pair '°n
I jr«'C
WEATHER
ht and Friday. No
in temperature.
Ncurs
GOOD AFTERNOON
That knocking at Hitler's door
which he mistakes for opportunity
is really the sheriff with some
long overdue accounts.
'Largest Daily Circulation of Any
VOL.
57—No. 287
—
in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
HENDERSONVILLg, Ni.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
■!" "P T T T *}• *t* • *X»«FT V T T T V T * • •
No Dictatorship' French Labor Warns
A -X - » # A X
prosecutions
IIE SEQUEL T9
FRENCH STRIKE
Easement of Tax Levies
May Result; No Let Up
as to Preparedness
fill NOT DISSOLVE
COMMUNIST PARTY
PARIS. IVc 1. (UP>— Strikers
pre sentenced to prison today
pd 120,000 workers throughout
Hjaco were locked out or dis
Erjred from factories in the gov
raent's punitive measures for
Bterdav's general strike.
1; the government cracked
on strikers in nationalized
retries holding armaments eon
Ms, labor warned Premier Dal
|»r not to interpret his martial
r victory over the strikers as
: invitation to establish a dicta
rship.
The "strong man" premier and
ir minister told the nation in a
kdio address last night that "de
pcracy has triumphed over an
pchy and disorder" by shattering
tpmiied labor's protests against
os recovery program.
,He held out a conciliatory of
|k of "fruitfui cooperation" .with
tber and Industry" on the basis
[/respect for the law and made
i dear that he contemplated no
toves to outlaw the trades unions
ir their communist and socialist
arty supporters.
He ordered a lock-out today at
Be lanre Loire-Olivier Lorraine
kirplane Motor factory, which
o'ii> government air force con
tacts. in order to determine what
icrkers deserted their posts yes
ffdr.
A reinforced police guard was
sired thrown around the fac
• to prevent any disorders or
brstrations.
"a ministry of the interior in
ammunioue at midnight said
cciete caltn had returned to
#*hole country and that no
ire -.ncidents had been reported
■ connection with the strike at
an?!. Workers were thanked for
"high sense of duty."
Of 495 persons arrested in
all day long. ."0-odd were
fieri and were tried in civil
tomorrow.
Tr.e labor confederation's strike
only 20 per cent effective,
* F an estimated 1,000,000 of its
>• 50.000 members striking in
■rc of the threats of imprison
*n: and other penalties under
^ eov«rnment's requisition de
Dalidier said the arms plants
grated at 95 per cent capacity
towghout the day. Only 10 of
iO.OQO workers at the huge
^-'eider arms plants struck, for
tenple.
• Ta* understood that Daladier
ir. *ou!d announce a "revision"
• "■'•'era! of his reform decrees
,cn an*ered organized labor.
i rev's'on undoubtedly
Jjd '»e in connection with the
j •• calling for a flat two per
l* ,ax °n the wages of all
' This may be modified
^ynate levies in lower wage
»ae 40-hour week extension to
->0 hours of labor in a five
week probably will be
' however, because Dala
• 'i^termined to speed up
a*";" defense production and
up with Italy and Germany,
^ nav«> no work week limita
flan Being Held
On Spy Charge i
tLP> Axr.ELES. Dec. 1. (UP)
■■ A. Drummond, 21, was
county jail last night
' 'Hera! agt-nts, who arrested
a secret federal grand
P? m-iictnu'nt, charging him:
p €'Piona;:t*.
L'THERANS to hold
father and son
banquet tonight
>t" ^ :: >od of Grace I.u
will hold a lathe'
» ut-t in the dining
Jr..; "• •hodist churrh this
. - r ng at 7 o'clock.
' t church are urged
ar^i bring their son*. A
Crtf P' gram has been pie
Wf Um occasion.
Stewardess On
Wrecked Plane
Only woman aboard the Unit
ed Airlines Seattle - Oakland j
plane which was wrecked in
the Pacific near San Francisco,
Stewardess Frona Clay, above,
was one of the two crew mem
bers and three passengers j
drowned when thev tried to
swim ashore. •
Elks Are Shaping
Their Final Plans
For Institution;
The permanent organization
and nomination of officers for
the Hendersonville B. P. 0. Elks
No. 1616 and all applications for
membership received to Nov. 30
were acted upon and accepted
for affiliation and initiation at
the meeting held at the Hender
sonville Inn Thursday evening.
Attending were: W. D. Loh
man, Addison O'Neill, Thad C.
Jowett, A. E. Podesta, Jack At
kinson, H. B. Kelly, 0. D. Micha
love, John W. Farmer, H. Walter
Fuller, J. H. Rosenberg, Charles
Hunter, C. C. Oates, S. J. Full
wood and O. W. Weaver. Two
announcements were made today
regarding lodge membership.
All those past or present Elks
who have not signified their in
tention to become members of
B. P. 0. Elks No. 1616, Hender
sonville, will be accepted on this i
list a3 charter members until
time of institution, Friday eve
ning. Dec. 2.
All applications of those who
are to be initiated, who did not
have their applications in by No
vember 30, will have to be han
dled in regular form through the
lodge.
The institution will take place
at the Hendersonville gymnasium
Friday evening, December 2, at
7 o'clock. All present and for
mer Elks residing in Henderson
ville are requested to make them
selves known to the secretary of
the organization committee, S. J.
Fullwood, before the time of in
stitution.
WILL LECTURE TONIGHT
Dr. F. W. Sumner of Mills Riv
er will give his weekly lesson on
Christian psychology at the city
hall at 7:45 o'clock tonight when
the public is invited.
FM STUDIES
FOREIGN AND
U,S. PROBLEMS
^ousrh Draft of Legislative
Program Believed
Now Adopted
DEFENSE EXPANSION
IS STILL CONSIDERED
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dec. 1.
(UP)—President Roosevelt today
divided his time between the new
legislative program, a survey of
the relief problem and further ex
ploration of the international
problem.
With William Bankhead, speak
er of the house, he studied a
rough draft of the proposed rec
ommendations to the next con
gress.
Later he met with Harry Hop
kins, WPA administrator, and fi
nally with William Bullitt, ambas
sador to France.
Observers believed that re
quirements of the expanded na
tional defense program occupied
the best part of the discussion be
tween the president and Bank
head.
NEW LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM SKETCHED
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dec. 1.
•iiyP)- ~Pntsidca)t Rjw»«veH last
night roughly sketched salient
points of the administration's new
legislative program, preparatory
to a conference today with Speak
er William Bankhead.
White House attaches declined
to discuss the program, but ob
servers agreed that national de
fense would be the number one
ite mon the agenda for congres
sional action. The chief executive,
weighing data compiled by a com
mittee of experts, was completing
his study of the defense problem.
Military and naval develop
(Continued on page three)
F.R. May Address
Lima Conference
Bv Radio-Phone
*
Hope Expressed There He
Will Visit Parley Be
fore Year's End
By ALAN COOGAN
(Copyright, 1938, United Pre»»)
LIMA, Peru, Dcc. 1. (UP) —
President Roosevelt may address
the eighth Pan-American confer
ence bv radio telephone from
Washington at its opening ses
sion December 9, it was reported
last night, while Peruvian authori
ties were hopeful he might visit
Lima personally before the parley
ends.
Reports were circulated that
Mr. Roosevelt planned a last-min
ute announcement of a fast trip |
by warship to this city to attend
the inaueural session. The short
time still remaining until the
opening of the conference, how
ever, was believed to preclude
any such voyage.
Diplomats said they were abso
lutely uninformed regarding any !
trip to Lima by the United States
chief executive. They added that
they would not be surprised if he
decided to come before the meet
ing adjourns December 30, how
ever, first because of the import
ance of the parley and a growing
world-wide interest in its deliber
ations, and second, because it
possibly might be the last oppor
tunity for Mr. Roosevelt to visit
the South American west coast
while in office, which he so often
expressed a desire to do.
Speculating on the possibility
of his coming here, diplomats
agreed it would be a master
stroke from the standpoint of
psychology and its effect on Eu
rope, as well as further evidence
of good neighborliness.
Failing a personal appearance,
it was said Mr. Roosevelt would
address the conference by radio
telephone, stressing the need for
inter-American solidarity in the
face of present world unrest and 1
outlining his plan for a common
defense of the western hemisphere
against foreign aggression.
Communications officials of
the conference said they had no
instruction at present regarding
such an address. They said, how
ever, they could make arrange
ments to receive and re-broadcast j
it on short notice.
19 SCHOOL BUS
OCCUPANTS
DIE IN CRASH
jfi
Snow and Sleet Storm Con
tributes to Tragedy a|
Salt Lake City "p |
SALT LAKE CITY, I%c.|
—-(UP)—A Jordan h*gh
school bus collided toci^y
with a fast Denver and Rio
Grande Western feight trjjtin
at a suburban crossing afrid
at least 19 students wfe
killed.
The accident occurred fat
Lempton, a beet loading sta
tion^ on a spur track during
a snow and sleet storm which
made the highway slippery.
A deputy sheriff reported
he counted 15 bodies at the
scene.
County hospital reported
four students were brought
in seriously injured and died.
Thirteen others, all uncon
scious, were received at ^ie
hospital.
RALPH M'CRAff i
LAID TO REST1
Rites Held This Afternoon
at Dana, Following De
mise at High Point
Funeral sex-vices for Ralph Mc
Craw, 28, of Hendersonville, who
died at High Point on Tuesday
night, were being held this after
noon at 2 o'clock.
Services were at the Blue House
church, Dana, with Rev. Carl Bly-!
the officiating, and burial will fol- j
low in the cemetery there. Pall- j
bearers were Roland Hendrix,
Charlie Bollinger, Carl Cagle, Del- j
mer Cagle, Joe Case and C. J.
Stepp.
Mr. McCraw, who was working ;
in High Point at the time of his
death, died at Guilford General
hospital. Death was due to an in-.
fection from a carbuncle.
He is survived by his parents, j
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McCraw, who
reside in the Flat Rock section:!
his widow, two children, Louise:
and Dera; five sisters, Zoda, La- j
vinia, Maude, Elizabeth and Viola,
and three brothers, Glover, Galil-!
leo and Carl.
DEFENDANT WINS
IN DAMAGE ACTION
In superior court yesterday:
afternoon the jury held Mrs. Lula
McClain was not entitled to re
cover damages in an action against j
Nina Helen Sheldon.
The plaintiff was seeking $5000
actual and $2500 punitive dam
ages, alleging malicious prosecu
tion on a charge of larceny.
By consent of attorneys for
both parties, a majority verdict of |
the jury was taken. The jury had
deliberated for several hours
without being able to reach a
unanimous decision.
Judge J. Will Pless, Jr., had not
signed judgment in the case this
morning.
GERMAN TRADE
DRIVE MAY BE
TOPIC AT LIMA
U. S. Likely to Offer Lib
eral Credits to Pro
mote Commerce
PEACE HELD CHIEF
CONFERENCE GOAL
By HOBART C. MONTEE
United Press Staff Correspondent
BALBOA, C. Z., Dec. 1. (UP)
Nazi economic penetration in Lat
in America might be discussed at
the eighth Pan-American confer
ence, it was indicated yesterday,
and the United States is expected
to offer its neighbors liberal cred
its to offset Germany's trade
drive.
Racial and religious persecu
tions in the Reich also might be
considered informally at the par
ley, which opens December 9 in
Lima, Peru, it was disclosed with
arrival of the United States dele
gation headed by Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, aboard the
Grace liner Santa Clara.
The economic committee will
deal with reports on German com
merce with Latin American coun
tries, but United States members
said they had made no study of
the problem so far and that any
attempt to make plans would be
premature.
It was learned, however, that
an effort pi'obrbl£* wl 11 f'fetf mn^e
to extend liberal credits to Latin
America through the Export-Im
port bank of Washington. The
bank was established to aid in fi
nancing and to facilitate exports
and imports and the exchange of
commodities between the United I
States and foreign countries.
Secretary Hull was reported to
be approaching with extreme cau-1
tion the refugee problem and its
related question of finding homes .
in South America for those flee
ing or forced to leave Germany.
He has steadfastly refused during
the voyage to discuss his plans at
Lima and has emphasized that the
refugee problems were being han-,
died by the intergovernmental!
committee in London, of which
the United States is a member. I
Latin American delegates aboard
the Santa Clara, including those
from Mexico, Colombia, Venezue
la and Panama, believe, however,
there is little likelihood their
countries or the other republics,
will receive unlimiated numbers
of refugees, although they admit-,
ted the possibility of written
agreements for acceptance of
small quotas.
In a statement issued when the
boat docked at Cristobal, the sec
retary of state said the United
States and the Latin American
republics were determined to fol- j
!ow the "course leading to peace." j
Wisconsin Native,
Matt Watzl Says
Matt Watzl, of Barker Heights,!
is not a native of Germany, he
said today.
In Monday's Times-News in an
article relative to Mr. Watzl be
ing awarded a Bible as the oldest
present at a Thanksgiving dinner,
it was stated that he was a native
Df Germany.
Mr. Watzl stated today that he
was born at Two Rivers, Wis., and
lame here from Wisconsin.
French Ambassador To Rome Walks
Out Of Deputies' Chamber As Uproar
Made For France To Restore Colonies
HOME, Dec. 1. (UP).—The new
French ambassador to Rome, An
dre Francois-Poncet, walked out
of the chamber of deputies yes
terday when a speech by Italian
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano was interrupted by loud de
mands for return of Italy's form
er territories now under French
rule.
Shouts of "Tunisia! Savoy!
Nice! Corsica!" interrupted Ciano
as he disclosed that during the
Czechoslovak crisis Italy's armed
forces were ready to go to the
immediate aid of Germany in
event of a general European war.
The shouts were repeated later
in Venice square, outside the
palace of Premier Benito Mussor
linL
Significance was attached to
the chamber shouting since it oc
curred in the presence of Ambas
sador Francois-Poncet, sent here
to seek a pact of Italo-French
friendship.
It was the ambassador's first
public appearance since his ar-i
rival in Rome and the fact that
he was displeased was shown I
when he loft his box in the cham- j
ber immediately after Ciano fin-'
ished speaking, without waiting!
for the applause or watching the
remainder of the proceedings as
other diplomats did.
Mussolini and virtually the en
tire diplomatic corps heard Ci-:
ano's foreign affairs speech.
Italy had mobilized 300,000
troops in addition to regular arm
ed forces, precautionary meas
ures had been taken on the fron
tiers and warships held in readi
(Continued on page four)
"Signs Up" for Short Term
Elected oniy tor tne unexpired term of the late Senator.Peter Nor
bcck of South Dakota, Gladys Pyle hastened to put her nameplate j
oil her Washington office. It comes down early in January.
ALLEN STORE
WILL OCCUPY
HOWE BUILD!
* f
Believe Belk Stores
Take Over Site Vacated
by Local Firm
The I. W. Allen department
store, now located in the Hunter
building, will move to a new lo
cation in the Howe building, at
the corner of Fifth avenue and
Main street, by the first of the
year, and it is probable that the
Hunter building site will be occu
pied by the Belk stores.
I. W. Allen, proprietor of the
Allen store, said today that he
would be in his new location by
the first of the year. His new
store will occupy the room in the
Howe building fronting on Main
street and Fifth avenue and the
room on Fifth avenue formerly
occupied by the Electric Service
company.
The two rooms will be made
into one store, Mr. Allen said. The
floor in the Fifth avenue room
will be lowered to the same level
as that fronting on Main street,
and the entrance between the two
rooms on Fifth avenue will be
closed.
Mr. Allen stated that the show
window in the site of the former
electrical concern would probably
be walled up, and that there would
be entrances from Main street and
Fifth avenue when the two rooms
were combined into one.
The Hunter building room, now
occupied by Mr. Allen, has been
under lease to the Belk interests
for a year or more. No definite
announcement has been made by
officials of this concern, but it was
reliably learned today that ar
rangements had been made by the
Belk company to make alterations
to this site.
The Electric Service company,
formerly occupying the Fifth ave
nue room of the Howe building,
has moved to 216 Fourth avenue
west.
NG
L
TOY MATINEE
DATE CHANGED
Legion, Auxiliary Benefit
Postponed for Nursery
Benefit
The annual toy matinee for the
benefit of the American Legion
and Legion Auxiliary Christmas
baskets will be held at the Caro
lina theatre on Saturday morning',
Dec. 10 instead of Dec. 3 as was
previously announced.
This date was changed in order
not to conflict with the Nursery
School matinee.
The Legion and Legion Aux
iliary each year cares for the
Christmas cheer of many families
in the community and through this
toy matinee are enabled to get
toys for use in Christmas baskets.
The legionnaires repair all broken
toys and the members of the aux
iliary prepare.the toys for Christ
mas delivery.
Mean Tepnperature Above
Normal Despite Late
Cold Wave
In spite of extreme cold tem
peratures in the last week of the
month, the mean temperature
for November was slightly less,
than two degree above the nor
mal.
The rainfall for the month was
j 4.94 inches, 1.83 inches above;
normal for the month, and half
an inch of snowfall was record-j
ed, the first measurable fall in
1938.
The month showed an extreme
range in temperature, the maxi
mum of 80 degrees being record
ed on the 13th, and the minimum
of 13 on the 26th. The record
ing of 13 degrees has been ex
ceeded only once this year, when
10 degrees was recorded last,
January.
At the end of 11 months of
1938, the mean for the year is1
1.77 degrees above the normal
mean for this period and the!
rainfall is 10.15 be ow normal.
Rainfall for the 11 months has
been 44.28 inches, the normal for
the 11 months is 54.43 and the
normal rainfall for the year is
59.89 inches.
Rainfall was recorded on 10 j
days during November, with the
greatest in one day being 2.26
inches on the 5th.
The figures follow:
Low temperature last night—
31 degrees.
WEDNESDAY
Maximum—59 degrees.
Minimum—22 degrees.
Mean—40.5 degrees.
Dav's range—37 degrees.
MONTHLY SUMMARY
Maximum—80 on J 3th.
Minimum—13 on 26th.
Mean maximum—63.70.
Mean minimum—33.07.
Mean—48.38.
Normal mean—46.4.
Mean range—30.63 .
Greatest daily range—47 on
1st.
Rainfall—4.94 inches.
Normal rainfall;—3.11 inches.
Greatest daily—2.26 on 5th.
Clear days—20.
Partly cloudy—4.
Cloudy—6.
Fletcher Youth
Is Laid To Rest
FLETCHER, Dec. 1.—Charles
Mercer Gladden, 13-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gladden, of
Fletcher, who died Tuesday at his
home from bronchial pneumonia,
was buried yesterday afternoon in
Oakwood cemetery, at Hickory.
The Rev. S. P. Stroupe offici
ated.
Gladden was a "student in the
8th grade of Fletcher high school.
His parents formerly lived at
Hickory.
Surviving are his parents; one
brother, Paul Gladden, Jr., and
> one sister, Ruth Gladden. »
GIRL 18,SEIZED
BY MEN, TAKEN
OFF IN TRUCK
Sister Escapes and Gives
Alarm; Were Walking
Home After School
IS NOT BELIEVED TO
BE RANSOM CASE
OXON HILJ., Md., Deo. 1. (UP)
William E. Brown, father of kid
naped Mary Brown, today sought
the aid of G-men in the hunt for
his abducted 18-year-old daughtei,
who was forced into a truck la
night on the outskirts of Wash
ington. . ,,
Brown appealed personally to
national FBI headquarters after
expressing belief that the girl
attacked and murdered.
Brown is an employe ot the
Federal Bureau of Printing ana
Engraving.
Volunteer firemen, CCC lueu
and neighbors formed a posse to
search the neighborhood where
the girl was abducted.
Officers were provided their
first tangible clue by Lucy, the
victim's 15-year-old sister, who
escaped abduction by fleeing
across fields when the men ac
costed the two girls.
Two men resembling the de
scription of the abductors were
held by Washington, D. C., police
last night, pending further iden
tification by the missing girl s sis
ter. They were said to be driv
ing a truck similar to the one in
which Mary was whisked away
and were seized in Washington.
Mary Brown was walking
home with her litter, Lucy, from
a bus stop when two men in a
lieht-bodied delivery truek stop
ped and foread h«r into the car's
jnUgtf and the* sped off, it was
llMi g'frfs Ifctf •4
from Notre Dame Academy Bu»i
ness school in Washington.
On the verge of collapse when
she reached her isolated home,
Lucy described the abductors as
"big and rough looking. She
said that as she eluded the grasp
of one of the men and started
across the fields, she could hoar
Mary shouting for help.
Prince George's county police
immediately notified state author
ities who instructed officers to
watch all Maryland roads for a
car fitting the truck's description.
A similar order was issued to
Washington police.
Neighbors, mostly farmers,
searched nearby woods on the
theory that the two men might
have driven off the main road and
hidden until the alarm had quiet
ed'At darkness, the posse was cut
ting through thick tangles of
brush, lighting their way with
torches and flishlights. vrnfi.
The girl's father and her broth
er, William, 16, accompanied the
searchers. Both were said to be #
Brpofice did not believe that the
case involved kidnaping for^ran
som, but felt that Mary mipbt
have been token to a *<*Mcd
spot and possibly attack*f.Jther
nlanned to question Lucy further
?ora more detailed description of
H Yesterday afternoon ™ j
first time the Sirl« ^*Vpnera'^v
1ome from Oxon Hill. Generally
they are met by their mother.
But on arriving in the ^nter of
this small suburb they notedi that
Mrs. Brown's car was P*^ed m
Front of the family doctor s
Touse and they decided tosetout
for home afoot, awaiting for 'heir
(Continued on page three) B
ri n Mopping ways
^i/Till Christmas J
£2
*. \i n
(&HCISTM4S VJA6 CHRISTMAS'
A&A<N« "fHS WAft
T OOKING BACK TO CHRIST
^ MAS 24 TEARS AGO—
Christmas vat Christinas again,
the war over ... the allies, in
eluding an American army, were
"The Watch on the Rhine."
. . . "Trees." ... In France
and in American camps hun
dreds of thousands, unable to
get discharge, spent a fretful
Christmas. . . . "Hunger Maps"
of Eurqpe were printed as
America rallied to share her
abundance of food with the
desolated countries