North Carolina Newspapers

WEATHER frlJer toni?ht; Saturday, light 0r >io* flurries in the moun I ' •in» <IIui %xmm -fc Largest Daily Circulation of-Anv Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON The C. I. O. appear* to bare changed it* name but not it* laundry mark. HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS COLOMBIA RECALLS BERLIN AMBASSADOR * * * # # # # # # ### < Ban On Duke Of Windsor IE DUCHESS GO HOI, HER SAYS joted by Sources Close to Dcfce After Conference in Paris ((FORCED EXILE NO LONGER EFFECTIVE PARIS. X<>\. J5. d'P)—The tie a: : >■ cne-s of Windsor are :•> to England at 5 : •••■»> t tt a led as Prime jn:<: 1 ';•••: 'am left here for k: f •• ,i conference with t: r a.:.- of (*reat Britain. i« i >e •, the Duke re ar: told him fir. the Puke's return to c:; - i that there is no l:.i. oar whatever to a visit to by the Puke and his £3e>S. BM Minister Chamberlain and tfizn Secretary Viscount Hali ■ of Great Britain conferred for lainute last night with their bet k;::c in exile, the Duke of fcd*. . reiratding the hitter's re ts to Kngtand. i Bd*ard. who sent an equerry to :hi in asking rr.rn to call at k ?u'\. '< hotel, was under-! ! ih»vtf urged the prime minister seek a chance in the status of e American-born Duchess of "mdsor. Chaberlain met the American ir-1of \Vjrui<or f»>r the r>: t;mv ' the Duke present t'a :r.v orime minister. The iraunt-faced Chamberlain fc : : r.ave expressed h mseif s -de'-iT':'cvi" at the meeting and l have vr : he hoped to have the lea.-:.-'. >.■: seeing them again nr. J The:-.1 ui; some speculation thfet k three rren misht have discuss i the advisability of the Wind s' permanent return to Fns i faiiiv.kr. a Christmas kt- with the royal family at Kcr.gham estate. feei Chamberlain's nor Ed would discuss *.V-T.:nute meet'n*r. rae Duke, it was said, refuses jto England even for a at " • title of "her Royal 5r.:.es<" :< bestowed upon the '::.ar. for whom he abdicated his ere ".v. year* at*" Ecxard asks that his wife, the S5-. - 'A . ;:s Wurfield Simo * \ the same rank as his * ■"•* . t .-eraire and that she t mated from 2Gth place to a r.K- the duchesses ''■> Mi!m. outranked only by ieD...;..v-»f Kent and Clou s';:. t: nrst time that Ed h'J talked directly with the •' the British government we his struggle with former ■r-- -V Star.lev Baldwir t "> abd:cation for "the woman on Dec. 11. 1936. Althoukrh any decree chanfrinsr Statu; of the Duchess of Wind * *ou i r.e signed by Kin? *iite VI and would appear in * -OTa! Gazette the actual de *3" *ou!! rest with Chamber V'"1' ''-^I'nment. . Cr.8: :ber!ain arrived in ^e'i.uv-day he sent a per * •; • »he Duke's hotel and • later the Duke's ';rv :.r-d at the British Cv" w:th an invitation to to call whenever his •' ^-ledult would permit HIT TOY IATINEE SET tate Theater Plans Event Member 3 for Nurs ery School S'u'. * .>atre will pive a ;•••• r :ee for the Nuvse ' i':: - Sutv.rday, Dec. 3, it \'a,' ■■ •. today. ,1 : ill t v.i."fiur program Has ' r the occasion, ;c ;■ T'iree Mesquiteers Saddle," chapter 2 L'" ■ • Treasure Island," 'he Little Raneer." k •• >ine i* a PiPe'", ; •" K • ■ i "Krazy Magic.' ' Idren will be ad j>- ' ' the hours of 9 and ,x •.: / ng one toy, to Y" ■ •••-• Mrhrtol. : tn» 13 children now en *a"" b> ween the ages of 2 \ > i s. ;tnrj the school par -i> wheel toys, such as and tricycles, large rubber 1 ^o&tinueti on page three) Sr i In Hurried Farewell '.aV-n .^y- : I^WiififTi i BJ IT il | In one of the briefest diplo matic calls on record, Hans Dieckhoff, recalled German am bassador, dashed into Secretary Hull's Washington office for a two-minute farewell. JEWISH FLAG DAY SATURDAY Contributions To Be Re ceived for Relief of Refugees Flag Day will be observed Sat urday as a benefit for the Jewish national fund for relief of Jewish refugees. Several ladies will be on the streets during the day to receive contributions, and local Jewish leaders said today that all contributions will be gratefully re ceived. VISIT NEARS END Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Quirk, of Washington, D. C., have been spending the week with the lat ter's mother, Mrs. T. R. Barrows, and will return home on Saturday.! BRITOFRENCH AIR STRENGTH TO BE POOLED 2 Countries Reach Work ing Agreement for Joint Defense CHAMBERLAIN ENDS DIPLOMATIC MISSION PARIS, Nov. 25. (UP)—The premiers of France and Great Britain last night concluded two days of "completely satisfactory" consultations with a decision to pool their air forces and build a fleot of 10,000 fighting planes in an effort to outstrip the superior ity of Europe's dictatorships. The unified preparations for war were decided upon against the con trasting backdrop of a decision by France to sign a "no-more-war" pledge next week with her tradi tional enemy across the Rhine, Germany. The Franco-German pledge, on tho pattern of Chancellor Adolf Hitler's anti-war declaration with Great Britain signed at Munich on Sept. 30. drew loud praise from British Prime Minister Chamber lain and Foreign Secretary Vis-1 count Halifax at the conclusion \ of their Paris consultations. Chamberlain and Premier Edou-( ard Daladier agreed that despite' their determination to follow up the four-power Munich accord with a gwievftl structure of Euro pean security, it was urgently necessai-y to maintain the unwrit ten Anglo-French military alliance without relaxation. The Anglo-French consultations, covering: five major tonics, were understood to have resulted in: ' 1. Agreement that belligerent rights can be granted to the Span ish insurgents only within the Lon-! don non-intervention committee,! meaning that the Italo-German supported demand of Generalis simo Francisco Franco for rights to blockade loyalist ports and frontiers and "end the war quick lv" must depend upon the with-| drawal of foreign "volunteers" all around, instead of merely the 10, 000 Blackshirts withdrawn by Pre mier Penito Mussolini of Italy. 2. The decision for the "pool ing" of Anglo-French fighting strength in the air. 3. Pritain's whole-hearted sup port of the Franco-German "no-' more-war" agreement as another kevstone for the building of a dur able peace in Europe and drafting of a series of questions to be put to German Foreign Minister Joa chim von Ribbentrop when he vis its Paris next week to sign the agreement. It was understood that if Ribbcmtrop provides satis factorv answers to these questions on appeasement another four power "Munch meeting" may oc cur. 4. France's support of Anglo United States efforts to rescue thousands of Germany's 700.000 Jews following the new anti-Sem itic drive in the Reich. 5. A decision that discussion of Germany's demands for restora tion of her war-lost colonies would "serve no useful purpose at this time." largely because of British and French public indigation over; (Continued on page three) Polish Totalitarian Decrees Ban Strikes, Seize Masonic Properties Strengthen Anti-Dictator Stand! By W .A. BESTERMAN United Preca Staff Correspondent WARSAW, Nov. 25.— (UP)— 1 The government of Premier Sla voj Skladowski yesterday issued a series of totalitarian decrees that confiscated the property and funds of Free Masonic lodges and outlawed general strikes and agrarian revolts. The decrees, announced by President Ignacy Moscicki, were designed to consolidate Poland's position against the dictatorships as result of Europe's realign ment resulting from the Munich accord. The Skladowski government de cided to put the far-reaching mea sures into effect as result of its victory in the recent parliamen tary elections, which indicated a sharp shift to the right and a loss of left strength. The decrees came as Poland threw militant support to Hun gary in the fetter's demands for amputation of Czechoslovakia's eastern Ruthenia province to pro vide a common Polish-Hungarian , frontier. Hungary and Poland have met with stern opposition from Ger many on the common frontier de mand although Italy has support ed the proposal and it is under stood that Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian foreign minister, might come to Warsaw next week to confer on the threatening situa tion. Polish leaders said Poland would refuse to guarantee the new fron tiers of Czechoslovakia until Ru thenia is annexed by Hungary. The decree dissolving the Free Masons provided that the proper ty of the organizations wijl be confiscated by the state and used "for purposes of public welfare." The finances of all lodges also will be confiscated and persons who join lodges in the future will be liable to five years' imprison ment. General strikes or strikes tying up an entire industry are outlaw ed. A proclamation for such a strike or participation in any la bor walkout also will be punished by five years' imprisonment. SCORE DIE IN CAR ACCIDENTS AND BIG CITIES CRIPPLED BY SEVERE SNOW, SLEET STORMS Airplanes Grounded, Holiday Hunting Parties Missing While Death, Suffering Extends into Southland NEW YORK, Nov. 25. (UP)—v One of the worst snow and sleet storms of a generation lashed the eastern seaboard, killing scores in automobile accidents and crippling such cities as New York, Boston, Hartford, Albany and Buffalo. More than ten inches of snow fell in upper New York state. Ships in the harbors were pounded by billowing seas. One freighter is aground on Long Island. Snow also was causing se rious congestions in N ew York City. Airplanes were grounded and traffic moved at snail's pace. Mo torists on stranded holiday hunt ing parties are misfing. The southland's coldest weather of the season brought death and suffering with tumbling tempera tures from Texas to the Atlantic coast. At least two deaths and several injuries were attributed to the cold. Snow fell in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas and a^Dg the seaboard. Freezing weather was expected again tonight but warmer weather is forecast for Saturday, j Bv UNITED PRESS The "sunny" southland shivered Thanksgiving night ill the coldest weather of the seffcon. Plummeting thermometers, ice glazed streets and frost-covered fields swept in over Dixie hand in-hand with snow, sleet or rain that fell in almost every southern ^sftate. I The Now Orleans weather bu reau predicted "freezing or near freezing" temperatures for every southern state, with the possible Exclusion of a "fringe" along the j southern Gulf coast. Even north ern Florida, meteorologists said, pvould not escape the grip of the I cold. At least two deaths and four injuries, two critical, were laid at tfie door of suddenly-striking win ter. Fay Culver, 23, Mount Pleas ant, Tenn., was killed and another girl critically injured in an auto 1 mobile accident on the snow-cov ered Nashville-Birmingham high way near Decatur, Ala. August Kran, retired farmer, slipped on an ice-covered side j walk at Eureka Springs, Ark., yesterday, fell down an 18-foot embankment and was killed. Mrs. Julia Escobar, 48, was critically burned in New Orleans by - flames that flared into her face when she threw a cup of gasoline lnljp a slow-burning coal five. IT;, Henry Bauz;eau, a 58-year-old visitor, was bmned when he at tempted to beat^.the flames out of her clothes. \ The weather bureau said the cokl wave was caused by a cold liwss of air, "very large and very extensive," that moved down from Canada. With the exception of - (Continued on page three) Near Blizzard j Strikes City On Thanksgiving Marks First Visit of Old Man Winter Here This Year Accompanied by typical Thanks-! giving weather, Old Man Winter paid his first visit to Henderson ville yesterday. For the past three years, the city has experienced its bitterest early winter weather on Thanks giving Day, and yesterday was no exceDtion. The wind blew out of the north west, bringing clouds in the morn ing. rain in the early afternoon, and falling temperatures and snow and sleet in the late afternoon. The near-blizzard hlew itself out last night as the mercury sagged, j and today dawned clear and cold. FURTHER SNOW FLURRIES SEEN FOR MOUNTAINS The forecast was for warmer weather Saturday, except in the mountain section, where rain turn- j ing to snow was predicted. The maximum temperature yes terday was 61 degrees, which fell to 29 degrees at 6 p. m., and on to 20 degrees earlv this morniner. The recording at 8 a. m. was 32 i degrees—even freezing weather,! but the weather moderated later in the morning and most of yes terday's snow melted. Rain, snow and sleet of vester dav brought the precipitation to .51 inch. The snowfall was meas ured at .50 inch. Figui'es yesterday were as fol lows: Maximum—61 degrees. Minimum—29 degrees. Mean—45 degrees. Day's range—32 degrees. Rainfall—.51 inch. Normal mean temperature for November—46.4 degrees. Rainfall to date—4.93 inches. Normal r&infall—3.11 inches. WOODMAN CIRCLE WILL MEET TONIGHT The regular business and social meeting1 of Pine Grove No. 66, Woo.dman circle, will be held to night at 7:30 o'clock. All mem ! bers are asked to attend. Mrs. 0. M. Page and Mrs. Alice Whitaker will have charge of the refreshments, Mrs. Lula Shipman beinpr in charge of the social fea tures. HUNTING FATALITY FA YETTE VILLE, Ark., Nov. 25. (UP)—A shot fired accidental ly by a senior student killed Prof. Malcolm Lyons of the University of Arkansas, Coroner Glenn M. Riggs said last nieht. Lyons was shot yesterday while he and the student, Marcus Williams, were hunting. DEATH TAKES H. M. JUSTICE Rites for Resident of Na ples at Fletcher Saturday Harry Hamilton Justice, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Justice, of Naples, died at 3:25 o'cIock this morning at Mountain Sanitarium. Funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Fletcher Methodist M. E. church with the Rev. Bolick offici ating. Burial will follow at the Patty's Chapdl cemetery. * He is survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters. REWARD OUT IN ROBBERIES OF CHURCHES Chief of Police Powers Per sonally Makes Offer and Deplores Crimes "No thievery under heaven is worse than that committed ,in a church," Chief of Police Otis V. Powers said today as he personal ly offered a reward of $25 for the apprehension of persons who have recently entered local churches and stolen communion silver and other articles. "I hate to think that we have anybody in our community so low as to go in one of our churches and bore a hole in the altar in search of money or communion silver," Chief Powers said. "No thievery under heaven is worse than that. I want the good citi zens of Hendersonville to know that this happened right here in our midst. I want you to know that we are doing all we know to do to catch the thieves. I want you to know that I will personally give a reward of $25 for their ap i piehension. "This is the fifth time .that the Episcopal church has been enter ed and molested. Three times I locks have been broken. Twice communion silver has been stolen. (This silver is of priceless value 1 to the church, but of almost no i value to a thief or anyone else.) ■ Other churches have been enter ed and molested in the past few years. "I believe that such thievery is confined to a very few people, i The jobs have been amateur jobs. Yet, they were not done by small boys. I want to say this for our colored people. I do not believe they would do such a job. It ap pears that the jobs were done by (Continued on page three) FIREFIGHTERS RING BLAZE IN CALIFORNIA Property Damage Passes 5 Millions; Shirley Tem ple's Home Safe SANTA MONICA HAS THE HEAVIEST LOSS I-OS ANGELES, Nov. 25. (UP). An army of firefighters ringed a 200-mile mountain area last night, battling to check a series of rag ing fires which destroyed hun dreds of homes and threatened many palatial estates. Property damage already |had mounted abflve $5,000,000 and damage to valuable watersheds was incalculable. One group of fire fighters made a stand in the Santa Monica mountains to pre vent the flames from sweeping in to the famous Bel-Air estates on the very fringe of Beverly Hills, Brentwood and Westwood. In this general district live such ! movie notables as Shirley Temple, I ionel Barrymore, Jeanette Mac Donald and Gene Raymond, Jim my Stewart, W. C. Fields, Mary Astor and Joan Crawford. None of these homes, however, was con sidered in immediate danger. As a precautionary measure, [ however, studio guards were or dered to Shirley's home with in structions to move out furnishings if the situation became acute. | Shirley and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Temple, were report , ed to be in Palm Springs. The guards were sent to the Temple home after Tom Young, chief of the 20th Century-Fox studio, had inspected the fire hazard and esti mated the blaze was less than a mile away. upwards 01 ouu nomes, mu-t ui j them week-end cabins and other small dwellings, were estimated to have been levelled by the fires which ate through 60,000 acres of brushland in tne Santa Monica and San Bernardino mountains, and in several mountain sections of'Ventura county. Bulk of the property damage was inflicted by the Santa Monica fire, which roared almost to the sea, levelling a three-mile row of beach homes, before it was turned back. Among the homes reported to have been destroyed in this out break were those of Madeleinej Carroll,^blonde screen charmer:. Producer Sam Woods, Director Frank Lloyd, and Otto Carillo, brother of Leo. The flames ad vanced almost to the doors of the 1 sumptuous residences of J. Walter Rubin and Virginia Bruce, Rich ard Dix. Miriam Hopkins and Di rector Frank Borzage before be ing checked. As the fire whipped back inland toward untouched stretches of tinder-like brush, burned over part of land but spared the build ings on the ranch of the late Will Rogers. The late comedian's wid ow, Mrs. Betty Rogers, and three children, Will, Jr., Mary and Jim, loaded priceless relics of their fa ther and furniture into vans and prepared to leave when the dan- ' ger was at ils height. But later reports said the fire had been (Continued on page three) Triangle To jail in Lawrence, Mass., with pet monkey, Bobo, went Joseph : De Lucca, lower, after 16-year- | old Mrs. De Lucca, top photo i with baby, charged he fed and petted Bobo, starved and beat her child. He was released on bail. TWO HELD IN AXE MURDER Charge Negroes With Beat ing Pennsylvanian to Death, Robbery DUNN, Nov. 25. (UP)—Nathan Reif, 48-year-old salesman of (256 Senaca street) Harrisburg, Pa., was robbed of $200 and beaten to death with an axe yesterday by three negroes, police reported last night. Officers said they arrested Lee Simpson and Henry Williams, ne-j groes, and were seeking a third, Rov Williams, whom they charged with the actual slaying. Reif's head was crushed with an axe when he went with the ne-1 groes to sell some blankets at a negro home here, police said. His body was placed in his automobile which was wrecked to cover up (Continued on page three) j Secretary Hull And Big Diplomatic Party Leave For Historic Lima Parley; American Peace Is Objective (Copyright 1938 by United Press' j WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. (UP).il Secretary of State Cordell Hull and a large diplomatic party left here this morning on an historic mission designed to preserve the American continent as "an island of peace" amid a politically storm- 1 i tossed world. j i Arriving at New York, the party j i will proceed immediately to pier J. 57, North river, to embark on i steamer Santa Clara. The party ! i will disembark at Callao Decem | ber 7, in ample time for the open- j ing of the eighth conference of ] American states at Lima Decern- . ber 9. i • Projected for the major pur- ] pose of strengthening political, economic technical, and cultural ties among the American repub- ] lies, the Lima conference will de-. i rive added significance from < events in Europe and the far east - which tend to re-focus United States foreign policy with increas- i J ing intensity upon affairs of the | American continent. ; I In the last few weeks, President i Roosevelt's project for "continent al security," tension in Europe on racial issues, and the apparent establishment of Japanese hege nony in Eastern Asia have given vernal aspects of pan-American sm an even greater urgency than ;he intra-American topics which lave engaged the chief attention it these assemblies of the 21 American republics. . The United States delegation to iccompany Secretary Hull, as :hairman, to Lima, consisted of Alfred M. Landon, Republican residential candidate of 1936; \dolf A. Berle, Jr., assistant sec etary of state; Laurence A. Stein lart, ambassador to Peru (al ready in Lima); R. Henry Nor iveb, minister to the Dominican Republic; Emilio Del Toro Cxftvas, ihief justice of the supreme court >f Puerto Rico; Green H. Hack vorth, legal adviser of the state iepartment; the Rev. John F. D'Hara, president of Notre Dame jniversity; Charles G. Fenwick, jrofessor of international law at (Continued on page three) MANS ARE ANGERED OVER GERMAN ACTS More Jews in Reich End Lives or Die as Result of Decrees MAY END ARYAN, JEWISH MARRIAGES BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 25. (UP)—Angry crowds paraded Bogota streets last night shouting for the expulsion from Colombia of the German minister in retali ation for discourtesies allegedly shown Colombian diplomatic rep resentatives in Berlin by Nazi po lice. The crowds gathered following publication of Berlin dispatches that Jaime Jaramillo, Colombian minister • designate, and Rafael Rocha Schloss, charge d'affaires of the Colombian legation there, had been ordered by this govern ment to withdraw from Germany in protest against their treatment by Berlin police. During the re cent anti-Jewish riots in the Ger man capital, Jaramillo and Rocha were detained two hours by po lice authorities for taking photo graphs of Jewish shops wrecked by Berlin mobs. The paraders carried placards which said: "The Colombian minister was maltreated in Berlin; boycott German goods; we demand the ex pulsion of the German ministe:." Frequently the marchers halt ed to shout their demand that the Nazi diplomatic representative be ordered to leave Colombia. Simultaneous with the start of the parade, the foreign office in formed the German minister of orders to Jaramillo and Rocha t6 quit Berlin. The instructions, the foreign office said, were because of an incident "not in keeping with the friendly sentiments which should exist in the relations be tween the two countries." The Colombian note to the Ger man minister said the attitude of the German government was "un justifiable." The minister was reported to have replied to the foreign office that the action of the German po lice was "indispensable to pro tect" Jaramillo and Rocha. ARYANS WED TO JEWS 'UNDESIRABLES' BERLIN, Nov. 28. (UP)— Po lice round-up of Jews in the Reich gained momentum coincident with a new wave of Jewish suicides and the reported government plan to dissolve Aryan-Jewish mar riages. Three hundred Jews have been arrested in Vienna. Most of these are without na tionality or are those whose citi zenship is not recognized. Vienna reports said that more than 70 Jews died as a result of the new levy on their fortunes. Deaths were attributed to suicide, shock and other causes. It is re ported here in Berlin that one of the next anti-Jewish measures would be a law virtuallv forcing dissolution of Aryan-Jewish mar riages. The new anti-Semitic decree, it was said, is expected to direct courts to grant speedv divorces to non-Jews in instances of mixed marriages and will place a stigma, of disgrace upon those "Aryans" failine to obtain separations after promulgation of the law. German "Aryans" who remain married to Jews would be plac< d in the same category as the Reich's 700,000 Jews and wou'd (Continued on page three) Shopping Doys ttUTill Christmas lkfcMG- SMwG8\ AN£>NtoL4MIN°US/ KHee-i-»^v eArwMfl- stftsre WePC 1*6 V0G-U5 OH PLPfclPA &64CH6S"' T 00KING BACK TO CHRIST Lj MA8 25 TEARS AGO— Churches were worried about whether they ought to advertise or put signs on their buildings. . . . Your boy wanted • Mec cano set, or a pair of dogskin gauntlets. . . . Long stockings and voluminous knee-length skirt* were the vogue on Flori da beaches. . .. . Elihu Root won the Nobel Peace Prize. . . . Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was putting "Votes for Women" befort Woodro? Wilson.