WEATHER Generally fair, slightly colder |>(j|),eht Wednesday partly cloudy. (Dir Sfoitps GOOD AFTERNOON Gallantry is disappearing. A new muff has an electric hand warmer inside. Largest Daily Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population VOL 57—No. 291 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS FRANCO-GERMAN 'NO-WAR' PACT SIGNED ■" " V U u U U U •7 T T T T 1*1*1" "J* *J* 1* T T f •{<•{■ T T T Anti-French Outbreaks Renewed In Rome a" A /is <§> assy and closed ? :ht .-quure on which the em is. :s situated. a:: Ambassador Hans von bttensen conferred last night IUi'-.a:-. Fu-.visri: Minister Ga uzo Ciano at Rome, be'ievedly Karding c nesa existing: he aven Italy and France. | The London Daily Mail's Kome prrespondent understood today hat German Ambassador von lackensen when he conferred un ttFieially with Foreign Minister hano commented most unfavor ably on behalf of his government tcianlintr Italy's anti-French cam paign. The London paper's corre ►pomient said there was little liouot among informed observers flat the ambassador left a cleat p: :-. Chancellor Hitler had toterrened personally in the :nat ler. pvitne M><»i>t«r Neville Cham berlain of England yesterday pub U'lv warned Premier Benito Mus soi:n: that 'Ireat Britain would stara! at France's side in resisting my Italian attempt to upset the territorial "'status quo" in the Mediterranean. Chamberlain's statement, made . : • : commons, coincid ed w;:h three new developments or. the C' ritinent bearing on the teach brought about s'/jilia: agitation for possession «'.^ench Tunisia and the island k:'_..-sica. .*> developments were: I Pier:: er Kdouard Daladier of nr. • • 'vimed forma'ly that Fnnce would tight to defend the ~>r:tv of all her colonial pos •> i* necessary. ISdZi 't'.iarters in Berlin indi t»:sc -.r.a: C hancellor Adolf Hitler • Italy's anti-French at ^ "ill timed." They fear may embarrass the entire ^Tam »t European appease ser.t. a warning also voiced by '••"•i:an- in commons. Mussolini's controlled press angrily at French ac ••i' . - that Italy's partnership Germany under the Rome *"■ "■ > creaking under the ot the Italian cries of 'iifiisia! Corsica!" Robert Miller Is Recovering From Wreck Injuries t !.*!«>n of Iiobert Miller, ^ actor, whose au hit by a Southern • strht train Sunday v" - !) o'clock just be L>- r • R.iek. was reported f i * Pat ton Memorial *^•*1 thi> morning. • - •" r i several broken ' " v mils, cuts on the ^ • \ The automobile, 1 - was practically ■ ,3e a r\ occurred at the a milt? below East - >\vn as Five Points. ' . :»il left his home in ^ ' -hurt time prior to « *reck. "UITLAND school TO OFFER PROGRAM o' " 1' ;i:■ ■ i public school l • . tv program Fri ' December 9, at 7 l. Friutland Metho « church. ; will include a « V , i nation contest, a • a demonstration vork. *i'id friends are cor » N'o admission will IrS* s IT DOWN STRIKE £ lT- Dec. 6. (UP)—A iv, " strike of 800 workers to - production at the Nash **** Plant, NURSES' HOME OPEN FRIDAY FOR VISITORS Friends of Hospital and General Public Invited to See New Plant The Patton Memorial hospital will keep open house at the new nurses' home on Friday after noon ami evening, and friends of the institution and the general public are invited to call and in spect the new building, Mrs. Thomas Shepherd, chairman of the board, announced this morn ing. The new building, a brick structure, which fills a long felt need at the hospital, was erected at a cost of several thousand dol lars, and has been occupied for some time. It is a two-story structure and is modern in every detail. The public is invited to call between the hours of 3 and 5 p. m. and from 7 to 9 p. m. on Friday and inspect the building. GERMAN PLANE SINKS AT SEA Six Aboard Saved, Taken to Manilla Aboard Launch MANILA,~I>7cT & (UP)—A German goodwill monoplane which flew to Tokyo in record time today made a forced land- j ins: at sea off the Philippine I Islands on a Tokyo to Manila flight. This leg was the first ' stage of the return to Berlin. Fishermen rescued the crew as the plane sank. Five aviators and one passenger aboard were brought to Manila by launch. Rotary To Hear Wm. A. Egerton Wm. A. Egerton. of the Ameri can Enka Corporation, will be the speaker at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Hendersonville Ro tary club tomorrow. Mr. Egerton will discuss the so cial security and old age pension system of the federal government. GIRL SCOUT GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD WILL BE MADE TONIGHT Girl Scout officials today ex tended an invitation to the pub lic to attend the court of awards to be held jointly at 7:30 o'clock tonight by troops two and four at the high school auditorium when Miss Ruth Lynn Johnson will be recipient of the Golden Eagle award. This is the first time that such an award has been made to a Hendersonville girl. Miss Johnson is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Johnson, is a member of the senior class and student assistant librarian, among other school activities. A number of other girls will be given awards in connection i with the program. F. R. RESTATES ABIDING FAITH IN DEMOCRACY Touches Caustically at Chapel Hill on Regimen tation, Dictatorships ENLARGES" UPON HIS LIBERAL VIEWS CHAPEL HILL. Dec. 6. (UP). Liberalism in government is here to stay and birth, wealth and po li'ical position no longer carry the indisputable right to govern, President Roosevelt told the na tion yesterday in an internation ally broadcast address. Speaking before the political forum of North Carolina Univers ity where he received an honorary degree of doctor of laws, the chief executive reaffirmed the liberal philosophy of the New Deal and said that his strongest conviction is his abiding belief that the security and well-being of the people "can best be served by the democratic processes which have made this country strong and great." To some ooservers me speecu carried a decided 1940 campaign ring although the president at 110 point mentioned his possible can didacy. Air. Roosevelt stopped off here enroute to Washington from Warm Springs, Ga., where he spent Thanksgiving. He had been expected to talk on the intex-na tional situation bat, exietfpt for a few caustic remarks on regimen tation and dictatorships, he con fined his remarks to domestic is sues and the future. Of the international situation, he said: "There may be those in the world who believe that a regi mented people, whose every thought and action is directed by one man, may give some type of j people a security which is pleas ing to them. But whatever con victions I have, none is stronger than my abiding belief that the security and w^ll-beinp: of the American people can best be serv ed by the democratic processes." The president drew on the | words of three men now dead, Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt and Associate 1 Supreme Court Justice Benjamin! Cardozo, to elaborate his liberal, philosophy. The tpitome of what these men : believed in, he said, is first, that the American people have, and must have, a definite objective for the improvement of govern ment, for the improvement of so cial and economic conditions; second, that these objectives must be carried out by definite action, an dthiri, that in the attaining of them, the president and the gov eminent and the people as a1 whole must have two essential qualities—first a sense of propor tion and perspective, and second, good-will and a good sense of hu mor. "Almost every crisis of our his- j tory since 1879," he said, "has1 become a crisis because of a lack on the part of leaders, or on the part of the people themselves, or both, of some of those essentials. "The very birth of the Demo cratic party * * * was due to the simple fact that the government itself was dominated by the great (Continued on page four) Rumanian King Moves To Thwart Vengeance Murders By Fascists BUCHAREST, Dec. 6. (UP)—' King: Carol II moved rapidly last night to thwart "vengeance" as sassinations by the outlawed Fas cist Iron Guard after two young terrorists? shot and wounded the' president of one of the king-dic tator's military tribunals. Al! high school students in Rumania were ordered searched for arms before entering school buildings. Bucharest's largest cafe, j a center for the exchange of po litical information, was closed by authorities. The shooting early yesterday of Col. Cristescu. head of the mili tary tribunal at Cernauti where Iron Guard terrorism against Jews has occurred in recent days, was believed to be in reprisal for the slayings by police of the guardists' "little fuehrer," Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and 16 of his followers.: The military tribunals, under Carol's orders, have dealt sternly with the wave of terrorism. Authorities, including district governors, throughout Rumania have received death threats from the Iron Guard "battalion of death" and Carol himself has been warned publicly that he has his j "last choice to make peace with the Rumanian people." Cristescu was leaving court at Cernauti when two youths fired four shots at him. Only one took effect, entering the left side of his chest. The wound was not «erious. One of the assailants was captured and identified as Leonid Lututo vici. a college student. He told police he acted in con formity with an order received this morning from the "battalion of death" and revealed that his accomplice was a 19-year-old boy named Kadistriuc who was dis missed from high school last year as a member of the Iron Guard. Police discovered a secret Iron Guard printing plant near here and found on the premises quan tities of illegal literature and a lar^e store of arms. Britons See U. S. Friendship As Still Advancing Press Reaction to Chapel Hill Speech is One of Cordiality LONDON, Dec. (5. (UP)—Pres ident Roosevelt's speech Monday at Chapel Hill, N. C., was head lined in London morning newspa pers, with stress placed on nis statement that other democracies look to the United States for leai ership. The Daily Mail, in an editorial, said that "the president's words were restrained but do show Brit ish-American policy are in har ness, however America's policy of isolation stands . . "Certainly the people of this country can be no surer than the people of America just how Roose velt will move next, but we can be suie of this—that in him Britain has a warm friend and that durintr his presidency America's friendship toward Britain will (Continued on page four) FAVORS 4 YEAR TERM FOR ALL CO. OFFICERS State Senator-Elect Prince Holds View But Not^' Committed as Yet Although he has made no defi-l nite commitment oil the matter,! Senator-elect L. R Prince, who next month will be sworn in as1 state senator from the 27th dis-j trict, is inclined to favor four- j year terms for all Henderson coun ty officer?. Since four-year terms for sher iffs and coroners have been ap proved by voters of the state, only three county offices here are not on a four-year basis. They are i county commissioner, tax collee-1 tor, and surveyor, the last a minor office. The offices of register of deeds j and clerk of the superior court I have been previously placed on a; four-year basis, and the sheriff; and coroner were added by con stitutional amendment in the No-| vember election. Mr. Prince stated that he had been giving considerable thought to the proposition since the pub-1 lication of an editorial in The J Times-News on the subject. Ho stated that he had held a number of conversations with people with reference to this. He is inclined to the belief that the terms of all county officers should be the same. Mr. Prince expresses the opin- j ion that all officers should have. the same terms, and that all coun ty officers should be elected at the off-year eiection, when there are no gubernatorial or presidential candidates to cloud the local is sues. He is of the opinion that better local officers can be elected when local issues alone are the subject of the campaign. In his conversations on tne sud ject, Mr. Prince says that he has found few people opposed to four year terms for the remainder of the county offices. While he is opposed to legislat ing: longer terms for county of fices as a matter of principle, Mr. Prince pointed out that this could be accomplished only by legisla tive act. County officials would give oet- j ter service on a four-year basis in the opinion of Mr. Prince, since they would be able to thoroughly familiarize themselves with their duties in this longer period, and the county would be saved the ex pense of a local election every two years. In expressing his views in this connection. Mr. Prince stated that he had not conferred with L. L. Burgin, county representative in the general assembly, and that the views expressed were his own and not necessarily those of his col-: league. BUCHANAN NAMED ON THEATRE BOARD CHARLOTTE, Dec. 6.—L. M. I Wilson, of Roanoke Rapids, was ' elected president of the North i and South Carolina Theatre Own- j ers association as the two-day convention closed yesterday. H. E. Buchanan, of Henderson ville, was named as a director of , the organization. CHIPMAN- LA C. YULE SAVINGS EXCEED $15,1 % Employes' Christmas Shop ping Funds Distributed at Party GYMNASIUM"30 AL OF ATHLETIC ASSN. More than $15,000 in Christ mas savings was distributed to al most .'{50 employes of the Chip man LaCrosse company and Chipman, Incorporated, at the fourth annual Christmas party for employes, held at the high school gymnasium last night. As the several hundred employ es gathered for an evening of en tertainment, good food, music and dancing, the management an nounced that 341 employes had participated in the saving fund during the past 12 months. Checks totalling $15,713.98 were distributed to these em ployes last night. The saving funn distributed last night showed an increase of $2,987.78 over the previous year. Purely a voluntary matter for employes, the Christmas saving fund was started three years ago by the management. in tne nrst year zzv employes received $6,254. In the second year 294 employes received $12, 72V.2-1, and thfs year 341 em ployes received $15,713.98. The program last night opened at 7:30 with R. B. Cameron, com pany official, acting as master of ceremonies. Mr. Cameron intro duced D. M. Sal ley, of the Amer ican Enka company, who was the principal speaker. Robert Gordon, of Gastonia, re gional manager of the Provident Life Insurance company, spoke briefly, the high light of his ad dress being the presentation of a check for $250 to the Chipman Athletic association. John McDaid, district represen tative of the Provident company, also spoke briefly. After the presentation of the Christmas checks, music for both round and square dancing was played by A1 Dunn and his or chestra of Asheville. Delightful refreshments were served during the course of the evening by McFarlan's Food shop. The party last night was given entirely by the Chipman Athletic association. The three previous Christmas parties were given by the mill management. The athletic association has taken the lead in the develop ment of recreational activity among the employes. Manage ment of the association is entire ly in the hands of employes, and Claude Kichline is president. Through the activities of the association, night soft bali was first presented last summer on the lighted Chipman Athletic field. The association is now spon soring bowling events and has as its ultimate goal the erection of a gymnasium for the use of employes. CHIEF JUSTICE RUSSELL DIES —-— Georgia Jurist Passes at Atlanta at an Ad vanced Age Hendersonville friends of Chief Justice Richard B. Russell of the Georgia supreme court and his family regret to learn of his death, which occurred in Atlanta last Sat- j urday. Judge Russell was 77 years old and death resulted from the infirmities of age. Judge Russell was the father of United States Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr., of Georgia, and a large family of children well known in Georgia and other south ern states. Of the number is Wal ter B. Russell, for several years a resident of Hendersonville, and now holding an important position elsewhere with the A&P Tea com pany. Judge Russell had been promi nent in public life in Georgia for half a century and had filled many important positions. For the past 15 or more years he had been chief justice of the Georgia su preme court. . ' GERMAN JEWS NOW STRIPPED OF 95 PCT. OF WEALTH AND FURTHER DECREES ISSUED Liquidation of All Jewish Business Places Is Now Called for By EDWARD W. BEATTIE, JR. United Prets Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Doc. 6. (UP)—Eco nomics Minister Walther Funk last night issued a decree author izing the forced liquidation of all Jewish business places, real estate and other property in the Nazi drive to eliminate 700,000 German Jews from economic life. The decrec came as informed quarters revealed that many Jews were being forced to make "vol untary contributions" ranging: up to $140,000 in some instances in order to obtain passports for es cape from the anti-Semitic cru sade. I Funk's decree permitting the use of force to "Aryanize" Jewish property becomes effective as of Dec. 3 and before next Sunday all Jews must surrender their securi ties to the Reich Foreign Ex change bank, after which no se curity Fales will be permitted with out Funk's special permission. Jews refusing or failing to sub mit to the liquidation of their hold ings will suffer the appointment of trustees, appointed by Reich | authorities, who will take over the property. In order to sell property, all Jews must obtain government ap proval in order to "curb destruc tive and irresponsible specula tors." Jews were said to nave oeen in formed by Nazi authorities in sev eral cases that they were under "pass sperre" (passport ban) and when they protested that their pa pers were in order and that for eign visas had been assured it was suggested that a "voluntary con tribution" might lift the ban. Funk's new decree empowering authorities to order Jews to liqui-, date their businesses, real estate I and other property was believed to mark the approach of Chancel lor Adolf Hitler's promised "final solution" of the Jewish question. It was expected, in its final ef fect, to completely eliminate Jews from economic life and prohibit them from owning property. The stringent decrees, including forced sales of property, the! new "voluntary contributions," the j $400,000,000 fine and $200,000,-j 000 riot damages assessed against them and conversion of their prop- j erty at almost ruinous devisen1 (foreign exchange) rates, were es timated to have stripped them of about 95 per cent of their original holdings. . / This will have the effect of slow ing down emigration to other countries, whatever international plan of mass migration may be decided upon. 30 Killed, 20 Hurt In Mine Wreck SYDNEY MINES, N. S., Dec. 6. (UP)—Thirty men were re ported killed and a score of others injured in an under ground train wreck at Princess colliery today. First reports said that a train carrying 50 men to work went out of con trol and crashed into the mine bottom. INDUCT BROOKS INTO OFFICE Succeeds Cox to Coroner's Post; Redden Again County Attorney Coroner J. F. Brooks, elected in the November election, was sworn in office bv Clerk of the Superior Court George VV. Fletch er this morning. Mr. Fletcher announced that he administered the oaths of of fice to H. B. Davis, Green River constable, and J. P. Wilkie and D. M. Livingston, Hoopers Creek magistrates, yesterday afternoon. S. Robert Cathey, assistant clerk of the court, and Mrs. Edith R. Hesterly, deputy clerk, were given the oaths of office by Mr. Fletcher at noon yesterday. Mr. Davis, who took the oath as constable in Green River township, was the only Republi can candidate elected in Novem ber. The board of county commis sioners, sworn in yesterday morn ing, re-appointed M. M. Redden as county attorney. Other ap pointive officers are expected to be named later, but no changes in the present personnel are ex pected. LEGION PLANS DR MEET Annual Event Thursday Night at Club Open to All World War Men The annual dinner and general comradeship meeting of the Hu bert M. Smith post of the Ameri can Legion will be held Thursday night at 7 o'clock at the Ameri can Legion home on North Main street, it was announced today. Dinner will be prepared and served by the ladies of the Legion' Auxiliary. The meeting is not confined to members of the Legion, but all World war veterans are cordially invited to attend. DR. ARCHER WILL ADDRESS EPISCOPAL CHURCH MEN'S CLUB Dr. George B. Archer, medical missionary to India for the past thirty years, who is in Hender sonville on a visit during a fur lough, has accepted an invitation to address the December meet ing of the Men's club of St. James Episcopal church. The meeting will be held Wed- , nesday night at 8 o'clock at the home of H. II. Ewbank, president of the club, on Sixth avenue , west. Dr. Archer is a member of the evangelical branch of the Episco pal church in Canada and will speak on Iidia and his work in that country. U. S. Gunboat Moves From Hankow To Shanghai Under Jap Convoy SHANGHAI, Dec. 6. (UP)— Chinese government spokesmen in Chungking: said today that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's new northwest defense area, ad jacent to Soviet Russia, is being fortified rapidly and that the gen eralissimo expects to open a coun ter drive against the Japanese from this region next spring. High Chinese military authori ties claimed that in addition to modern mechanized army divi sions already in the field the war office is training its best officers and men to command and oper ate 12 new mechanized divisions which will be ready to take the field in June. Where the Chinese are obtain ing mechanical equipment for the new divisions was not revealed but it was assumed by military attaches that much of the equip ment is coming from Soviet Rus sia. The U. S. Gunboat Luzon and the French warship Admiral Char ner left Hankow at 8 a. m. yes-1 terday, escorted by three Japan-; ese torpedo boats and an air-; plane, en route to Shanghai. Part of the group of 51 Amer- j icans stranded since °.ast summer j in the Ruling summer resort' near Kiukiang had reached Kiu- j kiang and were to be offered transport to Shanghai on the U. S. gunboat Monocacy, which will join the Luzon and the Admiral Charner at Kiukiang. Dispatches from Tehchow, Shantung province, reported that Japanese soldiers entered the American Board Mission hospital there on Saturday and removed five wounded Chinese. The Chi nese were taken despite the pro tests of American mission work ers. It was believed the Japan ese seizures were part of a gen eral round-up of Chinese sus pected of guerrilla activities. The hospital superintendent, A. S. Hausske of Chicago, and his (Continued on page four) GERMAN ENVOY UNDER HEAVY GUARDINPARIS Give Protection After Last Month's Assassination of Embassy Aide LONG CONFERENCE MARKS CEREMONIES PARIS, Dee. (UP)—The foreign minister* of Germany and France today signed a cream colored sheet of sheepskin parch* ment pledging the two historic enemies to meet at the confer ence table instead of resorting to war for the settlement of their future disputes. PARIS, Dec. 0. (UP)—Guarded by thousands of mobile guards, German Foreign Minister von Kib bentrop arrived here today to sij;n a declaration binding France and Germany to respect present fron tiers and to negotiate peaceably any existent dispute. Signing of the declaration pre ceded a long conference between Ribbentrop and Premier Daladier and French Foreign Minister Bon net. The important conference was overshadowed by extraordinary precautions taken to guard the German ambassador. It was evident the government was mindful that a month ago a German embassy secretary was as sassinated in Paris, precipitating the latest anti-Jewish campaign in Germany. FRANCE IS READY TO ENFORCE RESPECT PARIS, Dec. 6. (UP)—Premier Edouard Daladier replied to Italy yesterday with a statement that France would "enforce respect with a!! our means" for her co lonial possessions and then turned to arrangements for signing an anti-war pact with Nazi Germany, ally of Italy. Daladier followed up his warr ing that France would fight, if necessary, to keep her empire in tact bv summoning his permanent defense committee into session to study the new arms speed-up pro gram. general Jacques tiunrcr, cniei of staff of the French Colonial Forces, attended the defense ses sion. Minister of Navy Cesar Cani pinchi ordered four hours of extra work weekly in navy yards and arsenals "in order to accelerate the construction of warships." The premier and war minister, courting friendship at onefend of the Rome-Berlin axis and warning the other against designs on French territories, summoned his cabinet to meet at 10 a. m., almost at the hour of German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's arrival in Paris. At 3:3©*p. m. today in the historic clock room of the Quai D'Orsay Ribbentrop and French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet will sign a joint "no-more-war" declaration patterned after the one which Chancellor Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain drew up at Munich on Sept. 30. Daladier decided to go ahead without delay with the formal jismlng of the anti-war agreement after being assured through diplo matic channels that Hitler was not supporting Italy's territorial aspi ations in the Mediterranean. This diplomatic assurance coin. :idea with dispatches from Berl n ndicating that Germany, although withholding all official and pre»s (Continued on page three) Shopping Days Till Christmas QlALYWfc GuMORCP ■" ^ IN CoW&LOf MU630UHI 000 T OOKINO BACK TO CHRIST BIAS 16 YEARS AGO— Italy wu rumored in control ot Mussolini. . . . -Three inventors were demonstrating novel "talk ing movie" almost simultane ously. . . . Announcement that electric light current instead of batteries might soon be used for their receiving sets added tc holiday cheer of radio fans. ... Administration concerned ^over bootleg boom. . . . New York radio amateur picked up program from Vancouver,