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WEATHER
Partly cloudy Inni^hl and
Tue«day. Little change in lemprr
ature.
ILltr -jfefettyg
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper i n North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
According to a reccnt bead
line, "Mu*solini Hold* War Ap
proaching." He'* been reading
hi* own stuff again!
VOL. 57—No. 200
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
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U. S. Ma} Challenge Japanese Blockade
GUNBOAT GOES
UP YANGTSE !N
MYSTERY MOVE
Denied Right to Travel
Open Waterway to Re
plenish Supplies
FOREIGN INTERESTS
DEBATING COURSE
SHANGHAI. Auc 22. (UP).—
The United States i;un(io.il Oahu
• teamrd up the VAnflsr ri»»-r for
an unannounced destination to
day a* foreign officials del'b- ■
era ted whether thev will try to
break the Japanese blockade of
that waterway.
SHANGHAI. Auir. 22. (I P)
Japanese today strove vigorously
to avoid a new diplomatic conflict
with the I'nited Stat»\s while their
armies drew a gradually tighten
ing noose of men anil steel around
China's provisional capital in Han
kow.
The dispute with the I'nited
States grew out of the refusal1
of Vie.* \dmiral K<>shiro Oikawa.
commanding the Japanese Asiatic
fleet, to permit the I*. S. gunboat
Monocacy to proceed down the
Yangtze river from Kiukiang t«>
Shanghai, thus breaking the Japa
nese blockade of the international
stream above the port of Wuhu.
near Nanking.
Rear Admiral Harry K. Yarnell.
commanding the l". S. Asiatic
fleet, who had notified the Japa
nese that the Monocacy would
make th«» trip to replenish sup
plies. yielded to the Japanese only
after the dispute had been re
ferred to the state department in
Washington bv American embassy
officials in Hankow, according to
reliable reports.
American officials still were
keeping the question open, how
ever. and diplomats here saw the
possibility of tho greatest strain
«>n Japanese American relations
since the sinking of the I". S. gun
boat Panay by Japanese bombing
planes in the Yangtse last Decern
Dev.
The United States has not yield
ed on her contention that Ameri
can ships have a riuht to po any
where their commanders may de
sire. it was said, and eventually
Washington may press for Japa
nese recognition of the American
contention that any blockade
against American ships is illegal.
In Shanghai Norman Keyes. 22,
son of Major P. H. Keys, retired,
of the British army, was shot and
killed by Chinese guerrillas who
attacked a Japanese outpost on
Rubicon road, west of the Inter
national Settlement. Keys was in
bed when the fighting started
shortly before 1 a. m. and was
struck by machine eun bullets
which tore through his father's
home. The guerrillas were re
pulsed after a sharp encasement.
Hankow reported that I? Japa
nese bombintr planes dropped •>'>
bombs on the Chinese Central air
drome in Wuchang beginning at
11a. m. yesterday and shot down
one Chinese plane. The Japanese
claimed six Chinese planes were
"destroyed."
South China railways were
bombed airain and the Japanese
claimed that no trains have been
able to run over the strategic mu
nitions line from Canton to Han
kow for more than a week.
In Hankow Generalissimo Chi
ane Kai-shek, reversing hi< earlier
acceptance of communist demands
that civilians be armed in the Wu
han (Wuchang. Hankow and Han
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F.D.R'S. FIGHT ON O'CONNOR
MAY OPEN HISTORY-MAKING
HOUSE CONTROL CONFLICT
Rv MACK JONSON
(Cnpyri*bt. 1938, United Pre*»)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22. (UP)
President Roosevelt's campaign to
send R«-p. John J. O'Connor. IX.
N. Y., chairman of the powerful
house rules committee, to the po
litical guillotine, may touch off a
history-making struggle for con
trol of the house leadership next
session, it was believed today.
Numerous congressmen, back in
the capital awaiting the Novem
ber elections, predict privately
that if O'Connor can counteract
the presidential purge and win re
election. he will be thrust into the
leadership of a conservative Dem
ocratic-Republican coalition which
may have life and death power
over future new deal legislation.
O'Connor's committee, known
as the "third house of congress."
is called the traffic policeman of
thr lower chamber. It has sole
power t*» expedite the flow of im
portant hills to the floor. The
croup incurred Mr. Roosevelt's
wrath because for more than a
year it refused to report the wage
hour bill, prime measure in the
chief executive's social reform
program. Previously the commit
tee had operated under both Re
publican and Democratic adminis
trations to bottle-up legislation
not approved by the leadership.
Primarily however, presidential
disfavor was extended to O'Con
nor because he boldly opposed Mr.
Roosevelt's cherished government,
reorganization bill which he
foujrht as an invasion of congres
sional powers. He voted for the
wage-hour bill.
O'Connor has a strong personal
following and. if he returns, his
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i Atlanta RFC Council Asked to Resign
Because participation in political campaigns i> contrary to the pol
ic\ of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Edgar B. Dunlap,
pictured above his desk. counsel for the RFC in Atlanta, (Ja.,
during; the last five years, was a>ked to resign. Dunlap is a staunch
supporter of Senator Walter !•*. (Jeorjre, who was read out of the
Democratic party by President Roosevelt in a recent speech at
Barnesville. (ia. Behind Dunlap in the photo above can be seen
Senator George's political posters.
Mountaineers Converge on
Blowing Rock for
First Movie
PLOWING ROCK, Auir. 22.
(IT) Two hundred Blue Kirltr**
mountaineers Sunday rumbled
back into their hiils by mule team,
eovered wagon and model T Ford,
pondering the marvels of Holly
wood us portrayed to them in the
first motion picture they ever had
seen.
They witnessed the world pre
miere of a bodacious production
entitled "Spawn of the North"
and saw Dorothy Lamour without
benefit of sarong but encased in
a tight-fitting sweater. Thus was
life in the Blue Ridge made richer
by the cinema art.
Bearded men with the eyes of
sharpshooters, craunt women who
nursed their children publicly, and
youngsters of 13 or less who
chewed and spat tobacco with
nonchalance and accuracy came
into »hi- little resort town of the
crest of the Blue Ridge Saturday
night, frasted at a watermelon
festival, saw the movie with bug
eved wonder, and talked over
radio microphones whose signifi
cance some of them understood
only vaguely, since many not only
never had seen a movie but never
had heard a radio program.
Mostly they were llraggs «»r
CofFcys, prolific principal families
(Continued on paire three.!
MISS FREEMAN
LAID 10 REST
Drowning Victim Given
Burial From Late Home
in Tuxedo
Miss l.ois Earle ''Veenian, 'J I,
of Tuxedo, was drowned about 1
o'clock Saturday afternoon at
I.ake Summit.
It was reported that Miss Free
man sank while trying to swim
across ihe lake. Efforts at resus
citation were made by Bob and
Ken Herbert, counselors at Camp
Mondamin, located on the lake,
and by Mill Bangs of Ilenderson
vilie, and the body was brought to
Pat ton Memorial hospital but no
signs •>( life could be noted.
Coroner Bruce A. Cox stated
that no inquest would be neces
sary.
Miss Freeman, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Freeman, of Tux
edo, was born in Hopewell, Va.
Funeral services were beinjr
held from the family home at
Tuxedo this afternoon at o'clock
by th«' Rev. Dr. (I. R. Comb?, pas
tor of the Methodist church of this
city. Interment was to follow in
Oakdale cemetery.
Pallbearers included (ieorge,
Ojrilvie, Fred. Carl and Everett
Freeman, cousins of the deceased,
and K- H. Allen.
Honorary pallbearers were J»»e
IJeil, Frank Roll. Meredith Free
man. Freddie Freeman, Bill Bates,
\\. B. Irby, Fred Nelson and
Brownlow Thompson.
Mrs McCullough
Taken By Death
Kentucky Native Was Bun
combe St. Resident
Mrs. John McCullough, 71-year
old Buncomho street resident, and
a native of Kentucky, died at herj
home this morning at 5:30 o'clock.
Fun real services were beintr held
this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the'
Shaws Creek Baptist church with
interment to follow in the Shaws
Creek cemetery.
CEMETERY CLEANING
Frank Corn today announced'
that a cemetery cleaning at the
Old Mill Pond burying ground has ,
been arranged for Thursday, Aug
ust 25. All having relatives and
friends here are asked to attend
and to go provided with tools with
which to work.
PACIFICATION
FOR EUROPE IS
STALEMATED
Franco Kills Plans for Ir.o-1
lation of Spanish
Civil War
TWO RESIGN FROM
CABINET IN FRANCE
(By United Press)
Europe today was suffering
from a series of sharp setbacks in
its struggle with war worries af
ter Sunday's developments, which
were:
1 —Collapse of proposals for |
nonintervention in the Spanish]
civil war;
2 Resignation of two French
cabinet ministers as the result of I
drastic governmental action to
end labor truohles;
o—Tightening of bonds he-1
tween Nazi (lermany and Hun
gary;
•1- Slovak threats to support
the Nazis in Czech minority cri
sis.
Week cii«l developments einpha
sized in particular that six
months of British Prime Minister
Chamberlain's leadership of cam
paign to avoid a war had ended
just about where it began when
Anthony Eden was squeezed out
of the foreign office last Febru
ary.
Chamberlain then set. out to
alleviate the immediate threat of
war by coming to terms with the
dictatorial nazi-fascist comhina
tion by making concessions in re
turn for better relations with
Germany and Italy.
Today, six months later, prog
ress toward that objective is vir
tually nil.
Furthermore. Europe's psycho-'
logical jitters are worse and dc-,
velopments in the Far Fast threat
en an early showdown between
Japanese militarists enforcing a
blockade on the Yangtse river and
the Anclo - American interests
seeking freedom for naval and
other vessels to use the water
highway.
CZECHS AWAITING
NOTICE OF INVASION
PRAGUE. Aug. 22. (CP) —The
national defense ministry today
published a bulletin informing the
nation that anyone warning the
government of an enemy invasion
by telephone or telegraph will be
exempt from paying toll charges.
Any person, it was pointed out,
can send such a warning from a
postoffice without spending a
penny.
If the call is made by telephone
the person is instructed to tell the
operator that it is "in th<* inter
ests of defense."
The same phrase should In
written across the face of a tele
graph blank, the bulletin said.
FRANCO DEMANDS
WAR MAKER'S RIGHTS
LONDON, Aug. 22. (UP) —Na
tionalist Generalissimo Francisco)
Fianro has virtually rejected the
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McDonald Looks
Like MacDonald
If pretty Kdvth McDonald,
above, had been named Joan
ette MacDonald, the confusion
would bo complete. The Tem
ple, Texas, girl, a senior at
iiaylor ''niversity, rc-ularly is
mistaken for the movie song
bird. What d<> you think?
Calvary Episcopal Rite on
79th Anniversary of
First Consecration
Consecration services for the
new Calvary church were hold
yesterday afternoon at Fletcher
on the 7!Uh anniversary of the
consecration of the original Cal
vary church. The Rt. Rev. Robert
K. Gribbin, bishop of the diocese
of Western North Carolina con
ducted the services.
The consecration sermon was
preached bv the Rt. Rev. Henry
St. George Tucker, bishop of Vir
ginia and presiding bishop of the
Episcopal church in the United
States. The substance of his ser
mon was that man's progress is
futile unless God is taken in as a
partner in man's endeavors.
The Rt. Rev. Kirkman G. Fin
lay, bishop of the diocese of Up
per South Carolina and the Rt.
Rev. John Wing of the Diocese of
Florida were also present at the
consecration.
The Calvary Parish was organ
ized in 1Sf>7; the first Calvary
church was destroyed by firp on
December 'Z'l, 1035. The present
structure was rebuilt around the
part of the original structure that
remained after the fire.
The church was crowded for
the ceremony with a part of the
crowd overflowing on the lawn of
the churchyard.
SHAFER CHARGES NEW DEAL
YARDSTICK WOULD SOVIETIZE
INDUSTRY - TEXTILES NEXT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (tTD.
Representative Paul W. Shafer,
R., Mich., charged last night that
the New Deal is preparing to
launch a hroad-guage "yard-stick"
program, patterned along the linos
of the Tennessee Valley Author
ity, to compete with many forms
of private industry.
In a statement issued through
the Republican national commit
tee, Shafer said that the federal'
government is taking over a trac- \
tor manufacturing company in !
Battle Creek, Mich., and moving I
it to Arthurdale, YV. Va., as a
farm security administration proj-1
ect. It will be financed there by
$235,000 of federal funds, he
said.
"No sooner than this announce- j
ment was made, word comes of a j
New Deal scheme for establishing (
under federal auspices, out of the ;
'blank check' relief appropria
tions, a group of experimental |
'yardstick' textile mills in the
south," he declared. "There also
have been rumors around Wash
ington about plans for establish- ■
ing 'yardstick' steel mills."
Shafer charged that the term j
"yardstick" was being used by I
Ihe " Washington planners" fo
cover up liir "real objective fo
Sovietize American industry in
(In1 same manner thai Secretary
Henry A. Wallace lias been
Soviet izing American agricul
ture."
"Today we know that the 'yard
stick' (TVA) argument as far as
the electrical utilities are con
cerned is a farce," Shafer said.
"The ;■ tvernment is openly en
gaged in competition with pri
vately-owned utilities and as a
result has strangled further prog
ress and development in the im
portant public utility field. That
is one of the major contributing
causes of the current depression."
Such activities should be view
ed "with alarm" by labor organi
zations because it means the fore
runner of decrees forbidding
strikes by government employes,
he said.
"If 1 am wrong about this, let
President Roosevelt, specifically
and unequivocally describe to the
country before the November
election the limitations he pro
poses to observe on government
competition with private indus
try," Shafer said.
APPLE MEN 10
STUDY REPORT
ON INDUSTRY
Leading State Experts To
Be at Field Day in
County Wednesday
RESULTS OF SURVEY
WILL BE REVEALED
Apple growers will observe
Wednesday as their annual fit-Id
day to study the apple industry of
Henderson county. Polk county
growers in t ho Saluda section
will join them.
Instead of a tour of several or
chards the growers will meet at
the orchard of Karl L. Marshall
at l>ana, where they will have an
opportunity to study diverse con
ditions and the results of a spray
schedule of seven sprays under
supervision of the slate extension
department.
Farm Agent (i. D. White says
Mr. Marshall has a fine crop of
apples and that growers will be
given the advantage of some ex
periments which State Extension
Horticulturist H. R. Xiswonger
suggested early in the spring:. He
v ill point out achievements in or
chard practices followed by Mr.
Marshall.
Mr. Xiswonger will speak on
the contents of ihc report on the
survey of the apple industry in
Henderson and Polk counties, as
made last .spring at the request
of the local farm agent's office.
This* report, 29 pages in length,
will be distributed at this meet
ing. It. was made by Extension
Economist J. W. Johansen, who
spent much time among the apple
growers.
Van Deeman, who is in charge
of the new experiment station in
the apple district of the Brushy
Mountains, will be present to dis
cuss the new phase of work which
was introduced to this state dur
ing the past spring.
Miss Anne C. Rowe, district
home agent for Western Carolina,
will address the ladies while the
men are touring the orchard.
District Farm Agent F. S. Sloan
will be among the visitors, who
has been assigned a place on the
program.
Orchardists will be given a
demonstration of the new "Vir
ginia package," which contains
one and one-fifth bushels of ap-,
pies.
Mr. White's invitation to this
annual orchard field day and
picnic, which will be under his
supervision, emphasizes the im
portance of taking a "well-filled
lunch basket, as dinner will be
served in picnic style."
The program will begin at 10
o'clock in Mr. Marshall's orchard.
JAS. JOHNSON
GRAVE MARKED
Appropriate Ceremonies
Held at Burial Place
of Revolutionary
A marker at trie crave of James
Johnson, Revolutionary war sol
dirr was unveiled yesterday at 3
o'clock. The crave is located in
the Shaw's Creek cemetery and
the local chapter of the D.A.R.
was in charge of the program.
Mrs. R. P. Freeze, recent of the
D.A.R. chapter here, presided and
the Hubert M. Smith Post of the
American Lecion and other pa
triotic organizations participated.
The Scripture was civen by Rev.
Sam Stroup of Hickory, a de
scendant, and the history was
civen by Walter R. McGuire, an
other descendant of the Revolu
tionary soldier.
Music for the occasion was fur
nished by Sam, Roy, J. D., Frank i
and Gus Johnson, and Mrs. Gar
man, all of whom arc descend
ants.
Orr Reunion To
Be Held Aug. 28
The annual Orr family reunion
will be held on Sunday, Aug 28,
at 10 a. m. at Orr's camp crounds
just off the Chimney Rock road,
about two miles from Henderson
ville.
Announcement cards will not
be mailed this year as in former
years, but all relatives and
friends are cordially invited to at
tend at this time.
A War Minister
Anions the Boys
Keeping up the morale of the
"Tommies" is just as much a
part of British War Minister
Leslie Hore-Belisha's iob as ad
ministering the gigantic arma
ment program now in progress.
And here he is shown accept
ing a light for his cigaret as
he fraternizes with a group of
soldiers, with whom he is gen
; ujnely popular. The photo was
taken as Hore-Belisha watched
territorial army maneuvers at
Salisbury Plain, England.
SUBWAY CRASH
FATAL TO 3 AND
1(1 ARE HURT
Fire and Explosion Follows
Telescoping of Trains
in New York
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—(UP)
A southbound subway train roll
ing: into Harlem station today
crashed into a stalled train, kill
ing three and injuring between 40
and 50.
An explosion followed the crash
and flames shot through the tele
scoped trains.
Fire and police emergency
equipment, along with six ambu
lances, were rushed to the scene.
The first train was about to
pull out of the station when some
one pulled an emergency cord be
cause a woman's hand had been
caught in a door. Before the train
could start again the second one
arrived and was unable to stop in
time to avoid the crash.
MRS. FORREST HOME
FROM BOARD SESSION
Mrs. Maymc Forrest has re
turned from Raleigh where she
attended a meeting of the state
cosmotologist board. She has been i
reappointed inspector of beauty
shops in Western North Carolina. :
IS INDICATED
IN TESTIMONY
OF MATTHEWS
Ex - Organizer Says Com
munist, New Deal Objec
tives Alike in Respects
RETURNS TOTSTANI)
IN INQUIRY TODAY
WASHINGTON, Aug. Tl. <np|
James B. Matthews, former rem
munist organizer, indicated tods:
in testimony before the un Amer
ican activities investigation that
communists are offering en'hi: i.
• astic support to President Roose
velt's attacks upon conservative
i Democrats.
Testifying before the h'»u.~«
committee, Matthews asserted that
objectives of the New Deal and
the Communist party coincide n.
certain respects.
Chairman Martin Dies of the
investigating committee, .~;ti«i I < '
night that he would urge conn' •
to broaden the scope of the pi oh.
to further expose the alien i nn
that are "profoundly affecting
our social, political and economic
system."
He said that the $25,000, which
the last congress appropriated for
the inquiry, is becoming1 exhaust
ed and that sufficient funds mil '
be forthcoming to "properly or
ganize and conduct this invrstRa
tion."
At the same time, Dies said that,
the committee would decide today
whether to call Hugh Johnson,
former NRA administrator.
Dies said that Johnson's exper
iences a.s the head of relief abo
des in New York prior to his ser
vice with the NRA probably ha-,
given him some information eon
cerning activities of subversive
groups.
Dies' statement was issued af
ter 10 days of public hearings
which, he said, demonstrated that
foreign governments are attempt -
' ing to transfer "their quarrels
and isms to our shores" through
numerous "front organizations"
• which conceal their true purpo.se.;
to the rank and file members.
"The testimony we have lu-aid
thus far reveals a startling situa
tion which should arouse the ac
tive interest and concern of all
patriotic citizens," he said. "This
testimony indicates that foreign
governments, with political sys
tems wholly at variance with
ours, are influencing, if not di
recting, the policies ami activities
of certain organizations in th••
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Saluda Youth Is
Critically Injured
In Truck Wreck
SALUDA, Auk. 22. (Special) —
Ulyess Hipp, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Hipp of Saluda wa.- in
a critical condition today follow
ing the unexplained wreck of a
truck which he was said to ha\-e
been driving about a mile from
Mountain Home, on the Spartan
burg highway, Saturday nigh*
His skull was fractured in tv>
places. Physicians fear th^re is
slight chance for his recovery
Episcopal Men To
Hear Pendleton
Rev. W. H. K. Tendleton, long
time Episcopal rector at Spartan
burp, will be the speaker for tbe
August meeting of St. James Epis
copal church men's club to be held
at the home of E. W. Ewbank, on
Fourth avenue east, Tuesday eve
ning at 8 o'clock.
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEEMAN
ASKS GEORGIA LEADERS GIVE
; THEIR SUPPORT TO GEORGE
ATLANTA, Ga, An*. 22. (UP)
Georgia political strategists last
niyht studied the endorsement of
! Senator Walter F. George by a
Republican national committeeman
for signs of a possible national
coalition between conservative
Democrats and the Republican
party.
The endorsement came from a
Georgia committeeman, James W.
Arnold of Athens, who asked Re
publican support for George in
the September 14 Democratic pri
mary to effect a "split in the na
tion convention of the Democratic
party in 1940."
Arnold, who said the endorse
ment was contained in a letter to
important Republicans, said a split
I in Democratic convention ranks
I was necessary "because if the new
dealers control that convention,
there is going to be plenty of hell
1 turned loose in this country."
He pointed out, however, that
the letter was not an official r*p
resentation from the Republican
party, but written "to Republi
cans at my own expense, without
reward or the hope thereof, ex
cept that reward which com^s to
men who believe and fool they
have performed a duty."
George, whose defeat, was rec
ommended by President Roosevelt,
in a recent address at Rarnesville,
Ga., was non-committal about the
| Republican approval of his re-eh'C
! tion candidacy. He and his cam
paign leaders, however, were
known to be discussing the possi
I bility of making a public state
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