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WEATHER r. I0.j,fct: Ii»l« change in , r*l( ,„ie Sunday, increasing he** *,i«ht,y warmer' M feS ^ ra,n Largest Daify GOOD AFTERNOON Tbo ptflUtt notorlct U tfi« biH who mM "Com# I®" when •yr him oagtite knocked. Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population M>L 57—No. 295 HENDERSONVILLE, N/C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS -*-Tf ^ * * * 1 * * * 3fi Jf, 9f. T emocracies Must Defend Selves—Eden klMN WILL jHND BY u. s. IE IMPLIES vs New Form of State, Totalitarianism Threat ens Man Himself atesman~has big new YORK OVATION j;v\v YORK. Dec. 10. (LP).— j." .-v Eiion. who resigned as minister because government's policy of fcr with dictators, disclosed pv :har r.e :> visiting the Uni -ten and learn the x v ■ oir.t on the perils 7 .. . v". ac>. He sa\i j'-sit had no political signifi rv.-.r. K.i. I. - niSht warned >-at- that democrac , must .10 tend themselves rnst the ' of totalitarianism i implied that Britain will f.d with this country in such a [\fter rt udiatiug the notion of tevitabilitv of war" and with t nam mi: Germany or Italy,— [ niainl»" referring to them— r (ii'u'a ed that it was possi i • ciievers in democracy common resistance to 'm* torm of odolatry" and its uar.ate and ruthless devo r'v- t . ved in New York aft i oveathtaking race against n-, leaving the Cunard-W hite ir Imer acouitiinia at (|Uaian e, speeding to shore in a coast a;.] . . '.r :"i was whisked up tr. tr.: Waldorf Astoria ho • keep a speaking date he re 400i> members of the Nation A- ,i<>f Manufacturers ii their guests. 5> ■ivr.'eh was carefully word ,ri curtained no implication tr that Britain was ready to war or even feared one, but r. d»-d as an unmistak K ar.ee of Briti.-h solidar t■ democratic bloc and endorsement of Presi :: >sevelt's iapel Hill Kr. >n democracies. N • we callin gout for fo • • • rs, nor seeking to r? • -> -n pull our chestnuts ic the fire," he Debonair csg >• •• >man declared. ">V r.,iV' no such intention." 3'/. warned that the "test i • democracies was at f a*, the world was t w::h 'ruthless and cha chal policies in which "force the only instrument ■ ^Ji.cy." 'a •.• :!ed bi dfor a "com 13:r r.•" ■ >: lemocratic powers, tr.at nations holding to ' : ideal" prepare to &.,j - *1 bo . that if we are de tr.at it (democracy) t survive, it will survive," he * "But if we are not so de ay well perish." |*n came here w ith the "ap Pt British govern V alth he resigned from I ther tha ngo along P : Minister Neville Vtiliin's policy of dealing Pthe dictators. He avoided in VRntinued on page three) 1R TUXEDO PEOPLE HURT ^tars of Taylor Family ® Hospital After Car Rolls Down Bank •'Ur Tux residents, all mem 'J- or.o family, were in Pat l 1 •';«! hospital today after t4utomobile in which they were turntfi o' er down an em f^'nt or. tne Greenville high ^ miles south of Hen l r"' e vesterday afternoon [»• * o'clock. re.!Rjui' (i are: B. D. Taylor, Pv r-'Urv and shock: Mrs. Tay L 5r°*en arm; Miss Frances -alp injuries, and K, S8'e Taylor, 18, scalp in iy was en route to Hen t,.; ' >' the time of the ac J- A (ked front wheel was V e and the car failed ^ *'■ a curve, rolled down a ^ • :! ment, turning: over h finally lodged against a Charge Klansmen War Upon C. 1.0. fh-r'"* Farnhardt -y— ... " •»•?• Pierce Toney C.I.O. organizer Charles Earn- J hardt charges Ku Klux Klan violence against organization of mill workers in Georgia, de clares men in Klan robes beat Pierce Toney, a weaver, in in timidation attempt near Atlanta. S DEAD. I HURT INS. CAROLINA AUTO CRASHES Massachusetts R e s i dents Die in Separate Acci dents There BISHOPVILLE, S. C.. Dec. 10. (UP)—Four persons were killed yesterday in the collision of two automobiles on the highway ten miles from here. Dead: Mr. and Mrs. Zelia Casey, of Andover, Mass. Cecil Peebles, 19, who resided near here. An unidentified negro. The Casey and the Peebles au tomobiles collided. The negro was a pedestrian. A daughter of the Casey couple was injured and was taken to a Florence, S. C., hos pital. R1DGELAND CRASH LAID TO BLOWOUT RIDGELAND, S. C., Dec. 10.— (UP)—Two men were killed and another injured critically yester (Continued on page three) DODD STATES ALLIES AND U. S. POST-WAR CONDUCT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HITLER SNOWTASSES" BY ON FRIDAY Raw and Rainy Here While 2 to 3 Inch Snows Fall in the County Eastern sections of Henderson county experienced a heavy snow fall yesterday afternoon, the sec ond of the winter here, but no snow fell in the city and western sections. A snowfall of two to three in ches was reported from the Fruit land, Hat Cave and Edneyville sections, and a two-inch fall was recorded in Asheville. The day was raw and rainy in Hendersonville. slightly less than half an inch o^rain being record ed. The temperature fell rapidly in the afternoon and reached 34 degrees at 6 p. m. Yesterday's weather figures were as follows: Low temperature last night—29 degrees. FRIDAY Maximum — 4G degrees. Mini mum—34 degrees. Mean—40 de grees. Day's range—12 degrees. Rainfall—.34 inch. Normal mean temperature for December—39.3 degrees. Rainfall to date—.40 inch. Normal rainfall—5.46 inches. MANY CALL AT NURSES HOME Visitors See Addition to Hospital Plant; Are Greatly Pleased Patton Memorial hospital kept open house yesterday afternoon and last night, the occasion being the formal opening and public in spection of the new nurses' home. Between 150 and 175 guests called between 3 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon and 7 and 9 o'clock last night. Members of the hospital board greeted the visitors and showed them through the building. With out exception, visitors were de lighted with this new addition to the hospital plant, members of the board said today. The new building, a two-story brick structure, was built at a cost of about $10,000. It has been oc cupied for some time and fills a long felt need at the hospital. The building contains a living room, kitchen and living quarters on the first floor, and living quar ters on the second floor. Furnish ings are entirely new and modern. WALSH FOR DEFENSE WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 9. (UP)—U. S. Senator David I. Walsh, D., Mass., yesterday urg ed that the nation's army, navy and air force be strengthened so that every other nation will re spect us in peace and fear us in war." LEFTISTS FAIL TO DEFEAT DALADIER BUT FUTURE YET IS UNCERTAIN FOR PREMIER PARIS. Dcc. 10. (UP)—Pre mier Edouard Daladier early to day won by a vote of 315 to 241 chamber of deputies backing for his drastic reform decrees after a two-day fiery debate on the is sue of life or death for his gov ernment. The vote came after stormy scenes in the chamber. Only the intervention of neu tral deputies prevented a free for-all fight between nationalists and socialists as result of contin ual heckling of former Leftist Premier Leon Blum by the na tionalists during Blum's attempts to speak. The meeting was suspended for 20 minutes becuase of threaten ed violence and, when debate was resumed, Blum said it was evident there was "a new line of divi sion" — meaning the socialists now definitely had joined the opposition. Daladier, whose reform decrees and handling of the general strike aroused leftists opposition, won out on the vote of confidence due to the support of the conserva tive wing- parties. His majority of 74 was slightly larger than had been predicted. Fifty three deputies abstained from voting. Despite the majority, Daladier was not assured of permanent support of rightists for his three year recovery program, designed to pull France toward prosperity and armed strength mainly by hiked taxes, longer hours for la bor and broadened government powers. Conservatives and nationalists —rightist blocs — warned the prime minister that despite their support on the immediate domes continued on page six). Gives Background of Euro pean Strain at Rally * Opposing Oppression NEW YORK, Dec. 10. (UP) — William E. Dodd, former ambas sador to Germany last night told a citizens rally against oppression that the procedure of the United States and the* Allies after the World war was responsible for Adolf Hitler. The meeting called by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, crowded Carnegie Hall to its capacity of 3,780 persons. Many stood out" side, unable to get in. The mayor, who yesterday re ceived a death threat for his antf Nazi activities, was guarded by it special detail of police. He was given an ovation by the gather ing. Dodd, presenting "some of the historical background and the current developments which I had the opportunity to observe per sonally for over four years, lead ing up to Hitler's rise to power and our civilization's dilemma,"! said: "Alter tne mcrcaiDie carnage and economic bankruptcy result ing from the World war, when all nations and all peoples wished to outlaw war forever, the League of Nations which Wilson had per* suaded France and England td agree to in the treaty of Ver sailles, was set up. "It was asked by Democratic Germany to limit the armaqpenifij | of all "nations as she was limiteaT "But American manufacturers, especially munitions makers, had secret representatives in Geneva to defeat the legal request of Germany. One company paid its secret spokesman there $25,000," | Dodd said. "The French and English arm ament manufacturers did the same so they could sell arms and other supplies to Germany and Italy. "Wilson was thus defeated on his major points, and the League of Nations became an ineffectual instrument," he said. "Thus de mocracies became subjected to grave dangers. "The most important conse quence of our procedure after the World war is the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler curiously enough, our country did more than any other to break down the German democracy, our leaders seemingly unconscious of what liberal Ger mans have done for us." Dodd urged that the democra cies unite to "prevent Hitler's re gime from enduring." "There is only one hope for peace," he said. "That is for the peoples of England. France, the United States and all other coun tries ready to cooperate in peace efforts, to join in action against fascism, an action more aggres sive and constructive than has been done up to the present. "These peoples must take mili tant action and not allow their leaders to further betray their in terests and the interests of the world in another Munich pact." Dodd declared that "economic aggression, if not political, in South America is the next Nazi plan. Espionage and an attemnt to undermine American democ racy is the plan for this country 1 as has been amply proved in the recent investigation of the dan gerous fascist spy ring here." Called as a citizens' rally against oppression of all races and (Continued on page three) MRS, BISHOP OF BREVARD DIES I . I Rites From Baptist Church I There Sunday at 2:30 P. M. ' BREVARD. Dec. 10.—Mrs. W. E. Bishop. 75, died here this morn ing at 3 o'clock after an illness of I two weeks. Death was ascribed to heart trouble. Funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Brevard Baptist church, with Rev. Y. C. Elliott and Rev. E. P. Dillups officiating;. Burial i will follow in Oak Grove cemetery, North Brevard. i Mrs. Bishop was the widow of, W. E. Bishop, prominent Brevard business man, who died in 1924. She is survived by one daughter, I Mrs. C. S. Osborne, with whom she made her home, and a number of, 1 brothers and sisters. REBELS FORM FOR BIGGEST DRIVE OF WAR Gen. Franco to Use 200, 000 Troops and Large Air Fleet GREATEST SECRECY SURROUNDS PLANS By HARRISON LA ROCHE ! HENDAYE, Franco - Spanish | Frontier, Dec. 10. (UP)—Reports seeping across the sealed frontier from insurgent Spain today said Generalissimo Francisco Franco is organizing the biggest offen sive of the entire civil war, in volving more than 200,000 troops and a large air fleet. The massing of insurgent strength for the anticipated ma jor offensive picked up speed during the day with movement of reinforcements from Saragossa toward Tamarite and Candasnas and the arrival at Logrono, 185 miles west of Barcelona, of mo torized units from Seville in the , south. surgent Pyrenees border from the Bay of Biscay to Andorra, took all precautions to surround his preparations with secrecy and there was nothing to indicate when the offensive would be launched or its definite objec tive. i Some frontier reports indicated the drive might be delayed until ; J^39, permitting an informal"1 Christmas truce in the front lines. From the nature of Franco's j troop movements military observ-; ers at the frontier believed that the insurgents would attempt to drive a wedge into the loyalist Catalonian lines east of the Ebro I and Secre rivers. If the offensive is hurled east ward from Lerida it probably will mark Barcelona, the loyalist capital, as the objective. A lull in Franco's heavy aerial bombardments of the loyalist east coast was attributed to his with drawal of combat squadrons from the eastern seaboard for rest and repairs in readiness for the new offensive. It was reported that in addi tion to 200,000 front line and re-1 serve troops, Franco would use ' more than 300 fighting and bomb-1 ing planes, 250 tanks and more than 400 field pieces. The frontier was closed today to all except Spaniards on offi cial business. NO NAZI AID FOR DUCE SEEN Paris Hears Hitler to Keep Silent on Colonies Restoration PARIS, Dec. 10. (UP)—Diplo-' mat?c reports reaching Paris last night indicated that Chancellor Adolf Hitler would withhold any active support of Italy's anti French aspirations in the Medi terranean and probably maintain a discreet silence, reliable inform ants said. These reports, heartening to the French government, followed Foreign Minister Georges Bon-, net's outright question to Ger man Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop as to Germany's; attitude toward the rising Italo Frcnch tension. Before Ribbentrop left for Berlin early Thursday, to confer! with Hitler after signing a new "no-more-war" agreement with France, he was asked what course 1 Der Fuehrer would follow if the Italian demands for French ter ritories should ultimately lead to | war. It was understood here thttf Hitler is unlikely actively to back up Italian aspirations in regard , to Djibouti, Tunisia or Corsica al though he can not be expected j to say anything publicly which' might harm Italy's stand or lead to speculation of a rupture of the Rome-Berlin axis. Hitler's position was said in Berlin dispatches to be made more difficult by the fact that he is unable to back any Italian claim based on the presence of 94,000 Italians in Tunisia, inas much as when he took over a portion of Czechoslovakia, he ac-, quired a Czech minority of 500, 000 persons. V Peru Welcomes Brazil's Leader An early caller on U. S. Secretary of State Hull in Lima, Peru, says Alfranio de Mello Franco (in light overcoat), shown getting Peru's official welcome. He heads Brazil's delegation to the Eighth Pan American Conference. Fear Week - End Outbreaks Among Tunis Partisans I TUNIS, Dcc. 10. (UP).—Po lice and mobile guards took spe-1 cial precautions to prevent week end outbreaks by French and Ital ian partisans. Despite semi-official reports of an agreement between French and Italian popular leaders to dis- , ontinue street demonstrations it was persistently reported that Frenchmen, Arabs and Italians are all planning monster manifes tations and authorities feared new clashes. Rankin Testifies In Favor Of TVA WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (UP) Representative Rankin (D., Miss.), co-author of the Tennes see Valley-authority act, claimed today that the TVA power yard stick had resulted in an annual, saving of $556,000,000 to cus-! tomers of electricity. He testified before the joint congressional committee investi- \ gating the New Deal power agen- \ cy. -• Rankin promised that savings I to consumers would increase as j the TVA yardstick develops. 1 BAR REQUESTS COUNTY COURT BE renewed; Recommends 0. B. Crowell for Recorder; Arthur Shepherd for Solicitor The Henderson County Bar as sociation yesterday recommended the re-establishment of the Hen derson county recorder's court. In a session at the court house lasting about two hours and a half, the association, as previously pre dicted, favored the setting up of the court by legislative enactment and not by resolution of the coun ty commissioners, with the first court officers to be named in the legislative act for four-year terms and officers to be elected there after. The bar recommended 0. B. Crowell to be judge of the court and Arthur B. Shepherd, who completed a term as solicitor on December 5, to be solicitor. The bar also recommended re appointment of Mrs. H. E. Higgins as court reporter for the superior court. A special committee, appointed some time ago to study the court question, reported yesterday that the cost of cas- s in recorder's court was $12.44 as compared to .(Continued on page three) TOKYO IS PROTESTING SOVIET EFFORT TO EXPEL JAPS FROM SAKHALIN; FUNDING NEW WAR I TOKYO, Dec. 10. — (UP) — Domei News Agency today re ported that the supplementary budget estimates which army and navy leaders are compiling might amount to six billion yen (more than one billion and half dollars) "because of the necessity of pre paring against simultaneous hos tilities with China and the Soviet Union." Coincidentally, the government! created a new post of inspector i general of military aviation and announced it intended to pay in creasing attention to aviation. Relations with Russia took an other turn for the worse as the foreign office made known that' a clash threatened in the Russian end of the Sakhalin island where it is alleged Russia is trying to expel Japanese oil workers. As regards the fisheries dig-J pute officials asserted that Japan' intended to continue fishing off I the Siberian coast even if Rus-1 sian leases are not renewed and | fishing ships have to be protect ed by armed patrol, if necessary. Soviet authorities attempted to expel 67 Japanese oil workers from the Katangwi fields of North Saghalien island today. A foreign office spokesman said that the Japanese workers had refused to leave the fields and that a clash was feared. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita has telegraphed the Japanese am bassador in Moscow to deliver an immediate protest to the Soviet government. (Saghalien island, called by the Japanese Karafuto, is owned jointly by Russia and Japan. The oil fields, in the Soviet northern half of the island, are operated by Japan under agreements with 1 (Continued on page six) 1 FORCEFUL AND BINDING STEPS CONSIDERED Sentiment for Defense Is Outrunning U. S.-Ar gentine Proposals JEWISH SITUATION ABROAD INJECTED Copyright, 1038, by United Preat LIMA. Dec. 10. (UP)—Prelim inary conversations designed to effect an accord between the Unit ed States, Argentina and other principal American powers on a common American defense front have advanced to a point, it was learned last night, where Secre tary of State Cordell Hull alrendy has submitted a project providing for a forceful and binding agree ment between the American na tions. The proposed agreement would repel not only any aggression by a non-American country but also any attempt to implant upon the American continent any foreign system of ideology which is con flict with the American political system. The very force of Secretary Hull's project, which, it is under stood, has been submitted to cer tain leading delegates to the Pan American conference here, has caused a semi-sensation under the surface routine of social proceed ings preliminary to the formal opening of the conference. As a matter of fact it is pos sible that Secretary Hull's project goes so far that it may threaten an agreement In principle between the United States and Argentina which was rapidly crystallizing into a complete accord along linen whereby the conference, within a few days, would have announced a formal consecration of a eom ttiott American front against for eign ideological interference in American affairs or foreign ag gression. The reason for this danger i« that the project which Secretary Hull now nas submitted to certain leading delegates seems to tr'-> much farther than the formal dec laration to which Argentina al ready had agreed in principle.. DENUNCIATION OF PERSECUTION SOUGHT LIMA, Peru, Dec. 10. (UP)— Persecution of Jews in Germany was injected into the Eighth Pan American Conference* last night when th« parley, its sessions for mally opened by President Oscar R. Benavides of Pern, was asked to denounce attacks on racial and religious groups. The Cuban delegation, headed by Secretary of State Juan J. Re mos, made public a resolution con* demning persecutions of a "collec tive character" because of racial or religious motives which result in depriving the victims of the right to Hve "honorably." Although the resolution did not name Germany directly, the infer ence was unmistakable. It was understood the resolu (Continued on page three) RESERVE OFFICERS MEET MONDAY EVE Aohouncement was made today that tha reserve officers will meet in the city hall Monday night, Dec. 12, at 7:30 o'clock for a program of discussion, the topic of which will be "Supplies." >V. A. Franklin will be in charge. The meeting time for this program has been chahged from Wednes day to Monday night. rTMOQZH •1 O Shopping Days 1 mk Till Christmas fOOHS Of VVH15KY ^itPteiue coucr ruling--#* T OOKING BACK TO CHRIST' Ai MAS It YEARS AGO— A R-w strong man, Chiang Kai shek, was rising In China. . . . Supreme Court authorized doc tors to prescribe "not more than three tablespoonsful of whisky a day.". . It was a merry Christmas for Albert B. FaJ! and Edward L. Doheny, just acquitted of conspiracy to de fraud the government. . . . Radio fans could tell that tunc was "Silent Night"; a new cir cuit eliminated the radio howl.
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