tween Hungary and Czechoslo vakia over how much territory Hungary will take. There was fear of grave border trouble with hundreds of thous ands of troops massed on each side. In Jerusalem, two. _British soK diers of the Coldstream guards were killed and three wounded by snipers in the old city. A lance corporal and a private of the Roy al Scots were wounded from am bush near Nablus. Twenty-two Arabs were killed northwest of Nablus when Royal Air force planes, Royal Hussars and armor ed cars went to the aid of an am bushed column of the South Wales border troops. Mrs. Wing Chosen Chairman Health Seals Campaign A message received here today from Dr. R. L. Carlton, managing I director of the North Carolina Tuberculosis association, announc ed the reapDointment of Mrs. Geo. F. Wing, Jr., as chairman for Henderson county in the annual Christmas seals campaign. Funds derived from the sale of seals here are used to operate milk stations in the public schools.! Mrs. Wing said she had accept ed the appointment and that p^ns for the campaign will be made public later. REV. WALL RETURNS; TO PREACH SUNDAY I Rev. B. E. Wall, pastor of the | First Baptist church, has returned from a vacation spent in South Carolina, and will preach at both the 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. ser vices on Sunday. AIRSHOW AT MEYER'S PORT HERE SUNDAY I 4 " An air show, featuring sensa tional stunting by a number of outstanding pilots and the famous bat wing act by Charles Zmuda, is scheduled to be held at Oscar Meyer's airport, on the Spartan burg road, on Sunday afternoon,, beginning at 2 o'clock. JUDGE ISSUING STRIKE WRIT THREATENED "Break Down of Law" Un der Michigan Governor Described By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE United Prect Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. (UP) Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola, of Michigan, yesterday blamed Gov ernor Frank Rlurphy for the | "breakdown of law and order" during the 1937 Flint labor dis orders and revealed that he and his children were threatened af ter he had issued an injunction against automobile sit-down strik ers. He made his accusation and disclosure before the Dies com mittee investigating un-American activities. His criticism of Mur phy was bulwarked later by John M. Barringer, former city mana ger of Flint, who described the red haired governor's activities in the struggle as "treasonable." The two men presented a sur prising picture of the labor clash which gripped national interest. Gadola described how sit-downers had taken possession of two Fish er Body plants and how he had issued an injunction to remove them. While the writ still was be ing argued, he said, a riot broke out at .a Chevrolet Motor com yliiot and seven men died* • Sje described in delail how Maurice Sugar, former counsel of the United Automobile Workers of America; Lee Pressman, chief attorney of the Committee for Industrial Organization, and Lar ry Davidow, another union attor ney, appeared flanked by six (Continued on page five) 1ST METHODIST OFFICERS ARE RE-ELECTED Plans Laid for New Year; Reappointment of Dr. Combs Petitioned Officers of the First Methodist church were re-elected last night; as the board of stewards met to organize and lay plans for activi ties of the new conference year. Roy E. Johnson was continued as chairman of the board for the second year; L. R. Geiger as vice chairman; Burt H. Colt as secre tary, and C. Reid Dixon as treas urer. Other church officers were elected at a recent session of the quarterly conference. With Dr. Gilbert R. Combs, pas tor attending the annual session of 'the Western North Carolina conference in Charlotte, no preaching services will be held at ( First church Sunday but the church school and other organiza tions will meet as usual. The an nual every-member canvass will be held within the next week or two, it was said. i It is not known here whether Dr. Combs will be returned for; his third year of services. Con ference appointments will be read by Bishop Purcell at Charlotte Monday. Although the bishop and M. T. Smathers, presiding elder, were petitioned by resolution and by many individual messages to reassign Dr. Combs to the local pastorate, no commitment indicat-, ing that this will be done has been received here. FRENCH PRETENDER DEMANDS THRONE TO BLOCK NAZI PERIL I PARIS, Oct. 22. (UP).—The Count De Paris, 30-year-old son of the pretender to the vanished Bourbon throne, yesterday violat ; ed his exile and flew to France with a demand for restoration of the monarchy to save France from German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's domination. The count, Henri de Guise, de^ fied arrest by flying from the Chateau D'Anjou outside Brus sels to a secret rendezvous with fa group of selected French news paper correspondents near Paris. On behalf of his 64-year-old fa | ther, the Duke de Guise, the sec ond in succession as "most Chris I tian king of the French," gave to the newspaper correspondents a j manifesto condemning the French ; government for surrendering to i Fuehrer Hitler's terms in the 1 four-power "peace of Munich" on | September 29. The count gulped down a glass of champagne with the corre spondents, hopped back into his plane and was back in Belgium before the news of his visit be ( came known. Because he is liable to imme diate arrest if found on French soil, the rendezvous was kept un til his plane had crossed the Bel gian border. The situation in France, he warned, has reached such a pre carious state that "only the mon archy will succeed in coordinating efforts of harmony and good will.' He referred to the Munich ac cord as "the German Diktat" and said that it was "not only a hu j miliation unprecedented in our 1 (Continued on page four) 1 Four More Nazis Face Spy Charges / y£k . | ' ' • ^ Two of four Germans recently arrested by army authorities for photographing Panama Canal defenses, are pictured above. They are Ernst Robert Kuhrig, who mended typewriters and other ma chines in the shop shown below, and Ingeborg Waltrant Gutmann (right), employe of Hapag-Lloyd, a German steamship line. The four people were held for action by federal courts on espionage charges as federal authorities investigated a possible link with the German espionage case being tried in New York federal court. OFFICIAL GERMANY IS LINKED BY RUMRICH TO SPY PLOT CATS DEFEAT TRYON, 20 TO 0 Local Boys Held Scoreless First Three Periods in Game Friday TRYON, Oct. 22.—Three touch downs in the final period gave the Hendersonville Bearcats a 20 to 0 win over Tryon high yesterday af ternoon. Held scoreless for three periods, the visitors scored twice on for ward passes and once on a blocked punt in the final period. The third period ended with the ball on Try on's four-yard line in Henderson ville's possession, and after two cracks at the line Quarles passed to Drake for the score. Quarles' placement failed for the extra point. A 35-yard pass from Quarles to Dorn set up the second Hender sonville score, and Quarles then passed to Dorn again for the touchdown. Quarles' placement was good for the extra point. Tryon was backed up late in the period and Shepherd recov ered a blocked Tryon punt over the goal line for the third score. Quarles added the extra point from, placement. The visitors used two full teams during the game but were without the services of Coston in the back field and Magness in the line. Both were out due to injuries. Hendersonville's most effective gaining was done on forward and lateral passes and Miller got away for nice runs around the ends on a couple of occasions. One-Time Capone Aide Is Murdered CHICAGO. Oct. 22. (UP)—An assassin shot and killed Bert De laney, 59, former superintendent of A1 Capone's $20,000,000 boot leg brewing industry during pro hibition, as he stepped out of his automobile. It was the eleventh gang slaying in Chicago in four months. w Say Defense to Show He Lied in Effort to Get Back in Army By MARTIN KANE NEW YORK, Oct. 22. (UP)— I Official Germany was linked yes terday to a Nazi espionage ring in the testimony of Guenther Gus tave Rumrich, bungling hanger-on of the ring, who testified a girl spy had named Capt.-Lieut. Erich Pfeiffer, of German naval intelli gence service, as her employer. The girl spy is Johanna Hof mann, red-haired beautician, who is on trial with Eric Glaser, U. S. Army private, and Otto Hermann Voss, aviation technician. Rum rich pleaded guilty. Pfeiffer, along with 14 others, was named in the indictment but is a fugitive, probably in Germany. The evidence concerning Pfeif fer was part of the government's unprecedented action in naming a supposedly friendly power as re sponsible for espionage activity. Traditionally the link between a spy and the employing country is omitted from evidence in peace time for reasons of diplomacy. i Cross-examination of Rumrich began yesterday, his fifth day on the witness stand, with an attack' on his veracity, an attempt to pi<?-! ture him as a "one beer-mug man" and a "habitual liar." Rumrich, who had told of pre (Continued on page three) I MILLS CLOSE; REGULATIONS CAN'T BE MET South Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama Workers To Be Out of Jobs CHILD LABOR"CLAUSE ONCE HELD INVALID (UNITED PRESS) Operators today blamed inabil ity to comply with the new wage hour law which becomes effective Monday for.mill and plant shut downs affecting more than 2,000 workers in the South. Four sawmills in Arkansas, the Scotch Lumber Co., at Fulton, Ala., Adams Lumber Co., of Mo bile, and the Mobile River Saw mill were closed. At Charleston, S. C., two bag ging companies are closed and at Lake City, S. C., Mayor Nettles said tobacco re-drying plants and three lumber mills are preparing to close. The four Arkansas sawmills closed yesterday by owners in pro test of their inability to meet the provisions of the wages and hours act were: the Northern Ohio Lum ber company mill at Parkin; Era kine-Williams mill at Madison; Dooley mill at Brinkley, and the Wallin mill at Earle. A total of 265 men were thrown out of wo^k by these shutdowns. A survey of larger mills in Ar kansas showed that none planned to shut down permanently al though a few may close tempor arily to readjust working hours. Officials at the Charleston, S. C., batrging plant of the Ameri can Manufacturing Co., employ ing 400, had announced "indefi nite suspension" of operations due to "uncertain conditions" result ing from the wage-hour law be coming effective next Monday and to government subsidy for cotton bagging competing with jute cov ering for bales. The Lake City, S. C., tobacco re-drying plants which will c'ose employ 1200, and three lumber mills also to close there employ 300 workers. Lake City's popula tion is 3.000, but many of the workers live in the surrounding Aired* Mayor N. B. Nettles of Lake City said he had telegraphed ap peals to President Roosevelt, South Carolina's two senators, E. D. Smith and James F. Byrnes, and Burnett R. Maybank, Charles ton, governor-designate, seeking federal aid for those who will bo unemployed. He had received no reply, he said. MUST PAY CASH FOR ALL OVERTIME Br GERRY ROBICHAUD United Prtu Staff Corespondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. (UP). Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews late yesterday rulod that employers must pay in cash for all overtime in excess of 14 hours a week at one-and-one half times the regular hourly rate paid before the fair labor standards act becomes effective at 12:01 a. m. Monday. The ruling was aimed at em ployers who legally may redu> e hourly rates of pay now in exce s of the 25-cent minimum limit established under the act, with a pledge that they will continue the same total weekly wages paid be fore the law became effective. Experts, explaining this latest ruling, said that without it an em ployer who had been paying 30 cents an hour could reduce the wage to the 25-cent minimum and (Continued on o*ge three) NEARLY 3000 U. S. VOLUNTEERS DIE IN SPAIN'S 'RED' RANKS By HARRISON LA ROCHE United Pret* Staff Correspondent HENDAYE, Franco - Spanish Frontier, Oct. 22. (UP)—Nearly 3,000 American volunteers, most ly members of the Abraham Lin coln and Washington Internation al brigades, have been killed while fighting in the Spanish loyalist ranks, an insurgent announcement said yesterday. Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's insurgent headquarters at Salamanca listed 2,888 American | dead since the outbreak of the Civil war 27 months ago. It was believed that a large part of them fell in three major offensives— the Ebro, Brunete and Teruel. The American volunteers, who are bejng repatriated under the . Barcelona government's decision to remove all foreigners from the battlefronts, gained their finst fame in. Spain when they helped repulse the insurgent attack on Madrid two years ago. Frontier advices yesterday es timated that about 500 Americars were being removed frum Spain. Twenty Americans arrived ?it Paris yesterday to sfeil for New York October 30. Franco's Salamanca headqunr ters also revealed that the United States government has made o - ficial inquiry to learn the ejca't number of Americans now prison ers of the insurgents but it w?s not disclosed whether any reply had been made. U. S. Ambassador Claude Pr. Bowers, now at Saint Jean de Luz (Continued on page three)
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