WEATHER
„_ifv fair and considerably
toni*Ht; Wednesday in
cloudiness, possibly fol
pin* w
j by ra,n*
aiimm
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
By the tin* a modern boy it old
enough to sell paper*, he's almost
old enough to he * college presi
57—-No. 297
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
[DEN LOOKS TO BRITO-U.
I * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
S. COOPERATION
* * * * * * * * *
jma Parley May Protest Racial Persecution
II CONSIDER
WTED FRONT
KLARATION
late Negotiations To
lard lr. S. Aims Move
I Forward Smoothly
IeNTINE, MEXICO
I WORK IN HARMONY
MA. Dec. 13. (UP)—The
i -American conference
: ..i«.-vi to take up resolu
.totin* racial persecution
.foreign political
• * i ruled to influence
life of any of the
..." republics.
. . private negotiations
v-. toward broad declara
■v:th the United States
united opposition to
. < : ican military or po
nvasi n of this hemisphere.
MA. Peru, Dec. 13. (UP) —
' the Kighth Pan Amer
once were asked last
: : a:)prove a joint declara
thit the 21 American repub
u . • resent a common front
>: foreign armed aggression
to implant un-demo
; y. -tems in the western hem
it declaration, which would in
:. ve a multilateral character
(Monroe Doctrine, was draft
• .e Argentine ajsd Mexican
ttiona after Fore-en Minister
Mai ia Caotilo id Argentina
U. S. Secretary of State Cor
Hull had agreed on it> * >rrr..
ie Arge^thes and Mexican>
! 'o obtain support of other
rations in order to harmonize
'• .points and assure unani
s support for the declaration
: * is submitted to the plen
-sion. The draft declaration
referred first to the Com
» on the Organization ot
!■ headed hv Afranio Mellc
P) of Brazil, which include
r: G v. Alfred M. Landon of
is as United States represen
: It was expected t'» be in
t • • presentation at Wednes
•* '!' conference meeting,
declaration will be based
- ^inal draft of a hemi
r.cKi defense pact which Hull
ti offer the coriference
: was understood, will retain
original force of the
4 ted States project. It
: ■ -siblc only after Hull
1 .irtiio had reconciled the
• : *> "t their countries re
r.tinental defense. Hull
V: dentine demands that
•'•::nai pact or alliance be of
r. Terence. and Car;tilo.
• ••:'t lute yesterday afternoon
■ trip to Buenos Aires
»•". the Argentine cruiser Al
a •'•n. agreed to sum port
' n embodying the prin
* inter-American defense
■' ! re>.n attacks or attempts
5- t American political in
&ons.
■■1'ies repudiating armed ag
'Untinued on page three)
H.S. Will Hear
Noted Tenor
Scott on Assembly
^ogram Thursday
Scitt company, styled
' ru is in the modern
• >unced to appear
houl assembly hour
' * December 15,
at the city high
to!.
',/ vvtii known tenor of
| : \<hevjlle. has-sung
' u-o Civic Light Op
, . has appeared on
>; • ms.
nance is under the
■ assembly program
■f 'he hitch school and
from the nominal ad
' • " used in the fur
ther assembly pro
Trade Boom
to More Months
i: miTdc'c. 13. (UP)
j, 1 .'(1 P. Ayers, vice
t statistician of the
,. ' company, said to
i. : .can business would
through half of
-lump in the latter
t t ..it the nation need
utftation next year.
Where Italy and France Snarl Over Rich Colony
CARL BARHAM!
IS HELD UNDERi
I NEW CHARGES
Under Peace Bonds, Is
Charged With Assault
in Brickton Cases
Carl Barham, of Brickton, pre-;
viously under $500 bond on a
charge of shooting Page Williams,
i colored, with a pistol, was bound
to superior court under $300 bond
on charges of assault with deadly
weapon by Magistrate W. P. Whit
niire yesterday afternoon and
placed under two peace bonds of
$300 each by Magistrate W.. L.
Mill^- at the same hearing.
Four additional charges of as-/
sault with deadly weapon with in
tent to kill, and one charge of
carrying a concealed weapon, are
to be heard before Magistrate Guy
Jordan on next Monday morning.
Charges against Barham grew
out of an incident on Saturday
nisrht, when he is alleged to have
entered a place of business op
erated by Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Westall, near Brickton, and threat
ened them and a number of cus
tomers with a pistol.
Barham was arrested by mem
bers of the sheriff's department on
Saturday night and is now in jail
in default of combined bonds in
the sum of $1,400.
According to testimony offered
at the combined hearings before
Magistrates Whitmire and Miller
(Continued on uatre three)
ITALIANS BKOAUtN DtMANltt
ON FRANCE THROUGH PRESS
Say Status French Port,
Ethiopian Gateway, Must
Be Fully Examined
ROME, Dec. 13. (UP). —Pre
mier Benito Mussolini's unofficial
spokesman, Virgin io Gayda of
the "Gioranale D'ltalia," yester
day added a second point to the
informal Italian demands against
France when he announced that
the status of the French port of
Djibouti—gateway to Italian Ethi
opia—must be examined "in all
its aspects."
Gayda's newspaper, which fre
quently speaks for II Duce, on
Saturday demanded an Italian
share in control of the Suez canal
as one of the main points of
Italy's "Natural aspirations"
spoken of by Foreign Minister
Count Galeazzo Ciano in the
Chamber of deputies.
Diplomats understood Musso
lini would refrain from official
endorsement of the Italian de
mands for a "place in the African
sun" at France's expense until
after he talks with British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain,
who arrives in Rome early in
January.
In connection with Gayda's de
mands, foreign observers saw
sharp significance in a statement
by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's
newspaper in Berlin, the Voel
kischer Beobachter, that "there is
no just defense for Germany,
Italy and Japan not being repre
sented on. the board," of the
(Continued on page three)
Morgenthau Scans Problem Of South
American Loans To Promote Trade
WASHINGTON, Doc. 13. (UP).
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
' Morgenthau, Jr., yesterday, re
vealed that he is studying the
problem of this country extend
ing loans to J.atin American
states to enable them to increase
purchases of American goods.
He said the study is being made
with the knowledge and consent
i of President Roosevelt and Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull. Any
action he explained, will be co
ordinated with functions held by
other governmental credit agen
. cies such as the export-import
I bank.
He indicated that one of the
pressing needs of the moment is
' to make available adequate for
! eign exchunge to the Latin-Amer
ican nations. The question of di
rect loans by the treasury to
those countries, he added, would
require congressional sanction.
"Anything we would want to
do which would be a departure
j from our legal authority, will nat
urally be submitted to congress,"
he told newspapermen.
He revealed also that Brazil,
which has had a monetary ar
rangement for two years with the
treasury under which she could
| purchase American gold, recently
bought a small quantity of the
metal for the first time since the
agreement was negotiated.
There was considerable agita
i (Continued on page three)
ME PROGRAM
IS PLANNED BY
CITY MINISTERS
Rev. George Pennell Elect
ed President of Local
Group Today
The City Ministers' association
met this morning at the First
Methodist church and held its an
nual election of officers, choos
ing:
President—Rev. Geo. T. Pen
nell.
Vice president—Rev. Bert At
chison.
Secretary — Rev. J. Arthur
Linn.
The association members voted |
to ask the churches of the city
to dismiss somewhat before the
regular time on Christmas, Sun
day morning and ask their mem
bers attend the community Christ
mas tree.
This tree will be at a downtown
point, and the ministers of the as
sociation are arranging a special
program for this occasion.
Warrants For 3 In
i Alleged Shortage
NEW YORK. Dec. 13. (UP)—
United States Commissioner Gar
rett Cotter today issued warrants
for the arrest of Donald Coster,
president of McKesson & Robbins,
Inc., and two other persons in
connection with the alleged short
age of $18,000,000 in the drug
company's listed assets.
ACTRESS TESTIFIES
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 13. (UP)
Ruth Ettintf testified that Martin
(Moe the Gimp) Snyder threaten
ed to kill her and his daughter,
Edith Snyder, when he stormed
into the home of Myrl Alderman,
her young fiance, last October 15,
and shot him. She was testifying
in Snyder's trial on a charge
; attempted murder in connection
1 with the shooting of Alderman.
COOPER FOE OF
BROAD PROFIT
SHARING PLAN
A. T. & T. Head Says It
Would Defeat Own Aims
as National Policy
REORGANIZATION TO I
BE SPLIT PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (UP)
•Charles P. Cooper, vice-president
of the American Telephone and
Telegraph company, today opposed
profit sharing as a national policy
and condemned incentive taxation
as unsound.
Testifying before the senate
findhce sub-committee, Cooper said
"we do not want to be understood
as advocating abolition of profit
sharing in those cases where it has
been found satisfactory and help
ful to both employes and employ
er. Our view is that for industry
as a whole, profit sharing as a na
tional policy would not be help
ful."
REORGANIZATION BY
PIECEMEAL SEEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (UP)
Administration leaders yesterday
agreed tentatively to revive Presi-(
dent Roosevelt's explosive govern
! ment reorganization program at
' the comine session of congress,
on a piecemeal basis so as to
[ weaken hi-partisan opposition.
The chief executive is said to
approve the strategy and is ex
pected to send congress a special
1 message on the subject.
The maneuver was decided up
on, it was learned, after President
Roosevelt's advisors told him that
; there was no chance for enact-1
ment of an omnibus bill covering
| the program. It was the presi
dent's irsistence on such a bill last
session that caused a house coali
tion to kill it.
The president determined upon
I a partial retreat, it was said, after
his conference last Week with au
thors of the original program, and
Senator James F. Byrnes, D., S.
C., chairman of the special senate
reorganization committee, who pi-,
loted it through that chamber only j
to see it die in the house.
Opposition to the measure stem-1
med from the fact that it vested
the president with broad powers
to abolish or consolidate federal
agencies and generally reshuffle
the federal machinery. Opponents
raised cries of "dictatorship" and
"one man government" and mus
tered enough strength to recom
(Continued on page three)
BOTTOMLANDS
ARE IDEAL FOR
GROWING FLAX
Local Section Produces
High Grade, Basic Need
of Ecusta Plant
ASHEVILLE, Dec. 13.—Creek
and river bottoms of Western
North Carolina are ideal for the i
production of an excellent grade!
of flax, which will eventually be
the basic product used by the |
Ecusta paper plant at Brevard, L.
F. Dixon, flax technician for the
plant, told the Western North Car
olina Engineers club here yester
day.
Eventually 80,000 acres of good
flax straw will be required to sup
ply the Ecusta needs, he said.
J. N. 0. McPherson, chief en
gineer of the J. E. Sirrine Co., i
which has the Ecusta contract,
said that the plant would employ
500 people or more and that prin- j
cipal units would be equipped by |
February.
Cigarette paper will be manu-l
factured by May in the plant,
which will cost $2,000,000 and j
turn out 11 tons of paper daily j
when in operation.
Declaring that 64 sites were ex
amined for the possible location
of the plant, he said factors in |
favor of the Davidson river site'
were purity of water, and the fac^
that government-owned property |
will prevent any possible future!
plant up the river from polluting!
the water supply.
IS REAPPOINTED
The board of county commis
sioners in session yesterday reap
pointed Eli Plemmons to serve as
superintendent of the county
home.
GERMAN ECONOMIST PREPARES
TO NEGOTIATE AT LONDON ON
MASS JEWISH IMMIGRATION
a>
Nazi Organ Is Called (or
Its Denouncement of
Jewish Shops
BERLIN, Dec. 13. (UP)—De
nouncement of Jewish shops by
the newspaper Angriff, organ of
the Nazi labor front, brought of
ficial contradiction from the gov
ernment as Dr. Hjalmar Schacht,
Germany's leading financial au
thority, prepared to go to London
to negotiate on Jewish immigra
tion.
The Angriff denounced reopen
ing of Jewish shops, which, ac
cording to the newspaper, was ef
fected by the pretext that they
are in process of "Aryanization."
The official announcement pub
lished today contradicting the
Angriff'r article said shops ac
tually are undergoing "Aryaniza
tion."
The purpose of Schacht's Lon
don visit was reportedly to dis
cuss facilities for transferring the
remnants of Jewish fortunes
abroad.
A plan to rid Germany of her
700,000 unwanted Jews within
two years and at the same time
increase German exports by mil
lions of dollars was revealed last
night in an announcement that
the Reich will "facilitate" Jewish
emigration.
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president
of the Reichsbank and Germany's
"economic wizard," will inform
the- Bank of International Settle- j
ments in Basle and the inter-gov- J
ernuiental committee on refugees
in- London this week that Ger-;
many is ready to release a por
tion of Jewish wealth.
The plan contemplates grant
ing permission to emigrating Ger
man Jews to carry more than 15
per cent of their remaining
wealth out of the Reich when
they go to new homes abroad.
Permission to take 15 per centi
above the normal amount of cap
ital permitted to be taken from
Germany would apply, however,
only when foreign governments
giving homes to the Jews agree |
to use these funds for the pur-;
chase of additional German ex
ports. .
Actually, the migrating Jews'
would not take any money out of
Germany but would receive gov
ernment certificates. These cer
tificates they would sell to for-.
eign government agencies to be
used for purchasing German
goods.
Schacht already has outlined
the plan in a letter to the Bank,
of International Settlements and
will discuss it in detail when he i
attends the B.I.S. meeting in I
Basle on Wednesday and Thurs
day before proceeding to London.
In London, he will discuss the
scheme with George Rublee,
American director of the inter
governmental committee on refu
gees who has been attempting for ]
more than a month to overcome j
the financial stumbling block in
the way of mass migration of
Germany's Jews. Schacht also will
confer with Montagu Norman,
governor of the Bank of Eng
land.
The anouncement of Ger
many's readiness to "facilitate
Jewish emigration" by cooperat
ing in a financial solution raised
hope that a number of countries,
particularly those in South Amer
ica, would be willing to receive
German Jews if they are permit
ted to take wealth out of Ger
many.
The announcement, made by
the German News agency D.N.B.
which denied that Germany in
tends to drive the Jews into ghet
tos, said that after New Year's
(Continued on page three) <
Willi BUDGET
ADOPTED BY
BAPTISTSHERE
Men at Dinner Hear Bry
son Deplore So. Caro
lina Liquor Traffic
The First Baptist church brought.'
its season of stewardship and fel
lowship activities to a climax last
night when 125 men partook of a
free barbecue supper, the feature
of which was an address by Con
gressman-elect Joseph R. Rryaon,
member of the Earle Street Bap
tist church of Greenville, S. C.
The speaker reached the peak
of his a ('dress in discussing moral
and economic conditions in koutn
Carolina and cited that Landrum,
a small town 22 miles ffom Hen
dersonville and its nearest resort
for legalized liquor, sold taj P
whiskey to the extent of ?7y,l^u
during the past year.
The meeting last night followed
the adoption of an $18,000 church
budget by the congregation bun
dav morning, which came on the
heels of a fellowship revival for
five nights during the Previous
week. The budget includes $9,000
for current expends and *3,ouu
for the co-cperative program ot
missions, etc. The re™ain|"?,
000 is the beginning of a building
program for an educational plant.
The first item on the program
last night after serving the supper
was a mock trial of Roy C. Ben
nett, chairman of the church
finance committee, being charged
with disturbing public worship o
the congregation three times la
Sunday by injecting therein his
financial program. ronnm.
The meeting adopted the recom
mendation of the board of dea
cons to the effect that A F. Bar
ber be elected president of an or
ganization of the men of the
church with the view to having
monthly programs with mspira-j
tional addresses. .... _
Mr Bryson, after injecting con
siderable humor in his preliminary
remarks, deplored the fact that
many of his fellow citizens m
South Carolina were not able to
"differentiate between moral and
legal rights," which he illustrated
bv quoting statistics on the sale of
liquor, a policy with which he was
f ;« Qvmnathy. He said L&n
drum's sales totalled $79,120 from j
July last year until the same
month this year and that Green
(Continued on page three)
ONEABlfCTOR
IS IDENTIFIED
Mary Brown Said to Par
tially Identify Second
Man in Crime
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (UP)
Police todav said Mary Brown, 18.
nve n tfltu de nt who wa,, WjW
10 days ago and held J E
Tor 30 hours has wentmea
rogues' gallery photographof one
rf her abductors and partially
dentified another. ;,spntifica
State police said the uentinc
Jon was the first real clue in the
:ase.
Water Famine Threatened St. Louis
Is Averted When Strike Is Called Off
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 13. (UP) J
A threatened water famine was
averted when two large pumping
plants of the city system resumed
operations this morning after be
ing closed for several hours by a
strike.
The city's four plants were idle
during the night as the result of
a strike involving 42 engineers
and approximately 60 apprentice
engineers of the International i
Union of Operating Engineers,!
American Federation of Labor af-|
filiate. They were engaged in a
factional dispute with unaffiliated
union engineers.
A union manager ordered the
men off the job and later called
for a one-hour strike. The order
later was rescinded and the two
remaining water plants will re
sume operation by noon.
City officials assured citizens
there would be no water shortage
because of the union controversy.
Edward Wahl, director of pub
lic utilities, yesterday announced
that water supplies to all indus
tries not producing foodstuffs had
been turned off and a police guard
thrown about the three closed sta
tions. He said an attempt would
be- mad^ to put the stations back
into operation.
Vergil Belfi, assistant business
agent for the operating engineers,
said the walkout was called be
cause the city refused to comply
with terms of an agreement which
settled a threatened strike last
year.
SEESFMAND
WELLES TODAY
AT CAPITOL
Silence to Cloak Visit But
England Seen as Shift
ing Policy
U. S. SYMPATHETIC
TO BRITISH TROUBLES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (IT)
Captain Anthony Eden, former
British foreign secretary, confer
red today with President Roose
velt at the White House.
Eden was accompanied hy Act
ing Secretary of State Sumner
Welles. He called first at Welles'
office. A crowd of sightseers and
government clerks lined the
street outside the state depart
ment and White House to catch
a glimpse of the noted British vis
itor.
He spent a half hour with the
president, then went to the Na
tional Press club for off-the-rec
ord discussion expected to deal
with British-American relations.
Late this afternoon, Eden ac
companied by Mrs. Eden, will re
turn to the White House for tea
with the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Lady Lindsay, wife of Sir Ron
ald Lindsay, British ambassador,
will accompany the Edens to tea.
EDEN GAINS U. S„
VISIT OBJECTIVES
Br FREDERICK KUH
(Copyright, 1938, United Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. (UP) —
Capt. Anthony Eden left here for
Washington last night to 6ee Pre -
ident Roosevelt, and sources do <•
to the handsome young British
diplomat revealed that already W
had reached his major objective
on his American visit—to find out
the reason for America's coolness
toward Britain after the Munich
Eiccord.
Eden had availed himself of
every opportunity to sound out
opinion on this question during
the three days he had been in
New York, these informants dis
closed, and already has a brief
case full of American views on
the subject
His visit in Washington, where
he will discuss international poli
tics with tanking members of the
state department, is expected to
take a highly significant turn—
although it is doubtful whether
there will be any views expressed
publicly.
While the results of Eden's
talks with state department men
in Washington, particularly with
Acting Secretary of State Sum
ner Welles, probably will not fur
nish anv spectacular news, the
underlying results are expected
to be vital in fashioning British's
jrientation toward American pub
lic opinion and foreign policy.
These are generally believed
to be Eden's objectives:
1. To brief himself on the
American attitude toward the Mu
nich accord, and to report infor
nally to his government the rea
son for the clouds that have ob
scured Anglo-American friend
ship since that event.
2. To make clear to America is
(Continued on page three)
•I A Shopping Days
JL U Till Christmcs
yoBSwem- elect hoover
MS IDuftHG- SOUTH AMeftCA*
T OOKINO BACK TO CHRIST
MAS 10 YEARS AGO—
Christmas peace disturbed by
war against rum runners on
Canada-U. S. border. ...
California starting public move
ment against wearing. . . .
President Coolidge was suggest
ing government build a country
"White House" for him and suc
ceeding Presidents. . . . Presi
dent-elect Hoover touring South
America. . . . Flu epidemic was
sweeping south, midwest . . .
Jaoanese enthroning Hlrohita