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V0L. 57—No. 141
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C./SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1938
GOOD AFTERNOON
The army it now in the midst of
air raid defense maneuvers in
North Carolina. Come to North
Carolina and sea the world.
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
NEW CRISIS SEEN AS POLES DEFY LONDON
.
(MOVE FOR |
CORPORATIVE
STATE IS MADE
Foreign Policy Discussion
Delayed as Chamber of j
Deputies Defunct
U.S. NOTE~ON JEWS
BEING CONSIDERED
ROMK. Oo: v (UP)—Italy is
v:; \ of its Spanish civ
war • .•-> who have served in
y , : • tha:: 18 consecu
' whs announced to
day.
Ho* mary men will be affected
or h w actually are in
S;' " Nationalist army
•v;u i:» ><-i
Th« official communique an
r: 'uv.c.r.' " Ithdrawal issued
>a . s;i;d, "General
F- • v F t" > :s preparing for
..: ation of Italian
voiurtc < wr. • have been in
>?.: " - ed period."
!' Nationalist Spain
this ... c • ..tinjr in an effi
• t'ne establishment
uf interna:: nal faith."
10,000 ITALIANS
LEAVING SPAIN
ST .IKAN DE LUZ. France,
Ocr. v l'P> -Ten thousand Ital
ian troops will leave for Italy
.io ur. October 15, reli
able advices sa;.d today.
They include 5.000 troop? of
thi March _-rd uivisu-n and 5.000
men of various other Italian units,
/ftdiridiial avators already are
FOREIGN POLICY
TALK IS DELAYED
ROME. Oct. 8. (UP)—The Fas
cist grand council early today un
expectedly postponed discussion
of foreign policy while it approved
a law creating a chamber of
fasces and corporations to replace
the chamber of deputies.
Foreign policy, it was under
stood, would be discussed at the
council's meeting scheduled for 10
o'clock tonight.
A communique issued at 2:43
a. m. contained only details of or
ganization of the new parliament
replacing the present chamber of
deputies.
Members of the new chamber
are to be known as "national
counsellors."
The grand council sst for two
sours and 40 minutes and some
surprise was expressed at its fail
ore to discuss foreign policy, since
that was the second item on it*
a?°n<ia. The reason was boiirved
to bo 'hat Anglo-Italian relations
save not yet reached a stage con
clusive enough to warrant a pub
lic statement.
NO REPLY TO U. S.
NOTE ABOUT JEWS
WASHINGTON. Oct. x. <l'P)
The star*' department yesterday
■»de public the text of a note to
the Italian government pointing
j to the freedom according Italians
fcaporar.ly residing in the United
Vatpc a> : urging modification of
^ "*i: regarding American
;n Italy.
Son:- ,0M-rvers viewed the
iifeiential warning
*:af '.n against Amer
f'". ■ ■ ■ ■ ' Italy would call for
1 " • a ures against Ital
ic i'-* in the United States
" r.o apparent con
- n the text of the
tommunxa::. n.
" ■ ;>< delivered to the
"ficc on Wedncs
» ' -rican Ambassador j
_ Phillips called
,, ' e again Thurs
"! ' * gnt the Italian
' y>k it under con
SGfrat. .
1 been received i
>" to the note.
^omen Glutting
U. S. Labor Mart
.^•AvUXf.TnN, Oct. 8. (UP).
(1'? .i rector of the fed
vent census today
ient Roosevelt that
v.. " -(...s glutted the labor
^ commended that the
c- ' ligation committee
j£' - - Mem.
V. tr.at 2.740,000 more
ir" omen, had entered
■ u.able fo remplov
jc'";", 0 than was expect
tnt- ^asis of past experience.
U.A.W. DENIES DETROIT STRIKE:
yiEN QUIT WORK TO ENFORCE
S.L.R B. 32-HOUR WEEK RULING
Southern Gal as
a Southern Gall
Pretty Helen Claire, above, is
the new Broadway season's first
"discovery". A southern girl
herself, her portrayal of a gal
from Dixie in the current stage
hit, "Kiss the Boys Goodbye,"
drew critical hosannas. Now
she is undecided whether to ac
cept one of the many movie
contracts being offered her.
CHARLOTTE,
RIDGIANS IN
SCORELESS TIE
Hilltoppers Wage Gallant
Defense Battle Friday
Night
By BILLY REESE
Blue Ridge School for Boys
held a highly favored Charlotte
high school football team to a
scoreless tie in Charlotte last
night before 5,000 people. The
Blue Ridge team played a gallant
defensive frame, staving off thrust
after thrust by the fleet Charlotte
backfield, following up a heavy,
experienced line.
The game was packed with
thrills from beginning to end.
Early in the first quarter Char
lotte took the ball to the Ridtfian
three-inch line, where the Hilltop
pers held four succcssive times to
take the ball from Charlotte.
Again in the fourth quarter
Charlotte pushed the ball deep in
to pay-dirt territory, before bein^
stopped on the ten-vard line.
These were not the only threats
made by the Charlotte team. The
only real Blue Ridge threat came
in the second half, when Carter
and Gardner, who grained ground
consistently the entire game thru
the Charlotte line, carried the
ball from their own 31 to the
Queen City 9-yard line. Here
three passes failed and the ball
went over on downs.
The Blue Ridge team relied al
most entirely upon power playa
and line plunges, after their pass
er, Jerry Mersch was taken out in
the first few minutes of play.
Charlotte unleashed a powerful
passing attack, completing nu
(Continued on page two)
Board Decree Wednesday
Is Followed by Job
Sharing Idleness
DETROIT, Oct. 8. (UP)—The
United Automobile Workers union
today held a hurried conference
on its 32-hour week plan which
caused ? walkout from the Chrys-:
ler Corporation's Plymouth plant, |
throwing 16.000 out of work.
Nine intei*national officials of \
the union came here by airplane
from Washington, where the ex- j
ecutive board formally approved j
a 32-hour week Wednesday, to
meet with local UAW leaders.
They followed the board's propos
als with quick direct action.
Workers denied they are on
strike but only quit work after a
32-hour week and indicated they
would return to their jobs Mon
day. quitting again after 32
hours.
URGE CORPORATION
ACCEPT NEW HOURS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. (UP)
The Chrysler committee of the
Committee for Industrial Organ
ization's United Automobile Work
ers executive board yesterday
called upon Chrysler Corporation
to institute immediately a 32-hour
work week in its plants in order1
to spread employment among for
mer workers now on relief.
At the same time the committee
denied that UAW members, who
failed to appear at the company's
Plymouth plant in Detroit yester
day morning, were on strike.
In a resolution asking the cor
portion to "abide by" its UAW
contract, the committee contend
ed that technological improve
ments in auto manufacture made
shorter hours necessary in order
to return thousands of auto work
ers to iheir jobs. It added that a
reduction of hours from 40 to 32
weekly would increase employ
ment 20 per cent.
Richard T. Frankensteen, UAW
vice-president, said that the Ply
mouth plant workers were not
striking but had decided to work
a 32-hour week ending; Friday,
and thus return to their jobs Mon
day. This was described as a vol
untary share-the-work movement
designed to return former work
ers. now on relief or WPA, to
their jobs in the auto plants.
The committee, which will meet
in Detroit Monday with Herman
L. Weckler, operating vice-presi
dent of the corporation, urged the
companv to co-operate in "meet
ing this social problem" which
would aid not only the auto work
ers but the "general public who
pay taxes."
Forecast Cotton
Crop Increase
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. (UP)
—The Agriculture Department's
forecast of the 1938 cotton crop
at 12.212,000 bales compared to
11,825,000 estimated a month ago.
It estimated the yield per acre
on the 26,4449,000 acres to be
harvested at 221.1 pounds of lint
as the second highest on record.
It also reported 6,578,313 bales
ginned to October 1, compared to
8,260,071 ginned the same date
last year.
The estimated yield included:
Tennessee, 500,000 bales; North
Carolina, 450,000 bales; Virginia.
18.000 bales, and Florida, 27,000
j bales.
|Coup Attempted
By Siamese Fails
SINGAPORE, Oct. 8. (UP) —
An attempted coup d'etat in Siam,
, supposedly in an effort to restore
former King Prajadhipok to the
throne now held by a 13-year-old
monarch, had been crushed, it was
reported today.
Several prominent politicians
were sa d to have been arrested
in the abortive plot and one min
ister of the government was said
to have fled to Penang.
1 Many Siamese in Malaya have
been awaiting the coup.
MRS. DALTON GRAVELY ILL
Mrs. J. M. Dalton, who suffered
a stroke of paralysis nearly three
weeks ago, was so critically ill
that it was feared she might not
survive through the day, it was
learned this forenoon. Mrs. Dal
ton, who is 79 years old,, is mak
ing her home with her daughter,
Mrs. J. E. Blythe, at the latter's
* residence in Big Willow.
NAZI EROSION HITS CZECHS AGAIN
jggjm ,
Even before the four zones given outright to Germany under the Munich "peace settlement" had
been occupied, Reichschancellor Hitler demanded—and speedily got—a "fifth zone" in Czechoslo
vakia from the international Sudetenland commission. On the map above, the four zones originally
ceded to Germany are shown in black, numbered in order of occupation. The shaded areas show ap
proximate territory earmarked for Nazi occupation by October 10. At Leitmeritz, the latest "putsch"
into Czechoslovakia will bring Germany within 30 miles of the capital, Prague.
ANTI-SPY BILL!
ML COME UP
IN CONGRESS
All Leading German Spies.,
Flee Country; Jury
Probe Goes Forward
By MACK JOHNSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. (UP)
Chairman Martin Dies, 1)., Tex.,
of the house committee investi
gating un-American activities,
announced yesterday that he
would sponsor legislation at the
next congress to carry out Presi
dent Roosevelt's demands for a
curb on increasing foreign prop
aganda and spying in the United
States.
The burly Texan's statement!
came shortly after the chief ex
ecutive told a press conference nt
Hyde Park, N. Y., that he is,
studying means to curb a danger
ous growth of foreign activities
which have reached into the mul
ti-billion dollar national defense
program.
Mr. Roosevelt observed that
present federal anti-espionage ma
chinery, which is scattered among
navy, war, justice, treasury and
state departments, is too cumber
some for the task, and that he fa
vors creation of a special agency
to tackle the problem.
Dies, whose committee has been
delving into Fascist, Nazi and
Communistic activities, said he
would offer a "comprehensive"
(Continued on page three) i
Germany, Strengthening tastern
European Influence, Is Lending
Millions To Turkish Government I
a ' '
Gaining Predominance as
Britons Lose Power by
[ & Near-East Policy.
ANKARA- Turkey, Oct. 8.—
(UP)—German Economic Minis
ter Walthcr Funk late yesterday
concluded an agreement, with the
Turkish government calling for a
loan by Germany of 150,000,000
reichsmarks ($65,105,000) for
armaments and industrial devel
opment.
(The credit was announced of
ficially at Berlin today.)
The announcement of the Ger
man credits to Turkey, which
would be in a position of great
strategic importance in event of
a general war, was believed to
signal the beginning of a trade
struggle with Germany arrayed
against Britain and France for
economic domination of the Dar
danelles and the entrance to the
Black sea.
It was assumed that Funk, who
came here from Yugoslavia, ob
tained economic concessions or a
basis of economic collaboration
from the government of Kamal
Taturk in exchange for the $65,
105,000 in credits.
Germany also is expected to
exert great influence in Turkey's
rearmament, for which a large
part of the money will be spent.
Funk's visit here, coupled with
the significance of his economic
negotiations in Yugoslavia, indi
cated that Germany is losing no
time in pushing on toward the
(Continued on page three)
CATS DEFEAT SWANNANOA
BY 1ST PERIOD TOUCHDOWN
Cats Play Desperate Defense Game in Clutches; Stall
Powerful Foe in Weird Contest Friday Afternoon
Hendersonville high's Bearcats
; won their third game of the cur
rent season by a lone touchdown
| yesterday afternoon, defeating a
powerful Swannanoa team at
Swannanoa in a weird game.
Swannanoa had the bpst of ev
erything except forward passing
and the score as the Cats played
desperate defensive football in
the clutches. The Buncombe lads
boasted a powerful running at
tack which the Cats found diffi
culty in solving except on their
own goal line.
Bert Miller, who showed enough
to get the Cats a touchdown in
the first giyne of the season, came
through again yesterday with a
beautiful 43 - yard touchdown
sprint after taking a pass from
Quarles, but after this play the
ball game was over as far as the
Cats were concerned.
Later in the game with the Cats
backed up to their own 7-yard
line, Miller again came through
with a 30-yard spring off guard
to relieve the pressure.
As usual, the Cats were most
effective passing, gaining most of
; their yardage and scoring by this
method. They also had two good
| pass plays nullified when penal
ties were imposed after comple
I tions.
The Cats opened by kicking on
and stcfpped the Swans on their
own 10. This kept the visitors bot
tled up'during the remainder of
the first period, but early in the
second the Swans took the ball
on their own on their own 3<! and
drove to the Cats' 25 before los
ing possession. It was a sustained
power drive with Vallaincourt in
the spear-hcad capacity.
The Cats worked a forward lat
eral to Swannanoa's 47 for a first
down, but got a 15-yard penalty
[ on the play, setting them back
to their own 38.
Quarles then passed to Drake
for 9 yards and faded back the
second time to pass to Miller. Mil
ler took the ball about 10 yards
i beyond the scrimmage line, cut to
the sideline where he was given
blocking on the defensive half
back by Coston, eluded the safety
, man and ran for the touchdown.
' An attempted pass failed for
the extra point.
Swannanoa brought the kick-off
to their own 38 and made a first
down before Yarborough halted a
promising drive with a pass inter
: ception, and a few minutes later
the half ended.
The Cats took the second half
I kick-off, but were forced to punt,
(Continued on page five)
NEW OUTDOOR
SCHOOL TERM
HEREPOPULAR
Formal Welcome Is Given
Florida School Operat
ing at Camp Carlyle
With outdoor classwork well
underway, pupils of Miss Harris'
Florida School, now in session at
Camp Carlyle on the Chimney
Rock highway, are finding their
stay in the mountain region much
I to their liking, while faculty mem
1 hers are delighted with the ad
| vantages afforded here.
I Miss Julia Fillmore Harris of
Miami, owner of the school, thus
reported yesterday to a commit
tee of the chamber of commerce
which visited the school to extend
a welcome and to offer any type
of co-operation which she may
wish from Hendersonville.
Mayor A. V. Edwards, a mem
ber of the committee, told Miss
Harris that "keys to the city are
not necessary as nothing is locked
to members of schools and camps
in this region." Thos. H. Franks,
first vice-president of the chamber
of commerce, C. M. Ogle, and
other members of the committee
also assured Miss Harris that this
community is pleased over her de
cision to bring a part of her school
enrollment to the mountains for
the months of October and May.
Miss Harris, who established the
i school in Miami 25 years ago, said
she had been contemplating the
innovation for several years but
| (Continued on page three)
JLF1 COUNd
WILL DISCUSS
REBEL THREAT
Is Told Continued War
With C.I.O. Will Bring
General Revolt
- •
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 8. (UP)
Angry, tight-lipped members of
: the American Federation of La
i bor's executive council meet in
I special session today to discuss a
stern warning- that continued
i fighting with the Committee for
Industrial Organization will preci
pitate a rank-and-file rebellion.
From Daniel W. Tobin, hard
j fisted boss of the Teamsters, the
I largest union in the Federation,
: came a threat of open revolt if
the A. F. of L. did not attempt to
I set labor's house in order imme
i diately. Tobin infuriated his col
leagues on the council yesterday
1 (Continued on page three)
England Definitely Committed to Pre
serve Czech Territory From
Further Inroads
LONDON, Oct. 8. (UP)—Great Britain fears the pos
sibility of a new grave European crisis as the result of
Polish-Hungarian demands for the partition of Czecho
slovakia calculated to give them a common frontier.
It was learned today that Great Britain has warned
both Poland and Hungary against seeking to dismcmbar
Czechoslovakia for what the British believe are political
and strategic reasons.
Reliable British quarters said that Poland, in reply to
the British warning, intimated to the government thnt it
is determined to give the fullest possible support to Hun
gary's claims for immediate cession of Czechoslovakia
Ruthenia, giving a common Polish and Hungarian frcn
— Attar. This V'ould cut Czrcho:>lo»
AVE CZECHS
SKODA PUNT
But It Will Be Under Nazi
Guns' Range and Nazi
Regulated
By HAROLD ETTLINGER
United Pre*! Staff Core«pondent
PARIS,Oct. 8." (UP).—Czecho
slovakia has retained control of i
the giant Skoda munitions works '
near Pilsen, third largest in the
worjd, as result of negotiations
with Berlin, but.Germany hay de
mand the right to regulate all
•Czech, exports of war supplies,
French financiers were informed
last night. '
As result of the negotiations, it
was reported, the area of Ger
many's occupation of the Sudjten
land will halt just west of Pilsen,
bringing the main Skoda plants
and their 17,000 skilled workers
within range of German guns. ;
French financiers are virtually
concerned with the future status
of the Skoda trust because they
have millions of dollars invested '
in it and for years the Czech arms
plants have been largely depend
ent upon capital furnished by the
French Schneider arms combine. 1
The Skoda works, divided into
more than 100 plants around Pil
sen, ranks next to the French
Schneider and German Krupp con
cerns in supplying the armies of
the world with tanks, artillery,
machine guns and other muni
tions.
It had been feared by French
investors that Germany would lay I
claim to the Skoda plants but last
night's dispatches said that the
main factories would remain on
Czech soil.
For the time being, at least, the
new Czech government was said
to have no intention of changing I
the status of the Skoda trust or its
production of war materials.
However, information in Paris
wan that Chancellor Adolf Hitler
might demand as a preliminary
for good Czech-German relations
(Continued on page three)
LEGION WILL
SEE MOVIES
Will Consider Armistice
Day Program Next
Tuesday Night
Moving pictures of the National
American Legion convention at
Los Angeles, Calif., will be shown
at the regular meeting of the Hu
bert M. Smith Post of the Ameri
can Legion, next Tuesday evening
at 8 o'clock, at Legion home.
Other pictures including: the
centennial celebration of Hender
son county will also be shown. All
Legionnaires, veterans and friends
are invited to attend.
Business of importance will be
discussed, including the forth
coming Armistice day program.
Catholics, Nazis
Fight In Vienna
VIENNA, Oct. 8. (UP). —An
angry demonstration in which Ro
! man Catholic youths and Nazi
partisans last night fought in the
| historic St. Stefans place was end
ed by police when it threatened to
assume proportions of a riot. Sev
eral persons were injured in fist
I battles and others were arrested.
▼akia off from its little ento ,t«
ally, Rumania, and form * »U-ong
barrier between Germany and
R«t«ia.
The reason for the govern
ment's new anxiety over Czecho
slovakia, after its agreement to
the country's dismemberment in
the interests of Nazi Germany,
was that as part of the Munich
agreement, Britain and France
promised to guarantee Czechoslo
vakia's new frontiers.
This was a commitment taken
for the first time by Britain. Pre
viously the government had prom
ised only to support France if
France went to the aid of Czecho
slovakia against a German attack.
When the Munich agreement
was signed, and the delegates of
Great Britain, France, Germany
and Italy alike saw a rainbow of
peace in the diplomatic skies of
Europe, this pledge teemed but a
polite gesture to Czechoslovakia
one that would cost nothing.
But now, it was understood the
government feared that %hat was
called "difficult situation" might
arise if Poland and Hungary
threatened to use forcible means
to get their demands for cession
of Czechoslovak Ruthenia or part
of Slovakia so that they could
have the common frontier they
have been talking about.
By CLIFFORD L. DAY
Copyright, 1938, by United Press
LONDON, Oct. 8. (UP)—Great
Britain and France today broke
away from the Versailles Treaty's
shattered promises of peace and
struck out toward a realignment
of their foreign policies in an ef
fort to head off Adolf Hitler's
"drive to the east."
The drive already was .under
way, however, and in Turkey's
capital, Ankara, Nazi Economics
Minister Walther Funk concluded
an agreement whereby Germany
will grant Turkey $05,105,000 in
credits for armaments and indus
try.
The loan, Germany's latest bid
for economic penetration of Tur
key against the trade expansion
efforts of Britain and France, un
doubtedly involved Turkish eco
nomic concessions to the Reich.
Before going to Turkey, Funk
stopped off in Belgrade to con
solidate German economic t:es
with Yugoslavia.
... # TT'i.1^.. 4. st
i nese latest moves ui uiuv.,
gether with his annexation of the
rich Sudetenland of Czechoslo
vakia, mean that he must be
counted into the reshuffling of
policies along more "realistic"
lines but Britain and France are
determined to do everything p s
sible to curb hi» swelling pov ir
and penetration.
Their immediate hopes lay in
courting Premier Benito Musso
lini of Italy and weaning him
away from too strong an alliance
with Hitler, his brother-in-arms at
the other end of the Rome-Berlin
axis.
Mussolini, the Anglo-French en
tente believes, is wary of being
drawn into war by Hitler's method
of ultimatum and has little enthu
siasm for Germany's efforts to
brine all of middle Europe into
the Nazi orbit.
Georges Bonnet, French foreign
minister, speaking before the sen
ate foreign affairs commission last
night, said that France must es
tablish a new policy of security
based, first of all, on friendship
with Britain and Italy.
France expects to name an am
bassador to Rome Tuesday, proo
ably Andre Francois-Poncet, who
is now ambassador to Berlin, and
thereby reatore full Franco-Italian
diplomatic relations which have
been strained for three years. The
way will be opened for resump
tion of negotiations on an Italo
French pact of friendship.
Britain, striving to put into
force her treaty of friendship with
Mussolini which was initialed 1 >st
April 10, ran into difficulties l e
cause of disagreement over the
question of how many Italian
Blackshire Legionnaires are to be
withdrawn from the insurgent
armies in Spain as a requisite for
formal conclusion of the friend
(Continued on page three)