WEATHER Possible shower* tonight; Thurs jaV c'ouciy with occasional rains. • 1, «mr 1 GOOD AFTERNOON I Someone should tell President Hoover that at last there are two cars in many a garage—both without license plates. HENDERSON VILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1933 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS kr m may mm four IliJANDS eizure of Leticia in Co lombia Brings Military Repercussions CUADOR, BRAZIL AND m MASS FORCES By GESFORD FINE pre4* Staff Correspondent ! T il) PF JANKIKO, Brazil. Jan. I i*p>.—The peace of four | ... w.i hreatened yesterday | »"/ .W>hes from widely s< p !L actions of Sou h Amenta 1|(,ops and naval forces >t ;nir concentrated in t.u ' . villaee of L -ti'-ia. I-..', rn-r. -t tip of Colombia. re !;i!_v o men each. Their immedi I- -tination was the Brazilian L, uf Tetfeb. abow baf: wnv k: the town of Manaos. uud raziL to the border A' TetTeh. the Colombian expe tiun expected to nick no rein rcements coraine by way of the r a tiver. and to halt brief.\ • tht-r instructions from Ho fa the Colombian capital. I- a-: iition. the Colombians had j •i>r one hvdroplan.*. and orh-i> i - .■•.•potted available in the I.c : 4 north of the citv. He rs reaching Rio de Janeiro said >•■ j .inned to open their march l.--.i ... bv an air afack ai-yinst ■ >. ,i Peruvian city of 25,000 iralation. The Colombian commander, wt-ver. Vr.squez Cobo, denied »• r av.a.-k reports, ond insist-; ;.v>n was solelv to re-: !.••: a and re-establish t -, noiar. sovereignty over the» »a. . :• eanwhilc regarded these eparations as war measures. i'S ' ■ authorities in charge of tir troops in northern Peru de i'-; war would ■ inevitable if e ieet proceeded into the Leti i area of the .A.nazon river. were lepi'fcd moving troops j to the area in preparation to j tr\ "any developments." H: jz i an nava: and military au- 1 ii:.*..es r"^arde«l the situation j ri-i'vjr cor.ceir, but insisted, (Continued on pape four). i lolman-Reynolds ettlement Seen i ppointment of Reynolds; Administrator Held Up WIXSTOX- SALEM. Jan. 18. • •—A ;i-ijuest that appoint "f a public administrator r 'e.-;ate of the late Smith Vn"^d> bo deferred has been L . the Reynolds family '' ' Holman Reynolds, his " was learned yesterday. ■ S.-.a;no, public adminis lt ,!. announced last Saturday; ■ he would t|ualify because i '■nths, in which members oi ; ' family might do so, had I ktuy in naming an adminis-. 'tor is caused, it is believed. I uf negotiations for a set- j •i-m between Mrs. Libby Hoi- , Reynolds and the Reynolds | ■% although this has not publicly affirmed. ICENSES TO FISH ON SALE -i license^ for 1083 have! placed on sale in the coun • County Game Warden Joe tl;'aker announced today. '•icen ■ — , » ■■ , , , ' 1 375-MILE FRONT BRISTLES AS COLOMBIA AND PERU MASS TROOPS, WAR PLANES AND SHIPS Thousands of soldiers, fighting planes and battleships are report ed to be converging on the terri tory shown in the map as the prospects of war bet wet n Colom bia and Peru increase. In Sep tember. the little town of Leticia. with a population of only 500, was seized by a band of Peruvians and Colombia is determined to re take the town. Colombia b land ing forces, alone: the Putumayo river from Pnr Arthur to Cau caya. Peru has forces from Iqui 11os to Leticia with an airplan? J concentration at Iquitos. Th»' shaded area is territory contested bv Peru ami Ecuador. A large amphibian military .sf•• - qui-planc, recently completed " in tho I'nited S ates for the Colom bian government, is shown bolow just before it took off from New York the other day. ' FARM SUPPLY j STORE IS SOLD -Statesville Flour Mills (X Takes Over S. J. ChildY t Retail Business Sale of the Bright waters^ Farm j Supply Co., to the St&CfesvilTe j Flour Mills Co., of Scatesvilie, op erating; one of the largest flou • and feed plants in the southeast, was announced today by S. J. Childs. owner of Brigh;waters i Farm, who established the retail j feed store on North Main street here about two years ago. j Chas. W. Orton. who has been [ with the Statesville mill for four! years as poultry service expert, i will manage the business hero, the store to be known as the Biightwater Supply Co. Poultry and poultry products of Bright waters Farm will continue to bo handled in the store, while thr> Statesville mill will supply feed to Brightwaters Farm, which will b»» further developed as a poultry breeding establishment. C. H. Mr goon. who came here recently from Jacksonville. Fla., will con tinue to be assoc:ated with Mr. Childs in developmert work oil the farm. "One reason why the farm sun-; ply store was sold was to give us more time for building: up the farm, and the principal reason why it was sold to the Statesville Flour Mills Co., was that this com pany is amply able to help de velop Henderson county as a poul-! try production center," Mr. Childs said. "It is our purpose to take the guesswork out of the produc tion of chickens, and in this pro gram the Statesville people can and will be of inestimable help." The farm supply store under the new ownership and manage ment will handle a full line of j Statesville mill products, includ ing poultry, dairy and stock feed and field and garden seeds. The Statesville mill has been estab lished 34 years, and by reason of its being one of the largest in the j southeast, with low manufactur f ing and selling costs, is enabled to f give producers in this section a quality line of feed at reasonable j prices, Mr. Orton said. The mill ; has a capacity of 1200 barrels of I flour and 800 tons of mixed feed [ every 24 hours. It maintains a ! research laboratory, with all nec essary equipment, and through its I i store here is in position to offer ■ ! specialized poultry service such a-; j 'culling, vaccinating, treating dis-j t ease and the like. { Mr. Orton and family have I I moved to a dwelling on the Hay- j wood road, and he has already en-; ' tered into the business activities i of the community. He said today j that both he and the company he represents stand ready to do everything possible toward the further development of the favm I ing industry in Henderson county, | with emphasis on poultry raising. MINNESOTA RATIFIES I ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 18.— (UP). — Minnesota became the 27th state yesterday to ratify the proposed amendment to the U. S. constitution abolishing the : "lame duck*' sesions of conjrress. To become part of the oonstitu j tion, nine more states must ratify 1 the measure. 24 ELECTION INDICTMENTS IN NEW YORK I * Declare Hoover, Donovan! and Pounds Robbed of Votes .« NEW YORK. Jan. 18.—(UP). A New York connty grand Jury yesterday indicted 21 election in spectors of six districts for al legcd violation of election laws last November. Assistant District Attorney Jas. j G. Wallace indicated in a remark to the court as the indictments were being handed up that this is but the first step in the prosecu tion of the alleged frauds. The indictments grew out of al leged discrepancies in the official vote count for all offices from president down, excluding the re sults of investigation of the "write-in" vote cast for the then acting mayor, Joseph V. McKee, for mayor. The latter is to be the object of a separate action by the grand jury. "These are the most fraudulent election law violations that I hav«i ever heard of," Wallace said. "Not only were votes for Gover nor Roosevelt. Colonel Lehman and Judge O'Brien increased on the tally sheets beyond what the voting machines gave them, but President Hoover, Colonel Dono van and Mr. Pounds (Republican candidate for mayor) were robbed of votes." WOULD REDUCE' FORECLOSURE TAX PENALTY Ray - Randolph - Lumpkin Bill Now Pending Be fore Committee Representative Ted R. Ray of Henderson county, Randolph of Swain, and Lumpkin of Frank lin county, have introduced in the legislature a new bill de signed to reduce penalties on tax foreclosures. The bill is now pending before the commit tee on finance. Following clauses repealing 221, | 1027 public laws; chapter 204, ; 1929 public laws and chapter 1260, public laws of 1931, the I bill continues: "That a penalty of 8 per cent I to he added to all sales of land j hereafter made by the tax col i lectors, sheriffs and other offi ' cers of the several counties in I the state and in all the incor portted towns of the state. I "That the penalties in all sales ' of land heretofore made which t have not been foreclosed and | deeds not made for the same are hereby released both in cities and counties. "That the owners of claimants 'of any real estate either in cities or counties hereafter made shall I have 36 months from the date of sale in which to redeem said land. : "That in all cases where the owner or claimant of land which is hereafter sold for the pay ment of taxes fails to redeem i (Continued on page four) DEATH CALLS ! COL JOE RAY . Former Buncombe Resn dent Father Mrs. Young of This County (Tbl. Joe L. y, i>3-year-oh^ veteran of the War Between the i Slates, native of Yancey county, but who lived at Barnavdsville, in ' Buncombe county for a great part of his life, died Monday, January 16, at Springfield, Mo. His daugh ter, Mrs. l)ovie Young, of Holly Springs?, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Her?chberger. the latter a daugh ter of Mrs. Young, have gone to Springfield for the funeral. Col. Kay was graduated from | the law department of the Uni- | versity at Philadelphia in 1862.1 He was later admitted to the bar. j He was amon«, the party who gave burial to Elisha Mitchell, the J discoverer of Mount Mitchell. Besides his wife. Col. Ray 's j survived by the following sons i and daughters: Mrs. Dovie Young,1 Mrs. Mattie Hensley, Mrs. Curia Wheeler of California; M. T. Kay; and Captain Carl L. Ray of Cali fornia; George O. Ray of Spring;-! field, Mo.; Mrs. P. S. Kreigh, West j Plains, Mo.; Mrs. Alvin Thomp son. Rogersville, Mo.; Miss Verna Kay, Springfield, Mo., and James1 Ray of Norfolk, Va. Will Reopen the Bank of Landrum I LANDRUM. S. C., Jan. 18.—At | a mass meeting of the depositors, | creditors and stockholders of the closed Mutual Bank of Landrum, J held here yesterday, resolutions j adopting proposals whereby the bank can be reopened were unani mously adopted. Under the reso lutions, work will begin at once, looking toward the reopening of the bank on Feb. 1. Says Philippines Will Turn Down Independence President of Native Senate Tells United Press De feat Will Be Overwhelm ing MANILA, Jan. 18.—(UP).— Judging by the present attitude of ' the Philippine territorial legisla ture. that body will reject the Huwcs-Cultinj? independence bill by an overwhelming majority, Manuel Quezon, president of the senate told the United I'rass to day. WASHINGTON. Jan. 18. (UP) j Admiral Dewey's suns at Manila ' Hay in 1808 had a long retarded I political echo at the capitol ye^-1 terdav when the senate voted, 00 to 20 to overrido President Hoo-' ver's veto on the Philippines in dependence bill. The house previously had de feated the veto, 277 to 71. and the bill became law. The ac ion yesterday fives sta tutory effect to the long-heraldel (Promise of independence, and •thereby definitely terminates the anti-imperialism campaign com menced with the American land ing at Manila in 1898. Congress acted, howevtr. against the coun sel of four responsible executive departments. The bill provides for the adop tion of a constitution for a com 'fcionwealth government of the 'fhilippines, and on the Fourth of $uly following ten years under I ^his government American sov- j !?reign'y will e withdrawn and independence recognized. \ During this preparatory period, ;fhe»-tslands will enjoy greater lo ?nl autonomy than thev now pos-1 sess, and the authority of the j United States will be represented by a high commissioner instead of a governor general. As compared with the actual status, the bill offers the Philip pines an early increase in auton omy, and a definite assurance of future independence instead of the vague promise in the pream ble of the present .Tones Organic Act of 1910, which pledged inde pendence when a stable govern ment is established. The Philippines, however, stand to suffer an abridgement of their present free access to American markets and a drastic restriction of their present right of free im migration. Dunne: the preparatory pcnoa the United States retains its mili- j tary and naval reservations, and ] this government reserves the right to redesignate such reservations i ■within two years after actual in-1 dependence. Internationally, tiie treaty pvo-1 poses to safeguard the indepen- I rience of the Philippines by a re quest to the president to negotiate | a treaty for perpetual neutraliza- j tion. Atlanta Matron, Daughter Dead =» i ATLANTA. Jan. 18.— (UP).— Mrs. Virginia Pratt, prominent society woman, and her ten-year old daughter, Virginia, died yes terday of poison, and her son, Nath Pratt, 12, is seriously ill. She said the fruit they ate for j breakfast yesterday had a peculiar taste. Relatives of Mrs. Pratt in-1 dicated the belief she had commit-! ted suicide but refused to discuss j the death of the girl. The Prutts I have been separated for two years. I ARMY BUYS BOMBING PLANES i WITH REPORTED SPEED OF 165 ! MILES AN HOUR; NEW TYPE | RIVERSIDE. Cal., Jan. 18.— (UP).—The United States army is speeding- up its aircraft. New bombing: planes capable of speeds between 140 and 165 , miles an hour, recently delivered I to March Field here, are making j obsolete old type Keystone and Curtiss Condor bombing planes, and the faster Hoeing pursuit ! planes as well, according to Ma jjor Joseph T. McNarney of the seventh bombardment group. Two of the new giant birds, built by the Douglas Aircraft company of Santa Monica, are now in service. They are known as "Gull wing" planes, or high wing monoplanes, all metal, and with two outboard motors sus pended from the wings. The ships are equipped with retracable landing gear. With a crew of three men—pilot, radio operator and bomber—the craft can carry 2000 pounds of bombs at top speeds of J(i5 miles an hour. Two-way radio communi cation also Ls part of the equip ment. The new bomber practically makes the present Keystone and Condor bombers obsolete for ac tual emergency use, although they serve adequately as train ing ships. Neither can approach at top speed, the 140-mile mini mum of the new Douglas. Pursuit planes, mostly of Hoe ing construction, have a speed of approximately 150 miles an hour. The new bomber also makes man datory speeding up of the pur suit planes which under the gen eral plan of aii* defense and at tack. must be faster than the bomber if it is to protect the larger craft while bombs are dropped. Speedier pursuit craft are now being turned out by Boeing. JAPS SABOTAGE SINGER PLANT AT Foreign Minister Ignores Requests for Protection of Americans YOKOHAMA, Jan. 18.—(UI»). Forty jxMvons wore injured here todaiy when a hand of 200 gang sters, believed to have be«.-n hh-ed l»v .striking- workers, sabotaged the three-story plant of the Sing er Sewing Machine company. The damage is estimated at sev eral hundred thousand dollars, i Police arre.sted 138 gangsters. TOKIO, Jan. 18.— (UP).—A vigorous protest on behalf of the Unitud Sia es against the attack of 200 Japanese on the American owned Singer sewing machine plant at Yokohama was made to day by Joseph Clark Grew. Unit, ed States ambassador, to Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida. Uchida promised an immediate investigation. The embassy said that Grew, after sending several representations about the lack of action on the Singer incident finally visited Uchida personally at 0 p. in., urging protection of American lives and property. ROBBERY CASE BEFORE COURT Many Indictments and Not True Bills Returned by Grand Jury The superior court today was considering the cases of Burt Pace, Herman Bishop and Char lie Souther, charged with break ing and with larceny in connec tion with the robbery of Howard's store at Brickton during the month of December. Souther has entered a plea of guilty to the charges, and is awaiting sentence by the court, l'ace and Bishop plead not guilty to the charges. Evidence and argument in the cases had been completed this morning and the bases are ex pected to go to the jury this afternoon following the charge of the court. In the court yesterday after noon the case of Sam Stevens, charged with carrying a conceal ed weapon, was remanded to the recorder's court. J. H. Russell was found guilty on a charge of false pretense, and the court had not passed sentence this morning. The following true bills were returned yesterday afternoon by the grand jury: Jess Sullivan and Jack Blue, breaking and en tering and larceny; J. W. Gos nell, embezzlement; J. C. Living ston, embezzlement; Burt Pace, Herman Bishop and Charlie I Souther, breaking and entering and larceny; Johnnie Wallace, breaking and entering and lar ceny; Dave Murphy, breaking and entering and larceny; Mamie Ethel Kirk Sizemore, bigamy. In the following investigations not true bills were returned: Gurley Levi and Ec Levi, break ing and entering and larceny; J. H. Brock, statutory charge. Business Women's Club Hears Mayor Edwards in Talk On Tuesday night the Business and Professional Women's club met at the home of Miss Jane Truex. After a short business session Mayor A. V. Edwards was introduced and he spoke in formally on methods of local city erovernment, explaining details of interest in connection with the operation of the city's various de partments. The president called attention to the mid-vear council whicli will meet in Statesville on Jan uary 28. The club will meet with Miss Rertie Leach in the Bellevue apartments January 31, and Miss Robbie Ross, chairman interna tional relations, will have charge of the program at that time. Elopes With Ringling Heir MMM I Maxine Weaver, above, is going to sketch all the horses she wants to now. An art student, she went to Florida, heard there were nice horses to sketch at the John Ring ling estate. There she met Henry Ringling North, nephew of tha circus kin};. Their elopement has just been revealed. SENATE VOTES SALARY CUTS FOR EMPLOYES New House Bill Would \--- Abolish State Pa?k Commission | RALEIGH. Jan. 18.— (UP).— The senate today passed the house bill to cut the salaries of legisla tive employes to save a total of $150 per day and the bill to save counties $100,000 to $200,000 an nually. This bill provides that any public officers drawing salaries shall not receive witness fees for j testifying, in courts. » Bills introduced included: Repeal of the absentee ballot, laws for primaries; To abolish the present state park commission and transferring its duties to the conservation and. development board. The house judiciary committee today favorably reported for the second time the repeal of the five day notice and medical examina tion requirements provision in the state marriage laws. The house passed and sent to the senate a resolution to memo rialize congress, asking it to regu late the value of currency, in view I of strengthening commodity prices | in the United States. Senate Offered Arms Cut Plan; I WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. (UP). Republican Leader Watson today proposed to the senate an inter national disarmament program calling for the reduction of al most 41 per cent in the world's $4,000,000,000 arms bill over a 10-year period. He presented in the senate a resolution offerine "unconditionally to all nations" a multilateral treaty providing for five per cent annual reduc tion in expenses for offensive and defensive equipment, and military personnel. MISS MARIE ALLEN HURT IN ACCIDENT TRYON. Jan. 18.—Miss Marie Allen of Hendersonville is in St. Luke's hospital here with a bad head injury following an automo bile accident south of here Mon day night. She is the granddaugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobo Law rence, of Tryon. ANOTHER THREAT TO QUIT LEAGUE MADE GENEVA. Jan. 18.—(UP).— Japan may quit the League of Nations soon if the league acts too hurriedly in the Manchurian , dispute. Yosuke Matsuoka, chief ! Japanese delegate told the United j Press today. BODY IS RECOVERED I LONG BEACH. Cal., Jan. 18. ! (UP).—A body recovered near I the navy boat landing was identi fied yesterday as that of James H. Brabham, 24. of Olar, S. C. iBraham, attached to the U. S. S. Trenton wa» drowned new year's day. ROOSEVELT TO MEET HOOVER FRIDAY i M. % President-Elect Going to Washington for Confer ence on Affairs PREDICT RETENTION OF OTHER VIEWS (Copyright, United Press, 1933) WASHINGTON. Jan. 18. (UP) An unbroken procession of Amer ican foreign policy in all major matters save war debts was as sured at the recent New York con ference between Secretary of State Stimson and President-elect Roosevelt. This information reachcd tht> United Press today from a sourc« of unquestionable authority and is the first comprehensive disclos ure of the discussion and its re sults. CONFERENCE SET FOR 11 A. M. FRIDAY WASHINGTON. Jan. 18. (UP) President Hoover will confer again with President-elect Roose velt on war debts. Friday morn ing. it was learned at the Whitu House today. The incoming and outgoing presidents will confer on national affairs, and particularly on problems concerned with war debts, at 11 a. m. By FREDERICK A. STORM United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—(UP). —President-elect Roosevelt con tinued his quest for information and advice on diplomatic develop ments last night after issuing a statement that was generally re garded as putting him four-square behind the Hoover Far Eastern policy and laying the ground-work for his «wn future dealings in foreign affairs. Roosevelt^ who insisted that "American foreign policy muBt uphold the sanctity of intern-* tional treaties," followed this by conferring with Col. E. M. House, chief adviser to Woodrow Wilson, and with Frank Polk, former un der-secretary of state. While he declared the visits were solely for the pjrpose of saying "goodbye" to him on his projected southern trip, his friends were convinced that they wen over the situation created through Washington dispatches announc ing him as committed to the Hoo ver doctrine of non-recognition to violators of the Kellog'g-Briand treaty. Some of his advisers went so far as to say that his statement could be regarded as a liberal in terpretation of the attitude he will take when the European debt situation comes to a head again in June, the time for the next in stallment from debtor nations, and also as regards the disarmament question. J Roosevelt wrote his statement j on a sheet of copy paper a new?- j paperman handed him. Then he, read the following to interviewers grouped about him: "Any statement relating to nnv particular foreign situation mu.st, of course, come from the secre tary of state of the United States. "I am, however, wholly willing to make it clear that American J foreign policy must uphold tho! sanctity of international treaties.1 "That is a cornerstone on which all relations between nations must j rest.'' It was believed Roosevelt had in mind the Sino-Japanese situa tion when he issued the communi cation. although some friends were firm in stating that his views could be applied to debtors as well. Beyond the formal paragraphs he declined to amplifv the Wash ington reports, meeting all in quiries with the reply that Secre tary of State Stimson would have to talk first. It was understood ns late as yesterday Roosevelt and Stimson (Continued on page four) TDM a ESS In what year was the tO??* FIRST REGULARLY SCHEOUIH) >7 AIR MAIL LINE INAUGURATED? HOW MANY STATES COMPOSED THE SOUTMBJN Confederacy 1861-65? What is the predominat ing COUOC Of FLOWEES ? For correct aniweri to thesa J questions, please turn to page 5. i