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WEATHER ■ Cloudy, with rain and colder Lni^St; much colder Wednesday. GOOD AFTERNOON The unsuccessful producer ha* this to bo thankful for: when hi* play Hop* ho doesn't have all those plagiarism suit*. Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population \0l- 57—No. 267 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS WEATHER IS AID TO NEW DEAL CAUSE O O V ¥ ¥ ¥ *** *** *** [jght Vote In County Is Laid To Bad Weather A <9> ITY BALLOT •XPECTED TO m THIS P.M. ss Tnan Half of Vote Polled Last Election Cast by Afternoon JCH SCRATCHING' REPORTED IN CITY ,'jifavo: al'lf weather is expect to ci.it <-•;> »ii tne vote in today's year rleCtio^. tfi rts from most sections of i .. iicated a light vote ::;ng hours, and the i.r.c - largely blamed. [t .shortly after noon in r.ed that slightly more than ) . voted in the four city i : . T;i;> is less than half v u cast m the last election. \ •:ji the city was expect t, pick up during the after r. hours. • was light in Northwest iiivr.v •:ville precinct, the larg ; . ratic box in the county, ire only 380 ballots had been ; a;: !.ur the morning. i.:.. .-.st Hendetsouville, the r: se. largest single box in .Co..: ty. had voted more than ballots during the morning. [ ubc.it halt' the normal vote h:> ; recinct. he total vote in the city was lit 4.0'A votes, but the off-year tion is expected to be lighter, tr.r off-year election city vote was about 3.900. Hi tM dh li^xes, workers re : considerable 'scratching* of Hs. and th.s was viewed as un H M Democratic can I fcnservatives lose Seat When lly-Election Held lot Laborite Says Choice Bows Opposition to IChamberlain's Policies PAiiTl-ICt-:.t.. Kngland, H>. — Prime Minister Chain bet Lin's conservative ■ a defeat here in P ••u.-::amentary by-elec ft tical circles inter F D| disapproval I policy at Munich ft | L A damson, laborite, I tes to 12,276 for I ■ Mitchell, conservative. ■ ed a seat for the | ty, as the election was to ■ ■ <! by the death I <. national eonserra BjJt "uted Mrs. Adamson '•» at the last gen I ' • ;he electors dis l KOveinment's for I. are ashamed of ■* betrayal of Czecho an.; democracy}*," the ■ -didate said to re I'V . <( tht'-v str°nsrly ob K >t by the govern K service^ health ■ jects and pensions Br-.'-" 'r shall pay for re they are deter I « (.(inscription." § . ' seat was the La I L,lth Kain from the I nservative) party ft " lections held since ft t! flection. In ad I vernment lost three ft ndenta. Five other Ij; pending, ft n, addressing a I wt night, said: "I ft*- tn Westminster | 'esday I will be I tmberlain that he Itr people of this ft hiin and that he |otary Will Hear prk Service Aide M i ~~ . ft rfw of Marion, as architect with pit a, P*urk service, will §• feekly meeting of V ■> tomorrow at the ■ fill show pictures of pi n , * done in the na and an interesting ■ - • pectad. May Be China's Puppet Ruler ! China'.-* retired General Wu Pei- i fu is expected to head a new j central Chinese government | I dominated bv Japan. BRITONS SEEK TO CONCLUDE SINOJAP WAR Increased Aid From Russia Makes General Chiang Averse to Peace TOKYO, Nov 8. (UP)—For eign Minister Hachire Arita is understood to be preparing a statement declaring that Japan will welcome the principle of the open door in China and f equal economic opportunity for all, providing the powers recog- | nize Japan's dominant positions in eastern Asia. The statement was expected tomorrow when the minister re turns from a trip. By ROBERT BELLAIRE United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Nov. H. (UP) — Japanese today fought their way ' into the suburbs of two new "key" cities in central China, ap parently determined to intensify their smashing offensive against Chinese Generalissimo Chiang! Kai-shek in an effort to induce him to accept reported new peace overtures. The key cities are Yochow, j south of Hankow on the Hankow Canton railway, and Changsha, j capital of Hunan province, and south of Yuchow on the vital rail line. Yochow was expected to be "fully occupied" within 48 hours and Changsha by the end of this week. New peace reports were based on a revelation that British Am bassador Sir Archibald Clarke Kerr had conferred with General issimo Chiang during the week and at an undisclosed place in southwestern China and reported ly had asked him on what terms he would be willing to end the war. Suggestions as to what was go ing on behind the scenes includ ed : 1. That the British ambassador had told Chiang flatly that Brit ain was anxious to see an end of (Continued on page four) | KING GEORGE DECIDES UPON VISIT TO U. S. Windsors Expected to Re turn Visit in France by Gloucesters TELLS PARLIAMENT OF DECISION TODAY LONDON, Nov. 8. (UP).—King George today announced to parlia ment that he had accented an in vitation from President Roosevelt to visit the United States during his Canadian tour next spring. It will be the first visit by a reigning British monarch to the United States. By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, JR. United Pres* Staff Corespondent LONDON, Nov. 8. (UP).—King George VI and Queen Elizabeth have decided definitely to visit the United States after their Canadian tour next year and will arrive on American soil about June 20, it was revealed last night on unimpeaeable authority. The king himself wil lannounce, perhaps within two or three days, that he has accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to visit the i United States. Buckingham palace circles said that in view of the royal visit, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor had i postponed at least until 19-10 their plan to visit America next spring. The Duke himself was said to have decided upon the postpone ment because he is anxious to placate the royal family and Brit ish government and do nothing which might provide an embar-; rassing contrast to the royal visit. Edward is particularly anxious that the title "her royal heigh-, ness" be granted to his American-: born duchess and hopes to return with her to England in the near future. Disclosure of the royal family's decision coincided with Bucking ham palace reports that the Duke and Duches sof Gloucester will visit the exiled Duke and Duchess I of Windsor in Paris on Armistice day. The reports stirred speculation that the Windsors might return to England-on a visit next year, per haps while the king and queen are in North America. The meeting between the royal brothers and their wives would mark the first actual step toward restoration of normal relations between the royal family and the Windsors since Edward abdicated | (Continued on page four) Kiwanians And j Wives To Gather At Mills River Kiwanians and. their wives will go to Mills River Thursday eve ning for a supper meeting at the | Mills River school building. The program will be presented by the club's agricultural commitee com posed of J. T. Fain, chairman, Dwight W. Bennett, Dr. W. W. Carpenter, and Dr. J. S. Brown, Sr. Residents of the Mills River community will participate in the. event. Kiwanis directors were guests at a venison supper last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Richardson. Television Broadcast Station Being Built; Receiving Sets On Mart Soon By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Prets Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 8. (UP} Paramount Pictures entered the field of television last night with an announcement that the com pany had taken over an estab lished television laboratory and was prepared to market popular priced receiving sets within the next few days. Stanton Griffis, chairman of the Paramount executive committee, said the company had purchased the Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., and is now erecting a transmitter in Montclair, N. J., for use by January 1. The ambitious plans outlined by< the official indicated that Claud ette Colbert,* Dorothy Lamour and other stars shortly would be mak ing telecasting appearances in American homes. Within a few days, ne saia, tele vision sets costing from $150 to $200 each would be placed on the market. These sets, developed at the Du Mont plant, will projeet the images on a screen 11x8 inches. The first studio to enter the field. Paramount is striking1 a sharp blow at Hollywood fears that television will injure the mo tion picture industry. Griffis ex pressed the belief that the oppo site wouid be true—that the in dustry would be aided by receiv ing a new outlet for pictures which perhaps would necessitate a new type of picture. The Uu Mont patents—the in vention of Allen Du Mont—envi sion a system by which telecasts can be ''piped" into theaters and the images "blown up" to the size (Continued on page four) 1 GERMANY MAY EXPEL ALL FOREIGN JEWS AS REPRISAL FOR SHOOTING ENVOY'S AIDE BUCK SCORES COURT STAND ON STATE LAW Roosevelt Appointee Again Offering Dissenting Opinions By GERRY ROBICHAUD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. (UP) Associate Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, whose lonely dis sents from the majority opinions of his colleagues created a storm of controversy last spring, yester day rebuked the high tribunal for invading the rights of state legis latures and thus involving the states in expensive and long liti gation. Black's latest dissent, one in a series which last May precipitated a dispute over his judicial ability, came on the first formal opinion day of the court's 1938-39 term. It involved a challenge of a Flor ida law requiring that all contain ers of citrus products from that state be embossed with the desig nation "Florida." Marking the beginning'of his second year on the beuchT^fflauIr also dissented in another case. In a minority opinion he disapproved the majority's action in dismissing a $188,108 deficiency assessment against the estate of the late Ed win B. Hendrie of Denver. He described the case as an example of "tax evasion" which congress had sought to prevent by legisla tive means. in Keeping' wun me larger pun of his dissents, the Florida case represented broadly another plea by the justice for less judicial in terference with legislative pro cesses. In one such case, he vig orously urged that federal courts be bound by state court interpre tations of the laws of their re spective states, and later the high tribunal adopted the theory. The citrus case arose last year when packers challenged constitu tionality of the labeling law which the Florida legislature enacted to prevent the practice of shipping fruits, grown in other states, into Florida and packing them in con tainers labeled so as to indicate Florida origin. A three judge federal district court dismissed the challenge, but on an appeal by the packers, the supreme court ordered the lower tribunal to consider the case fur ther. Asserting that his colleagues erred in their action, Black said: "The cause is remanded for the court below to determine whether the legislative requirements that cans and labels be truthfully marked is arbitrary, unreasonable, (Continued on page three) Six Men Jailed In Harlan Shootings HARLAN, Ky., Nov. 8. (UP) — Mayor L. 0. Smith today ordered 35 Kentucky national guardsmen to stand bv for an emergency af ter a night of pre-election shoot ing in which six men were jailed. Smith said that soldiers were not on duty but are ready to main tain order in the event of further trouble. REP. M'REYNOLDS SUFFERS BRONCHITIS WASHINGTON. Nov. 8. (UP) Rep. Sam D. McReynolds, Dem., Tenn., last night was confined in Naval hospital for treatment of bronchitis. McReynolds' condition was not serious, Dr. Geo. W. Calver, con gressional physician, said. MONDAY Maximum temperature—74 de grees. Minimum — 5(J degrees. Mean—65 degrees. Day's range —18 degrees. Rainfall—.22 inch. Normal mean temperature for November—46.4 degrees. Rain fall to date—2.59 inches. Normal rainfall—3,11 inches. Anti - Jewish Outbreaks Staged; Hitler Sends Physician to Paris ' BERLIN, Nov. 8. (UP).—Anti Jewish demonstrations broke out in Vienna and elsewhere in Ger many today in reprisals for the shooting of Krnst Von Rath, Ger man embassy secretary at Paris, by a 17-year-old Polish Jew. Some'well-informed quarters be lieved that measures are being considered for the expulsion of all foreign Jews from Germany. AVENGER VViCTIM IN CRITICAL CONDITION By HAROLD -ETTLINCER United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS,. Nov. 8. (UP)—Chan cellor Adolf Hitler's personal con cern" over the perhaps fatal shoot ing of the third secretary of the German embassy in Paris by a 17 year-old Polish Jew who said he had a "divine mission" to avenge his people last night brought prompt official measures. Hitler ordered his personal phy ; sician, Dr. Brandt, and the head of the Munich University surgical clinic, Dr. Georg Magnus, to pro ceed to Paris by the quickest route to attend the wounded man. The Jewish youth, Herschel Fri pel Crynsztan, was captured by embassy guards and police as he attempted to flee after firing two bullets into the secretary, Erj&t von Rath. Police believed that Grynsztan went to the embassy for the pur pose of assassinating German Am bassador Count Johannes von Welczeck. Von Rath, 29-year-old nephew of the late Roland Koester, for mer German ambassador to Paris, last night was sinking rapidly in 1 the Alma clinic near the embassy and several blood transfusions were administered. Von Rath was shot in the lung and in the stomach and two emer gency operations for removal of the bullets were performed at the Alma clinic after it was found that the secretary was too weak for removal to the American hos pital in suburban Neuilly. Hitler, in Berlin, was said to be following the eondition of von Rath and the facts in the case by | direct telephone. Ambassador von Welczeck vis I ited Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet at the foreign office and i it was reported that he had dis | cussed the refugee situation in general, since the young assailant had been ordered to leave France I last August. The foreign office spokesman merely said, however, that Bonnet had expressed the French govern ment's regret. The attempted assassination was expected to heighten anti-Jewish and anti-foreign sentiment in the midst of moves already underway | to strengthen measures against foreigners, particularly political and racial refugees. Grynszpan, in the Invalides po-1 lice station, said his act was in: protest "against the Hitler regime | and especially the persecution of co-religionists whose lives have' (Continued on page three) Dr. Lee Is Chosen 4s Southern M. E. University Head DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 8. (UP) Dr. Humphrey Lee, dean of the School of Religion at Vanderbilt university, was chosen president of Southern Methodist university yesterday. The 45-year-old educator was appointed by the board of trustees as fourth president of the univers ity to succeed Dr. Charles C. Se lecman, who was named a bishop of the Southern Methodist church after serving as head of the school for 15 years. 4-H CLUBMEMBER WHO BROADCAST TO REPEAT TALK HERE Clarence Ward, 4-H club mem ber at East Flat Rock, was heard in a radio broadcast over station WWNC last" Saturday night. His subject was, "My Corn and Brood Sow Project." This talk will be repeated at the 4-H club Achievement Day meeting, to be held at the court house on Decem ber 17, SEN. REYNOLDS ASKS ELECTION OF FULL TICKET Closes Democratic Cam paign in County With Address Monday EDUCATIOiHs HELD DEMOCRACY'S NEED Henderson county Democrats closed their campaign yesterday afternoon with a rally at. the coun ty courthouse and the prediction by M. M. Redden, chairman of the county executive committee, that the party would receive the larg est majority in its history at the polls today. Senator Robert R. Reynolds of Asheville, was the principle speak er and urged support of the entire Democratic ticket. Senator Reynolds was met at the county line by a motorcade of about 75 automobiles and escorted to the courthouse for the address. : The high school band led the pa j rade down Main street after it ar | rived in the city. In his opening remarks, Mr. Redden, who presided, took oc ! casion to answer Brownlow Jack son, candidate for the general as | sembly. | Predicting a great victory at the polls, Mr. Redden declared that adversaries of the Democratic party are so few they do not care to ?ine up against what the Demo cratic party has done for the masses of the people in the past six years. "It has not been my policy," he said, "to criticize the Republican party, but when one of their can didates makes an attack I feel I justified in filling a demurrer." De stated that his reference was to Mr, Jackson. He declared that Mr. Jackson had pledged Re publican candidates to economy and that during the present Dem ocratic administration the county attorney had been the particular target of the opposition. He then declared that during the last Republican administration the county attorney was paid a salary of $100 per month and a 'fee of from $5 to $50 for each tax suit brqught. This was al right with Mr. Jackson as long as it was a Republican county attor ney, Mr. Redden, said. Mr. Redden pointed out that the Democratic county attorney was paid a salary of $75 per month and a flat fee of $2.50 per tax suit. Mr. Redden declared that he had no criticism to make of Mr. Jackson as a man, but pointed out that he had held federal office for a period of about 25 years. Now he objects to Democrats holding office for eight years, he said. ' He pointed out that the last Re publican administration failed to bring suits for taxes against a number of Republicans, including some of Mr. Jackson's relatives, and that the county had lost about $10,000 through this failure. He declared that Mr. Jackson had never favored old age assist ance or anything else designed to aid the people until shown the way by the Democratic administration. Senator Reynolds was introduc ed by F. M. Waters, superintend ent of city schools, who character ized him as a man who was in strumental in laying a foundation in the midst of economic and so cial change, a friend of Western North Carolina and a man upon (Continued on page three) Pastor, Choir Singer Missing Search for 59-year-old Rever end Leonard C. Richmond, top, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., pastor and father of three married chil dren, whose disappearance co incided with that of Martha May Avery (bottom), 26, choir singer, extended to eight states yesterday after the singer's mother received word from her daughter they had left together. COLD WAVE IS MOVING EAST OVER NATION Rain, Sleet, Snow Strike Country From Rockies to Appalachians . (UNITED PRESS) Rain, sleet and snow from the Rocky mountains to the Appala chians today contrasted with the November "heat wave" as the na tion voted to decide congressional and state elections. Rain and colder weather for the eastern states was predicted by nightfall. Temperatures were dropping swiftly east of the Mississippi river. Louisiana and Mississippi re ported a drop of between 30 and 40 degrees overnight. Snow was falling on the eastern slope of the Rockies and through middlewest sections. Plane, Radio Equipped Car, Used To Seize Alleged Extortion Plotters By HERBERT K. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent BUFFALO, N. Y„ Nov. 8.— (UP)—Two suspects, captured by G-men in a flction-like coup in volving an airplane, radio-equip ped automobiles and detectives aboard a speeding train, were held under $50,000 bail each last night, accused of a $20,000 extortion plot. Target of the alleged plot was Alexis C. Barbeau, Jr., 28, weal thy manufacturer who resides at Silver Creek, N. Y., 35 miles from here. The prisoners were- identified by John B. Warnes, special agent of the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation, as Anthony J. Catalano, 33, of Buffalo, and Anthony L. De Pasquale, 36, of Silver Creek. Warnes said that Catalano, fa-, ther of two children, was at liber ty under $14,000 bail on a rob bery charge at the time of his ar rest, and that De Pasquale was on parole after serving a sentence for robbery. Revelation of the prisoners' capture late Saturday came from the F. B. I. office here yesterday shortly before the pair was ar raigned before U. S. Commission er Boyce H. Butterfield. Both pleaded not guilty to charges of sending threatening letters thru the mails. Federal agents entered the case, Warnes said, early in October when Barbeau reported receiving letters, telegrams and telephone calls which threatened him and his mother with death unless he paid $20,000. Last Wednesday, Warnes re vealed, Barbeau received direc (Continued on page four) FACES BROAD TESTS TODAY OVER COUNTRY Southeastern States Voting Light as Issues Are Lacking REPUBLICANS^ EYE VOTING AMONG WPA NEW YORK, Nov. 8. (UP) — The nation today voted in jmi off year general election in which vi tal scattered races were so close that the luck of rain or sunshine may decide the winners. • Weather forecasts were mod erately unfavorable along the mid-Atlantic coast and westward into the plains states. Forecasts in these areas included clouds, rain and snow. % New York politicians especially were weather conscious. In the .ural upstate section rain mitfht keep many G.O.P. voters away i'rom the polls and perhaps de termine whether the Democratic party retains or Republicans win the governorship, grand prize of the New York election sweep stakes. Republicans made their great est challenge in a decade for con trol of the pivotal state adminis trations in senatorial and in gu bernatorial contests. Of the United 3tate* senate seats at stake 31 are now Demo aratie andthrea RepuJ&i»cafl— ■ Gubernatorial elections Jire be* ing held in 82 states. Six govern* orships are held by Republicans, 24 by Democrats, one Farmer-La borite an done Progressive. Lack of fighting issues and grn erally bad weather kept the vote light in the southeastern states. The electorate there is predom inantly Democratic and most southern voters were attracted to the polls only by interesting local contests and proposed state con stitution amendments, Republican strength being felt only in sec tions of Tennessee and North Carolina. President Roosevelt and his family planned to lead the coun try to the polls, voting early at historic Town Hall in Hyde Park, N. Y. He spent a quiet pre-elec tion day, his only important call er being Works Progress Admin istrator Hairy L. Hopkins. Hopkins told the president Sunday that California and Mich igan would land safely in the Democratic column today. Chair man James A. Farley of the Dem ocratic national committee went | beyond Hopkins' two-state fore cast and predicted sweeping Dem ocratic triumphs. He said in a radio speech that today's election transcends in im portance "the mere political fate" of scattered congressmen and ac cused New Deal foes of seeking to sabotage measures which had given the "ordinary citizen a de (Continued on page three) troMrm LESS INTENSE No Precautions Hold Neces sary Excepting for Small Craft MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 8.—(UP)— The tropical disturbance swirling through the Bahama Islands in the Atlantic ocean today gave indica tions of decreasing intensity. The federal hurricane warning system announced that no precau tions appeared necessary on the southeast Florida coast except for small craft. The storm, earlier reported to be increasing in intensity, began moving slowly' in a north-north westerly direction over the Atlan tic last night and was located near Long Island, Bahamas, about 350 miles southeast of Miami. Observers said the storm, whie<t is attended by winds reported up to 60 miles an hour at 7 p. m., (EST) had moved only a shoit distanea from the position report ed six hours earlier. However, the storm was taking a north-northwesterly course, the warning system said last night. The highest wind report from a land station at 7 p. m. yesterday was 35 miles an hour at Hatchct Bay, Eleuthera in the Bahamas. On the Florida east coast, Palm Beach had a 20 mile wind last night, Miami 16 miles per hour and Key Weft 12 miles per hour.
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