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WEATHKR
Fair S*»urdi«y ni^hl, *lnflilly
wirmrr in interior. Sunday part
ly cloudy, becoming unsettled i«
the mountains.
(titr (limes
largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper i 11 North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
Julius Stretcher, one of the
rhief Nari pumper* for Aryanism.
worked hit way up from oh»rur
ity. A kind of Horacial Alger
•lory.
VOL. 57—No. 199
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1938
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Nation s business Shows Upward Trend
NEW BUILDING!
BOOM IS GO AL
OF AUTHORITY
Senator Bankhead Calls on
Southerners for "Buy
Southern" Drive
FSA WILL BOOST
PROGRAM NEXT YEAR
WASHINGTON. Aujr. 20.
— (IT)—The L'niteel States
Chamber of Commerce re
ported a contra-seasonal im
provement in business which
it characterized as excep
t i o 11 a I. emphasizing that
business activity normally
eases downward at this time
of year. The chamber said
that the trend now is up-1
ward.
MORE LOW COST
HOUSING SOUGHT
WASHINGTON'. A hit 20. (IT)
The Federal Housing Administra
tion today predicted the greatest
residential building boom for this
year since lU'il.
Seeking to stimulate recovery
through the revival of construc
tion industry the KHA and the
t'nited States Housing Authority,
aiding local communities in financ
ing low cost housing projects,
pushed forward their programs.
Anticipating curtailment of con
struction this fall and winter FHA
officials intensified efforts to ex
pand property improvement activ
ities which can be carried on dur
ing th<* cold weather months.
The housing authority, earmark
ing funds for the first time in six
weeks, niaenwhile made new com
mitments totaling S10.2tf0.000 for
nine iocal housing authorities.
This brought the total earmark
ing out of the $800,000,000 pro
vided for slum clearance and low
cost housing to $517,081,000.
BANKHEAD WANTS
DIXIE GOODS SOLD
ANN'ISTON. Ala.. Aug. 20.
(IT)—A "buy-southern" cam
paign. designed to bring about a
more favorable balance trade for
the South was proposed yesterday
by Senator John Bankhead. when
he called on southern merchants
and consumers to insist on south
ern-made goods to bring about a
situation in which the South would
export more goods and import
less.
WILL AID 150,000
NEW FARM FAMILIES
MIAMI. Fia.. Aug. (UP)
A four-day inter-regional confer
ence of more than 200 Federal
Farm Security Administration of
ficials from seven southern states
was concluded here yesterday.
The closing sessions wore de
voted to assimilating information
brought out at round-table discus
sions the first three days on prob
lems of administering aid to the
South's low-income farmers under
the FSA's rural rehabilitation pro
gram.
The aim of the FSA program in
the South, as brought out at the
conference here, is to aid in re
habilitating the low-income farm
er through credit and education.
The FSA, which already has aided
600.000 families, will add 150,000
to its program next year.
STATONS BUY
SMITH PLACE
Old Laurel Park Home
Taken Over; Will Be
Entirely Remodeled
Sale of the old Smith place, in
Laurel Park, formerly owned bv
W. A. Smith and H. Walter Ful
ler, to Raymond and Gus Staton
was announced today. The pur
chase price was not made public.
The new owners stated that
they plan to begin immediately to
remodel the house entirely.
The house contains about eight
rooms and the plot about 3 acres
located on a small hill overlook
ing Laurel Park lake. The house
was built by the late W. A. Smith,
and later owned by Mr. Fuller.
The sale to the Statons wa^ made
by Consolidated Realty company.
Seeks Presidency
of Stale Y. I). ('.
(!un!'«r. (i ay. <»t' Winston-Salem,
puhli.-iu-r of tin- Journal and
Twin < ity Sentinel. and muni- I
nee tor I'oisyth state senator, '
has annou need his candidacy
for president of the North Car- j
olina Voting democratic club. \
STEPHENS AND
STOKES REACH
TENNIS FINALS
Latter Upsets Lane in 3
Hour Match: Stephens
Defeats Drennon
John Stephens, seeded No. 'J,
ami Pete Stokes, unseeded, ad
vanced to th«* finals of the city
tennis tourney yesterday after
noon.
Stephens defeated Arnold Pren
non <>l Camp Arrowhead in
1litiulit sets, 7-f>, <i-1, while
Stokes outlasted Mel Lane, for
nter city champion itt a gruelling
three-hour match to win at 6-0,
8-10. 7-5, L'-B. f»-2.
Stephens put on the pressure
early against Drennon and except
for the second set was never in
danger.
Stoke;, and Lane played the out
standing match of the tourney to
date with the younger Stokes hold
ing on just long enough to win
the fifth set of their three-hour
encounter. It was beautiful ten
nis throughout.
l)ick Logan of Camp Arrow
head won the junior singles. d>
featmg Coan this morning in
straight sets, 6-4, 6-2.
Finals in all divisions will he
played tomorrow with Stephens
ami Stokes meeting at 3 o'clock.
In the doubles Stephens and
Anders meet the winner of the
Lane-Chcves, Stokes-Fain match
thi-- afternoon. In mixed doubles,
Mi.»s Meteor and Anders meet the
winner of the Jenkins-Stephens
and Ball-Cheves match.
Mrs. P.all and Miss Maekey will
play the semi-finals in the women's
singles and Mrs. Whaley atul Mrs.
Andrews play the other semi
finals.
Mercury Below
Month's Normal
For First Time
The mean temperature drop
ped below the normal for August
for the first time this month. The
mean recording was decrees
and the normal is 7- degrees.
Low temperatures during the
day and cool nights for the past
two days brought relief from high
temperatures of the early part of
the past week.
The low recording Thursday
night was 56 degrees and last
night the mercury dropped to 54
degrees.
Figures for Friday are as fol
lows:
Maximum -S3 degrees. Mini
mum—56 degrees. Mean—69.5
degrees. Day's range — 27 de
grees.
Normal mean temperature for
August—72 degrees. Rainfall to
date—1.47 inches. Normal rain
fall—6.13 inches.
JAMES TAYLOR VISITOR
James L. Taylor, Jr., of Greens
boro. was a visitor to Henderson
ville yesterday. Mr. Taylor, for
merly for a number of years a
practicing attorney here, is now
holding a responsible position with
the HOLC in Greensboro.
FEDERAL THEATRE FURTHER
| TARGET IN UN-AMERICAN
PROBE; ALLIANCE IS SCORED
Bridges Says He's
Sympathetic To
Communist Ideas
Savs He's Not a 'Red' and
Is Seeking to Uphold
tiie Constitution
LOS ANGKLES. Aug. 20. (UP)
Harry Rridges, west coast C. I. O.
leader under fire before the Dies
congressional investigating com
mittee, said last night that he is
"sympathetic" with a "lot of com
munistic ideas," but hotly denied
he is or was a member of the
Communist party.
lie described as "forged handi
work of ex-convicts, labor spies
ami stooges" a purported commu
nist membership card which was
represented to the committee as
his own, and bluntly accused the
congressional group of attempting
to advance the causes of fascism.
"I definitely think that the Dies
committee is engaging in the fur
thering of fascism and naziism
under a red-baiting banner," he
assorted.
"It appeal's very peculiar to me
that the Dies committee should
suddenly halt its investigation of
the German-American bund and
its affiliation with Nazi Germany
and begin a program of red-bait
ing and investigation of com
munism.
"It appears to me that some
high Nazi official in the United
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Will Consecrate
Calvary Church
4 P.M. Sunday
Bishop Tucker, Presiding
Prelate, Bishop Gribbin
to Take Part
Consecration services of the
new Calvary Kpiscopal church, at
Fletcher, will be held on Sunday
afternoon at t o'clock, and the
Rt. Rev. Robert E. Gribbin, bish
op of the diocese of Western
North Carolina, will officiate.
The original church was conse
crated 70 years ago, but the old
church structure was destroyed by
fire three years ago. A large
crowd is expected tomorrow after
noon and amplifiers will be set up
outside the church.
The Rt. Rev. Henry St. George
Tucker, presiding Episcopal bish
op. of Virginia, will deliver the
sermon at the service tomorrow.
In addition to the consecration
service, regular services will he
held Sunday as follows: Commun
ion at H o'clock in the morning:
by the Rev, John S. Douglas, of
Summerville, S. C., and service
and sermon at 11 o'clock by the
Rev. Arthur M. Aucock. Asheville.
Ministers who have accepted in-(
vitations to participate in the ser-l
vice include the Rev. George
Floyd Rogers, Trinity. Asheville;
Rev. William C. Cravner, All
[Souls, Biltmore; Rev. Charles F.
Roynton, Christ school, Arden;
Rev. Arthur W. Farnum, St.
Mary's, Asheville; the Rev. A. W.
Taylor, St. Andrews, Canton; the
Rev. Albert T. Mack, St. Francis,
Rutherfordton; the Rev. A. C.
Gilmore, St. James, Black Moun
Itain; the Rev. Harry Perry, St.
Philips, Brevard; the Rev. Albert
New, Grace, Waynesville; the
j Rev. G. F. Taylor, and the Rev.
C. P. Burnett, Tryon; Mr. Au
cock; the Rev. G. Philip Jung, Ar
den; Mr. Douglas; the Rev. Harry
G. Walker, Columbus, Ga.; and
l the Rev. N. C. Duncan and the
! Rev. H. P. Scratchley, Asheville.
KENTUCKIAN
1 DIES IN CITY
George Carlyle Williams, 60,
! prominent dairy farmer of Ver
! sailles, Ky., died at Patton Me
i morial hospital yesterday after
i noon at 1:30 o'clock after a brief
illness.
The body will be sent to Ken
tucky for burial today.
Mr. Williams was visiting at
Bat Cave when taken ill. He en
tered the hospital last Sunday.
Charged With Discrimina
tion Against Oppos
ing Actors
WASHINGTON, An jr. 20. (CP)
— Francis M. Verdi, elderly New
York playwright and actor today
attacked the Workers Alliance as
one of the most vigorous powers
today and asserted he had been
demoted from director to actor 011
a New York federal theater proj
ect because of his opposition to
the organization.
Appearing before the house
committee investigating un-Amer
ican activities, Verdi declared pro
fessional actors had been discrim
inated against because of their
opposition to the City Projects
Council, a white collar division of
the alliance.
WASHINGTON, Aim. (CP)
Charges that taxpayers' money is
being spent to further communism
within federal theater projects
were made yesterday before the
house committee investigating un
American activities shortly after
the group asked the department
of justice to inquire into alleged
illegal recruiting of Americans
for the Spanish war.
Attractive Hazel Huffman, hus
kv-voiced secretary of a New York
organization for actors on relief,
testified that federal theater proj
ects sponsored by the Works Prog
ress Administration are dominated
by the Workers' Alliance which,
she said, is eommunistically-con
trolled. She also asserted that
discrimination is being practiced
against needy non-members.
Her testimony came after th<
committee unanimously approved
a resolution by Representative
Harold 0. Mosier (I).. O.) asking
Attorney General'Homer S. Cum
rnings to investigate Spanish re
cruiting practices in the United
States on the basis of statements
by two Boston youths, Alvin Hal
pern and Anranam oonej.
They testified that communists
lured thorn into enlisting \-ith the
Spanish loyalist forces, that they
had managed to escape from the
front with great difficulty, and
that there are between 1.700 and
4,000 Americans still there in
"suicide brigades" as "virtual
prisoners."
llalpern told the committee that
two congressmen, Representatives
Jerry .1. O't'onnell (D., Mont.)
and .Ino. T. Bernard (F-K., Minn.)
addressed a group of wounded in
a Spanish hospital last year and
congratulated the Americans for
"fighting for a great cause." Both
are members of the so-called
house liberal bloc.
"They gave us the regulation
Soviet salute—the raised clenched
fist," Halpern said.
In forwarding the testimony to
Cummings, the committee called
attention to sections of federal
statutes providing a three-year
prison term and a $1,000 fine for
persons "soliciting Americans to
fijrht on foreign soil."
Miss Huffman, secretary of the
committee on relief status of pro
fessional theater employes of the
New York federal theater project,
told the committee that Mrs. Tlal
lio Flanagan, director of WPA
federal theaters, is conimunistical
ly-inclined although she can not
prove that she is a member of the
party. She also accused Deputy
Works Progress Administrator
Aubrey Williams of promoting
growth of the Workers' Alliance.
The witness said that Mrs. Flan
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HUGHES CUTS
FLYING Til
OVER AMERICA
Los Aneeles to New York
Hop Made in 10 Hours,
35 Minutes
USES OXYGEN MASK
IN SUBSTRATOSPHERE
FLOYD HEX NET FIELD, N.
Y.. A tiff. — (IJIM — Howard
I Huffhcs landed here at S;.3n:.r)0 a.
| ni. (EDT) altera record-breaking
flight from I.os Angeles in his fa
mous round-the-world transport
! plane.
Flying most of the way in the
substratosphere, Huffhes e o m
pleted the trip in in hours, 35
I minutes and .">0 seconds, hreakinff
I the transport plane record set
four years affo hy Tommy Tom
linson, who crossed the country
in a transport plane in I 1 hours
j and live minutes.
Huffhes flew at an average al
' titude of 17,0(11) feet and for the
entire fliffht used an oxygen
mask.
Hughes took aboard I2 4.'» gal
lons «>f ffasoline in his twin-en
gine Lockheed transport plane af
ter an hour <>f test'hopping above
the Los Aiiffeles airport before
the take-off. He announced no
fliffht plans, but it was under
stood he was gunning for the east
west transcontinental record for
transport planes held bv Tommy
Tomlinson, air-line pilot, who
pushed a Dou.Jas transport ship
from Los Aiiffeles to Newark in
1 1 hours and five minutes four
years affo.
The fliffht was heffim in the
strict secrecy typical of all the
millionaire sportsman's hops. It
was Hughes' first attempt at rec
ord flyinff since his successful
round-the-world journey.
The extent of improvements on
the plane were not known except
that the engines have been speed
ed up with numerous adjust
ments.
Empire State's
Constitutional
Convention Ends
57 Proposed Changes Set
the Stage for Bitter
Political Battles
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 20.
(UP)—The constitutional con
vention in President Roosevelt's
home state adjourned yesterday
after proposing1 57 chancres in
New Yoik's organic law—a task
which has taken almost five
months and set the stage for hit
ter political battles.
As the session ended, political
leaders believed New Deal forces
had suffered a severe setback.
Republican delegates, led by Rep.
Hamilton Fish., R., N. Y., deliver
ed a final blow at the New Deal
in the closing hours of the con
vention by openly endorsing for
mer Governor Alfred E. Smith as
U. S. senatorial candidate this
fall to oppose Senator Robert F.
(Continued on pace three)
ARP CHRISTIAN WORKERS TO
HOLD BONCLARKEN SESSION
Event Will Mark Close of Most Successful Conference
Season Yet Held There
Thr Christian Workers con/er
j ence of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church will convene
at Bonclarken, summer assembly
grounds of the denomination,' on
Sunday. The conference will con
tinue through next week.
Large numbers of the members
of the denomination are expected
for this conference, which will
close the most successful confer
! ence season yet held at Bon
clarken.
| Among speakers to be hoard at
( the conference are Dr. R. E.
i Speer, noted Christian leader, who
will address laymen on Friday;
Dr. W. C. Robinson, of the Co
lumbia Theological Seminary, who
will conduct the Bible hour each
day; Dr. E. L. Reid. of Erskine
college, Due West, S. C.; Dr.
Julian Miller, editor of the Char
lotte Observer; Rev. C. Bynum
Betts, director of religious educa
tion; Mrs. M. R. Plexico, of Louis
ville, (ia., superintendent of jun
ior and intermediate work; and
Miss Orene Mcllwain, associate di
rector of leadership.
The conference will open tomor
row morning at 7:45 o'clock and
the morning: worship will he con
ducted by Rev. B. L. Hamilton, of
India.
The Sabbath school will be un
der the direction of Rev. Mr.
Betts, and at 11 o'clock Dr. Rob
inson will preach on "The Triune
God."
Vespers will be conducted at 7
p. m. by Mrs. B. L. Hamilton, of
India, and Dr. Robinson will be
heard at 8 o'clock on the subject:
"The Everlasting1 Arms."
A full program has been ar
ranged for the remainder of the
week, consisting of Bible study,
sermons and addresses, leadership
training and recreation.
NAZIS SAY BRITISH OFFICER
CONFESSES ESPIONAGE AND
IS ORDERED FROM COUNTRY
Follows Arrest in Austria,!
British Demand for
His Release
BULLETIN
IIP" RUN, A ue. 20. (UP) —
I lie Dcutxch Allcrcmeine 7.ie
turtj said today that Captain
Thomas J. Kendrick, British .
passport officer at Vienna, has
confessed he is a military *py.
Kendrick was ordered to leave
the country immediately.
LONDON, Aug. 20. (UP)—The
| British government last night
: lodged a sharp protest in Berlin
| demanding1 a "full and speedy cx
i planatinn" of the arrest of Cap
: tain Thomas J. Kendrick, British
I passport officer in Vienna, whose
imprisonment was suspected of
being a Nazi reprisal.
The Daily Mail's political writ
er said the German government
promised Ambassador Sir Neville
Henderson an explanation today
regarding Kendrick's arrest.
The foreign office's spokesman
admitted that Kendrick, who is
held by the German Gestapo (se
cret police) in Vienna's Metropole
hotel, had assisted many Jewish
and other refugees to leave Aus
tria after the German "ansch
luss."
The British protest, serving to
heighten European tension at a
moment when the government is
atctmpting to bring about a Nazi
Czechoslovakia settlement, was de
livered to the Berlin government'
by Ambassador Sir Neville Hen
derson.
Berlin promised a full inquiry,
it was announced.
Henderson told the German for
eign office that Britain "takes an
extremely serious view of the ar
rest of a British government of
ficial."
Nazi officials refrained from
giving any public explanation fori
the arrest of Capt. Kendrick, who
has been passport, control officer
of the British consulate in Vienna :
for 1 .'5 years, as he motored with
his wife near Salzburg en route
to England for a vacation.
British officials attached grave
importance to the incident and
Ambassador Henderson's report
was rushed by special messenger I
to Foreign Secretary Viscount
Halifax, who is at his Yorkshire
home, immediately after it reach
od London.
i Viscount Halifax assumed per-:
sonal charge of the case, instead
of delegating it to members of
the foreign office staff.
Henderson sent a preliminary
report to the foreign office last
nipht, a few hours after disclosure
of Kendrick's arrest and imprison
ment, and followed it up with ad
( ditional details today.
Mrs. Kendrick was released
from custody almost immediately
I hut her husband was held incom
municado.
There was a widespread imprcs- |
| sion in London that the British i
passport officer might have arous- j
I ed Nazi enmity by his actions in
granting visas to many anti-Nazi i
residents of Vienna, enabling \
thme to flee to England.
The foreign office refused to |
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H. MERRILL. 24, |
PASSES AWAY
Late FruitlanJ Resident
Was Bridegroom of
Three Weeks
Howard Merrill, 24, of the
Fruitland community, died at Pat
ton Memorial hospital this morn
ing at 8:30 o'clock after an illness
of about two weeks or more.
Young Mr. Merrill was married
three weeks ago and became ill
two days later. He entered the i
hospital on August 3 and anap
pendix operation was performed j
the same day. Death was due to j
complications from the illness.
No funeral arrangements had |
been made this afternoon.
WILL BE SOLOIST AT
METHODIST CHURCH
Miss Jean Jones, 12-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Jones, of Hickory, formerly of
Hendersonville, will sine: at the
morning service of the First M. E.
church tomorrow at 11 o'clock.
Her selection will be "Lord
Most Merciful," from Orpeus, by
i Von Gluck, i
I
Visitor is Here for
20th Summer
D. K. Billman, real estate bro
ker, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and
state director of the Florida
Children's Home, arrived here
yesterday. He and Mrs. Billman
are stopping on Sixth avenue
and this is the 20th summer
they have visited Hend. •"">n
ville.
TRUEX GIVEN
PRIVATE AIR
PILOT PERMIT
Three Student Pilot's Li
censes Granted; Two
More Fly Solo
Crawford Truex, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. S. Truex lias b«»en
granted a private pilot's license
by the department of commerce,
Jim Noll, department inspector
has announced.
Joe Hollingsworth, I. E. John
son and Paul Holdford have been
granted pilot's licenses and Clan
ning Howard and Tommy Cowen
have soloed at the Hendersonville
airport, Oscar Myer, Jr., airport
manager, said today.
With excellent flying weather
prevailing for the past few days
Mr. Myer said that the airport
had been unusually active.
The mapping survey being made
of Western North Carolina in Ad
miral Byrd's South pole plane will
bo completed today and the plane
will leave for Utah for further
work.
Among the planes visiting the
port recently were B. P. O'Neal
of Macon, Ga., Lieutenant Ball,
national guard flyer, and J. E.
Home of Orangeburg, S. C.
Set Street Dance
Monday Evening
The regular Monday night free
street dance will he held Monday
night on Main street between
Third and Fourth avenues.
Thousands of people have at
tended the street dances this sum
mer, and this form of entertain
ment, sponsored by the Chamber
of Commerce is very popular.
A string band will furnish mu
sic for the square and round
dancing.
TYDINGTtO REPLY
TO F. R. SUNDAY EVE
BALTIMORE, Md„ Aue. 20.—
(UP)—The campaign headquar
ters of Senator Millard E. Tyd
ings (D., Md.) prepared today
for his expected answer to Presi
dent Roosevelt's charge that he
had "betrayed" the New Deal.
Tydings will speak over a na
tionwide radio net work Sunday
night on "Recent Developments."
Although he has not specifically
stated that he would reply to the
president's opposition to his re
election, there was little doubt
that he would accept the White
House challenge.
NEW EFFORTS
MADE TO END
CZECH CRISIS
i
Government Posts Are Of
fered to Sudeten
Germans
FASCISTS, CHURCH
IN RACIAL ACCORD
(By United Pre»»)
Chinese officials today charged
poison gas is being used Ijy Hi<>
Japanese in a desperate effort to
bolster their offensive up the
l^angtse river toward Hankow
j The Chinese communique .said
counter attack by Chinese in Km
kiantr section failed only when
pas was used by Japanese.
It was asserted that Chinese at
tacked at Shaho, south of the riv •
er, pierced the Japanese line, cap
tured several hills north of Shaho
and reached the outskirts of Km
kiang. The hills were abandoned,
the communique said, "when tin
Japanese resorted to the use «>f
poison gas."
The attack was made Thursday,
it was asserted. Since then. dis
patches showed, the Japanese had
landed reinforcements at Kiuki
anc: and resumed a series «• f at
tacks designed to break a month
long stalemate.
Gen. Chen Cheng, commanding
the Chinese armies defending the
Wuhan cities — Hankow, the
emergency capital; Wuchang and
Hanyang, which to all purposes
comprise one great city — .-Hid in
| a statement today that the Jap
ancse had been unable to make
any significant advance tip the
river since they captured Kiuki
antr last month.
Elsewhere on world diplomatic
and war fronts:
1—The Italian Fascist party
reached an important accord v
I the Italian Catholic Action society
in an effort to end the conflict
between church and state ovri
the new Italian racial policy.
2—Spanish loyalist front line
dispatches claimed renewed input
gent assaults on the Kbro river
sector had been repulsed but r< b
els reported they were slowly
driving back government troop
' 3—Czechoslovakia's govei n
nient disclosed that a dozen new
1 posts will be offered (he Sudentni
German party in an effort to
break the deadlock over the t'zech
minority problem,
i 4—In Palestine, British troops
! arrested 4,000 Arabs in a new
i big-scale drive to end riotine be
i tween Jews and Arabs in which
sixty have been killed this wc. !
CZECH OFFER FAR
FROM SUDETEN AIMS
PRAGUE, Aug-. 20. (UP>—An
nouncement by Viscount Kijihi
man, British unofficial mediator,
that Premier Milan Hodza ha.-:
agreed to turn over several im
portant government posts »o
Sudeten Germans revived h»pe
here that a deadlock in the Czech
oslovak minority negotiations may
be broken.
Lord Runciman's mission re
vealed, in a communique, that
seven postoffice positions will 1>^
given to the followers of Konrad
Henlein, the "Czechoslovak Hit
ler," within two weeks and that
shortly afterward Germans will
be installed as governors in four
districts.
In addition, the ministerial
council at its next meeting will
discuss a proposal to place a
Sudeten German in the important
office of regional president .i*
Eger under the ministry of jus
1 tice.
j It was near Eger on the Czech
German frontier that two Sudeten
German farmers were killed by
Czech gendarmes on May 21, re
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GOVTCONE is
CRITICALLY ILL
Daughter Is Called to lli&
Bedside After Seri
ous Turn
MIAMI, Fla., Aug '20 <I1P>^..
Mrs. Mark Byron III, daughter of
Governor Fred P. Cone, w»s sum
' moned last night to the bedside
of her father, who has been in a
Jacksonville hospital since July
29 when he suffered a heart, at
j tack.
Mrs. Byron boarded a piano
I for Jacksonville at 9:4'» p. m. !♦
was reported that the condition
j of the governor, who was said in
have been improving, took a turn
I for the worse last night. Mrs. By
i ron was said to have been sum
moned to Jacksonville by Dr. Stan
ley Erwin, the governor's physi
cian,