WEATHER
Cooler and generally fair to
night and Tuesday.
<Jtmrs -2s mis
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
The recent eclipse of the moon
wa» excelled next day by the
eclipte of the politicians.
VOL. 57—No. 272
A
HENDERSONVILLE, N. CM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
EUROPE BITTER
Ever Jewish
ptSECDTION
Joints Germany Away
■ From Closer French and
■ British Friendship
fEWS DUMP STOCKS;
BERLIN PRICES FALL
I LONDON, Nov. 14. (UP).—
Hlreat Britain today protested
Hbronfly against German press at
^Lcks on British statesmen and
here for an early Anglo
Berman accord seemed to have
abandoned.
I BERLIN. Nov. 14. (UP)—The
H ck market here slumped sharp
s' today as German Jewish lead
s' frantically sought to satisfy
■[creasing Nazi demands designed
■ m nate their participation in
^■azi life.
I Many stocks dropped more than
H .: ints, largely because of
■ - bv panic-stricken Jewisn
Haciers. seeking fund* to repair
H :a^'idone n anti-Semitic riot
| Meantime, the government be
Han carrying out new social r^
■rictions upon Jews. The minister
education ordered Jews barred
university lectures. New
Ro< against the Jewish population
Heie threatened.
Persecutions hurt
■azi relationships
[ By WALLACE CARROLL
^■nitcd Press Staff Correspondent
■ LONDON. Nov. 14.— (UP)—
Mermany's anti-Jewish measures
Monopolized the attention of Eu
^ftpean diplomats again today.
■ But fearful of disturbing the
Hticate balance of European dip
Hmacy at a time when general
^kpeasement is hoped for. most.
H them discreetly refrained from
Hiblic comment.
| The British press comment was
^Jvere. reflecting strong public in
Hgnation. but so far as could be
Kotiitted the British govern
^Rent will not take any action on
^Ke German Jewish question which
:gh* ifond Chancellor Adolf Hit
Hr. already known to be irritated
B Britain for interference in the
^■ennav-Czech crisis.
Bin Berlin Propaganda Minister
Buil Joseph Goebbels in a speech
^ftanjed that the killing in Paris
■f Ernst von Rath, which set off
Hiti-Jewish riots throughout the
^Beich. hv a 17-year-old Polish Jew
■u? a Jewish plot to stir up trou- |
Hie between Germany and the wes
^krr democracies. Goebbels main-1
that the riots were a spon
taneous action of the German peo
■-?. There is little doubt that the
•tances for general European ap
■ soon have been lessen
ed because of popular reaction in
■-tain and France against Ger- j
'ipatment of the Jews.
I In Paris. Le Temps, semi-official ■
■wee of the French foreign of-1
■c». war-.ed Germany that more
■ttacks on Jews would seriously
Hpect relations between Germany
^Br>d thf western powers.
■ In N'orthwich. England. Geof
■?V Shake speare, parliamentary
■ecretary of the admiralty, in a
■Pfech yesterday said: "I sincere
■^ hope that the German people
■ealize that appeasement with this
gentry is not helped forward by
■^•'•bitions of unrestrained mob
■* and persecution of a people
^r ose only fault is their race."
■ ^r Stafford Cripps, labor lead
HP in parliament, in a speech at •
"We have the right
J (Continued on page three)
f. JONES DEATH
WIRY IS SET
•oroner Cox Calls Inquest
for Saturday of
This Week
Cor ner Bruce A. Cox announc
P "■ v.ning that an inquest
•n*o the death of Willard Jones, |
■on of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton
.On,0< ,f r'r'e Green River section.
*'• b> Kf'.d on Saturday afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
, «hr inquest is expected to be
/•'' a' the office of Coroner Cox,
•X'at.v; n the old McAdoo build
:y a-, i." South Main street, just
the court house.
. 100 -^nes lad allegedly
* w'th a shotgun by Floyd
:r*ard, 17, a neighbor, as the
'■"> played in the yard at the
konrce on Monday, Nov. 7.
?1"' 't Patton Memorial hos
' i; °» Thursday afternoon,
l-.e Howard boy is being held
k own recognizance for
I"e mo :< -t. Coroner Cox said.
_or°ner Cox stated that the m
Was being held at the re
""t Of Mr. Jon™.
'Strong Man' Sees Washington
Cuba's dictator. Colonel Fulgencio Bat'sta, rides to the White
House with General Malin Craig, right, U. S. Army chief.
COUNTY RECORDER'S COURT
CEASES TO EXIST DECEMBER 5
MIAMI BRIBE
CASE PUSHED
Testimony Against Three
High City Officials Is
Resumed
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 14. (UP) —
Bryan C. Hanks, president of the
Florida Power & Light Co., will
resume his testimony today in the
trial of three high city officials,
charged with soliciting a $250,000
bribe from him to settle an elec
tric rate dispute out of court.
Hanks who has been on the wit
ness stand for a day and a half al
ready, was expected to complete
his testimony today.
The power company president
has testified that city rate expert
Thos. E. Grady solicited a $250,
000 bribe from him for distribu
tion among Mayor Robt. R. Wil
liams, City Commissioner John W.
DuBose and other city officials.
Grady, Williams and DuBose
are the men on trial.
To Plead Mercy
For Negro Driver
Parents Convinced Child
Destined to Car Death
MIAMI. Fla., Nov. 14.—(UP)
The parents of six-year-old Irene
Lee. who had dreamed accurately
of the manner of her death two
days befire she was fatally injured
by a truck, were expected to tes
tify today in behalf of the negro
driver.
Convinced that fate had played
a heavy hand in the child's death
a week ago, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Lee indicated they would appear
at a coroner's inquest today to
make a plea for mercy for Henry
Mike, 19-year-old negro, who
drove the truck.
The girl was struck by the
truck as she played near her home
last Monday. She died several
hours later.
To Virtually Clear Docket
by Then, Judge Sta
ton Asserts
Judjre R. H. Staton, of county
recorder's court, today expressed
the opinion that the court would
be able to complete practically all
of the cases docketed and would
turn over very little work to the
superior court when the county
tribunal goes out of existence on
the first Monday in December.
According to an act of the
1937 general assembly, the coun
ty court here will be abolished
at the end of the terms of the
present judge and solicitor, Mr.
Staton and Arthur B. Shepherd.
Terms of these officers expire on
the first Monday in December.
The court was in session today,
but no session will be held next
Monday, due to the convening of
the November civil term of the
superior court.
The superior court will be in
session for two weeks, but Judee
Staton said todav that the county
court wouid convene on Monday,
November 28, to complete its bus
iness.
In the event the superior court
is in session, other quarters will
be sought for the county court,
or if it appears that the superior
session will complete its work in
a few days, the county session will
be deferred until later in the
week, Judge Staton said.
The county court was estab
lished about ten years ago. When
first established, it operated with
out a jury. Later a 12-man jury
was established. The court was
then given a six-man jury, and
still later the use of juries was
abolished.
The act abolishing the court
entirely was passed at the last
term of the assembly on the rec
ommendation of a resolution of
the Henderson County Bar associ
ation.
Judges of the court during its
existence have been W. C. Meek
ins, Republican; J. Foy Justice,
Democrat, and R. H. Staton, Re
publican.
Solicitors of the court have
been S. H. Anderson. Republican;
W. R. Sheppard, Democrat, and
Arthur B. Shepherd, Democrat.
TO NAME SHERIFF
JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 14.—
(UP)—Gov. Hugh L. White will
appoint an acting sheriff in Smith
county early this week to take the
place of Sheriff J. M. Martin,
charged with embezzzling $17,985.
Slovak Mutineers Shoot Czech
Officers; Open Breach Between
Bohemians And Slovenes Is Feared
LONDON'. Nov. 14.— (UP)—1
A Daily Mail Bratislava dispatch
said today that after an uprising
in which a groun of Slovak sol
diers shot their Czech officers, the
Prague government faced a seri
ous mutiny which micht lead to
an open -breach between Bohemia
and Slovakia.
The Slovak mutineers wore ar
rested and will be tried today be
fore a court martial at Neusohlen,
in eastern Slovakia, the dispatch |
said.
The officers comprising the
court are predominantly Czech
and grave misgivinsrs were held,
the dispatch said, that the death
penalty would be inflicted, al
though the local Slovak govern
ment is doing its utmost to pre
vent such a sentence being im
posed.
Tension between the Czechs and
Slovaks grew over the week-end
when the Slovak prime minister
announced that Slovakia would re
fuse to participate in the coming
presidential elections unless the
Czechs first ratify the agreement
reached on October 6 granting
Slovakia autonomy and almost
complete control of its own af
fairs.
Anxieties of both Czechs and
Slovaks were increased by a raid
by 100 Poles into Carpathia on
Thursday which resulted in con
siderable damage before the in
vaders were forced back across
the frontier by a superior force.
ARMY LAGGING
DANGEROUSLY
CRAIG STATES!
•. >
Urges Steps to Enable It to
Meet What It May
Have to Face
V I
REPORT B1g7ACTOR ?
IN F. R'S. PROGRAM
By MACK JOHNSON
United Presg Staff Corre»ponde«rt
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. (UP)
Gen. Malin Craig, army chief of
stall warned the nation last night
that the army is lagging dangei
ously behind those of other grevlt
powers and urged prompt steps to
increase its size and improve its
equipment to meet "what it may
be called to face.'i
The warning was contained in
his annual report to Secretary of
War Harry H. Woodring in which
he recommended:
1. Increase the present author
ized strength of 165,000 enlisted
men to 168,000 during the 1940
fiscal year to meet needs arising |
from building up the army's ap*
corps to its full legal strength of
2,320 planes.
2. Increasing the Natio nal
Guard's authorized strength from
205,000 to 210,000 men.
3. Increasing by 18,000 the Re
! serve Officers' Training Corps ad
i vanced classes, and expansion of1
I instruction for organized reserve
officers.
4. Augmenting present anti-air-!
I craft equipment, anti-tank weap
| ons, mechanical material, field ar
I tillery, the new .30 caliber semi
automatic rifle, and seacoast de
' fenses in which serious shortages
! exist.
5. Steps to acquire necessary
i munitions and other military art
tides that cannot be obtained inv^
mediately upon outbreak of war.
6. Legislation to relieve stag
nation of officers on promotion1
. lists, which piled up after the I
I World war, and permission for re-1
' tirement of selected colonels with
| the rank of brigadier general.
Craig's report is expected to be |
a potent factor in President Roose
velt's new broad-gauge national j
defense program when it is pre-1
sented to congress after January |
i 3. The chief executive has been j
scanning the national defense out-|
i look in view of international un-j
| rest, and is expected to call for
j ihcreased outlays for the army,
and navv. I
| General John J. Pershing, com-1
! mander of the American forces)
| during the World war, warned in i
an Armistice day statement that |
the United States must build up[
its defenses. Meantime, utility
and government officials are pre-|
paring to put into operation an
integrated power program for na-1
tional defense under which the|
administration proposes to spend
about $250,000,000 and the elec
tric companies $1,000,000,000 in
construction work.
In his report, General Craig re
called that during the past fiscal
year the army averaged 162,000
men but that it will rank only!
18th when it reaches full authori-,
zation strength of 165,000 on!
June 30.
"This marked inferiority in
strength suggests that it is all the
more imperative that the arma
ment of this force be equal to that
it may be called upon to face,"1
Craiw said. "Here, too, we fall be
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GIRLlTTACKED
BURIED ALIVE
Emerges From Under Ce
ment, Stones to Make
Way Back Home
CONNEAUT, Ohio. Nov. 14.—I
(UP)—Sixteen-year-old William!
Redmond, on parole from a state
reformatory, confessed last night,
police said, that he had attacked,
choked, and buried alive eight
year-old Esther Strickland, daugh
ter of a former police captain. I
Buried for three hours beneath
a pile of stones, cement blocks,
and leaves Saturday night, the
little girl regained consciousness,
managed to free herself, and
struggled to her home.
Redmond, arrested at. his home,1
admitted that he had attacked the
girl in a signed confession to Po-|
lice Captain Stephen Stofko, who
made the arrest.
"When I was ready to go, she
did not move and I thought she
was dead so I left her on the
ground and concealed her body by
covering it with stones and ce
ment blocks," the youth said.
The child was alone when Red
mond lured her away only three
I blocks from her home. She had
| gone out to look for her older
sister.
JOHN LEWIS FLAYS HITLER AS
'BLOODTHIRSTY WOLF;' SAYS
C.I.O. WOULD BACK PROTESTS
A, ———■——
Supreme Court Again Re
jects Plea for Aid
to Mooney
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14. (UP)
John L. Lewis, chairman of the
CIO, brought 450 delegates to it*
first constitutional convention to
their feet today in a noisy demon
stration when he struck back at
critics and attacked Adolph Hitler
as a "bloodthirsty wolf."
Lewis demanded that the Amer
ican state department protest vig
orously against Nazi pogroms
against Jews which he described
as "cruelties inflicted upon a de
fenseless people."
He promised that when the
United 'States government does
make a protest four million CIO
members "will support this gov
ernment and defend it."
Delegates whistled, screamed,
applauded and banged on their
desks.
HABEAS CORPUS FOR
MOONEY REJECTED
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. (UP)
The United States supreme court
today reiterated its earlier refusal
to review Thos. J. Mooney's fight
for release from life imprison
ment.
The court denied the plea of
Mooney's attorneys for reconsid
eration of the court's October de
cision, which rejected their peti
tion for review of a state court
decision refusing to release Moo
ney on a habeas corpus.
LABOR LAW~PARLEY
IS INAUGURATED
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. (UP)
—President Roosevelt today wel
comed representatives of 41 state
"governors to the fifth national la
bor legislation conference with
praise of their previous efforts to
raise labor standards.
The president, unable to attend
the conference personally, sent a
message praising the delegates for
working in the interests of wage
earners, employers and the gen
eral public.
MUSIC CLUB
SETS PROGRAM
Open Event Will Be Held
at First Baptist Church
Wednesday
Mrs. Mary C. Brinson today an
nounced on behalf of the Wednes
day Music club an open meting to
be held Wednesday at 3:30 p. m.,
at the First Baptist church.
The program will consist of se
lections by Dudley Buck, Ameri
can musician who had a noted ca
reer both as an organist and as a
musical composer. Mrs. Brinson
stated that the public is cordially
invited to this event.
City Ministers To
Meet On Tuesday
Attention today was called by
the secretary, the Rev. C. B. Atchi
son, to the regular meeting of the
City Ministers association to be
held at 11 a. m. Tuesday at the
Methodist church.
G. C. Tutt, Jr.,
Taken By Death
Mr. and Mrs. 0. Roy Keith to
day received word of the death of
G. C. Tutt, Jr., at Winston-Salem,
following a long illness. He is sur
vived by his wife, who was the
daughter of Mr. Garland and the
late Mrs. W. A. Garland.
Mr. Tutt is known here as a for
mer summer resident having spent
five or six seasons here prior to
the death of Mrs. Garland.
TROOP FOUR BOY
SCOUTS CALLED IN
TUESDAY EVE MEET
A special meeting of Troop 4,
Boy Socuts, has been called for
Tuesday night at 6:45 o'clock in
the troop cabin, for completing
plans for an overnight trip to
camp on Friday night.
The blanket pins will be at the
cabin.
The meeting will be over in time
for membership of the drum and
bugle corps at be at practice at
7:30 o'clock.
All Troop 4 boys interested in
the overnight trip are asked to
please be present.
JAPS IGNORE
PROTESTS BY
THREEPOWERS
Will Pursue "Righteous
Course," Fearing no
Forcible Steps
SHANGHAI, Nov. 14. (UP) —
Japanese armed forces today drove
deeper into central and southwes
tern China, ignoring parallel dip
lomatic protests from France, Bri
tain and the United States against
their increasing control of China.
Persons close to the Japanese
embassy here described the three
powers' representations as an ef
fort to frighten Japan by recall
ing the famous "trible interven
tion" by Germany, Russia and
France which forced Japan to
forego much of her fruits of vic
tory in the Chinese-Japanese war
40 years ago.
But modern Japan will not be
restrained by "implied threats,"
the informants said, and will go
ahead with her "righteous course."
The three powers notes were
delivered in Tokyo a week ago
and were based specifically on
Japan's refusal to reopen the
Yangtse river to merchant vessels
of the powers. No replies have yet
been made to them and the in
formants said Tokyo probably will
not reply for some time.
1 Neutral observers believed the
Japanese were confident that Bri
! tain, which was believed the orig
: inator of the parallel diplomatic
moves, was not in position to back
them up. with force.
They doubted that the United
States was prepared to go much
farther than last Monday's notes
in associating itself with a united
three powers effort against Japan.
Superior Court
To Convene Civil
Term On Monday
Judge Pless Will Preside;
58 Cases on Calendar
for Hearing
The November term of the su
perior court of Henderson county |
will convene on next Monday,
November 21, with Judge J. Will
Pless, Jr., of Marion, presiding.
The court will be in session for
two weeks or less and hear civil
1 actions only. A total of 68 cases
have been set on the calendar for
; trial, and cases have been set
through Wednesday of the second
week of the term.
Jurors for the first week of the
court are: J. P. Williamson, G. D.
Kelley, W. A. Camp, Arthur Ham
! mond, H. J. Sumner, J. I. Ship
' man, R. R. Davis, A. A. McDow
ell, W. G. Cale, Garvin Rhodes,
R. A. Erwin, Robert Ledbetter,
W. J. Bryson, W. J. B. Ledbetter,
0. E. Galyean, J. H. Robertson,
Eugene Fletcher, Ernest King, J.
1. Aiken, C. C. Marshall, Charlie
M. Fletcher, F. A. Ewbank, S. M.
Stepp and F. D. Bell.
Jurors for the second week are:
A. F. Hamilton, George J. Smith,
j Warren T. Stokes, J. T. Daven
! port, W. T. Wright, Calvin Mc
j Call, G. A. Jackson, C. B. Frady,
' C. B. Harrison, Pink A. Barn
jwell, U. A. Davis, Arthur Osteen,
N. R. Bishop, H. A. Summey, W.
1 R. Rusher, Clyde R. Morgan, Wal
ter L. Stoner and U. E. Moore.
WW V
War-Time Chief
20 Years After
i wmrr mmmaemmskew
General John J. Pershinpr leaves
White House after an Armistice
Day call on the President.
GRAVE MARKER
IS UNVEILED
Tribute Paid to Andrew
James Miller, Revolu
tionary Soldier
The memory of Andrew James
Miller, pioneer resident of this
section, and Revolutionary soldier,
was honored yesterday afternoon
when a marker was unveiled at
his grave in the old French Broad
cemetery by the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
The service began in the pres
ent French Broad Baptist church,
with Mrs. R. P. Freeze, regent of
the Joseph McDowell chapter, pre
siding.
The memorial address was de
livered by R. L. Gash, Brevard at
torney, a descendant. W. L. (Uncle
Bill) Miller, another descendant,
placed a wreath of evergreens
from the old Miller homestead on
the grave.
The marker was unveiled by
Carlton Mears and Ann Haddon,
both of Asheville, descendants of
the pioneer.
The marker was the second to
be unveiled this month marking
the graves of Revolutionary sol
diers in this county. The third
marker will be unveiled at the
grave of Elijah Williamson, near
Naples, next Sunday.
Andrew James Miller came to
Henderson county from South
Carolina after serving with the
famed Francis Marion, known as
the Swamp Fox, in that state dur
ing the Revolution.
Hoover Warns Germany further
Attacks On Jews Will Bring World
Condemnation, 'Centuries Ahead'
_____
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.. Nov.)
14. (UP)—Describing himself asi
one who has "more than the usual
i right to protest," former President
Herbert Hoover last night warned
I Germany that attacks on Jews, if ;
; carried any further, would bring I
about its condemnation by man-;
! kind for "centuries to come."
In a statement telegraphed to
; Samuel McCrea Cavert, general
' secretary of the Federal Council
of Churches, Hoover said:
| "I am glad to evince my own
indignation and join in an expres
) sion of public protest at this treat
ment of the Jews in Germany.
I "It is not the German people at
I large who are to be blamed for
this action. The blame is squarely
i up to the political agencies in'
power. These individuals are tak
ing Germany back 450 years in
civilization to the Torquemada's
expulsion of the Jews from Spani.
"They are bringing to Germany
not alone the condemnation of the
public opinion of the world. They
are building their own condemna
tion by mankind for centuries to
come."
Hoover said he believed he had
"more than the usual right of pro
test*' because in the past he had
held "inalterably to belief in the
great contribution the German
people have made to civilization
in the past, and to the necessity
for civilization that they be given
opportunity apain to take their
place in the forward march of the
(Continued on page three)
CLOSER TIES
PAVE WAY FOR
UNITED FRONT
Action to Bring Definite
Results at November
Parley in Lima
STRONGERDEFENSES
IN CARIBBEAN SEEN
By JULIUS C. EDELSTF.IN
United Pr«M Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. (TIM.
The government moved swiftly
over the week-end to clear the
way for a powerful united front
of American republics against
Fascist forces of the old world
when the eighth international
conference of American states
convenes at Lima, Peru, on Doe
ember 9.
The state department settled iis
highly volatile Agrarian land dis
pute with Mexico, assured Argen
tina that its wheat markets would
not be invaded, entertained and
! lionized Colonel Fulgencio Batista,
■ "strong man" of Cuba, and an
nounced appointment of a "na
tional unity" delegation to Lima,
including Alfred M. Landon, Ke
' publican presidential standard
bearer in 1936.
The conference has boen
threatened with disruption, first
by the Mexican expropriations
impasse and second by a reported
| move to "dump" subsidized Unit
ed States wheat in Brazil, chief
I market for Argentine wheat. It
appeared today that both gaps had
• been bridged through diplomatic
channels and that harmony would
prevail when the American na
tions gather around the Lima con
ference table.
Settlement of the decade-old
Mexican dispute was announced
Saturday, possibly as a prelude to
an Amicable agreement on expro
priation of American-owned oil
properties. At the same time
Secrotary of State Cordell Hull,
who will head the Lima delega
tion, assuaged Argentina's anger
over the wheat report by assuring
the South American republic that
I this country would not sell wheat
I in Brazil below the world price.
| Argentine officials had said
) that the plan, which envisaged
; sate of 15,000,000 bushels on a
subsidy basis, would amount to
an "international incident" and
would threaten relationships with
| the United States.
The national reception for
Batista was believed to have
drawn Cuba further into Hull's
"good neighbor" orbit. Before his
departure for New York yester
day Batista conferred with army
and navy officials and with Hull
and President Roosevelt. He has
recently become an earnest advo
cate of democratic procedure and
constitutional government and one
of the matters believed discussed
was strengthening of navay and
aerial facilities in the Caribbean,
possibly through development of
an American base on Cuban soil.
The state department has stress
ed repeatedly that Pan-American
unity at Lima is necessary if this
hemisphere is to stave off Nazi and
Fascist encroachment from abroad.
This neceaaity for harmony is be
lieved to have played an important
role in settlement of the Mexican
and Argentinan disputes.
Partial confirmation of this was
given last night by Assistant Sec
retary of State A. A. Berle, also a
delegate to the conference, who
said in a j-adio speech brortdc# t
throughout Latin-America that o e
of the expected accomplishments
of the conference would be "to
make our common defense more
secure."
He stiid that there should be no
fear that the United States rearm
(Continued on page four.)
COASTGUARD
PLANE IS LOST
Give Up Search for "Am
bulance" Plane Cap
sizing in Gulf
MIAMI, Fla., Nov, 14. (UP) —
! The U. S. Coast Guard last niprht
| abandoned the search in the Gulf
1 of Mexico, 166 miles west of St.
I Petersburg, for its new giant,
' twin-motored "ambulance" plane
which capsized while on a mercy
errand.
The search for the ship was
called off after the cutters Mojav
from Miami, and Nemesis, fro.n
St. Petersburg, and four plan .-s
cruised over the area without firJ
ing a trace of it. It w.ns believed
that the big plane had sunk.
The plane was abandoned by its
five-man crew when it struck a
wing-tip in landing and lost a pon
toon Prldayt