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WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight ami
Thursday; little chatter in temp
(Stature.
v onmrs
GOOD AFTERNOON
Maine Ita* succeeded in biltuc
ing the budget. Whatever became
sf that aid laying: "A* Mair.a j
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
VOL. 57—No. 214
HENDERSONV1LLE, N. C\, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
SUDETEN PLEBISCITE IS NEW PEACE HOPE
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Senatoi McCarran Defeats New Dealer
RENOMINATED
BY MAJORITY
NEARLY! TO I
Washington Hears Tydings
Probably Will Be
Renominated
DECLARE STRAT1GESTS
RECONCILED TO LOSS
KKNO. Sept 7. (I PI —Senator
Fat McCarran, opponent of Pres
ni»-iit velt*> governmental
ami Mipreine court reonranization
piopo>a!>. was renominated today
• in the basis of returns from the
Democratic piimary yesterday.
The Vote in -UI precincts out of
Jtlli piniiuts was: McCairan. I!.
K*. 1 ; Albert Millard, who lain
patgiied on a platform 1"0 per
cent for the president. "{.-I IS.
McCarran's opponents were AI
hret Milliard and John K. Wortk'ii.
both pledged unstinted devotion
to President Roosevelt and flic
New Deal. McCarran ignored their
challenge to make his record the
principal issue of the campaign.
A coalition uf Republicans ami
Conservative Democrats hacked
.McCarran. The extent of the- (I.
Ij. P. switch was shown in regis
tration figures. The Democratic
Republican ratio of vote in tli«*
iy3-l primary was *!-«. This year
the registration was: Democratic,
35.3fc3; Republican. 16.D3I.
The president took no stand
against .McCarran during his re
cent western trip. However. Mil
liard claimed the chief executive^
support.
Former Senator I'asker I.. Od
«lie'- legislative record was similar
to McCarran's. favorintr tariffs to
protect mining ami livestock in
terests ami a middle-of-the-road
attitude toward the New Deal.
In the bitterly contested tact
tor the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination, K. P Carville held a
blight lead over MarlVe A Mai
men.
WUUL1) IVIAKN tVLb
UNBROKEN SUCCESS
By LYLE L. WII.SON
WASHINGTON*. Sept. 7. » L P»
Tht inside word in the capital to
dav is that Maiyland I>emocrats
probably will re nominate Senator
Millard K Tvdings. anti-New
l>ealet. classed L>v President
Roosevelt anions the "conserva
t ive-react tonai y " I 't'ltinci at>
Prospects. I• • i the nomination
ot the New I»«•:»! candidate, liep
resentative l>avui .J. Lf»i<, he
principally upon a possible around
swell ut reaction to Mr Koose
V«?lt'> l.aboi day spfecli at l>en
ton, Md.. in which he endorsed his
mail or upon last-imuut«- ni^am
zation miracles by Postmaster
General James A Farley.
Lewis suppoiters, however, are
moderately confident and th>*ie is
a tendency anions many distntei
eSted observers to forecast a close
race. The intimation that strateg
ists are about reconciled to l,e\v
is' defeat comes from a qualified
and reliable source. There was no
suggestion that the president,
himself, had given up the battle.
Mr KooseVelt did deliberately
(Continued on page t*nee)
Bryson, Mahon
Election Will Be
Conducted Again
S. C. Executive Committee
Calls for All New
Balloting
COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 7.
<UP>.—The South Carolina Dem
ocratic executive committee ruled
yesterday that a new election
must be held in the fourth con
gressional district where Joseph
R. Bryson of Greenville, recently
defeated incumbent Representa
tive Heyward Mahon. also of
Greenville, by ei>rht votes.
The order for a new election
was issued after Mahon protested
to the state committee and de
manded a recount. Returns from
the first primary as compiled by
county Democratic chairmen i»ave
Bryson 31.<134 votes and Mahon
31.626.
Meantime, the state committee
announced that the official count
in the recent race between Sena
tor Ellison D. Smith and Governor
Olin D. Johnston for senatorial
nomination was:
Smith 186.519
Jchnstcn 150,437
(.Vrn.u,. War Lord at Nuremberg
( X K A Service Uudiupholo)
With the i-yes <>r all tlu- \voi id upon him, A dull' Hitler romes to »
u|ifii the annua! Nazi eonyiv^s at Nureinbrrg-. The radiuphoto J
above >hu\\> ihe I1 lu-iiri r i « \ icv\ in;- hi: aluting special bodyguard (
«>ti his arrival. I
Recovers Sufficiently To
Be Removed From Hos
pital by Ambulance
I Al l.AllASSKK. Kla.. Sent. 7.
(I h'f. -(Governor Kred I*. <one,
who was dismi >ed yesterday from
a Jacksonville hospital where he
hail been confined since Jul\
suffering from a seriou- heart
ailiueitl. returned I •» the extrii
tive mansion la.-1 niyht in all am
Imi lance.
I lie governor war described a>
being "happy as a lark" l<» reaeh
thr mansion whole a lit-, t tlooi
ilen had bt-fii Converted into a
bedroom and an conditioned toi
him.
Dr. ban I'tuie, a cousin, who
accompanied the chiet executive
•in the trip here from Jackson
vdle, said the governor had weath
ered it very well and was feeling
t ine.
Dr. Stanley Krwin described
the governor's condition as "much
improved."
' one's condition was aggravated
receiith bv an attack of influenza.
Me was kept in an oxygen tent
for days but rallied remarkably.
Dr. Kr win said, for a man of his
age.
The governoi is about 7d years
old.
• one was first taken to the
Jacksonville hospital suffering
from a coronary thrombosis. Ho
cause ot his age and the serious
degree ot his illness, he must re
main in t»I in Tallahassee for a
period of turther recuperation.
Dirty rohtics, Is Charge Made By
Davey Against Chairman Altmeyer
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. (I »' t
—Gov. Martin L. I >avey, denying
chai ges made by the social secur
it v board of maladministration in
the Ohio pension set-un. last night
accused Chairman Arthur J. Alt
mever of "dirty politics."
Karlier. Altmeyer had contend
ed after Ohio officials had refused
to appear at a hearing on the
charges that their failure to do so
represented an admission of truth
of the charges.
"Ohio is still a sovereign state,"
Davev wrote Altmeyer. "On my
orders, the officials of the Ohio
division of aid for the aged will
not attend this hearing. Your pro
cedure reminds me of the story of
a certain prosecuting attorney,
who said to the jurv: 'Let's give
this man a fair trial and hang
him.'
"As to the charges which you
make against the administration
of old age pensions in Ohio, all of
them are so general in terms, and
so non-specific, that there is no
ha is upon which answers can be I
made 1
" Vuti charge political activity
in connection with the Ohio divi- '
sion." For what purpose? You
waited until three days before the '
Ohio primary, and gave out an 1
unprovoked political blast, intend
ed to scare 110,000 helpless old '
people in Onio into voting against j
myself, on the threat of taking 1
away from them half of their old '
apensions," said Davey, who '
was a candidate for renoiniriation.
"This was surprisingly dirty
politics for one who pretends to
l»e as righteous as yourself."
Davey complained of the use'!
of federal agencies "with reckless
unconcern to make and unmake,
men in current public life." He'
said that the question faced the ;
American people of whether "all
our liberties are to be swallowed 1
u'i by federal bureaucracy." I
"As t«> the political activity in I
Ohio, here are the simple facts. I j
(Continued on page three) lj
Mercliants Set;
Thursday To Plan
For Dollar Days 1
11 •• in It-i • 11 \ illt* merchants will
lay plans for I'ollar I>ays :it a
mi eling set for li p. in. Thursday
at liir • handier ul ( oirtilierci' ol
I in*.
At a |ir«-liiiiitiary inectinj.' tli
iiu'imimi:'. prefe'-ence was express I
cil for tin* cud ol in*xt week as
tli<- time I«• i" (In* sales, luit final
adoption of plans for co-opera
lion of iiiemhrs oef the merchants
divi-don of tin* ('liambe rot" Coin
nierce was deterred until the
hi 1*1*fini'' Thursday afternoon A
lar.'.e representation ol merchant- |
was reipie-;ted.
1 >i• ii:tr I>ays are lu-M semi an
mially anil have always r«*sulted
mi sales increases for the period.
Shopper.- are given opportunity to
buv ;t-asoualde nii-i rhanilise at re
dined price:- and hv then inspei'
tiou of local stocks are reminded
that there i little excuse for any ,
one in Ileiidersonville's trading
territory 11» go elsewhere to shop, i
\\ Idle I'ollar Days are featured *
hy special (irices on small items, .
the occasion also is presented for j
merchants to display fall and win
ter ready-to wear and other larger
items of merchandise.
i
CASTONIA VISITORS
Mrs. Albert Ford of Ashe street '
has as her guests, her mother. 1
Mrs. A. .1. Smith, and brother,
Kay Smith, of (iastonia.
I I
LEAVING FOR SCHOOL
lu-v. Harley Chapin and chil-j.
dreli have gone to Ploridft, where
hi- will enter them in school. Mrs.
Chapin and small son, John, will '
join them later.
SHORTAGE OF
POWER THREAT
TO I). S. SAFETY!
Roosevelt, Concerned. Se-1
lects Committee to
Draft Remedial Laws
COOPERATION FOR
DEVELOPMENT GOAL
IIYDK PAKK. Sept. 7. HP) —
(Expressing" concern over tin- short
age of power which he said con
•dituted a serious threat ti< the I
lational security. President Koose- ,
felt totlav nuine«l a special com
mittee which will draft legislation ■
to reinedv it.
lie selected Louis Johnson, as-/
istant secretary of war, a.- chair
nan.
The new committee disclosed
hat one of its first steps would
jc to induce private utilities to
o-operate closely with the jfov
•rnment in power development.
Private companies are estimat
ed to be three years behind their
tormal growth, due to the husi
less depression.
3ENS0N TELLS F. R.
NORTHWEST WITH HIM
HYUB PARK. 7. —(L'P)
'iesident Roosevelt yesterday J'e
eived from (Jovernor timer Ben
uii, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite,
issurance that voters of tlie near
lorthwcst were behind him in his
ijrht to make the Democratic par
y the party of liberalism.
Benson, who spent more than
hi hour at tlu* miIiiiimt white house
liscussing tin* farm .-itnation and
tolitics, hailed t lit- president's
iri\e against Democratic com«er\
(Continued on page four)
3ENEFIT FOR
LIBRARY TO BE
HELD FRIDAY,
Voceeds From Bridge al
Country Club Will
Add New Books
The public library board is niak
llg plans for a bridge benefit at
he Country club, on Friday inoru
ng of this Week, at I0:3U. Ac
'ordiug to those iii charge of thi.s
vorthwhile civic affair, a number
if reservations have already been
uade. Those intending to play j
ire asked to briii}*' theii i»wn cards,
core pads and pencils.
The public library serves both
isitors and home people daily
luring the entire year, and the
ommittee is hoping this benefit
vill be largely attended by those
nterested in enlarging the circu
ation of this splendid institution.
The entire proceeds from the
iarty will be used for the pur
hase of new books.
A handsome door prize has been
irovided by a Hendersonville jnan
ifacturing firm. The individual
able prizes are also attractive,
here being a prize for high scorei
t each table. Those wishing to
nakc reservations are requested ( j
o call one of the committee nlein
•els in charge: Airs. V. C. Bur i
owes, at 728; Mrs. Fred Justus, I
it 517 J; Mrs. (Jeorge Moland, at
•3a- : I
17 BOMBERS IN
TEST FLIGHT
HONOLULU, Sept. 7. (UP)— ' t
Jeventeeii new navy bombers 1 #
vere ordered out of San Die^o j )
>n short notice, presumably to j
est their efficiency in an emer- j t
rency, landed here today after a
Iuic*k flight from the mainland.
The first of*the planes landed
it Pearl Harbor at 7:09, PST, ami
ill others came down safely with
ii a few minutes. The new bomb
ts and crews of seven men each
vill be stationed in Honolulu.
NEW INCIDENT
HALTS STUDIES,
BULLETIN
PRAGUE, Sept. 7. (UP)—The!
lenlein party today announced j
hey had suspended study of the,
Czechoslovak party's new propos-1 (
ils because of a further incident I s
nvolving the Sudeten Germans. I £
French Mailed I'isl—Strashourj** Bound
<'otinici mi' • i«*r111:«11\' lul l <il troop.- in her Sit-gi rinl Inn* alon^ the h'tviu'li boriTer, i*"rancp .-i^nt
part of Ihm* u :ii marhine 1111111»11111> toward St rasboiirg', key »'it> »»ii tin* Khine frontier, protected by
lift Maninot line defenses. At tup, . |ieeil\ tanks trek imi thward I•» Strasbourg from l<esancon. Be
low, heavy machine ytuie outfits till Hie road in the same troop movement.
CHIPMAN-LA CROSS WINS 2ND
HALF OF SOFTBALL SEASON
fPA PROJECTS
AREAPPROVED
)aua Agricultural Build
i i»!>r>
Flat Rock H. S. Ad
dition Assured
Two Ileuderuon county \V PA
•rojects have been finally aji
•roved in Washington, it was
farned here today. V\ ork on the
irojects \> i 11 probably start in
bout a month.
The tw o projeet.-. approved call
or the con.-tnu'lion «> 1 an agricul
uraI building at the L)ana school
in! a building addition at the
"litt Rock high .school.
The exact amount of money to
e spent on these two projects
ud final plans lor the two build
iK programs was not learned here
i>day.
A number of other Henderson
ounty projects have been ap
roved at Raleigh, but have not
een given final approval al Wash
iigtou.
Dodge Heir's Body
Recovered Today j
LITTLE CURRENT, Ontario.
!ept. 7.—(UP)—The body of
)aniel Dodge, 21, heir to motor
ar millions, was found floating!
ri Georgian Hay today by a fish !
rman. Dodge fell or jumped from
speedboat in August while en-j
oute to a hospital for treatment
or injuries suffered in a dynamite
xplosion.
Maximum temperature—62 de
rees.
Mean—7.r> decrees.
Day's range—26 degre
Nonrtal mean temperature f«>r
September-—66.9 degrees.
Rainfall to date—2.75 inches. !
Normal rainfall—5.U4 inches.
HERE ON VACATION
Hoyt Young, mess steward of a
'CC camp in Madison county, isj
pending his vacation with his
randmother here. i
Chipinan and Kiwanis to
Start Championship
Playoff Tonight
Tin- ('hipman l,a» rosse softball
team war declared winner of the
recond hall ul' the season last
nii'li( a the Kotary team with
drew from the league ainJ for
feited remaining game?'.
KutaryV witlidrawal was due t'»
inability to get the required mini
her ut' players on the rield for the
past several games.
The action of Rotary in with
drawing will enable the Kiwanis
team, first hall winners, and
Chipinan LaCrosse, second half
winners, to start a play-off for
the league championship tonight
at. X o'clock at the Chipinan ath
letic field, Kast Flat Kock.
In the play-off series, one ot
these teams must win three of
five games for the league cham
pionship. Chipman won league
honors last year and appears to
night in the role of defending
cvhampion.
The two teams are evenly
matched anil a close series is ex
pected. The Kiwanians on paper
pack more punch at the plate, but
the Chipinan team seems stronger
defensively in the lield.
Dies Would Call Madam Perkins To i
Testify On Not Deporting Bridges ;
<
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. (IIP) ;
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Texas,
ul the house committee investigat
ing un-American activities, yester
day notified Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins that she may be
summoned before his group to ex
plain the labor department's fail
ure to deport Harry Bridges, for
eign born west coast labor leader,)
as a communist.
Renewing his feud with Madame
Perkins and the labor department.
Dies issued a statement saying he,
had received "hundreds of letters i
from people throughout the coun
try" supporting his demand that
Bridges be deported immediately.
Madame Perkins rejected his first
demand and bitterly criticized his
committee's work.
Dies said he would suggest toi
his group that the secretary and
other labor department officials
be summoned to testify in the
Bridges case and explain why they
allegedly failed to enforce the law
Madame Perkins, in turning downl
Dies' previous demand, cited a '
Fifth Circuit court decision that, J
communism does not constitute |
grounds for deportation.
Declaring that the case "looks'
so bad that I believe all the facts
in it should be exposed so that;'
the American people may know
the truth," Dies said it was "amaz
ing that Madame Perkins would \
assume the attitude that she has J
in defense of the alien Bridges '
and refuse to enforce the law." I'
He also asserted that he had |!
been "advise'd that the Bridges
case is not the only example, and! •
the people are curious to know \
how many similar cases there are' '
where the labor department has
failed to enforce the law with <
reference to radical and criminal
aliens."
Bridges. Australian-born leader <
of the ClO's powerful west coast
Maritime Union, has denied per
sistently that he is a communist, i
In addition to being in the line of i
(Continued on page three) I
HOLD WOMAN
ON ASSAULT
CHARGE HERE
Hound to Court After Al
leged Attempt to Shoot
Girl in Her Room
Arrested yesterday afternoon
about -J o'clock by city officers
after she had allegedly fired two
shots from a 38-ealibre pistol at
another woman, Mrs. Benson Mur
ray. wife of Benson Murray, East
Flat Hock tinner, was bound to
county recorder's court under:
$300 bond this morning by Mayor
A. V. Edwards on a charge of as
sault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill.
Mrs. Murray was arrested at
the home of J. C. Davis, in the
Lenox Park section. She allegedly
went to the home yesterday after
noon and fired twice at Miss Myr- j
tie Parris, niece of Mr. Davis, who ]
made her home there.
According to the testimony of
Miss Parris and others, Mrs. Mur-1
ray, accompanied by her daugh-'
ter, Masie, 14, the eldest of her |
three children, went to the home '
yesterday afternoon.
According to testimony, she I
went into a bedroom and accused ;
Miss Parris of coming between j
her and her husband. Miss Parris'
testified that she told Mrs. Mur-I
ray she had written to her hus- ;
(Continued on pasre four) I,
ANNEXATION
TO GERMANY
CONSIDERED
Briton Would Have Czechs
Pay the Peace Price in
Europe
NAZIS NOTFAVORING
FOURTH CZECH OFFER
(UNITED f»RESS)
Advocates of peace at any pru*e
today put up a trial balloon t>»
test tli*' cost—Czechoslovakia to
pay the bill—of avoiding w«r hi
central Europe.
In London speculation centered
on a solution of the Nazi quarrel
with the Czechs by means of u
plebiscite to determine whether
the Sudeten area should be an
nexed to Germany.
Such a suggestion created ex
citement in diplomatic circles. Hit
ler was expected to deliver his cli
mactic speech to Nazi party ra!
ly at Nuremberg Monday.
In Prague obvious efforts were,
made to speed negotiations for :i
peaceful settlement of the minori
ties issue, so Hitler might not
make irrevocable threats* at the
Nazi rally.
In France, the government of
Premier Edouard Daladier went
ahead with its program of mili •
tary preparations which carried
the nation to the verge of mobili
zation.
Elsewhere on war fronts, devel
opments were:
Spain—Insurgent armies con
tinued to pour through the hole
they battered in the Loyalist line;
along the Ebro river.
China—Japanese armies redou
bled their offensive up the Yangt-e
valley toward Hankow, using air
planes to bomb scores of cities.
SAY BRITONS STUDY
SECESSION PROGRAM
LONDON, Sept. 7. (UP)—Tin*
conservative and influential Lon •
»Jon Times suggested today that if
all other solutions fail, the Czecii
government might permit the Su
detens to secede and unit** wtt.'»
Germany.
"In any case the wishes of th 1
population concerned would seem
to be the decisively important ele
ment in any solution that can hop.
to be regarded as "permanent,"
The Times said, "and the advan
tages to Czechoslovakia of becom
ing a homogeneous state might
conceivably outweigh the obvious
disadvantages of losing the Sud»
ten German districts on the bur
derland."
The editorial was regarded by
observers as reflecting the line?,
along which some members of th«
British government reportedly un
thinking.
The Daily Herald's diplomatic
commentator said that the latest
Czech plan to solve the Sudeten
problem peacefully includes anol
fer of a $25,000,000 loan to assist
distressed Sudeten areas.
"The Czech government h«s
(Continued on page three)
Italy Is Asked To
Clarify Its New
Anti-Jew Decree
Washington Would Know
How U. S. Jews Living
There Affected
ROME, Sept. 7. — (UP) —The
Jnited States embassy last night
isked the Italian government to
nake "certain clarifications" re
garding its new anti-Jewish de
■rees, particularly as they affect
Vmerican Jews residing in Italy.
Edward Reed, counselor of the
American embassy, visited For
•ign Minister County Galeazz>»
riano at Chigi palace and sub
nitted the request. His visit, ii
vas explained, was not in the na
ure of a protest or even a rep
esentation but merely an inquiry
is to obscure points of the recent,
lecrees.
Reed pointed out to Ciano that
\merican Jews had raised many
luestions at the embassy regaini
ng their status under the anti
semitic measures, one of which
•alls for the expulsion within six
nonths of all Jews who have ta
cen up residence in Italy since
ranuary 1, 1919.
The expulsion order is estimat
ed to affect between 10,000 and
16,000 Jews but it was said only
i small number of these were
American Jews.
It was revealed yesterday that
Fewish officers in the Italian
irmed forces are being removed
from active service, unless they
•esign voluntarily, but any retire
nent of Jewish civil servants will
)e voluntary.