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What aver became of the old*
fashioned Han?
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
VOL. 57—No. 286
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WE DNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
MADE
| SUCKSH1RT
3JARDS PAPER
,ys U.S. Takes Oyer Task
0i Personification of
World Jewry
ImfKS MADE ON
f EDEN. CHURCHILL
L,,,e K-.w. official orean of
t \.! !;' Hitler's elite Black
L.. tor.is. last ™"ed
E. ali German Jews »ou.d die
Fjass 'sillinKS if any. ntte"?'
L. ,; ir made t" assassinate Hi -
t ;'rv other Na*i leader.
I-.,. stormtrcop organ. which
lAjv h;l,l predicted the "actual
Enl extermination of German
fcv bv tire and sword if any
L1;n in the Reich after comple
ITof the anti-Semitic drive, cou
ld its new warning with a mo
11 attack on President Roosevelt
Li the United States
| "On the day on which a Jewish
LDOn or a weapon bought by
|mi< is used atrainst one ot th
Cine men of Germany then
Ce will be no more J«wa jj
E^any." Das SchwarM koip.->
1 ^'e^hope wc have made our
fcta clear."
WTW war»»e 1
I •letter to the editor of th
Lr \ox\ Paily News, appearing
Erf, over the name ofan An.
Eean Jew who inserted that a
EL of criminals be released
E^proon n the United States
I : • Germany to wipe out
Hitler's Nazi heirarchv
I-TV newspaper made this pro
loolits own by publishing- it with
Ceoflo and the American
Evnent neither banned^ nor
■shBanded the newspaper. l>as
Enr, Korps said. "It did not
r declare that it deplored
the proposal itselt or the
■BUe of the newspaper.
■ "Let us no longer leave our
■fcTS ;n anv doubt over the lac
■a:-.- United States, after So
Et India's temporary surrender
ft tk world of politics, has taken
Kcfe job of official persomfica
koc of world Jewry." '
I The Stormtroop newspaper fan
I f Nazi attacks on
■ - war propagandists
Bf kitting out at Anthony E°en,
Churchill and Arthur
ftttenwood of the anti-Nazi win?
m tte British parliament for
■hvimg with disgust when a de
le-. German newspaper puts their
■Btraits together with that of the
■** Giyrw-pan."'
ASSASSIN'S UNCLE,
HT SENTENCED
■ PARIS. Not. 30. (UP)—Abra
po and Chana Grynszpan, aunt
ri uncle of Herschel Grynszpan,
|^-year-otd Polish Jew who assas
Ernst von Rath at the Ger
Otbusy three weeks ago, to
pwere sentenced to four months
rted 100 francs
P-SO' each '<n charges of har
1*^2 ar. undesirable alien.
technical charge against the
Pf md u' was one of com-.
P*t7 in violation of the law gov
French residence of for
More Divorce
I Decrees Entered
Is,
I rces have been
P'1 ■ nt judgment
ior court before
fj'l' ^'11 Pies;-, Jr., this week.
I pfin'.g Mae Parker was granted
I »m John L>. Parker.
■ win Mnrjaret Bryson was
Fy*: a ret from Andy E.
f*>r.
L nia Mooney was
' a divorce from Fved
r.
R. Sn th was granted a
from Lillian 0. Smith- >
1. Igment in the sum
granted in favor
fc,"'- Pontiff in the case of M. S.
1 . W M. Hill and
f1 Wkn.
P penny'tohold
I * E. prayer meet
l5j W. B. Penny, of Btl
KL • *iu conduct the prayer
■Lf® *t tho First Methodist
■ko11 anight at 7:30 o'clock in
r hut.
Hitler Their
Best Man
Adolf Hitler was 'best man*', for
Sir Oswald Moslcy. below, when
the British Fa<ci:t leader se
cretly married Diana Freeman
Mitfbra, toji. in the Fuehrer's i
Munich office last December.
Hitler called her his '"ideal Nor
dic woman."
50NWRECKED
'SKY LOUNGE
DROWN IN SURF
Plane Breaks Up on Rocks
But All Could Have
Lived, Staying Aboard
By ROBERT I. SPENCER
United Press Staff Correspondent
POINT REYES, Cal., Nov. 30.
(UP)—Two men survived the
Clash landing in the sea of a
United Air lines "sky lounge" yes
terday but five others who tried
to swim through a storm-lashed
surf to safety lost their lives.
An apparent confusion in radio
reception during a terrific storm
was blamed for the crash. The
plane went off its course and was j
forced down when its gasoline
was exhausted.
The pilot, Capt. Charles Stead
of Seattle, and Isadore Edelstein,
a convict paroled from a life sen
tence as an habitual criminal on |
(Continued on page three)
SANTA CLAUS
HAS OFFICIAL
WELCOME HERE
Crowds Drawn to Shopping
District as Yule Buying
Season Inaugurated
SCHOOL BAND PLAYS;
CONTESTANTS WORK
Santa Claus paid Hendersonville
a brief visit last night, and at each
Main street intersection he told a
crowd of adults and children that
he will leiurn Saturday for Hen
derson county school day.
It was window shopping right,
and as early as 7 o'clock the side
walks were well filled with people
who had read that Santa was on
his way to this city. Store window
lights and the overhead colored
street lights were turned on simul
taneously at 7:30 o'clock, and for
the next hour the large crowd of
shoppers inspected window dis
plays of Christmas merchandise.
Scores had pencil and paper in
An error on the scrambled
word card in the window of the
Fashion Shop has confused win
dow shopning contestants, the
contest editor was advised to
day. To avoid any complica
tions, announcement is made
that afl solutions of this sen
tence will be counted as correct
in awarding prizes.
hand and were collecting scram
bled words painted on cards and
displayed in the windows of 17
business firms. These words when
unscrambled and reassembled,
form sentences, and early this
morning tho solutions began com
ing into The Times-News office in
competition for three cash prizes
of $5, $3 and $2.
Santa Claus was a half hour
late in arriving, but the large
crowd waited for him. Starting at
the Southern Railway, the high
school band in red and white uni
forms and under the leadership of
Julian Helms proceeded to Main
street and then south to First ave
nue where it met the veteran saint,
who was traveling in a specially
constructed float with two rein
deer in front. The band, with
Miss Emmy Lou Wilkins as ma
jorette, then accompanied Santa
Claus back up Main street for his
official welcome. Stops were made
at each street intersection while
the band played a Christmas carol
and the guest of honor made a
(Continued on page three)
NURSERY SCHOOL
BENEFIT TO BE AT
STATE, SATURDAY
The State theatre will be host
to hundreds of kiddies in a toy
matinee on Saturday morning,
and the nursery school will bene-1
fit by the contributions of toys
as the price of admission.
A full two-hour program of
good entertainment has been ar
ranged by the theatre manage-1
ment, and the price of admission
for adults and children between
the hours of 9 and 10 a. m. will
be one toy. j
The toys will be used in the
Christmas tree for the nursery
school on December 23, and some
of the gifts will also be used in ,
the daily operation of the school, j
The nursery school particularly I
needs wheel toys, such as wagons
and tricycles, large rubber balls, j
dolls, doll furniture, toy autos
(not mechanical) sand toys,
wooden blocks and beads and sim
ilar playthings. j
New Coca-Cola Bottling Plant
Machinery Doubles Output Here
Installation of now machinery
which doubles the output capacity
of the Hendersonville Coca-Cola
Bottling Co., will assure an ample
supply of bottled Coca-Cola for
Hendersonville and its vicinity.
The territory covered by the lo
cal plant includes Henderson and
Transylvania counties, with parts
of Polk, Jackson and Macon coun
ties.
The new machine has a capacity
output of 72 bottles per minute as
compared with 34 per minute by
the old machine, according to L.
Y. Biggerstaff, manager of the lo
cal plant.
One of the more than 1,000
Coca-Cola bottling plants in the
world today, the Hendersonville
plant is one of the most up-to-date
that can be found.
Every operation in the plant is
carefully checked at all times and
every effort is made to provide the
utmost in sanitary precautions.
The bottles are washed in a large
machine which gives them three
washings in three different de
grees of heated water and caustic
soda solution and are rinsed and
brushed in several different opera
tions. From the time the bottles
are placed in the washer until they
are checked and placed in the
cases they are not touched by hu
man hands.
All operations of filling with
syrup, carbonated water, capping,
and mixing are done automati
cally.
They Tell About Dictators
; .— .— 1 > T r. : —
William rhjiups, American ambassador to Uaiy, right, ind Ambas
sador Hugh R. Wilson, recently recalled from Germany, appeared
in jovial mood as they arrived at Warm Springs, Ga. They gave
the President firsthand reports on Nazi and Fascist treatment of
minorities.
BLIND BEGGAR
RACKET UNDER
FIRE IN STATE
Most of Takings go to Pro
moters; Block Efforts
for State Aid
By DAVE WARNER
United Press Staff Correspondent
RALEIGH, Nov. 30. (UP).—
The blind beggar racket, engineer
ed throughout the south and east
by non-blind promoters, will tug
at heartstrings of sympathetic
givers during the next four weeks
and take hundreds of dollars from
them.
Shabby men, women, boys and
girls will trudge up and down
streets of Raleigh, Atlanta, Rich
mond, and dozens of other cities,
singing nasally or strumming
small musical instruments. Their
tin cups will jingle.
But the profits are not theirs.
That is the most hateful feature
of the racket in the eyes of public
and private organizations working
to benefit the blind and near
blind. Most of the money winds
up in pockets of seeing persons
who "run the business."
A group of blind beggars and
their non-blind companions in
(Continued on page three)
CATS TO PLAY'!
SUMTER TEAM
Friday Night Event There
to Close Highly Success
ful Season
By WILSON AYER5
The Hendersonville Bearcats
will close the most successful
football season in several years
when they meet Sumter, S. C.,
high in the Gamecocks' backyard
on Friday night.
On paper, the Cats will be mere-;
ly making the trip to see the j
sights of lower South Carolina, for <
Sumter has a powerful team, one
of the powers in Pollweevil foot
ball in fact. The Gamecocks de-1
feated Anderson 23 to 0 and the
Anderson team won 18 to 7 from
the Cats.
However, aa a matter of fact,
the Cats figure on giving the ,
fighting birds a tough battle. It
should be a good game and the |
locals should enjoy the hospitality
of Hugh Kolb, former mentor
here, who now teaches the Sum
ter boys their tricks.
Drake, who has played great
ball at end, and Yarborough, one
of the outstanding centers of this
section, will probabl" not see ac
tion due to injuries.
TO INSTITUTE I
ELKS' LODGE!
FRIDAY NIGHT
Final Preparatory Meeting
Will Be Tonight at the
Hendersonville Inn
Hendersonville's benevolent and
protective order of Elks, number
1616, will be instituted Friday i
night, December 2, in the high
school gymnasium. The session j
has been set for 7 o'clock.
The institution of this new
lodge in Elkdom is anticipated by
Elks and their friends as a great
ocasion for Hendersonville and
surrounding area, as Elks are
noted for their friendly and char- j
itable attitude towards all men. j
Besides the presence of David
Sholtz, past grand exalted ruler
of Elks; Ernest D. Grady, district
deputy grand exalted ruler; J. ;
Clayton Burke, secretary of the1
Atianta lodge, number 78; mem
bers and officers of the Asheville
B.P.O.E., number 1401, will be j
in attendance to assist in insti
tuting the new Hendersonville
Elks lodge.
A large delegation is also ex
pected from several of the key!
cities of the south, including j
Charlotte, Atlanta. Greenville, I
Spartanburg, Knoxville, and oth
ers..
It is requested by the secre
tary of the organization commit
tee. that all former and present
Elks living in Hendersonville be
sure to be present at 8 o'clock to-;
night at the Hendersonville inn.
There is quite a bit of very im- -
portant business to transact at,
this time, and all those eligible
are urgently asked by the spon-!
sor to be present.
RALPH ICR AW
PASSES AWAY
Family Present as Local
Man Expires at
High Point
News of the death of Ralph Mc
Craw, of Hendersonville, at High
Point has been received here. No
funeral arrangements had been
made this morning.
He is survived by his widow, two
children, Louise ar.d Dera, his par
ents, five sisters, Zoda, Lavinia,
Maude, Elizabeth and Viola, and;
three brothers, Glover, Galilleo
and Carl.
His wife, father and a brother
were at the bedside at the time of
his death. '
U. S. DEFENSE
TO HIGHLIGHT
NEW CONGRESS
Roosevelt Not Renewing
Full Diplomatic Rela
tions With Berlin
TURNS ATTENTION TO
LEGISLATIVE PLANS
WARM SPRINGS, Nov. 30.—
(LP).—President Roosevelt to
day turned to consideration of his
legislative program, putting aside
temporarily, at least, the interna
tional situation embracing com
prehensive consideration of perse
cution of religious minorities.
The chief executive today gave
undivided attention to the legisla
tive program that will be submit
ted to congress January 8. This
program will be highlighted by
recommendations for greatly ex
panded national defense program,
embracing expenditures in excess
of $500,000,000 over and above
current outlays.
WILSON NOT GOING
TO BERLIN SOON
WARM SPRINGS. Ga., Nov.
30.— (UP)—President Roosevelt
last night indicated the United
States would not resume normal
diplomatic relations with Ger
many until he is convinced the
Nazi government will cease per
secution of religious, racial and
political minorities. h
This policy was interpreted
from Mr. Roosevelt's statement
to newspaper men that U. S. Am
bassador Hugh Wilson, whom the
president recently recalled from
Berlin, was not going back to
Germany now. The president
would not say when Wilson would
be returned to Berlin.
The chief executive, during a
20-minute press conference, ds-;
missed all other questions con
cerning his recent conferences
with Wilson and William Phillips,
ambassador to Italy. He smiled
and observed that even/ if he
should be called upon to write a
story of the meeting, he could not
very well do it.
Mr. Roosevelt, sitting behind
the driving wheel of his touring
automobile on a dusty Warm i
Springs road for the press con- j
ference, said he would renew his !
talks with Wilson and Phillips as1
soon as he returned to Washing
ton. These discussions, which will
consist of exchanges of informa-1
tion arid a canvass of the problem 1
of minority persecutions abroad
in the light of latest develop
ments, are expected to occur be
tween December 6 and 9.
Phillips is scheduled to sail for
Rome December 10.
White House attaches said the
president, Wilson and Phillips, in
their two conferences here, had
discussed every phase of the cam
paigns of totalitarian governments
against racial and religious minor
ity groups.
Mr. Roosevelt was expected to
turn temporarily from interna
tional problems and devote the
major portion of the remainder of
his stay in Warm Springs to study
and to drafting an outline of the
administration's new legislative
program.
The president opened the press
conference by anouncing ap
pointment of Dr. Ross T. Mcln
tire. White House physician, as
surgeon-general of the navy with
rank of rear admiral. Mclntyre,
now a captain in the naw medi
cal corps, was in the automobile
with the president. He will assume
his new duties next Thursday. He
had been White House physician
(Continued on pasre four.)
Sen. Bailey Sees
Trade Upswing
As Temporary
Business Good But Federal
Spending Can't Sustain
It, He Says
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. —
Present improved business condi
tions nre only temporary and will
not last, in the opinion of Sena
tor Josiah W. Railey, who was in
Washington yestreday.
The senior senator from North
Carolina was on the way from
Woodberry Forest, Va., where he
visited his son, Josiah, who has
returned to school after beinp1 in
jured while in a football practice
game. Refore leaving for home,
Bailey conferred with George W.
Coan, Jr., North Carolina WPA
administrator who was here to
adjust problems that have arisen
in connection with improvement
of the field at the U. S. coast
guard air base now being con
structed at Elizabeth City.
Speaking of business conditions
(Continued on page four)
F1NDIMTY
IN NAZIS' SPY
RING HEARING
No Decision Reported by
> - Thflrd De
fendant at N. Y.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30— (UP)
—A federal' court jury late last
night advised Judge John C. Knox
that it had decided two of three
persons charged with espionage
were guilty. The court then or
dered the jurors to retire to a ho
tel for the night and resume de
liberation on the fate of the third
defendant this morning.
The jury foreman told the judge
that the jurors had decided Joh
anna Hofmann, 27, former hair
dresser on tha North German Lloyd
liner, Europa, and Otto Hermann
Voss, 39, German-born airplane
mechanic, were guilty as charged
but that they had not been able to
make a decision as yet in the case
of Erich Glaser, 28, German-born
army private stationed at Mitchel
Field before his arrest.
"In this case," Judge Knox said
after the jury was polled, "it
would be a good idea for you to
go to a hotel tonight and resume
deliberation on the other defend
ant tomorrow morning unless
there is something I can do to help
you get a verdict on him tonight."
The jury foreman replied that
there was nothing the court could
(Continued on page foar).
BAPTISTS MARKING
WEEK OF PRAYER
The prayer service at the First
Baptist church tonight at 7:30
o'clock will be in keeping with
the prayer services of the Wo
man's Missionary union for this
week and is one of five services
in observance of the week of
prayer for foreign missions.
Rev. B. E. Wall, the pastor,
will deliver an appropriate mes
sage. All members are asked by
church leaders to be present.
ELECTRIC FIRM MOVING
The Electric Service company,
owned and operated by E. ' E.
Hartnett and E. E. Hartnett, Jr.,
has moved from Fifth avenue
west, just off Main street, to 216
Fourth avenue west.
City School Milk Stations Will
Need Greater Support This Year
A survey of undernourished
children in city schools, now un
derway, will show that the need,
filled for 13 years by the free milk
stations, is greater this year than
ever before, in the opinion of spon
sors of the annual Christmas Seal
sale.
The proceeds of the annual seal
sale, under the sponsorship of the
Woman's club, support the free
milk stations, and without a gen
erous response on the part of the
public the stations will fall far!
short of accomplishing their mis
sion, Mrs. George Wing, general!
chairman, said today.
Last year more than 70 chil
dren were supplied milk each day
during the cold winter months, i
but, had necessary fends been
available, about 100 children
could have been given this service.
Actual facta on hand show that
the children respond quickly to
this service, and one bottle of
milk daily is quickly reflected in
an improved health condition and
better school work.
The majority of the funds rais
ed from the seal sale remain here
for this work, while a small per
centage goes to the state tubercu
losis association for work in pre
venting this disease. The seal sale
was originated 33 years ago to
combat tuberculosis, and this is
the 14th year the campaign has
been conducted here.
(Continued on page four)
CABINET WINS
BATTLE FOR
ECONOMIC REE
1000 Arrests Made and
Strike But 20 Percent
Effective
MEN QUITTING, GO
BACK TO THEIR JOBS
• PARIS, Nov. 30.—(UP)—Pre
mier Edouard Daladier claimed
today that the 24-hour general
strike in protest against his recov
ery program had failed.
Troops and police were putting
down sporadic violence and by
mid-day more than 1,000 demon
strators had been arretted.
Daladier said his ministers re
ported that about 1,000,000 of
the scheduled 5,000,000 striker?
left their jobs, making the walk
out less than 20 per cent effective.
The strike began to collapse
this afternoon, when coincident
with the admission of ite partial
failure by Leon Jouhaux. head of
the General Labor Federation
which called the strike, half the
strikers went back to work.
They wished to avoid discharge
or court puniahment for atriking
in requisitioned industries.
The government ran the first
strikebreaking train out of Paris
at 4:12 a. m. today with a con
scripted military crw, protected
by soldiers, when tllp "Urp Kqur"
of France's 24%<rar gtharal strike
arrived with the nation under vir
tual aitny rula. - «.
The engineer Mid fireman fn the
caty'astad If tlufcr intandad.tft 1*- •
nore the General Labor Confed
eration's strike order to 5,000.000
workers, said:
"Hell yes, we're going* we're
in the army now."
Thousands of troops and mobile
guards early today threw cordons
of steel around labor-class districts
as violence and riotine ushered in
a 24-hour general strike by 6.000,
000 Workers in protest against tho
premier's recovery decrees.
A battalion of mounted ma
chine-gunners and light artillery
moved into Saint Denia in the "red
rinar" of Paris suburbs.
Workers of the Brest govern
ment arsenal voted to join the
strike and contingents of mobile
guards were rushed there to guard
the arsenal and railroad lines.
The nationwide strike began at
midnight (I p. m. EST) when the
General Labor Confederation's
call for "folded arms" went into
effect but the real "zero hour"
was anticipated between 4 and 8
a. m. (lip. m. Tuesday, EST, and
3 a. m. Wednesday) when 525,000
unionized railroad workers were
scheduled to walk out and tie up
the main lines. •
The railroad walkout, crux of
the showdown between Daladier
and his leftist foes, was to deter
mine whether the premier was
able to break the backbone of the
strike by military requisition of
the railroads and conscription of
the 525,000 workers at army pay,
under threat of five months im
prisonment. i
The government was determined
to operate the six main national
ized railroad lines, subways, bus
lines and vital utilities undrr mili
tary control, using army and navy
engineers and "conscripted" work
continued on page four)
ni anoppingUays
h 1 Till Christmas
K-K-W-KArV %ML€6'SId*0VE6
ThcQe;' vsefte PoPulAP -HITS.*,
T OOKING BACK TO CHRIS T
^ MAS 21 YEARS AGO—
Jerusalem, the Holy City, wu
taken by the British at the Sea
son of Peace. . Millions were
bustling about to send Christ
mas presents to the boys in
camp. . . "A Bible for every
Soldier and Sailor" was a pop
ular slogan. . . . Tremendcu
Red Cross drive spurred by the
Halifax munitions explosion
which killed 1300. . . . "K-K
K-Katy* "SraTles," "Ovej
There," were popular songs.