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WEATHER • ►« partly cloudy tonight hFTk»'":">- J"d W*r"" ©he Stmrs - Kcitrs Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON Hitler is no longer guided by the star*. He now is giving his astrologist orders to be relayed to the stars. • - HENDERSON VILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS BRAZIL TO BACK U: S. AT LIMA PARLEY 1-f* *** * * * * * * Tff < Officers, Convict Killed In Burlington f0 CONVICTS RPR1SED IN BOBBERY ACT ird Officer Slays One scaped Prisoner; Other I Still at Large ,\JN POLICEMAN WAS IETERAN OFFICER :n<,ton. Dec. t. (UP)— v.. r v. had bt'en in office . • a: <j a veteran police [c: < : the Uurlinjfton city * and k lied today tr ' :>ed two escaped iv: • • > li: a filling station. t :.v;c*. v.as ki'.led by a third . h s :: pan ion escaped. ; jeau wore: Hi' Ri>Scrt<ot:, t \ Alamance /n< :-.ff wiv t->ok office for -year term Monday. 6. W. Vaughn, 55, Burlington let-man of 20 years service. Roy Huffman. Greensboro, who aoed October 22 fr<>m Anson inty prii»on camp. The other escaped convict was v Keliy. Robertson and Vaujrhn were |ji b-'fore they could draw their r.i a.-; they walked into the fill ; station two block- from the section of thi> industrial j- of 10.000 persons. F B. Baliff. a third officer who riT-'d utside the station. fired f . . :'.()ow at the two c«^r• - t>-. <i!lini: Huffman. R o-it- had been a member :ht city police force eurht vears *o -.lection as sheriff las* snth. H«? '-va^ installed Monday • , :h; : c unty officers. He w»« his off::«; shortly after 2 a. m.. U: a \~;:1\ driver telephoned to f • h- h;id seen a li?ht burning * :: c station at the corner !!;: a^H Church streets. 7 :r called the two city - and they drove in Rob is:;:'-; c;.r to the station l:---".- r. and Vaughn left th" til - into the station, t. r- net l>y a blaze of shots darkness and both were k instantly. -i " had ; • ained in the av was happening, ran - station broke a window i: \vi a' the two men as they i-- - upe through a beck tr H.:"t : wa■» killed but Kelly 1 -i jref-away. Baliff said 1 t: i d man may have them but he could not I "ure. Ke.lr was serving a 7-12 year t-eace ft. breaking and enter l and Huffman a <>-10 year rtfciice on the same charge at * t;rr.e they escaped from the camp County and city police joined lie search for Kelly but at 9 reported that so far no trace r.a<i Li-en found. ffl PROPAGANDIST CHIEF MAKES BITTER ATTACK ON LUPESCU KRLIX. I)tc. 7. (UP)—The &•" i' '.lairandti Minister * ■' 'H (jut'i'ix'ls yesterday * u ! ? attack on Mine. ^ u, red-haired and -i". charmer of Kinsr 1 H. b\ intimating that she Ha . ■ had a hand in the Rumania's fascist J. 'v-;>aper, Der An a i • ont-pape photo ' I'anuhian Du Bar T- tion which said ■ tic lit" had been as ^ <«•; her titian-red hair, jt 1 accompanying ar j ,a" '• The tale of a king •[ -irl friend." ®jte. L u> for whose love J' > ndered his throne 1 '' idyllic exile, was •■"cu!y with the Bib I . : 1 - y.-' r.or who prevent £ lj " ' Vizier Haman from I. ' ?ews from ancient \\ aitress is Fourth Wife of Millionheir Declaring his marriage h:ul cut him off from sharing the millions j of his socially prominent Chicago family, Potter d'Orsay Palmer is J pictured with the former Louise Abatiello, his fourth wife, outside 1 the Sarasota, Fla., roadhouse inn where, until their recent elope- j ment, she worked as a waitress. MISS JOHNSON IS GIRL SCOUT GOLDEN EAGLE Many Promotions, Awards Made at Tuesday Night Award Court Miss Ruth Lynn Johnson, daughter of Mr.' and Mrs. M. L. Johnson and for four years mem ber of troop on^, Girl Scouts, last night was awarded the Golden Eagle at a Girl Scout court of awards, held at the city high school auditorium and attended by a good sized audience. The girls of troop two joined in the program to pay honor to Hendersonville's first girl to re ceive the Golden Eagle, and nu merous awards and promotions took place. The program opened with a candlelighting service. Mrs. Rob ert Gibbs gave a talk on Scout law, and senior Scouts gave the ten laws, with scriptural quota tions from which they were (Continued on page four) DR. W. R. KIRK HEADS STAFF OF HOSPITAL Dr. Weddington Is Elected j President Henderson Co. Medical Unit Dr. \V. R. Kirk was elected chief ' of staff of the Patton Memorial hospital, and Dr. J. L. Weddington was elected president of the Hen derson County Medical Society as physicians of the city and county were entertained in annual meet ing at the hospital last night. A turkey dinner was served to the doctors by the hospital, and the business meeting followed. Dr. Kirk succeeds Dr. Walter 0. Allen as chief of staff, and Dr. WpfMino-tnn succeeds Dr. J, S. ceeds Dr. F. O. Trotter. Dr. Kirk was named delegate 1 ^ Tr:— to the an muda next May. Plans Laid To Expand Boy Scouts Work In County At Leaders' Dinner Plans for increasing Boy Scout membership in existing city troops, extending Scouting to sec tions of Henderson county where there are at present no troops, and reorganizing some county troops were discussed at a meet ing of Scout workers at troop 4 cabin, Scout center, last night. About 25 attended the meet ing, which opened with a supper, served by John T. Wilkins, Rr., Frank Rozzelle. Bill Bangs, and H. B. Drake, Scoutmasters and assistants. A thorough discussion was con ducted by Nathan Patla. chair man of the district committee, on the various phases of the pro gram, recently outlined by A. W. Allen, Scout executive, of Ashe ville, and adopted by the district committee. . "> R. S. Gibbs, named chairman of a committee to make a survey I of possible locations iui .iC™ troops in the county, stated that his committee was not ready to report. Completion of the survey, bringing city troops up to full membership, organization of new troops along the lines of the sur vey, and reorganization of some existing troops were set as im mediate objectives. Scoutmasters of the entire dis trict will meet monthly for a dis cussion cf mutual problems and an exchange of ideas, and troop committeemen will also attend i these meetings. It was decided to hold the an nual meeting during the week of February 8 to ^15, which will be National Scout week, the 29th an niversary of the movement. The group also discussed the : operation of the Boy Scout Drum ' and Bugle corps. ITALIANS CALL HITLER TO AID COLONY AIMS More Anti-French Demon strations Held in Italian Cities £ INSPECTIONS ARMY BASE IN PROGRESS HOME, Dt-c. 7. (UP)—Anti French demonstrations vtere held today in several big Italian cities as newspapers disclosed that Gen eral Alberta Pariani, undersecre tary of war and army chief of staff, started an inspection of military bases and military estab lishment generally in Sardinia. Demonstrations were staged in Turin, Florence, Naples and oth er cities. Most of the demonstrations were staged by thousands of stu dents who paraded, cheering Hit ler, shouting against France. PARIS, Dec. 7. (UP).—German! Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop last night assured French Foreign Minister Bonnett that Germany does not support any Italian as piration to acquire Tunis and Cor sica, while it was reported here reliably today that Italy has de manded open German support of her unofficially declared, but spectacular pouplar demand for Tunisia and Corsica. The report received that Hitler had received a mes sage from both Mussolini and j Italian Foreign Minister Ciane, i asking support of the Fascist for eign demands. Substantiating Germany's posi tion with regard to the new co- j lonial controversy was the fur- j ther report that Ribbentrop had j gone so far as to tell Bonnett j that Germany had no part in Ital- j ian manifestations regarding j French territory. These developments came on the heels of the signing yester- J day of the Franco-German "no-j more-war' 'treaty in with its i pledge, between these two na-1 tions, "ending our long and his toric dispute." Despite the cordial mission' which brought Adolph Hitler's j "traveling salesmen" to Paris, he was received sullenly on all sides j by the French people, who gave j him neither cheers nor booes as I he rode along the heavily guarded boulevards. Guarded by thousands of Mo bile guards in shiny helmets who surrounded him wherever he turn ed, Ribbentrop was spirited into Paris in a roundabout manner that brought his train into the rarely-used Invalides station to thwart any hostile leftist demon- ( (Continued on page four) TOY MATINEE SATURDAY AI Legion Benefit Event Will Be at Carolina, Mayor Announces The annual Christmas toy mat inee for the benefit of the Amer ican Legion toy campaign will be held on Saturday morning at the Carolina theatre, Mayor A. V. Ed wards announced today. The toy matinee is given each year by the theatre to aid mem bers of the Legion in the collec- ! tion of toys for distribution to children who would otherwise be without Christmas presents. For the past several years, the j Legion has collected toys and re paired them for Christmas distri bution. The theatre management assists each year by the toy mati nee. A good program of picture en tertainment has been prepared for Saturday morning by the Carolina, and the price of admis sion is one toy ior each child or adult. Mayor Edwards today ask ed .that people who attend bring a really good toy,- as all will be used in a very worthy cause. The toys collected by the Le ■ gion are distributed by members of the Auxiliary and are used on | ly in thoroughly investigated I needy cases. Mayor Edwards also asked this morning that people having toys I they wish to give for this purpose call the city hall and the toys will i be collected. NEW REPRESENTATIONS ARE MADE ON GERMAN DECREES AFFECTING AMERICAN JEWS <$> _ Are in Regard to Enforced Liquidation of Business by January 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-— (UP)—Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles today revealed that the United States has made new repre sentations to Germany in connection with the German decrees against Jews. Welles said that the new representations demand ex emption for American na tionals and property from provisions of the recent or der that Jews must abandon the retail business field by the first of the year. WPA R0LLS~DR0P FROM HIGH PEAK WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (UP) —Works Progress Administrator Hopkins today announced that re lief rolls last week continued to decline from their all-time peak reached early in November and dropped to 3,183,418. Hopkins said WPA rolls showed a decrease of 33,088 persons during the week. FSA TO AID FARM flnitt&H SOUTH WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (UP) —The Farm Security Administra tion today prepared to make re habilitation loans to farmers drop ped from WPA rolls in 12 south-! ern states. FSA Administrator W. W. Alex ander said that the new program is designed to get the needy farm-, er on his feet. The amount available or the number of former WPA workers to receive loans was not disclosed. H. S. CONCERT IS ARRANGED Band and Other Units Will Perform Friday Night, December 16 The Hendersonville high school. will give a music concert at the auditorium on Friday night, De cember 16, at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced today. The program will feature the high school band, under the di rection of Julian Helms, the ele mentary school band, also under the direction of Mr. Helms, the high school glee club, and the grammar school rhythm band, both under the direction of Miss Schreyer. The public is invited to attend and the complete program will be announced later. F. R. STUDYING U. S. DEFENSE New Taxes May Not Be Needed; Will Not Make Trip to Lima WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (UP) President Roosevelt disclosed yes terday that he favors financing his; new billion dollar national defense1 program on a pay-as-you-go basis and suggested additional taxation as a means of obtaining this ob jective. He declined, however, to j definitely commit himself to such a course. At his first press conference af ter returning from Warm Springs, Ga., he said he flatly opposes pay ing for the expanded armament program through additional bor rowing. He added that the pro gram has not proceeded beyond the study stage and that no deci- j sion as to the apportionment of costs has been reached. Because defense expenditures I are seldom self-liquidating, he said, he firmly believes that such spending must be paid for from year to year. Following the conference, the White House stressed that Presi-1 (Continued on page four) SANTA TO BE IN CITY AGAIN ONSATURDAY Will Ride Motor-Driven Float; Winners of School Contest Undetermined Santa Claus will return to Hen dersonville Saturday, and in addi tion to his walks about the busi ness districts h** will make two tours of the city in the specially constructed float in which he rode on the occasion of his first visit last Tuesday night. In announcing that the veteran saint will return to Henderso'nville Saturday and on each succeeding Saturday until Christmas, Miss Jennie Bowen, vice-chairman of the merchants division of the chamber of commerce, said Santa was so well pleased with his two previous visits here that he per sonally expressed a desire to make Hendersonville his week-end head quarters. He was in Haywood county today, bat he did not di vulge where he will be Thursday and Friday. Santa's trips in the motor-driv en float are scheduled for 11 a. m. and 'A p. m. Saturday,. and .each will be of a half-hour's duration. While it will be impossible for him to greet little folk while riding, he will spend the rest of the time from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. on the sidewalks of the business districts and, as he did last Saturday, he will shake hands and receive re quests for special gifts to be de livered on Christmas eve. Meanwhile, merchants were pre paring to serve thousands of cus tomers with unusual values in Christmas merchandise. A sub stantial increase in business last Saturday was reported over the corresponding period of last year, while there was evidence this week that many shoppers will do their Christmas buying early. The judges who were to deter (Continued on page three) TO KEEP IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FEAST AT CHURCH ON THURSDAY The Feast of the Immaculate Conception will be celebrated to morrow at the Immaculate Con ception Catholic church, the oc casion being a Day'of Obligation. Services will be held at 7:30 and 8 o'clock in the morning: and a high solemn mass will be cele brated at the church at 10 o'clock in the morning. The celebrant will be the Rev. Nathaniel Osm, of Asheville; the deacon the Rev. A. Rohrbacker, of Waynesville; subdeacon the Rev. Hugh Doland, of Swannan oa; master of ceremonies the Rev. A. Rocette, of West Ashe ville; the preacher will be the Rev. Stephen Sullivan, of Spruce Pine. The music will be the Mass of St. Anthony, and the offertory will be "Maria Salvatoris." The communion will be "0 Lord, I Am Not Worthy," and the reces sional "Mother Dear, Pray For Me." Turner Certified As Constable; He Polled Two Votes Election of T. T. Turner as constable of Crab Creek township was certified today. Mr. Turner was elected by two votes, these beinp written in on the county ticket as there were no formal candidates appearing on the ballot. The two votes were cast in Bowman's Bluff precinct and no votes were cast in Crab Creek. These two boxes constitute the township. ANNA HAMS EXECUTION IS SET TONIGHT Convicted German Poison Murderess Denied Gov ernor's Reprieve COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 7. (UP) Attorneys for Anna Marie Hahn today announced that they were seeking a writ of habeas corpus in United States District court in an effort to halt her execution to night. The habeas corpus action is based on the contention that Mrs. Hahn'a constitutional rights were d^pied wheil.tbe prosecution intro* duped evidence of four, murders instead of one during her trial. A ruling on the application was ex pected this afternoon. COLUMBUS, Dec. 7. 7. (UP). Anna Marie Hahn, convicted blonde poison murderess who was accused of the "mass killings" of four elderly acquaintances, col lapsed in her death row cell last night when her attorney informed her that Governor Martih L. Da vey had ruled she must die in the electric chair tonight. The attractive, 32-year-old Ger man woman sank sobbing into a chair as her attorney, Joseph Hoodin, entered the cell and told her: "I have bad news for you." She nearly fell from the chair, and Hoodin and a prison atten dant caught her. The doomed wo man, who will be the first to die in an electric chair in Ohio, sob bed : "Oh, my God! I didn't think he would do that!" Governor Davey, returning from a trip to New Haven, Conn., safd he had decided there was no (Continued on page three) Warning Issued Not To Destroy Christmas Greens Chief of Police Otis Powers stated today that some merchants had called his attention to the fact that people were breaking and destroying Christmas decora tions on the streets. Any person found destroying such property will be prosecuted, Chief Powers said, and if any person sees any such acts com mitted they are asked to report it to the police department. Nazis Force Jews To Pledge Quick Departure From Reich For Freedom BERLIN, Dec. 7. (UP)—The Nazi Gestapo (secret police) un der Heinrich Himmler is compel ling all imprisoned Jews to sign plederes that they will leave the Reich immediately, in some cases within three weeks, before releas ing them from concentration camps, it was revealed last night. The secret police orders threat ened to wreck plans for the order ly emigration of'Germany's Jews because it is impossible for. thou sands of them to obtain foreign visas within such a short time. As result, it was indicated that many of 700,000 Jews seeking es cape abroad rather than be driven into virtual ghettos would be thrown back into concentration camns when the time limit expires and they have been unable to mi grate. Shortly after the Nov. 10 anti Semitic rioting throughout Ger many it was estimated that be tween 50,000 and 55,000 Jews had been imprisoned, many of them wealthy and influential Jews held as "hostages" for payment of a $400,000,000 collective "fine" and about $200,000,000 in rot dam ages. It was understood that at least 2,000 Jews had signed pledges to leave the Reich immediatelv in or der to obtain their freedom from the prison camps, although they realize that it is virtually impos sible for them to go through the regular emigration procedure within three weeks. A large group, ft was learned, planned to go to Shanghai because no visas are required for China, although discouraging reports have been received by German Jews of the treatment received by Jewa already in China. Others accepted "visitors' per mits" for South America and other countries but many of these are threatened with being stranded abroad when the permits expire. SOLID FRONT IN AGGRESSION BIG OBJECTIVE American Delegation to Eighth Pan American Session Lands HULL TO SEE"HIGH OFFICIALS PROMPTLY LIMA, Peru, Dec. 7. (UP) — The eighth Pan-Americiin confer ence appears certain to endorse in principle President Roosevelt's program of solidarity of the Americas against foreign aggres sion, authoritative sources said today, upon arrival of the United States delegation, headed by Sec retary of State Cordell Hull. After a series of informal con ferences preliminary to opening of formal sessions Friday, it was learned that Brazil expected to introduce a resolution endorsing the United States' viewpoint gen erally. ABOARD S.S. SANTA CLARA, Enroute to Lima, Peru, Dec. 7.— (UP).—Members of the United States delegation to the eighth Pan American conference last night spent their last few hours aboard the Santa Clara in a final discussion of their plans at the parley. The liner was scheduled to dock at Callao, the port of Lima, at 7 a. m. today. The delegates, headed by Sec retary of State Cordell Hull and including Alfred M. Landon, form er Kansas governor and 1930 Re publican presidential candidate, were expected to leave at once by automobile for Lima, where the conference opens Friday. Hull plans to call officially on Foreign Minister Carlos Concha of Petti, as aoon as possible and arrange a vijrit to President Oscar Benavides. Later he will call on the heads of all the delegation* the same as he did at the seventh Pan American conference in Mon evideo, Uruguay, in 1933. F.D.R'S. VIEWS ARE CERTAIN INFLUENCE LIMA, Peru., Dec. 7. (UP).— President Roosevelt's views oti inter • American relations am bound to influence deliberations at the eighth Pan American con ference which opens here Friday, Foreign Minister Julio Tobar Donoso of Ecuador said yester day. Tobar's statement coincided with reports the Brazilian delega tion would sponsor a declaration —not a written pact or resolution —approving a common defense of the western hemisphere against foreign aggression. Such a dec laration, it was believed, would receive unanimous approval and would avoid possible embarrass ing discussions of such a plan as the so-called "Roosevelt doc trine." At the same time, it would ^ place the American nations on record as favoring solidarity of action in the face of aggression from any point. Tobar, who heads the delega tion named by Ecuador only after strong pressure had been brought to bear on the quito government by several South American coun tries and the'United States, said Mr. Roosevelt's "good neighbor" policy "merited the applause of the whole continent." Ecuador hopes the doctrine will help in part to achieve settlement of its long-standing territorial dispute (Continued on page four) •a r* Shopping Doys 10 Till Christmas wC^MUNOHiNG CL€A>JUP OF N&N YOCK.9W T 00KING BACK TO CHRIST ^ MAS 15 TEARS AGO— Santa was being good to Toron to Drs. Banting and MacLeod; they got Nobel Prize for their discovery of insulin. . . . Re formers were launching cleanup of New York gtage. . . i Be cause of change from Julian tn Gregorian calendar, practically whoie Christian world Migrat ed Christmas on same day—Dec. 25—tor first time in three cen turies. . . President Cooiidfe frted 31 war prisoners. *
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