WEATHER
fooler, partly cloudy, with
»c*tt<*r*d liffHt shower*. Friday
generally fair, continued cooler.
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Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
GOOD AFTERNOON
Shoes made out of frogskin
have appeared in Louisiana. When
they're new, instead of squeaking
they croak.
VOL. 57—No. 251
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., THU
&
JR5DA
Y, OCTOBER 20, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
POWERS STRUGGLE WITH FOREIGN ISMS'
JERUSALEM IS
FIRMLY HELD I
AFTER ENTRY
!ut Rebels Control Wide
Segment of Holy Land
Beyond It
10PPING UP~UNDER
WAY; MANY ARRESTS
.'KRl SALEM. Oct. 20. (TP).
I n-oops today rounded up
i A. ai> prisoners in Old Jeru
s alter lifting two-day rebel
storming gates ot' cen
walls yesterday. The prison
r>. ill men, denied being- rebels
«v;i' ouestioned. examined
f .-r.vv.'.uvi- bruises that might
ivv been made by lit'lebutts and
tld for identification.
Sporadic fighting continued in
le Moslem < v. ; te>- «here rebels
re making their last stand. The
>1 lot" Br:t;s >. occupat r -o tar is
i"e Arabs killed a i 1 •' persons
tunded, including three Butons.
More than 3000 soldiers in the
i salem area are conn-oiling
"r -nan, Jewish and Av aenian
l'a: tors.
Mitary authorities • ed that
hour modernly :i aied reb
1> might make a mass attack
r - surrounding hills and
where they an- encamped.
Ni-ar'.v II*,000 residents last
lie". cringed in their homes in
e ;salerr.'s <>ld city where British
t.'Os and police .having stormed,
v I*"-!- century wa'!*, wired out 1
v.- r.;et ilia resistance ot" Ar ab
evls ;n the Moslem quarter's
l okf 1 streets.
The British forces, including
liiterl "Ladies From Hell" of the
ilitok W ' -d crack C'old
■ :'ii g-!"> is. -:-ashcd their way
i: :g'r the . ga .-s that stood
i r t a: i shortly after
|wn seized the Id i r.y from the
Irab rebels.
I I' was a n of Jerusa
I' -k thou
B troops under
PJ®*1 .-.eral R. H.
J governor,
■ barricades at
P >n the north and
»• Stei to the east
»":!e Royal air force planes
fooped with machine-stuns train
i on ir■ <i .tttenni: Arabs.
T;t":sr'r^injr plane*, modern
I t< *he last siege of Jeru
ilem 750 years ago when Saladin
er.:e:v<i tht- city and drove out
it crusaders. flew over the
l-iat. crowded old city last night,
roppinir thousands of leaflets in
i- -a! languages—linglish,
ra'-'.c and Hebrew.
The frightened inhabitants—
" Armenians. Jews and
<-vr'P—weie instructed to re
a." their home- during the
ror>pi".g up" operations.
Thm- was scant possibility that
it An*os would be driven out of
i* old city because they have
in the Mosque area.
Br:':>h hi:fhorities. determined
to desecrate the Moslem
tnf-i. are reluctant to shell or
r."ad*» the area.
* • Jgh the Christians. Mos
and Jews awaiting rescue
n old city far outnum
!r" ehcls they were help
^ afte a complete breakdown
^ /hnj ity. The police had
e"" '"d. their station buimed
B': ^i-i-ed a"d snipers command
r: 'ho streets.
Th" Arab revolt, a protest
*• " ' in flux of Jews under
<• British mandate, has trained
1 1 i 'hat the British gov
■ d claim control only
;■'mediate regions around
• ''jnlquarters.
gion controlled by the
1 v;-iional government"
r ■ 'ward from Jerusalem
r: 1 "it arc, beginning with
[•' t towns of Nablus.
r and Nazareth; another
1 - • South Palestine sur
-T >rd including Gaza, a
n r.f the Jerusalem-Jaffa
which is Jerusalem's
<ea. and a large sec
'■ ttiblical Bethlehem.
fa. Anna Stubbs
Jies In Savannah
i
t r", i of Mrs. E. L. Bostic
U " ith regret of the death
lister, Mrs. Anna Stubbs.
si'-*"1'' ;t'i. Ga., her home. Mrs.
t'JV been ill over a con
Jera period and Mrs. Bostic
L,! ' ^ *° her bedside recently
/ •' a critical turn her ill
had taken.
. <
All's Fair at French Marriage Fair
Whether they swing it like the couple at the left, or cool their ardor
with an ice cream cone like the ones above, French couples at the
annual "Marriage Fair" at Meaux, near Paris, enjoy the fete, which
is specially designed to enable marriageable young folks to pick
out their future mates. Eligibles look forward each year with
pleasure toward this unusual French institution.
CATS GOING TO
TRYON FRIDAY
Fans Optimistic as Passing
Attack Drill Is
Stressed
By WILSON AYERS
Down on the hijrn school ath
letic field Coach John Stephens
has been drilling- his Henderson
ville Bearcats every afternoon in
preparation for the game with the
Trvon high Tigers at Harmon
field in Tryon on Friday after
noon.
Although defeated last week by
Marion 21 to 7. local fans are an
ticipating a victory for the Red
and White gridders. Coach Steph
ens is drilling the team entirely
[>n their passing attack this week.
In this department the Bearcats
have shown considerable weak
ness and loose defense.
In 1936 the Hendersonville
IYyon game was a 6-6 tie, while
last year the Bearcats won 14
to 0.
Captain Johnny Magness and
Bobby Quarles, who were injured
in practice this week, may be out
j.f the lineup Friday. However, it
is hoped they will be able to play.
A large delegation of local
fans and hiirh school students are
expected to accompany the team.
The probable line-up:
McCrary, LE; Magness, LT;
Sims, LG; Yarborough, C; Coffey,
RG; Morris, RT; Drake, RE;
Quarles, QB; Sheppard, HB;
Chandler, HB; Miller, FB.
Subs: Bates, English, Dorn,
Reese and Coston.
Toomer In Double
Eagle Shot Here,
First On Course
JACK TOOMER, pro at the
Waynesville Country club, shot a
two, a double eagle on the 155
yard seventh hole at the Hender
sonville Golf and Country club
yesterday.
Toomer hit his second shot on
the par 5 hole with a No. 2 iron
at a distance of about 185 yards
from the green. The ball hit the
green and rolled into the cup for
a two.
On the next hole, Toomer scor
ed another two for a birdie. The
eighth hole is 210 yards and a par
3. Thus, for two consecutive holes
Toomer's score was one-half of
par—something of a record in it
self.
The double eagle was the first
ever scored here, and local golf
ers said today that only two have
ever been scored in official tour
naments in the United States.
FELLOWSHIP MEETING
The Fellowship club will meet
tonight at the city hall at 7:30.
LABOR BOARD IN SWEEPING
RULING AGAINST STEEL FIRM i
1 - ' !
Issuance Sets Stage for
Fight Through the
Federal Courts
I WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (UP)
The National Labor Relations
I board yesterday iound the Re
! public Steel corporation, Cleve
land, O., guilty of seven alleged
violations of the Wagner act,
scathingly denounced its labor
policies and ordered the re-hmng
of 5,000 company workers involv
ed in the "Little Steel" strike of
11937.
The 100,000 word decision was
a triumph for the Steel "Workers
Organizing committee, an attin
ate of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization, which made an
unsuccessful effort to unionize
"Little Steel" after it had organ
ized "Big Steel."
The verdict, however, was not
a surprise. The board made a sim
ilar decision months ago and then
withdrew it from the courts to
correct possible procedural er
rors. Counsel for the corporation
indicated at that time that the
board's ruling would be fought to
the U. S. supreme court.
In its ruling yesterday, the
board held that "the company,
not the union, had chosen theuuy
to industrial, strife "It accused
the corporation of illegal
provocative" conduct in reputedlly
seeking to deny its workers the
right to unionize and added that
the "whole history of the com
pany's unfair labor practices, cul
minating in this lockout of . y
20, had placed the union in a po
sition where it had to ?figb
its life or be destroyed.
Although the board concede
that the corporation need not \
employ 11 strikers who were con
victed of crimes or pleaded j,ui h
to charges of violence Rowing
out of the strike, it brushed aside
Republic's contention that. other
strikers arrested during the <Us
pute should be isolated for the
same reason. The decisio ^
that the corporation had ltsel:
been guilty of brutal acts of vio
lence or was responsible for acts
of violence during the stnkef.it
more serious than those attribut
ed to the strikers in question,
an^th«* »n.l other reasons it
does not lie in the mouth of the
corporation to assert that the ot
I fenses of its st[ik^a
necessarily and of , nr that
bar to their reinstatement, or that
thev are any less fit to be em
ployes than the corporation is to
be the employer."
On one of its most sweeping de
cisions, the board ordered the cor
, P°^Reinstate* all striking employes
or pay remedial wages dating
from five days after the date or
reemployment application to the
date of reinstatement or place
ment on a preferential hiring
Reimburse employes allegedly
locked out at the Canton, O., Tin
plate mill and the Massillon, O.,
(Continued on page four)
HOEY TO SPEAK
MONDAY NIGHT
Appearance Here Will
Mark Opening of Coun
ty Campaign
Democrats of Henderson coun-1
ty will open their campaign on
next Monday night at 8 o'clock at
the county court house when Gov. j
Clyde R. Hoey comes here for an
address.
Mr. Hoey will discuss the affairs
of state and issues of the state ■
and county campaign.
Governor Hoey's reputation as
a speaker and statesman is well
known here, and a large crowd is j
expected to hear his address.
Women Dems Of
County To Meet
3:30 P. M. Friday;
The woman's Democratic organ
ization of Hendersonville and Hen
derson county has called a meet
ing to be held at the city hall for
3:30 o'clock tomorrow, when wo
men are urged to attend and men
will be welcomed.
Addresses will be made by Mrs.
H. Walter Fululer, Mrs. John S.
Forrest and M. M. Redden.
NAZI RIFLED
U. S. MAIL SAYS
SPY WITNESS
r ■_
Britons Intercepted Spy
f Ring Letter to Frus
' "....-Irate One Plot
ROMRICH "CONTINUES
, ON WITNESS STAND
»
NSW .YORK, Oct. 20. (IT).—
Gjicnther Gustave Rumrich, con
fessed German spy, testified in
federal court today that Private
Erich Giaser of the United States
army; 'stationed at Mitchell field,
gjj-Ye him part of a secret army
code book for transmission to Ger
many,
Giaser is one of three persons
oi) trial on spy charges.
Rumrich said Giaser pave him
only two pages of the manual on
radio procedure, used in contact
ing army planes in the air.
The two final pages, Rumrich
said, finally were given to Karl
Schleuters, pay-off man for the
New York German spy network.
< By MARTIN KANE
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (UP) —
A courier for the German war
mini(Cry rifled U. S. mails on the
Gerr4gtr liner Europa, a confessed
conffaerate in Nazi espionage
test'fjed yesterday in a curtailed
session of the federal govern
mer.2%y trial of two men and a
g:^*raa,%ed» a-s -Oermai?-spira.
Gustave Guenther Rumrich,
twice a deserter from the U. S.
army and now a witness to his
own participation in what the gov
ernment alleges was a comprehen
sive espionage machine operated
with the sanction of the German
Reich, named Karl Schlueter as
having bragged that he had ac
cess to American mail carried on
the German liner Europa, on
which he held a job as steward
to conceal his real occupation —
a payoff man for the spy ring
and a messenger for the German
war ministry.
He also credited Schlueter with
hatching a preposterous plot, nev
er executed, to forge the signa
ture of President Roosevelt to
bogus White House stationery in
order to obtain American aviation
secrets.
Rumrich, a sunken-eyed young
man who chewed gum monoto
nously as he related the numerous
details of his service for the ring,
said he expressed disbelief at
Schlueter's boast about the mail
rifling.
Schlueter, he said, then turned
to Johanna Hofmann, red-haired
hairdresser of the Europa, who is
one of the defendants, and order
ed:
"Here, Jenny, get that out of
the bag."
Miss Hofmann, the witness con
tinued, produced photographs
which showed a contract between
the Bethlehem Steel corporation
and Amtorg Trading corporation,
a Soviet company. He also pro
duced photographs of machinery
and cables between Bethlehem
executives and Amtorg officials,
who were at Zurich, Ewitzerland.
"Schlueter wondered why some
one in Zurich should write to
Bethlehem Steel," Rumrich ex
plained, "so he removed the let
ters, steamed them open, photo
graphed the contents and replac
(Continued on page four)
Fort Bragg Roads Blocked For 10
Miles As Greatest Night Review
Of Anti-Aircraft Guns Is Staged
(Captain V. A. Dash, retired,
United Press correspondent, last
night attended the largest night
; J review of anti-aircraft artillery
11 equipment ever held in the United
■ States. He describes the review
■ in the following story.—Editor's
i1 note, United Press association.)
I By CAPT. V. A. DASH
FORT BRAGG, N. C., Oct. 20.
(UP) — The most spectacular
• night parade of motorized artil
■ lery ever held in this country —
every piece of anti-aircraft artil
> lery in the continental United
;! States—passed in review before
• Governor Clyde R. Hoey last night
under a blaze of lights which ri
• vailed the sun itself.
The regular garrison of Fort
Bragg, under Brig.-Gen William
' Bryden, and the provisional brig
• ade consisting of the anti-aircraft
,1 equipment, in all 5,962 officers
■ and men, 649 vehicles and 679
horses and mules, paraded past
the reviewing stand in a display of
armed might.
Great long guns capable of
hurling 95-pound shells 12 miles,
drawn by clanking half-truck,
half-tank monsters; short-nosed
howitzers that shoot the same
shell, hauled by 11-ton trucks,
gave by their passage a hint of
our answer to militant countries.
But they were dwarfed by the
I gigantic howitzers that take five
10-ton tractors to pull them, and
which in action shoot 345-pound
' parcels of destruction.
Contrasting were a battalion of
the powerful midgets of the field
artillery, the mountain howitzers,
I each broken into six parts and
carried on the backs of mules. A
touch of the old artillery was giv
en by a battalion of horse-drawn
French 75's, with all the glamor
of the older days as horses pranc
(Continued on page four)
REPUBLICANS CHECK RECORD
ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUESTS
HERE FOR NOVEMBER VOTING
HoIIinersworth Intim a t e s
Validity of Local Absen
tee Law Will Be Tested
in Federal Court
Joe Hollingsworth, Republican
member of the county board of
flections, was given access to rec
ords of absentee ballot applica
tions this morning after an ex
change of iuioprams yesterday be
tween the local member and the
state board of elections.
Mr. Hollingsworth stated this
afternoon that he was being: given
a record of all absentee ballot ap
plications that have been filed for
the November election and that a
record was being made in prepa
ration for challenges against such
ballots on election day.
Jake F. Newell, chairman of the
state Republican executive com
mittee, stated yesterday in Char
lotte that the state election board
would be asked to investigate in
Henderson county before the elec
tion on November 8 if any illegal
ities or irregularities were found
in the examination of the records
here.
Mr. Newell, according to re
ports from Charlotte, made this
statement after Attorney General
Harry McMullan had ruled at his
request that Mr. Hollingsworth
had the right to copy the list of
absentee voters from the absen
tee record here.
In the exchange of telegrams
; yesterday b£tw*»en. HendarsooviUe
and Chairlotte and Charlotte and
Raleigh, R. C. Maxweil, secretary
of the state election board, ruled
that absentee ballot applications
were a public record for public
inspection.
Henderson county is one of
eight in the state with a special
absentee ballot law, making it il
legal for a person obtaining an
absentee ballot to go to the polls
on election day and get the ballot
| back.
Mr. Hollingsworth intimated
this morning that this law would
be challenged on its constitution
ality. He further intimated that
a test of the law would be made
in the federal and not in the state
courts.
MAKE OVER 150
C. OF C. DINNER
RESERVATIONS
C. N. Walker, Asheville
Banker, Will Be the
Speaker Tonight
More than 150 reservations have
been made for the annual all-mem
ber meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce to be held at 7 o'clock
tonight at the Skyland hotel, it
was reported at noon today.
The program, which will include
a dinner, will be highlighted by an
address by Clarence N. Walker,
Asheville banker, and is as fol
lows:
H. E. Buchanan, toastmaster.
Invocation—Rev. A. J. Linn.
Group singing—Roy C. Ben
nett, leader; Misses Mary Brooks
and Kate Dotson, accompanists.
Dinner.
Introduction of guests—Toast
master.
Activities of Chamber of Com
1 merce—H. E. Buchanan, presi
i dent.
Treasurer's report—J. C. Mor
row, Jr., treasurer.
Reading—Mrs. Jno. H. Farmer.
I Address—Clarence N. Walker.
Motion pictures (local scenes)
—Worth K. Lyerly.
Song—"America."
Boy Scout Troop
4 Meeting Is Set
Troop leaders today promised i
an interesting session for mem
bers o* Boy Scout Troop 4 Friday !
night at 7:15 o'clock.
Each Scout is asked to take a
good, strong straight stick to
meeting for the purpose of mak-!
ing a "fast walking stick" and
those who have not taken their I
camp lantern to Scout quarters1
are reminded to do so.
Changes of interest in patrols
■will be announced. Those who
have not finished paying their dues
are also reminded to do this at
the same time. 1
Germans Present
Lindbergh With
Service Crdss
He ard Ford Now Hold
Highest Honor Given
Abroad by Berlin
BERLIN, Oct. 20. (UP).—Col
onel Charles A. Lindbergh, who
was denounced by 11 outstanding
Soviet fliers as a Nazi "lackey"
yesterday was presented the Ger
man distinguished service cross by
Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm
Gocring.
The cross with the star of the
order of the German eagle is the
only German decoration available
to foreigners. Henry Ford also
had received it.
Goering presented the decora
tion in behalf of Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler. The American flier is
here inspecting German airplane
production.
"(T:." war department in Wash
ington said Lindbergh does not
come under the act prohibiting U.
S. military men from accepting
foreign decorations as army re
serve officers ,such as Lindbergh,
are exempt from the law's provi
sions).
Lindbergh holds decorations
from other foreign countries in
cluding the Royal Air Cross of
Great Britain and the Order of
Leopold of Belgium. He also is
a Chevalier of the Legion of Hon
or of France.
METHODISTS IN
LAST PARLEY
BEFORE UNION
|
Churchmen Throng to
Charlotte for WNC
Conference
CHARLOTTE, Oct. 20.—Meth
odists of Western. North Carolina
convened at the First Methodist
church here this morning at 9
o'clock in the forty-ninth and fi-!
nal conference before the union i
next spring of all three branches
of Methodism.
The historic conference, the
seventh to be held in Charlotte
since the Western North Carolina
conference was formed in 1890,
will continue through next Mon
day at noon, when the appoint
ments of the ministers will be |
read, and already ministers and
laymen from every section of the
conference are in Charlotte for
the opening session. I
Bishop Clare Purcell of ch»r-!
lotte, with the nine presiding eld
ers of the various districts assist-j
ing him, will administer the holy .
communion as the conference
opens. After the sacrament has (
been administered, the bishop will
deliver a 30-minute episcopal ad
dress, the only address he will
make during the conference, he
said yesterday. Organization of
the conference will follow. One of
the first acts of the conference, it
was forecast, will be the election
of Rev. E. H. Neese, pastor cf the
West Asheville Methodist church,,
as clerk of the conference to suc
ceed Rev. W. L. Sherrill of Char
lotte, who resigned the position ,
since the last conference after
having served without interrup
tion for 44 years. Rev. Mr. Neese j
has been acting as assistant to
Rev. Mr. Sherrill.
Another important business mat
ter scheduled for consideration at
the session this morning, it was
revealed, will be the election of
representatives of the conference
to the general uniting conference
of th denomination in Kansas City
next spring. Ten ministers and
10 laymen are to be named.
The conference has 640 official
delegates, including its 303 min
isters, it was announced yester
day. These delegates and numer
ous other convention visitors are
being entertained at the homes of
Methodists and members of other
denominations in the city. The at-;
tendance at the conference ses-,
sions, it was forecast, would more
than double the number of actual
delegates. ,. . „
At the session this morning
(Continued on page four)*
DIES MOVES TO
FURTHER ALIEN
DEPORTATION
U. S. Will Use Pan-Ameri
can Meet as Anti
fascist Forum
PARIS COMMUNISTS
SEE 'FASCIST COUP'
WASHINGTON, Oct 20. Il'l'l
The Dies committee, invcstigsit
itiff un-American activities, decid
ed today to call upon the labor
department to furnish names and
records of 3,000 aliens who all<g~
edly are subject to deportation
but are still in the United States.
Chairman Dies said the commit*
tee has received many charges
that the labor department is
withholding deportation of 3.0UO
deportable aliens.
FRENCH 'REDS' FEAR
FASCIST 'COUP'
PARIS, Oct. 20. (UP)— Acit#
tion for a strong national union
government was increased today
with the appearance throughout.
Paris of posters demanding that
Communists be "thrown out of
the French family."
The posters were the first con
crete evidence of a campaign »o
outlaw the Communist party as
part of the new trend developing
from the four-power Munich
agreements. At the same time, tho
Communist party political bureau
warned the nation it should guard
against alleged preparation for a
"coup de force" by "secret Hitler
Fascist" groupi.
TO WORK AGAINST
SPREAD OF 'ISMS'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2<T(t!>)*
Tho United States will use the
forthcoming Pan-American con
ference at Lima, Peru, as a for
um to combat the spread of Fas
cist and Nazi influence in Latin
America through the initiation of
one of the greatest campaigns to
strengthen democracy in the
world's history, it was indicated
last night.
A high government official said
the drive against all foreign
"isms" probably will be based on
the economic principles laid down
by President Roosevelt and Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull in the
New Deal's reciprocal trade pro
gram, on its good neighbor policy
and on the tenets of international
law.
Wholesale propaganda cam
paigns such as certain totalitarian
states are conducting in the
Americas to further their political
and economic policies will he
avoided, it was said, because many
of this country's experts feel that
much of this propaganda now is
defeating its own purposes.
Nevertheless, the same experts
believe that the propaganda, if
continued, may become a real
threat to democracy and thus
must be counteracted. As a step
in this direction, the United States
will make known its intention to
expedite the reciprocal trade pro
gram on the theory that benefits
of expanded commercial inter
course constitute the most effec
tive antidote to European and
Asiatic political doctrines in ihe
western hemisphere.
America's traditional policy «>f
avoiding all entangling alliances,
it was said, will be scrupulously
(Continued on page three)
Tuxedo Demos To
Meet Candidates
W. E. Bates, secretary of the
Tuxedo Democratic organization
today announced a party meeting
at the Tuxedo school house Sat
urday night at 7:30 o'clock, with
a free oyster supper, and at which
all county Democratic candidates
will be present.
County Democratic Chairman
M. M. Redden will be the principal
speaker. Everybody will be wel
comed.
GERMAN CONVICTED OF
BEATING WIFE WHO
BECOMES U. S. CITIZEN
MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 20. (UP).
Gerhardt Weyers, a German, was
convicted on a charge of assault
and battery after his wife testi
fied that he beat her and knocked
her unconscious because she bo
came a naturalized American citi
zen.
She said they both deoided 'o
apply for citizenship papers aft t
they were married in 1030. Wey
ers, however, refused to complr'e
the naturalization, she said, ai d
attacked her when she did.
Weyers was not sentenced
pending filing of a motion for a
new trial.