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Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
So Hitler's billing the Czechs
for reparations I What do yon sup*
pose he did—break hie fist?
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V0L. 57—No. 242
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
6 LAST MOVE I
DEFENSE MAY
ME, BELIEF
Court Will Review Consti
tutionality of Tobacco
Inspection Act
300 PETITIONS ARE
BEFORE TRIBUNAL
WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 (l'P>
7 . : S it- s supreme court
(. Ly ■- * "evjow the Cali
: :: a >:v' •'s decisions dony
-,u . ' rnomas J. Moon
ty - , i i fe term for con
a • •xvpatinjr in the
.'.'5 Preparedness
Cuv
7ho c ' - »n apparently
' y all legal action
: st celebrated civil
the century.
Decision or the Mooney petition
h.i: ■ • v '''d because the
« urt a need before adjourn
• c a<: ".at it would read
t . - cords and briefs
ovt; the s-.rr.:ner recess and an
:> -u'vri at the earliest
]-oss::>.\ ".t.
The supreme court's action re
sa-. ' 'i«»y was one ruling
•- expected on nearly
including several
aspects of the Wag
ner act.
After disposing of them the
c v start a two-week ar.uu
' tr: • the first of the 19MS
in which attorneys will
- r.t vn.»w> on more than
tiozen peuding cases.
The labor act eases include the
Ford Motor company's challenge
of the National Labor board's au
thority to reopen a case for fur
ther proceedings after a circuit
court once has acquired appellate
(jurisdiction.
NORTH CAROLINA
APPEAL DOCKETED
WASHINGTON", Oct. 10. (UP)
The United States supreme court
today agreed to review the con
stitutionality of the tobacco in
spection act. The tribunal granted
the petition of Fleming Ware
house, Oxford, "•*,*. C.. for review
of the fourth circuit court of ap
peals' decision holding the act
valid.
CHARGES QUESTIONS
BY SEC UNFAIR
WASHINGTON". Oct. 1. (UP)
Howard C. Hopson of the Associ
ated Gas and Klectric system to
day changed the Securities and
Exchange commission with unfair
questioning.
Hopson made the charge testi
fying in a SEC hearing seeking
to determine the conncction be
Utilities Employees Secur
es company and Associated
Gas.
Fall Presbytery
Gathering Will
| Convene Tuesday
' Rev. Mr. Ratchford, Dr.
Jos. R. Sevier Will De
liver SermOns
p ■ "e autumn session of Asheville
am ,terv wi" convene at 11
n Tuesday morninsr in the
a* rorrp<t church, which is situ
.r , nrai West Asheville, between
r>>acp Enka. The opening
p^n°n will be preached by the
n f' Ratchford of Hender
■ nviiie. retiring moderator. The
,iuln:!/thoii will be preached
1 o'c < <-k Wednesday morning
L Vr J R Sevier of this city,
jittery ;S expected to corn
el- f business and adjourn
afternoon.
• -ter- 'itr Presbytery from the
nv ;;e church will be the
j ?or-i,r L. T. Wilds, and Elder
j. r. G ,i,<!rri,in. The Rev. W. S.
of ,.niv°r rf Mills River, pastor
rk/'-' ' 'K River and Etowah
Sp L W*H also attend the
• resbyterv
P,CKP0CKET RAMPAGE
4^-0. Miss.. Oct. 10. (UP)
I ®10 ^ ,r"t3 "°^ted a total of $1»
finaI *he Missis
lut L,i4n,a ^a'r» police revealed
i Uir the three-day
I ;'ingl Saturday, thieves also
^r. s:* automobiles from vis
ARMY'S GREATEST AIR GAMES
ARE INAUGURATED TODAY IN
39 EAST CAROLINA COUNTIES
Movie Actress
Given Divorce
Her husband said their mar
riage "was a mistake" and a
Us Angeles court affirmed that
verdict when it granted movie
actress Ann Sheridan (above),
a divorce from hubby Edward
N'orris. Xorris said he was sorry
he married her, Ann testified,
and she seems happy that they
are "unmarried", now.
ASSOCIATION
VJUL CALLED
Mrs. 0. J. Smith Sets Im
portant Meeting Here
Thursday
Mrs. O. J. Smith, superintend
ent of the Carolina Association
W.M.U., Saturday announced a
quarterly session of this organi
zation to be held at the First Bap
tist church, Hendersonville Thurs
day at 3 p. m.
Mrs. Smith stilted that all W.
M.l". groups and all young peo
ples' organizations were urged to
be represented at this time, espe
cially through their officers .
Business of importance to be
taken up at this meeting will in
clude the election of a personal
service chairman and plans for
sending money to the Baptist hos
pital.
BISHOP MORRIS OF
LOUISIANA, RESIGNS
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 10. (UP)
The Right Rev. James Craik Mor
ris, Episcopal bishop of Louisiana,
resigned last night.
He gave ill health as the reason
for his resignation.
But All of Nation's Anti
Air Defense Could Net
Protect One City of 50,
000 Population
FORT BRAGG, Oct. 10. (UP)
—At 4 o'clock this morning the
greatest air maneuvers ever at
tempted by the U. S. Army got
underway throughout 39 counties
of eastern North Carolina.
A fleet of "invading" planes
operating from Langley Field,
Va., sought to break through care
fully prepared defenses to prove
the vulnerability of the Atlantic
coast to air invasion.
A network of civilian observers
; through the 20,000 square mile
j maneuver area is working with
| the largest assemblage of aircraft
; in the nation's history to repel the
"enemy."
Their telephone, telgraph and
i radio messages to defense head
quarters of the "Blue" force at
Fort Bragg were given right-of
way over all other communica
tions. They were to report height, I
| direction and number of "Black
I Fleet" enemy planes passing over
their observation posts.
By use of an intricate commu
nication system, defense head
) quarters ordered into action the
fighting planes and anti-aircraft
guns at secret fields scattered over
the defense a'-ea.
I Active maneuvers will continue
through Saturday. A board of
military judges will study reams I
of records to be sent in by both
sides on every sham "dogfight,"
bombing operation, Anti-aircraft
barrage and maneuver. From this
study will be determined what
planes are "shot down" and which
side is victorious.
Technical results of the maneu
vers will remain military secrets.
USE CIVILIANS TO
HELP IN DEFICIENCY
By WALT LOGAN
Copyright, 1938, by United Prc»»
RALEIGH. Oct. 10. (UP)—All
of the anti-aircraft equipment
east of the Rocky mountains, as
sembled at Fort Bragg, in the
army's most extensive war maneu
vers, is not enough to defend pro-,
perly a field the size of an aver
age city of 50,000 population,
army officials disclosed last night.
Although the anti-aircraft eqip
ment is the most modern in the
world, there is so little of it that
it would be practically useless in |
case of a wholesale aerial inva
sion of the United States, the of
ficials said.
In the entire country, the offi
cials said, there are but 26 of the1
60 - inch, 800,000 candlepower
searchlights used to spot "enemy
invaders." This is less than the
number used in defenses around
Paris and London, it was said, and
10 of these will be shipped to Ha
waii immediately after the war
games.
Army officers disclosed that in
sham aerial attacks on an airfield
of five miles diameter, object of
theoretical attacks from the in
vading "Black Fleet" of bombers
from Langley Field, Va., in the
war games, the equipment was not
adequate to stop the invaders.
The army's pursuit planes used
in the maneuvers—five miscella
neous planes, 35 Severskys and 36
consolidated two-seaters—are ob
solescent because of rapid ad
vances made in bombing planes,
the officials said.
The army's new "flying for
(Continued on page four)
Bulgarian Chief
Of Staff And Aide
Are Assassinated
Killer Identified as Mur
derer Ending Term;
Takes Own Life
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Oct. 10. (UP)
General Ivan Peef, chicf of staff
of the Bulgarian army, was assas
sinated in the street here today.
His aide de camp. Major Stoy
anoff, also was assassinated by
the same assailant.
The assassin then committed
suicide with a second revolver.
Police identified the assassin as
a man recently released. from
prison after serving a murder
sentence.
The shooting occurred outside
I the ministry of justice while the
i two officers were walking to the
war office.
OCTOBER TERM
OF SUPERIOR
COURT OPENS
Judge Pless Presiding;
Grand Jury Drawn in
March on Duty
The October term of Henderson
county superior court convened
this morning with Judge J. Will
Pless, Jr., of Marion, presiding,
and Solicitor C. 0. Riding of For
est City, representing the state.
The court will be in session for
two weeks and will hear some 70
odd criminal cases listed on the
docket.
Judge Pless convened the court
this morning and sent the grand
jury 'to its room without further
charges. The jury was drawn at
the March term. Solicitor Ridings
sent a number of bills to the
grand jury for action this morn
ing.
In calling the calendar of cases
this morning, the case of Walter
S. Montgomery, prominent Spar
tanburg, S. C., man who has a
summer home at Lake Summit,
was set for 2 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
The defendant was indicted on
three counts at the March term,
charging him with manslaughter
in the deaths of Fate Black, Sr.,
Fate Black, Jr., and Thomas Mar
tin, all of Anderson county, S. C.,
community. The three drowned
in Lake Summitt on September <>,
1936, when a small motorboat in
which they were riding capsized,
as Montgomery passed in a large
boat.
TOM MULLINAX HAS" '
DISPLAY OF EXTRA
BIG SIZED TOMATOES
Tom Mullinax, well-known Hen
dersonville barber, displays at The
Times - News office tomatoes
grown at a camp on South Mills
River. They are of the Oxheart
variety and are noticeable for
size.
Mr. Mullinax planted 100 to
mato vines at the camp. In culti
vating they were not plowed but
•were hoed a couple of times. They
proved to be heavy bearing vines
and while no record was kept of
production, Mr. Mullinax states
that many bushels were produced.
MISS KATE FINLAY
SISTER OF THE LATE
BISHOP FINLAY DIES
COLUMBIA, S. C.. Oct. 10.—
Miss Kate A. Finlay, 81, sister of
the late Bishop Kirkman G. Finlay
of the Episcopal dioQese of Upper
South Carolina, died here last
night, following a decline she had
suffered in health for a year.
The funeral will be at Christ
Episcopal church, Greenville,
Tuesday at noon.
PLANE FALL KILLS 20
SOEST, Germany, Oct. 11.-—
(UP)—Twenty persons were kill
ed in the crash of an airliner
bound from Brussels to Berlin to
day.
At 13—Deanna Grows Up—At 15
Sweet-voiced Deanna Durbin of the movies was just 13. when the
picture at left above was taken as she started on the road to star
dom. She has come far and fast in the two years since. And she
has "grown up" too—witness the new picture at right of a mature
young lady dressed in -the height of fashion. I
HITLER SHATTERS HOPE FOR
p»ARMS REDUCTION; SAYS NAZI
MIGHT WINS NEW VICTORIES
A
CIVIC BALLET
! TO SHOW HERE
Extension of Asheville Idea
t Seen as New Cultural
Influence
A dance concert by the Ashe
ville Civic Ballet will be presented
at the Hendersonville high school
auditorium on Friday evening, Oc
tober 14, under the sponsorship
of the Livingston School of the
i Dance, directed by Miss Millie
Livingston.
The Asheville Ballet is under
the direction of Virginia Earle
and recently appeared in Asheville
' in the first concert of the season
and was well received.
The Hendersonville concert will
be the first in a series of concerts
to be presented in cities of the
South. Considerable interest is be
ing shown in the concert here and
a number of prominent people will
serve as patrons and patronesses.
The Asheville Ballet is unique
as an organization in the South.
It is essentially a civic group and
was organized five years ago for
(Continued on page four.)
Britons Abandon Plan To Split
Palestine Into Arab-Jewish States
New Troop Units Are Dispatched to Holy Land to End
Scourge of Interracial Violence
LONDON, Oct. 10. (UP)—The
British Colonial office yesterday
i ordered new troop units into Pal
estine to end the scourge of Arab
and Jewish violence in the Holy
Land.
Dispatch of four additional bat
talions was announced as indica
tions grew that attempts to settle
the racial and territorial problems
by negotiations were far from
successful.
One of the new battalions will
be sent to Palestine from Britain's
strategic Mediterranean base, the
island of Malta. The Malta con
tingent is the second battalion of
the Royal Irish Fusileers, part of
an infantry brigade. It will sail
today on the transport Neuralia.
The other three battalions will
include a battery of artillery, an
armored car contingent and aux
iliary troops.
When the new units arrive in
Palestine—the movement is ex
pected to be completed in two or
three weeks—the British armed
: strength in the Holy Land will
amount to 17 battalions of infan
try, two cavalry regiments and an
artillery battery.
Diplomatic sources meanwhile
reported that the British cabinet
had found it impracticable to di
vide the Holy Land into separate
Jewish and Arab states—a plan
discussed for several months but
which failed to reduce disorders
in which hundreds of lives were
lost.
It was revealed that, as result
of conferences with Sir Harold
MacMichael, high commissioner
for Palestine who flew to London
to report on the situation, govern
ment officials decided to take
strong measures in the Holy Land.
In addition to outright military
measures, it was understood, the
government contemplates action
against many hill billages known
to harbor terrorists. It was sug
gested that supplies might be cut
off from many of these villages,
virtually isolating them.
In addition to the new military
reinforcements announced Sun
day, two cavalry regiments, three
infantry battalions and a machine
gun battery also are en route to
the Holy Land.
Britons Speed War Prep
arations; Silent on Sun
day Night Speech
LONDON. Oct. 10. (UP). —A
new speed up in the pace of Brit
ish armament was forecast as a
result of Hitler's speech Sunday
nijiht announcing that Germany,
despite the recent Munich agree
ment must "at all hours be ready
to resist."
Some reluctance was shown in
official quarters to comment on
the speech in which Hitler em
phasized that Germany had ob
tained poat-war victories by vir
tue of its mitfht and that it must
continue to arm.
Winston Churchill, British con
servative leader, denounced by
Hitler, planned a radio reply to
the fuehrer's speech.
HITLER SHATTERS
ARMS CUT HOPES
By CLIFFORD L. DAY
(Copyright, 1938, United' Press)
LONDON, Oct. 10.—(UP) —
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler drove an
other nail into the coffin of dis
armament hopes today when he
bluntly told the western democra
cies he still distrusts some of
their statesmen and will continue
rearming Germany.
He implied that he trusts Brit
ish Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain and French Premier Edou
ard Daladier—who gave him all
that he asked for at Munich to
save European peace—but said
their opponents in Britain * and
France hope to come into power
and "aim to start a conflagra
tion."
The distrust appears to be mu
tual, for only last week in the
house of commons Chamberlain
tartly told a questioner that Brit
ain would continue rearming "to
the teeth" since the time was not
ripe to talk of disarmament con
i ferenees.
i Thus a Washington trial bal
loon—launched in a speech by Un
dersecretary of State Sumner
Welles, suggesting a disarmament
conference among the great pow
i ers—was dashed to earth.
1 Speaking in the reoccupied
Rhineland Sunday, Hitler referred
proudly to the fact that he has
increased the third reich by 10,
000,000 souls during the last sev
en months—through the annexa
tion of Austria and the Czech
Sudetenland—and said he would
aim Germany until "no power in
the world ever will break through
our wall of defense."
He announced that the new
Siegfried line, built to counter
France's famed Maginot line of
forts, would be extended through
the Rhineland and to almost the
entire French frontier.
Der Fuehrer named names to
substantiate his charge that' a
(Continued on page four)
Germany's Secret
Police Will Clean
Out Sudetenland
BERLIN, Oct. 10. (UP)—it
wti disclosed today that opera*
tivea of Gestapo, Nazi secret
police, have started a campaign
to clean out "Marxists traitors
and other state enemies" from
German occupied Sudetenland.
The official news agency said
that the army would cooperate
with Gastapo.
0)NEYME
FAIR SET FOR
OCTOBER 13-14
. I
To Be Held at Gymnasium
There; Follies, Revue,
Among Attractions
The Edneyville Community fair
will be held at the new Edneyville
school gymnasium on Thursday
and Friday, Oct. 13 and 14.
A program will be given in con
nection with the fair on Thursday
nifjht at the gymnasium. The pro
gram will include a fashion show
by the J. C. Penney Co.; songs;;
the Senior Follies, directed by
Mrs. W. 0. Allen; string band
music; a box supper, and two ba?
ketball games between community ,
and school teams.
A field day will be held on Fri-1
day morning and will include such 1
eventsas baseball throw, rolling
pin greasy pig catch,
greasy pole clhtfbing, and other
events.
Exhibits will be open to the
public at 1 o'clock Thursday after
noon and will remain open until
Friday afternoon.
Exhibits will be shown as fol
lows :
Homo economics: Layer and
loaf cakes, meringue pie, double
crust pie, biscuits, corn muffins,
and cookies.
Sewing: Print dresses, specimen
of patching, bed spread, center
piece, knitted dress, plaited and
hooked rugs, children's dresses.
Canned goods: Apples, tomato
juice, ~.oup mixture, beans, cucum
ber pickles, chow chow, cherries,
beets, corn, peas, pepper hash,
pears, grape jpice, blackberry and
apple jellies.
Garden crops: Garden display,
cabbage, onions, turnips, lima and
string beans, beets, parsnips, car
rots, sweet and hot pepper, toma
toes, pumpkins, celery, okra and
other garden crops.
Field crops: White prolific,
white single and yellow corn,
bearded and beardless wheat, rye,
I oats, lespedeza hay, soy bean hay,
cowpea hay, grass hay, Irish and
sweet potatoes.
Apples: Red Delicious. Golden
Delicious, Starking, Grimes Gol
den, Staymen Winesap, Hoover,
Rome Beauty, Double Red Rome,
Black Bens, and Arkansas Blacks.
Poultry: Barred Rocks, White
Rocks. Rhode Island Reds, White
Leghorns, and other breeds, white
and brown eggs.
Livestock: Best dairy calf, beef
calf, sow and pigs, and pig.
Future Farmer exhibits: Best
individual supervised practice,
group supervised practice, variety
of individual practice, variety of
group exhibit.
School exhibits: Primary ex
hibit, notebook oi workbook (pri
mary) and (elementary), theme
(elementar)y, business letter
(high school), insect collection,
shop project (agricultural stu
dents).
Flowers: Cut flowers, pot flow
ers, ferns, collection cut flowers,
(Continued on page four)
SOUTH BLUE RIDGE
REPUBLICANS SET
ORGANIZATION MEET
Plato Justus, chairman of the,
South Blue Ridge Republican or
ganization, announced today that
a meeting of the Republicans
there will be held at the home of
Major Justus Tuesday night, Oc
tober 11, for the purpose of or
ganizing the precinct Republicans
for the ensuing year.
All Republicans were urged by
Mr. Justus to be present.
CITY MINISTERIAL
MEETING TUESDAY
The Rev. C. B. Atchison, secre
tary of the City Ministerial asso
ciation, today announced that the
October meeting of this body will
I be held at the Methodist church
Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock.
HE BELITTLES
SOVIET FORCE
HiEY DECLARE
Dunciation Based Upon Al
legations Partly Spread
by Rumor
SEE INTERNATIONAL
SENSATION AS SEQUEL
MOSCOW, Oct. 10. (UP) —
Eleven foremost Russirn avia
tors today bitterly denounced
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
on the grounds th*l he belittled
the Russian air force.
The denunciation of Colonel
Lindbergh was based 011 allega
tions, spread partly by rumor,
that during the Czechoslovak
crisis he asserted that Kussia'j
air force had been weakened
dangerously by the political
purge and that Germany's air
force is equd to the combined
air strength of tiritain. France,
Russia and Czechoslovakia.
The Russian airmen, in a pub
lished letter, defended Soviet
aviation, claiming that their air
fleet quantitatively is equal to
the German and Japanese air
forces and qualitatively much
superior.
i fte statement 01 me kuksuiu
aviators was one calculated to be
an international sensation.
Estimates of Russia's air
strength vary widely. There is lit
tle official information on which
to base estimates. A fleet of Rus
sian fighting planes caused a def
inite turn for a time in the aerial
phase of the Spanish civil war;
Russian planes have flown to and
landed at the North Pole and have
flown from Moscow to the Ameri
can Pacific coast.
In their letter, published in
Pravda, the official newspaper or
gan of the Communist party, the
aviators denounced Lindbergh as
having fascial tendencies, assert
ed that he had abused the hospi
tality shown him in Russia and
ridiculed his accomplishments
since his trans-Atlantic flight.
The men who signed the letter
were among those who aided in
entertaining Lindbergh when he
and his wife visited Russia in
August The Lindberghs were hon
ored more lavishly, perhaps, than
any foreign visitors in recent
years.
They based their letter on re
ports—never verified—that Lind
bergh made a report on Russian
aviation which played a big part
in the Czechoslovak crisis and the
alleged British-French "surren
der" to Adolf Hitler.
"He came to Russia uninvited
under instructions of English re
actionaries in order to testify to
the 'weakness' of Soviet aviation
and provide Prime Minister Nev
ille Chamberlain with arguments
for capitulating at Munich," said
the letter. *
"The paid liar Lindbergh has
duly performed his duties to his
bosses."
The Russian fliers' letter was
headed:
"Lindbergh's new 'record'."
Vassily Molokov, chief of the
civil air force; Mikhail Kokkinaki,
one of the ace fliers of all Rus
sia; Mikhail Gromov, one of those
who flew from Moscow to River
side, Calif., in July, 1937; Valery
Chkalov, of the crew which flew
(Continued on page four).
Seven Different
Dahlia Flowers
On Single Bush
Mrs. Blythe of Flat Rock,
Reveals Unique
Production
Mrs. Z. Z. Blythe of Flat Rock,
today displayed at The Times
News office what was believed to
be a unique production of seven
different kinds of dahlias from a
single bush.
Noticing late last week for' the
first time that a bloom on tbe
bush wag different from the oth
ers, she began a close examination
of the bush and round these va
rieties of blooms on it:
1—One large double pink;
2—One large single pink:
3—One light red, with yellow
center;
4—One a shade darker th^n
3, with a ?<oIid center;
5.—Small dark red, with yello v
center; .
6—Small red dark red, with
soli dcent«r. ' ^ I
(All of these were on a sing'3
stalk.
7—Small dark pink, with yellow
center.
Mrs. Blythe said she had shou i
the blooms to a number of elderly
residents, none of whom had seen
anything like them before from
one bush. • ■