WEATHER
Cfncr.Jljr fair Saturday night
Sunday, with mild tempera*
ire»
Slu4 ©ttttes -^feuus
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
Swing musicians don't get what
they should, complains a band
leader. Cortainly not; there's a
law against it.
oi. 57—No. 271
hendersonville; n. c., Saturday, November 12, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
' NEW JEWISH DECREES ARE DRASTIC
IB TRAFFIC
lESTRICnONS
OBJECTED TO
(rman. Consul at Boston
ITireatened With Bomb
I ing of Home
INSUL and office
JUARDED IN GOTHAM
;\Si;iMiTON\ Xov. 12. (UP)
ki e:ar\ of State Cordcll
.need today that the
.v< had made represen
• Jatian regarding re
t anese restrictions of
i • ~ the Yangtze river.
[.. . rhat from time to
i • i:-i.-es in connection
r. . - " r. problems on the
:v.uke it necessary for
c • communications with
ar.
[ • -av. however, what
r:i- >-.ancr or instances oc
r-.o : This.
. nment made repre
t an American note to
ar» lie rirst since October
p. •■r::!ar representations
-od by incidents at
\< ■- d: . Chung- Ching. No re
r.->. !e to the October 6
! by Japan.
UESOF THREATS
NAZI OFFICIAL
EI. MONT. Mass., Nov. 12.
')—Kurt Bohme. acting Ger
consul at Boston, said he re
Ed .v t .e- ne call late yes
ay his h'ime warning: that
ciuld be bombed
:45 a. m.. today.
ate reported the
'a - .i ■ eean an invesigation
■>:•"ia guard at the con
"c ! a - - in Boston.
r. cor-.;! .-aid that treats to
: hi> orfices had been made
tral times during the past
tths u: that they had been
m. : ! until Friday.
1 eca-u a little worried when
• > rod the telephone
Dur home this morning and a
t sa:; that if the consulate of
s l ined tomorrow, they
i!d ■ Miuvn up and everyone
ti." Bohme said.
A • thr calls have been an
pr. us and seemed to have been
Ee by men—perhaps one—per
il - Each time I answer
thc telephone I would be sub
1 of invectives and
t::ai<> against reported inci-.
«»jja:nst Jews in Germany.'
'• was called out of bed at one
:his morning by a threat
but after listening to him
a few minutes, I hung up the
eiver. I think he was the same
son who called my wife later
the day."
INSULATE AT
:W YORK PICKETED
SEft" VOIIK. Nov. 12. (UP> —
i -'- r.:a ded the German con
-t n'.sfht and a detective
s statii.r.cd in front of the
r • Bore hers, German
r • pickets paraded be
- '■ ~ul;ite carrying plac
c; : cing "Nazi murders
iowardgap
RD. RESIDENT
PASSES AWAY
ta. A. Mack. Smith Will
Be Buried in Buncombe
County Sunday
x,! " McKinish Smith, 80,
s;!err of Howards Gap road,
*1 -V >ning after a stroke
■ -k • • :s»ht. She was a mem
'' ■ 'he Ebenezer Baptist
:;nd long a devoted
n«t;r, ;r | church worker.
s'Il be made at Bethel
*Pt»t cl irch on Dry man Moun
^ ir Buncombe county, Sunday
' P- m.
i's survived by one daugh
i" * >• Irene Stroup, of West
and five sons: W. P
' A- H. McKinish, of Wash
l>. C.; E. W. and Lloyd,
! ersonville, together with
: ir-a-ilchildren, three great
:en, and three step
l/*. also three sisters,
r '' well, of West Ashe
l ' s- Hester Ferguson, and
? L a Rich, of Charlotte.
services will be ifl
©f J. M. Stepp and Son.
I • • f
Newest Feminine i
Touch for Capitol j
I
Fir?t Republican woman ever
I elected to the U. S. senate is
Gladys Pyle, above, of South
| Dakoto, who will serve a short
j term.
Ohio contributes a new face to
capital circles in the person of
Mrs. Robert Taft, wife of the
newly-elected Republican sen
ator.
Wife of California's new Dem
ocratic senator is Mrs. Sheridan
Downey, whose husband suc
! ceeds William Gibbs McAdoo,
defeated in primary.
Rotary-Anns To
I Arrange Annual
Student Benefit
Proceeds Will go Entirely
j to Student Loan Fund
of Civic Club
.
The directors of the Henderson
: ville Rotary club at their regular
' monthly meeting Thursday nijjht
I appointed a committee of Rotary
Anns to arrange an annual bene
! fit to raise funds for the Rotary
student loan fund.
Mrs. Walter O. Allen was nam
ed chairman of the committee with
Mrs. W. F. Algary and Mrs. J. C.
Morrow, Jr., as the other mem
bers.
The student loan fund, which
was begun this year is to enable
students of the county who are
(Continued on page four)
F. R. WILL PUSH
ON FOR GOALS
OF NEW DEAL
Commerce Body Sees Elec
tion as Warning
Against Reforms
ICKES STlirTALKING
POSSIBLE 3RD TERM
By HARRY WILSON SHARPE
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Nov. 12. (UP)
—Apparently unperturbed by the
sharp Republican gains in Tues
day's elections, President Roose
velt yesterday said he would con
tinue to fight for New Deal objec
tives even though the next con
gress opposes him.
It was his first comment on the
election which swept many New
Deal stalwarts into the discard
and raised the Republican party
to a place of power in both the
house and senate. Mr. Roosevelt
said at his press conference,
however, that he sees no threat to
a continuation of liberal govern
ment nor does he invisage a coal
ition of Republicans and conser
vative Democrats arising to cir
cumvent him.
A widely divergent note was
sounded by the chamber of com
merce of the United States which
voices the seniments of big busi
ness. In its weekly review of na
tional business affairs, it inter
preted the results at the polls as
a mandate to the administration
to go slow in initiating new ex
periments and reforms.
"Business takes heart in the
prospect that the incoming con
gress, reflecting the trends of
I elections returns, will be more
concerned with promoting real re
covery and re-employment than
with initiating new experiments
and reforms," it said. "The go
slow signal given by the voters is
reassuring to business. Ignoring
! party labels, the voters have sig
nified a desire for a more realistic
i and deliberate approach to na
tional problems.
j "This implies that ill-advised
and hastily-drawn legisation ad
versely affecting business will en
counter closer scrutiny and face
stiffer resistance in a congress in
which the balance of power is
(Continued on page four)
GOLF COURSE
WPA PROJECT
SOUGHT HERE
Application for Work to
Cost $25,372 Sent to
District Office
Mayor A. V. Edwards and City
Clerk R. R. Arledge this morning
signed application for a . $/!5,
327.15 WPA project for improve
ments to the golf course at the
Hendersonville Golf and Country
club.
The application will be sent to
the district office in Asheville,
and to Raleigh and Washington
after approval there.
The project provides for clear
ing, grubbing, grading, the con
struction of a caddy house and
other construction on the course,
i Principal expenditures on the
project are for skilled and un
skilled labor in the amount of
$22,187.60 over a period of sev
eral months.
j The cost for material and equip
ment is placed at $3,184.55.
Under the project, the federal
government would supply 87.4
percent of the funds and the
I sponsor 12.6 percent.
i CITY AND EAST FLAT ROCK
I HOMES BURN FRIDAY NIGHT
Two fires last night destroyed a
small fcur-room house just off 5th
avenue west and a brick building
at East Flat Rock.
The blaze on Fifth avenue oc
curred about 7 o'clock in a small
house back of M. Fred, 709 Fifth
avenue.
The fire department answered
the call but flames had made such
headway on their arrival that the
house was practically destroyed,
i The house was owned by Mr. Fred.
The second blaze occurred about
10 o'clock in a brick building at
East Flat Rock, owned by R. G.
Rand. The building was formerly
occupied as the town hall oi &ast
Flat Rock but was being used as a
dwelling for two families at the
time of the fire.
Occupants were Mrs. Carl Pitt
man, who occupied one portion of
the building, and a Mr. Hardin,
who occupied the other.
The interior of the building was
badly damaged, and occupants lost
practically all household furnish
ings.
The Hendersonville fire depart
ment answered the call but arrived
too late to be of material assist
ance. •
THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IS
MOST SERIOUS IN HISTORY,
REV. INZER DECLARES HERE
•..vS
Prize Novelist
She was a missionary in China.
Then she wrote "The Good
Earth" and other best-sellers.
! Now Pearl S. Buck has won the
l'J38 Nobel Literature Prize.
CATS, COMING
FROM BEHIND
BEAT BREVARD
Lift Armistice Game Here
19-12; Qaarles, McCray
Blake, Bates Star
Coming from behind twice, the
Hendersonville High 'Bearcats
scored in the final seconds of play
yesterday afternoon to defeat Bre
| vard High 19 to 12.
Brevard started rolling early in !
the first period and drove 91;
yards, mainly on power plays to
I score early in the second quarter.
With Ashworth gaining consistent
ly the visitors pushed the Cats' 11
i yard line where they were stopped
i for three plays but Teague passed
; to Ashworth on the 1-yard line j
j and Ashworth went over on the
first running play. A pass for the
extra point missed fire.
The Cats came back with a rush !
to tie the score. After the kick
off Quarles quick-kicked to the,
Brevard 30-yard line where Bates!
dropped Teague in his tracks. Two
running1 plays lost 8 yards for
Brevard and Teague punted to the
Cat 45-yard line where Quarles
took the kick, started to the1
right and reversed the ball to Bert
Miller who took out down the left;
side of the field and crossed the
goal line on his 55-yard jaunt
without being touched. The entire
Brevard team was pulled to the
right and the Cats blocked out
every possible tackier as Miller'
easily outdistanced the field.
The try for point was blocked
and Quarles picked up the ball
and tried to run it over but missed I
by inches.
Brevard scored again in the sec-1
ond period after Ashworth had in
tercepted a pass on the 45-yard
line and run to the Cats' 19-yard
line where Quarles stopped him.
Again the Brevard running attack
was stopped but a pass to Ash
worth netted a first down and Ash
j worth went over. The try for
1 point was no good.
Shortly after the third period
'opened Teague punted to the
Hendersonville 22-yard line and
Quarles returned to the 29. Mc
i Crary and Quarles picked up a
1 first down. A penalty set the
Cats back but Quarles passed to
McCrary and added a first down
and then passed to Drake and Mc
: Crary for another on the 29-yard
i line. A running pass to Drake
over the goal line brought the
second touchdown and the extra
point failed to bring the score to
12-all.
With both teams trying to score
Ashworth produced the last Bre
vard threat with a 35-yard run to
the Cat 25 and Brevard pushed
I on down to the Cat 12-yard line
but three running plays failed to
gain, a pass grounded to the end
zone and the locals took over on
their own 20-yard line.
The Brevard team was practi
cally out on its feet and Quarles
opened with a slashing ground at
' (Continued on page four)
Ex-National Legion Chap
Jain Addresses Armistice
Day Meeting
democracy ha* never been so
threatened in the history ot the
world as it is today, Rev. John
Inzer, pastor of the First Baptist
church, of Asheville, and first na
tional chaplain of the American
Legion, told a capacity audience
at the high school auditorium yes
terday morning:.
/The occasion was the annual pa
triotic service of the Hubert M.
Smith post, observing Armistice
Day, the 20th anniversary of the
ending' of the World war.
ODrawing a comparison to a
stprm. Rev. Inzer said that the
world was in for a long hard blow.
There cannot be such contrary
winds as democracy, communism,
fajc'sm and nazism without a
storm, he said.
He expressed the opinion that
the Munich peace pact merely
postponed trouble in Europe, and
h<4 also expressed the opinion that
war in Europe was inevitable.
"The blow is on," he said, "and
will continue until it blows itselt
out. The need of America is to
arouse, not to be taken by sur
prise, and to weather the storm so
that when it is over there will be
something left in America for
world civilization.
is too late, unless God helps
'Ifsi t<V straighten things out in
fi'urope, but we must be prepared
to keep out o£ it.
"America needs a revival of
moral and spiritual things. We
must return tb a sane standard or
we are doomed. We need a re
vival of democracy, a standing for
freedom of thought. We have it
now but how long will it continue
when the commonplace things of
our life arc already denied in
many countries.
"It might happen here. We
must stop saying that democracy
will save itself.
"We do not love this country
enough; we are forgetful of the
price paid for our freedom; we
forget what it means to be denied
freedom.
"We have said things will be
all right tomorrow. They will not
when thousands of people are at
work, seeking to undermine the
American system.
"We must find an answer to
those who say that American lib
erty gives them the right to seek
to overthrow democracy, while ad
mitting at the same time that the
system they would establish in its
place would deny the same right.
"America may not be what we
want ft to be, but if it is it is
largely because we haven t done
what we should to make it that
way. , ,
"America is the open door to
the man who wants to fdo some
thing and be somebody."
J. Harold Flanagan, commander
of the local post, presided at the.
service, which was opened Wlt"
music by the high school band and
the advance of the colors.
The invocation was by the Kev.
B. E. Wall, pastor of the first
Baptist church, and chaplain of
the post. •. ,
Special music was given by tne
(Continued on page four).
ANNUAL RED
CROSS DRIVE
OPENS NOV. 14
Offices Established in the
State Trust Company's
Building
The annual Roll Call of the
Henderson county chapter of the
American Red Cross will begin on
Monday, Nov. 14, with Mrs. Earl
Crews as Roll
Call chairman.
fAOffices have
'•MHm HA* been set up in
the State Trust
I company build
W| an iner and pros
WW A pects of reach
I in? the 700
■ g member quota
■H assigned to this
■ 11 11 county are good.
1 P 1 Particular ef
■HJBLJJLJ fort will be
1 •"*' made this year
to enroll all the schools in the
county and, in view of the fine
work which has been done during
the past year by Mrs. Dorothy
! McCoy, Red Cross nurse, in the
county schools, a full membership
I is expected.
GEN. PERSHING
PRESSES NEED
FOR DEFENSE
Nation's Leaders Urge
Armament as World
War Dead Honored
WORLD'S SITUATION
NEVER MORE CRITICAL
By GRATTAN McGROARTY
United Prett Staff Corre»pondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. (UP)
—President Roosevelt led the na
I tion yesterday in honoring Ameri
ca's World War dead on the 20th
anniversary of the armistice while
other national leaders urged all
possible speed in building a
mighty military machine in pie
paration for the "next war.
To the accompaniment of mili
tary taps—the nation's last mes
sage to her departed heroes Mi.
Roosevelt placed a floral wreath
at the base of the unknown sol
dier's tomb in Arlington National
cemetery. .
After a minute's pause, during
which thousands stood bare-head
ed the president returned to the
White House to summon his cabi
net for a discussion of national
problems, including a forthcom
ing recommendation to congress
for the largest army and navy
appropriations in-peace- time his
tory. . - » -
General John J. Pershing, com
mander of the American armies
in France, said that "immediate
and vigorous" action to increase^
the nation's armed forces is ur
gent "lest there be visited upon
, us the recent experience of Eng
land and France."
Pershing called on President
Roosevelt late Friday. .
Stephen F. Chadwick, national
commander of the American leg
ion, in a radio address from Ar
lington cemetery, recommended
immediate enactment of a univer
sal service law for conscription of
both labor and capital in event of
war. He added that the United
States must assume complete re
sponsibility for defense of the
Western Hemisphere in the inter
ests of its own security and peace.
Episcopal Bishop Jas. E. Free
man, speaking at the tomb of the
war-time President Woodrow Wil
son, said that "in a world of mag
nified armies and navies there can
be no continuing security and
peace," and declared that the
United States "must be challeng
ed to recognize here incomparable
place as the mediator and recon
ciler and highly consecrated ad
vocate of peace in a war-madden
ed world."
Pershing making his first for
mal statement since recovry from
a recent serious illness, said that
the United States would continue
efforts to limit armaments by in
ternational agreement but warned
that until there is a change of
heart in other parts of the world,
this country must go the limit in
preparing for war.
The aging chief of the Ameri
san Expeditionary Force said the
present world situation "is as me
nacing as at any critical time in
history." ...
"It is something for our serious
consideration," he said. "It de
mands immediate and vigorous
action on our part lest there be
visited upon us the recent exper
ience of England and France.
"Not only from beyond the At
lantic do these dangers threaten
the Americas. Moreover, we are
the natural protectors of the
freedom of this hemisphere, and
we canrot escape our obligations.
"I would like to see a complete
and well balanced army provided,
adequate in size and thoroughly
trained and fully equppied with
modern arms and with industrial
provisions for its loss or obso
i (Continued on page three)
Executive Has
Temporary Role
Abdul Halik Renda, above, pres
ident of Turkey's National As
sembly, became temporary head
of his renublic upon the death
of President Kemal Ataturk,
and wrs succeeded yesterday by
* General Ismet Inonu, as perma
nent president. Inonu is pledged
to further the pplicies of the
late Ataturk.
HOMECOMING
AT SALEM SET
FOR NOV. m
Marker at Grave of Joseph
Henry Will Be
Unveiled
The 100th anniversary of Salem
Baptist church, at Fletcher, will
be observed with an all-day home
coming celebration and the un
veiling of a marker at the grave
of Joseph Henry, Revolutionary
soldier, on Sunday, Nov. 20, it was
announced today.
The program will begin at 10 a.
m. with the regular Sunday school
hour, followed by an address of
welcome by N. B. Baldwin.
Special music wil lbe given at I
all of the services during the day
and the sermon at the morning j
service will be delivered by the
Rev. W. W. Worley, pastor.
The church history will be read
by Miss Jennie Wolfe at the morn
ing service.
At noon a picnic lunch will be
served in the Sunday school build
ing.
At the afternoon service, all
former members of the church
(Continued on page three)
BIG HOLD-UP
2 Negro Messengers Rob
bed of $25,000 on Way
to Atlanta Bank
I
ATLANTA, Nov. 12. (UP).— j
Several hundred persons today
watched three bandits hold up I
three negro messengers and rob ■
them of $23,000 which they were j
taking to a bank to deposit for (
Davidson Paxon department store, j
The messengers were walking'
along a dov/ntown street when
bandits in an automobile grabbed
two bags containing the money,
flourished revolvers intimidating
shoppers and fled in a car with a
siren screaming. I
Police took up the cahse in com-'
mandeered cars but lost the trail.
(J. S.-MEXICO LAND DISPUTE
SAID ENDED; TO PAY FOR OIL
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 12. (UP)
The 27-year-old dispute between
the United States and Mexico over
the expropriation of American
owned agrarian properties south
of the Rio Grande was reported
settled yesterday.
It was said unofficially that an
agreement had been reached in a
final conference between Eduardo
Hay, foreign minister, and Ameri
can Ambassador Josephus Daniels
yesterday following lengthy nego
, tiations in Washington and Mex
i ico City during which Secretary
j of State Cordell Hull sent a for- j
mal note of protest against the
seizures to President Lazaro Car
denas. )
The report came as a surprise
as it had been understood that the
negotiations were being concluded
in Washington. However, Presi-1
dent Cardenas' personal friend
ship for the United States ambas
sador is believed to have induced!
him to have Mexico's final note,
accepting the terms of the agree-1
ment, delivered to Ambassador1
Daniels so that the ambassador
might have the honor of transmit
(Continued on page four.) i
MASS FINE IS
IMPOSED FOR
RATH MURDER
Segregation From German
Business, Economic
Life Begun
ARRESTS FbERLIN
PLACED AT 8000
• - _
BERLIN. Nov. 12. (UP)—Thw
Nazi government today issued :■
series of drastic decrets designe d
to drive Jews from German
ness and economic life, and it also
imposed on them a mass fine of
one billion marks or $408,000 for
the murder in Paris of Ernest von
Rath, third secretary to the Pari*
embassy by a young Polish Jew.
A Nazi decree earlier today for
bade Jew6 to attend theaters, con
certs, lectures, motion pit-turn
shows, dance recitals and muse
ums. It was one of the series «£
decrees designed to provide a final
solution of the Jewish piobleiu as
a result of the fatal shooting of
Rath.
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbel's de
cree prescribed that violators of
the ban, either Jews or proprie
tors who admitted them, would be
subject to heavy fines. Goebbels
said Jews would have ample op
portunity to develop a cultural life
of their own within their own com
munity.
A foreign source said that it is
unlikely that Jewish stores wreck
ed in anti-Nazi outbreaks would
be reopened pending establishment
of Ghettos or segregated areas for
Jews.
Unofficial estimates place the
number of Jews arrested in Berlin
as high as 8,000 but officials said
it was 1,600.
AntJ-SerfkiHc action in Germany
t£ns turned from a reign of terror
to the work of Nazi legal experts,
ordered to devise rteur Tepressive
measures of unprecedented sever
ity and probably along the lines of
medieval Ghetto laws.
Dr. Goebbels, propaganda min
ister, defending the vengeance
wreaked on Jews throughout Ihe
Reich as a spontaneous, popular
uprising without official guidance,
warned Jews abroad that a worse
fate might befall their racial
brothers in Germany if foreign
Jews agitate against Germany. „
POSTMASTERS
HERE TONIGHT
Congressman Weaver Will
Be Speaker; Many
Are Expected
United States Congressman Zc
bulon Weaver is expected to he
the principal speaker at the dis
trict quarterly meeting of the
postmasters who will gather in
session at the Hendersonville Inn
from throughout the congression
al district tonight at 7:30 o'clock.
Mayor A. V. Edwards will de
livef the address of welcome and
the response will be by Mrs. Mar
ion H. Current, postmistress of
Leicester. Among the other speak
ers and officials who will be pres
ent are Weyth Peyton, postmaster
of Asheviile; Bryon P. Caldwell;
secretary of the district organiza
tion, Major Jas. H. Howell, who
is postmaster at Waynesviile, ai d
others.
Miss Kate Dotson has prepared
a musical program for the occas
ion.
5 Arabs Killed As
House Blown Up
JERUSALEM, Nov. 12. (UP)
—Five Arabs were killed in an
explosion today which deatroyod
a house in Makdal village in the
south of Palestine. It was report
ed that the house was a ref<el
bomb factory.
MRS. ALGARY AND
CHILD MAKE TRIP
TO TEXAS BY AIR
Mrs. W. F . Algary and child
are on an extended visit to hor
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Pri':e
in McKinney, Texas. Mr. AJprnry
said thtft they traveled by plare
in order to reduce the time of
travel with the child. They took a
plane at Knoxville at 2M) ar<i
were scheduled to arrive at Dal
las, Texas within six hours.
BOMBER BURNS—5 DIE
RUGELEY, England, Xov. 12.
(UP)—Five Royal Air Fore
flyers were killed today when a
bomber crashed near here and
burned.