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FAIR
WEATHER
tonight and tues
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SIti* ©mtes -
GOOD AFTERNOON
Finland hat paid in full again,
on it* debt to tha United States.
But it has Hope* of becoming a
first-class nation, too, some day.
|L 53—No. 151
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
[/. S. Asks England To Clarify Naval Views
)ULD KNOW
FINITELY OF
HIDING PLAN
J. Navy League Head
ays Time Not Ripe
for Parley
ION SOON WILL BE
SHIPS UNDER QUOTA
>N?ON'. June 25.— (UP).—
I'r./.ev! States? government to
; - i an unwritten inti
. at Britain that clari
i:: f the proposed big in
r. t'-.e British navy alone:
■ - ate lines would be
tx. ■ is understood.
■ CARROLL KENWORTHY
■d Press Staff Correspondent
ftyright. 1934, United Press)
ftSHINGTON, June 25. (UP)
ftonement of the 1935 naval
ft ■ e until world conditions
■: tblc for agreement was
ftated yesterday by Xathaniol
■ tir ng president of
ftr-v League.
ft - Ta: anese demands
R.-- - and foreshad
■ a: Soviet Russia
■ Germany be called to the
ftwnce wer* cited by Hubbard
ft _ ' he outlook dark for iti
ft- substantial sacrifices
ft of the United States
ft lest ion.
■ rican naval mission ;s
■ -1 now holding prelimi
■ with Great Britain,
ft Frti and Italy, the other
ftr* r.aval powers, are in
ft the scheduled parley
ft Hpl its consider crucial
ft balance between peace an I
ft:, the next decade.
ftether political nor economic
ft: n at present favor holc!
ftjf the 1935 conference,"
fta:<i told the United Press,
fthe objectives of every naval
ft except the United States
ft ease rather than a
fttse of their national naval
ftjrv In the interest of both
ftpea>t and future additional
ft of naval armaments :t
ftped that these preliminary
ft--a* mj develop a situ
ft that will induce the naval
ft- 11 effect an adjournment
B 5 conference to a more
ft as time, meantime main
■ status quo under the
B and London treaties,
ft spoke as an authority
ft.-'.: naval and diplomatic
ft'- :i:ure than 40 years.
1 head of the Navy
ft" nsidered the outstaHd
I ff i navy organization,
ftg a period roughly coinc:
■ sident Roosevelt's
B
I out the United
ft ■ a.k 84 under-age
ft? ships, mostly destroyers,
■ Washin|toa and Lon
■trsaties expire in December,
■ the construction
ft >-:dent Roosevelt
iCEPTION SET
If BAPTISTS
1 Pastor and Wife To
* Honored at Skyland
Tuesday Night
'■ - of the First Baptist
will give a reception to tho
: Mrs. Broadus E. Jones,
n*w pastor and his wife, on
r p'nt between the houra
' " !0 o'clock, at the
' f the Skyland hotel,
K. E Osborne, member ->f
^urch, announced today oa
' r ' several committees
irra-/. ments.
number of committees are
for various phases of
reception and a program is
Provided by Mrs. P. F. Sud
' ar-* 1 Miss Mary Brooks.
".ion is open to mem
! ,j' th»- church, members and
"•■r churches, and to
visitors in the city. All
welcomed.
'^RS. DALL FISHES
J-'TCLIFFE, Nev., June 25.—
J- Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall
her first big fish in Pyra
Sunday. The president's
J Slighter, living at the near
wich of Mr. and Mrs. William
£h*r'l Dana, wealthy New
*rs» pulled in a trout weigh
* Pounds.
Leading War for Film Cleanup
With more than a million enrolled in the Legion of Decency, de
manding wholesome movies, these four Roman Catholic .prelates met
. in Cincinnati with film leaders and informed them that a nation
wide boycott would be aimed at immoral pictures. Forming the com
mittee planning a "relentless campaign," arc, left to right, the Rt.
! Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, bishop of Pittsburgh; the Rt. Rev. John J.
Cantwell. bishop of Los Angeles; Archbishop John T. McNicholas of.
Cincinnati, chairman; and the' Rt. Rev. John F. Noll, bishop of Fort
I Wayne, Ind.
POLK COUNTY]
BOARD NAMED
Successors to Ousted Elec
tions Authorities
Are Designated
COLUMBUS. June 25.—A new
I county board of elections for
Polk county has been named by
the state board of elections fol
lowing the removal of the former
board bv the state board after a
hearing on last Friday.
i The new board, which was
sworn into office by L. P. Mc
Lendon, chairman of the state
board, is composed of Major
Bernard Sharp of Tryon, chair
man. D. H. Miller of Green's
Creek, secretary, both Democrats,
and N. G. Walker of Mill Spring,
Republican.
Removal of the former board
followed charges of irregularities
i in the June 2 primary. S. J.
Feagan and W. M. Smith, mem
bers of the board, were removed
because of alleged failure to per
form their duties in connection
with the primary election, and H.
G. Laughter was found ineligible
to hold office because he is chief
of police at Saluda.
The state board also removed
two registrars, F. M. Burgess,
Democrat, of Columbus precinct,
and Tom Steadman, Democrat, of
Green's Creek precinct.
Alleged irregularities in the
primary election occurred, ac
cording to charges, in the voting
log absentee ballots in the two
precincts.
Child Welfare !
Survey In County |
! Is Nearing End
Mrs. Carey Blythe is bringing1
to a close the child welfare sur
vey, which she has been making
in Henderson county for the past
few weeks in the endeavor to as
certain the names and addresses
of physically handicapped chil
dren, including such handicaps as
lameness, deafness, blindness, as
well as orphans, etc.
Mr. Blythe reported 76 such
cases as a result of her work dur
ing: the past week and will be glad
to have information concerning
other cases that have not been re
ported by neighbors, friends and
relatives.
There is a likelihood that some
form of assistance will be extend
ed these handicapped children but
it will be necessary that they be
I included in this survey.
I
JUNIOR ORDER MEET
Regular meeting of the Junior
Order, United American Mechan
ics will be held Tuesday night,
| June 25, at 8 o'clock, at the hail
ion Main street.
9 Chinese Girls
Drown In Suicide
Pact Over Love
SHANGHAI, June 25. (UP).
Nine Chinese girls between the
ages of 13 and 19 tied them
selves together in a strange sui
cide pact and leaped into the
river outside Hewian, Fukien
province. All were drowned.
The Vernacular Press blamed
their action on unrequited love.
They took the second favor
ite method of self-destruction
in the Orient, the first being
hanging.
DEATH CALLS
C. P. THOMAS
Dead Statesman, Bi-Metal
ism Crusader Waited
Cheerfully for End
DENVER, Colo., June 25.—
(UP). Charles Spalding Thomas,
native of Georgia, former United
States senator and former gover
nor of Colorado, died at his home
Sunday.
Ill for months, the 84-year-old
attorney and crusader for the
cause of bi-metallism had cast
aside the desire to live thrae
weeks ago and waited, calmly,
cheerfully, for the end.
To relatives and friends who
remained near after he began
sinking rapidly three weeks ago
he apologized for "this uncon
scionable delay." Physicians forced i
him to eat.
"What must I eat?" he asked.
"We eat to prolong life and my
desire now is to die. Why should
I not be consistent even now?"
Friday he lapsed into semi-con
sciousness, from which he did not
emerge. Occasionally his eyes
opened and he appeared to recog
nize persons near him but he was
unable to speak.
He sought and obtained from
his widow and children a promise
that he would be cremated and
that no funeral services would be
held. He requested of friends
who "might want to send flowers"
that they give a like amount of
[money to charity.
When death came he was in the
midst of one of the great battles
| of his career—a court fight to
[free his daughter, Edith, of fed
leral charges of violation of the
(anti-gold hoarding order of Presi
dent Roosevelt.
He believed the order uncon
stitutional, a violation of personal
liberties. He admitted encourag
ing Miss Thomas to hoard $3,000
in gold in violation of the order.
He had hoped to lead the defense
in her trial, pending in federal
district court.
Born in Darien, Ga., pn Dec. 6,
(Continued on page three)
WEDELL, NOTED
SPEED PILOT.
DIES IN CRASH
Observers Think His Stu
dent "Froze" to Stick,
Causing Crash
FLIER CUT-OFF GAS,
SAVING COMPANION
PATTERSON, La., June 25.—
(UP). Grieving: friends of James
Robert (Jimmy) Wedell, interna
tionally famous speed pilot and
plane designer, slammed the hang
ar door today on a half completed
speed plane. It will never be com
pleted or flown.
Wedell, 34, was killed yester
day when the plane in which he
was giving a novice a first flying
lesson crashed from 200 feet. The
student, Frank Sneeringer, not
seriously hurt, could give only a
vague account of the accident, but
witnesses said he must have 'fro
zen the stick."
Wedell, his chest caved in
against the dashboard in the front
cock-pit of the small Gypsy-Moth
plane, was a good pilot to the
very end. He had turned off the
ignition before the ship buried its
nose deep into the mire of the
watery rice field near the airport.
This act kept the plane from
bursting into flames and saved the
life of the unconscious Sneer
inger.
Coroner C. M. Horton of St.
Mary parish listed Wedell's inju
ries as "compound fracture of the
skull, injuries to the chest, a
smashed knee and general con
cussions." He died instantly, said
Dr. Horton.
Wedell was the holder of the
world's record of 305.33 miles
per hour for land planes. He also
established records for the three
capital flight from Ottawa, Can
ada, to Washington, D. C., to
Mexico City, and from Agua Cali
ente, Mexico, to Vancouver, Brit
ish Columbia.
Harry Williams, millionaire
lumberman who met Wedell years
ago when the flier was forced
down in his cow pasture, and who
became his friend, backer andj
partner in the building of air
planes and operation of an air
line, wept when he heard the
news.
"What that bov (Jimmy) does,
doesn't need investigating," Wil
liams told the United Press when
asked if the accident would be
probed. Williams was completely
broken.
Walter Wedell, brother of the
dead speed king, told of the acci
dent:
"It was not a spin. The ship
had just taken off across the air
port, from the hanger. The plane
suddenly went straight up into
the air, and then plunged right to
the ground. The student must,
have grabbed the control stick in
his fright. He must have "frozen
to it,' pulling it back so hard that
Jimmie could not fight it free in
time."
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed today.
ROOSEVELT'S MOTHER
VISITING IN EUROPE
LONDON, June 25.—(UP).—
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of
President Roosevelt, was guest of
honor at a luncheon given by
Ramsay MacDonald and Miss Ish
bel MacDonald at No. 10 Downing
street today.
Ambassador and Mrs. Robt. W.
Bingham and prominent British
cabinet officers, including Sir
Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Si
mon and their wives were among
those present.
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., June
25.— (UP).—Mrs. James Roose
velt, mother of the President, ar
rived aboard the liner Europa
yesterday for a visit abroad.
She was met by U. S. Ambas
sador Robert Bingham and pro
ceeded to London to spend a few
days, after which she plans to
visit friends in Aberdeenshire,
Scotland. Mrs. Roosevelt will
spend some time on the continent
before returning to America.
LUTHERAN ANNIVERSARY
TEANECK, N. J., June 25.—
(UP).—A memorial service com
memorating 230th anniversary of
the founding of the first Luther
an church in New Jersey was
held in the site of the First
church Sunday. The service was
identical with one held 113 years
ago after burning of the original
church erected in 1704.
Plane Mows Down
21 Serbians, Kills
Eight Spectators
ZAGREB, Serbia, June 25.—■
(UP).—Eight spectators were
billed and 13 injured when an
airplane, out of control, nose
dived into a great crowd watch
ing an aerial circus in the town
of Esseg.
Pilot Bohumil Jaklic tried
vainly to lift the plane over the
"heads of spectators screaming
in panic as they were mowed
down.
TWO DISTRICT
REPUBLICAN
MEETING SET
Campaign Plans Will Be
Discussed Here on
Friday
Republicans of the 10th and
11th congressional districts will
meet in Hendersonville next Fri
day for an all-day meeting, ac
cording to an announcement made
today by W. C. Meekins, chairman
of the state executive committee.
Sessions will be held in the morn
iDg at 11 o'clock and in the aft
ernoon at 2:30.
Halsey B. Leavitt, of Asheville,
Republican nominee for congress
in the 11th district, and Calvin
R. Edney, party nominee in the
10th district, will attend the meet
ing.
The purpose of the meeting is
to study plans for the fall cam
paign and to outline a program
that will obtain the most effective
results in the campaign.
Counties in the two districts
are Buncombe, Haywood, Chero
kee, Clay, Graham, Henderson,
Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Polk,
Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania,
Avery, Burke, Catawba, Gaston,
Cleveland, Lincoln, Mecklenburg,
Madison, Mitchell and Yancey.
YOUTHDIES IN
CAR ACCIDENT
Spartanburg Boy on Way
Home From Camp Here
Crushed Under Auto
Arthur Henry Lineberger, 10
year-old sonf of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Dobbins of Hillcrest, sur
burb of Spartanburg, was killed
in an automobile accident a mile
south of Landrum yesterday aft
ernoon.
The boy had been attending a
camp near Hendersonville, and
was returning home when the car
in which he was riding left the
pavement, hurtled down an em
bankment and trapped him under
the automobile, crushing his
chest.
The lad was rushed to a Tryon
hospital by a passing motorist,
but died before medical attention
could be secured. The other oc
cupants of the car, Earle Line
berger and Donald Dobbins, Jr.,
his brothers, received minor
scratches and left the hospital
after treatment.
Funeral services will be held
at a Spartanburg mortuary Tues
day morning.
Monroe To Head
Lenoir-Rhyne
CONCORD, June 25.—Resigna
tion of Dr. P. E. Monroe as pas
tor of St. James Lutheran church
was accepted by the congregation
here yesterday. Dr. Monroe will
become president of Lenoir-Rhyne
college at Hickory.
Dr. Monroe will assume his new
duties on July 1, when the term
of Dr. H. Brent Schaeffer ends.
He was formerly president of
Summerland college in South
Carolina until that college was
merged with Newberry college.
He is 58 years old and a native
of Rowan county. He was edu
cated at the old North CaroJina
college at Mt. Pleasant and at the
Lutheran Theological Seminary,
, Louisville, Ky. k
'ROOSEVELT TAKING VIGOROUS
STAND TO HALT LOSS OF LIFE
AND PROPERTY ON HIGHWAYS
Dispatches Much Business
at Home on Sunday;
in Capital Tuesday
WASHINGTON, June 25. (UP)
—President Roosevelt in a letter
read at the opening of the Ameri
can Automobile Association con
vention today said he was "deep
ly concerned" over the life and
property toll of highway acci
dents.
"Those who use the highways
must realize the responsibility
they assume when they take the
wheel," he wrote Thos. P. Henry
of Detroit. "We cannot longer
afford to temporize with this
problem," the president said.
By FREDERICK A. STORM
HYDE PARK, N. Y., June 25.
(UP).—President Roosevelt in a
Sabbath devoted almost entirely
to business signed an executive
order that will pour $150,000,000
of government funds into drouth
areas of• the west and middle
west.
The sum is part of the $525,
000,000 appropriated by the last
congress for the parched states
and will be allocated as follows:
$12,500,000 for Civilian Con
servation camps.
$25,000,000 loans for seed, feed
and freight.
$56,000,000 for federal emerg
ency relief grants to states.
$12,500,000 purchase of lands.
$43,000,000 to secretary of ag
riculture for purchase, sale, gift
or othe^ distribution of seed, feed
and livestock transportation there
of.
The President also signed sev
eral minor claim measures and
these were dispatched to Wash
ington during the afternoon.
The President returned to busi
ness shortly after returning from
morning services at the St. James
Episcopal church in Hyde Park
village. He attended services
there with Mrs. Roosevelt and El
liott and Ruth Googins Roosevelt.
The President dispatched to
Denver a message of condolence
to the widow of former U. S. Sen
ator Charles S. Thomas, who died
Sunday morning. Thomas was a
friend of Mr. Roosevelt while both
were serving in Washington dur
ing war days.
A blazing sun kept Mn Roose
velt indoors except for the brief
church trip and a short motor ride
in the early evening to the cot
tage, family rendezvous on the es
tate about three miles from the
main house.
It was learned that in connec
tion with the labor disputes situa
tion he was keeping a close watch
on developments in the Pacific
coast dock workers strike and felt
confident that the matter would
be settled.
The President will leave Hyde
Park tonight aboard his special
train, due to reach Washington
Tuesday morning.
H'ville Golfers
Nip Waynesville
In Matches Here!
Hendersonville defeated Way
nesville by a margin of four!
points in an inter-city golf match
here Sunday afternoon. A return
engagement may be played at
Waynesville next Saturday.
Topping the tournament here
yesterday was a match between
John Drake, local pro, and Br. J.
G. Bennett vs. Taylor, Waynes-1
ville pro. and J. A. Prevost, one
of Waynesville's best. Drake and
Bennett made a clean sweep of
the three points at stake. Results
of other matches were:
Brackett and Arnold, Hender
sonville, won three points from
J. W. Ray and F. E. Alley, Jr.,
Waynesville.
Bracken and Smyth, Hender
sonville, won one point from Da
| vis and Ferguson, Waynesville.
Andrews and Hodges, Hender
sonville, wop three points from
Dunbar and R. L. Prevost, Way
nesville.
W. H. Pj-evost and Bullock,
Waynesville, won three points
from Dr. Griffith and Clayton
Drake, Hendersonville.
Weddington and Charlie Hunt
er, Hendersonville, won two
points from Calhoun and Owen,
Waynesville.
Smith and Colkitt, Waynesville,
won two points from Ralph
Buchanan and Hayes, Henderson
ville.
Korat, Waynesville, won one
point from Blank, Henderson
ville. ^ ; ^
Indicted in Film
Morals Case
Indictment on a morals charge
was returned against Miss Gloria
Marsh, actress (above), after wit
nesses before Los Angeles grand
jury had made sensational charges
that girls seeking film careers are
forced to have affairs with studio
courtiers before they can get
jobs. Indicted also was Dave Al
len, casting bureau head.
RING CARNIVAL
ON WEDNESDAY
One "Natural" Will Be
Staged With Others
Well Matched
Plans were being completed to
day for the second American Le
gion boxing carnival, which will
be staged in the city gymnasium
on Wednesday evening, beginning
at 8 o'clock.
Topping the card will be the
feature grudge match between
Senator Robert Lee Whitmire and
his perennial opponent in one
form of sport or another, Dr. J.
G. Bennett, the golfing dentist.
Whitmire is confident that he
will be able to avenge himself for
past indignities at the hands of
the dentist, while Bennett is lay
ing plans to have Whitmire stuffed
and placed with his wild game
collection.
A bout seen as a 'natural' is
that between Jimmie Drake and
Frank McGraw. Both boys arc
top-notchers, old rivals, and capa
ble of putting up a fine boxing
exhibition.
Eight preliminary bouts have
been scheduled and all of them
will feature well-matched fights,
insuring the fans a maximum of
action throughout the evening.
Judges for the fights, all of
which will be for three rounds,
have not been selected. Jimmy
Fain will serve as referee, but the
announcement was made today
that Norment Quarles, Hender
sonville's sensational young light
weight, would probably return to
Hendersonville by Wednesday and
will referee some of the fights.
Four Prisoners
Escape, Kidnap
2, One Banker
LUBBOCK, Texas, June 25.—
(UP).—Four prisoners, led by Ed
(Perchmouth) Stanton, condemn
ed murderer, escaped from the
Lubbock county jail yesterday.
They kidnaped two men, includ
ing the vice president of a bank,
as they fled, armed with rifles and
a sub-machine gun taken from the
sheriffs gun case. Fears were ex
pressed last night for the lives of
the two kidnaped men.
NEW CHAPTER
IS WRITTEN IN
FAMOUS CASE
Three-Year-Old Daughter
Seeks Half of 25- Mil
lion Estate ;r>
COURT DECISION
AWAITED TODAY
BULLETIN
WINSTON-SALEM, June 25.—
(UP).—Judge Felix E. Alley to
day continued indefinitely at th«
request of attorneys for both
sides the motion of the Cabarrus
Bank & Trust Co., of Concord, to
set aside a $500,000 trust fund
for Anne Cannon Reynolds, 2nd,
in order to permit her to sharo
equally in the $25,000,000 estate
of her late father, Smith Rey
nolds.
It was learned on reliable au
thority that attorneys are work
ing on an agreement to settle the
case. Nothing was made public.
WINSTON-SALEM, June 25.—
(UPj.—Another chapter was to
be written today in the "Stnith
Reynolds case," a chain of events
started on July 6, 1932, when tha
youthful heir to tobacco millions
was shot to death at the palatial
family estate, Reynolda, near here.
The question of whether hia
three-year-old daughter, Anno
Cannon Reynolds, 2nd, shall in
herit one half of her father's $25,
000,000 estate or keep only a
$500,000 trust fund established
by her father, was to be decided
by Judge Felix E. Alley, of
Waynesville, who today was to
hear a motion to set aside the
judgment signed in August 1931,
creating the trust.
Smith Reynolds' daughter was
born to his first wife, the former
Anne Cannon of Concord, who di
vorced him in Reno, Nev., shortly
before his second marriage to
Libby Holman, former Broadway
"torch singer."
A verdict in favor of the plain
tiff today will mean that the baby,
girl may share equally in the es
tate with Zachary Smith Rey
nolds, Jr., 16-months-old son of
Libbv Holman Reynolds.
The late R. J. Reynolds, foun
der of the Camel cigarette dynas
ty, and his widow, Mrs. Katherine
Reynolds Johnston, left wills pro
viding for their children and their
issue, but making no provision for
the wives or husbands of their
two sons and two daughters.
Under the wills, grandchildren
of the elder Reynolds may claim
equal shares in the estate.
The Safe Deposit and Trust
Co., of Baltimore, trustees under
R. J. Reynolds' will, is party to
the suit to set aside the motion
establishing the trust fund. In its
answer to the complaint filed with
the original motion the Baltimore
concern held that the Cabarrus
Bank & Trust Co. refused to ac
cept payment of $200 each month
under the trust fund since Sep
tember, 1932.
A $500,000 trust fund also was
established for Reynolds' first
wife who divorced him in Novem
ber, 1931.
ENLISTING NEW
CCC CAMPERS
Allotment of 23 Boys Has
Been Assigned for
Henderson County
The local emergency relief ad
ministration is enrolling white
boys between 18 and 25 years of
age to enter the camp of Civilian
Conservation Corps on July 5.
An allotment of 23 boys has
been assigned to Henderson coun
ty. These will be taken from fam
ilies now on relief.
The relief office stated that
there was a heavy demand by
those off relief for an opportun
ity to go to camp for a six-month
period. Officials said it would be
useless for those other than on
relief to make application because
this rule would be rigidly followed
in this enrollment.
Those who go to camp are paid
$30 a month, the major portion
of which is sent to the parents
for their upkeep. Food, clothing,
shelter, medical attention and
other necessities are provided the
boys without cost while they are
in camp. _ .1^
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