North Carolina Newspapers

WEATHER r Thur»day and Friday with t(n.pfr»turM (Liu* (Etnt^it -5srciiui Largest Daily Circulation of Anv Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON The railroads are economically ill. Confiaed to their bed*, »o to •peak. HENDERSON VILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS * * * -t* „ * * * ¥ ¥ * ^ ^ ¥ » » » T T T j, v v *r ap Premier Demands World New Deal / ft ASIATIC IAB0JTY IS USES AIM jlifies P!ar. to Coordi ite Japan, China and Mar.chukuo 1CRUSHALL :hinese resistance IKV- X v. 3. (UP)—Pre : :varo konoye ir t >' - the natior •. 1 r!d new dea c. -r • or. the princi ; a!;.nee of power. : ■ : amplifying th< ' •- "t statement o: *' ir.oe Konoye an ' .'C^.-sary. Japar i f>\'its conquest tc and northwester: i: • . distance a::1 pre :• eas:- rn stabi.ity :• tV- government': ' • ->' on a tripartite "mutual aid anc • • • tween Japan anc ■' i ('h;ia in political cultural and othei IITEIOPMENT, NOT (i' OF CHINA, GOAL jiVO. Nov. 3. (UP>—Princ« raro Konoye, Japanese pre ir a racnocast, explained ir > :ei-tss the Japanese policies <f China which were an t<\ today. cited the fall of seven ma 'hir.ese sitics and said Ja ^ . disposal oi BTrever." he said. "Japar e'.v desires development ■uin; c-operation, not con , ir. Cfcira, and desires tc a stabilized tar east with cooperation of the Chinese who now have awakenec It r.< - f-:< t< rminatior | ori-.-r.ta! race " Ire -•« p: fast or Ir -'ui:r:rr the past 24 I ir.c!u>Ie<l: A -'a'c - nt v thp Japanese ;:ment x'it.'ininjr Japan's "im bie" policy to create a po rar.rj . mic union of th< .ese empire. Manchukuo ant i. This declaration was con k! a-; -oundinc a final deatl to the American-inspire< p-iwers t: eatyf designed t< istiv China'a territorial in v ' i an effective answe; * p evrt American note pro - Japanese viola t" the American policy o ;ren door and equal oppor F" in China. Ftta' Japanese withdraws partic: „tion in cultural anc activities of the Leazut a" an i an announcement will not attend mort r?s f the league's mandate: ^iion which is supposed tc ji the Japanese mandate 'oTner German islands in the racifrc ocean. I* state lent by Seihin Ike<!a, ^•educated minister of fi "arninjf ihe Japarese peo -• n-.-w sacrifices will have * • complete the con : 1 h;na ar.d reconstruct y. The minister was ■r Japan can fnance I ! on pacre three) :on Asks Public To Be Cautious During Dry Period I t I res arc burning ir I F. D. Dalton F warden, reportet f- '■ ' ealed to the publ'u I in in preventing f during the drj I 10 civilians and al I hoys are fightinf ( are located in th< 1 Pisgah Bea r™*. Gerton and Hooppr' I Mr. Dalton said I damage has beei t •: lands, only on< I, - > been destroyed I' L." ' on the job almos ||. fighting fires, an« r? mort break the situatioi | rious,** Mr. Daltoi I •' reason we are urs ■» ^u'ohc to exercise extrenv ■ J- s He Doctors a Dictator i i j American doctor? at the Inter » state Postgraduate Association i meeting at Philadelphia learned that Chancellor Adolf H tier of Germany is a "good patient," hut ore who may ignore his doctor's orders. Dr. Carl von Eicken, above, representing the 1 University of Berlin Medical School at the convention, told them he once performad a mi nor operation on the Fuehrer's > vocal chords, was highly alarm ed when Hitler failed for 14 hours to rally from a morphine sleep. He said Hitler made him postpone the operation several, times because it interfered with peaking engagements. RED CROSS TO OPEN OFFICE; HERE MONDAY 1 Step Preparatory to Mem 1 bership Campaign Start ing November 14 The Henderson county chapter , of the American Red Cross will [ open an office in the State Trust '! company building on Monday J morniner, Nov. 7, in preparation , for its annuul membership drive which will begin on November 14. » j Mrs. Earl G. Crews will be in charge of the office. J. C. Coston, Red Cross chair man, said this morning that pros pects for the membership drive i were the brightest in many years i and every effort will be made to go well over the quota of 700 memberships set for Henderson county. The county schools are co-op erating in the drive and many memberships from the rural dis-j tricts are expected. Contributions to the county Red Cross are coming in well and this drive will be continued until the 14th when the regular mem j bership campaign is started. Mr. Coston called attention this morning to the fact that the con tributions which are collected now remain in the county while part of each membership fee is sent to the national headquarters. i The fine work done by the Red Cross through its nurse, Mrs. Dorothy McCoy ,is expected to be helpful, particularly in the county when the membership drive starts.! SET WOODCOCK FUNERAL FOR 11 A. E FRIDAY Wel!-Known Physician Was Medical Corps Offi icer During War RITES ATSHEPHERD FUNERAL HOME Funeral services for Dr. John H. Woodcock, 65, former county physician, who died at his home on Florida avenue yesterday af ternoon at 3 o'clock, will be held on Friday morning at 11 o'clock at Thos. Shephe-d funeral home. Dr. Woodcock died suddenly yesterday as a result of a heart attack. I?ev. L. T. Wilds, pastor of the Presbyterian church, will officiate and burial will follow in the ceme tery at Calvary Episcopal church, Fletcher. Pallbearers will be Dr. B. F. Cliff. Dr. J. L. Weddington, Dr. N. S. Fortescue, Dr. Walter 0. Allen, Dr. W. B. W. Howe, and Dr. J. S. Brown, Sr. Honorary pallbearers will be Louis Hesterly, W. B. Hodges, C. D. Weeks, and C. B. Hnrberson. Dr. Woodcock was a native of Bladen Springs, Ala. His father moved to Asheville, where he lived for many years, and Dr. Woodcock came here f?om Black Mountain. He ~fter.<!ed BafatfCt Abbey, the Jefferson Medical college and other institutions, and during the World war he served as an officer in the medical corps. He was a member of the Ashe ville Masonic lodge, of the Hu bert M. Smith post of the Ameri can Legion, of the Medical So ciety. and for many years was a member of the Kiwanis club here. Dr. Woodcock served as county physician for a period of about 12 years. He had been seriously ill a short time ago, but had suf ficiently recovered to be out again, and his death yesterday was sudden. He was a brother of the late Julian and Rufus Woodcock, both prominent Asheville business men, and is survived by his widow and one son, John Max Woodcock, of Winston-Salem. Spanish Rebels Sink British Ship In Sight Of Coast Bound for Russia for Tim ber Cargo; Women and Children Saved CROMER, England, Nov. 3.— (UP)—The Spanish insurgent auxiliary cruiser Nadir yesterday shelled and destroyed the I.ritish Dwned merchant ship Cantabria within sight of the English coast, wounding several of its Spanish :rew and leaving the vessel a blazing derelict in the North Sea. The Spanish (loyalist) press agency announced in London a few minutes before midnight that the unarmed Cantabria, which was en route to Leningrad for timber, had sunk. The Nadir, an armed motorship, :ame upon the 5,649-ton Canta (Continued on page three) Insurgents Claim Victory In One Ut i Biggest Air Battles of Spanish War By HARRISON LA ROCHE United Pre*# Staff Correspondent HENDAYF Franco - S Danish ' Frontier, Nov. 3.— (UP)—Gener [ ali^simo Francisco Franco's in surgents last m?ht claimed a vic tory in one o"f the biggest air bat tles of the Spanish civil war, fought by more than 400 planes [ which blackened the sky over the , Ebro valley northeast of Gandesa. J Simultaneously, insurgent guns 1 in the Guadarrama mountains , subjected Madrid to one of its worst shellings in its two years [ of siege, hammering the shattered , city for more than two hours with ' eight and ten-inch shells. The shelling of Madrid, which t will observe the second anniver | sary of its siege next Mondav , v.ith a two-year toll of nearly i 5,000 casualties and 51,000 build . ings wrecked, began at 9 p. m. ; and tapered off shortly before 1 midnight. I The bombardment, which brought ambulances and firefight ing equipment screeching through the streets, was a grim contrast with the flowers dropped earlier in the day by a lone insurgent bomber on the East cemetery in I an All Souls' day tribute. The aerial battle over the Ebro front, along the western boundary of loyalist Catalonia, was the loy alists' answer to the challenge of Franco, who had rushed more than 350 fighting planes to the sector over the week-end. More than 100 insurgent pur suit planes, which had been lurk ing above the clouds at 18,000 feet over the village of Picaron, dived into the affray, bringing down three of the loyalist bomb ers, the insurgents said. After "dog fighting" over a wide area the remaining loyalist bombers finally fled, according to I the insurgent version. Mystery Matches Handed to Her Like a scene from a movie thril ler was the picture of sinister secret agents exchanging code messages painted by Eleanor C. j Boehme, above, witness in the trial of alleged German spies in [ New York Federal Court. She j L told of visiting Kate Moog 1 Busch, another witness, who, i on their first meeting, slipped j into her palm as they shook I ' hands, a book of matches. Ex ! amining it later, she said, she found the inside covered with ! writing in code. WOODWARD RITES MS PI Mrs. Neal Few Woodward Dies Wed^.esday; III for Several Weeks Funeral services for Mrs. Neal Few Woodward, 29, wife of C. D. Woodward of Highland Lake, I were being held this afternoon at i 3 o'clock at St. James Episcopal church. Mrs. Woodward died yesterday morning after an illness of sev eral weeks. Rev. James P. Burke will of ficiate at the services and burial will follow in Oakdale cemetery. The pallbearers are C. D. Weeks, C. E. Livingston, Dr. J. L. Weddington, L. B. Prince, Sidney Powers, Fred S. Justus and Je rome Sellers. Mrs. Woodward was the daugh-1 ter of Vernon and Neal Crowder Few. She is survived by her mo-1 ther, her husband, one son, Henry Manassa, one sister, Mrs. Heath Klutz of Albemarle, and two bro i thers, Fred Few of Henderson ville, and Ben Few of Philadel-! 1 phia. Fire Damages Leverette House • Considerable damage was done 1 I yesterday afternopn to the "Lev j erette," a boarding house on King ! street, by fire. The house, is owned by George i Leverette and operated by Mrs. Gaston Freeman. The roof was i particularly damaged by the , blaze. The house is directly across the street from the fire department and equipment was moved into 'the street to fight the blaze. <J F. R. PREPARES TOCOMMAND N.Y. CAMPAIGN Renewal of III Fated Purge Efforts Anticipated in Radio Talk WILL BROADCAST FRIDAY EVENING. HYDE PARK, N. Y., Nov. 3.—j V;SJP)—President Roosevelt re-; turned to his home here last night prepared to take command of the Democratic forces in a last-min i^e offensive on behalf of the stetc ticket. He arrived from Washington at 9 p. m. ^The chief executive personally will appeal for the slate headed by Governor Herbert H. Lehman i on_Friday evening. Some observers were of the opinion that the president, in his radio talk, would appeal for the election of "forward - looking" candidates, naming specifically Governor Frank Murphy of Mich-1 igftri, Senator Robert Bulkley of Onio and Charles Sawyer, Ohio's Democratic gubernatorial nomi nee. WAiLACE LAMBASTS 'PURGE* HURDLER Br ARTHUR F. DECREVE Pre»» Staff Correspondent SL (\XpU THs* national political spotlight shifted to Hyde Park, N. Y., last night when President Roosevelt j returned to his country home to , make tr radio plea on Friday for ; the succesff of the New York state Democratic ticket and to vote in the November 8 election. White House aides said that the address, which will be broadcast to the nation, will be of general interest. This was interpreted as j an indication that the chief ex ecutive will urge again that the electorate replace political con servatives with known liberals— the theme song of his ill-fated "purge" of party recalcitrants in the primaries. The defeat of the New York Democratic ticket would be a lus ty wallop to the administration's prestige and the president knows it. Despite indications from polls and other surveys made in New! York that the Lehman-Dewey race 1 in particular will be close, Mr. j Roosevelt was not worried as he left the capital. He had said at his press conference Tuesday that reports reaching him were to the effect that the situation was sat isfactory. New Dealers, however, expect the president to make a rousing plea for the entire Democratic j ticket, with emphasis on the need of the doubtful to rally behind the Lehman-Wagner-Mead trio. As he rode into one of the Em-; pire State's holiest political fights in years, one of his cabinet mem bers, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, came to the1 defense of a New Deal senator and a Democratic senator who had hurdled the "purge." Wallace charged in a statement that Senator Arthur Capper, R., | Kans., had put his allegiance to (Continued on page three) Tobacco Workers Abandon Strike C. 1.0. Regional Director Orders This Action MIDDLETOWN, 0., Nov. 3.— (UP). — The Pioneer Tobacco Workers union late last night abandoned its month-old strike against the P. Lorillard Tobacco company plant here as 500 na tional guardsmen stood by with arms to prevent possible violence. An estimated 500 workers, 459 of whom were said to be members of the Committee for Industrial Organization affiliated union, j agreed to an emergency meeting to call off the strike at midnight, in response to an order from Paul W. Fuller, C.I.O. regional director at Cincinnati. j With one dissenting vote, the j strikers announced that they, would return to their jobs today i "in orderly fashion," but will file ■ new charges with the national la- • bor relations board in an effort to force resumption of collective bargaining with company officials over demands for vacations with pay, seniority rights and establish ment of grievance machinery. j BRITISH PREMIER WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE WHILE CRITICS SAY WAR BROUGHT NEARER Opposition Hails Him as 'Age's Boneless Wonder' But no Parliamentary Strength Is Lost By RICHARD D. M'MILLAN LONDON, Nov. 3.—(UP) — Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain late last night won a 345 to 138 vote of eonfidcnce in the house of commons for his pact of friendship with Premier Benito Mussolini after his critics had mercilessly described him as "the boneless wonder of the age." The vote, revealing that the prime minister actually had lost none of his parliamentary strength as result of the "peace of Mu nich," was in effect a go-ahead signal for his four-power program of dealing with the dictators. As result of the vote, the An glo-Italian pact initialled in Rome iast April 16 will be put into op eration immediately and Britain will recognize formally Italian sovereignty over Ethiopia. The vote of 345 to 138 com pared with one of 316 to 108 cast for Chamberlain last May 2—five months before Munich—when the original terms of the Italian agreement were approved. Chamberlain asked support for the pact with Italy on the grounds that "it must be regarded a3 a step towards appeasement . . . im proving the prospects of peace as a whole." TiiV fcppasfuon, ana ever.' mer Foreign Secretary Anthohy Eden of his own party, condemn ed the past as another "surren der" to the dictators, bringing closer the menace of war. Eden, who resigned from Cham berlain's cabinet last February in protest against the Anglo-Italian pact, voted against it. Chamberlain was expected to turn his efforts immediately to four-power collaboration on such proposals for a durable European ' peace as: i 1. Non - aggression pledges! whereby Britain, Germany, Italy i and France would renounce war against each other. 2. Some satisfaction of Ger- i many's colonial claims. 3. A plan to curb Europe's frenzied armaments race. 4. Economic and financial ad justments to strengthen interna tional friendships. The four-power leaders, at their Munich conference on September 29, agreed to meet again within three months or as soon as the ' Czech frontier disputes with Po land and Hungary were disposed | jf. The Czech-Hungarian dispute was settled by arbitration today, opening the way for another; meeting of the "bie four." London newspapers referred confidently today to the possibil ity of an early meeting between . Chamberlain and Chancellor Adolf j Hitler, but there was no reference to such a meeting in the commons debate in which attacks were heaped upon the prime minister. DR. R7OAYL0RT0 ATTEND SESSIONS Dr. It. E. Taylor left yesterday ' for Knoxville, Tenn., where he will attend a meeting for the Southern States Veterinarian Med ical association, in session Thurs day through Saturday. Dr. E. S. Bradley of Greenville, S. C., will be in Dr. Taylor's of fice until his return. Skywrites a Vote Plea for Husband In her first attempt as a sky- j writer, Mrs. Grace Liebman, , above, took her plane up over New York's midtown area and wrote "Vote Liebman'1 across thj?v *J»'v'n letter* of amok?,. It wa* » campaign tylefr for her husband, Walter H. Liebman, a New York Democratic candidate for congress. Commercial avia tors expressed amazement at the perfect success of Mrs. I Liebman's first skywriting at- . tempt. REYNOLDS AND WEAVER BOTH COMING HERE Speakings Friday and Mon day Will Conclude County Campaign United States Senator Robert j R. Reynolds and Congressman j Zebulon Weaver, both of Ashe- ( ville, will speak in Henderson county on Friday and Monday as' Democrats of the county close the, campaign for the election next Tuesday, M. M. Redden, chairman ' of the county Democratic execu-! tive committee announced today.j Congressman Weaver will speak at the courthouse here on Friday night at 8 o'clock, Mr. Redden said. He will be introduced by R. L,1 Whitmire, Hendersonville attor ney, who was his opponent for the Democratic nomination in the primary last June. Mr. Whitmire will also address the rally. Senator Reynolds will come here for an address on next Mon- j day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the courthouse. Mr. Redden stated that arrange ments were being made for pro grams at both meetings and that music at each rally would be given by the Rogers string orchestra. Hungary Awarded Czech Territory, Cutting Domain By Third In Month VIENNA, Nov. 3. (UP)—Ger many and Italy, sitting as a court r>f arbitration in the Czech-Hun ararian frontier dispute, last night directed Czechoslovakia to sur render 4,634 s 'tare miles of ter rtiory with an estimated popula tion of 850,000 to Hungary with in eight days. The decision, reached here by Grerman Foreign Minister Joachim yon Ribbentron and Italian For 2ign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, granted the Hungarians nost of their claims. The Polish-Hungarian demand for a common frontier, by means )f the amputation of Czechoslo vakia's eastern Ruthenia province, vas rejected, however. Czechoslo vakia also was allowed to retain ler important frontier city of Bratislavia in Slovakia. Hungarian officials estimated ;hat the Italo-German decision fives Hungary 4,785 square miles I of territory and a population of I 1,064,000. Under the 1910 census,, this territory includes 750,000 j Hungarians, they said. With the decision of the Rome-1 Berlin axis powers, which the Czechs already have agreed to ac- j cept, Czechoslovakia has lost ap-1 proximately one-third of her ter-' ritory to three neighboring na tions within the space of one I month. More than 12,000 square miles of the Sudetenland was lost to Germany, and Poland acquired 720 square miles in Silesia. The serpentine strip of land along the Hungarian border which Czechoslovakia now must cede, ( comprises the bulk of Hungarian ( demands. The Italian and German arbi- j ters did not give Hungary a 100 < per cent victory however, leaving the fourth largest city in Czecho- < (Continued on page three) j IRREGULARITY AND COERCION ARE ALLEGED Senate Committee Warns Acts Will Not Pass Unchallenged LA GUARDIASTRENGTH THROWN TO LEHMAN (UNITED PRESS) New charges of irregularities and coercion of voters were thru:t to the front today as election day approached. The senate campaign commit tee's investigatoi-s reported evi dence of padding the vote lists in Hudson county, N. J., domain <>( Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. Republican nominees in Ohio telegraphed the committee thnt the Democratic organization thero is attempting to coerce WJ'A. workers. In New York, the race between Republican Thomas E. Dewey and Democrat Herbert H. Lehman, for governor, appeared to be shaping up as one of the closest in the Empire state for many years. The New York Times reported Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had de cided to back Lehman. President Roosevelt will broad cast an address from Hyde Park Friday night. In Pennsylvania, Judge Annui James, Republican candidate in the drive to regain the governor ship, urged workingmen to join in this revolt so that industry car reviv<? and provide jobs for those now on relief. Democratic candi date Charles Jones declared that Democrats must be re-elected bo cause we mast not relax our vigi lant guardianship of liberal laws. In CWmectteut, James Farlny, Democratic national dhairmas, de clared that the billions spent by the new deal was money wefl spent to cope with the economic wreckage left by the last admin istration. SAY DEMOCRATS PAD VOTING LISTS WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. (UPt The senate campaign investi^at ing committee charged last night that it had uncovered evidence of "neglect if not criminay" prepara tion of voting lists in Hudson county, New Jersey, and warned that candidates claiming election on such "fraudulent methods" will have to answer to a senate chal lenge. The warning was directed at both parties, although Chairman Morris Shcppard, D., Tex., admit ted that the charges were filed against the Hudson county Demo cratic organization and that none was filed against the Republicans. In connection with the Ohio senatorial campaign, the commit tee absolved Robert A. Taft, Re publican, of charges that he spirit more than he renorted. It said that Robert J. Bulkley, Democrat ic incumbent, charged with ac cepting contributions from about 50 federal employes, was covered by its general statement holding donations by government workers to be illegal. Sheppard disclosed that com mittee agents had conducted a preliminary investigation and in jne case ha dfound evidence that ;he voting list in a Hudson coun ty ward had been "padded" with :he names of 25 persons w*>o ivere found not to be living ; t jiven addresses. "If this condition genemlly ex ists in Hudson county, or in any sther county, it is an indication (Continued on page five) JAKE NEWEL TO SPEAK HERS Has Two Engagements in the County Announced for Week-end Jake F. Newell, of Charlotte, chairman of the Republican state executive committee, will fill two speaking- engagements In Hender son county, it was announced t> day. Mr. Newell will speak on Fri day evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Fletcher high school auditorium, and again in Kendersonville at the sourt house at 7:30 o'clock Satur day night. James J. Pace, county chairmai, will preside at both meetings ai.d :ounty candidates will be intrj iuced. Saturday night will be onrai zation night and all precin^ :hairmen will be introduced. Mr. Newell will be introduced >n Saturday night by W. C. Meek ns, former state chairman.