North Carolina Newspapers

WEATHER ftir tonirht and Friday with L«Iy rt**nf temperature# tomor $' ^ r: . . 4 (Tin* ©mwa GOOD AFTERNOON Business can get too good. The biggest boom in shipping recently injured a German >hip near Oak land, Calif. Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population THi HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS * * * * * * * * * *#*!-%< * * * * * * * * * Reich Calls Halt To Jewish Terrorism •* NAGOGUES JINED AFTER ATH'S DEATH ck Shops; Thousands )f Jews Arrested for "Own Protection" \l AND OFFICIAL 1ETALIATION IS SEEN SNA, Nov. 10. (UP)_A informant today said that i had been between 50 and Lw.sh suicide attempts since authorities began raiding j in the mass Jew roundup, t half the suicides were taken jspitais and the remainder dead, the United Pres# in* int md. RUN". X v. 10. (UP)—The - r* called a halt to the C-. f violence against * Germany after • verywhvre had been <; a : v-.'ps and their con v and thousands of a::--:- i. P.-.ul ■! m ph Goebbels, min : :••••• :u\mda. ordered the w:: ■: •* pood but indicated new official measures C Jews :n tetaliation for the ir.af.ur. : the Germany em :n Pa: - by a young •v.an Jew. USANDS OF JEWS UNDER ARREST MIX. Xor. 10. (UP)-1 authorities today began :-.ir up Jews throughout ny ar.ii Austria after a of :• luring which mobs d the streets of cities and w:ecki:sic Jewish shops and lire to synagogues in ince for the fatal shooting 'jv • i . : .issy secretary "? by a youthful Polish Jew. is estircati 1 that 2,000 to J-'.v- w re arrested in Vi i!<—l- as part of the nation ound-up. official news agency dis that anti-Jewish aks occurred in countless ar.'i synagogues were fired it towns. vecaris a: rests, the agency . 'rat owners of Jewish i" n:any towns were being -• Jy for their own tier. Nazi? early today re swashing the show ^ f a .Jewish stores on *"•?<} richstrasse, in the uen Beriin. ^.-. ch. where Chancellor Hitler spoilt yesterday, a 1 »c >euc and several 1 v :>•< v < -e set afire short *' w.iinijfht. Yesterday a L* • a" Herafeld was burn ?ovcT.ment warned Jews •' :'.(i suffer for the °f ^>n Uath. "Cf A '<>lf Hitler sent a ' ■ ndolence to Rath's ining "the coward 1 i; " 0 .ning of the syna a* -i' -:'vld and the anti ■ ations outside tourist agency here, -:e out in Dessau, 'ic-cribing the Des */■ , ns as "spontane ^tr ■ r ;iCe were sent in ontinucd on page three) stmasters Of strict To Meet aturday Night fy or More Expected pCity \f)r Quarterly I Session ■ ' . meeting of post ■ < i i strict will he ■ Hondcrsonvillc ■ night at 7:30 Postmaster E. W. Ew I lay. Congressman ■ accepted an in I d, arid Senator ■ ; has been invited. H! -vi 11 be a dinner ,,a Mayor A. V. Ed s'*'- >lcome the visitors to ■ ■ stated that about ■,'0 tt led the last meet ■ rdton and that a K. wd was expect ► — < Cuba's "Strong Man" Visits U.S. Leaving His native island for the first time in his life, Gen eral Fulgencio Batista. Cuba's strong man. will attend Armis tice Day ceremonies at Wash ington and visit the White > House. He and his wife arrived in Miami yesterday by plane and are due in the capital to- 1 day. BRITONS WILL STIFFEN STAND TOWARD JAPAN Say U. S. and England Will Show Joint Diplomatic Front in Asia By WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 10. (UP)—Bri tain has stiffened her policy to-, wards Japan and in the immediate future may be expected to oppose actively Japanese plans to domi nate all China, diplomats believed today. 1. Information that Britain and the United States have agreed to follow parallel diplomatic action1 "to protect their shipping in the Yangtse river against Japanese in-1 terferer.ce." 2. A statement in the house of commons by Richard A. Butler, parliamentary under-secretary for foreign affairs, that the govern ment will not consider any alter ation of its position as laid down in the Washington treaties, which include the nine-powers agreement designed to guarantee China's ter ritorial integrity, and other inter national commitments. Immediate cause of the strong British attitude was believed to be the Japanese declaration of last week in which Tokyo announced that henceforth the world must recognize that Japan is the domi nant power in East Asia and must cooperate with her for prosperous and stable conditions. The Japanese statement follow-1 ing long conversations between Sir Alexander L. Craigie, British ambassador in Tokyo, and the Japanese government, was design-; ; ed to establish a basis for a broad | (Continued on page three) DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN COUNTY GIVEN LARGER MAJORITIES BY CANVASSERS A. Official Report Will Show Increased Vote in Every Precinct Democratic candidates for coun ty offices were given increased majorities over Republican oppon ents on the basis of official returns as the county election board met this morning to canvass and cer tify returns from the precincts. Slight changes were recorded in practically every precinct in the official count over the unofficial report, and Democratic majorities were increased when official re turns were larger than had previ ously been reported on the unoffi cial count. The board adjourned for lunch at 1 o'clock and at that time had canvassed the returns on the coun ty races, the U. S. congress and U. S. senate races. The board will resume work this afternoon at 2 o'clock. George W. Fletcher, Democratic candidate for clerk of court con tinued to lead the ticket on offi cial returns and increased his ma jority over M. N. Orr to 2,051 votes. Sheriff W. E. Davis, who was low man on the Democratic ticket, increased his majority to 649 votes. Congressman Weaver was given a majority of 772 votes in the county and Senator Reynolds re ceived a majority of 616 votes in this county. THE OFFICIAL VOTE For county commissioner: T. L. Durham 5831; J. A. Rusher 5700; D. G. Wilkie 5818 (Democrats), and B. J. Sitton 4045; L. L. Mer chant 4109; E. T. Brown 4042 (Republicans). For clerk superior court: G. W. Fletcher (D) 5810; M. N. Orr (R) 3859. . /r^x For sheriff W. E. Davis <D) 5248; John W. Drake (R) 4599. For surveyor: C. B. Turner (D) 5749; J. B. Patterson (R) 3943. For coroner: J. F. Brooks (D) 5596; Dr. B. F. Cliff (R) 4168. For tax collector: J. M. Stewart (D) 5713; R. H. Staton (R) 4119. For U. S. congress: Zebulon Weaver (D) 4599; Vonno L- Gud ger (R) 3827. For U. S. senate: R. R. Reyn olds (D) 4529; Chas. A. Jonas (R) 3913. Wounded Youth Reported Better Slight improvement was noted this morning in the condition of Willard Jones, age 10, who is in Patton Memorial hospital suffer incr from gunshot wounds alleged ly inflicted Monday by Floyd How ard, age 17, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Jones, the in jured boy's parents, in the Green River section. His condition is critical. The ' shooting occurred while children were playing with the gun, it was reported, and Howard was showing how to shoot a lab bit. THIRD FIRE FATALITY NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10.— (UP).—The death of Harvey Birch, 36, Jasper, Ala., yesterday brought the death toll of a box car fire on a "dead end" track to three. Britons Abandon Palestine Partition Plan; Compromise Parley Arranged i By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, JR. ' United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Nov. 10. (UP)—The British government yesterday an nounced the scrapping of its plan , to partition strife-torn Palestine into sovereign Jewish and Arab j states ?fter being warned by £ir John Woodhead's royal comm.s • sion that its enforcement would ' lead to "general rebellion." Instead, Britain will continue j indefinitely to govern the Holy Land under a 1922 League of Nations mandate and will summon Jewish and Arab leaders to Lon don in an effort to find a new compromise to end the "Holy War" with its two-year toll of l 5,000 casualties. The government said that if the London meeting fails to produce an agreement "within a reason able period of time," Britain will impose her own methods. The government's announce ment said that the meeting of Jews and Arabs in London will deal particularly with the prob lem of Jewish immigration, the main issue in the Jewish A,rab bloodshed. Even as the government an' nouncement was- made, in the form of a "white paper" accom panied by the 100,000-word re port of the Woodhead commission which was sent to Palestine last April 27, fresh violence was re ported from the Holy Land. All four members of the Wood head commission rejected the par tition plan reported on July 8, 1937, bv a royal commission head ed by the late Lord Peel and pro posing a Jewish mandate of 599, 600 population, an Arab state ol 492,400 and a mandated British corridor—holding 221,400 Arabs and 80,200 Jews—to protect the Holy places of Jerusalem, Naza reth and Bethlehem. The government's announce ment, describing the partitioning plan as "impracticable," consti' tuted a direct about face in Brit ish policy on the Jewish-Aral (Continued on page five) Dictator Dies Kemal Ataturk, above, though he was the "father of the Turk- ! ish republic," which he had ruled since its organization as i president, was known as the world's kindliest dictator. Ata turk had been seriously ill and death followed a relapse after his physicians believed he was convalescing. Ataturk. Head Of Turkish Republic, Taken By Death (Founder of Republic Had Ruled Ever Since 1923 Inauguration ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 10. (UP)—Kemal Ataturk, 58, fa ther of the Turkish republic and its president since his 1923 inau guration, died here today. The government at once pro claimed Abdul Halik Renda, pres ident of the national assembly, the provisional president, in ac ' cordance with the constitution. The assembly will elect a new 1 president to succeed Ataturk, whose fourth term would have ex I pired March, 1939. Ataturk's condition was "con ! sidered to be most grave," a phy sicians' bulletin had said last night. * , i His pulse had dropped to 120 and his temperature was 99.68 decrees after a relapse from ill ness caused by a liver ailment. The condition of the "Grey Wolf" became alarming October 16 but he rallied and had been considered out of immediate dan ger four days later. 10th Dist. Medicos I Pick Dr. Brackett As New President • Around 100 Physicians At tend Session at W.N.C. Sanitarium ASHEVILLE, Nov. 10.—Dr. W. E. Brackett, of Hendersonville, j was elected president of the Tenth District Medical Society at the semi-annual meeting of the organization yesterday at the Wes tern North Carolina sanatorium near Black Mountain. Dr. Brack ett succeeds Dr. H. S. Clark, of Asheville. Approximately 100 physicians from the 16 Western North Caro lina counties in the district attend ed the meeting. Socialized medi cine was discussed, but the society took no action in resolutions. Dr. Roy Wood, of Canton, was elected first vice-president of the society. Other officers were named as ! follows: Dr. R. L. Robinson, of Murphy, : second vice-president; Dr. Frank ! Wood, of Marion, third vice-presi ,dent; Dr. C. A. Hensley, of Ashe ville, fourth vice-president; Dr. Frank H. Richardson, of Black Mountain, fifth vice-president, and Dr. A. B. Greenwood, of Ashe ville, secretary-treasurer. Dr. S. O. Black, of Spartanburg, S. C., and Dr. T. W. M. Long, of Roanoke Rapids, secretary of the (Continued on page five) ASKS INQUIRY I AS TO VOTING IN 3 PRECINCTS K Told Spe cific Facts Must Be Cited and Hearing Set TWO CITYVOTING DISTRICTS INVOLVED *, • Joe P. Hollingswovth, Republi can member of the county elec tion board, requested the board to investigate voting in three pre cincts as the board convened this morning to canvass election re turns. Mr. Hollingsworth requested the board to conduct an investi gation in Hoopers Creek, South east Hendersonville and South west Hendersonville. No action was taken by the board this morning, but L. T. Der moid, chairman of the board, told Mr. Hollingsworth that a hearing would be set after charges were i made specific. Mr. Dermid said that the law required the citing of specific in stances. Mr. Hollingsworth said he had been informed that some voters voted as many as three times at Hoopei-s Creek. Mi*. ' Hollingsworth requested that Fred Toms, registrar at Southwest, Walter Fletcher, rep ;lgr*r at Hoopers Creek, Phillip at Southeast, Otto Brookshire, judge at South east, and John Hill, Bynum Stepp and W. C. Hathcock be summoned as witnesses. He also requested tfiat the poll books in these three precincts be produced. hollingsworth VALLEY HILL SETS BENEFIT Farce, Ministrel, Other Events Planned for Friday Evening Valley Hill school will present a dramatic and musical benefit program Friday night, November 11, at 7:45 o'clock. The following entertainment has been arranged: "Frank and Erma, a 15-minute play by the seventh grade, with seven characters. This is a farce of newlyweds who just can't agree and which provides many laughs. "Jolly Juvenile Minstrels" by the sixth and fifth grades is an entertainment of fun, songs and dances. "Hansel and Gretel," given by the primary grades. The charac ters, in the order of their ap pearance, will be: Hansel, Hubert Justice; Gretel, June Langley; Mother, Lucille Thompson; Fath er, James Heffner; Witch, Willa vina Patterson; Gingerbread chil dren. Numbers to be given between these larger acts will include a black-face skit by a group of small children, entitled "We's Mammy's Little Honeys," and a musical reading by two girls, "Quit Dat Ticklin' Me." A small admission will be charged. Episcopalians To Hold Prayer Day Intercession for Peace Will Be Held Friday The Woman's Auxiliary of St. James Episcopal church, following its custom of the pest several years, will sponsor a dav of prayer and intercession for peace Friday, in observance of Armistice day. The church will remain open from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., with members of the auxiliary present during the entire period, but the I 10 a. m. Friday communion serv ice will be observed as usual. Indiana Senate Race Still Close INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 10. (UP) With only 61 precincts missing, Senator Frederick Van Nuys hsld a lead of 1410 votes over Repub lican candidate Raymond E. Wil lis in their neck-and-neck U. S. I senate race. CITY WILL CELEBRATE 20TH ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY WITH PARADE, SERVICE, GRID GAME >2x—— — Full Holiday Is Scheduled and Dance Will Be Held qt Night REV. JOHNlNZER TO DELIVER ADDRESS Ilendersonville will observe to morrow, Armistice day, the 20t! anniversary of the close of th< World war, with a full holidaj and a program under the sponsor ship of the Hubert M. Smith posl of the American Legion. A parade, patriotic service football game and dance will fea ture the day's celebration. The parade will assemble al the county courthouse at 1C o'clock in the morning, and will get underway at 10:30 o'clock. The line of march will extend north on Main street to Eighth avenue and thence west on Eighth avenue to the high school audi torium. Mrs. Yarborough today asked that all members of the Americar Legion Auxiliary and all Gold Star mothers gather in front oi the court house Friday morning at 10 o'clock to take part in the parade. Members of the auxiliary will march and cars will be provid ed for the Gold Star mothers, il was stated. , . The patriotic service at the au iJitorhiTtr wITT-foHW trtfrtedlateb after the parade. J. H. Flanagan, commander of the post, will preside, and the program will open with music by the high school band, singing of 1 "America" and the advance of the colors. The invocation will be by the Rev. B. E. Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church, and chap lain of the Legion post. Mrs. Frank Yarborough, presi dent of the Legion Auxiliary, will speak briefly and special music will be given by the high school glee club. The principal address will be delivered by Rev. John Inzer, of Asheville, pastor of the Baptist church, and a former national chaplain of the American Legion. The football game in the after noon will be played at 3 o'clock at the high school athletic field between the Bearcats and the Brevard high team. The teams are evenly matched and, due to traditional rivalry, a close battle is expected. A large crowd is expected and practically the entire Brevard high student body is expected to come here for the game. The dance will be given at the city gymnasium at 9 o'clock. It is sponsored by the Legion and will be a benefit for the high school band. WILLOW ST. CHURCH OF GOD PLANS REVIVAL Rev. L. J. Stone announced to day that the public was invited to hear Rev. W. T. Auten, returned missionary from the West Indies, at the Church of God, on Willow street. Rev. Mr. Stone also announced that a revival would start on Mon day, November 14, at the church with the Rev. George E. Bailey, of Johnson City, Tenn., doing the preaching. Stage Starlet Newly risen star in the New York, theatrical firmament is Adele Longmire; of ,New Or hit, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." CATS READY I FOR BREVARD i j I Long Football Rivalry Will j Be Renewed Here Friday at 3 P. M. Hendersonville High School's I | Bearcats will meet the Brevard j High Blhe Devils here Friday in ! a renewal of one of the oldest football rivalries in Western North Carolina. The game will be one of the highlights of Hender- | sonville's Armistice day celebra-1 tion The kickoff will be at 3 1 o'clock. Year after year these two teams have met on alternating gridirons near the end of the pig skin season. The scores have been varied, as have outcomes, but| nearly always a good game has been played. In 1935 the Bearcats suffered an 18-6 defeat at the hands of Brevard in a tense struggle. In '36 the Cats avenged themselves by piling up a lopsided score of 33 to 0, and last year the Cats were defeated in the Transylvania county town, 12 to 0 Compara tive scores give the locals only a | ' slight edge this year. Brevard, local football fans 1 agree, will give the Bearcats a real struggle and it will take the i spirit shown in the past games to bring victory to Hendersonville. Coach Stephens has announced the probable starting line-up, as follows': Left end, Dorn; left tackle, (Continued on page five) LaGuardia Sees 'Setback' And Calls Conference For Progressive Forces NEW YOFK, Nov. 10. (UP)— Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, asserting that Tuesday's elections were "a decided setback" to pro gressive forces, said last night that he would invite progressive leaders to a conference in Wash ington next week to tighten their lines. He said he would invite Sena tor Robert M. LaFollette of Wis consin, Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, and others. "You have a situation of sup porters of progressive, humane, economic welfare legislation be ing opposed by the old line par ties," he said. "You have candi dates in the Democratic party who are not sympathetic with progressive legislation, and you have progressive candidates in the Republican party who do not agree with the control and man agement of the party, and the re sult is an increased strength to the forces of reaction. "That means but one thing—I that the progressive forces in tnis ! country have got to ect together, j It also means that labor must ad- j just its differences, and it also I means that there must be a well defined, clear, concise progres sive program. "As the matter now stands, it is a little too loose." La Guardia said he was pleased with the election results in New York state and described the sit uation nationally as "disappoint ing but not discouraging if the progressives get together and join forces." The mayor nodded his head in assent when he was asked if he considered the election results a "black eye for the New Deal," then added: "But I don't think it's irrepa rable. I think the house and sen ate will give the president his leg islation. I think pressure from: home will demand it. There is a safe working majority, provided f there is cohesion between the sen ate and house." 1 MUST VEER TO CONSOLIDATE AFTER LOSSES Said to Remain Strongest Man in Party Despite Tuesday's Setback MANY CONGRESSIONAL SEATS STILL IN DOUBT NEW YORK, Nov. 10. (UP)—• The abrupt national swing toward the Republican party in Tuesday's election gave President Roosevelt good ground either to close his ranks with the left wingers or to ally with conservative Democrat* for the 1040 presidential cam* paign. The general election cut down promising administration political timber. It left the president PtiU more emphatically the strongest man in sight to head a 100 per cent New Deal ticket in 1040. Stocks rose and business appar* ently was reassured by Republic can victories. Left wing leaders Immediately saw danger of a divided houso and set about for consolidation efforts. At New York, Mayor LaGuar dia, Fusion leader and American Labor Party statesman summoned outstanding Progressive leaders to meet in Washington nuxt we«k. His object is coalition. Former President Herbert Hoo ver raised the conservative coali tion flag and called upon conserv ative Democrats to join Republi cans to stop the New Deal. REPUBLICANS TURN BACK NEW DEAL Br ARTHUR F. D.GREVE The Republican party turned back the 6-year New Deal tide in Tues day's general elections, and today again was a major political fore* capable of giving Democrats a l.ot fight for the presidency in l'J40. Although the Republicans cap tured important political posts in many strategic states as the na tion swung to the right of the New Deal, Democrats retained control of both houses of congress and possession of more than one-half of the 48 gubernatorial posts. Virtually complete reports from the off-year election presented this picture: Republicans won eight addition al senate seats and their candi date was leading in a neck-and neck race in Indiana. In Iowa, the hotly contested senate race ap peared settled last night with the re-election of Guy M. Gillette. A total of 162 Republicans had been elected to the house at 4 *0 p. ra. This was a gain of 74 seats and 29 contests still were in doubt. Republicans made a net gain of 11 gubernatorial seats. President Roosevelt received the news of the Republican triumphs in silence at his Hyde Park, N. Y., home. . _ , , Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National commit tee conceded that Republican gains exceeded his expectations, but he insisted that the country still i« "strongly behind the hu manitarian policies of President Roosevelt." He said the defeat of Democrats in Connecticut, Rhode* Island and 4 Nebraska should be attributed chiefly to local isues and that Democratic victims in Obio, Ore gon, Massachusetts and P»!nnsyi vania resulted from failure to he il intraparty strife. While Farl<y said that "we lost a few more (Continued on page three) Fassifern Plans For Stunt Night Saturday evening, November 12, is the date set for tne an nual stunt night at Fassifern School for Girls. Beginning at 8 o'clock, each of the classes, senior, junior, soph omore, freshman, and subfresn man, will present its stunt as pa» t of a program of gala entertain ment which has come to be an annually anticipated event of the school calendar. Heightening in terest in the competitive n iture of the stunts, the class presenting that adjudged best receives a prize. Mrs. Buck Nobel Prize Recipient STOCKHOLM, Nov. 10. (UP) The 1938 Nobel price for litera ture today was awarded to Pearl S. Buck, American author. The prize is worth $40,000. Mrs. Buck is author of "The Good Earth, which won the Pulitzer prize in 1931, atod numerous other books.