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WEATHER fair Wednesday night and ' rrfcur><tav with continued mild empe ratures. (Liu' mes -Actus Largest Daily Circulation of Anv Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON A college graduate admit* he got a good job in spite of hit edu cation. That shows the power of mind over Mater. HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS Push policy goes before commons st st st A k# & ♦ f X X * * * * * * * * * * * * ecriminations In 'Red' Probe Are Bitter arns £\po>e of Secretary and Friends Yet Ahead in Inquiry |0UEL TOlCKES' EW CAUSTIC THRUST IVASHIX'.TCX, Sow 2. (UP). :rc:ar;. : Interior Harold Icke^ ami Chairman Martin 5 of the house committee in citing un-American activities an a war of words last night feasibility of inquiring "Monster Martians' in Xew Jersey. ifke? struck the first blow when I caustically accused Dies of g to rival the author of in Wonderland" and urged I to invest urate the fictious in of Now Jersey dramatized i controversial radio broadcast t r.it *. f .e s»j*.. jrary's formal state it *as i-'saed in reply to Dies' Jr.-- Monday that the pub |- r:< "Ministration had re Jed ".000 grant for the F A:' . Texas, bridge com ;r. an alleged attempt to re" on him and the work lis committee. lar iearnuiK iv.ivra it, :hc Texan issued one of his in which he said that, as a . .Mr Ickes could not earn a « in a third-rate medicine r, but even in that role he Id be better cast than he is as der -LotherSieople's monep." e said fhat the secretary's de of rhe works project charges prompted by the fact that the mittoe already has "exposed'' 'wil iexpo?e" many of Ickes' ends ar.d associates ... if our cy holds vu: lor*; enough." He sai'i that Ickes' statement ivicts him of my cnarge that ia> tritd to sabotage this in ieation by ridicule." pferri- «r to Ickes* asertion | the PVV.A could not afford to i net* «n«' of the two projects rh Die< <aiii had been turned n purportedly as a personal isa!, the congressman said: Mi Ick < had great difficulty Imdir? money for a $12,000, Pf i flcklnnu dam) in a r crat e >tute but he did not krience any difficulty in find ■ • . »u in the State of !.{y!var.'a.'* previously had denied the Rockland project had • 'topped from the PWA list that it was thrust aside be * of "legitimate requests from r parti »»f Texas." He also :e<i o;t that under the new rarc 1"* r.on-federal projects "teen granted in Dies' district, 243,038 for con ttwn rjurposes. In addition to e .he said, there are three fed projects costing $66,750. '•r':er yesterday Dies announc he was preparing to end -rcest:nation after hearings in : • the south arnl i>n coast. He also branded - ■ :r. ;. printed reports ^v ice-President John Nance had inspired the house KiU ry into un-Ameri Jctivities. c .- ition >against Garner '«""i <•> ultaneously in dis-1 bitten by New York and nnists. The capi roued on pace three) lrit* n stuuKt r?an & Co. Hold Fed *1 Agency Attack Is "Unwarranted" t\V;:N'r :• TTnov. 2 (UP) ■ Co. answered the t>- a- Exchange commis of Thomas W. La F an.} George Whitney with| • ie SEC report L"; ^: i Whitnev failure K unwarranted" r;' closed its investi P ^ the failure of Richard | - or' 'Wage business with ^rP -uke to Whitney'? r' -rse. and Lamont, l •' -a: >mpany partners, t hp former presi t;;. York Stock Ex i- ^ misdeeds be lt-,*' "'•'•• lion code of si ' • Franco's Brother Killed in Plane I Once Spain's most famous avia tor — later merely "General franco's brother" because his brother Francisco is comman der-in-chief of the Spanish reb el army — Lieut. Col. Ramon Franco, above, was killed when his seaplane was wrecked off the east coast of Spain. H-> won world-wide acclaim in 1?26 for making the first trans-At lantic flight between Europe and South America. Long a Communist leader, and air at tache at the Spanish embassy under the Popular Front gov ernment, he joined the Right ists when his brother led the re volt against the Leftist regime. SET MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT Full Program for Com memoration of Dead in War Is Arranged The complete program for the annual Memorial service, a union service of all city churches, to he held under the sponsorship of tht» Hubert M. Smith post of the American Legion, on Sunday night. November 6, at the high school auditorium at 7:30 o'clock, was announced today. Rev. B. E. Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church, and chap lain of the post, will preside. The invocation will be by the Rev. L. T. Wilds, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and the scripture reading by Rev. D. E. Camak, pastor of the First Meth odist church. The sermon, on the subject, "The Value of Human Personal ity." will be delivered by the Rev. J. Arthur Linn, pastor of Grace Lutheran church. The benediction will be by the Rev. Phillip O'Mara, pastor of the Immaculate Conception church. Music will include the prelude, Doxology, congregational singing, special music and the postlude. LEAVE FOR FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. Jack Douglas, summer residents who are having an elegant home erected in the Brightwater Farms village, have gone to Fort Laudei'dale, Fla., for the winter. Their winter residence is in the Florida city. 'Better Go Home, Lindy/ British Magazine Says, In Critical Vein LONDON, Nov. 2. (UP)—The English magazine Everybody's yesterday published an article suggesting to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh that he give up his res idence in England and return to the United States. The article was headed "Better Go Home, Lindy," and criticized the activities of the flier here and in Europe. Lindbergh has been under fire by Soviet aviators for allegedly belittling the Rus sion air force's value in event of war. * "While Col. Lindbergh has en joyed the hospitality of this coun try, we have scrupulously re frained from meddling in his pri vate affairs," the magazine said. "In the future we will watch him carefuliy. Though there is no wish to be rude, we would feel happier if he went home. . . The article added that if Lind bergh's future activities excite "a certain amount of suspicion, Lind bergh will have only himself to blame." WILL NEGOTIATE U. S. REPATRIATIONS PERPIGNAN, French - Spanish Frontier, Nov. 2. (UP)—French authorities said last night that the reason a loyalist hospital train was turned back at the frontier was the Barcelona government failed to meet French require ments to entry of American and ! other foreign wounded. The train, carrying 308 wound ed members of the International brigade, remained during the ; night in a tunnel on the border (Continued on page four) JONAS HOLDS LIBERTIES OF PEOPLE ISSUE B. Jackson Challenges L. L. Burgin to Debate Be fore Election G.O.P. CANDIDATES AT MEETING LAST NIGHT A challenge to publicly debate issues of the campaign at any time prior to the election next Tuesday was issued by Brownlow Jackson, Republican candidate for the general assembly, to L. L. Burgin, Democratic encumbent, at a Republican rally at the court house last ni>;ht. Mr. Jackson issued his chal lenge in remarks preliminary to an address by Charles A. Jonas, of Lincolnton, party candidate for the U. S. senate seat now held by Robert R. Reynolds, of Asheville. A crowd of about 400 or more pecple attended the rally last night, completely filling the su perior court room. Comparing New Deal legisla tion to creeping paralysis, Mr. Jonas declared that, through reg imentation of agriculture and la bor, and regulation of business, individual liberty is being taken away from the people of America. It is not sudden death, but creep ing paralysis, he said. A+ 4-Vio como fimo AT V JnTlflS declared that he did not blindly oppose all of the aims and objects of the Democratic administration. But, he added, administration of legislation designed to aid the un fortunate must be in non-partisan hands or it will result in the sell ing of the liberties of the people f#r a mere pittance. The primary issue of this cam paign, Mr. Jonas said, is whether the American people will sell their liberties and become a regiment ed people. Those who depend up on the federal government for their living are more or less un der the direction of that govern ment, he said. The issue trans cends party affiliation, he declar ed. The facts at issue cannot be challenged, he said, but the an swer of the Democrats is, "Vote the ticket straight." "I declare this to be a poor argument," he said. The Republican candidate at tacked particularly what he term ed New Deal attempts to regiment agriculture. Through the so-called benefit payments for soil conser vation the small land owners and the tenant farmers are being driv en from the land and forced into reljef, he said. This federal control of agricul ture, already effective on many crops, is certain to be extended to the farm products of the peo ple of Western North Carolina, Jonas declared. Yet, he added, when a number of southern senators went to Washington to see the president about the problem, they found the doors of the White House locked to them. Senator Reynolds on the occasion declared that tenant farmers were being starved, but CContinued on page four) MRS. C. D. WOODWARD IS TAKEN BY DEATH Mrs. C. D. Woodward, the former Miss Neal Few, died this morning after an illness of sev eral weeks. No funeral arrangements had been announced this afternoon. HULL WARNS TOTALITARIAN NATIONS THEY CAN TRAFFIC WITH U. S. ON ITS TERMS ONLY a | Nothing Has Transpired for Country to Break Its Present Treaties —— 1 NEW YORK. Nov. 2. (UP) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull last night served notice on totali tarian nations that their self-con tained trade policies will lead to an economic collapse and warneH that if they trade with America | they must do so on United State? ' terms. Hull spoke at the National For eign Trade convention here. Hi address was regarded as advance notice to Germany that the United States will in no way breach her reciprocal trade treaty system to accommodate that nation, although some such overtures are expected to be made by the German eco nomics minister, Walther Funk, when he comes here soon and at tempts to negotiate a bi-lateral trade treaty. The Hull treaties are based on a multi-lateral system and include the requirement that "most favored nation" treatment be accorded the United States. German pacts do not provide for fliic Hull enunciated against com promising trade policies to con form to German or other authori tarian desires. "Autarchy and other forms of economic armament create but an illusion of strength and security," he said. "They uproot far more than they build. They discourage rather than generate enterprise^ By placing impassable barriers t>n the world flow of material and financial resources, by tending to split up the world into abnormally limited areas of trade relations, thev undermine confidence and stability. "They make all nations pro-1 gressively weaker." He pointed to recent specula tion that the Munich agreement I and German ascendancy in Euro-| pean affairs might cause a revi-j sion of American trade policies,] and said: "It is my considered judgment1 that nothing that has occurred in recent years or m recent weeks has served to discredit in any way the principles on the basis of which we are seeking to bring about a restoration of sound eco-1 nomic conditions as a necessary foundation of durable peace. "Nothing that has occurred has impaired by profound belief that these principles will sooner orj later become firmly established as I the foundation of international commercial relations. The world's need for the translation of these principles, as well as of all other! basic principles of peaceful rela-[ tions among nations, into practi cal realities is more urgent and more pressing today than it has, ever been." Hull said that the autarchies "employ methods of forced and artificial stimulation, which ines capably prevent trade from mak ing its full contribution even to their own well-being and economic stability." "As experience accumulates, it1 becomes increasingly clear," he said, "that trade methods of this type steadily exhaust the coun tries which practice them and arouse ever more intense resist (Continued on page four.) CARLDURHAM IS NOMINEE Chapel Hill Man Will go to Congress Without Opposition GREENSBORO, Nov. 2. (UP) Carl T. Durham, 45-year-old Chap el Hill, N. C.. druggist, last night I was named Democratic congres-1 sional nominee from the sixth | North Carolina district. Durham is unopposed in the November 8 election and automat ically will become U. S. represen tative. He was named by the sixth district Democratic executive com mittee to succeed Judge Lewis EJ, I Teagufc of High Point, candidate who died suddenly last week. Durham's nomination came af ter two days of wrangliner Jby the four-man executive committee which had been divided 2-2 and 1-1-1-1 on everv vote. Durham, Orange county cam paign manager for Oscar Barker, whom Teague defeated in the sec ond run-off primary, was suggest ed by Henry Toten, University of I North Carolina professor, who 1 telegraphed the group. Only Producer to Panic the Nation R is the life ambition of -every , theatrical producer to "panic" ! his audience, but none ever i achieved it with such frighten- ; ing literalness as Orson Welles, | above, director of the Mercury 1 Theater of the Air. His actors broadcast H. G. Wells' weird "War of the Worlds" so realis- j tically that thousands of listen- i ers thought the radio play's air i raid from Mars was really hap pening. Many suffered from shock and physical injuries in ' the wild, nation-wide mass hys- I teria that followed. Set Presbytery Group Session For Mills River Conference Will Convene There at 10:30 A. M. ( Saturday The Group Conference of the i Asheville Presbytery of the Pres-, byterian church will be held at the Mills River church at 10:30 a. m. Saturday. Mrs. A. H. Harris of Brevard will have charge of the program' and Rev. J. Franklin Watt of Hen-, dfersonville will speak on Foreign Missions. Presbyterial officers who will, be present at this time include:,1 Mrs. C. E. Dorsev of Montreat, I Mrs. O. E. Knoefel of Black Moun-1 tain, Mrs. L. M. Richeson of Ha- j zelwood, Mrs. W. F. Swift of j Waynesville and Mrs. R. D. Bed-! inger, Miss Mary Coleman, Mrs.' Preston Thomas, Mrs. Clyde Plex ico, Mrs. C. E. Morgan of Ashe ville. Churches in the group include j Brevard, Etowah, Mills River and. Hendersonville. All local Presbyterian women are urged to attend this meeting. DR. WOODCOCK EXPIRES HERE Dr. John H. Woodcock, 64, former county physician, died at his home on Florida avenue this afternoon. Death was attributed to a heart ailment. Dr. Woodcock suffered a heart attack in April of this year, and has been in poor health since that time. * Tarheel Named As PWA Counsel WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (UP). PWA Administrator Ickes today announced the appointment of David W. Robinson, Jr., former North Carolinian, as counsel for the PWA power division. PLEAD GUILTY IN BREAKING CHARGESHERE Charles Under Bonds of $1400; Allege Thomp son Aide in One Case AT LEASTTCASES BELIEVED SOLVED Clyde Charles, 17, was bound to the superior court under bonds totaling $1,400 by Mayor A. V. Edwards in city court this morn ing. and officers expressed the opinion his arrest solved a large number of breaking and entering cases of the past two months. Dewey Thompson, alleged ac complice in one case, was also hound to superior court under $200 bond. Hoth Charles and Thompson pleaded guilty to charges in the court this morning, Thompson to entering one house, and Charles on seven counts. Officers said later in the morn ing that evidence had been dis covered to link Charles with at least two other robberies. Specifically Charles was charged in the following cases: Entering the Arnold homa, on the Greenville highway, and lar ceny of two hunting knives and two pocket knives. Entering the Langdon Cheves home, on the Greenville highway, and larceny of dishes. Entering the Scheper home, on Fourth avenue, and larceny of a (Continued on page three) 100 U.S. Employes Fund Campaigns WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (UP). The senate campaign investigat ing committee today announced that, it has obtained the names of approximately 100 federal em ployes who contributed to sena torial campaigns. The committee reiterated that it considers such contributions as contrary to law. OPEN BIDS ON 3 BIG BATTLESHIPS IN CAPITAL TODAY WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (UP) President Roosevelt's billion dol lar naval expansion program swings into high pear at noon to day when the navy department opens bids for the construction of three 35,000-ton battleships. The ships are expected to cost approximately $75,000,000 each. Bids on them formally opened the heavy armament phase of the na val building program, approved by the last congress. FELLOWSHIP CLUB TO NAME OFFICERS The Fellowship club of the city will meet Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock at the city hall, President Allard Garren announced today. An election of officers is sched uled for the meeting. All mem bers are requested to bring Bibles. GOES TO CHARLESTON Miss Helen Bailey has returned to her home in Charleston, S. C., after spending the summer and part of the fall season here. Any Restriction On Press Means j Blackout Of Intelligence, Baillie Says j . NEW YORK. Nov. 2. (UP)— Any form of "control, license or restriction" on the American press would mean "a blackout of intel ligence" jn the United States, Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press Associations, told the alumni of Columbia college at their annual fall luncheon at the Bankers club yesterday. Baillie warned that any such control would "inevitably limit and restrict our world vision. We will see what is going on through distorted lenses. We will stand on the threshold of a new dark ape." Reviewing the recent European crisis as he watched it develop on a journey through Europe in July and August, Baillie said develop ments since then indicate that "the outlook in Europe is for arm ed peace . . . until some nation or alliance challenges German expan sion." That situation, he said, empha sizes the importance to American?*1 of free, accurate press association' and newspaper reporting. "In times like these, accurate information, accurate news, is of vital importance to every Ameri can because it is upon this news that American public opinion is founded," he said. "The essential ( responsibility which devolves upon, every American press association and every newspaper and every radio station which broadcasts; news is to bring: to the public a pure, unbiased and non-partisan picture of day to day develop ments throughout the world. "You hear the press criticized occasionally. You hear people) make light of the fact that an un-i restricted press is the safeguard j (Continued on page three) Casualty A real casualty of the make believe "war" broadcast by the Mercury Theater of the Air was Caroline Cantlon, above, WPA actress. Hearing from her radio an announcement of "smoke in Times Square," she started to rush downstairs. She fell, suf fering the broken arm and bruised knees shown in the photo. NEW DEALERS PRESS DRIVE FOR BALLOTS Speed up Campaign as Prestige at Stake on Next Tuesday i (By United Preat) The Roosevelt administration, its prestige at stake in several of next Tuesday's elections, today took an increasingly active part in the campaigning. The president himself left Washington for Hyde Park where on Friday night he will deliver a radio appeal to voters, particular- I ly those of his home state. Meantime, in New Jersey Post-' master General Farley declared, the administration from the top I on down is supporting Harvey Ely, senatorial Democratic candi- ' date. Thomas E. Dewey, New York Republican gubernatorial nomi nee, and Deniocratic Governor j Herbert Lehman neared the end of their campaign, hammering at each other. 4 WPA SUPERVISORS ARE DISMISSED j WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (UP)1 Acting Works Progress Adminis trator Aubrey Williams informed the senate campaign investigating committee last night that four WPA supervisory workers in Northampton county, Pennsylva nia, had been dismissed on charg-1 es of improper political activity. Williams said that WPA inves-\ (Continued on page three) j ISSUE IS RAISED BY PREMIER ON ITALIAN PACT Dictators Slicing off Czech Area for Hungary Without Plebiscite THEIR ACTON WILL BE FINAL, IS SAID LONDON, Nov. 2.—<UP> — Prime Minister Chamberlain to day appealed to the house of com mons to approve the governmrnt'a intention of making the British Italian pact effective immediate ly. Chamberlain announced that Great Britain proposes to recog nize Italian sovereignty in Ktni opia. VIENNA, Nov. 2. (UP)— Ger many and Italy, exercising new dominance over central Europe, today were arbitrating the minor ity dispute between Hungary and Czechoslovakia with indications that their decision would be fi nal. According to official sources, a proposed plebiscite to decide the possession of disputed areas along the Czech-Hungarian frontier has been abandoned. COMMONS DEBATES FOREIGN POLICY By CLIFFORD L. DAY Copyright, 1938, by United Prcii LONDON, Nov. 2. (UP).—Eu rope's armed, suspicious peace was strengthened today by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's frand admission of German domi nance in Central Europe. His speech in parliament, which also voiced his determination to en force the Anglo-Italian .friendship pact right away, wis received favorably in Berlin and Rome. Chamberlain told the first ses sion of the house of commons since his munich "peace with honor" that Britain ha sno inten tion of trying to block Chancellor Adolf Hitler's "drive to the east" or to encircle the Reich economic ally. He said he would bend every effort towards an understanding with the dictators and that an arms limitation agreement would be the first step after the ground work for general appeasement has been laid. Berlin, quite naturally, saw in this speech confirmation that Chamberlain is disposed to follow a policy of rapprochement which began at Munich, and considera tion of the rights of other powers. Chamberlain said he intends to effectivate the friendship pact with Italy "as soon as possible" and introduced a motion to be de bated on Wednesday "that this house welcomes the intention ..." The pact would include British recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Rome welcomed this statement as "merited recognition of tho Italian attitude." Later, Chamberlain said, Bri tain wil lopen negotiations on Germany's claim for return of war-lost colonies. He added to the pacific tone of his address by stating that no immediate meas ures were contemplated by pow ers interested in the far east as a result of Japan's occupation of most of China "naturally not without effect on British inter ests." Coinciding with Chamberlain's emphasis on the desirability < f arms limitation, diplomtts in Pari sreported that Hitler is prt paring to propose a rearmament "ceiling" for the "big four" pow (Continued on page three) FBI MEN BKCAK 3 KIDNAP® Man Murdered, Burned Be fore Ransom Parley Ends in One NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (UP) — J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, announced last night that G-men had solved three kidnapings, one of which ended in the murder of Arthur Fried, and had captured the kii nap gang. He disclosed that Fried. 3? year-o'd White Plains businc a man, had been slain and his bo^'y burned in a furnace while th3 gang continued for a month aft< r his death to negotiate for $200 - 000 ransom, which never was pai!. Until last night Fried's disap pearance had been a mystery. Four men were in custody, said, and will be turned over to day to local authorities, »ince their (Cootinmed an page three)
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