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Partly cloudy toruijM and to
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(Iltr (Times -Hems
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper i 11 North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
Modern diplomacy encounter* a
brick wall: General Franco reject*
the troop-withdrawal plan, and
now there's nothing left to do.
VOL. 57—No. 206
HENDERSON V1LLE, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
HITLER 4G AIN WARNED AGAINST WAR
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U. S. Gul joat Escapes Jap Mine Explosion
USS MONOCACY
IS HEMMED IN:
DANGER GRAVE
Japanese Will Not Permit
Ship to Move to Get
Supplies
SHIP IS ROCKED WHEN
NAVAL MINES LET GO
WASHINGTON. Au*. 29 (UP)
The United States s;unl»oat Mo
nocacy today advisrd the war de
partment that it had shifted its
anchorage to a point three miles
below Kiukiang on the Yaniftse
river, following the explosion of
iiiKmarinr mines close to the ship.
The mines exploded about 80
yard* from the Monocacy's stern
>»ut did no damage »o the hull, of
ficers reported.
JAPANESE CURT AS
PROTEST IS FILED
*SH A NCI IIA I. An- 29 - (I'l'l.
The Cnited States gunboat Mo
nocary. with 15 officers and nten
aboard, is in grave danger in the
tipper Yangtze river where it is
held by a Japanese blockade, it
was learned today.
Information was received in
Shanghai that several mines have
exploded within SO yards of the
gunboat and that the first one ex
ploded f>0 minutes after Japanese
minesweepers left the area.
The ship has been badly shaken
and ha* been sprayed—though
without damage—by mine frag
ments. Gunners aboard the Mo
nocacv have tried vainly, it was
understood, to detonate mines
which begun to float dangerously
near. At present, the reports say.
the little ship is encircled with
pontoons designed to detonate
mines.
It wj.s learned that after the
first explosion Lieut. Com dr. Clar
ence V. Conlan, commanding the
Monocacv, went ashore at once,
protested to the Japanese and said
that his government would hold
the Japanese responsible for any
"mishap."
The Japanese consulate ignored
Conlan's protest, it was said, and
warned him curtly that the Japa
nese would not accept any respon
sibility because the Monocacy was
in a danger zone.
There was growing concern in
diplomatic quarters here, because
of the peculiar circumstances of
the situation, lest another Pariay
incident occur.
TENDER OF JAPANESE
SUPPLIES REJECTED
SHANGHAI. Aug. 29. <IT> -
The Japanese navy ha* refund to
give th" I* S. gunboat Mono^acy
permission cither to proc»»"d to
Kiukiang or go down the Yangtse
river to Wuhu, it was learned to
day.
The gunboat refused a Japa
nese offer to put fuel and food
aboard her on the grounds that
?he is in American ship ami has a
right to navigate the Yamitse.
The gunhoat has been in the vi
cinity of Kiukianjr. which the Jap
anese capturrd after fierce fitrht
ing. for several weeks and several
limes has ^pught permission to
move on.
The Monocacy has sufficient
food for a fortnight and fuel for
a week. Six hundred tons of coal
await her at Kiukiang.
The U. S. gunboat Oahu is go
ing to Wuhu from Nankin? to
await the 1'. S. government's final
decision on whether the vessels
shall attempt navigation of the
river in spite of the Japanese
blockade.
The Japanese have insisted that
conditions along the river in the
war zone are too dangerous to
permit foreign traffic.
Tokyo To Reject
Protest On Plane
Machine Gunning
SHANGHAI, Aug. 2!>. (UP)
The Japanese foreign office is
drafting a "polite rejection'' of
the United States* protest
against the destruction of a
Chinese passenger plane In
Japanese borr.bers. it was re
ported today.
The plane was forced down
near Canton with a loss of 14
passengers who were machine
gunned after the plane struck
the water.
WAR'S THUNDER ROLLS IN REICH
In the mid-; of Europe's increasing tension over possibilities of a new world war. Admiral Nicholas
Hoi thy. Recent of Hungary, made an official visit to (iermany and became the chief spectator at
what \\;i- probably the greatest display ■>(' armed might in history. To impress and edify him. Hitler
paraded thousands upon thousands of men. hundreds of motor vehicles including tanks and four inon
.-u". guns, described as the bijr.cest artillery pieces possessed by any army. The NEA Service-Timcs
Nrw radiophoto above is a general view of the proceedings in Vharlottenbuiger Chausee where the
military show took place. An artillery unit is passing the reviewing stands.
FRANCO DECLARES AMERICANS
IN LOYALIST RANKS FACTOR
IN NON-INTERVENTION FAILURE
Two Grid Teams
Will Work Out In
Immediate Area
Erskine Gridders Coming
to Bonclarken: Camden
Already Here
With the cominir «»f September
and the opening schools am!
colleges, football is already in the
air, although the baseball season
still has several weeks to run.
Coach Jake Todd and his Krs
kine college Flying Fleet art* pre
paring t«> entrain to Bonclarken
for pre-season work and Coach
Yillapigue and hi<; Camden, S.
hiyh school team have hern work
ing out at ('amp Mondamin on
l.ake Summit.
Coach To»|i| ni past years <
brought the Flying Fleet to Hon
clarken for workouts but had dis
continced this for the past several
years. However, they will be back
this year to enjoy the cool days
and niuhts of the mountains in
preference t'» the h«-at of South
Carolina.
Coach Todd, who produces out
standing teams from the compara
tively small student body at the
A. R. P. school is one of the out
standing coaches of South Caro
lina and is widely known and a<l
mired by football fans of this sec
tion.
Parole Granted
Napoleon Jones
Napoleon Jones, sentenced in
the March term of superior court
in li>'?7 to serve from three to six
years in the death of Paul Benni
son has been granted a parole by.
Gov. Clyde K. Hoey.
Jones was sentenced by Judge
J. H. Clement and was committed
to the penitentiary March 6, 1937.
LOIS CLASS DEFERS
TONIGHT'S SESSION
The business meeting of the
Lois class of the First Baptist
I church was which scheduled for
tonight at the church has been
postponed.
Further announcement as to the
time and place of the meeting will
. be made at a later date.
Statement Issued to Demo
cratic Countries by
Chieftain
i:ri:i;os, Spain, Aug. »!>. (I Im
(icncrali:-|imo Francisee **'•;« m*«»
of tin- Spanish nationalists >;ai«l
last nijrht that the presence of
12.<>0(i Americans in the loyalist
armies was partially responsible
for his virtual rejection of the
linn . intervention "volunteers"
withdrawal plan.
franco issued the statement to
foreign newspaper correspondents,
in particular those representing
the press of Democratic countries,
to explain the reasons underlying
his negative reply to the volun
teers evacuation scheme.
The statement was aimed chief
lv at France and warned the
French government against any
precipitous action in opening the
Pyrenees border for arms ship
meals to loyalist Spain.
The French government banned
publication of Franco's statement
in France.
"The lion intervention agree
ment affects only half of the for
eigners lighting in the red army
because it deals only with Euro
peans," Franco said. "The I'nited
States press recently .admitted
12,000 Americans have joined the
red army."
He added that Americans and
other foreign volunteers of the
loyalist international brigades
have suffered enormous casual
ties in six weeks of fighting along
the Ebro valley front on the west
ern holder of Catalonia and many
others have been taken prisoner.
"Fifty per cent of the prison
ers and dead of the international
brigade on the Ebro front were t
non-Europeans," he said.
"I believe that numerous mem j
Iters of the non-intervention com
mittee ignore this fact.
"The withdrawal of foreigners
will not prejudice national Spain.
"Without the arrival of 40,000
members of the international
brigade at Madrid the war would
have been ended in November,
mr»."
He said that it was not until af
ter the defense of Madrid by the
international brigade under com
mand of General Jose Miaja that
the nationalists "accepted the of
fers of foreigners to fight on our
side."
"Previously we had refused
them," he asserted.
RETURN TO FLORIDA
Mr. and Mrs. Pink Case, former
residents of Hendersonville, where
they have been spending the sum
mer in the Cox apartments on
Third avenue east, have returned
to their home in Jacksonville. Fla.
OLD FRIEND OF
Fcl Gossett Defeating New
Dealer One of 3 New
House Members
DALLAS. 'IV x.. A hit. (HIM
I'M Gossett. Wichita Kails attor
ney who worked his way up from
a roughneck j«»I» in the Kansas oil
liclds, heat President Roosevelt's
"old friend." Representative \V.
D. McFarlane, for the Democratic
nomination to congress from Tex
as' loth district, returns from the
run-off primarv showed last night
Democratic nomination is equiv
alent to election in Texas.
Complete returns from the loth
district:
Gossett, 2t»,7X2.
McFarlane, 27, I J 1
President Roosevelt referred t<»
McKarlane as "my very old
friend" during his recent, trans
continental tour.
Returns from the tilth district
showed that Limlley Reckworth,
'•"'-year-old bachelor who was one
of the youngest men ever to he
elected to the national house,
would succeed Representative
Morgan Sanders, who was elimi
nated in the July 27 primary.
Brady P. Gentry, Beckworth's
opponent, conceded when com
plete returns gave Beckworth, a
(Continued on page six)
BISHOP FINLAY
IS LAID TO REST
AT COLUMBIA
Heart Attack Fatal for
Long-Time Executive
at Kanu£a Lake
BISHOP OF UPPER
S. C. FOR 16 YEARS
Tin- lit. Rev. Kirkman <1. Fin
lav. Bishop of the Kpiscopal
cese <•!' Upper south Carolina was
lairl 111 rest at 1 1 a. m. today in
ihe yard of Trinity church in Co
lumbia. S. C., where he served for
many \ears.
Bishop Finlay died about i» p.
in. Saturday at Kanuga Lake as
seinblv grounds of the Kpiscopal
church where he had been man
ager since the opening of the con
ference center. 11 years ago. He
had been in failing health for
months and had suffered a heart
attack a few hours before his
death.
First plans for the funeral were
to have the interment in the yard
of St. John-in-the-Wilderness at
Flat Rock, but these plans were
eha nged.
Among the clergymen who were
to participate in the services were
the Rt. Rev. Albert S. Thomas,
bishop of the diocese of South
Carolina; the Rev. Henry 0. Phil
lips. recently-elected bishop of the
diocese - of southwest \ irginia and
former rector of Trinity church,
the Rev. David Caddy Wright, Jr.,
of Athens, Ga.; the Rev. A. G.
Bennett, rector of St. Timothy s
c'.lurch, Columbia; the Rev. Louis
N Taylor, rector of the. Church
of the Good Shepherd. Columbia;
the Rev W. H. K. Pendleton, rec
tor of the Church of the Advent,
Spartanburg; and the Rev. A. Ru
fus Morgan, business manager of
Kanuga conferences and rector of
St. John's church. Columbia.
Pallbearers were lay members
of the executive committee of the
diocese. Visiting bishops and cler
gymen formed an honorary cscoit,
as did the lay members of the
standing committees of the dio
cese. The combined choirs of the
Kpiscopal churches of Columbia
sari j?. - ,
Bishop Finlay was the first and
only prelate to serve as bishop of
the diocese of upper South Caro
lina, a position he bad seld since
Oct. 22, 1922.
Often termed "The Bishop of
Kanuga," because of his work
(Continued on page six)
MISS WADDELL WILL
SOON ISSUE BOOK OF
CAROLINA SEA VERSE
Announcement was made this
week by Miss Maude Waddell,
Charleston author and feature
writer, that she has completed her
manuscript of verse entitled "Car
olina Coast, Songs of the South
ern Sea," says the Georgetown, S.
C., News.
Arrangements are now being
made for its publication. The
poems contained in the book of
verse feature the coastal country.
Miss Waddell will be widely re
membered in this section as a
news feature writer and was at
tached to Kanuga Lake Kpiscopal
Conference grounds during the
center's earlier years as publicity
writer. She has continued since
then as an occasional contributor
of verse to The Times-News.
• SERIAL STORY
PHOTO FINISH
BY CHARLES B PARMER
"Yoii may think I'm crazy,"
• lie girl wa spleading to be un
*lt»rsto«mI, "but I'm not sure 1
want to take your offer."
The publisher's eyes narrow
ed. lit- said suavely, "Per
haps there's something else you
want. Surely it isn't more
money
"No." Linda Gordon shook
her head. "And I do want to
be staff writer on your maga
zine; it's a life-time chance.
But—"
The big man across the desk
leaned forward. "But what?"
"It's hard to put in words"—
she broke off; glanced out the
opened window, across the
roofs of Manhattan. Her gaze
focused on something: far above
the skyline: an air dragon,
emitting streamers of smoke—
vapor which formed the name
of a cigaret; also the name of a
great horse which had won the
Derby and the Preakness and
the Belmont Stakes.
She wanted to go home! She
was fed up with the fight and
rush and loneliness of the city.
She wanted to go back where
people were neighborly—want
ed to return to her Blue Grass;
to hear the neigh of stallions;
to see lovely brood mares walk
ing with their foals. Wanted
to—
Abruptly she got up, smiled,
and the strained look fled from
her face. It was a gorgeous
smile of dimples and blue eyes
under golden locks that she
turned on him. "Shall I call
you later in the day—give you
my finad decision?"
The publisher rose slowly,
but thought quickly. What was
behind this girl's indecision?
He was giving her the chance
of a million years; vas she
(Continued on page four)
CITY SCHOOLS
WILL OPEN ON
SEPTEMBER 5
Metal, Band, Shorthand,
Home Ec. Courses Are
All Extended
J. B. MILLS WILL AID
COACH STEPHENS
The opening date of Hendcrson
ville schools lias hocn set for Mon
day. September ;"j. at !> o'clock.
Ail high school pupils will report
to the auditorium for the open
ing exercises, from which place
home room assignmnets will be
made and pupils will immediately
report to these rooms.
The session Monday will he
short, time being devoted to the
arrangement of text hooks and
schedules. All pupils who are en
tering school for the first time
should avail themselves of the reg
istration dat.es listed helow, it was
advised.
w oi k in i lie general meun .simp
I his year will In- increased to in
clude other trade training for
those who have already spent one
year in the shop. Mr. Halverson
will have charge of thi,s depart
ment again this year.
Hand work will be offered to
i the elementary students as well as
the high school. Julian Helms,
who did this work during: the sum
mer school, will be in charge of
all instrumental music. Miss Klya
Schroyer will devote one-half of
her time to public school music
and glee club work in the high
school. This is an effort on the
part of the school to start the
public school music work again.
It is hoped that conditions will be
improved so that more time can
be given to music work another
year, Supt. F. M. Waters said.
Kldon Lyons will have charge
of the commercial department. It
is planned to offer second year
i shorthand this year for the bene
fit of those who are going actively
into office work. There will also
j be a class given in the afternoon
for those persons interested who
are already out. of school. Anyone
desiring to avail themselves of
the afternoon classes should com
municate with the hiirh school of
| fice in order that officials may
have some idea as to who would
j be interested.
Miss Pridgen will again have |
charge of the home economics,
which has now been placed on a
I four-year basis, which affords ad
ditional opportunity to the girls ol'
1 the senior class.
J. B. Mills of Wadesboro will
assist Mr. Stephens in handling '
the athletic program. It is hoped
this year to extend athletics to 1
include several sports which here
: tofore have not been offered.
School officials plan to extend
this program so that all students
will have opportunity to take
1 part in some athletic work.
The field of club work has been
j somewhat re-organized so as to
give more students advantage of
this educational training. These
will all be adequately sponsored
(Continued on page three)
BOY RESISTS COURT
1 ORDER FOR RETURN ,
TO MOTHER, 3 HOURS
i
WAYCROSS, Ga., Aug. 29. — !
I (UP).—Authorities revealed here)
j last night that Billy Miller, 11
I year-old son of the former Caro- 1
j line Miller, Pultizer prize novel
( ist and her divorced husband, W.
I). Miller, fought lor three hours
I Saturday night to resist the ef
i forts of three deputy sheriffs who
were ordered to return him to the
I custody of his mother.
The novelist is now Mrs. Clyde
| Kay, Jr., of Waynesville, N. C.
The child had spent four months
lin the custody of his father, form
er school superintendent of near
by Baxley, when Superior Court
Judge M. D. Dickerson signed a.
court order for delivery of the1
: boy to Ware county police.
Three husky deputies went to
I the home of City Manager H. M.
Pafford, the boy's uncle, and at
tempted to enforce the order.
Billy, however, locked himself in '
a bathroom and refused to let ,
even his father enter the small
loom.
Finally, the officers threatened
, to do more than plead and the boy
| gave in. He cried as he was put j
' in his uncle's car and taken to his
mother's home in Waynesville.
I The Millers were divorced ear-:
lier this year. (
Billy was delivered to the cus
! tody of the Pafford family early
last week, but ran away and re
I turned to hig father.
Exiled Jewess Is
Signed by Cantor
The nightmare of being forced
into exile by the Nazis turned
into a hopeful future for pret
ty Jewish Ruth Hilde Somer,
above, 16-year-old Vienna girl,
when Eddie Cantor signed her
up after hearing her play piano
during a concert on board the
Normandie, in which she was
fleeing to America with her
mother. Her father, a former
captain in the Austrian army,
will join them here soon. "It
all happened like in a dream,"
said Ruth.
PRESIDENT IN
FINAL BLAST
TO BE AT SMITH
Crucial South Carolina
Election Simmers to
Two-Man Issue
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. —
(LT)—President Roosevelt today
resumed personal command of the
drive to retire conservative Demo
crats from congress.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley returned to the capital and
President Roosevelt will arrive to
morrow to put his practiced hands
on the Democratic political con
trols.
The rattling (ire of week-end
developments included:
1—President Roosevelt renew
ed and made more emphatic his
wish that South Carolina Demo
crats reject conservative Senator
Ellison D. Smith in tomorrow's vi
tal primary.
2—He announced he would in
vade Maryland with a Labor day
speech which inevitably will op
pose the re-nomination of conser
vative Senator Millard E. Typ
ings in the September 12th pri
mary.
.'5—Col. Theodore Koosevelt en
dorsed John J. O'Connor, Demo
cratic incumbent, for Republican
nomination to congress from New
York's lGth district. O'Connor has
been denounced by President
Koosevelt as traitor to the New
Deal, and seeks both Democratic
and Republican nominations.
4—California candidates wound
up campaigns for nomination in
tomorrow's primary. The New
Deal is not an issue there but
President Roosevelt indirectly is
supporting the renomination can
didacy of Senator William (I. Mc
Adoo.
BROWN'S WITHDRAWAL
CUTS LOOSE 75,000
BALLOTS IN S. C.
COLUMBIA, S. C„ Aug. 2!).—
(UP) — Rival political camps
worked rapidly last night to take
advantage of two new develop
ments in South Carolina's Demo
cratic primary race for the U. S.
senate.
Issues between Senator Kllison
D. Smith and Gov. 01 in D. John
ston, two remaining senate candi
dates, were intensified and clari
fied by two events:
A last-minute inferential en
dorsement of Johnston by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Withdrawal of State Senator
Edgar A. Brown as a senate can
didate.
Johnston moved immediately to
take advantage of the president's
statement made Sunday at Hyde
Park, N. Y., by issuing a new
(Continued on page six)
FIVE POWERS
PLEDGE AID TO
CZECHS IN WAR
Russia, Roumania Jugo
slavs Join England,
France in Stand
TEN DAYS MAY BRING
PEACE, WAR IN EUROPE
LONDON, Aug. 29. (UP)
I—Great Britain and Franc#:
i have warned Germany di
i rectly of the possible conse
quences of any aggression
I against Czechoslovakia, it
was said in an authoritative
quarter here today.
The same sources said that
' Russia, Roumania and Jugo
slavia have advised Ger
many they will support the
| Czechs.
j The British warning
' conveyed by Sir Neville Hen
derson, ambassador to Ger~
many, now here after being
called home from Berlin to
receive secret instructions.
Gen. Joseph Vuillemin, chief of
staff of the French air force in
formed Field Marshal Hermann
Goering, Germany's air chief, in
response to Goering's inquiry thai
France definitely would carrv ou».
the terms of the French-Slovwir
' military pact if Germany marched
on the latter country.
In an electric atmosphere *r«*
' miniscent of 1914, the firm stand
of the so-called democratic pow
era was emphasized by a series <>f
developments over the week-end
that rang one danger signal after
another. Probably at no time in
the last generation had there been
impressive indications of such *
powerful and concerted into na
tional effort to ward off an ex
plosion. For the moment, at least.,
the democratic bloc that in effect
links the British Empire, France,
the little entente and vast Soviet
Russia was busy and united.
In every capital the signs w»>r»*
apparent. Cabinet ministers met
urgently. The stock market dip
ped. Ambassadors hurried hom»
to make secret reports. Soldiers
who were infants when the Marue
was a scarlet streak two decade
ago massed along the frontiei •
of a frightened Europe.
Saturday's speech at Lanark,
Scotland, by Chancellor of the I- x
chequer Sir John Simon, in which
he cautioned Germany against
provoking a war into which Bri
tain probably would be drawn, ap
peared to have been only a pre
face to the government's course
of action.
ureal nntain. wun rrani'e ;n
her side, threw her full diplo
matic and military strength into
the scales of a major European
crisis that may decide the quos
tion of peace or war within the
next 10 days.
Unless some settlement of th*"
Czechoslovak drisis is underway
before Sept. 5, it is feared, Hitler
may go before the annual Nazi
party congress at Nuremberg and
commit Germany to some drastic
action toward the Czechs.
If Hitler takes such a bold
course he cannot very well retreat
from it because of the matter of
prestige, no matter how much dip
lomatic pressure is exerted, diplo
mats argued.
The sudden return of Sir Nev
ille Henderson, ambassador to
Berlin, was the surprise develop
mcnt of a day filled with diplo
matic activity.
He will be present whpn th<*
key members of the cabinet, meet
with Chamberlain and Foreign
Secretary Viscount Halifax Tues
day at 11 a. m., to discuss not
only diplomatic moves but to put
Britain s fighting forces on a foot
ing for any eventuality.
The foreign office indicated that,
it is far from satisfied with the
results of several politely-phrased
"reminders" to Hitler, cautioning
him to go easy in regard to Cze
choslovakia.
The fact that Hitler will hnve
nearly 1,500,000 armed troops on
wartime footing when the Nurem
berg congress convenes Septem
ber 5 heightened British appre
hension.
Other developments contribut
ing to the belief that a showdown
between peace or war is near in
cluded:
1. Germany's curt rejection of
Chancellor Simon's speech and an
nouncement before the Stuttgart
congress of 70,000 Germans liv
ing abroad, which opened Sunday,
that Germany's annexation of
Austria was "evidence" of her de
' (Coqtinged on page three.),