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WEATHER
Generally fair Monday night
Tuesday.
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GOOD AFTERNOON
The nation* of the world eon
tin no to bolster tboir arms pro
gram*. hut nobody yot ha* offered
to pillow the taxpayer*.
Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
VOL. 57—No. 248
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
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Hungarians Twice Attack Czech Patrol
iZECHS FAIL
JO FIRE WHEN
AREA RAIDED
lovaks Establish Martial
Law, Win Victory in
Retaining Towns
EMAIN LENIENT
TOWARD TERRORISTS
PRAGUE. Oct. 17— (UP)—
The Czech army advised today
hat Hungarian soldiers had
ip«ned fire on a Czechoslovak
Mtrol at Biel, Slovakia, and
brown hand grenades at Czech
roops.
After withdrawing. Hunga
ians returned and attacked the
■trol again.
Czechoslovaks did not return
heir fire.
PRAGUE. Oct. 17.—(UP) —
The Slovak government today
lecrecd martial law in 17 dis
ricts clo.e to the Hungarian
rontier. The area extends over
15 districts of the frontier and
■wo districts close to it.
It was announced the step
pas taken because the Slovak
[orernment feared invasion by
Magyar terrorists although there
» ao fear of invasion by the
egular Hungarian army.
Meanwhile the Czech irovern
p.nt was prepared today to re
roe direct negotiations with Hun
iryovc minority disputes involv
p f.icr territory, with Czecho
)vakia's position reinforced by
new German attitude.
F 17.::— the return of Foreiirn
in.Dr. Frar.tisek Chvalovsky
cm Berlin ami Munich, where he
nferrod with Chancellor Adolf
.tier, it becatm v.i-1 -t here that
i Hur.-aiur.-C -iovak dis
te will be settled purely along
inoir.anhic !:nes <i-temined bv
> It)"') cer.^u*. as C :■ vhoslovakia
i insisted. Th^< the important
ims o' Bratislava. Xitra, Kosice
1 I xr.orvj. wh:ch possess Hun
rian minorities, will remain
foh«»s!ovak.
piirnoasro tnis is a negative re
t. it nevertheless is a victory
• (\:e<.-h'>-!ovak;a to keep these
ins which Hungary demanded
the Komaron conference. It waS|
rr.ed " h:=rli authority that'
echoslovakia. in order to make
re the renewed direct neeotia
r< will not suffer anv setback.
»nd> to be most lenient with
ne :I00 terrorist prisoners, many
the-i Hunsrarians who led bands
s:it . : ' . u-ices in the dis
ked territory.
Rerorts that these prisoners
i r'T.artialed and sen
iced to death within the next
i' day woro denied,
f UT ".mister continued
ifm-rc-s with cabinet members
nrde: to speed reconstruction
Czechoslovakia. which
b'>und to develon entirelv new
I-ions, both political and eco
ric. It was reported that Ger
Py is ready to rive financial
i :ndi;<trial assistance if Prague
ties W. • <r Berlin lines the dis
te w !: :nirary.
\ proposal for German mone
?aid a< recompense for loss of,
ir? f territory was under
N to o under consideration
heca.;-, of the seriousness of
| H an territorial dispute.
'■ ,wa> nderstood that a com
;T ■ > !ution had been offered
sr.' rvnder to Hungary of
n territory than Budapest
■ demanded.
EATH CLAIMS
IRS, CLEMENT
lu^ Carolina Native
Be Taken Home
for Burial
If Emma Clement, 72, of 236
i iAl Vl5e died last niprht
j'r1 o'clock at Patton Memo
hospital, following: an illness
libera; years. Funeral services
J* held Tuesday at 2 p. m.,
°iSprings, in Spartanburg
®nt^ »y the Rev. B. E. Wall,
• the First Baptist church,
yity.
j P*- r nent, who had survived
""1. had made her home
t_ about 20 years.
W V S'st?rs» Mrs. Lula Foster
vV. p. Wheeler, survive,
b, Co^sins livinar here. Mrs.
^ Rector. V. E. Rector and
Sector, also survive.
LEADING FIGURES IN NAZI SPY TRIAL
KEY WITNESS—Called "a wo
man of mystery" and reported
to be a member of a once weal
thy family of the old German
regime, Miss Senta De Wanger,
above, is expected to give valu
able testimony for the Federal
government in its trial of four
alleged Nazi spies in New York.
Miss De Wanger owned a liquor
store riear the Army flying tield
at Hempstead, L. I., and post
poned a visit to her home in
Germanv to testify at the trial.
CONFESSED SPY AND CO-DEFENDANTS—One minute after J
the espionage trial of the three men pictured above opened in New.j
York Federal Court, the man at the left, Guenther Gustav Rumrich,
walked to the bench and pleaded guilty to Federal Judge John C.
Knox. Rumrich, former U. S. Army sergeant, and a deserter, at
tempted to obtain false passports for the alleged Nazi spy ring.
The other defendants above are Otto Herman Voss, German-Amer
ican aviation mechanic, center, and Erich Glaser, U. S. Array air
corps private of German origin.
IN HIGH GOOD SPIRITS was red-headed Johanna Hoffmann,
above, "leading lady" in the nation's current spy drama, as she
went on trial in New York Federal court with three other defend
ants as alleged members of a Nazi spy ring. A native of Dresden,
she was arrested while working as a hairdresser on the German
liner Europa, and was charged with carrying messages for the ring.
FOREIGN POLICY OF U. S. NOW
DECLARED AT CROSS ROADS
«i>
MRS. JEROME, 8S,
PASSES AWAY
Ohio Native Expires at the
Mountain Home Resi
dence of Daughter
Mrs. Elizabeth Jerome, 86, a
native of Ohio, died at the home
of a daughter, Mrs. Helen Jerome
Smith, at Mountain Home, this
morning at 2:45 o'clock.
The body will be taken to
Pleasant Valley, Liberty, 0., for
funeral and burial services.
Mrs. Jerome is survived by the
following children: P. F. Jerome
of Gulfport, Fla., J. C. Jerome of
Minerva, O., Mrs. Elizabeth Je
rome Patton of Naples, Fla., and
Mrs. Smith of Mountain Home.
Pomona Grange
To Meet Tuesday
Night At Etowah
A meeting of Pomona Grange
was announced today for Tuesday
eveninsr at 7:30 o'clock at the Eto
wah high school building, which
all members of the three subordi
nate granges. Mills River. Fletch
er and Etowah, are urged to at
tend.
Included on the program will be
the rendering of a report on the
srrange year in Henderson county,
' special music, and a picnic supper.
Some Washington Observ
ers See More Drastic
Stand in Future
By GERRY ROBICHAUD
[ United Press Staff Correspondent
| WASHINGTON. Oct. 17. (UP)
Foreign affairs experts last night
believed that the Roosevelt admin
I istration has reached a crossroads
in international policies which will
briny about a complete alteration
of American foreign policy.
Several factors convinced them
that the "idealism" of the new
deal's early forays into interna
tional affairs had been abandoned
in favor of a policy, as yet unde
termined, of delaing realistically
I with "aggressor" nations and
other world problems.
They based their observations
on several developments, includ
ing President Roosevelt's an
nounced intention to survey Amer
ican defense needs with a view to
building up military and naval
strength as quickly as possible and
the standardization of munitions
manufacture to permit rapid in
dustrial mobilization in event of
| war.
i Undoubtedly the most impor
tant point in the new foreign pol
; icy, observers said, will be the of
, ficial American attitude toward
the dictator nations which until
recently were under consistent ad
ministration fire—beginning at the
time of Mr. Roosevelt's famous
"quarantine" speech in Chicago.
But events since that time ap
peal to have changed the admin
istration's attitude. During- the
height of the German-Czech crisis
Mr. Roosevelt decided to move
quickly to avert possibility of a
world war, and the first person to
1 whom he appealed was Adolf Hit
, ler.
, From .Hitler he turned to Pre
mier Benito Mussolini, of Italy,
(Continued on page three)
WILL CALL I
WITNESSES IN
U. S. SPY CASE
Prosecutor Charges Con
spiracy, Directed in Ger
man Government
NEW YORK, Oct. 17. (UP).—
1 The government today charged in
federal court that thret defend
1 ants on trial for espionage con
spired to obtain information con
cerning the United States military
secrets and "transmit it to "Ger
many." United States Attorney
Lamar Hardy charged in his open
ing statement that the conspiracy
against the American government
was "conceived and directed in a
(Continued on page three)
COUNTY WINS
IN ALL CLASSES
IN STATE FAIR
Henderson Exhibitors Bring
Home $200 Prize Money
From Raleigh
TURKEY EXHIBITS
LEAD ALL OTHERS
Henderson county exhibitors at
the State Fair, at Saleigh, really
"went to town," G. D. White,
county far in ajvent, reported to
day.
The Henderson exhibitors won
in every class they had exhibits
and captured approximately $200
of the fair prize money.
On Hereford beef cattle, J. Z.
Cleveland, with five head, won
$111 in prize money and the fol
lowing awards: Second for yountj
bull; second for young cow; first
and second for heifers; first on
pair of calves and reserve cham
pion female.
Sam Childs, Jr., with New
Hampshire Reds, won first and
second on cockerels and first and
.second on pullets for $6 prize
money.
In the turkey division, Hender
| soun county entries won every
i prize except one third ribbon. Dr.
j M. Szamatolski won the award for
1 best torn and best hen, and his
of turkeys with White Hollands.
Turkey prizes were won as fol
lows: First, second and third pul
let, Mr. Sewell. First, second and
third hen. Dr. Szamatolski. First
and second young torn, Mr. Sew
ell. First yearling torn, Mr. Sew
ell. Second yearling torn, Dr.
Szamatolski. First and second old
torn, Dr. Szamatolski. Turkey
prize money totaled $37.
Frank Corpening won first prize
money with a Guernsey bull and
$10 prize money.
Ann Carland, Mills River 4-H
girl, won third in the 4-H junior
heifer class and third in the open
| heifer class.
I In the apple division, J. R.
Townsend, route 1, won two first
prizes, and E. L. Marshall, of
Dana, won three firsts, three sec
onds and two thirds. Mr. White
did not know the amount of apple
prize money won.
Kiwanis To Give
Tryon Program
The Kiwanis ciub of this city
will present the program at the
weekly meeting of the Tryon club
at Tryon Tuesday. A large num
ber of local club members will at
tend, it was said today. Cars will
leave the Skyland hotel at 12
o'clock.
F. M. Waters, program chair
man, and Dr. Jos. R. Sevier, chair
man of the club's inter-city com
1 mittee, have arranged the pro
gram, which will include an ad
dress by A. F. Barber and special
music under the direction of Miss
Mary Brooks.
OSTEEN RE-ENLISTS
News has been received of the
re-enlistment of H. A. Osteen, eld
est son of Mr. and Mrs. Haskell
Osteen. of Zirconia, in the navy.
Mr. Osteen is now aboard the
U. S. S. Vincennes at Long Beach,
Calif. He will be remembered as
"Bert" Osteen by fellow students
i of Flat Rock high school and Fur
man university.
Britain Awaits Full Report From Its
Palestine Commission Before Framing
New Status As To Jewish Homeland
LONDON, Oct. 17. (UP)—The
Daily Herald said today that Brit
ain intends to abandon the plan
to partition Palestine and at the
same time curtail drastically Jew
t ish immigration to Palestine and
the sale of Palestine land to Jews.
The paper quoted A. L. Easter
man as a Jewish authority for
this information and said the de
cision was reached after the gov
ernment studied the report of the
Woodhead commission, recently
returned from the Holy land.
By JULIUS C. EDELSTEIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (UP)
'Secretary of State Cordell Hull
disclosed last night that the Brit
ish foreign office has assured the
United States no change in the
present political status of Pales
tine is contemplated until the
completion of a full commission
report.
There have been reports that
Britain was considering1 closing
Palestine to further Jewish immi
gration and terminating its status
as the Jewish national homeland.
The United States government has
officially expressed its concern.
Hull, in a letter to Representa
tive Hamilton Fish, N. Y., ranking
Republican member of the foreign
affairs committee, said that the
(Continued on page three)
Where Volcano of War Steams Again
War talk raised its ugly voice again in Europe after Hungary
joined in the partition of Czechoslovakia by demanding a large
slice of territory along the Hungarian-Slovakian border. Both dis
putants massed troops on their common frontiers and violence
broke out in several towns. Tl$e shadowed area on the map above
shows the piece of Slovakia that Hungary wants. It covers ap
proximately 4349 square miles containing 1,120,00 inhabitants, of
whom 433,000 are said to be Slovaks. The Czech offer of 2152
square miles with 378,000 population was refused by Hungary,
which put the dispute up to the four signers of the Munich accord.
! CHURCHILL CALLS U. S. TO HELP
| STEM TOTALITARIAN MARCH
iHDERCASr
Agreement Is Reached by
Council in Girl's Death;
State Seeking Trial
The case o? Morri® Michael,
Asheville salesman, indicted last
week on a charge of murder in
the death of Kathleen Barham,
i school girl, at Brickton last March
8, was continued in superior court
this afternoon for the defense.
The case was continued after
defense counsel filed several affi
davits, declaring that a civil settle
ment in the sum of $2,450 had
been made and that counsel repre
senting parents of the child had
agreed a nolle prosse would be
recommended to the solicitor.
Defense counsel stated that, on
account of this. agreement, no
preparation had been made to try
the case at this term.
Solicitor C. 0. Ridings stated
that he had not been a party to
any agreement and that an indict
ment had been sought by Mr. and
Mrs. Monteith Barham, parents of
the child.
Mr. Ridings stated further that
he was not of the opinion that a
nolle prosse should be taken. He
stated that he expected to try the
defendant for second degree mur-!
der and to insiat on it.
The solicitor asked for a bond
in the sum of $2,500. The de
fendant had previously been un
der a $1,500 bond after a coro
ner's jury held him for superior
court.
Judjre Pless ordered that a $2,
000 justified bond be given by the
defendant for his appearance at
the March term.
Michael was held by the coro-1
ner's jury after his automobile
struck the Barham child near
Brickton last March.
The court today was hearing
' second degree murder charges
against Brisco and Frank Mooney,
both colored, in the death of Tom
Goines, also colored, about a year
ago.
ARREST 4 GERMANS
FOR PHOTOGRAPHING
COASTAL DEFENSE
i COLON, Panama Canal Zone,
Oct. 17. (UP).—Army authorities
yesterday arested four Germans,
one a woman, after the group had
taken photographs of coastal de
fenses at Fort Randolph.
| The four were detained in the
guard house at Fort de Lessepsj
, pending further investigation to,
j determine whether they would be i
( held on spy charges.
SIX SHERIFFS HERE
TO TALK NEW LAW
Six sheriffs from other counties
1 conferred here yesterday in an in-;
formal gathering with Sheriff W.
E. Davis. The meeting discussed
proposed legislation to increase j
the term o# office from two to j
• four years. 1
British Statesmen Already
Envision* Great Dim- ,
afe,to Power
By richard d. McMillan
LONDON, Oct. 17. (UP)—Win
ston Churcjiill, accused by Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler of trying to
foment war against Germany, last
night appealed to the United
States in a trans-Atlantic radio
speech to join with Great Britain
"before it is too late" and halt
the aggressions of the dictators.
The fiery - tongued Churchill,
wartime first lord of the admiralty
and now the severest critic of Bri
tain's "knuckling down" to the
totalitarian powers, said it was fu
tile for the American people to
talk of washing* their hands of
Europe's troubles.
Churchill, who has held virtual
ly every post in the British gov
ernment except prime minister
and who is the leading exponent
of the mightiest air force in the
world for Britain, said the democ
racies must band together without
delay.
Churchill said Britain would re
arm feverishly and predicted that
conscription was not far off.
He made no directly reply, how
ever, to Adolf Hitler's accusations
against him, nor did he mention
to his American audience the un
paid British war debt.
"We are left no doubt as to
where American convictions and I
sympathies lie. but will you wait 1
until British freedom and inde-1
pendence succumb and then take
up the cause, when it is three- I
quarters ruined, yourselves
alone?" he asked.
"I hear they are saying in the
United States that because Eng- i
land and France failed to do their \
duty, therefore the American peo- |
pie can wash their hands of the
whole business. .
"This mav be a passing mood
of many people but there is no
sense in it. :
"If things have become much
worse than all the more we must1
(Continued on page three) I
COMMUNISTS'
STATUS FACES
COURT RULING
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (UP).
The United States supreme court
today agreed to rule upon the
question as to whether member
ship in the communist party is
prima facie grounds for deporting
of an alien from the United
States.
The case is considered of spe
cial interest because of the long
standing dispute over Harry
Bridges, Australian and west
coast C.I.O. director.
Bridges' deportation on the
grounds of Communist member
ship has been sought by a number
of organizations.
DECLARED SUICIDE
JACKSON, Miss., Oct 17. (UP)
A coroner's jury said last night
that Thomas P. Abemathy, 47
year-old insurance salesman, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a .22 cali
bre pistol _
REPORT MORE
CONCESSIONS
TO BE SOUGHT
German Tirades Fail to
Halt Speeding of Brit
ish Armaments
BERLIN MAYDEMAND
FAR FLUNG COLONIES
LONDON, Oct. 17. (UP)—Re
port! multiplied today that Adolf
HitUr will follow tip lis Czecho*
ilorak criaU triumph with far*
reaching proposal* toon to Grest
Britain.
Coincidental!? there wn mount
ing fooling againit further con*
cessions to dictators which threat
ened the British government, not
only at home but in far-fiung
parts of tks British empire.
The speech broadcast to t!ie
United States last night by Win
ston Churchiil sounded a clear
call for a strong stand against to
talitarian nations, for intensified
rearmament and world coopera
tion among democracies.
According to present reports,
Germany intends soon to propose
an Anglo-German discussion on
arm* limitation generally, on an
air pact, on colonies—and possi
bly, the revision of the Anglo
German naval treaty.
In each case, there would be in
volved definite and costly conces
sions by Great Britain to Ger
many.
Hitler's informal approach whs
reported coincident with indica
tions that Britain plans immedi
ate intensification of "full speed"
re-arm-iment despite a burst of
anti-British tirades in the German
nresa.
The German press, obviously
Vupiyirl, hn,f tifren the-r*ewtfeftt
BrfUijMf aa un
\ friendly feature u» view of the
four-power collaboration that
prevented war in Czechoslovakia
and the agreement signed by Hit
ler and Prime Minister Neville
, Chamberlain that their peoples
are resolved "never to fight each
other again."
Chamberlain's cabinet, which
will meet Wednesday for the first
time since settlement of the Czech
crisis to discuss re-armament
needs, was understood to be an
ticipating an «arly proposal from
Hitler for the opening of nego
tiations on Anglo-German ap
peasement.
No one doubted that there
would be a tremendous roar of
protest in Great Britain if there
was any suggestion that this coun
try accept inferiority to Germany
in the air. Acceptance of equality
at sea was unthinkable.
As regards colonies even if the
rank and file of the conservative
partv agreed to sacrifice African
territory—and there was no rea
son at all to believe that it would
—it was increasingly certain that
there would be firm and perhaps
dangerous opposition in Africa.
A Daily Mail dispatch from I)ar
Es-Salaam, Tanganyika, said omi
nously today:
"It is reported in reliable quar
ters that negotiations between the
British government and Germany
for the return of Tanganyika to
the Reich are imminent.
"Europeans and natives are
most perturbed and have formed
a defense league to resist to the
utmost, any attempt to use man
dated territory as a pawn for Eu
ropean appeasement.
'"Competent observers are con
(Continued on page three)
Pleasure Planes
Collide 300 Feet
Up; 5 People Die
DETROIT, Oct. 17. (UP).—
Five persons were killed Sunday
when two airplanes collided about
300 feet over the motor city air
port here and crashed on a golf
driving range in a ma A of. twist
ed, flaming wreckage.
Witnesses told police that the
planes, both Taylor Cabs, appar
ently collided while one was land
ing and the other taking dff.
Lieutenant Robert Caldwell, a U.
S. army pilot stationed at Self
ridge field at Mt. Clemsn, Mich.,
saw the accident, but refused to
comment "until the official inves
tigation is called."
Victims in one plane were
identified as Walter C. Paselk, 40,
pilot, and his passenger, Frank
Baby, 24. In the second plane
were Pilot William Stanislau, 35;
Robert E. Lee, Sr., 30, and hi1?
son, Robert, Jr., three and a hal.'
years old.
Wives of both pilots and Mrs.
Lee, Sr., witnessed the tragedy.
Mrs. Xee had refused to ko ui
with her husband and had warned
him before he took off.
Both pilots , were taking up
passengers for pleasure rides over
the city.