WEATHER
Generally fair tonight; Satur
Ui increasing cloudiness, possi
yy followed by light rain.
SHye Winms - Kettts
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
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Sleeping with the window open
is r«port«l to bo good for in
somnia. So for that matter is
sleeping with the window shut.
VOL
57—No. 288
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
55
FRENCH LABOR RENEWS STRIKES-RIOTS
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iCCLES SEES I
STEP IF BANKS
IRE INACTIVE
>serve System's Board
Chairman Addresses i
Banking Institute
ifFIRMS FAITH IN
AMERICAN SYSTEM
NEW YORK, Dec. 2. (IT) —
hairmar: Marriner S. Eccles of
it boai-J of governora of the fed
[i reserve system warned the
iiion's bankers last night that
ley must loosen frozen funds to '
i«: current credit needs or face
ttbhc repudiation and govern- !
len: control of lending agencies
to assure the free flow
l| .ml.:a!
survive, he told the Ameri
lf institute of Banking, the
laxer of today must adapt his
odinjf policies to current bor
■ring needs of his community.
,v alternative is that the "pub- |
is likely to demand and con- I
ffss enact legislation settin«* up
vernment agencies that will
tet the needs," he said.
Addivssin/f himself especially
the younger men in the l>ank
g profession, Eccles affirmed
a faith in a capitalistic democ
icy i ut reminded them that they
ive a public responsibility which
fcty cannot thrust aside if they
ibk such a democracy to con
tra ::: :he L'nited States.
"Capitalistic democracy nab
K>;v-imin .justified itself in th*\,
is:,"' he said. "There is no rea
jn. except our own failure to
ruierstand the nature of our
conomy, why it cannot achieve
*er. greater results in the future.
He said that while government
houid not, as a general principle,
beourage. displace or seek to
Lipete with private enterprise,
kmust. however, "provide for •
hue for whom private enter
ra has failed or is unable to
rsnie," especially when "every
m.able opportunity for prof
ttit operation and for giving
lpi«inent" has been granted
tprivate employer.
So far as the banks are con- •
trawl, he >aid, the "dilemma has
► be solved by allowing the bank
t? system to adapt its credit
tur.es to current requirements
(the community, particularly in
longer term, amortized
ins." He recalled his testimony
J connection with the 1935
■nk.ng act. in which he told a
«!(rreisional committee that if
8* talks did not enter the long
r term lending business "their
imings will suffer and the jus
foatxm for their existence di
toiahes."
no longer should • be
»Dstrur:jj by archaic rules and
ty-lationa," he continued. The j
reserve system, acting un
* the 1935 law, has done much
i "remove restrictions so far as
examination and investment \
we?> concerned." With this '
fc'tive, he said, the banks need
* Je restricted to super-liquid
*■*> sine** the federal reserve's
■to* system is thus broadened
*?^vide liquidity in case of
ItC.
said that if the government
J forced to take over the na
** ending field, it would mean,
■j )!> y competition with private
but also place added |
(Continued on page four)
Nursery School's
Benefit At State
Saturday A. M.
2 -u!l two.hour program of mo
J^picture entertainment will be
**»ted tomorrow morning byi
®*nager.u.nt o' the State the
e as a benefit toy matinee for
•'•ursery ychool.
Jt^ween the hours of 9 and 10
frCc_": r morning the admi9
• JT this program for both
't.« &n<i tt.iidren will be one
l.* -.hu> collected will be
• 'H- ly operation of the
i^r-' and in the staging
Ch■.-••• tree party for
TV °n Dec- 23
Projrra' i at the theatre to
*ow wil i,elude The Three
"Pals of the Sad
. • . "Secrets of Treas
»■ u: a cartoon, "The
^ith Scrappy; Our
u. ■ Little Ranger"; a
i 1 • "Plumbing is a
^ Kiazy Kat in "Krazy
Healthiest in the Land by 4-H Verdict .
Healtniest of tuo million 4-H club members are these boys and girls, selected at the 4-H congress in
Chicago. Left to right: Kendall Wilson, Iowa; Hubert Littlefield, Louisiana; Gerald Hawley, JN&
biaska, Britt Phillips, Georgia; Barbara Beebe, Iowa; Jeffie l'oland, Louisiana; Ruth Mason, North
Carolina; Louise Johnson, Alabama.
COUNTY'S NEW
OFFICERS TAKE
OATH MONDAY
Will Be Inducted Into Of
fice by Clerk George
W. Fletcher
Henderson county officers, elect
ed in the November election, will
be sworn into office at the county
court house on next Monday morn
ing by clerk of the superior court
George W. Fletcher.
• Prior to induction of local of
ficers. Mr. Fletcher will be given
the oath of office by Judge J. Will
Pless, Jr., of Marion, resident
judge of the 18th judicial district.
Judge Pless has notified all court
clerks of the district that he will
administer the oath to all clerks
here at 9:30 o'clock Monday. At
lea>t five of the six clerks in the
district are expected to be here to
take the oath from Judge Pless.
Both Girl Scout
Troops In Award
Court Next Week
Miss Ruth Johnson To Be
First Girl Here to Get
Eagle Badge
Miss Ruth Johnson will be given
the first Eagle badge awarded to a
Girl Scout in Hendersonville at a
joint court of awards for Troops
1 and 2, to be held on Tuesday
night, Dec. 6, at 7:30 o'clock at
the high school auditorium.
The court of awards was an
nounced for that time this after
noon and a number of other
awards will be made then.
OVER 70 DROWIUN
FLOOD IN ANATOLIA
ISTABUIv Turkey, Dec. 2.—
(UP).—More than 70 persons
were drowned and many homes
and cattle destroyed in a sudden
flood which swept Ourfa area, in
eastern Anatolia, today. (
SANTA CLAUS WILL BE HERE
AGAIN SATURDAY AS SCHOOL
DAY MARKS CHRISTMAS TIDE
Several Schools in County
Will Compete for $50
in Cash Prizes
School Day. when the several
schools in Henderson county will
compete for cash Drizes totaling
$50, will be observed Saturday ir
Hendersonvilie.
ft wMl b<? the second event oi
the Christmas season, the first
having been window shopping
night last Tuesday when a large
crowd viewed displays "f Christ
mas merchandise, completed in s
"scrambled word" contest, hearc
the high school band play Christ
mas cjja'ols, and gave a hearty wel
come to Santa Claus. Judges ol
the contest, in which scores ol
window shoppers copied scrambled
words and arranged them intc
phrases or sentences, were busy
today reading the entries, and will
announce the winners of the $5,
J3 and $2 cash prizes Monday
Entries will be received uuntil 5
p. m. Saturday. Seventeen busi
ness firms co-operated with The
Times-News in conducting the con
test.
To the county school having the
largest percentage of its enroll
ment in town Saturday, distance
traveled also being taken intc
consideration, the merchants divi
sion of the chamber of commerc<
will award a cash prize of $25
Second and third prizes will b<
$15 and $10. Pupils from each
school will be required to registei
in the basement of the city hall
i facing King street, between the
hours of 10 a. m. and 5 p. m
Supervision of the registration is
being arranged b.v Chief of Police
Otis V. Powers, while Mayor A. V
Edwards said city officials will co
operate in every other possible
way to make the day a success.
Santa Claus will return to Hen
dersonville early Saturday morn
| ing and will mingle with the
crowds on the streets from 10 a
m. until noon and from 1 to J
p. m. As he makes or renew:
friendships, he will pass out candj
to the children.
BORRERO RESIGNS
QUITO, Ecuador, Dec. 2. (UP)
Provisional President Manue
Maria Borrero last night tenderec
his resignation to the national as
sembly which voted immediatelj
i to accept it.
Rumanian Fear Of Invasion By
Hungary Believed Cause Of Purge
BUCHAREST, Dec.2. (UP).— '
Fear of a Hungarian invasion de
signed to regain territory which
Rumania acquired fl-om Hungary
after the World war last night!
was believed responsible for a
ruthless campaign to wipe out the
Fascist Iron guard.
King Carol II ordered "ruthless
ness" on a nation-wide scale in
the face of reports that Hungary
might attempt to seize Rumania's
Transylvania province, formerly
Hungarian territory.
Mass arrests, dismissals of vet
ean army officers suspected of
Nazi-Fascist sympathies and mili
tary occupation of several dis
tricts marked Carol's determina
tion to smash the terrorist iron
guard whose "Fuehrer," Corneliu
Zelea Cordeanu, and 13 compan
ions were slain by prison guards
Tuesday. Hundreds of persons
were seized in Bucharest, Mano
and other cities.
The "purge" of Cordeanu's al
ready outlawed followers, for th<
most part zealous youths, occur
red on the 20th anniversary o:
the union of Transylvania wit]
Rumania and while agitatioi
mounted in Hungary, across th«
western frontier, for restoratioi
of the war-lost territory.
The semi - official newspape:
"Romania," which is close ti
Carol's royal dictatorship estab
lished last February, referred t<
the Hungarian revisionist pro
gram with the warning:
"Enemies from without awai
only a favorable moment to jumj
on us."
The newspaper said that th
killing of Cordreanu and his 11
companions—supposedly because
they attempted to make a breal
from a prison convoy—and the re
suiting purge "had to be swift a
(Continued on page six)
I ARE DEAD IN
HOSPITAL FIRE
¥ .
Third Feared Killed Under j
Debris in Washingtci4
N. C., Blaze r
WASHINGTON, N. C., Dec. 2.
(UP).—Two persons were killed
and a third is missing in a fire
which destroyed the three-story
wing of Taylor hospital here to
day.
Sue Gorham of Washington,
negress, and Jesse Coin, an Au-<
rora negress, are known dead. |
Mrs. Macon Tooley, 26, of
Pingo, is missing and hospital of
ficials believed she was killed
when the walls of the structure'
collapsed.
Firemen carried eight persons'
from rooms of the burning sec
tion. More than 30 other patients
were not endangered but three I
, were injured when they fled the
building.
5-Year Boy Scout
Expansion Plan
To Be Discussed
Supper Meeting for Lead
ers Will Be Held Next
Tuesday Night
A five-year program of expan
sion in Boy Scout work in Hen
derson county, and immediate
plans, will be discussed at an im-1
1 portant meeting at the Scout cen- l
! ter on next Tuesday, Dec. 6.
' J A supper will be served by
. scoutmasters and assistant scout
i masters.
All scoutmasters and assistants,
troop committeemen of sponsoring
| j organizations of city and county,
and members of the district com
■! mittee are urged to attend this
' meeting.
The program of scout activity j
was recently outlined by A. W. i
Allen, scout executive, of Ashe
ville, at the last meeting of the
district committee. The program
as outlined by Mr. Allen at that
1 time was adopted by the district
committee.
One of the main objectives of
■ the program as outlined by Ex
> ecutive Allen was an immediate
. survey of possible locations for!
. additional scout troops in this
• county. A report of the commit
1 tee making this survey is expect
i ed to be made at the meeting next
> Tuesday,
i
SALESMAN ENDS LIFE
H MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 2. (UP).—|
> Horace R. Mills, 32, a salesman,
- j fell or leaped to his death from
> the 12th floor of a downtown ho-(
-1 tel yesterday. He had registered
at the hotel Wednesday night,
t Relatives could give no explana
) tion for his death.
MUFFLES FATAL SHOT
BOGOTA. N. J., Dec. 2. (UP).!
Not wishing to alarm his neigh
bors, Montgomery Ascanyan, 30,
yesterday wrapped blankets about
3 his head and shoulders and fired a
.rifle bullet into his brain.
MORE REVISIONS AHEAD FOR
EUROPEAN FRONTIERS BEFORE
APPEASEMENT IS REALIZED
<i>
Italian Statement on Re
turn of Colonies by France
Opens New Phase of the
Situation in Europe
BULLETIN
ROME. Dec. 2. (UP)—The
authoritative Giornale D'Ita
lia today announced that the
Italian nation is ready to
march against France, if nec
essary.
The newspaper frequently
reflects the views of Premier
Mussolini and its declaration
coincided with the sudden
strain of relations between
Italy and France because of
Italian demands for colonies
at the expense of France.
By WALLACE CARROLL
Copyright, 1938, by United Press
LONDON, Dec. 2. (UP)—There
was increasing evidence today
that further revisions of European
frontiers must be made before the
hope of general appeasement can
be realized. Dispatches told of
territorial disagreements between
Italy and France, Czechoslovakia
and Poland, and Rumania and
Hungary.
Italian political circles interpret
ed the long political statement
Wednesday for Foreign Minister
Galeazzo Ciano as opening a new
phase of the European political;
situation, in which Italy will take,
a leading role. -Foremost on his
program is an attempt to better
relations with France—at a price.
His speech was interrupted by in-j
spired cries, in the presence of the
French ambassador, which only
could be interpreted as a demand
for return of Tunisia and other
present French territory, former- i
ly Italian.
An editorial last night in the
Leghorn Telesrrafo, owned by Ci-|
ano's family and believed to re-!
fleet the foreign minister's views,:
intimated strongly that when Ci-1
ano mentioned "natural aspira
tions" in his Wednesday speech he I
meant that Italy will press for re
turn of Tunisia, Savoy, Corsica,
Nice and Djibouti—all held at l
present bv France—as the price!
of Italo-French friendship andj
peace.
"Both the spirit and principles
of Munich should continue to pre
vail," the Telegrafo said, "in or
der that past injustices will be
straightened out and colonial rati
fications effected. If there are in >
(Continued on page six).
J. B. Jackson Dies
This Afternoon
J. B. Jackson, father of Mrs. I
Paul W. English, died suddenly
shortly after noon today at the'
home of his daughter in Druid
Hills. Death was ascribed to a
heart attack.
No funeral arrangements had
been made this afternoon.
PRESBYTERIANS TO
HEAR MISSIONARY
TO INDIA SUNDAY
Rev. Dr. L. T. Wilds, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, today an
nounced that Dr. Geo. B. Archer, j
medical missionary with 30 years 1
experience in India, will speak at
the Presbyterian vesper service, 5 I
p. m., Sunday, December 4.
The hospital with which Dr. i
Archer is associated is about 50 J
miles from Calcutta, and he is now
home on a furlough and is spend
ing a few weeks with his father
in-law, E. H. Dickson.
"India is the land with which we
associate Dr. E. Stanley Jones,
one of the greatest of modern mis
sionaries and Christian leaders,"
said Dr. Wilds in this connection,
adding that "many will doubtless
avail themselves of this opportun
ity of hearing a medical mission
ary on the work in that country."
8 ARE KILLED ABOARD
MEXICAN AIRLINER
MEXICO CITY, Dei. 2. (UP).
Five passengers and a crew of
three were killed when the Lock
heed plane of the Compania Mexi
cana de Aviacion crashed today
into a hill shortly after leaving
Mexico City for Merida, Yucatan.
All aboard were Mexicans.
The crash was due to a thick
fog.
23 DEAD, MORE
MAY SUCCUMB
IN BUS WRECK
40 on 111 Fated Vehicle;
Bodies so Torn Identi
fication Impossible
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 2.—
(UP)—A house to house canvas
established that 39 children and
one adult were aboard a school
bus when a freight train smashed
into it here yesterday. Of those,
23 were killed and three injured
so severely they probably will die.
The remaining 14 suffered hurts
of various degrees.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 2.—
(UP)—Twenty-three persons—22
school children and a bus driver—
were killed yesterday in a school
bus-train crash at a crossing and
last night teachers were checking
their rolls to determine if there
were more dead.
The death list had not been com
pleted because the bodies were so j
badly torn that it was almost im
possible to tell how many had been
killed. At least 17 were injured,
many seriously.
Hysterical parents were called
to help identify the dead and the J
injured while the teacher**^ Joiv |
dan high school aided by going i
through the rolls and checking ab
sentees.
Later school authorities decided
upon a house-to-house check of the
school district in which the chil
dren lived. They said such a check
was the only means of determin
ing definitely the number and iden
tity of the dead.
A score were killed instantly
when the bus moved up onto the
track yesterday morning during a
blinding snow and sleet storm, and
was struck by a Denver and Rio
Grande Western freight train rac
ing at 52 miles an hour.
The victims ranged in age from
12 to 18. Their lunch boxes, books
and musical instruments were scat
tered for a quarter of a mile along
the railroad right of way at Lamp
ton, a beet loading station south of,
Salt Lake City.
Eyewitnesses and survivors last
night described the' horror of the |
tragedy. Marjory Groves, who was
injujred said "I just looked out the
windojy as we were starting across
the track and there was a blur—
guess it was the train—and then I
was lying in the snow beside the
track." She was not injured seri
ously. !
David Witter of Denver, Colo.,
a transient aboard the train, said
"It was frightful. I thought at
first we had hit a herd of cattle." I
Fragments of bodies filled a half
dozen baskets, he said. He told of
rushing to help one girl who "was
screaming and screaming, but she
died before I could get to her."
The division superintendent's of
fice of the railroad said that 261
had been killed, according to fig-,
ures compiled at the scene of the
accident, but this could not be
checked at hospitals and mortua
ries.
Hysterical parents, many of the
mothers screaming wildly, jammed
the halls of the county hospital to
see whether their children were
(Continued on page sue) i
As Wives Go,
So Go Nations
Mr*. WiUon
Fran Ditettrtf
Exp«r^.in. international diplo
macy bay tlie two. women fctTiJv*
are best clews to relations be
tween United States and Ger
many. Frau Dieckhoff, wife of
the German ambassador to Uni
ted States, remains in Washing
ton while her husband returns
to Berlin. Mrs. Wilson stays in
Berlin while her ambassador
husband comes home. When the
wives pack up and sail, then it's
serious.
NAZIS EVADING
PROMPT REPLY
TO 0. S. NOTE
New Broadside Launched
Against Jews in U. S.;
New Decrees Out
BERLIN, Dec. 2. (UP).—Nazis
last night accused American'
Jewry of being interested only in'
a "policy of hate" against Ger-1
many and refusing to extend real j
practical aid to the Reich's 700,-1
000 Jews caught in Chancellor
Adolf Hitler's newest anti-Semitic
drive.
The charge, accusing Jews in
the United States of "dishonesty I
in the immigration question" and
contending that the United States '
has absorbed only 10,000 of 130,
000 Jews emigrating from Ger
many, appeared in the mouthpiece
of Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Foebbels, the newspaper
"Der Angriff."
Simultaneously, the German
government evaded an immediate
(Continued on page six).
Police Puzzled By Story Of Girl,
Said Kidnaped; Home Unharmed
BULLETIN
OXON HILL, Md., Dee. 2
(UP)—William Brown today
told reporters that his daughter,
Mary, was kidnaped for ransom
but won her release when »he
convinced her abductor* that
her father had no money.
OXON HILL. Md., Dec. 2. (UP) I
Police are puzzled by the story of
Mary Brown, 18, convent girl, who
returned to her parents' home last
night, 30 hours after her sister
reported her kidnaped, with her
clothes torn to shreds.
Hundreds of policemen and
possemen had continued a con
stant watch of roads leading to
the capital suburb but the girl I
said that the three men who ab-i
ducted her drove through the cor
don to release her a mile and a
half from her home.
A doctor said she had not been
attacked.
OXON HILL, Md., Dec. 2. (UP)
Mary Brcwn, 18-year-old convent
student wh6 was kidnaped by three
men late Wednesday, stumbled in
to her home here late last nigh/-,
sobbing hysterically, her clothing
virtually torn to shradB.
The correly girl, who was seized
near her home late in the after
noon while returning from Notre
Dame Academy Business school in
nearby Washington, told police
that she was returned in the same
truck in which she had been held
captive for nearly 30 hours.
Speaking almost incoherently,
she said that she had not been
criminally assaulted but that her
captors had "knocked me out with
their fist?" several times. She said
she had been kept blindfolded and
could not identify the three men
"except that one of them had a
mustache."
According to the girl, the three
(Continued on page tnx)
mmm is
PUNTIIVESTEPS
CAUSE UNREST
Sequel to Drastic Action 5n
Strike Blocked by
Martial Law
LOCK OUT~200,000
IN PARIS SECTION
PARIS, Dec. 2. (UP)—French
labor replied to severe govern
ment punitive measures today with
sporadic riots and a wave of
strikes.
Three hundred discharged work
ers attempted to storm the factorv
at St. Louvroil. They stoned mo
bile guards and six passing train*.
At St. Lille strikers upset aud
demolished two street cars and
stoned mobile guards.
At Valenciennes gendarmerie
arrested M. Thomas, chief of the
Metal Workers union, in a nail
factory which had locked out the
workers.
More than 200,000 workers in
the Paris industrial region are
locked out but only SO,000 have
been discharged.
At Havre, workers In steel and
textile industries decided to call u
strike to forc6 the re-employment
of 3,500 discharged strikers.
DALADIER REMAINS
SURE OF STRENGTH
PARIS, Dm. 2. (UP)—A new
wave of strikes early today
brought out troops and mobile
guard reinforcement* throughout
France as workers revolted
against the wholesale firing of
about 700,000 employes in repri
sal for Wednesday s abortive gen
eral strike.
A general strike in the ship
yards and government aviation
Sflint Nasaire was or*
dered for this morning,
The big Schnslde* fmamenta
plant «t L» Havre was oocupf ed
by troops, who turned out 8,000
discharged workers who attempt
ed to stage a sit-down strike.
The Riviera playground of
Nice was virtually paralyzed.
Troops were used at Toulon,
Bourges and Nantes to suppress
labor troubles, including the at
tempted occupation of factories.
Premier Edouard Daladiar,
sure of his strength after crush
ing the general strike, was pre
pared to repeat his show of arm
ed force to break the new strike
flareup in its infancy.
The general confederation of
labor, which ordered Wednesday's
strike, ordered 100,000 workers
in the national defense and other
industries and in key private in
dustries to obey "new instruc
tions" in resisting Daladier's
stern punishments and. mass fir
ings.
More than 700,000 workers, or
nearly three-fourths of all those
who joined the general strike in
defiance of military requisition
orders, were estimated to have
been suddenly thrown out of jobs.
Daladier the "strong man" lock
ed out strikers from the national
ized arms and aviation plants and
utilities for their defiance of his
military decrees and private in
dustries rapidly followed his lead.
The cabinet fired labor's anger
by ordering punitive measures
against labor leaders who direct
ed the strike organization and by
orders for sanctions within three
days against 1,000 government
employes who deserted their
posts.
The premier and war-minister
summoned parliament to m< et
(Continued on page four)
19
Shopping Doys
Till Christmas
J
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©hckns eoosriwo sew#
hacong- foR so&tf*.
r 00KINO BACK TO CHRIST
^ MAS 19 YEARS AGO—
Ohioans were boosting their
Senator Warren G. Harding for
President. . . . With coal fam
ine threatening cold Yuletidei,
Kansas governor called for 1000
volunteers to dig coal. . . .
Country in grip of crime wave,
with 100 murders in year for
Chicago alone. . . . Fear that
kaiser would return to rule Ger
many. , • . Steel industry
•tunned fay passing of Carnegie
ud Stick*