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WEATHER . ,tv cloudy and unsettled to ?",ed Tuesday, possibly light colder. ©hp ©tmes Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population GOOD AFTERNOON The fact the Chinese cat lota of spinach seems hardly worth pass* in* along to Junior just now. 57-No. 296 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS S. AND ARGENTINE AGREE ON DEFENSE .. V V « .» o u " ■« .. -- — -- — -v » w V T v 1 »j» »j» (j« Tritons Are Studying Jap Trade Reprisals h) TO FRANCE PST ITALY ff ASSURED Lnberiain Reveals no Specific Committment I in Existence Like LOSES ONE I ALLY IN ENTENTE OXIV'N. IH-c. 12. U P)—The . . ".nunt experts are reprisals against . eliminating against >r. ::ado in China. It was r,: ay that the govern t made any final de such reprisals but : «... time it was under t' would do so if the States takes similar mea SPECIFIC PACT HELP FRANCE 0NDON. Dec. 12.— (UP) — b: H: itaiti has no specific f> assist France mili ly • - is attacked. Prime : ;: nberlain declared in • commons today. lain replied to a labor r.-. uestion whether any t existed under which Britain required specifically to give rx-: r.ilitary aid in the event : burks on warlike opcra s against France or her pos ons. lYDA THREATENS IZI TACTICS IOME, Dec. 12. (UP)—Vir 10 Gayda, who often serves as r.ier Benito Mussolini's mouth fc, intimated yesterday that j may use the same methods tGermany employed to obtain Czechoslavak Sudetenland un i France agrees to recognize aspirations in the Mediter lyia. writing in the "Voce liia." assailed "French intran »cce and door slamming." If -aid that if "obstinancy continued "the situation I be like October when Ger t■'< national honor was tainted i <he rose determinedly against the forces of intransigeance. The results would not be dif *it in the present case," F<ia warned. Foreign diplomats believed that itisii pressure in the foim of a it-.- admonition from Ambassa t Lord Perth might have been Kiy responsible for a sudden untc-down of anti-French dem otions in Italy. Lor*i Perth, when he conferred * Friday with Foreign Minister or.! Caleazzo Ciano, was under let have urged the "inadvisa <»f any electrification of f atmosphere before the arrival ^rae a month from today, of Prime Minister Neville ■®3er!ain. iCOSLAVIA TURNS KK ON ENTENTE JLGRADE, Dec. 12. (UP)— Mavia Sunday turned her * 'Jp1 - the French-dominated ^ Entente and moved closer ^ Kome-Berlin axis when 3, ^ontinued on page six) (ASTON MEANS SPIRES TODAY rch Crook Succumbs Ait erOperation; Serving 16-Year Term JRINGKIKLD. Mo., Dec. 12 ^ ('a.>ton B. Means, arch , .aster liar and gifted j. '1" . u;.-d parly today. .leral prisoner serv defrauding Mrs. Eva . ' Lean, wealthv Hope V »I. of $104,000. . J v . had been ill for sev J- ;-a!v He was brought here L worth, Kas., peniten l' a uiro for a gall blad Ei He died of a heart .'i' had shown improve - injf critically ill of ^ ' *is operation, it was an 1 night at the U. S. 5^1 center. ^a.n~ *a< sentenced to 16 / ' ' i for swindling Mrs. l.^! aii outgrowth of the fci;Mdnaping. » — Threat to LaGuardia Signed With Swastika and Bullet * As New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was about to preside at an anti-Nazi rally, he received a letter enclosing a bullet, and a threatening note signed with a swastika, both seen above. The note reads: 4,You will get this if you continue to attack the German Nazi Party." Argentine Anti-Fascist Leader In Washington Warned Anonymously To Cease Attacks On Nazi Activities FOUR HCLUB MEETING SET Achievement Day Will Be Observed at Court house Wednesday D. W. Bennett, assistant Hen derson county agent, today called attention to the Four-H Achieve ment day program which has been arranged for all Henderson coun-l ty club members for the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 14. at the courthouse. This meeting will be convened at 9:30 a. m., Mr. Bennett stated, and all Four-H club members in the county are requested to be present as awards for the out standing accomplishments among Four-H boys and girls in the coun ty for 11)38 will be made at that time. NEW YORKERS BUY RESIDENCE B. Weitz Home to Be Oc cupied by Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Williams Sale of the B. Weitz home, at 913 Fourth avenue west, to R. J. Williams, retired business man of Canandaifjua, N. Y., was announc ed today by the Staton Insurance & Realty Co. The purchase price was not made public. - The sale was made for Julius Kahn of Savannah, Ga., who bought the property from Mr. Weitz. Mr. and Mrs. Williams plan to come here shortly and make Hen dersonville their permanent home. MRS. LINN'S MOTHER IS TAKEN BY DEATH Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Linn left today for Washington, D. C., where they were called by the death of Mrs. Linn's mother, Mrs. Sarah Fesperman. Charges Military Assets of 3 Totalitarians in So. America Powerful By OTTO JANSSEN (Copyright, 1938, United Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. (UP) Dr. David Efron, noted Argen tine educator and one of the lead ers of the conference on Pan American democracy now meet ing: here, had been warned anony mously not to continue his at tacks on nazi and fascist penetra tion in Latin America, he disclos ed last night. He said that since the confer ence convened last week he had received numerous telephone calls and letters "advising" lrim to "take it easy." He minimized the threats and attributed them to cranks or people who "want to have fun" with him. At the same time he said that nothing would deter hi mfroni continuing his anti-Fascist work. Efron's organization convened simultaneously with the eighth Pan American conference at Li ma, Peru. At Saturday night's session the educator charged that Germany, Japan and Italy were laying the groundwork for eco nomic and cultural domination of Latin America and that Germany already had 39 "marvelously equipped" airports in South America. He said he is prepared to present documentary proof of his allegations. Efron is now a member of the faculty of Sarah Lawrence col lege at Bronxville, N. Y. He laughed at the warnings and was "convinced they are from crack pots." "They strike me as fun ny," he added. "None of them has been followed up and by the na ture of them it is easy to tell that they are from people who appar ently are tryir.g to have fun." He would not say whether he had called in the police. Last August Efron was ap pointed a member of the Argen tine delegation to the World Youth congress in New York at which he organized national anti fascist committees from each Lat in American nation. The congress appointed him chairman of a centralizing group which coordi nates and directs the work of the committees and works closely with the conference now in session here. Asked why he had interested (Continued on page six). LOOK FOR NAZI1 CONTROL OVER MEMEL SOON Diplomats Look for Lett Town to Become An other Danzig ANNEXATION MIGHT ' HURT UKRAINE AIMS By WALLACE CARROLL Copyright, 1938, by United Press LONDON. Dec. 12. (UP)—Sun day's Memel elections, resulting in a largo German majority in the Lithuanian-held territory, are viewed by diplomats here as a prelude to German control of t"he Memel area. Within the next few months Germany is expected either to "coordinate" Memel with the Reich or to annex it outright. Coordination would give Memel a status similar to that of Danzag. Memel would continue to be the principal channel for Lithuanian imports and exports, as Danzig is the chief port for Poland's foreign trade. But Memel, like Danzig, would be under effective German I control. Observers here believe that Chancellor Adolf Hitler may tem porarily freeze the Memel prob lem in this way if actually he in tends to hunt bigger game in the direction of the Ukraine, as has been reported. They point o^t^at he ca,n take Memel whenever hfe wishes, therefore it would in* frftd policy to risk a world-wide outcry by seizing it just before he under takes a bigger adventure. However, an outcry wouM be his only opposition. After Munich. Great Britain and France certain ly would not seriously concern themselves with small, distant Memel after they had been forced I to swallow German absorption of | Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. And I Lithuania, with present sovereign ty over Memel, is too weak to dream of opposing Germany. Hitler might annex Memel if he thinks it desirable to impress the German people with a new tri umph, but annexation would not I give great economic or strategic advantages to the Reich. Annex I ation would be chiefly useful as a political card inside Germany be-1 (Continued on page six) D. ULIENTHAL! SERIOUSLY ILL May Be Unable to Testify to Committee on Util ity Negotiations WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. (UP) ! J. A. Krug, chief of the TVA pow er planning division today reveal ; ed that TVA Director David Lil ! ienthal is seriously ill here. Krug said Lilienthal was brought here from Knoxville for treatment by specialists. Lilienthal, he add I ed, is suffering from undulant fe ' ver and will probably be unable to testify before the congressional committee regarding negotiations with the Commonwealth & South ern utilities for the purchase of | these private utility holdings. <s May Succeed to Highest Court | Now a federal judge in the Dis- I triet of Columbia, Harold M. I Stephens of Utah is increas- j jngly mentioned as a successor to the late Justice Cardozo of the U. S. supreme court. EMERGENCY IS DECLARED IN j MEMEL AREA! ft Step Taken After Nazi \ Landslide in Vote to Elect Diet MEMEL, Dec. 12. (UP)— Kau-; nas, capital of Lithuania, and Kaunas province were put under a state of emergency as German Nazis celebrated a landslide in yesterday's diet election in Mem el territory. The state of emergency was imposed after a sudden surge of demonstrations by students de manding return to power of ex iled Augustinas Waldemaras, who for years urged close relationship with Germany. Memel territory was taken! from Germany after the World, war and handed to Lithuania. It is now possible that it might be demanded by Germany. Germans swept the diet elec tion decisively. KOVNO, Lithuania, Dec. 12.— j (UP)—The government last night declared a "state of emergency" throughout Lithuania's capital pro vince and reportedly arrested more (Continued on page six) City Ministers To Elect On Tuesday The City Ministerial union will ( meet Tuesday morning at 11! o'clock at the Methodist church, j Rev. Burt Atchison, secretary, an- j nounced today. This meeting will | be featured by the annual elec tion of officers. * SERIAL STORY COPYRIGHT. 1®3» NEA SERVICE, INC. SKI'S THE LIMIT BY ADELAIDE HUMPHRIES CAST OF CHARACTERS SALLY BLAIR—heroine. She had everything that popularity | could win her, except DAN REYNOLDS—hero. He might have had Sally but while he was king on skis COREY PORTER was king of the social whirl. So ... But go cn with the story* CHAPTER I There was really no doubt as to who would be chosen Queen of the Ice Carnival. All bets were on Sally Blair. Sally was the prettiest, the most popular girl to be invited to the winter festival. Sally, herself, would have been more surprised if she had not been chosen than she was when the committee in formed her she had been. As if anyone else could be Queen!" Corey Porter said with smug gratification. For Sally was Corey's girl. For the next few days, anyhow. It was no small feather in Salley's pretty cap to have been invited by Corey, either. Corey was president of his senior class, best fraternity on the campus, keyman. He was the only son of Peterson Porter, the steel magnate, no mean ac complishment in itself. They made a handsome cou ple, Sally and Corey, swinging along, hand in hand, toward the practice hill where contes tants would be getting in trim for the big meet the next day. Sally was as small and dark and sparkling as Corey was big and smooth and fair.. More than one head turned to look at them, more than one remark signaled them out. "There goes Corey Porter, senior president, 1 swell guy!" and, "that's Sally Blair. She was voted the most popular girl in her school and now she's to be Queen of the (Continued on page four) NLRB SUFFERS NEW REBUFF IN HIGHEST COURT New Deal Deficit for An other Year Seen as Estimate Made CROPS CONTROL SUPPORT ON WANE WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. (UP) The NLRB was rebuffed by the supremo court today for the sec ond time within two weeks as the court declined to consider a labor board appeal from the Fifth Cir cuit Court of Appeals decision, setting aside a board order in the maritime labor controversy. NEW DEALTOWANT 8 BILLION MORE COIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. (UP) President Roosevelt's 1940 budget estimates were expected today to call for expenditures of $8,000, 000,000 or more in the next fiscal year and to assure another large treasury deficit. The budget message will be sub mitted to the new congress during the first week of January, prob ably January 4, the day after con gress meets. Budget plans are carefully.kept secret until estimates are read be fore dungreas. But upon the basis of known administration plans it does not now appear possible that Mr. Roosevelt will be able-to bring government costs in the next fis cal year low enough to justify hone for an early budget balance. The current fiscal year is bud geted for revenue of $5,000,270, 000, expenditure of $8,085,157, 600 and a net deficit of approxi mately $4,000,000,000. Fiscal years begin annually on July 1 so that there remain almost seven months of the current pe riod. In the first five months and eight days of this fiscal year the' deficit has increased daily by an average of almost $10,000,000 . and from congressional Republi- j cans and Democrats there is a rising chorus of protest and crit icism. There is no substantial pros pect, however, that congressional criticism will be translated into affirmative action to reduce gov ernment expenditures sufficiently to make any major change in the i condition of the treasure. NEW CROP CONTROL ROW IS LOOMING WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. (UP) I Returns on the AAA referenda anion# cotton, rice and tobaceo | 'rowers promised to precipitate a I ;ongressional controversy over the administration's crop control program. Returns showed cotton growers looted to invoke marketing re strictions on the 1939 crop by a smaller majority than last year ►vhile flue-cured tobacco and rice growers rejected quotas on their :rops. Administration officials jlaimed that approval of cotton quotas indicated approval of the idministration's program. Opponents contended the re iection of rice and tobacco quo tas and decreased percentage ap proving . cotton quotas showed that farmers are losing faith in the crop program. BALFOURMAN HURT IN WRECK Eugene Parkinson, of near Balfour, was in Patton Memorial hospital today as a result of in juries sustained early Sunday morning when a Ford car he was driving j^as in collision with a large truck, operated by The Transportation, Inc., in front of the Balfcur school on the Ashe ville-Hendersonville highway. Parkinson's injuries were not believed serious. He suffered bruises and cuts about the head and face. Officers who investigated the wreck said that Parkinson had j left his home, turned into the highway from his driveway, and was proceeding toward Hender sonville. The truck was proceed ing toward Asheville. Both cars were badly damaged. The name of the driver of the truck'was not learned this morn ing. ? Scene of Latest Russo-Jap Crisis I :—; • . I j Map shows the nshing areas | where Russia has refused to re | new leases extremely important to Japan. FRANCE MOVES TO TIGHTEN ITS] GRIP ON TUNIS Would Bar Further Italian Immigration; Strengthen Army Posts By REYNOLDS PACKARD (Copyright, 1938, United Prc«») TUNIS, French North Africa. Dec. 12. (UP)—Resident General Erik Labonne and a corps of col onial experts yesterday formally recommended immediate restric tion of Italian immigration and a strengthening of French mili tary establishments in Tunisia to cope with Italy's territorial aspi rations. "In view of today's present co lonial policy French influence must be reinforced and protective measures taken against Tunisia becoming over-populated with Italians," said a report dispatched to the government in Paris. The recommendations, in the form of a 29-page report trans mitted to Premier Edouard Dala dier, took a serious view of the Italian demands which precipitat ed week-long disorders and riot ing in the streets of Tunis. The commission under Resi dent General Labonne said that although Tunisia is only a pro tectorate, it must be "considered to be part of the French North African empire" because "Tunisia is the first line of defense of France." It was understood on authority that the report would be follow ed by another, drafted by mili tary leaders, urging an increase in Tunisia's coastal fortifications because Tunisia "is most likely to be tbe target of an Italian at tack in the near future." The report sent to Paris today recommends that every inch of Tunisia as well as all other French possessions in North Af rica be "held at all costs." Regarding immigration, the re port suggests that severe restric tions be placed upon Italian citi zens both from the Italian main land and from Italian Tripoli. "Italian colonists in Tunisia have more cohesive character than the French population which has become heterogeneous as result of liberal naturalization measures (Continued on page six) T. C . Johnson Out After Accident T. C. Johnson, 17, delivery boy, was discharged from Patton Memorial hospital yesterday after being treated on Saturday night for injuries sustained when hit by an automobile driven by Mrs. Velma Hall, in Druid Hills. He was riding a bicycle at the time. Mrs. Hall carried the lad to the hospital. He is the son of Mrs. J. B. Sherman. . _ i AMERICAS TO UNITE AGAINST AGGRESSIONS Solemn Warning Will Be Given World Attempts To Be Resisted LANDS, INTflTUTIONS TO BE PROTECTED LIMA, Peru, Dec. 12. (UP)— The United States and Argentina agreed on the outstanding objec tive of the Eighth Pan-American conference. The agreement is for a solemn and forceful warning to the world by 21 American nations to resist as one any attempt at aggression or any outside attempt to subvert American political in stitutions. Jose Maria Cantila, Argentine foreign minister, will leave for Buenos Aires tonight after in structing the Argentine delegation to the conference so as to permit rapid translation into action of the agreement for a definition of the common American defense front. PAN AMERICA MEET FACES BUSY WEEK LIMA, Peru, Dec. 12. (UP) — U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull will propose to the eighth Pan American conference a plan of consultative action among all the American republics for a com mon defense of democracy in the western hemisphere, it was re ported last night. Although members of the Unit ed States delegation were silent regarding the proposal, it was un derstood to envisage not only the possibility of armed aggression from outside the new world but also attempts to implant un American political systems. In such event, according to the plan, the 21 American nations would consult among themselves regardfag-tto best way to defend themselves. The project, based on the con sultative system created at ti o inter-American peace conference in Buenos Aires in 1936, will n >t provide for a formal defense agreement, although such would be implied in the wording. A for mal treaty of defense would find little support among the South American countries, and Hull, ac quainted by experience with the attitude of those countries, was not expected to preae for such a pact. The Argentine delegation also was understood to have a consul tative plan, not quite as broad as the United States proposal, and including meetings among the for eign ministers of the American republics not only for discussion of political problems but cultural and economic ones as well. On the eve of what is expect ed to be the busiest week of the entire conference, it also was re ported the delegates, united on a pace program for this part of the world, would be asked to seek an extended armistice in the Spanish civil war leading to ultimate set tlement of that conflict. According to an unimpeachable private source, the Chilean dele gation has consulted with other representatives regarding a reso lution to be introduced calling for a suspension of hostilities in Spain. The Chileans, it was said, seek to have the resolution offered as the joint action of the 21 Ameri can republics at the conference. AH the new worl dcountries, un der the Chilean scheme, would of (Continued on page six). n Shopping Days Till Christmas bmCY W3*lY»MG -TO Mexico 4»AM6ASSAP0»CF GOOP Wiuu* T OOK1NO BACK TO CHKIST ^ MAS 11 YEAKS AGO— Lindy was flylnf to Mexico as ambassador of food will. . . . Mayor "Bif Bill" Thompson of • Chicago was shaking his fist at King Georgia. . t . Old-timers in sports were mourning death of Young Griffo. . . . Music lovers delighted over new child prodigy, Yehudi Menuhtn, 10. . . . Death of 40 young men when ' Submarine S-4 wa* sunk la Cape Cod Bay cast pali on holiday seasoa
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