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tonight and Sunday with
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GOOD AFTERNOON
That four-power pact Uft Ru>
•ia holding th« Comck.
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
IAPS WILL MODERATE CHINESE POLICY
f
iman* Fearful New Pol
sh Law Would Dis
franchise Deportees
ST THEM BEFORE
BECOMING CHARGES
7,:.n \\\. iviarui, Oct. 29.— |
p .•! -.obaMy must ac
, ~ -a::ils uf Jews
I a:.>
L . : :'ai v cles admitted
: iay that negotia
. : - ad*.* Bet hn to res
v deportation order
n>: y Jews living in Ger
r. > progress.
- : i-1'ti.'d obdurate 1
Zc •1 :.*;t.
u: : - ^ citizenship law,
1...P Jews abroad to
! :'.s validated by to
row those who refuse
( a.;, si- citizenship and
.. ; - anent burden on
cany.
■*..» mated that 9.000
. ... v. siting at the border,
: i: train in the so-called
. - ...• t etween stations
r : Polish sides of the i
lUr.
»: •' iay the foreign ot
.;:>ced that, as result
c.- s with the German
i>:v Germany had
ec ■> ca \ -l the deportations
r .^.-u:ed that Poland
fl'.: : itt-rul to disfranchise
» .n Germany under
••v \ tive at midnight
pht.
: • »!s said that the
!'.t: , was under a
^ •> ::: assuming
» •>. ' \s w ;.<i be depriv
It was ex
"• i.ev passport re
,r- -i •'< > '.'J* ;:.ean auto
- "t • v. v .t /.t-nship.
• •' ' •* 'ory set
: - ■ ■ Polish au
1 * * * "■ •'•••• t, Keep the *
:.ta: the frontier.
4SS DEPORTEES
"UNDESIRABLES"
EDWARD W. BEATT1E, JR.
ted Prejj Staff Correspondent
ERLIX. Oct. 29. (UP)—A
s deportation of thousands of
sn Jews. routed from their
es throughout Germany in po
inds, begun shortly before
light when a train loaded
i "undesirables" pulled up to
frontier ar.d sent its passen
aeioss to Polish soil.
khough the German govern
t's deadline for the mass ex
ions had been fixed for mid
it only a -mall part of those
w it tiie round-ups appeared
been deported and it was
ttkd that some last-minute
fcment might be reached by
»arsaw and Berlin govern
but this had failed to ma
Kile.
^Polish frontier customs
■anan at Bentschener said a
5 ^frying between 600 and
a: the deportees reached the
*• a few minutes before mid
:*sd that the prisoners en
'Poland without interference, j
?0rts from the Polish side
» today indicated that more
' Lion of the deportees had
Polish soil at various
bur were being detained
■r:e frontier pending further
by which Warsaw
to tine h settlement with
•toy. >
u* :,ore^n office in Warsaw
••W that its announcement
_ rtday to the effect that Ger
' r'a': ugieed, after diplomatic
t(> cancel the deporta
, wd ^een "premature."
i*nna, where hundreds of
continued on page three)
icriff Davis
Scapes Injury
In Auto Wreck
\\ y Davis narrowly
serious injury Thursday
nil , t*! b:s automobile was
^ '"m the highway by an
jT an«| struck a tree.
occurred on the
ta -'hwa-v South Car
Davis was return
L' ,,a business trip to Green
time.
' •oad !'al was ^orced from
;Jv a car coming in the
fed*,/ ri°'« on the wrong
* road.
Star's Romance
Fades
I
One of Broadway's most cele
brated romances, the 12-year
marriage of Kthel Shutta, above,
to orchestra leader George 01
sen. will end in divorce, accord
ing to reported plans of the >
blond*.- singing star of stage,
screen and radio. "It's just a
case of our not being able to i
get along together." she said.
The couple will share custody |
of their two children, Charles
and George. Jr.
E. N. SCOVILLE 1
PASSES AWAY
Funeral Will Be Sunday
Afternoon at Orange- I
burg, S. C.
E. N. Scoville, prominent resi-1
dent of Orangeburg. S. C., and a 1
summer resident here for many'
years, died suddenly at Orange
burj? yesterday, according to in
formation received here.
Mr. Scoville had spent the sum
mer here at his home on Sixth
avenue west, and had returned to
Orangeburg only about two weeks
ago.
He had been in ill health for
the past several years, but was
believed improved.
The funeral services will be
held in Orangeburg on Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o'clock.
Mr. Scoville is survived by his
widow and a number of other rel
atives.
10 ARE ARRESTED IN
FLORIDA ON ALIEN
SMUGGLING CHARGE
MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 29. (UP)—
W. B. Thomas, inspector in charge
of the federal immigration service
here, yesterday announced the ar
rest of two more men, bringing to
10 the total taken in custody with
in a week, in connection with
alien-smuggling activities.
They were Howard Parker, 42,
of Miami, and John Devaux, ne
gro, of Key Largo. They were
placed under $500 bond by U. S.
Commissioner Roger E. Davis and
held for a hearing.
CATS TAKE WAYNESVILLE INTO
CAMP 7-2 TO BREAK SIX-YEAR
LOSING STREAK TO VISITORS
__<«!>
MIAMI SCHOOL
SESSIONS HERE
FIXED EVENTS
Florida Institution to Hold
Spring and Fall Terms
in County
After an October session, held
at Camp Carlyle, on the Chimney
Rock highway, it has been defi- j
nitely announced that spring: and ;
fall sessions of Miss Harris' Flor- j
ida School, an exclusive Miami in- j
stitution, will be held here each |
year.
The October session held this'
year was successful in every way,
it was .stated by officials, and it is
felt that the holding of sessions
here wiH promote the health of
students.
A number of the students were
so delighted with this section that
they signed a petition requesting
the time here be extended.
The entire school will shortly
move to Miami, the younger girls
leaving this week-end, and the old
er pupils leaving by special cars
on Monday.
While here students have en-j
joyed trips to many points of in
terest in thits section, have en
gaged in horseback trips and gen
eral outdoor activities.
The school will come back to
this section next May for the
spring session.
Committee Finds
Against Railway |
Wage Cut Plan
Roosevelt Told 5 Reasons
Why Wage Reductions
Inopportune
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. (UP)
President Roosevelt's emergency
fact-finding board rejected today
the demand of railway manage
ment for a 15 per cent wage cut
affecting 960,000 workers.
The board listed five reasons in
recommending that railroads with
draw their cut notice:
1. Wages of railway labor are
not high enough as compared to
other industries;
2. Horizontal reduction of-wages
on a national scale would not meet
the financial emergency of the in
dustry;
3. Wage reduction would run
counter to the trend of wage rates j
in industry generally;
4. Financial distress of carriers
is a short term situation and, as
such, cannot be regarded as
grounds for a wage cut. especially
in view of present indications of
improvement in business of the
carriers;
5. In view of the findings car
riers should cancel their notices
of the impending wage cut.
28 WORKERS LAID OFF
ANDERSON, S. C.—Wage-hour
limits were blamed for laying off
28 bagging men here Friday.
RUMANIA TOTALITARIAN AS
DEMOCRATIC AID IS WANING
V
BUCHAREST Oct. 29. (UP) —
Rumania today became a complete
totalitarian state, similar to Nazil
Germany and Fascist Italy.
Acting under orders of King
Carol II. Victor Iamandi, minister
of justice, renounced the last rem
nants of liberal institutions and
proclaimed 1U0 per cent totalita
rian principles, including the one
party system and corporative or
ganization.
Iamandi's announcement coin
cided with disclosure that Carol
will leave for London next month
on an official visit and will remain
there several weeks, instead of a
few days as originally contem
plated.
Iamandi frankly admitted that
international considerations, re
sulting from the recent European
crisis, had contributed to the de
cision to establish a totalitarian
state and wipe out remaining lib
eral institutions.
"We live in a world where new
1 methods full of dynamic develop
ments and increasing offensive
forces demand a revision of the
very structure of the state," he
said.
Since the World war Rumania,
a nation of about 20,000,000 peo
ple wedged in among the quarrel
ing countries of central and south
eastern Europe, had been an in
tegral part of the French system
of alliances and a member of the
French-dominated Little Entente.
During the Czechoslovak crisis,
Carol's government was brought
into the center of the troubles
when Russia sought the right to
move troops and war materials
across Rumania in event the So
viets were called upon to carry
out their military alliance with
the Czechs. Rumania was cool to
the plea.
When Carol's royal dictatorship
was established last February sev
eral loopholes were left open for
an eventual return to democratic
machinery of government, includ
(Continued on page three)
4th Quarter Touchdown on
Pass, Quarles to Drake,
Turns the Tide
Ilendcrsonville's Bearcats went
to bat in the fourth quartet yes
terday afternoon, scored a 7 to 2
win over the Waynesville Moun
taineers and broke a six-year los
ing streak to the lads from Hay
wood on the athletic field before
a large crowd.
Listless and slow in the first
half, the Cats got behind the eight
ball when Waynesville blocked
two punts in succession to score
a safety, but the locals surged
back in the fourth to score a
touchdown on a pass from Quarles
to Drake. It was fourth down
and the pass was good for 20
yards.
The Cats were butter-fingered
all afternoon, fumbled six times,
losing the ball on two occasions,
and much yardage on the other
four.
The visitors had a slight edge
on running attack, but made only
one first down in the entire sec
ond half. The Cats mac e two first
downs in the first half and four in
the second.
LOCALS HAVE EDGE
ON THE AIR ATTACK
Quarles passed well, giving the '
locals an edge on the air attack
with 80 yards against 8 through
the air for the visitors. The Cats
passed 16 times, completing 5 and,.
Waynesville tried the air 14 times,!
completing 2. Although 30 passes
were tossed, there were no inter
ceptions.
The Cat pass defense was bet- j
ter than in any previous game, j
and the Mountaineers completed i
only two short tosses.
Due to the high wind, both'
teams had trouble punting. Way
nesville had a punt blocked in the j
first period and the Cats had two ,
blocked in the third. Another of
Quarles' boots went straight up
for no gain.
Hendersonville took the open
ing kickoff, punted and the vis
itors made a first down to mid-;
field. B. Milner's punt was block
ed and the ball went to the Cats 1
on Waynesville's 48.
After a punt exchange, Quarles
tossed to Miller, the pass and run J
being good for 45 yards to Way
nesville's 26. Miller was almost!
away or. the play. Quarles failed
to gain, McCrary took a pass from
Quarles for 5 yards, but two other
passed failed and the threat end
ed on the visitors' 6 yard line.
Waynesville made a first down
to start the second, and Quarles
fumbled Milner's punt, McCrary
recovering on the Cat 27. The
Cats worked a forward lateral
with Yarborough winding up for
a first down.
After two punt exchanges,!
Waynesville made a first down i
and then punted to Quarles on ■
Hendersonville's 20. Miller fum-,
bled to lose 2 yards, and Quarles |
(Continued on nage three)
County's School
Population 6037;
424 In City H. S.
Edneyville High and Gram
mar Grades Enroll
615 Pupils
Henderson county has a school
population of 6,037, according to
enrollment figures of city and
county school systems.
Of this number 5,590 are white
' and 447 are colored.
Children enrolled in the city
elementary schools total 616, the
largest single unit, and the enroll
! ment at the Edneyville high and i
i elementary school is second with
6i5.
The enrollment at the city high
school this year is 424. Enroll
ment by school units is as follows:
Hendersonville: high school 424, (
i elementary 616, colored high
school 74, colored elementary 224.
Edneyville 615, Bat Cave 72,
Balfour 303, Dana 544, Etowah
441, East Flat Rock 577, Flat
! Rock 300, Fruitland 100, Fletch
er 416, Mills River 514, Tuxedo
366, Valley Hill 302.
| County colored: Brickton 39,
East Flat Rock 77, and Edney
ville 33.
| High schools in the county are
located at Edneyville, Dana, Eto
wah, Flat Rock, Fletcher, and
Mills River.
Of the total enrollment, 2,897
, are in schools in Hendersonville
I township.
IDEAL AND
ILH1ES WILL
PLAN DEFENSE
Billions Will Be Expended
to Fuse Facilities for
a I War-Time Program
CONDITIONS BRANDED
'SERIOUS' WEAKNESS
By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE
U'r* d Prets Staff Corre»pondent
Vf ASHINGTON, Oct. 2i>. (UP).
Th j federal government and the
leading public utility companies
have agreed to start work at once
on p broad program designed to
fus4 power facilities in the na
tions strategic war materials cen
ters into an integrated system and
thui remove what President
Ro<«sevelt branded as a "serious"
national defense weakness, it was
amiiounced last night.
T le agreement was made known
by Assistant Secretary of Wsr
Lo lis Johnson, chairman of a
coumittee named by Mr. Roose
vel on September 7 to recommend
leg slation and take other steps to
sal jguard this country against a
shirtage of electrical energy in
the event of war.
'he project calls for the imme
diii :e expenditure of $350,000,000
fo equipment and construction,
bu authorities said more than $2,
00*000,000 will J>e spent over a
?M?^rear period iA effectuating
the first phase of the program.
Johnson emphasized that plans re
vealed yesterday constitute mere
ly a start toward solution of the
problem.
Two of the multi-billion dollar
power industry's most powerful j
executives hailed the development !
not only as important in the in- i
terest of national defense, but j
forecast that it will give a potent |
filip to economic recovery. Their j
participation in the program was
viewed by some as a hopeful sign j
pointing to the end of the war be
tween the New Deal and the in
dustry.
C. E. Groesbeck, head of the I
electric bond and share system
which has been in the forefront j
of the fight against New Deal
utility reforms, said the program
affords an excellent demonstra
tion of what can be accomplished
when government and business
"sit around the table in a coopera
tive spirit."
"The program is of great na
tional significance not only as re
lating to the defense program of
(Continued on page four.)
CITY'S HIDDEN
TAX BILL SAID
$334,152YEARLY
National Commission Mak
es Statement Following
Full Survey
■ i
Families of Hendersonville and
vicinity pay $334,152 annually in
taxes on their retail purchases j
alone, according to a survey by
the National Consumers Tax com
mission.
Most of that amount is paid
through hidden taxes in higher
prices on food, clothing, fuel,
medicine and other daily purchas
es, a report of the survey stated.
The survey, directed from the
commission's headquarters in Chi
cago, was made public through
Mrs. Rufus L. Allen, of Waynes
ville, the North Carolina member
of the commission's national com
mittee. She said the analysis was
based on total retail sales in Hen
dersonville's 117 stores of $2,142,
000, as reported by the U. S. bu
reau of the census.
Mrs. Allen, describing the com
mission as representing a nation
wide fight by housewives on hid
den and direct taxes that "penal
ize the consumer," declared:
"Every day shoppers, whether
they know it or not, carry a ma
jor share of the nation's $12,300,
000,000 tax burden. Hitmen taxes,
increasing the cost of even the
necessities of life, furnish 63 per
cent of all local, state and nation
al x'evenues."
Mrs. Allen, who said commis
sion units are being organized
throughout North Carolina in the
nation-wide fight, pointed out the
Hendersonville tax figure concerns
retail sales only and does not in
clude the many other taxes, hid
den and direct, which families
here have to pay.
Overshadowing U. S. Rival
Homeward bound to Lunnenberg, Nova Scotia, goes the schooner
Bluenose in the striking photo above, with her speed championship
of the North Atlantic fishing fleet successfully defended against
the American challenger, the Gertrude L. Thebaud of Gloucester,
Mass. Most exciting race of the three-out-of-five series off Boston
was the fifth and deciding one. Bluenose finished the thirty-flve
and-a-half mile triangular course only 2 minutes and 50 seconds
aiieau <ii iWr American riviX. -
JAPS PUSHING
CHINA DRIVE
Foreign Pressure Grows;
American Missionary's
Child Killed
By ROBERT BELLAIRE
United Pre*i Staff Correspondent
SHANGHAI, Oct. 29. (UP) —
Japan drove forward with her
conquest of China today in the
face of increasing opposition from
the great powers, including the
United States.
There was a noticeable harden
ing in the Japanese attitude and
occidentals in Shanghai believed
that extremists in Tokyo had con
verted the Japanese premier,
Prince Fumimaro Konoye, to
their doctrine that complete Jap
anese domination of east Asia
must be established once and for
all time.
Events indicating the determin
ation of the Japanese included:
In Paris the foreign office con
firmed reports that Japan had pro
tested to France against alleged
shipments of arms entering south
west China from French Indo
China—an action which was con
sidered possibly to portend Jap
anese occupation of the big Chi
nese island of Hainan which dom
inates the sea approaches to
France's south Asian empire.
Meantime Paris called Tokyo's
attention to the fact that Japan
has blockadea the Yangtse river
in at least a technical violation of
international law since she has
made no formal declaration of
(Continued on page three)
SALUDA HAS
NEW MINISTER
Dr. Elliott of Texas, Ac
cepts Pastorate of Pres
byterians There
SALUDA, Oct. 29. (Special) —
The Presbyterian church in Salu
1 da is very fortunate in securing
the services of Dr. W. M. Elliott
as pastor. Dr. Elliott is highly
! spoken of by the board of elders
, of the church which he has serv
ed in Colorado, Texas, since 1922.
He is esteemed as a very fine
preacher, an earnest and sincere
pastor beloved by his people, lives
what he preaches and has honesty
and sincerity of purpose, making
him a frien dof both young and
old, in his former fields of ser
vice.
Dr. and Mrs. Elliott were here
for a while last summer and the
congregation are rejoiced that he
is to be hore permanently. He
has two sons, one the pastor of
the Druid Hills Presbyterian
church in Atlanta, and one study
ing for the ministry.
The Burford residence which i
the trustees of the church bought
recently is being fitted up for
their residence.
TO END PRISON HIRE
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 29.'
(UP)—Gov. Carl E. Bailey last,
night predicted abolition of the
practice of counties hiring out
misdemeanor prisoners to private
individuals.
SPANISH LOYALIST PLOT TO !
GET PLANE PARTS DISCLOSED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. (UP)
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
last night disclosed that the de
partment of justice is investigat
ing a plot by a Spanish loyalist
agent, posing as a representative
of the Turkish government, to ob
tain American airplane parts for
use in the Spanish civil war.
Hull said the occurrence was
one of two attempts during the
past year by Spanish agents to
i circumvent provisions of the neu
trality act and tjie American em
I bargo against arms and munitions
! shipments to Spain. In the second
case the Spanish agent posed as a
J representative of the Greek gov
ernment, he said.
The disclosure was made by
Hull in refuting a story contained
in a Washington newspaper col
umn (the Washington Merry-Go
Round) charging that Jos. Green
; of the war munitions board had
refused to issue export licenses in
the two instances because the
planes "might be going to the
i Spanish loyalists."
In a formal statement Hull said
that 50 Grumman pursuit planes
were ordered from a Canadian
company by an agent of the Span
ish government in Paris who fur
nished documents "purporting to
show that the planes had been
! purchased by the Turkish govern
i ment."
Subsequently the state depart
ment issued iicenses to several
American companies authorizing
exportation of aircraft engines
I and parts to Canada with the un
derstanding that they were to be
assembled in Canada and that the
assembled planes would remain in
I that country, Hull said.
When it was discovered that the
parts had been used to fill the
Spanish agent's order the export
1 licenses were revoked, he said,
but not before approximately 40
planes had been transshipped
from Canada to Spain. Hull add
ed that the documents presented
to the Canadian government by
the purchaser were declared to be
1 forgeries by Turkish officials.
TO COOPERATE
WITH BRITISH.
NOV BELIEVED
Cabinet Reformation Seen
as Defeat for Japanese
Extremists
FRANCE WILL QUIT
LEAGUE FOR ALLIANCE
TOKYO, Oct. 29. (UP)—Jap
anese Premier Prince Fumimaro
Konoye today reformed his cabi
net.
He appointed Hachiro foreign
minister, succeeding; General K.
Ugaki, who resigned early this
month. The premier had held the
portfolio until today.
Yoshiaki Hata was appointed
overseas minister.
Arita was an adviser to the for
eign minister before Ngaki re
signed and when Ugaki stepped
out because of opposition to the
army's plan for a special govern
ment bureau to deal with the Chi
na question, Arita also resigned.
The fact that he has now been
selected to replace Ugaki would
indicate that the premier still fa
vors a liberal program for China.
When Ugaki resigned it was wide
ly known the premier hoped that
eventually Ugaki could be brought
back to public life.
Arita's appointment was con
sidered a victory for moderate
elements in the cabinet who had
been fighting demands of extrem
ists for complete Japanese domi
nation of all of China.
Arita has held the foreign post
before and is a veteran diplomat
of wide international experience.
He will favor a program of
close cooperation with Great Brit
ain, it is expebted, and will at
tempt to obtain British support
for an early end of the war with
China.
FRANCE TO WORK
FOR 4-POWER TREATY
PARIS, Oct. 29. (UP)—The
foreign affairs committee of the
Radical-Socialist party congress,
meeting in Marseilles, last night
called for virtual abandonment of
France's system of alliances in fa
vor of a four-power alignment
with Great Britain, Germany and
Italy.
The foreign affairs resolutions
committee overrode the objections
of former Premier Edouard Her
riot, staunch supporter of Prance's
military alliance with Soviet Rus
sia, who walked out on the com
mittee during its discussions.
The resolution omitted all ref
erence to the Franco-Soviet pact,
which has been the keystone of
France's system of continental al
liances.
The recommendations of the
committee conform with a speech
which Foreign Minister Georges
Bonnet will make before the con
gress today, announcing a shift
away from France's League of
Nations ideology in favor of "big
four" collaboration for the pres
ervation of peace.
The resolution expressed hope
that the four-power Munich ac
cord will "mark the beginning of
more extensive negotiations which,
without prejudice to any of our
old friendships, will allow perma
nent improvement in our relations
with Germany and Italy."
"The 36th congress regrets that
as result of a series of faults for
which neither the party nor its
men are responsible, the League
of Nations no longer is in a con
dition to assure security within
respect of law to all peoples," the
draft said.
The foreign affairs committee
added that It was hoped that the
four-power collaboration would
lead to an international confer
ence where "according to Presi
dent Roosevelt's wish," means of
remedying the world's economic
disorder will be examined.
Foreign Minister Bonnet will
tell the Radical-Socialist party
congress at Marseilles today that
France h*s decided to abandon
her League of Nations ideology
and rely on "big four" collabora
tion with the dictators for the
preservation of peace.
Bonnet was to have addressed
the congress yesterday but his
speech was postponed due to a
fire which swept the center of
Marseilles.
Nation Will Miss
'Polio' Epidemic
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. (UP)
The nation will escape an infan
tile paralysis epidemic this year
for the first time since 1932, the
U. S. Public Health Service pre
dicted today.
The forecast was based on tin
few cases reported during Sep
tember when the rise of this dis
ease reaches its peak.