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VOL. 57—No. 207
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1938
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Japs To JWuintain River Blockade
DENY DEMAND
U .S. SHIPS BE
FREE TO MOVE
Mine Explosion Incident
Said Circulated to
Harm Friendship
U. S. OFFICIALS ARE
SILENT ON AFFAIR
SHANGHAI, Auif. 30. (UP).—
Japan intends to maintain her
blockade of the middle Yangtze
river against all foreign shipping
despite protests from Britain and
the United States, a Japanese na
val spokesman said today.
The spokesman said he was not
informed about the explosion of
floating Chinese mines near the
U. S. Ciungoat Monocacy. which
is isolated at Kiukiang in the
blockaded area, and added that
reports of the explosions were
circulated by persons who desire
to "impair Japanese-American re
lations."
He denied that Admiral Harry
K. Yarnell, commanding the I S.
Asiatic fleet, had demanded that
the Monocacy he given full free
dom of action and said that com
manders of Japanese warships in
the Kiukiang area were co-operat
ing with the commander of the
Monacacy, Lieutenant Clarence
A. Conlan.
A summary of the situation in
the Kiukiang area, as handed to
Admiral Yarnell by the Japanese,
eclair • that due to military
necessity that Japanese cannot
permit the Monocacy to proceed
down the Yangtse to Shanghai
but will provide the American
ship with fuel, food, water and
other necessities and arrange to
handle the Monacaey's mail by
airplanes.
Similar courtesies are being
extended to British ships in the
blockaded area.
Whether the Monocacy will &»•
permitted to go up the Yangtse
"depends upon circumstances."
The Japanese have cleared some
of the Chinese barricades across
the river between Kiukiang and
Hankow and art* sweeping out
Chinese floating mines but the
stream above Kiukiang still is
"decidedly unsafe for general
navigation."
The river around Kiukiang was
described as reasonably safe but
since Kiukiang is a base for Ja
panese military operations in the
great drive on China's provisional
capital in Hankow it was the Japa
nese contention that no foreign
ship can be permitted to anchor
at Kiukiang at present.
"Permission must be requested
from us by the commander of any
foreign ship wishing to navigate
above the port of VVuhu" (just
above Nanking), the spokesman
said.
Meantime U. S. officials here
were silent on the general situa
tion and paid no attentiou to re
ports that mines which exploded
near the Monocacy were deliber
ately set off to impress upon the
American ship's commander tin
necessity for caution
The Monocacy today was an
chored below Kiukiang, surround
ed by a pontoon barricade design
ed to detonate any stray mines
which might float in her vicinity.
The U. S. gunboat Oahu, which
recently reached Nanking from
Shanghai, was proceeding up
river to VVuhu to await orders
from Washington. Both ships
carry crews of about 45 and are
units in the U. S. navy's Yangtse
river patrol.
Three Insurgent
Divisions May Be
Trapped In Spain
HENDA YE, Franco - Spanish
Frontier, Aug. 30.—(UP)—The
Spanish loyalists announced last
night that three divisions of in
surgents have been cut off from
their comrades and face entrap
ment in the rocky valley of the
Zujar. 140 miles southwest of
Madrid on the Estramadura front.
Reinforced government columns,
striking westward toward the
Portuguese frontier after report
edly turnin-e Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco's drive on the Alma
den mercury mines into a rout,
were said to have reached the
gates of the insurgent base of
Castuera.
At Castuera the loyalists, ham
mering at the insurgent flanks
along the winding Rio Zujar, were
22 miles behind the spearhead of
Franco's suddenly-halted offen
sive at Safceza Dei Buey.
Headless Corpse
May Be Slain
Trotsky Aide
PA It IS. Autr. .'{(». A
headless body fount! in th«* Seine
river outside Paris today was
identified tentatively as that of
Rudolf Kleinent, former secretary
to l.eoii Trotsky, exiled Russian
warloril.
Kleinent disappeared July IS.
| Trotsky. announcing his disap
pearance at Mexico City, express
j fd belief that he had heen mur
doreil in- kidnaped.
Krwin another former
I Trotsky secretary, was a*sassinat
j ell at Barcelona in loyalist Spain
| several months aj-'o.
DIES DEMANDS
DEPORTATION
FOR BRIDGES
Sets Critics and Ridiculers
Straight in National
Broadcast
WASHINGTON, Aug. .'50. (UP)
Chairman Martin Dies of the house
committee investigating un-Amer
ican activities today demanded
that Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins take immediate action to
deport Harry Bridges, Pfli'
coast CIO director.
Dies said the department of la
bor files in the Bridges case dis
closed one witness had heard
Bridges say "To hell with the
president of the United States."
Dies last night defended his
group against "union busting" and
"red baiting" criticism and denied
that Shirley Temple was pictured
as a communist durng the recent
hearings.
In a nationwide address he re
newed his attack on the depart
ment of justice and the labor de
partment for their alleged failure
to cooperate with the committee
by assigning clerks and investi
gators to compile and sift neces
sary evidence.
He it viewed much of the tes
timony at initial hearings in the
capital, but emphasized that no
definite conclusions had been
reached by the committee, nor
would any be reached, until all
evidence is in. Several subcom
mittees are gathering evidence in
various sections of the country at
present.
Denying charges that the com
mittee concentrated its opening
inquiries on the activities of the
Communist party in the United
States and purposely ignored Fas
cist and Nazi movements, he said:
"We are going to investigate
and expose the Nazi and Fascist
movements in this country as thor
oughly as we do the Communst
movement.''
He pointed out that certain evi
dence relating to the German
American bund already had been
heard bv the committee and would
be incorporated into the record.
The succte ss or failure of the
investigation will depend largely
on the degree of cooperation ex
tended by various government de
partments in accordance with the
resolution creating the committee,
he said. It also will depend, he
< Continued on patfe three.)
SO. CAROLINA
VOTES TODAY
! ON NEW DEAL
Brown, Withdrawing From
Race, Throws Strength
to Smith
RENEWS LONG FEUD
AGAINST JOHNSTON
COLUMBIA. S. C.. Aii!.'. :>0.—
(UP)—South Carolina Democrats
will decide today in a party pri
mary whether to follow President
Roosevelt's wishes and retire Sen
! ator Ellison 0. Smith, who has
i served in the senate since 11)08.
j Seekimr renominatiuii. he is op
posed by Gov. Olin 1>. Johnston,
ardent new dealer.
Approximately .'540,000 voters
are expected to pass on the issue
described as the "New Deal ver
sus Senator Smith."
It was not the first test of the
new deal in the South this year
but the first since the president
announced his intention of inter
vening in state primaries against
Democratic candidates who op
posed the new deal program.
Klection eve developments in
cluded :
1. Withdrawal of State Senator
Kdgar A. Brown after campaign
ing 10 weeks as a new deal senate
candidate.
2. President Roosevelt's state
ment inferentiall.v asking for nom
ination of JohnMon and the defeat
of Smith.
A last-minute attack on .John
stun by Brown and subsequent, in
ference that the state senator
would vote for Smith.
Mr. Roosevelt's "eleventh hour"
personal move to win election for
Johnston, although on an indirect
basis, caused high excitement
among the people and consider
able sneculation as to what influ
ence the chief executive would
have on the final count of ballots.
"I'll win by an overwhelming
majority," Johnston said in a final
prediction. "There are grave is
sues at stake, not personalities."
"It's in the bag for me," said
Smith, a veteran of 30 years con
gressional experience. "I'll win in
a walk."
Brown complicated the situation
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NEW OATH FACING
PALMETTO VOTERS
COLUMBIA, S. C„ Auk. 30.—
(UP)—A new oath faced voters
in South Carolina's Democratic
primary today.
The oath, which does not bind
voters to support the national
nominees of the party in the gen
era! election, resulted from an
amendment at the last Democratic
state convention, to Party Rule
I ,
The former oath concluded with
4'. . . and pledge myself to sup
port the nominees of the party,
both state and national."
The oath to be used today fol
lows:
"I do solemnly swear that I am
a resident of this club district and
am duly qualified to vote at this
election according to the rules of
the Democratic party and that I
have not voted before at this elec
' tion and pledge myself to support
the nominees of this primary in
i the ensuinji general election."
War Secretary Calls For Speed In !
Building Adequate Air Defense
Urges Increased National Guard; General Pershing
Warns Against Unpreparedness
By CRATTAN McGROARTY j
United Pre#* Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Auk. 30. —
(UP)—Secretary of War Harry
H. Woodring declared yestenday,
! that the United States air defense
program must be "greatly accel
erated" to provide adequate na
tional security and warned that
"much remains to be done before
I we can consider our army thor-1
, oughly modernized."
In a statement prepared for
publication in the 75th anniver- |
' sary issue of the Army and Navy
Journal, Woodring stated that the
army's mechanization program
' must be pushed at top speed and
indicated that the war department
may ask the next session of con
gress for increased appropriations
for the "latest and best in all
types of military equipment."
Woodring said the national
guard should be increased from
195,000 men to 210,000 immedi- j
1 ately, that new motor vehicles are J
required for most of the mobile j
troops and that the coast artillery |
should he modernized and aug-1
mented.
This year's, appropriation for
the war department amounted to
nearly $450,000,000 for strictly
military purposes. The necessary
additions to the nation's armed
might, as outlined by Woodring,
might bring next year's appropri-1
ation to more than a half billion i
dollars.
"Much remains to be done be
fore we can consider our army \
thoroughly modernized," he said.
"It is hoped that future appropri
ations will make it possible for us
to maintain the army at its full
authorized strength in officers
and enlisted men and to acquire
the latest and best in all types of
military equipment.
"Our national guard should
have on its rolls at least 210,000
men. We should reach and main
(Continued on page six)
Why Hungary (ioes Along With Reich
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TERRITORY
1.05 T BY
HUNGARY
The map above shows why
once-powerful Hungary lias rea
son to line up with Hitler's (Jer
niany. The visit of Regent Nich
olas Horthy, left, Hungary's
"uncrowned king," to Berlin has
brought reports that henceforth
Hitler will be allowed to use
.Hungary as a springboard for
economic penetration in the
Halkans in return for formida
ble military protection. The
Little Kutente composed of
('/.t'dioslovakiu, Yugoslavia and
tin mania, all of which countries
gained large chunks of Hun
gary after the war—opposes
(iermun Hungarian friendship
because of Hungary's key posi
tion. Hitler reportedly has guar
anteed the bouildai ies of Hun
gary, and the Entente fears
both lierniany and Hungary
will benefit territorially at the
Entente's expense.
ROOSEVELT BACK IN CAPITAL
TO DIRECT NEW DEAL S FIGHT j
McAdoo Has Four
Opponents In His
Nomination Race
Over 3 Million Voters Are
Registered for Primary
in California
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—
(UP)—California's turbulent po
litical campaign, into which Pres
ident Roosevelt injected himself to
support his "good friend" Senator
William Gibbs McAdoo, closed last
night.
Almost .'{,500,000 registered vo
ters were expected to ballot in the
primary election and settle issues
which included the personal popu
larity of the president and the
new deal.
There were 532 candidates for
nomination to offices from U. S.
senator to county judgeships.
McAdoo was opposed for Dem
ocratic renomination by four men,
strongest of them being Sheridan 1
Downey, supporter of a $30 every
Thursday old age pension plan.
Downey was the Democratic par
ty's best vote getter in the 1934
gubernatorial race.
The president in a letter asked
McAdoo to run for re-election and
last July endorsed him again dur
ing a California visit. Then last
week Mr. Kousevelt attacked the!
(Continued on page three)
Navy To Need 200
Million Increase In
Funds, Leahy Says
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. (UP)
Admiral William D. Leahy, chief
of naval operations, said today af
ter a conference with President
Roosevelt that he believed it will
be necessary to increase the navy
budget by $200,000,000 for the
next fiscal year.
Leahy said thfe increase would
.be required primarily because
building cost will become greater
as work progresses on the ships
now under construction.
First Work Is Preparation
of Speech for Mary
land Invasion
_
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. (UP) I
President Roosevelt today perfect
ed plans for his Labor Day inva
sion uf Maryland where he will
make a major address in behalf
of Representative David J. Lewis,
who bears the administration
stamp of approval in a primary'
for the senatorial nomination.
Meanwhile, the president await
ed reports from the primaries in
California and South Carolina,
where new deal favorites are run
ning'. j
President Roosevelt returned to
the capital today to take personal
charge of the administration's bat
tle to retire Senator Millard F.
Tydings, of nearby Maryland, one
of several conservative Democrats
who have fought the new deal.
Simultaneously, voters in South
Carolina and California will be
streaming: to the polls to decide
flaming party fights involving the
prestige of the new deal and test- j
ing the power of Mr. Roosevelt's
opposition to party conservatives
up for renomination.
The new deal is not an issue in
California but tall, rangy Senator
William Gibbs McAdoo, who has
been a consistent supporter of ad
ministration measures, has the1
blessing of the president in his bid
for renomination. His chief op- j
ponents are Sheridan Downey and
John Preston. James W. Mellen, j
a fourth candidate, has accused
McAdoo's campaign managers of
shaking down federal employes to
finance his race.
The president's return to the I
capital was the signal for a gen
eral speeding up of the drive to '
defeat Tydings in Maryland. The
administration's choice in this race i
is Rep. David J. Lewis, long time j
liberal and co-author of the So- j
cial Security Act. The primary
will be held on Sept. 12. Presi
dent Roosevelt will make a Labor
Day speech at Denton, located on
the eastern shore which is regard
ed as a Tydings stronghold.
Meantime, Chairman James A.,
Farlev of the Democratic national
committee, is expected to return1
to Washington momentarily to
lend the professional touch to or
ganization activities in Lewis' be
half. Generally understood to be
out of sympathy with the presi
dent's campaign to retire Demo
(Ccntinued on page three)
HITLER VIEWS
FORTIFICATION
OF RKINELAND
International Bridge Clos
ed as French Mass for
Border Maneuvers
WILL REHEARSE FOR
"OFFENSIVE" WAR
By JEAN KNITTEL
United Press Staff Correspondent
STRASBOURG, Fiance. Aug.
30.— (UP) — The International
j bridge here yesterday was closed
without warning for an hour as
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler inspected hi*
German troops and Rhineland for
tifications. A French army was'
massed for maneuvers I (Ml miles
away.
The massing of the German and
French troops near the fortified
border was a coincidence but it
lent a grim touch to the swiftly- |
enveloping European crisis to
which a whole series of warlike ,
"coincidences" have contributed.
The International bridge was)
I closed from the German side im
mediately after motor cars bear
ing Der Fuehrer and eight gen-i
erals arrived at the town of Kehl
opposite Strasbourg to inspect
new frontier defences on which
!>.r>0,UU0 conuscript laborers have i
been working night and day.
It was reported that the 20,000
or 22,000 French Us >pj u.uvinjj
into positions for war games to- I
day near Besancon on the Franco-1
Swiss border, mily 35 miles from I
the German frontier, have orders
tn concentrate on rehearsal for an
"offensive" war.
When maneuvers were held
earlier this month along the Ital
ian border stress was laid on de
fensive strategy.
General Rene Prioux, command
ing the French forces almost I
within artillery range of the Ger j
man fortifications, will direct two j
divisions, including Moroccan in
fantry, artillery, a tank corps,
lighting planes, cavalry and the
famous "Red Devil" Chasseurs.
Hitler's visit was so sudden
that municipal officials at Kehl i
had no opportunity to prepare a J
reception.
.•viler an nours inspection uiur
within sight of French soil, Hitler
and the generals drove south to
ward Offenburg, parallel to the
frontier and in the direction of
the Swiss border where an esti- I
mated 22,000 French troops were I
moving into positions for the sec
ond phase of France's summer
maneuvers. The first phase start- '
ed August 9 along hte Italian bor
der.
France's maneuvers along the
Swiss border, 70 miles from Ger
many, and Hitler's simultaneous
visit to the Oi'fenburg area be
came vividly significant in view
of reports that Germany, in event
of war, might attempt to march
through Switzerland to attack
France.
The French troops, whose ma
neuvers start today, are concen
trated in the Doubs department
on a broad plateau extending from
Besancon to the Swiss border at
the oFntaine Pass.
The exact strength of the
French troops was not revealed.
The maneuvers will continue
(Continued on page three)
Japan Would Enforce Hands-Off
Policy On Powers In War On China
Declared Ready to Guarantee Rights of All Nations
When Chiang Crushed
(Japan's attitude towards Brit
ish and other foreign interests in
China is explained by John R.
Morris, United Press Far East
manager, in the following dis
patch. Morris is touring Japan
after nine months of the fighting
fronts in China followed by a
holiday in the United States.—
Editor's note, United Press asso
ciation.)
By JOHN R. MORRIS
Copyright 1937, by United Prett
TOKYO, Aug. 30. (UP).—Ja
pan is prepared to guarantee
meticulous observation of British
and other foreign interests in
China when Britain and the pow
ers give her explicit guarantees
that they will cease all forms of
assistance to China, in her way
with this country, both direct and
indirect.
Stripped of verbiage that is the
attitude of nearly every Japanese
to whom this correspondent has
talked during a busy week in
leading Japanese cities. And the
Japanese feel their attitude is en
tirely justified. They point out:
That Britain has given exten
sive aid to China through keeping
open the Great British South
China colony of Hong Kong as a
port of entry for foreign muni
tions for Chinese Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek; through credits
and indirect financial support;
through propaganda; through the
direct furnishing of airplanes and
other military equipment; and in
"dozens of other ways."
That the United States has help
ed China to the extent of tens of
millions of dollars by purchasing
Chinese silver at an "unnatural
price of around 45 cents an
ounce," made possible by the U.
S. government's silver purchase
policy; through a series of diplo
matic moves which have had the
effect of solidifying world opinion
against Japan even if they were
not deliberately intended to do
(Continued on page four)
Germany Militantly Defiant of Demo
cratic Powers; Duce Silent;
Defers Vacation
LONDON, Aug. 30.— (UP)—The British cabinet in a
momentous session this morning decided unanimously that
Great Britain is ready to go the limit to prevent an inva
sion of Czechoslovakia, highly reliable sources reported.
The cabinet was said to have given Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Viscount Hali
fax a completely Tree hand in further moves to cope with
the Chechoslovakian crisis.
The British ministers met in emergency session to draft
new warnings to Germany that Great Britain almost in
evitably would be drawn into any central European war.
AUTONOMY FOR
SUDETEN UNIT
TO BE PRESSED
Germans in Czechoslovakia
Make New Gesture for
Political Aims
PRAGUE, Aug. :IU. (UP)—The
Sudeten German party of Kon
rad Henlein, last night drafted a
demand that the 3,500,000 mem
ber* of the Gorman r^inority he
granted local self-government and
cited the independence which
Great Britain granted to Ireland,
as showing that such a solution
would succeed.
Viscount Kunciman, British
neutral mediator in the Czecho
slovak minority crisis, was one of
the first to receive a copy of a
bulletin to he issued by the Slide
ten German party today citing
"the success of Irish independ
ents as a practical solution after
centuries of bloodshed."
Sudeten leaders, who revealed
the text of the bulletin to the
United Press last night, said Hen
lein is determined to obtain full
satisfaction of his ei^ht-point
Carlsbad autonomy demands de
spite pressure brought to bear by
Lord Runciman in his two-hour
surprise meeting with Heniem
Sunday. ,
"This situation needs a general
solution such as Britain found for
the Irish," the bulletin to be issu
ed today says.
(Under the new Irish constitu
tion drafted by Eamon de Valera
the former Irish free state—now
Eire—is a sovereign state in all
internal matters but remains a
membre of the British common
wealth of nations and still recog
nizes King George VI for the pur
pose of foreign affairs.)
The bulletin points out that
Ireland is just as strategically im
portant to the defense of the Brit
ish isles as the Sudeten territory
with its Bohemian mountain
ranges overlooking Germany is to
the defense of Czechoslovakia.
There is no need for worry, the
bulletin says pointing to Ireland,
that the Sudetenland might be
acquired by Germany or any oth
er foreign power.
The Irish, it is contended, be
came better citizens of the Brit
ish commonwealth after they were
(Continued on page three)
spli was understood me inniiuuu
was to make the admonition as
.strong as possible without a direct
threat, which would defeat Ur*
purpose by antagonizing rathei
than cautioning: the Nazi govern
ment.
It was reported the British min
isters in their meeting today might
consider ordering a "state of read
iness" for the armed forces, simi
lar in some respects to mobiliza
tion.
The five nations giving warlike
warnings to Hitler, cautioning hnu
to keep "hands off Czechoslo
vakia," were Britain, France, S<»
viet Russia, Yugoslavia and Ru
mania.
France, announcing that she
will stand with Britain in what
ever decisions the British minis
ters make, moved more than 20,
000 crack troops up to the Swiss
frontier, only 35 miles from Ger
mat, e<f3, f' r "offensive" war
games beginning at dawn today.
The scene of the war games tuyk'
on particular significance because
of expert predictions that, in
event of war, Germany might
cross Switzerland to invad*.*
France.
Germany was militantly defiant
of the so-called democratic pow
ers and, while professing a sin
cere desire for peace, said semi
officially that the Prague govern
ment must be warned "forcefully
and as soon as possible" to make
concessions toward satisfaction or
the Sudeten demands.
In Rome, Premier Benito Mus
solini, tied to Fuehrer Adult Hit
ler at the lower end of the Rome
Berlin axis, delayed his August
vacation and remained at his desk
in Rome's Venice palace. Hia was
a "wait and see" attitude.
WANT BRITAIN TO
MAKE CZECHS YIELD
BERLIN, All*. 30. (UP)—The
German foreign office last night,
i advised Great Britain, in a semi
official statement, to warn Czecho
Slovakia "forcefully and as soon
as possible" that the demands of
the Sudeten German minority
must be satisfied if an acute situa
tion is to be avoided.
The advice was contained in
Diplomatisch Pohtisehe Korre
spondenz, organ of the foreign
ministry which contended that
Great Britain has led the Prague
government to believe that its of
fers to the 3,500,000 Sudeteris
thus far are satisfactory and that
"come what may they (the
Czechs) can rely on backing-up
from one more powerful."
The statement was issued in
comment on the Saturday speech
at Lanark, Scotland, of British
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir
John Simon who warned that Bri
tain probably would be drawn into
any war arising from the Czecho
slovak crisis.
The loreign office organ spoke
pointedly of the possibility of the
Czech situation becoming more
acute "with all its serious diplo
matic aspects which might have
important international results."
Reunion Will Be
Held On Sunday
Willard Jay Freeman, as chair
man of committee on arrange
ments today announced that the
Wilkie-Huntley connection re
union will be held Sunday, Sep
tember 4, at the Edneyville high
school auditorium.
All members of the connection
are invited. The Henderson coun
ty singing convention, it was stJtl
ed, will be held in connection with
this reunion and a number of
quartets will be present to take
part in the music program.
B.Y.P.U. STUDY COURStC
Announcement was made today
that a B.Y.P.U. study course is
being held at the Calvary Baptist
church each night this week.
These meetings open at 7:45
o'clock and sponsors of the course
are asking that all members at
tend.