WEATHER Increasing cloudiness, somewhat warm etors of the Chamber ox werce an dwill be fonvarded the state highway commission. The rfrst resolution requests £• - tion of the resurfacing >: highway No. 64 between Hen • > iville and Brevard, the sec r .,es the hardsurfacins of a nk of a county road from high ly No. 280, commonly referred . a* the Boylston road, to a point n the Haywood road near the >f L L. Merchant, and the p r ub that a survey be made t>r an overhead railroad crossing > the Asheville-Hendersonville urport at Fletcher. H. E. Buchanan, president of it- chamber, said he understood :at the highway commission is acceding with plans to hard .rface other less important roads efore completing the resurfacing No. 64 to Brevard, which is of an arterial highway, and bat the commission is contem ia::n^ a new approach to the air fcrt from Brickton instead of torn Fletcher, which is the closest pint from highway No. 25. A lilroad overpass at Fletcher . uM. reover, be of greater klvumage to the people of that immunity, he asserted. It is understood that the reso Jt qs te i last night are in It'-. with the wishes of the ■card of county commissioners, r : tha* t board also will urge &cir approval by the state high rar commission. Thos. H. Franks reported that understood that the chamber's pp/./.r.ion fnr a WPA project I improvement of the site |Jumpoff rock as a recreational cter had been approved by the jheville office of WPA and for warded *•> the Raleigh office. Ke |or.:r.gr for a special committee, A. V. Echvards said that | '0 metal plates bearing the mie of Hendersonville had been rdered for delivery late this conth, and that the tags will be Bid to motorists by the Junior i'eifare club. The i'oard appropriated $10 to Kp defray the costs of an in Bustrial survey to be made by Dr. T.mert of Duke university, for -e purpose of comparing North Carolina's tax structure with that D- V::-g;nia, and also set aside HO to help equip a safety patrol V the city schools. The remain |*r of thi' $50 required to estab lish the patrol will be paid by the "iwanU and Rotary clubs, Bal ftur Mills, Chipman - LaCrosso hosiery Mills company and Caro "r-a Motor club. The trade expansion committee wp.jseri of C. M. Ogle, Sam Ka il" a": ' \. Brunson was asked p jn*ke arrangements for pro ? a community-wide Christ ^ lighting contest, and the w-will committee composed of P* V. Edwards, C. L. Grey and B. Crowell was given author:ty arrange for a community ristmas tree and program. GIVEN better address BOSTON. Nov. 16. (UP)— Su Pfnor Judjre Frederick W. Fos d:cK- 'victing Charles Loebel on * var. : • Charles Street jail for ** rv ••• , to give him a "more i i'iress. Loebel had sriven ad ■ as 20 North Grove street—the city morgue. loses vote, gets job fORT WORTH, Tex., Nov. 16. )V H. Mirike was ready ' .av to assume duties as justice .n<> p, ace a]though he was sec ■ • m tho recent election. The , "."•'dinner's court was unable jjjnd one "Bill Zandt" who got "tes to Mirike's 14. They de l^ed Mirike elected. pLEA UNHEARD ^IrfML Ha-. Nov. 16. (UP) — the Alderman, chairman of > k control board, yes 0f *a,; "°fused to hear the plea " of milk producers that r' **'1 milk prices in the be maintained during e Writer. Named by F. D. R. for Peru Parley j Fi\e ot' 12 delegates named by President Roosevelt to the De cember 9 Yima, Peru, confer ence of American Republics: Top, Adolf A. Berle, assistant secretary of state and key fig ure in shaping of New Deal for eign policy; center, left, Rev. John F. O'Hara, president Notre Dame University; right, Mrs. Elsie F. Musser, Utah peace worker; lower, left, R. Henry Norweb, minister to Dominican Republic; right, Laurence A. Stein'nardt, ambassador to Peru. JAP SOLDIERS HURL ACID AT BISHOPROOTS Investigating Asserted At tacks on Chinese Women by Invaders By ROBERT BELLAIRE United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Nov. 16. (LT) — Japanese soldiers threw a bottle of carbolic acid at Dr. Logan Roots, veteran American mission ary, when he remonstrated against their efforts to expel Chinese refugees from St. Michael's church in ^Vuchang, according to messages from Hankow today. The missionary, who is chair man of the house of bishops of the Chinese Episcopal church and bishop of the Hankow diocese, was not hit. but was jostled in later . fisticuffs during which the American flag was knocked down. United States consular officers immediately protested to the Jap anese consulate general. Japanese authorities took the protest under consideration but refused permission for the Ameri can consular officers to visit the church in Wuchang. Bishop Roots had gone to the church to investigate reports of attacks on Chinese women by Japanese soldiers. The incident occurred Sunday but was not revealed here until foreign radios came through from Hartkow today. Bishop Roots earlier had been endaneered when the Japanese took Hankow last month. He was cut off in Wuchang, one of the three cities in the Hankow dis trict, for more than 48 hours. (Bishop Roots, born in Illinois and graduated from Harvard in 1891, has been in China since 1896.) The incident was one of a se (Continued on page four) CUMMINGS TO QUIT CABINET NEXTJANUARY Assistant Navy Secretary Charles Edison May Succeed Swanson . ROPER AND MADAM j PERKINS MAY GO, TOO By LOUIS J. SCHAEFLE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (UP) President Roosevelt announced yesterday that Homer Stille Cum mings, attorney general during the five years of the New Deal, will leave the cabinet in January to fulfill a long-standing desire to resume the private practice of law. Cummings thus becomes the first member of the cabinet to leave of his own volition. Only previous changes were occasioned by deaths of Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin and I Secretary of War George H. Dern. Mr. Roosevelt did not disclose the identity of Cummings* suc cessor but told his press confer ence that Cummings asked to be relieved of his duties last July but was persuaded to remain un til October. Finally the president gave his consent. Associates revealed that the 69-year-old cabinet officer has felt the strain of public life to an increasing degree. In the past 12 months he frequently has re tired to Pinehurst, N. C., and to the Wisconsin woods for rest and relaxation. f The president said that Cum mings had not yet submitted a formal resignation. In eulogizing the work of the justice department under Cum mings' administration, the presi dent paid high tribute to the at torney general, citing improve ments in the detection of inter state crime and kidnaping and wide betterment of the nation's penological system. | His departure is believed to foreshadow other cabinet retire ments. Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Secre tary of Commerce Daniel C. Ro per are mentioned with great fre quency as slated for withdrawal. Mr. Roosevelt gave added weight to the reports of a shake up when he was asked if more changes in his cabinet were con templated. He replied there was I none—as yet. Insistent reports have Works Progress Administrator Harry Hapkins replacing either Roper or Woodring. 'Hopkins, who was slated for the secretaryship of the new department of public welfare which would have been created had the government re organization bill been passed, re , cently has had his chances en (Continued on page four) Dramatic Club Plans Carnival Friday Evening Will Be Benefit for Cos tume Fund of High School Organization Sponsored by the high school dramatic club, a carnival has been announced for Friday night, be I ginning at 7:30 o'clock in the gymnasium. Funds will be used to improve the costume wardrobe J of the dramatic club. A floor show, side shows, fish ' ing pond, and contests will be fea tured entertainments. A small ad mission will be charged. Miss Catherine Goodman is di recting the carnival. Carolyn Shipp is president of the dramatic club. Tobacco Grading School Arranged L. T. Weeks, assistant tobacco specialist, State College Station, Raleigh, will conduct a tobacco grading school Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock. This grading school will be at R. R. Peak's farm, commonly known as the "Cushing Farm," Fletcher. Those wishing to go with the group leaving the county agent's office be there at 9 o'clock. U. S. Population Passes 130 Million WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (UP) —The Census Bureau today an nounced that preliminary estimates indicate a record population of 130,215,000 for continental Unit* ed States as of July 1, 1938. Will Sign British Pact Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (UP) The state department today an nounced that the long awaited Anglo-American reciprocal trade agreement will he signed late to morrow at the White House. Th^ treaty includes reciprocal trade arrangements with Canada, thfc United Kingdom, northern Ireland and the Colonial Empire. CATSTOPLAY t MARSHALL RS. . .i Last Home Game Friday; Ridgians Also Play Asheville High Hendersonville football teams face tough opposition this Friday when the high Bearcats play the i Marshall high team and the Blue Ridge Hilltoppers tangle with Asheville in Asheville. The Cats will make their las 'J home appearance and a larjuS-; crowd of fans is expect/SiMp afc tend. The Cats have expemVictxl a pood season, losing only to Can-! ton and Marion. The Madison county team is one of the best in Western North Cai* olina, and is undefeated and un scored on this season. The Red Tornado has piled up 242 points this season to none for their opponents, and on the basis of performance this session will enter the game here Friday as favorites. . J The Cats will be in fairly good shape for the game and will be seeking to repeat their 18 to 6: win over Marshall last season. The probable starting line-up finds Dorn and Drake on ends, Morris and Reese at tackles, Sims ■ and Coffey at the guards and Yarborough at center. In the backfield will probably be Quarles, Chandler, McCrary and Miller. The Hilltoppers will be handi capped by injuries and other squad losses when they face Asheville. j The two first string ends have} left school, Stewart, halfback, is out for the remainder of the sea son with a broken ankle, and Gardner, fullback, is also out of the line-up with injuries. The Hilltoppers have dropped two games this season, both by a touchdown margin, to the David son freshmen and the Richmond Academy team, at Augusta last week. Asheville has lost only one game, to Charlotte by a touch down margin. The Hilltoppers tied Charlotte, the only team played j j by both teams. Squad losses make the Hilltop-' j pers extremely short on reserves, and one team played the entire | game against Richmond last week., HITLER WILL SPEAK AT BIER OF VON RATH Important Speech Forecast at Nasi Funeral on Thursday SLAYER SORROWFUL OVER RACE VIOLENCE DUSSELDQRF. Nov. 10. (UP) Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is expected to deliver an important speech Thursday at the bier of Erneit von Rath, German diplomat who was slain by a Jewish youth in Paris and whose body today lay in state in the huge Rhinehallc of Dusseldorf. Thousands of persons filed past the catafalque on which the diplo mat's body lay. ASSASSIN BEING EXAMINED IN PARIS PARIS. Nov. 17. (UP)—Her schel Ggvnszpan, 17-year-old Po lish Jew who shot and killed Ernst von Rath of the German embassy liGrc, said last nij;ht durintr a lega! examination that he was "pro ioundl.v sorrowful'' that his act had led to a;wave of violent anti Semitism in, Germany. Grynszpan denied German as scrtipna that the shooting was a "Jewish plot" and that others were involved. The youth was examined regard ing his activities before the shoot ing: at the German embassy as a fecial French funeral train bear ing von Kath's swastika-draped casket left the Gare du Nerd at 10:60 p. m. yesterday for a mar tyr's funeral in Germany. Grynszpan said he acted entire ly alone after receiving word that his father and mother had been deported from Germany lost month in the Reich's mass expul sion of Polish Jews. "I didn't mean to kill anyone," he sobbed. "My sorrow was ter rible when I learned that I had killed von Rath. "I will fast every Monday in memory of the innocent man I killed." After lengthy , questioning of the youth the examining magis trate ordered a special commission to go to Germany and verifv his statements. The next questioning will be devoted to the circum stances of the crime. Grynszpan said his parents, who once owned important mills in Hanover, were slowly reduced to ruin and finally forced to sell^ out their holdings after the Nazis came to power. Among those aboard von Rath's funeral train as it left Paris was the German under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, Dr. Ernst von Weizsaecker, sent here by Chancellor Adolf Hitler to escort the body of the 29-year-old diplo mat back to Germany. NEW DIVORCE PLEA LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16.— (UP)—Fannie Rosenberg filed suit for divorce today, charging, among other things, that her hus band refused to let her cook, in sisting it was his job to prepare the family's meals. It humiliated her, she said. C.I.O. ORGANIZED INTO NEW WORKERS' CONGRESS WITH ! VAST AUTHORITY FOR CHIEFS PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16. (UP) The Congress of Industrial Or ganization today unanimously adopted its constitution vesting1 vast authority in the leadership and imposing a sharp per capita levies and pleading strict adher j ence to the terms of the colloctive bargaining contracts with employ ers. SWEEPING POWERS VOTED FOR LEWIS PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16. (UP) The fledgling Committee for In dustrial Organization shed its swaddling clothes here yesterday and became the "congress of in dustrial organization"—a perma 1 nent new force in America's in dustrial life. John L. Lewis, granite-jawed miner who fathered the CIO three j years ago after a break with the ' American Federation of Labor, 1 immediately asked the organiza tion's first constitutional conven tion for sweeping powers to safe guard the re-named unit and for still greater per capita taxes to finance it. He asked in a constitution sub mitted late yesterday for a monthly per capita tax per mem ber of 55 cents on CIO affiliates. He proposed that the levy be fixed at 5 cents per member on nation al and international unions and 50 cents per member on local in dustrial unions. The local levy is higher because it costs more to organize these units and because they must be financed by head quarters afterward since they do not enjoy the local autonomy of national and international unions. The AFL levy is one cent per member per month on national and international unions and 35 cents per month on local affili ates. The constitution proposed that the royal house of the CIO here after be composed of a president, (Continued on page four.) ROOSEVELT'S BLISTERING OF NAZIS COUPLED WITH PLEA TO DEFEND TWO AMERICAS White House Declares Attack on Germany for Treat ment of Religious Groups Includes Catholics Also; German Consulate, Shipping Are Guarded WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (UP) President Roosevelt's criticism of Nazi Germany fpr its treatment of religious groups applies to Catholics as well as Jews, the White House stated today. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. (UP)— ' Police today guarded the German consulate, home of the German consul and German ships, at the request of the state department while demonstrations and protests | continued against Germany's anti Semitic campaign. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (UP) ! President Roosevelt has circled | the western hemisphere with a boldly drawn deadline against fascism and invited 20 sister re publics and the Dominion of Can ada to help the United States against aggression. Continental defense has super ceded national defense in Ameri can policy. He coupled his defense an nouncement with a terse and blis tering comment on German perse cution of Jews which followed shortly the United States protest against unwarranted Japanese vi . olations of American property and personal rights in China and warnings to Italy to respect the rights of American Jewish na tionals. Establishment of United States defense on a continental basis in partnership with 21 peoples who occupy the western hemisphere spotlights the forthcoming Pan* American confercnce in Lima, Peru, as meeting to bulwark the new world against floodtides run* ning riot in Europe and Asia. Declaring that United States security depends upon adequate defense for the whole western hemisphere, the president yester day called upon Canada and the 20 Latin American republics to join this country in a common military stand designed to strengthen and preserve democ racy. Mr. Roosevelt said at his press conference that his rapidly ex panding defense program, expect ed to reach a record-smashing peace-time high at the next ses sion of congress, was being ap proached from the standpoint of continental solidarity against at tack from abroad. Asked if he referred to any specific dangers from abroad, the chief executive tersely suggested (Continued on page four) Kennedy Finds Britain Reluctant To Colonize Jewish Refugees a>. . i U. S. Envoy Offers Plan But Britain Wants Homes Given Elsewhere LONDON, Nov. 16.—(UP) — United States Ambassador Jos. P. Kennedy, undertaking a bold plan to find new home abroad for many of Germany's 700,000 terrorized Jews, last night was understood to have found Great Britain reluc ; tant to throw open her colonies to large-scale immigration. Informed pei'sons described as i "disappointing" the results thus far of Kennedy's efforts to induce Britain and other nations to join in a practical plan of freeing thou sands of Jews from Nazi wrath. Kennedy has been conferring fwith Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain and other cabinet minis ters, including leaders of the do minions and colonial offices. Coincident with Kennedy's initi ative the Netherlands appealed to Britain, France, Denmark, Switz erland and Belgium, to open their frontiers to the German Jews. Neither Ambassador Kennedy's nor The Hague government's | move aroused much optimism among diplomats last night, how ever, although the Anglo-United States collaboration raised Jewish hopes. One well-informed source de scribed the results of Kennedy's proposal as follows: The British government explain ed that it would "gladly" give temporary shelter to German Jew ish refugees providing the United States and other countries would provide permanent homes for them at a later date. Kennedy, answering the British, I pointed out that the United States is able to offer refuge only with in the limits of its immigration I quotas which restrict German im I migrants to less than 30,000 a • year and pointed out that the Ger i man quota for the year ending in July, 1939, already is filled. Kennedy then suggested that Britain might accommodate many Jews in the sparsely-populated ! stretches of the empire. The British contended that their 1 ability to absorb refugees is near I the "saturation point" and that, although there are some facilities in northern Rhodesia and Kenya Colony in Africa, these possibili ties are limited. Australia has been quietly giv i ing homes to groups of German refugees but Canada, South Africa and other parts of the empire have 1 refused to take them. France, Belgium, Switzerland and other European countries like wise have announced that their ability to take Jewish refugees is at the "saturation" point. FESTIVAL QUEEN I LAKE CITY, Fla., Nov. 16— (UP)—Dorris Griff is of Homer ville, Ga., was named queen of , the Slash Pine festival here last ' night. DELAY PROBE OF PROBERS Witness Sought But Dies Wants Poll of Committee on Broad Plan WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (UP) A marshal of the House commit tee investigating unAmerican ac tivities today sought to subpoena Henry Zon, a Washington corre spondent, as the first step in the unusual investigation of the Sen ate Civil Liberties committee. Never before within the mem ory of parliamentarians has one congressional committee under taken the investigation of another. Meantime, Chairman Dies an nounced he would defer the inves tigation into the Senate Liberties committee pending a poll of the full membership of his unAmeri can Activities committee, whether such probe should be conducted. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (UP) The Dies committee investigating un-American activities last night voted to undertake an investiga tion of the origin of the senate in quiry into civil liberties, headed by Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Prog., Wis. Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex., said that the committee had or dered a subpoena issued for Hen ry Zon, whose article entitled "The Spy" in the magazine "Fight," formerly published by the League Against War and Fascism, now known as the League for Peace and Democracy, discussed the alleged formation of the senate committee. The almost unprecedented ac tion of the house group ordering an investigation of another con gressional committee came after Representative Harold Mosier, D., Ohio, demanded such a move. Representative Noah I. Mason, R., 111., seconding Mosier's pro posal, thought that "the people should know" that a group of "outspoken and known commun ists" were present at the incep tion of the La Follette commit tee. Dies said that the committee (Continued on page four) TUESDAY Maximum temperature—63 de grees. Minimum—25 degrees. Mean—44 degrees. Day's range—38 degrees. Normal mean temperature for November—46.4 degrees. Rainfall to date—2.88 inches. Normal rain i fall—3.11 inches. TU. S. PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE AT STAKE IN REICH All Powers to Seek Exemp tion of Nationals From Fines by Nazis JEWS TO GET BONDS FOR WEALTH SEIZED BERLIN, Nov. 16. (UP)—Tha United States today made formal representations to the German government regarding the damn 14 done to American property dun r< anti-Semitic riots. Other countries have taken <>r contemplate similar action. Diplomatic quarters cmplia.rze 1 that foreign nations not only 3 interested in forcing German r.r. ognition of damage claims hut ,ilsi> would obtain a definite ruling that foreign Jews were exempt from the tines which have been Ievit-1 on Jews as a whole. Economics Minister Waither Funk last night announced that $800,000,000 of Jewish wealth, or ! nearly one-third of the holding* of 1 all German Jews, has been ta';on from them in the Nazi drive to eliminate Jews from the Reich's economic life. ' The nation's 700,000 Jews, he I said, will be completely obliterat ' ed from the business world. Meanwhile Adolf Hitler's elite 1 "S.S." Stormtroop organization, angered by American indignation over the Reich's anti-Semitic drive, warned that German Jews will suffer further penalties if anti-Nazi agitation continues hi the United States. Funk said the Jews will receive German bonds as "indemnity" for 1 their business properties which l have "passed into Aryan hand.*." He said that, of a total Jewish i wealth of 7,000,000.000 marks (about $2,800,000,000) 2,000,. 1 000,000 marks has passed into Aryan control, largely as result of j laet woek't Violent anti-Semitic : disorders. "The Jews will receive German j bonds as indemnity whiie the Ger I mans will regain their property," I Funk said in an address to a Nazi meeting. • "All necessary measures will be taken to maintain the value of the stocks and merchandise which will be placed at the disposition of the population in a useful and reason able fashion." German authorities iniunuc. the American consulate that, if the United States would give vis?s to Jews under arrest, they would be released from prisons and con i centration camps and permitted to leave the Reich. In cases where "immigration facilities for the arrested person are assured his release will be or dered," the U. S. consulate was told. The Nazi assurance was be lieved to apply to those Jews whose visa applications are in or der and who can be assured of emigrating in the near future. Funk warned against investment | of funds for the "Aryanization" of the Jewish businesses to such an extent that the Reich money market would suffer to the detri ment of "other investments and German loans." Explaining the determination to drive all Jews from German busi ness life, Funk said it was "impos sible to exclude Jews from the nation's political life and still «1 low them to continue activities in economic life. "It has been established lhafc Jewish wealth totalled 7,0Pn,0<"V 000 marks and 2,000.000,' 00 marks already have been trans (Continued on page four). Baptists To Vote On Allowances For Retirement RALEIGH, Nov. 16. — The North Carolina State Baptist con vention in session here was sched uled this afternoon to vote on recommendations, informally sub mitted yesterday afternoon on the I project of establishing retire ment allowances for Baptist min j isters over 65 years of age. Yesterday, the convention heard M. A. Huggins of Raleigh, gen j eral state convention secretary, j whom it had re-elccted for an other term, report that the state I association this year had contrib uted $10,000 to the state conven tion and that the totaj income this year is about 75 per cent greater than in 1932. The Baptists of this state I uve led all other state conventions in contributions to Baptist work dur ing the first nine months of this year, Mr. Huggins also r< ported. C. B. Deane of Rockfngbam was j re-elected recording secretary and L. L. Morgan of Raleigh was again chosen as statistical secretary of the convention.