WEATHER
| cloudv and (lightly warmer to
Llght: continued cloudy and cold
r, Thursday.
Largest Daify Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
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HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
iRGENTINEOUT
RECONCILE
IFFERENCES
hree Nations Draft Com
promise Alter Tues
day's Deadlock
ULL WILL ACCEPT
SOME FORM OF PACT
LIMA. Peru. Dec. 21. (UP)—
Lilian. Argentine and Peruvian
kEate* to the Eighth Pan Amer
a Conference today circulated
new compromise declaration of
nerioan solidarity against for
x influences in an 11th hour
tempt to reconcile conflicting
or the United States and
tentina.
The new draft was completed
:er hurried consultations seek
: action on the most important
:e*rational issue at the confer
ee before adjournment.
The United States policy to
ird the totalitarian states was
reatened yesterday by a dead
:k with Argentina over the form
the proposed declaration of
ntinertal solidarity by the con
fer ce.
Washington's attempt to line up
21 American republics in a
lited stand against foreign mili
ry and ideological aggression
ctir.ued yesterday to meet
:.r.g resistance fTom Argentina
jrite efforts by Brazil and Peru
I reconcile the opposing view
!M Compromise .
by ATran16 de Mello Franco,
ad oi the Brazilian delegation,
id Foreign Minister Carlos Con
1a of Peru, was circulated among
p several delegations, but the
hipression grew that Argentina
fould refuse to the end any dec
oration which included reference
^ "non-American" aggression,
pen if balanced by reference to
Lxression bv a: A . : ican coun
| The compromise declaration,
r.ich had appeared to include all
irsrentine demands while at tiie
me time satisfying those of the
;:;ed Stau-s, provides for a uni
(d American stand against ag
rv>.>;on from within or without
h v. ostei n hemisphere.
The conference, with only one
fe»-iv to zo to adjournment, might
fa.'. • approve any declaration
(Continued on page three)
Three Episcopal
Churches Plan
Christmas Events
St. John's, St. Paul's Will
Have Pageants; Midnight
Service at St. James
Rev. James P. Burke, rector of
Episcopal church, to
fcy formally announced the
xaedule of services for three
Episcopal churches in the city and
•onty.
St. John's, at Upward, will
a Christmas tree and pag
Friday. St. Paul's at Edney
will have its observances on
*orday, and a feature there
he the appearance for the
time of a vested choir of
people, under the direction
5 Miss Alene Cronshey.
The rector announces the full
f^dule of these services as fol
ws:
•• JOHN'S. UPWARD
Friday, December 23.
9:30 a. m.—Holy communion.
? m.—Christmas pageant
1 ' Christmas tree. i
5T-PAUL'S, EDNEYVILLE
^turday, December 24.
»;20 a. m.—Holy communion.
' P m.—Christmas pageant
Christmas tree. A vested
of young people, under the
T^tion of Miss Alene Cronshey,
render special Christmas mu
a; these services.
r- james, hemdersonville
^■iturday afternoon (Christmas
J* P- —There will be a Christ
ie purl*' for children following
^,n?ing of carols in the
p. m. (Christmas eve) —
Eucharist.
m day service at 11
•;s usual, the beautiful Christ
en, 1Us'c be rendered by St.
of \t „:r> under the direction
vf5' ; Ewbank, organist,
L >Irs Henry Atkin, choir lead
UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE
LONG SOUGHT; REPUBLIC
DESTROYED BY ALLIES' HELP
I Qpvoral Ponnln
In Car Collision
Negroes in Auto Crash on
Brevard Highway
Suffer Bruises
Several people escaped injury
this morning when two automo
biles collided at Davis Station, on
the Brevard highway, and one of
the cars turned over three times.
Anderson Banks, of Horse Shoe,
was driving toward Henderson
ville on the highway. His car
struck another, driven by Alex
Sizemore, and turned over three
times. Several negroes in the
Banks car suffered bruises and
minor injuries.
The sheriff's department re
ported that Sizemore was crossing
the highway from a side road.
SOLONS MUST
STUDY STATE
ROAD SAFETY
T * K ■»
Will Be Asked to Consider
Definite Maximum
Speed Limit
By DAVE WARNER
United Pre»» Staff Correspondent
RALEIGH. Dec. 21. (UP)—'The
task of making Xoith Carolina
highways safer will be assigned to
the general assembly before it
i completes its 1939 work,
j A definite maximum speed limit
is one proposal the legislators will
have to consider. It has been urg
ed by A. J. Maxwell, who has con
i trol of highway safety and patrol
work indirectly by virtue of beinT
state revenue commissioner. Two
thirds of the legis'ators who an
swered a United Press question
naire also favored an "absolute
highway speed limit."
Other road safety measures to
be proposed, according to replies
from members of the new legisla
ture. will include:
Compulsory automobile insur
ance to protect the public against
"irresponsible" car owners and
drivers;
An act requiring night drivers
to dim their lights when they meet
other cars;
More stringent supervision of
highway use by large trucks and
buses;
' An act requiring renewal of all
dri%'er's licenses, under examina
tion and without charge, to elimi
nate fhose who obtained their li
censes without examination and
could not qualify under proper
standards of examination;
An appropriation for elimina
tion of road hazards, such as nar
row pavement, sharp "un-banked"
| curves, narrow bridges.
Ronald Hocutt, director of high
way safety, is preparing a pro
gram of suggested improvements
for the assembly which meets here
in two weeks.
Most suggestions for a maxi
mum highway speed limit have
ranged from 50 to 60 miles per
(Continued on page three)
Judging In Home
Lighting Contest
j To Begin Tonight
Judging,of displays entered in
the home lighting contest spon
sored by the Chamber of Com
merce and The Times-News will
begin tonight and winners of the
1 five prizes amounting to $50 will
be made public Friday.
1 Eighteen homes are entered in
the contest, the first of its kind
1 ever held here, and in addition to
the families which entered their
' dwellings in the competition many
others in the city and through the
countryside are displaying colored
lights and other holiday decora
, tions.
Names of the judges will be
i published at the time the an
i nouncement of contest prize win
I ners is made.
45 Million People Struggle
for Freedom From Soviet, j
Poles, Rumania
(Dr. Luke Myshuha. Ukrainian)
scholar, editor and former diplo- .
mat, describes the Ukrainian lib- \
eration movement from the
| JJkrainian viewpoint in the follow
| ing dispatch written for the
I United Press. Dr. Myshuha, now
j a naturalized American citizen,
represeiited the western Ukrain
| ian republic in the United States
from 1921 to 1923. He recently
j returned from Europe where he
| conferred with British. Czech and
j Carpatho-Ukrainian officials. He
is editor of "Svoboda," largest
Ukrainian language daily in
America.—Editor's note.)
By DR. LUKE MYSHUHA
(Copyright, 1938, United Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (UP)—,
I The Ukrainian question has be
come a world problem. The threat
I of war has focused international
i attention on the struggle of more
than '45,000,000 Ukrainians in
Russia, Poland and Rumania for
independence.
Since the World war the Ukra
inian people have reminded the
world powers that their division
was forced by the Bolsheviks on
one hand and the Allies on the
other. As a result the Ukrainian
republic established in 1917 was
destroyed.
Ukrainians in America protest
i ed as far back as 1919, sending
a special delegation to the Ver
sailles peace conference. Since
then they have dispatched thou
sands of telegrams and memoran
da to the great powers and the
League of Nations, demanding the
right of Ukrainian self-determina
tion.
During most of this period the
world did not even know of the
existence of Adolf Hitler. Today
when nawspapers speak of the
Ukrainian liberation movement as
a creation of Hitler, little men
tion is made of the long struggle
of the Ukrainians themselves for
freedom.
Ukrainians proclaimed the
Ukrainian national republic at
Kiev upon the ruins of czarist
Russia in 1917. Ukrainians also
proclaimed the western Ukrainian
republic in Lviv in 1918 upon the
collapse of the Austro-Hungarian
empire. These two republics unit
ed in 1919, and in their defense
hundreds of thousands of Ukrain
ians died. The Kiev republic was
crushed by the Bolsheviks and the
Czarist Russians of Denikin who
were aided by the Allies. The
Lviv republic was destroyed by
the Poles likewise supported by
the Allies.
But the Ukrainian ideal of an
independent sovereign state was
not destroyed.
Today thousands of Ukrainian
i youths are imprisoned in Soviet,
Polish and Rumanian jails, charg
ed with fighting for this ideal.
Many write of Ukraine only as a
I pawn to further Hitler's ambi
toins. They guess what Hitler
thinks of the Ukraine, but few
determine what the Ukrainian
(Continued on page three)
Miss Mary Haig
Laid To Rest At
Charleston Home
Demise Saturday Night
From Heart Trouble
Unexpected
Friends here have been shocked
to hear of the death of Miss Mary
Maham Haig, for a long period of
years a resident of Henderson
ville and member of St. James
Episcopal church, at Charleston,
S. C.
Miss Haig had been invalided
by heart trouble and her condi
tion had forced her to abandon
her home here. Her passing at
9:30 o'clock Saturday night, was
, however, unexpected and sudden.
Funeral services were held in
Charleston yesterday morning at
I 11 o'clock from the Connelley
j Memorial chapel. Interment fol
lowed 1n Magnolia cemetery.
The condition of I. M. Haig, her
brother, who suffered a paralytic
stroke some time ago, remains
serious.
Miss Haig's other brother, Chas.
, Haig, of New York, was in
Charleston for the rites yester
I day.
COUNTY DET
DOWN $267,750
SINCE JULY '37
Bonds Retired on Sub-Par
Basis, With Savings
for Taxpayers
DURHAM REVEALS
IMPROVED STATUS
*
A reduction in the Henderron
county bonded indebtedness of
$267,750 since July 1, 1937, v as
announced today by T. L. Dur
ham, chairman of the Henderson
county board of commissioners.
The total bonded indebtedness
of the city, including bonds for
special purposes, is now $2,944,
500. The total indebtedness as
of July 1, 1937, was $3,212,350.
Reductions announced by Mr.
Durham today included $223,000
in county-wide obligations, $18,
000 in township road obligations,
and $26,750 in township school
district obligations.
All of these bonds were retir-;
ed on a sub-par basis at consid- ]
erable saving to taxpayers, Mr.'
Durham said.
In addition to principal reduc
tion during this period, the coun
ty has paid approximately $150,
000 in interest obligations, and
will enter the new year in a cur-,
rent financial position.
The county-wide indebtedness
as of the first of the year will be <
$3,194,877.50, from which the
sum of $419,877.50 is 'deductible.'
as it is being paid by the state
highway department under an
agreement of several years ago.
Special township obligations
outstanding amount to $80,000
and special school district obliga
tions to $89,500. The total out
standing bonded debt as of the
first of the year will be $2,944,
500.
H.H.S. CAGERS
DROP 2 GAMES
Hendersonville high basketball
teams dropped a double header to
Columbus last night at Columbus.
The Columbus boys won in a
close game by an 18 to 17 score,]
and the Polk county girls had lit- j
tie trouble defeating the local
girls 25 to 6.
The Bearcats showed up well in
the first quarter, but the local
lads missed enough foul shots to
win the game.
SING, BRING CLUB
TO MEET THURSDAY
The Sing and Bring club, com
posed of 30 to 40 boys and girls,
will meet at Calvary Baptist
church on Thursday afternoon in
stead of today. The meeting will
be held after school hours.
The meeting date has been
changed to allow members to at
tend the Christmas carol service.
•Miss Chrstiine McCorkle, at
home for the holdaiys from Bob
Jones college, is expected to
teach the class on Thursday. Mrs.
Fred Toms is leader and Miss
Ethel McMurray, assistant leader,
of the club.
<
Lost in Jungle?
Poet and explorer, Miss Bernice
Goetz, above, is feared lost in
Ecuador's jungles by her fa
ther, Henry Goetz of Cleveland.
Scheduled to arrive in New York
Dec. 15, Miss Goetz was not on
the boat.
TO ORGANIZE
LIONS IN CITY
Ceremony Set Thursday
Night; Asheville Club
Here Then
A ileiKlei-Sonville Ltons ciob
will be organized at a meeting
here on Thursday night at 7:80
o'clock at the Hendersonville inn.
The Asheville club, which spon
sored organization of the local
club, will attend, and members of
the recently, organized Brevard
club are also expected.
Commissioner J. B. Napier, of
Chicago, a representative of the
national organization, has been
here for preliminary organiza
tional purposes for several days.
He announced that 15 was the
minimum number for organiza
tion of a club, and that the local
club would exceed this number in
charter members.
Winter To Start
Officially Here
Thursday A. M.
Due at 7:15 O'CIock De
spite Cold Already Ex
perienced in Area
Tomorrow is the first day of
winter. This statement may seem
strange to some, who have shiv
ered in the low temperatures al
ready experienced since last sum
mer, but December 22 is the
weather man's official opening of
winter.
According to the weather cal
endar, the winter officially be
gins tomorrow morning at 7:15
o'clock.
Astronomically this time marks
the winter solstice, the point when
the sun reaches its furthest point
south of the equator and begins
the journey northward.
Hitler Wants Jews Of World To Help
Finance German Jewish Exodus
And End of World-Wide Boycott bought to Help Revive
Germany's Financial Situation
£
LONDON, Dec. 21.—(UP)—
Reichsleader Hitler has demanded
a halt of the world-wide Jewish
boycott on German goods in re
turn for financial co-operation in
resettling 700,000 Jews in new
homes abroad.
It was learned that the demand
is part of a plan offered the inter
governmental refugees committee
by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president
of the Reichsbapk. It is under
stood the powers turned the plan
down because the United States,
Britain, France and the Nether
lands are not willing to commit
themselves to buying more Ger
man goods.
Nevertheless it was learned that
George Rublee, American director
of the international committee for
refugees, and a former Washing
ton lawyer, will go to Berlin next
month to attempt to find other
means of financing the emigration!
and settlement abroad of Ger
many's Jews.
It was understood that other
parts of the German plan were
considered to be excellent, notably
Germany's plans to organize the
emigration of her unwanted Jews
in an orderly way, which would
cause the least possible inconven
ience to other countries. Conse
quently Rublee will seek a com
promise which would retain the
pood features of the German offer
while finding a different method
of finance.
Germany's proopsal for ending
the Jewish boycott on German
goods, which has hurt German
trade throughout the world, was
concealed in the general plan for
relief of the Jews which Schacht
outlined here last week. Diplo
matic quarters believe that the
plan arose largely from Ger
{Continued on page three)
SNOW AND FOG
USHER WINTER
IN FOR WEST
French Antarctic Colony
Runs Short of Food;
Coal Supply Gone
COLD WAViTWREAKS
HAVOC UPON EUROPE
(UNITED PRESS)
Winter officially greeted the
western half of the nation today
with a varying assortment of hail,
snow, fog and rain from the Pa
cific Northwest to the Gulf of
Mexico. This accompaniment to
the first day of winter resulted
from a slow moving mass of cold
moist air.
Temperatures are not extreme
and many areas are not affccted
because of scattered cloud forma
tions..
Heavy mountain snowstorms
and valley fogs stopped air traffic
in the northwest.
| Ice made highways dangerous.
Southern California is having
electrical storms.
Rain, hail and snow extended
eastward as far as Oklahoma and
Texas. . '
WOMEN AT COLONY
AT BITTER ODDS
PARIS, Dec. 21: (UP)— Kadio
| contact with an adventurous band
of French colonists on barren
Saint Paul's Island, close to vthe
outer -edge of the Antarctic ice
shield was reestablished today.
Minister of Colonies George
Mandel said that the colonists are
running out of food and their coal
supply is exhausted.
Naval authorities made 'hasty
preparations to rush coal from the
1 nearest naval base on the Island
of Madagascar, 3000 miles away.
Radio operators reported bitter
dissension had broken out among
the women on the isolated island.
200 DIE IN EUROPE;
SUFFERING GREAT
LONDON, Dec. 21. (UP)—A
I cold wave that already has broken
records of 60 and 80 years' stand- (
ling yesterday tightened its icy
grip on all Europe, from the Urals'
to the Mediterranean, taking a1
J toll of at least 200 lives and caus
, ing intense suffering.
Communication and transporta
I tion services were crippled partic
ularly in eastern Europe and the
Balkans, and shipping in the North !
Sea ran for cover before the blasts |
j sweeping from off the Siberian
Steppes.
England suffered the lowest
temperatures in nine years while
Monday was the coldest December
day in Berlin in 80 years with a
reading of one degree below zero.
; French meteorologists reported
that the mercury was plummeting
| down to the lowest levels since the
famous cold wave of 1877. It was
five above in Paris in mid-after
noon and five below in Alsace,
Lorrain and Verdun.
Seventy deaths from freezing
were reported from Lodz, Poland,
and the extreme cold was blamed i
for an influenza outbreak among
5,000 German-Jewish refugees on
(Continued on page four)
FARMTENANCY
GAIN ALARMING
Dr. Baker Expresses View;
Farmers Own Less Than
Half Farm Land
OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 21. (UP)
1 Dr. 0. E. Baker of the United
States department of agriculture
expressed alarm last night at
' gains in farm tenancy.
Speaking before the annual
conference of county farm and
home demonstration agents, Dr.
Baker said that a great number
of American farmers were losing
their land primarily because of
speculation in commercial farm
i ing
Declaring that ownership of
land by farmers was the nation's
I "greatest bulwark of freedom,"
he said that farmers now own
less than half the farm land of
the nation.
"Despite low interest rates,"
Dr. Baker said, "they are paying
non-landowners $400,000,000 in
•interest annually on farm mort
1 gage indebtedness."
Cactus Jack
Ready to Ride
Rough and rambunctious though
the approaching Congress ap
pears, Vice President Garner
sits easy in the saddle. Pictufed
in Washington after conference
with President. •
5 ARE SLAIN
IN GEORGIA
Police Hunt Blood-Spatter
ed Madman; 4 Victims
in One Family
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 21.—
(UP)—County and city ' police
today began an intensive search
for a bloodspattered madman who
slugged four members of one
family to death with an iron pipe,
then killed a garage watchman
with a shotgun on the outskirts
of Savannah.
The dead were: J. S. Tillman,
WPA worker; his wife and two
children and Tom Chester, night
watchman.
The members of the Tillman
family were found beaten to
death in a cottage behind a re
pair garage west of Savannah on
the coastal highway.
JOHN MARSELLUS IN
SAVANNAH; WILL PAY
ANNUAL VISIT HERE
Hendersonville friends of John
Marsellus of Syracuse, N. Y., who
has been visiting this place each
year for more than twenty years,
will be pleased to learn that he
is spending the winter in Savan
nah and expects to make his usual
stay in Hendersonville next
spring.
Mr. Marsellus, writing to a
friend here, asks to be remember
ed to the large number of peo
ple here who are his friends and
acquaintances, saying that he is
not able to write to each one but
hopes to see them again next
year.
Mr. Marsellus is now more than
ninety years of age, and is one
of the oldest of the many aged
people who visit Hendersonville
regularly.
BAPTISTS WILL HEAR
REV. BURKE TONIGHT
Kev. James P. Burke, rector of
St.v James Episcopal church will
address the mid-week prayer gath
ering tonight at the First Baptist
church, Rev. B. E. Wall, pastor,
stated this morning. Rev. Mr.
Wall, confined to his home with a
cold and unable to conduct this
service himself, has invited Rev.
Mr. Burke to speak and asks all
members to attend this service,
which is at 7:30 o'clock.
MISS JENKINS WILL
BE HOME THURSDAY
Miss Betty Jenkins, basketball
and tennis star at Boiling Springs
Junior college, will spend Christ
mas holidays With her parents
here, beginning Thursday.
SPENDING AND
REORGANIZING
CLASHES SEEN
Ranks of Critics Orer New
Deal Outlays Are Add
ing Members
LARGER PENSIONS
UP TO CONGRESSMEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (UP)
With congress scheduled to con
vene on January S, two major
legislative battles were already
in sight today, vie ing as 10 which
will provide the most spectacular
controversy of the approaching
session.
It was learned today that Pres
ident Roosevelt is prepared to re
new his demand for the reorgan
isation of the federal govern
ment's executive department in
his message of the opening ses
sion of the new congress.
Despite optimism prevalent
among some of the administra
tion leaders the president's pro
gram to revive the reorganization
bill appeared headed for a battle
similar to that which scuttled the
proposal last year. .
At the same time there appear
ed growing evidence of opposi
tion to the New Deal spending
policies as the president was en
gaged in putting the final touches
on his annual state-of-the-nation
message.
An early clash between foes
and proponents of . spending wa*
foreshadowed when leaders of
two powerful organizatibns, the
Farmers' Union and the Workers'
Alliance, told the president that
they strenuously opposed propp
ed cats in farm benefits or re
lief appropriations.
JLiuruur ovuBM/r aiwiuc
Colo.), who steered Mr. Ro«m
velt'a huge spend-lend -bilL . thru..
the last session, and Senator Har- >
rison (R., f Miss.), chairman of
the influential senate finance
committee, inferentiallv warned
the White House that the gap bc
i tween federal revenues ana ex
I penditures must be closed, or in
: creased taxation is inevitable.
To their voices was added that
of Senator Glass (D., Va.), chair
man of the senate appropriations
committee and persistent critic i f
New Deal spending. He pointed
out congress was not bound by
budget estimates and could cut
: appropriations either in comrait
I tee or on the floor.
He suggested that the most
feasible way to achieve a balance
! of revenues and expenditures
would be by reducing budget ex
penses, but added laconically,
that he "does not anticipate"
such action on the part of admin
istration agencies.
Best available estimates are
that the president's budget will
total about $8,000,000,000, per
haps slightly more. His figures
have been closely guarded but his
annual message may give some
indications, especially regarding
national defense outlays, expect
ed to account for more than fl,
000,000,000.
The chief executive said at his
press conference today that he
| would devote most of the next 10
I days to preparation of the new
; budget and conferences pertain
■ ing to it. He met tonight with
Acting Budget Director Bell and
Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau.
Numerous congressmen, Among
them Senator Clark (D., Mo.), al
ready are sniping at the defense
program. In addition, relief and
crop control expenditures are un
der Are and it was in this con
(Continued on page four.)
3 Mopping Ways
Till Christmas
CTfZAtcftR cGaz£ Arr«AcT«4G»
Arrwno<*"»
r OOKINO PACK TO CHKf 8T
U MAS TRIBE YKAK8 AGO—
Cleveland jubilant; it had juat
?een named site of G. O. P.
invention the following June
. . . Censors frowning at "Chil
dren's Hour" and 'Tobacco'
Road." . . . Dr. Benes named
to succeed Masaryk as Czecho
ilovakian president . . . Brunc
Hauptmann in death cell. . . .
Trailer craze attracting atten
tion. . . . New Deal measuraa
fearfully awaiting Supreme
Court rieriaiona