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GOOD AFTERNOON
The fact the Chinese cat lota of
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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
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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
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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).
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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