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WEATHER Fair to cloudy tonight ,nd Thursday. Slightly colder Thursday *ft*rnoon and niffei. .V • » ViR GOOD AFTERNOON .1 . i - . iS.. " • Carol' Hailod m Stwa| Ho's alio* anyway. Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population VOL 57—No. 298 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS COMMONS TOLD rONIS* STATUS PART OF PACT feddling There Covered in Italian Accord as to Mediterranean J1LJTARY AND MORAL AID PLEDGED FRANCE LONDON. Dec. 14. )UP) — Vime Minister Chamberlain ral ed to the support of France Italian demands on Tunis nth the statement today in the esse of commons that the Medi rrraneun states mentioned in the fritish-Italian accord applies to uni?. Chamberlain said that any ae on contrary to the agreement ouKi be a matter of grave con ;rn to the British government. ask chamberlain AS TO STATEMENT PARIS. Dec. 14. (UP)—The office spokesman last r :'r.r announced that Great Brt i.- pledged to give both raili . •;■! moral support to France if war should result from Italy's •t'i! unofficial territorial demands a the Mediterranean and North Africa. The foreign office announce i-.r.i was made -ehortly after For Minister bonnet •if erred with the British ambas kulor, Sir Eric Phipps regarding: Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain's statement in the British louse of commons Monday. Bonnet asked for an amplifica tion of Chamberlain's statement in commons that Britain has no treaty obligatins to go to France's aid ih event of an attack by Italy. I'hipps was understood to have insured Bonnet that although •- hnically there is no military al ance between London and Paris, ry Italian attempt to upset the vutus quo" n thr Mediterranean acquriing Tunisia would slice "" life-line of the British em pire. Therefore, he said. Britain is .-.-t is determined as France to -v>t any Mediterranean aggres r. by Italy and this involves a promise of military as well as mora! support. British sources said that Phipps explained that Franco-British re lations were so close and the in terests of the two nations so in ter-dependent that there was no need of a formal agreement cov enn? all eventualities. In a move expected to alleviate somewhat the Italo-French ten don, the French-Controlled Suez Canal company is preparing to re duce its chanel toils by four and one-sixth per cent effective on Thursday, it was learned. The tolls will be reduced from 5ix British shillings ($1.50) a ton to five shilliings, nine pence UU3). It was explained that this re action was a normal one, dec id ^ upon several months ago on •iiv> >f the company's ability to provide cheaper service and ^ ' nothing whatever to do" *"•• Italian demands. 'he cost of Suez canal passage (Continued on page four) CHINESE COOL 10 JAP PLAN 10 HALT WAR ^ttlement Drafted But the Chinese Are Making Gains in South -.SHANGHAI, Dec. 13. (UP) — r'"u« political sources said to thitt Japan's most famous '•;:t«ry figu e, Gen. Kenji Doi ,a''a- was approaching Chinese ,s \vjth a p|an for settlement th«f war in China. {^oihaia brought instructions J: th settlement, Chinese a$ but it was highly uncer n v her national government Naders would be interested. Lhine.se claimed their troops >< ,lrrow'ng Japanese back in ^thtrn areas and they expect ^capture Canton with the ar -• now .swinging into action in *** Oiina . CITY ASKED TO TAKE STEPS FOR WIDENING OF CASWELL AND CRAB CREEK STREETS <♦ TWO ESPIONAGE SUSPECTS ARE! HELD IN WEST L. f[L Case of Russian And Nat uralized Citizen May Go to Grand Jury LOS ANGELAS. Pic. 14. (UP) The department of justive reveal ed last night that it is holdine: the manager of a local office of In tourist Agency, of the Soviet Rus sian government, and a natural ized American on suspicion of es pionage. The Soviet citizen was Mikhail Gorin and the American was Hafis Salich. Federal agents said Salich is ac cused of supplying Gorin with con fidential plans pertaining to the national defense and with confi dential navy department informa tion concerning -Japanese espion age in this country. Salich is said to have been an at:ent of the United States Naval Intelligence unit. Doth men v*»re arrested Monday. Gorin and Salich were arrested Monday night and questioned un til mornintr. They were held-in communicado at county jail under bail of $25,000 each, after being booked on charges of espionage. Both Federal Bureau of Inves tigation and Naval Intelligence agents refused to elaborate on the charges. Both suspects similarly declined to talk, merely stating i they had been instructed to re main silent. However. Gorin con versed three times bv telephone with Constantine Oumansky, in Washington. The last call origi nated from the jail here and last ed 15 minutes. The conversation was carried on in Russian. Shortly after it had been com pleted. George Cantillon. a profes sional bondsman, said he had re ceived a call from New York in quiring about premiums which i would have to be paid to free the suspects on bond. Cantillon ad vised the caller, who did not iden tify himself, that the premium is normally 10 ner cent of the bond's face value. The caller promised to advise later if terms were satis . factory. U. S. Commissioner David B. Head set date of a hearing for Dec. 24. but it was believed grand jury action probablv would super sede the hearing. Benjamin Har rison. U. S. attorney, refused all comment on grounds the case was a matter for the state department. He said it "probably" would be referred to the grand jury Dec. 21. Relief Rolls In New Sharp Drop WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (UP) WPA Administrator Hopkins to day announced that relief rolls during the week ended December 10 decreased 45,514, one of the sharpest declines in WPA history. The relief rolls now hold 3,139, ' 045 clients' names. Industrial And Tourist Advertising Planned by C. of C. A resolution urging city offic ials to take whatever steps may be necessary to accomplish the widening of Caswell and Crao (•reek streets from Main street to a point on Crab Creek street where it widens into Kanuga road was adopted last night by direc tors of the Chamber of Commerce after President II. E. Buchanan had reported that officials of Kanusa conferences had request ed that st^ch improvement be made. Crab Creek and Casweil street form the only "bottle neck" en trance to Hendersonville, it was pointed out, and the narrowness of these streets constitutes a traf fic hazard as Svell as serious in convenience to pedestrians and property owners. It was suggest ed that a WPA or other project be undertaken to widen the two streets for a distrance of about six blocks. The board received a report, from Thomas H. Franks, chair- j man of the advertising commit-1 tee, who said a joint meeting had been held with the industrial committee, and that during: the i comincr year the chamber's ad- i vertisine will be written and placed by a professional agency, j To start Ibe propram, a half-pape i advertisement will be published in ' The Manufacturers Record, and this .rill ht followed with an in dustrial booklet citing the advan tages of Henderson county and directed to a select list of manu facturers. Tourist advertising in , Florida, it was agreed, should be i placed in outstanding: newspapers at the height of the winter sea- j son, while other tourist advertis ing will be limited largely to the Chicago, Cincinnati and Detroit j areas. Mr. Franks reported also that a WPA project for developing the Jump Off rock area in a recrea tional area probably will be fin allv approved soon. The project calls for the expenditure of $3, 700, of which the sponsor's share would be about $300. The Junior Welfare Club has sold approximately 250 of 1,000 j automobile tags bearing the name [ of Hendersonville, the board was; informed. The tasrs are being: sold at $1.10 each, of which ten cents represents the cost while the Junior Welfare club retains 25 • cents for its charity work and 75 | cents goes to the Chamber of j Commerce. The tag:s were made j in colors contrasting with the j (Continued on page three) I CLUB RESOLUTION LIMITS NURSES TO TWELVE-HOUR DUTY Adoption of a resolution pro- i viding that local nurses shall serve on 12-hour duty only was announced today. The resolution was adopted at a recent meeting of the Nurses club, and the schedule of limited working hours went into effect immediately, it was said. The meeting was held at the home of Miss Joyce Alwrp.i and the reso lution was adopted unanimously. The 12 hour schedule will more evenly distribute work among the nurses residing here, it was ex plained. ' PAN AMERICAN MEET SET KUK ! PLENARY SESSION AS DRAFT ! OF TARIFF PUN CIRCULATED LIMA, Dec. 14. (UP)—The United States delegates are circu lating in the eighth Pan American conference a draft of an agree ment which would bind all Amer ican republics to do all they can to lower tariff barriers. , It was intended, if the draft I meets with support, to submit it formally to the conference. Reduction of world trade bar ; riers has long been advocated by U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull as a cure for the ills of the universe. In his speech last Sat urday before the first plenary ses sion, Hull stressed the necessity for improved trade facilities and the easing of tariff bars to better world conditions. Meantime, it was said Hull was i so impressed by the text of Ar gentina's proposed draft of a con-1 tinental solidarity declaration for hemispherical defense that he may not present a separate draft. The Argentine proposal, based on Hull's own plan which he was ready to offer the conference and drafted after the United States secretary of state and Foreign Minister Jose Maria Cantilo of Argentina agreed on the forir, was said to go mirch farther than even the most hopeful member of the United States delegation had 1 anticipated. The project, reported' virtually to parallel the original United States defense plan, pro vides for consultation among all American nations in event the sovereignty or political institu tions of any one of them is threat ened by an outside force. Consultations would be called (Continued on page three) TREE, LIGHTED HOMES AUGUR FINE HOLIDAY Community Service Will Be Held at Christmas Treo on Christmas Eve f LIGHTING CONTE^s DRAWING ENTF^S Erection of a community ^,xr\st mas tree at Fifth avenu«jf$nd Church street and the assurance that many homes will be in an outdoor Christmas noting contest today added much to t!ht outlook for a successful holiday period in Hendersonville. Erected under the direction ot a chamber of commerce commit tee headed by Mayor A. V.- Ed wards, the Christmas tree will be the scene of a religious service^at 8 n. m. on Christmas eve. The Hendersonville Ministerial associa tion is arranging the which will include the singing of Christmas carols, other tnusic, end a brief address. The tree is bein0 wired for electric lights by T. C. ■ Whisnant & Sons, without cost to the chamber of commerce. , Outdoor displays m the home lighting contest must be in opera tion not later than next Monday and must be operated nightly FrU Mondav, Dec. 26. Names of the! prize winners will be announced Friday, Dec. 23. in time for |io-| torists to drive past the homesind ( view the displays. The five^ PR;?* of $25, $10, "M! be naid jointly by the ehamof^TBx commerce and the Duke Pl^e| ludtrin0, will be done on the basis of artistic effect rather than on. elaborateness. Among the homes so far en tered a*e those of Mrs. George M Peebles, 329 Taylor street; Drs. Branstetter, 317 Fourth ave nue weft; Mary Oak Hill Court; Mrs. Glen Mars ton, Rugby; W. C Banc* 634 Fifth avenue west; Mrs. T. 1 • len. 230 Sixth avenue west. Dr., J. S. Brown, Jr., La"rel F® j* Mrs T. R. Barrows,, 417 South ^ Main street; Patton MemonaUoa Dital Highland avenue, and Mrs. Otis V- Powers, ?43 Second ave nUEntry'blanks clipped from The Times-News must be filled in and filed at the chamber of commerce office by householders who wi?h to j enter the contest. Homes in Hen dersonville and vicinity aie elig ble for entry. ___ CUYTOBURN PAID UP BONDS Hundreds Cancelled ^nd Registered to Be Dis posed of The City of Hendersonville will dispose of hundreds of cancelled bonds tomorrow afternoona t0Ay'register of these cancelled bonds has been made thd bonds may now be destroyed. Members of the city commission will attend as witnesseg and number of disinterested wtiness es will also be on hand. j„c_ The bonds represent a reduc , tion of almost a million dollars, in the city's indebtedness. 3* Low temperature last nignt— 28 degrees. TUESDAY Maximum temperature—51 de-I grees. Minimum — 35 degrees. Mean—-43 degrees. Day's range— 16 degreos. | Normal mean temperature for December—39.3 degrees. Rainfall to date—.40 inch. Normal rain-j fall—5.46 inches. talk u. s.-china loan SHANGHAI, Dec. 14. (UP)_ A Chinese press dispatch from Chungking, provisional seat of j Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government, said today that it was believed a $50,000,000 American loan to China had been arranged and that papers would be signed j shortly in Washington. Pomp and Ceremony as Peru Greets Foreign Conferees Scnora Bcnevides, wife of Peru's president, givesa smiling welcome to U. S. Secretary of State Cor dell Hull at a reception in the Torre-Tagle Palace, Lima, Peru, for delegates to the Pan-American Conference. Left to ri^ht: U. S. Ambassador Lawrence Steinhardt, Secretary Hull, President Oscar Bcnevides and Senora Benevides. ' !: TEACHERS WILL HOLD BANQUET THURSDAY EVE City and County Units to Have Legislators-Elect, Others as Guests The social and program com mittees of the Henderson county, and Hendersonville schools an- j nounce that plans have been com pleted for a joint teachers' ban-! quet at the Ames hotel, Thurs-1 day, Dec. 5, at 7 o'clock. The guests who have been in vited to give short talks and have accepted the invitation are L. B. | Prince, senator-elect from the 27th district; L. L. Burgin, repre sentative from Henderson county; H. C. Jarvis, representative from . Buncombe county; W. A. Hart, president of the Classroom Teach ers association of the western: district and M. M. Redden, Hen- j dersonville attorney. Other guests invited to meet with the teachers are Mrs. Albert Durham, president of the Hen-1 dersonville P.-T.A.; Oscar Meyer, chairman of the board of trustees, Hendersonville, and Floyd Os borne,, chairman of the county j board of education. . The social committee is headed by Miss Charlotte Turner of the; county schools and Miss Syretha Sossoman of the Hendersonville; schools. I Mi*s. Walter Allen is president, of the county unit and Miss Lu-j cile Sales is president of the city, unit. mrsTrector IS RECUPERATING Here After Weeks in Two Hospitals, Following Wreck Injuries Mrs. Victor Rector, who a few | weeks ago was seriously injured in an automobile wreck at Inman, i S. C., and has since , been in hos-1 pitals at Spartanburg and Char-j lotte, is recuperating at the home j of Mr. Rector's mother, Mrs. R. M. Rector, 313 Grove street. Among the many injuries sus tained by Mrs. Rector was the un usual one of being strangled with a portion of a tooth which found its way iflto a lung, which noted j specialists have been unable to remove. While Mrs. Rector is apparent ly recovering as well as could be expected, Mr. Rector says she is I not in physical condition to re ceive company. BLAST KILLS CHJLEANS CONCEPCION, Chile, Dec. 14. (UP)—Ten workers were killed yesterday in an explosion which wrecked the Grisu shaft of the Schwager coal mine here. The blast was caused by a miner who lighted a cigarette. PRINCIPALS IN SHOOTING CASE PLAN TO WED Ruth Etting And MyrI Al derman Fly to Los Vagas to Obtain License LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Dec. 14. (UP)—Ruth Etting, blues singer, and MyrI Alderman, her boy friend whom her disvorced hus band recently shot, flew here to day to be married. They entered the courthouse and said they ir tended to obtain a license to wed. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14. (UP) Martin (The Gimp) Snyder, ex husband of blues-singing Ruth Et ting, was accused yesterday by h's former wife and his daughter of a cold-blooded attack on young MyrI Alderman, Miss Ettiny's piano-playing boy friend, whom he shot in the abdomen last Octobcr. Immediately after the testimony of Miss Etting and 21;-year-old Edith Snyder, the state called on Alderman, 30-year-old composer, to corroborate their stories. Alderman, after detailing events of the night of October 15 when he said Snyder "kidnaped" him at a broadcasting studio, forced him to go to the "love cottage" where Miss Etting and Miss Snyder were preparing dinner for him, and then shot him in a jealous ra^e, was asked whether it was true that he and Miss Etting had been "living together as man and wife.'* "No," he replied firmly. He admitted that he ,was "in love with Miss Etting," but said that on all their junkets they stay ed in separate rooms and never lived "as man and wife" at any time. Snyder had indicated in his statements to police that the young musician had won the affec (Continued on page four.) COUNTY HOME EC. EXHIBIT HERE FRIDAY City, County Students to Show Wares, 10 A. M. at Carolina . > Miss Charlotte R. Turner, presi dent of the Western District Home Economics Teachers, today announced a clothing exhibit of the home economics department! of the schools in Henderson coun ty to be given Friday, Dec. 16, at 10 a. m.f at the Carolina theater. The purpose of this exhibit is stated as being to stimulate more interest in the selection and con struction of clothing problems planned in the class work of the home economics departments and to demonstrate to the public some of the accomplishments along this line. Entries in the exhibit will be in four divisions: first: First, aprons; second, smocks; third, wash dress es, and fourth, woolen dresses. Judges Will be home economics teachers from adjoining counties to be chosen by the county home economics teachers. The three rules for entry are: 1. The garment must be select ed and constructed by student in class. * • • 2. The garment must be model ed by person for whom made.. 3. Only one entry in exhibit from each student. The standards for judging and the points which each factor will count are: 1. Suitability for wearer, 60. (a) Choice of design, 20; (b) choice of color, 15; (c) choice of material, 15. 2. Workmanship, 50. (a) Choice of seams and finishing and technique of construction, 25; (b) Fit of garment, 25. Seven of the city's leading stores are cooperating by giving (Continued on paee four) 212 MEMBERS AND LEADERS PRESENT AS AWARDS MADE FOR 4-H CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS The annual Henderson county, 4-H Club Achievement Day pro gram was held at the county court house this morning with 212 club members and local leaders attend ing:. The principal speaker was L. R. Harrel, state 4-H club leader, who spoke on 4-H Club Work in the Community. G. D. White, county farm agent, also spoke briefly. Jean Lyda, of the Dana, club, spoke on "What 4-H Club Work Means to Me." Club members were welcomed to Hendersonville by Mayor A. V. Edwards, and the response was by Frances Burgin, of the Mills River club. A home beautification demon stration was given by Frankie FitzSimons and Ollie Ruth Green, of the Dana club. Awards for the most outstand ing work done during the year in club work were made as follows: Jean Lyda, Dana, dairy calf proj ect. Grace Brown, Etowah, most outstanding baby beef project. Adger Jones, Dana, most out standing poultry project. Clarence Ward, East Flat Rock, most outstanding brood sow proj ect. Frances Burgin, most outstand ing all around club member. Joyce Kerr, Edneyville, moat outstanding home garden project Prizes awarded to these contest ants were given, by Patterson's, Kalin's, Shelton Feed, J. C. Pen ney, Lewis, and Railroad Savage. Achievement certificates Were awarded to all club members com pleting projects during the year, and Carolina theatre tickets were awarded each member. _ ' VIEW BOYCOTT OF SPEECH AS ANAFFRONT German Delegation Refuses to Hear Addren by Chamberlain INCIDENTMAY END ALL FRIENDLY MOVES LONDON, Dec. 14. (UP)—A strong police guard wai» placed to day over the German embassy as British and German relations took a sharp turn for the worse be cause Naaiv boycotted a banquet at which Prime Minuter Cham berlain spoke last night. The guard protected the em bassy from any hostile demonstra tion! by people who saw scream ing headlines in newspapers which reported what they interpreted as an affront to Britain. Not only German newspaper men but German Ambassador von Dirlcsen and Special Envoy Asch man boycotted the banquet be cause Chamberlain criticised "vi tuperation" of. German newspa pers against British pnblic offi cials. INCIDENT DEVELOPS PRESS SENSATION Br WALLACE CARROLL (Copyright, 1936, Uaitod Press) LONDON, Dec. 14. (UP)—The refusal of German Ambassador Herbert von Dirksen to attend last night's dinner at which Prime Minister ■ Neville ■ Chamberlain spoke on foreign affairs was play ed sensationally by the London press this morning and diplomatic correspondents characterised the boycott as an international inci dent which made -.worse Anglo* .Gentta* relations. -i ~ One paper; 4he tabloid Daily Mirror, went m far *» te say ft was almost certain Chancellor Adolf Hitler would recall his am bassador, that Chamberlain would abandon his policy of appeasiu# the dictators'and would cancel his scheduled visit to Rome. Von Dirlcsen, 15 German corre spondents and Gottfried Aschman, sent by Hitler especially to hear Chamberlain's speech, all absent ed themselves from the dinner when they learned from an ad vance copy that Chamberlain would suggest that "history teach es us that no fonn of government ever remains the same." The Daily Express said it was reported fSrom Berlin that Hitler personally ordefred his representa tives in London to ' boycott the dinner. British political writers of all shades of party affiliation deplor ed the Nazi boycott of Chamber lain's speech. Some regarded it as merely a "fault in manners;" others attributed it to a much deeper cause. All realize that it marks a further deterioration of Anglo-German relations. Some of the British writers were mystified as to the particu lar - passage of Chamberlain's speech which caused the Nazi boy cott Some say that the prime minister's defense of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin offended the -Germans. However, it was pointed out that Chamber lain dealt with this topic in much milder language than he used in parliament several days ago. Oth ers suggest thai: the sensibilities of the Nazis were wounded by Chamberlain's suggestion that their present form of government (Continued on page four) 9 Shopping Days Till Christina* So//1 rtrfCH you ** Sl*«tA SAMM'HO- • Otftmttj* oeeeavANGt.## T OOKDCO SACK TO CHRIST* MAS NHfS TVAKS AGO" Admiral Byrd widely acclaimed for hop to South Polo. . . . Dancer Harold Kreutzberg elec trifying lovers of terpeidiore. . . . Group of Catholics, JewB, Protestants met at Harvard to war on religious intolerance.... Hollywood "pepping up" Shake speare, with "Petruchio" Fair banks and "Katherina" Pick ford in "The Taming of the 8hrew.M . . . Russia was tag* nine Chrjstsaas observance. <
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