WEATHER
| P»rtiy cloudy and warmer, fol.
Led W showers this afternoon or
Ljthf Showers Saturday morn
L fallowed by clear and coniid
ibly colder.
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(Eltr Wtmm -Itettus
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
What the U. S. wants in tie
way of preparedness is more seats
on the 50-yard line for the Army
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., fRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938'
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
GERMANS CALL ENVOY TO U. S. HOME
S. BRINGS 20
ATIONS INTO
RADE AXIS
■tain and Canada Sign
Ig Treaty, Laud Basis
I for Sound Relations
III seesTbetter
I UNDERSTANDINGS
Iashini; row Nov. is. <up>
I- Britain. Canada and the
l,<: Suites yesterday joined in
Id t:ade axis on a basis of
l:„-. commercial conces
K an :;ur 20 nations.
Kf United States is now ex
it ; extend trade reciprocity
■ nto South America.
Bitain joined the world recipro
I:. e by signing a trade agree
It w th tlle United States.
I simultaneously signed
■revision >>t" a three-year-old
I trade treaty with this
■try.
periean wheat, corn and fruit
li-rs appeared to have made
Banding |»tna from the British
Ity Britain appeared to have
It : most in concessions on tex
I whiskey, and manufactored
B. i'oods.
Krterday's sixninx ceremonies
I the three countries as com
■ foes of international trade
and aiign then* against
totalitarian policy of "se!f-suf
Bey."
Be agreement'* become elTec
■ on January 1. 1939, and will
■ for intitiai terms of three
Ik. They may continue in force
■finitely thereafter utiles* ter
Bted by either government on
Bnonths notice.
Hr pacts bring within the scope
I the administration's trade
Hemcnt program nations which
■i.'iate fit) pt-r cent of American
■en commerce and which, with
■Vnited States, control 40 per
■ • world trade.
kit&in became the 19th nation
Hpi such a treatv. The Cana
H pact is a modified version of
ex -t ■ treaty which was
ed in lU.'io.
t the historic, mirrored east
i: • the White House, where
i -s\i: . : Kelloep-Briand anti
•' uas signed in 1929, and
i President Roosevelt looking
B:.• >h Ambassador Sir Ron
and Arnold K. Over
.• t nt secretary of the
b«>ard of trade and chief
!- '.(^"tiator of the agree
i*. ^ 1 r'or their government.
•' State Cordell Hull.
1 wide-handed, sold the new
I the program of "peace
freedom of world trade,"
l; r.:s -^nature for the Unit
States.
- • utes before Prime
" Mackenzie Kin^ of Can
.ftied a renewal of the
touent with his country.
with a few pen strokes,
1 <j< ■■■'•■ v's leading customers
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emier Is Upheld
Defense Issue
■ONDON, Nov. 18. (UP)—Cli
1:r'2 ;i debate in which Win
| '"huichill and Sir Alfred
'f C -i;... derided present re
cent efforts, the house ol
-ist night (rave an indi
t vote f support, 321 to 130,
i : .unherlain governmenl
tr.c ■>. ,'. n<e issue.
Harge Assault
To Three Pastors
KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Nov. 18
£•—Ihree Haptist pastors las
- faced charges of assault ani
fallowing an altercatioi
''«»> at the Euclid Ave
^Bap^ist church.
'he pastors—the Rev. A. V
[ker«. Sr.. the Rev. A. V. Pick
: »nd the Rev. Home
were charged with slap
^ W illiams, young grocer;
^ • • the Peace R. C. Yorl
'• n' capping occurred follow
'..a' argument over election o
,a * .i- ^resident of the Bap
«oun« People's union.
P'-AY AT DANA
■J* Intermediate B. Y. P. U. o
K„ Rock will present a pla:
■L* "ill Re Done," at the Dan;
church next Sunday, Nov
Hh P- m.. under the direc
31 Mrs. Brown Pace.
f—^'
Military Import
Of New Treaty Is
Far-Reaching
Provides for Constant Ac
cess to Necessary Raw
Materials
By CRATTAN McGRORARTY
United Prets Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. IS. (UP).
The United States and Great Bri
tain. in an exchange of notes co
incident with the signing of the
American. British and Canadian
reciprocal trade treaties Thurs
j day. entered a formal agreement
of possible far-reaching military
significance regarding constant
access to raw materials.
Notes sealing the agreement
were signed at the White House,
in the presence of President
Roosevelt, by Secretary of Stale
Cordell Hull and British Ambas
sador Sir Ronald Lindsay.
It was provided that "each of
the high contracting parties shall
give sympathetic consideration to
any representations which the oth
er may make with respect to ques
tions concerning access to raw
materia Is."
The agreement was proposed by
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AUTOMOBILE
PLATES FOR j
1939 RECEIVED
Sale to Begin December 1;
Increase Shown for
Year Just Ending
Sale of North Carolina state au
tomobile license plates has already
exceeded the total of the entire
year of 1937, Mrs. Cathryn Wise
man. manager of the Henderson
ville office of the Carolina Motor
club announced today. Through
November 10 the total was 588,
116 compared with 582,366 for
the same date last year and 586,
535 for the entire year 1937.
To date, 4,485 plates have been
sold at the local office, compared
with 4,216 for the entire year last
year.
License plates have been han
dled by the Carolina Motor club
since 1924 and the total issued has
passed the 5,000,000 mark. These
plates have been valued at more
than $65,000,000.
Plates for 1939 have been re
ceived here and the first passenger
plate will be number 272-001. The
new plates will go on sale Dec. 1
and may be placed in operation
immediately. The law requires
that all vehicles in operation after
midnight December 31 must dis
play 1939 tags.
Preparations for handling- the
plates during the rush period have
been completed. Adequate extra
help has been trained and it is be
I lieved the sale this year will be
more brisk and rapid than ever
before. One reason advanced for
speeding up issuance of plates is
the fact that the law requiring
vehicles to be transferred within
15 days or be liable for a penalty
of $2 has been in effect since Jan
uary and thousands of transfers
I have already been made that or
dinarily would have waited until
license time.
The 1938 license sale sets a new
peak in North Carolina. It is the
fifth time t*he sale has exceeded
j 500,000 and officials believe the
year's total will fall just shy of
| the 600,000 mark. Of the 588,116
, plates sold 482,847 or 85 per cent
> have been distributed through club
I offices, Mrs. Wiseman said.
Carnival Tonight
At Gymnasium
I Will Finance Costumes (or
Dramatic Club
: A carnival will be held at the
• high school gymnasium tonight at
F 7:30 o'clock under the sponsorship
- of the dramatic club of the school,
and proceeds will go toward im
proving the costume wardrobe of
the club.
A floor show, side shows, fish
f pond ar.d a number of contests
f will feature the program,
i The carnival is under the direc
. tion of Miss Catherine Goodman
-I and Carolyn Shipp is president of
' the dramatic club.
JAPS RUSHING
FRESH TROOPS
INTO CANTON
Chinese Batter Way Into
Environs and Japanese
Reversal Seen
SHANGHAI, Nov. 18. (UP)—
The Japanese today were rushing
heavy reinforcements to Canton
to oppose more than 100,000
counter-attacking Chinese soldiers
who had fought their way into
the environs of the great South
China metropolis.
Japanese admitted the situa
tion was serious and that thinly
held Japanese positions in the
Canton area had been captured
by the Chinese forces composed
of well-trained regular army
units from Kwangsi province
commanded by Generals Li Tsung
jen and Pai Chung-hsi.
Foreign military attaches be
lieved the Chinese offensive had
thrown the whole Japanese cam
paign m southwest China out of
gear and that Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-shek might be able to
hold his Yengyarig triangle de
fense area in Hunan province for
an indefinite period.
Extent of the Japanese losses
was not revealed but if the com
parison with Taierhchwang is ac
curate they should be between
4,000 and 14).000. Since the total i
Japanese strength in the Canton
area is estimated at not more i
than 75.000 men military attaches j
believeo the Japanese had suffer
ed a nujor reverse.
Geneial Li commanded the Chi-'
nese fo ces which defeated the
Japanese at Taierhchwang, great
est victory the Chinese have won
in the war to date, and it was
believed he used the same tactics
in Canton that he did in the Soo
chow-fu campaign — drowing the
Japanese into advanced positions
and then closing in on them from ]
three sides.
A Japanese spokesman here
said that Japanese reinforcements i
should reach Canton during to
day and that a "resumption of
our offensive may be expected
jvery soon."
! British observers sighted more j
than 40 Japanese warships and j
transports going up the Pearl riv- j
er towards Canton yesterday.
DEATH TAKES
MRS. DALTONi
Funeral for Big Willow1
Resident Will Be at
Beulah Saturday
Mrs. J. M. Dalton, 79, passed
away quietly at the home of her
daughter on Big Willow Thursday
morning at 1 o'clock, following an
illness of eight weeks.
Surviving are the following six
daughters and one son: Mrs. Eli
zabeth Whitesides, Mrs. Lear Can
trell, Mrs. Chester Dalton, Mrs.
Sallie Cantrell, Mrs. Estelle Bly
the, Mrs. Mae Belle Huggins and
Mack Dalton. *
Mrs. Dalton survived her hus
band by 20 years. She was a na
| tive of Transylvania county,
daughter of the late Fernando and
Rebecca Lyda Norman and had
made her home in this county
practically ever since her mar
riage, at the age of 18.
Funeral services will be held at
Beulah church Saturday morning
at 11 o'clock with the Rev. C. E.
Blythe and the Rev. J. E. Osteen
officiating.
Junius Huggins will be in
, charge of the music.
Pallbearers will be: Frank Hug
gins, Sam Huggins, Tave Revis.
Herman Patterson, Weldon Bly
1 the and Clarence Redden.
Flower girls will be grand
daughters as follows: Mesdaines
Donnie V. Wilkie, Beulah Banks.
Evelyn Huggins,*Bell Huntsinger,
Edith Woodfin, Ella Mae Freeman
and Miss Kate Whitesides.
Honorary pallbearers are B. B.
Blythe, W. C. Raines, T. A. Drake.
M. H. Bell, J. L. Huggins, John
Gilbert, Kiah Drafte and Roy
I Drake.
SEES FLORIDA DEFICIT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 18.
(UP)—Comptroller J. M. Lee to
i day predicted there would be a
$2,000,000 deficit in the general
revenue fund by next June 30 as
i he made the 1937-38 fiscal report
I public.
Henderson Huntress Bags Big Buck
"The Reward of Patience" might well be the title of this picture
of Mrs. Gene Wright of Davis Station, shown with a 195-pound
eight-point buck, kiled iast Saturday in Pisgah Forest. Mrs. Wright,
on her first big game hunt, passed up several shots for two days
and was rewarded with the bagging of one of the largest deer ever
killed in the forest.
Mrs. Gene Wright Kills One Of
Biggest Bucks Taken in Pisgah
|
Passes Up Six Deer to Bag ]
Choice 195-Pound
8-Point Buck
The desire of a Henderson coun
ty huntress to kill a big 'buck' was
rewarded last Saturday morning
when Mrs. Gene Wright, who lives
near Davis Station, just west of
Hendersonville, bagged a lyft
pound eight-point buck in the Pink
Bed section of Pisgah National
Forest.
The kill was a reward for the i
patience of Mrs. Wright, who on
two previous days had several
chances to kill does, but held her
fire in the hope of getting a buck.
Previously skeptical over the
thrill of killing a big deer, Mrs.
Wright admits that she got a tre
mendous thrill on finding that she
had killed one of the largest bucks
ever brought down in the Pisgah
Forest hunts, held for the past
several years.
"My heart beat so fast and
loud," she said, "that 1 thought
deer were running all over the
mountain."
Equally as enthusiastic over the
kill was Mr. Wright, who is con
nected with Shipman Motor Co..:
and was hunting in the forest at
the same time.
KILL IS THE LARGEST
BY PARTY OF FOUR
Mr. end Mrs. Wright were mem
bers of a party of four, the others
being Mr. and Mrs. John Bell
Houston, and all members of the
party brought out a deer. How
ever, the kill made by Mrs. Wright
was the largest of the party.
Mrs. Wright hunted on last
Thursday. Friday and Saturday.
In the Pisgah hunt, each hunter
is allowed three days hunting and
one kill. On the first two days
Mrs. Wright hunted with her hus
band and saw six deer. Her hus
band urged her to take a shot, but
she was waitine for a biff buck.
On the third morning she de
cided to hunt alone and took a
course into the mountains toward
Green Knob. The going was hard
and she was forced to pull herself
up the mountain by small trees on
the slope. On arriving at the top
of the mountain, she heard a
noise, dropped to her knee, and
fired when the deer came in sight.
The shot was made with a 25-cali
i bre high powered rifle at a dis
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TWO U. S. NAVY
FLIERS KILLED
g
Patrol Bomber Smashes
Into Dock at Pearl
Harbor
HONOLULU, Nov. 18. (UP) —
Two navy fliers were killed in the
crash of a bi#r patrol bomber as it
returned from night practice land
ings today. Five others were in
jured, one critically.
Lieut. P. H. Ashworth and Ca
det J. W. Beam were trapped in
the cockpit and died when the fly
ing boat smashed into a Pearl Har
bor duck. Beam was from Bards
town, Ky.
HIGHWAY RULING IS
NOT TO AFFECT OLD
SETTLEMENT HERE
Refusal of the state highway
department to allow claims of
counties and make payments for
roads taken over by the depart
ment will not affect the 1931 con
tract settlement made with Hen
derson county, T. L. Durham,
chairman of the board of county
commissioners, stated today.
By the terms of the previous
contract, the highway department
has been making annual settle
ments with the county, and these
payments have been applied to
school obligations, Mr. Durham
said.
LUTHERANS TO HOLD
SUNDAY'S SERVICES
IN H. S. AUDITORIUM
Due to the fact that repairs are
being made to the heating plant
of Grace Lutheran church, the reg
ular Sunday school and church ser
vices on Sunday morning will be
held at the high school auditorium,
it was announced today.
The Luther League will meet at
the home of the pastor, Rev. J.
Arthur Linn, at 1015 Highland
avenue on Sunday evening.
BANKERS HAVE
RECORD FUNDS
FOR LENDING!
Production, Business Up
swing Accompanied by
New Financing
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 18.—
(UP)—The American Bankers ai
sociation yesterday reported in-j
creased business and industrial ac
tivity during recent months and
said that record funds were avail
able in the nation's banks fori
lending.
The report was made in resolu
tions adopted at the final session
of the association's 64th annual
convention which began Tuesday.
Highly controversial subjects
were avoided in the report, al
though attacks on the Roosevelt
administration, federal competi
tion with business, politics in re
lief, handling of social security
funds, taxation and political and
religious intolerance had featured
speeches before the convention.
The association reiterated its
plea for a balanced budget and
condemned branch or chain bank
ing. an issue on which bankers
generally are divided. Chairman
A. L.^Lathrop, of the resolutions
committee, made the report to the
64th annual convention.
looting increased business activ
ity ^nd volume of industrial pro
duction ah# "the Upwar& trena
markets prices of bonds and
stocks, the association said there
had been a corresponding increase
of employment and totals of new
financing through capital issues
and securities.
"Banks everywhere are particu
larly gratified not only at these
signs of business recovery but at
the fact that American banking
has passed through the recent pe
riod of business depression with
almost entire immunity from its
hazards," the report said.
"Bank deposits have continued
to increase, interest rates on loans
to customers have remained steady
and bank losses on loans have
been few and unimportant."
The report said that the nation's i
banks had served their communi
ties well during the past year and
were prepared to expand their ser
vices "in the better one which we
believe lies ahead."
Urging improved relations with,
the public, the report said:
"American bankers have never!
before had such large volumes of j
funds available for lending as they I
have now and they have never be
fore been more eager to make
loans.
"They are serving their cus
tomers and communities with in
creasing flexibility and effective
ness," it continued, "and stand
ready to continue to do so in this
period of business expansion.
"As these trends and conditions
develop there will be progressive
ly diminishing justification for the
expansion of loans by governmen-1
tal agencies."
The association also went 'on
record as opposing chartering of
new banks and called on its mem
bers to oppose any political or
other pressure for founding of
new banking institutions.
Restriction of branch banking
within state lines was endorsed.
In connection with tax levies,
the committee report said "they
shall be so devised and adminis
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alia
PASSES AWAY
87-Year-Old Farmer Being
Given Burial This
Afternoon
i John Jefferson Wright, 87, a
farmer of the Balfour community,
died at his home yesterday after
noon about 1:30 o'clock.
The funeral services were be
ing held this afternoon at the late
residence at 2:30 o'clock with!
Rev. Verner officiating.
Pallbearers are Emmett, Fred,
Soloman, Wade, Eugene and
Charlie Wright. Flower girls are
Edith, Edna and Beverly Corn,'
Geneva Erwin, Oberia Crisp and
Annie Bell Condrey.
Mr. Wright was a native of
Buncombe county. He is survived j
by his widow, three sons and
three daughters, N. M., and D. A. |
Wright, Mrs. Pearline Treadway
and Mrs. Annie Bright, all of Bal
four, F. S. Wright, of Greenwood, i
S. C., and Mrs. Bessie Allen, of j
Marshall. I
Special Prayers
For Persecuted
Called For Here
Mayor Proclaims Sunday,
Nov. 20, as Day of
Intercession
Mayor A. V. Edwards today is
sued a proclamation, setting Sun
day, November 20, as a day of
special prayer in all churches for
persecuted of the world.
The mayor's proclamation was
as follows:
Whereas, many ministers
and Christian leaders of our
country, realizing the grave sit
uation in the world at this time,
have united in setting aside
Sunday, November 20, as a
nation-wide Day of Prayer;
Therefore, I, A. V. Edwards,
mayor of the city of Hender
sonville, N. C., do proclaim Sun
day, November 20, 1938, as a
day for special prayer, and urge
all of our citizens to offer ear
nest petitions for our land and
for the war-stricken nations
and for those who are being so
cruelly persecuted.
Done this day, November 18,
1938, at the city hall, Hender
sonville, N. C.
A. V. EDWARDS,
Mayor. ■
'SEEING EYE'
DOG PERFORMS
Skill Demonstrated Here;
Club Hears of State's
Work for Blind
How a "seeing eye" dog serves
his blind master was demonstrat
ed to two audiences here yester
day by Roy Moseman of Waynes
ville.
Mr. Moseman appeared first
before faculty and students of
Fassifern school and later spoke
to the Kiwanis club at its weekly
meeting. He was accompanied to
Hendersonville by Mrs. Moseman
and Mrs. Madeline McCrary, field
supervisor of the state blind com
mission in twenty Western North
Carolina counties. In a brief ad
dress, Mrs. McCrary described
the work being done by the com
mission to rehabilitate blind pep
sens by helping them to find
means of support and to provide
them with wholesome methods of
occupying their time.
Mr. Moseman operates a news
stand in Waynesville, and in his
talks here yesterdav he said that
his "seeing eye" dog not only
guides him wherever he may wish
to go but actuallv aids him in
conducting his business.
"For instance," he said, "it is
never necessary for me to grope
about for anything which I may
have dropped, such as a coin in
making change."
Mr. Moseman then tossed a coin
on the floor, and the dog imme
diately retrieved it, walked around
to his master's left side and
"handed" it to him. The doe,
equipped with special harness, al
ways works at his master's left
side. In traffic or elsewhere he
guides him through means of a
rigid extension of the harness
which is held by the blind person.
The dog not only stops at street
intersections and will not obey
the command "forward" until it
is safe to proceed, but guides his
master around obstructions. At
the Skyland hotel yesterday af
ternoon, Mr. Moseman's dog took
him around a tabl,e stopped at a
wall, turned right and proceeded
to the door which they had en
tered, and then led him safely
down a flight of steps to the lob
by of the hotel.
Mr. Moseman said a "seeing
eye" dog is always rewarded af
ter a performance by a pat and
kind word.
Daughter Is Heir
To Egypt's Throne
CAIRO, Nov. 18. (UP)—Queen
Farida of Egypt, 17-year-old con
sort of King Farouk I, late yes
terday gave birth to a daughter
and a half hour later a belated
artillery salute stirred the rumor
"it's twins!" amorve thousands
rejoicing in the streets.
All of Egypt's 16,000,000 peo
ple rejoiced in the first born Or
"the most beautiful queen since
Cleopatra," announced by 21-gun
salutes that carried the news up
and down the Nile.
STRAIN GREAT,
FORMAL BREAK
NOT INVOLVED
Nazis Want to Know About
"Strange Attitude" of
U. S. to Them
JAPAN REPLIES TO
COMPLAINT OF U. S.
BERLIN, Nov. 18. (UP)—Or
many today ordered her United
States ambassador, Heinrich Dieck
hoff, home to explain the "strange
attitude" of President Roosevelt
and the American government to
ward recent German events.
Dieckhoff was osdered to return
to Berlin less than 24 hours after
United States Ambassador Wilson
left Germany for Washington ott
a summons by Secretary of Stato
Cordell Hull at the behest of Pres
ident Roosevelt for "consultation
and report."
Dieckhoff's departure and W il
son's recall to Washington will not
represent a formal break in thu
relations between the two govern
ments. Yet it was the diplomatic
way of making it clear that the
friendship between the two nations
is severely strained.
Commercial and other normal
relationships are to be conducted
by second-string diplomats.
Meantime, belated reports
showed that the anti-Semitic ter
rorism of last week was even more
widespread than previously indi
cated and Jews rushed desperately
in their effort to get vi*as from
foreitrn consulates in Berlin.
Still further restraint, intended
to drive the Jews into modern
ghetto life is expected.
, 3. organ of Propa
•-vt
bels, who is one of the feeders of
Germany's violent anti-Semiticif»m\.
announced preparations to drive
Jews from tneir homes throughout
the reich.
"The government is preparing a
decree cancelling for Jew tenant*
the protective law, together with
its provision that notice is required
to oust tenants," the announce
ment said.
"It is officially estimated that
8,000 homes in Berlin alone will
be vacated because Jews in the
future will be unable to afford the
expense of the homes. Large de
luxe apartments probably will be
partitioned among Germans."
JAPAN PROMISES
RETURN TO NORMAL
TOKYO, Nov. 18. (UP)—Ja
pan, replying to the United States'
protest against foreign trade re
| strictions in China in favor of
Japanese, today denied that she is
violating the open door principle
of the nine-power treaty.
The reply said that specific
points in the American note and
incidents complained of might be
attributed to abnormal war con
ditions and promised to restore
normality as soon as possible.
Fletcher Baptist
Church Prepared
For Centennial
FLETCHER, Nov. 16.—Plans
have been completed for the cen
tennial celebration of the Fletch
er Baptist church to be held Sun
day.
The program for the day v.-ill
be: 10 a. m., Sunday scheol; 10 *0
a. m., welcome address, N. H.
Baldwin; 10:45 a. m., music by
the choir; 10:50, church history,
by Miss Jean Wolfe; 11:15 a. m.,
sermon, Mr. Worley; 12, lunch,
served in the study hall of Fletch
er school; 1 p. m., music; 1:80
p. m., recognition of former pns
tors and members; 2 p. m., talk,
"Looking Forward," by the Rev.
1 N. A. Melton; 2:20 p. m., music;
2:30 p. m., D.A.R. memorial ser
vice in honor of Joseph Henry—
unveiling of monument at Salem
cemetery.
The church was organized on
November 17, 1838. The meeting
place for worship at first if not
now known, but shortlv after
that time a frame building was
erected on the present airport
road just east of Calvary Epis
copal church. This building was
burned and a brick church built
which was used for worship un
til 1926. At that time, the build
ing was sold and the present
church building erected in Fletch
er, and it has been used by the
congregation since 1926.
All of the pastors that hr-ve
served the congregation have
j been invited to be prfesent, and
all of those who have been asso
ciated with the church as mc ti
bers. It will be a regular hene
coming day.
Four pastors have served t he
church lince it has been in Flet* h
j er: the Rev. N. B. Phillips, the
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