WEATHER Partly cloudy and lonewhat „„.(r tonight and Friday I*W*t Daily Circulation of An.v Newspaper^ North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON Delegates to the Pan>Amerlcan Conference in Para ihoatd not •pill tlu bMu while they're in Lima. OL. 57—No. 275 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS DEFENSE KEYNOTE OF NEXT CONGRESS .. .. v ______ U U M ^ ^ t v ^ t t ^ *r t ommercial Attache At Berlin Recalled ,ER SILENT 'ECTATOR AT ,TH FUNERAL ier Vandalism of Prop erty in Reich to Bring Execution [RORIZED JEWS )ECLARED IN HIDING Nov. 17. (UP)—The III-,; Mates recalled jts com tiai attache to Berlin today with a press out fct ... ii::<t President Roosevelt further measures against the ... Hugh R. Wilson, United Its embassador, reached Paiis ]u.- way to Washington. the re nt" Douglas Miller, the com .c:a! attache, was announced, ba* ordered to return with his lily and effects as soon as pos and in any event not later January 1. Il'SSELDORF, Nov. 17. (UP) If Hitler and high party offi and thousands of the rank file today paid tribute to Ernst von Rath, whose death fashed anti-Semitic rioting. Iitler Siit beside the bier but not speak. he funeral oration was deliv (bv Ernst Bohle, district lead behalf of the Nazi party. iKLtti. Xav. ! 7.—(U P)— ulas Miller, United States uetvial attache, has been re Fd to Washington. He will fol Hugh R. Wilson, United s ambassador now in Paris his way home. Meantime. Rob Stephenson will be acting at le. car of a new outbreak of Nazi u (ftipjeii German Jews last it, driving many to suicide, lis prepared a "martyr's funer in Dusseldorf for Ernst von . young German diplomat by a Polish Jew in Paris. Embassador Hugh R. Wilson, left last night for Le Havre fre he will sail tonight aboard S. S. Manhattan for home in K>nse to a call from President fccveit. iliil not personally make presentations. Jewish fear of more terror to increased when Nazis inied into the streets last fit. dancing and singing in ed ition of the old Prussian holi oil'ietl "The Day of Repent e and Prayer." L'he rejoicing was a Nazi in Rtioa t-> the church holiday, es | 1 by Wilhelm II in ISO-'!, whether or not another wave 1 violence results from the cere tiies at Dusseldorf, it was be the funeral might sig 1 more punishing decrees (Continued on page four) Ian Held After ittempt To Take Pil From Station V tis Powers said this af that he had arrested Bo."ar| McCall and EL R. Wttd ■ thurgis of attempted larceny Shipp's Filling station B-ght. Powers reported that the B° -.on had confessed to larceny ■joods from Shipp's, Lewis De B^ent store, and Levinson's B<>r:d Hand store. ®-^rt Blftdnll, of the Dana' - being held in city , ■• this morning as officers in-1 ■^rated the attempted larceny from Shipp's Filling Station j I orner of Church street ■"•fifth avenue. I ssted by Chief Otis B*«'< last night in the vicinty ; ■Jw Baptist church after at at the filling station had eha>* to three men, who, al rfy were attempting to take B ' »ck outside the sta B*h,>n Blackwell was arrested, B*. P'^'ers found a quanity of ■^fhan.lise in his Chevrolet and efforts were being today to determine whether ■ • •-rchandise was stolen. Koo.ls found in the truck shoes, a pair of pants, B ■ v. a necktie, handker B -rig gloves, five tiash Bjjj;, ! ;i"< ries, cigarettes, shoe ■ rl an»' °ther articles. B. -rs also found two key K. ln the truck, containing y keys of various descrip U. S. ENVOY, BRITISH CABINET STUDY PUN FOR NEW HOMES FOR 700,000 JEWS IN GERMANY To Report On Anti-Semitism Hugh R. Wilson, above, is on his way homo from his post as ambaHfiuior to Germany for consultation with Secretary of State Hull, who is deeply per turbed over persecution of Ger man Jews. music am in OPEN SESSION Special Program Here Com memorates Life And Work of Dudley Buck The open meeting of the Music 1 Club was helil at the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 3:o0 o'clock. The meeting was j opened by the new president of the club, Mrs. Frank Ewbank. She welcomed distinguished guests from the Asheville Music Club, Mrs. W.. R. Griffin, Mrs. Frank Smith, Mrs. George Copgins, Mrs. W. H. Davis, Mrs. Reuben Rob erson, Mrs. Grover Wilkes of Sylva, and Mrs. J. J. Schilthius of Enka. After - business was transacted, Mrs. Glenn Marston, chairman of j the program committee, gave a" few remarks on plans for the en suing year. She was introduced bv M rs. Mary C. Brinson, chairman of the afternoon program, who in her gracious manner, spoke in ap preciation of Dudley Buck, to whom the program was dedicated. She announced the following pro gram : Triumphal March and At Even ing—Miss Mary Brooks at the or gan. Jubilate Deo. He Shall Come Like Rain. Festival To Deum—by the Choir. Mrs. S. J. Fullwood, the speak er of the afternoon, discussed the life of Dudley Buck. EAST FLAT ROCK'S B.Y.P.U. TO GIVE PLAY FOR DANA BAPTISTS The East Side Singing Conven-1 tion will meet at the Sit. Home Baptist church on Sunday, Nov. i 20, at 2 o'clock, in the afternoon, James Gilliam announced today. ! The Mt. Home church is locat ed on the Sugar Loaf road three j miles from Edneyville. Special music will be given by visiting singers and quartets and all singers will be given a place on the program. The public is in vited to attend. JEWISH POLICE ARE GUARDING GOTHAM'S GERMAN CONSULATE NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (UP) — Mayor Fiorello La Guardia yes terday named three police officers to guard the German consultate against the possible disturbances j when Nazi officials arrive here soon. MASONIC MEETING TONIGHT Regular communication of Ked ron Lodge, No. 387, A. F. & A. M. will be held in the Masonic Hall here tonight, at 7:30 o'clock. All officers and members urged to be present. Visiting Masons will be welcomed Representatives of Five Nations May Consider Mass Migrations By JOSEPH w. GRIGG. JR. nite ress Staff Coreipondent LONDON, Nov. 17 (UP) The United .States and Great Bri mm n IT1 l?ight studit>d a $150.# hoi! fP l,t0 establish' new homes for 700 UOU persecuted ^t'linan Jews Lnder the plan Bntain would offer land in her co, onjos and other nations would iinante a mass migration. I he proposal, representing a w uap/raf i.to a bo,d i>,an 1 hy Uinted States Ambus fw°/ JVsfph. 1 • Kfnnedy, was un dei stood to have been studied by the British cabinet in a two-hour S w ?°- !° Dow™K Street uuung Wednesday. unPVi. DauV- Muail saiti Kennedy le British government en J imaged the removal of all Jews iiom Germany. If the ambitious plun material izes, Britain would offer the on British rG.Crman J^'S land in on 1 Guiana and other colonies and call upon the United States and other countries to make con tnbutions for the financing of the settlement. British Colonial-Dominions Sec tary Malcolm MacDonald con 1 erred last night with the Aus <lon C°™missi°ner in Lon don, Stanley M. Bruce on the plan tS settle "Jews in the Aus tralian mandated territory of New Guinea. It also was reported that France the3 Jews t0 °PUn iMadaf>rascar to un?°^J'e?ionS are un^veloped and large amounts of financing would be necessary to establish Jewish settlements. It was understood that a five power conference probably would be summoned in London within a few days to discuss the undertak The nations summoned to the conference would be the United v fu 'S'i fat Britain, France, the : etherlunds and Brazil, compos ing the directorate of the inter governmental committee on rcf-' ugees set up at Evian, Switzer-i land, last summer. It was indicated that the com mittee would meet within 10 days but that the Anglo-United States plan, if it Can be worked out, might be announced within the next 48 hours. The strongest condemnation vet made by a member of the British ! cabinet against Germany's anti Jewjsn crusade came from Minis ter of Defense Coordination Sir i homas Inskip who, in a speech at Manchester last night, said "such appalling treatment of an inno cent people" would "most certain ly find us unyielding." "Our first duty as a nation,"! he said, ''is to help these people, 1 not only in our own country, but it possible in the empire, and I hope and believe other nations (Continued on page four). Baptists' Losses At Hands Of Japs Million Dollars No Missionaries Killed by Bombs But Many Es cape by Miracle MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 17. (UP)—^Japanese shells and bombs have destroyed properties of the Baptist church in China valued at [ nearly $1,000,000. the Rev. R. S.' Jones, home secrety of the For eign Missions Board, told the: Tennessee Convention of the Southern Baptist church today. He said that protests to Toyko had been futile; that neither had the destruction ceased nor had the damaged or destroyed proper ties been paid for. Reverend Jones said that al though none of the Baptist mis sionaries in China had been kill ed, many had escaped death or injury miraculously when build ings in which they worked were wrecked by bombs. The Rev. J. H. Sharp, newly elected president of the state Baptist association, predicted that severance of trade and diplomatic relations with Germany would be necessary if the United States were to maintain its self respect. He bitterly denounced Nazi "artrocities" against Jews, I BANKERS PUN NO BROADSIDE FOR NEW DEAL But Resolutions Wilt Call For Balanced Federal Budget MAY ASK~TIGHTEfc SECURITY FUND REIN HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 17.— (IT)—Demands that the tfavern ment balance it.s budget and that a tight rein be placed on handling of social security funds last night were expected to be included in resolutions being prepared for the G4th annual convention of the American Bankers association. The resolutions will be present ed for a vote today. .Leaders among the bankers predicted pri vately that there would not be a broadside attack on the New Deal which had come in for consider able criticism by several speak ers. They did expect, however, that the balanced budget issue would be raised and that strong expres sions regarding social security money, which is supposed to be held for specific purposes, would be made. P. D. Houston of Nashville was put in line for eventual leadership of the Bankers' association yes terday when he was elected sec ond vice president. Under the nor mal procedure uf -.the. organiza tion he probably will be elected first vice president next year and president in 1940. Philip A. Benson of Brooklyn, N. Y., was elevated to the presi dency yesterday, succeeding Or val W. Adams of Salt Lake City. Robert Hanes of Winston-Salem. N. C., advanced from second vice president to first vice president. J. Reuben Clark of Salt Lake City, first counsellor to the presi dent of the Mormon church and also chairman of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council of New York, warned the organi zation yesterday that bankers would have to take a definite part in the fight between freedom of one hand and "Hitlerism and heathenism" on the other. Clark warned that when a gov ernment gets too powerful, eco nomic and social tryanny always is followed the the belief of rul ers that they are "more than men." "Into the field of religion, the holy cross of the soul of man, this modern world also enters, to dethrone God and exalt the state into God's place," he said. "This is the archest treason of them all" Election Costs County $2,064.79 Theh general election in Hen derson county cost taxpayers the sum of $2,064.79, T. L. Durham, chairman of the board of county commissioners, said today. Mr. Durham reported that this cost was just slightly more than the cost of the last general elec tion in 1936. As a rule, he said, the cost of an election rn this county is about $100 per precinct for the twenty precincts in the county on the average. Ickes Urges Closer Inter-American Solidarity In Address At Havana Peace And Security in Western Hemisphere Rest on Common Interests, He Declares By LAWRANCE S. HAAS United Prei; Staff Correspondent HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 17. (UP) —The peace and security of the Western Hemisphere "rests upon a common interest, a common friendliness, a common under standing" among all nations of America, United States Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes said yesterday. Ickes addressed the first Pan American conference of munici palities, which opened here Mon day, on "public works in the United States, "but prefaced his remarks by urging closer inter American solidarity. Stressing President Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy, Ickes said: "It is a matter of happy self congratulation to us in the United States that the bonds between us and all the other nations of the Americas have grown stronger with the passing of the years. Misunderstandings that have aris en at certain times in the past: have largely been dissipated.. We ' have wanted to live on a basis of mutual understanding and inter national good will with all of the peoples who inhabit our two great continents. There have been times in the past when we of the United States have been awkward in our relationship with our neighbors. But all this, I hope, is of the past." Ickes' words coming less than 24 hours after President Roose velt had urged a common defense of the new world by all the na tions from Canada to Capt Horn against aggression from Abroad, were well received by the dele continued on page three) BAY STATE COUNCIL AND HIGH CATHOLIC OFFICIALS DEPLORE i ANTI-JEWISH BARBARISM Honor Banker Robert M. Hanes, above, presi dent of the Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Winston-Salem, has been advanced to the first vice presidency of the American ! Bankers Association in annual j convention being held in Hous I ton, Texas. CHINESE WILL STORM CANTON Japan And Germany Said to Enter New Cultural Agreement I 1IONG KONG, Nov. 17. (UP) i i —Chinese reports today said that Chinese columns are closing in on 1 Canton after shattering outer Jap anese defenses. Reports said the Chinese are preparing to storm the battered commercial center of south China which Japanese captured almost without resistance. Japanese ad mitted that the Chinese had start ed a counter offensive but claimed they are still in control of the; situation. SHANGHAI, Nov. 17. (UP)—I Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to-1 day was reported to be withdraw ing the best of his forces from the Henyang triangle of Hunan prov-' inee and apparently was prepared , to sacrifice the full length of the Hankow-Canton railway to the Japanese without further major resistance. British advices reported that Changsha, capital of Hunan prov ince and a chief city on the rail way between Hankow and Canton, "had completely disappeared from the map" as result of fires set by j the retreating Chinese. All foreign property in the city 1 proper was reported destroyed but' it was believed that the foreign population was safe in the build ings of the American university, I Yale in China, and other refuges outside the city. Meantime radios from Hankow, corrected yesterday's reports that an American attacked in Wuchang by Japanese soldiers was Bishop1 Logan Roots, veteran American missionary in central China. The (Continued on page three) Harvard And Simmons Col lege Students Demonstrate Against Terrorism BOSTON, Nov. 17. (UP)—Con demnation of the "bestiality" of "the Pagan Hitler" was expressed yesterday by the Massachusetts Governor's Council. The attack was made in a reso lution recommended bv Governor Charles P. Hurley and adopted by his council of one Jew and seven Gentiles. Simultaneously, Harvard and Simmons college students at mass demonstrations wired resolu tions to President Roosevelt sup porting: his criticism of the anti Semitic drive in Germany. Praising President Roosevelt for championing the cause of the Ger man Jews, the resolution of the governor's council read: "The world must rally to the side of our noble president . . . who demands justice and fair play for the victims of Nazi barbarism and an opportunity for them to resettle elsewhere with the help of the great nations of every con tinent.'' The resolution, copies of which were sent to the president and Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, expressed the hope that "the former will find inspiration in it to go forward in his plans to solve the plight of un fortunate Jews, while the latter will see in it the discrespect and disdain rightfully heaped upon him." The student demonstrations, sponsored by the American Stu dent Union and addressed bv fac ulty and student body members, urged Mr. Roosevelt to help Jew ish refugees find homes in the United States and Great Britain. "Frantic, weary, terror-stricken as a result of the bestiality and cruelty of the madman of Europe, the Pagan Hitler, tens of thou sands of innocent Jews, suffering, persecuted and tortured solely be cause of their religious faith, seek a haven of refuge from the tyr anny and oppression of the brute and the savage," read the gover nor's resolution. LIBERTY IS FACING GREATEST CHALLENGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (UP) —High officials of the Catholic chuch joined last night in a pro test against German persecution of Jews and warned against pos sible spread of infringement upon religious and civil liberties. "Today the world is challenged as never before to assert the ideal of freedom," the Most Reverend Peter L. Ireton, coadjutor bishop of Richmond, Va., said in a na tion-wide broadcast. "If the persecution of the Jew is condoned in any section of the world, then there is no longer such a thing as religious liberty, or the right to worship one's Creator as conscience dictates." Meanwhile, Secretary of Com merce Daniel C. Roper, sneaking before the District of Columbia Baptist convention, asserted that "the Frankenstein of racial and religious hate and intolerance . . . is today a living menace to the happiness and safety of all who believe in human liberty and free dom." OLDEST MAYOR IN U. S. PASSES Mayor Wooding of Dan ville, Va., 94, Held Of fice For 46 Years DANVILLE, Va., Nov. 17.— Death yesterday ended the long career of Mayor Harry Wooding, 94, who had served as the city's chief executive for 46 consecutive years. He had been confined since mid-summer. His strength had been ebbing since he attended the Gettysburg celebration in July. His condition became alarming two weeks ago when a faltering heart complicate ed his impairment. Captain Wooding was the last of Robert E. Lee's veterans in Danville. He fought the duration of the Civil War under J. E. B. Stuart, appearing in many of the major campaign, including the battles of Bull Runn and Gettys burg. He was both in age and point of service the oldest mayor in the United States. Murder Brewed Anti-Jew Storm Germany's current wave of anti-Jewish violence was preci pitated by the assassination by a young: Jew of Ernst von Rath, above, third secretary of the Reich embassy in Paris. I vj.v.vr,y..vmv • 'Ay. mm His desperate afct gave excuse | for newest German persecution of Jews. Remorseful Herschel Grynszpan, 17-year-old Polish Jew, is seen under arrest in Paris after assassinating: Ernst von Rath, German embassy attache. GERNANPRESS HAS ASSAULTS ON ROOSEVELT One Paper Fails to Quote Word of Condemnation But Assails Him BERLIN, Nov. 17.—(UP)— The Berliner Lokalanzeiger to day led the German press attack on President Roosevelt's condem nation of persecution of Jews and Catholics with the headline, "Roosevelt Appetite for Power." The headline was over a report from the paper's New York cor respondent which failed to give a single sentence from the presi dent's statement. The Voelkischer Boebachter, organ of the Nationalist Socialist party, carried this headline, over a report under a Washington date: "Roosevelt — Phantaama About 'Menace' Toward Amer ica—" The Lokalanzeiger's New York dispatch said in part: "Everything seems favorable for the president to promote far reaching aims and cementing of his position after his recent de feat at the elections, also for ever further increasing United States armaments. "Even the Jewish question serves him for this purpose." The dispatch said that in the last analysis the aim is for United States military hegemony over the entire American continent. This was an apparent reference to the president's proposal Tuesday for military cooperation of au na tions of the Americas. The Voelkischer Boebachter, in a sub headline over its Washing ton dispatch said: "Other powers accused in order to promote Unit-' ed States air-armament propa ganda." The newspaper "National Zei tung" of Essen, organ of Field Marshal Herman Wilhelm Goer ing, announced that Germany (Continued on page three) ASSURANCE OF COOPERATION IS INDICATED Remainder of Legislative Program Is Yet to Be Drafted federal~1courts ADMINISTRATOR AIM WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (UP) President Roosevelt, it was learn ed today, will stress continental defense as the keynote pf the TGth congress when it convenes in Jan uary. Although a definite legislative program is yet to be drafted, it was expected that the president's defense recommendations wi'l ho the most far reaching of any of his proposals to congress. Coming on the heels of the an nouncement that the question of defense had become a continental factor and that it included Can ada, Central and South America, | as well as the United States, there was indication in sources close to the White House that the adminis tration already has received re newed assurances of support from some of the countries affected. TO DRAFT COURT ADMINISTRATOR BILL WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (UP) Attorney General Cummings said today that a committee repreaant ing the judicial conference and the justice department will meat tomorrow to discuss a bill creating an administrative officer for cho federal courts. ROPER DENIES HE < PLANS RETIREMENT /1 WASHINGTON, Not. 17. (UP)/ Secretary of Commerce Daniel C* Roper yesterday denied he plan* ned to resign despite persistent reports that he would follow At torney General Homer S. Cum mings into retirement. President Roosevelt announced Cummings' impending withdrawal Tuesday concurrent with rumors that Roper and Secretary of tha Navy Claude A, Swanson would resign and that Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring would succeed Paul V. McNutt aa high commis sioner of the Philippines. Roper, according to these re ports, may be offered tha ambas sadorship to Soviet Russia suc ceeding Joseph C. Davies who left the post last summer to become ambassador to Belgium. "I don't know anything about those reports," Roper said, "and I am not contemplating resigning." Seek Support In South For Farm Marketing Quotas ■ . * ' 1 Wallace And Brown Warn of Efforts to Change Adjustment Act ; ' , V 4 I WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (UP) —The administration today re newed vigorous campaign in the South to enlist support for the marketing quota referendus on cotton, rice and flue cured tobac co. Department of Agric&ture of ficials warned that unfavorable votes on these commoditiee would reinforce the already threatening demands for major chanees in the agriculture adjustment act ; "■ Secretary of Agriculture Wal lace at Macon, Ga., wanted fan&> ers they will have to figHf'to keft the administration program in ej£ feet and charged people with par tisan motives are trying to break up farm solidarity. Assostant Secretary of Agrici)l ture Brown at Nashville said tht$ a vigorous effort would be nm<lfc in the next congress tto substitute another act for the AAA, or 4™*: tically amend it '• * K Both Wallace and' Browl strongly implicated that'the a<£ ministration is to stand pat ia the next Congress on its farm pro gram, despite administration* s*& backs in elections in maftyffarn states. EAST SIDE SINGfflG' CONVENTION SUNDAY The Intermediate B.V»P.U. of East Flat Rock will present a plijr "Thy Will Be Done," at Ue Dsn*/ Baptist church next Sonday, f* 20, at 7:80 p. m. The pkybie to present a wonderful relif lesson. It will be directed by/ Brown Pace. The public is cordially/

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