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i 57—No. 305
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
iOTEST MADE
f) SPEECH BY
ICTY. ICKES
Win Told Protest Is "111
■Graced" and Without
I "Propriety"
■run maintains
I SPEECH 'INSULTING' j
I c
Berlin. Dec. 22.—<up)—it
■ unced here Wlli official
■ ... hat Germany has "most
■ tested to the United
■ - utate department against
I c ... s*f and insulting" remarks
l< . of the Interior Har-1
Is !(k •> in his speech at Cleve
■ dins the conditions in
■many.
ft. any's charge d' affaires at
■sr..:-. presented the protest
■r.tr -it.-: secretary of state.
■1 Berlin and other cities news
■ a ie.-cribed Ickes as seeking
■ up sentiment for war
■ir.s; Germany. j
■. in his Cleveland speech
■ attacked Americans who ac
■t Nasi medals, referring spe
. to Col. Charles A. Lind
K~. and Henry Ford.
■vs speech before the Zionists
Mfrveland created the greatest
■ neat in Germany. It was
■insultinj to the leadership of
■many that Washington cannot
■left in doubt about the detri
■ttai effects these impertinences
K cabinet member will have in
rlin."
r.he t/or trolled Nazi : :ess con
id ed that it was "childish" to
f tha' Ickes could make such
h-.'-.vs without official sanction.
AZJS SCORED FOR
ITACKS ON F.D.R.
fASHI.VC TOX. Dec. JJ. (L'P)
'• < Secretary of State Sum
Welles today disclosed that
I' ti : States emphatically
• ■tt'd German protests against
f address by Secretary of the
ff' ": Ickes. and at same time
attacks in the German
P: esident Roosevelt and
uv...v-t.
• :; ,u >t was lodged with
;••• 5 >>^erday by German
I 'A it aires Hans Thorn
s' s: t.-.e German embassy here.
•v juested the United
..ike public a statement
er Ickes' Cleveland i
^ ' : -e I nited States said
st was ill graced and
1 ' : epn'ety."
ARMY FLIERS
OILED TODAY
'reck age Found Off
Hawaii Believed OJd
Scrapped Bomber
U.K. Ya.. Dec. 22. (UP) j
4 .'.:ers were killed when
n i ashed and burned on
P>:nt road, a few miles
'»■ ' k, today.
were Lieut. Dale E.
;■/ Beaverfalls, Pa., and Pri
,-'p S. L)wner of Paren
*h men were stationed
"Un^y Kield.
fiO.VOLL'LU, T. H., Dec. 22.—
■X- Army officials yes
!ri<--ed they were con
iia,B, "iat rhe wreckage of a
s i :n the ocean off Kaena
, . .. t-at of an old type Key
L". scrapped and sunk
; -<t at sea la^t spring.
L... ' t- announcement, the
v "i it was dropping
b!." '. -ation of the wreck
tr:-' v»Ted by a Filipino fish
i- \ ,a JO yards off shore
Saturday.
fohn W. Farmer's
Brother Is Dead
V ; mer today received
' S»i ' " of his brother,
, - or, 62, at his home
' K.V.. following an ill
>a•; time. The deceased
if- t ' and one daughter.
•i leaving to attend
, -vices which will be
•»:.Kfort on Saturday.
Oversees Probe
of Drug Firm
Assistant U. S. Attorney Gen
eral Krien McMahon was ap
pointed co-ordmator of the nu
merous Federal departmental
investigations into the Coster
McKesson & Robbins swindling
case.
PENNEY'S WILL j
GIVE BONUS
30,000 Employes to Share
in Gift; to Close Early
Christmas Eve
As has been the custom of two
previous years, the J. C. Penney
company will pay a bonus to its
30.000 employes in stores and
warehouses throughout the coun-i
try, it was learned here today. i
Xo managers, officials or other
employes who receive compensa
tion other than salary will partic
ipate. As in the past, the bonus
will be paid on a basis of one day
for each month worked during
1938, the maximum amount be
ing two weeks' pay. Regular ex
tra salespeople will also share in
a proportionate way.
W. F. Algary, manager of the
local Penney store, said all man- j
agers and officials are in hearty
accord with the decision of the j
board of directors to pay this bon
us. It is not a permanent plan
"but is rather extra compensation
for efficient and faithful service
rendered during 1938," Mr. Al
gary said.
In order to permit local store
employes to be at home with
their families on Christmas eve, j
the Penney store will close at 8
o'clock Saturday night.
Police, Firemen j
Are Given Bonus
Hendersonville policemen and
firemen received their Christmas
presents "from the city in the form
of cash, it was announced today.
All members of the two depart
ments received a bonus of 10 per
cent of their monthly salary as a
Christmas present from the city.
HANCOCK ON BOARD
WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. (UP).
President Roosevelt today ap
pointed Franklin W. Hancock, Jr.,
of North Carolina to the Federal
Home Loan Bank board.
HUNDREDS DIE
IN EUROPEAN
SUBZERO WAVE
Temperatures Reach Rec
ord Low of Century on
the Continent
JEWISH REFUGEES'
PLIGHT SAID SERIOUS
LONDON, Dcc. 22. (UP)—The
cold wave, enveloping: Europe con
tinued yesterday to cause intense
suffering and widespread crop
damage, while deaths mounted in
to the hundreds.
Violent gales swept the Black
Sea, the Baltic and North Sea as
temperatures in the third day of
sub-zero weather reached record
lows for the century or longer in
parts ot England, France and
Germany.
Swirling blizzards in the wake
of the freeze added to the suffer
ing of millions, with the plight of
Jewish refugees huddling along
the German-Polish and Czechoslo
vakian borders causing increased
concern.
In Great Britain 25 deaths were
attributed to the cold. Rumania
reported 11 known dead; Czecho
slovakia, 3; Hungary, 2; while 70
persons were reported frozen to
death in the Lodz area of Poland.
Ten German-Jewish refugees died
from influenza on the German
Polish frontier:
The death toll in France reach
ed 23.
Winter crops were damaged in
parts of Germany, England and
France while extensive property
losses from fire were reported
from Bucharest to London as hose
lines froze, impeding the work of
firemen.
Tugs and barges were ice-bound
on Germany's inland waterway
systems, and the Elbe was choked
by ice from Hamburg to the North
Sea. Traffic on the Danube and
Rhine was impeded while shipping
was tied up at Memel and other
Baltic ports.
North Sea coastal traffic was
paralyzed and airplanes took over
passenger and mail service to the
ice-bound Frisian Islands, near
which two Dutch ships were frozen
in.
Temperatures of 27 degrees be
low zero were reported in Poland
and 40 below in Russia. London
shivered in the coldest December
morning in 47 years when the
fercury went to 23 degrees above
zero. Temperatures in France
ranged down to zero and the cold
est weather in 61 years was fore
cast. Berlin experienced the cold
est December day in 80 years.
Legion Auxiliary
To Allot Toys For
Christmas Friday
Mrs. Frank Yarborough, presi
dent of the American Legion
auxiliary, announced today that
the organization was prepared to
supply toys to organizations for
Christmas distribution.
This distribution will be made
between 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning and noon at the Legion
clubhouse.
Mrs. Yarborough stated that
the auxiliary had some really fine
toys for distribution to organiza
tions.
Japs May Seek To Cut Off Chinese
Munitions By South China Drive
SHANGHAI, Dec. 22. (UP) —
The possibility of a new Japanese
drive in South China, designed to
clit Chinese munitions import lines
from France's South Asian posses
sions, va« seen yesterday follow
ing the announcmeent by a Japa
nese spokesman that Japanese na
val planes have bombed the South
China port of Pakhoi.
Pakhoi is on the Gulf of Tong
king- and just east of the border
of French Indo-China. It is con
nected with Haiphong, big French
Indo-China port where munition*
ships have been unloading, by e
steamship line.
Japan for more than a year has
been protesting; against munition:
shipments from French Indo-Chins
into the southwest Chinese prov
inces, where Nationalist Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-shek now is di
recting1 anti-Japanese operations
' and has accused France of "bac
faith" in failing to prevent the
traffic.
From Pakhoi the Japanese could
invade Kwangsi province, a chief
center of Chinese resistance, from
the south and divert large Chinese
armies now holding up their west
ward drive from Canton at Wu
chow, on the Kwangtung-Kwangsi
border.
Military attaches said the Japa
nese might be expected to inten
sify their activities in an effort to
end the war before Anglo-Ameri
can aid to Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek can become effective.
They believed that new muni
tions shipments to Chiang Kai
shek, to be naid for by the $25,
000,000 credit giveji him by the
United States and a lesser credit
given by Britain, hardly could
f reach China in effective amounts
,' in less than three or four months.
Duel Personality
Annabella, French film charmer, seems aDie to reiax pieasanuy at
Miami, Fla., after the nervous strain of having a duel fought over
her during her recent visit to Rio de Janeiro.
2 ARE INDICTED
FOR ESPIONAGE
Russian and American Are
Held in Hijacking of
U. S. Records
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22. (UP)
An alleged Russian spy plot in
volving theft of highly confiden
tial records of the United States
naval intelligence service resulted
yesterday in an espionage indict
ment against a Russian and an
American.
The indictment returned by a
federal grand jury named Mik
hail Gorin, 34, Pacific coast man
ager of Intourist, Inc., Soviet
travel bureau, and Hafis Salich,
33, Russian-American, an em
ploye of the intelligence service.
Salich was accused of filching
records from private .navy files
and turning them over to Gorin.
Authorities said he allegedly re
ceived at least $1,700 from Gorin,
a Russian subject, over a 15
month period.
The grand jury considered the
case only briefly befox*e voting
the indictment, which charges
each of the men with three counts
under the espionage act. The
charges carry a possible maximum
sentence of 60 years in prison—
j 20 years on each count.
I One of the witnesses who ap
peared before the jury was Henry
Clayborn, agent attached to the
I San Pedro office where Salich was
•' employed.
| The arrest of the two men last
week stirred diplomatic circles
and resulted in the Soviet embas
sy sending a consular official to
! Los Angeles to interview them.
The suspects have been held in
county jail, in default of $25,000
I bail each. They are to be arraign
j ed next Monday.
Mikhail Ivanovich Ivanushkin,
Soviet vice consul at New York,
who flew here last week, con
ferred several times with Gorin,
but insisted he was not interest
ed in Salich, who although Rus
sian-born is now an American
I citizen. Ivanushkin has been at
I tempting to raise bail for Gorin.
U. S. District Attorney Benja
min Harrison who presented the
evidence to the grand jury, said
Gorin, who lives in a sumptuous
1 ly-furnished home in an exclusive
residential district, first met Sal
ich on September 15, 1937. The
meeting, which took place in
Salich's more modest home, fol
lowed a visit the latter made to
the Russian consular x-epresenta
, tive in San Francisco, Harrison
I (Continued on page three)
MADRID FACES
ITS SADDEST
WARTIME YULE
No Lights or Fires, Food
Nearly Gone, City Vows
to Hold Out
By EDMUND ALLEN
United Pre«« Staff Correspondent
MADRID, Dec. 22. (UP)—A
million men, women and children,
shivering with cold in devastated
Madrid, Without fires and light
and almost foodless, under the
cannon mounted in the Casa de
Campo Park ju9t across the river
Manzanares, await their third and
biterest Christmas since the Span
ish war began. But they are grim
ly resolved that enemy troops
"shall not pass."
The wind that blows down
from the Guadarrama mountains,
where Generalissimo Francisco
Franco's army is entrenched
amid the snow, according to an
old Madrid saying is "not strong
enough to snuff a candle, but
deadly enough to kill a man." It
cuts like a knife through the
scanty clothing of the beleaguer
ed Madrilenos, as families huddle
(Continued on page three)
Community's Yule
Tree Service Set
8 P. M. Saturday
Music and Worship To Be
Program; Gifts Are
Not Planned Then
A sacred service of Christmas
! music and worship will be held at
the Community Christmas tree,
on the vacant lot at the corner of
Church street and Fifth avenue
1 west on Saturday night at 8
o'clock.
The service is being held
through the cooperation of the
city of Hendersonville, Chamber
i of Commerce, and the City Minis
terial association, and the pro
gram will be in charge of the Min
isterial association.
Streets in the vicinity will be
roped off to care for those at
; tending.
The program will consist of
music and brief talks, but con
trary to a previous announcement,
no Christmas gifts or baskets will
; be distributed at this time.
WHITE SLAVE
RING BLAMED
IN PA. MURDER
Find Girl Slain, Drowned;
Sentence Woman in
Manslaughter
4 CHILDRENBURN
IN GEORGIA HOME
KEELERSBUKG, Pa.. Dec. 22. I
(UP).—Pennsylvania authorities |
today suspected that 19-year-old
Margaret Martin, whose nude
body was found trussed in a gun
nysack in a creek near here had
been kidnaped and murdered by
a white slave ring.
Their suspicion was based on
the similarity in technique used
by the girl's kidnaper and known
activities of a white slave ring
which operated in Wilkesbarre re
cently.
The man who lured Miss Martin
from her home in Kingston Satur
day was offering her a job as a
stenographer. Nothing more was
heard of her until a trapper found
a gunny sack submerged beneath
a bridge near here with the girl's
body in it.
"OFFICE WIFE" IS
GIVEN LONG TERM
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Dec. 22.—
(UP).—Mrs. Fern Patricia Dull,:
blonde "office wife" who killed
her employer anil lover, William!
Holbrook, today was sentenced
from 14 to 15 years in Detroit
house of correction. She was
given the maximum term for man
slaughter.
PARENTS AWAY AS
CHILDREN BURNED
HOSCHTON, Ga., Dec. 22. — I
(UP)—Four small children were
burned to death last night when
flames levelled their family home
while their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Miller, were absent.
The children, all girls, ranged
from 18 months to four years in
age.
The blaze was believed to hare
started by a grate fire in the ba
bies' room.
BLOCK LETTER i
CLUB J DINE
Annual Football Banquet
for H.H.S. Set Fri
day Evening
The annual football banquet of
the block letter club of the Hen
dersonville high school will be held
at the Ames hotel on Friday night,
December 23, at 7:30 o'clock.
F. M. Waters, city school super
intendent, will serve as toastmas-i
ter.
This banquet is given each year;
after the football season for the!
members of the club. Mr. Waters,
Principal L. K. Singley and a num
ber of other guests will attend.
Members of the club will attend
with ladies.
NOT SAME HOMER CORN
The Homer Corn, recently re
ported as in court on a prohibition
charge, is not the painter who re
, sides in the city of Hendersonville.
Honor Student
Is Murdered
Police of nine states searched
for Margaret Martin,. 20, of
Kingston, Pa., business college
graduate, after she disappeared
Saturday. Her body was found
yesterday, press dispatches said,
in a Wyoming county creek and
officers said she was "definitely
murdered."
MASS KILLING
AT SAVANNAH
IS UNSOLVED
Officers Puzzle Over Wan
ton Murders; No Motive
Is Established
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 22.—
A wanton murderer yesterday
took a five-foot section of iron
pipe and bludgeoned to death
four members of a family on re
lief, and blasted the head off a
filling station nightwatchman with
a shotgun.
- -■ f _ J
UOUniy omcers were uamcu
by the mass slaying. Identity of
the killer was not known. No ar
rest had been made and there
was no suspect to night. There
was not even an accepted motive.
The murderer—believed by of
ficers to be a crazy or temporar
ily insane man—went into a. di
lapidated shack 100 yards off .a
main coastal highway on the out
skirts of Savannah. He carried a
five-foot section of a rusty iron
pipe, three inches in diameter.
Sleeping in one iron bed was
James S. Tillman, 34, unemploy
ed acetylene torch worker, and
his wife Mary Eliza, 27. Besides
them on another bed were their
children, Clara Pearl, 8, and Mary
Leola, 6.
Ruthlessly swinging the long
pipe, the slayer batered to death
the four while they slept. The
victims did not arouse even
enough to throw off the bed cov
ers. Their skulls were crushed.
Blood spattered the beds, floor
and walls.
Tom Chester, 40, watchman,
was decapitated by a shotgun
blast at the small frame filling
station-sandwich stand which had
been closed recently. The filling
station was on the highway di
rectly in front of the crude cot
tage in which the Tillmans were
(Continued on page three)
Greater Air Defense, More Drastic
Election Laws Among Objectives
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (UP) .
Speaker of the House Bankhead
today predicted that measures for I
increasing the n a t i o n's air 1
strength will be the main feature
of the national defense program
in the next congress.
Bankhead said he looked for
aviation increases rather than
| recommendations for building up
; the navy still further.
i WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (UP) I
Chairman Morris D. Sheppard (D., I
Tex.), of the senate campaign;
expenditures investigating com- i
mittee, today caustically assailed
the federal corrupt practices laws
as "indefinite and unsound," and
predicted that congress would be
asked soon to put teeth into them.
At the same time, Senator Carl
I A. Hatch (D., N. M.), served,
warning that he would continue i
1 his fight in the new congress to I
take federal cash and employes
out of political campaigns. He
said he would introduce two mea
sures directed at this objective.
One would extend to all govern
ment officials and employes the
ban against participation in poli
tics which the civil service laws
impose on those who come under
their jurisdiction. The other, he
said, would prevent federal job
holders from being 'delegates to
a political convention.
•Both proposals were rejected by
the 75th congress. Hatch's amend
ment to the relief bill, which
would have imposed criminal pen
alties on federal workers taking
part in election activities, was de
feated in the senate, 40 to 37. It
lost, 33 to 32, on a motion to
reconsider but only after Major
ity Leader Alben W. Barkley (D.,
Ky.) had opposed it vigorously.
(Continued on page three)
STAND TAKEN
IN PLEA FOR
F1MR COIN
Shutdown of Relief Work
February 7 Is Declared
Alternative
equitablTfreight
RATES TO BE SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (UPL
A WPA request for emergency
funds to avoid a shutdown Febru-.
ary 7 made yesterday will meet
with opposition from anti-New
Deal Democrats in congress.
Senator King, D., Utah, todny
demanded abolition of the WPA.
King, opponent of most admin
istration policies, based his de
mand on reports to the senate
campaign investigating committee
which charged that relief workers
were coerced during election cam
paigns in several states.
In place of the WPA King said
he would introduce a bill to place
supervision' of distribution of
federal relief funds 'with the
chairmen of the senate and house
appropriations • committees.
Aubrey Williams, deputy WPA
administrator, yesterday told a
Pennsylvania delegation of relief
workers that the WPA must begin
trimming its relief rolls oil Janu
ary 26 and close its work com
pletely in less than two weeks
afterward.
A number of Democratic con
gressmen now in the capital city,
lead by Senator Norris, Ind.,
Neb., were confident that con
gress would quickly approve an
emergency relief appropriation
and placed such a measure at the
top of their agenda of prospective
legislation.
Republican Leader Senator Mc
Nary, Ore., yesterday had ex
pressed the belief that here
would be little or no Republican
opposition to such a proposal.
M'KELLER TO FIGHT
FOR ONE RATE TARIFF
WASHINGTON, S«e. 22. —
Discriminatory freight rates in
the south will be under fire at
the forthcoming session of con
gress, it was indicated yesterday
by the announcement of Senator
Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee,
that he had drafted a bill to
establish a uniform freight struc
ture throughout the country.
In outlining his program to ob
tain equitable rates for the South,
McKellar said his bill called not
only for a uniform and equitable
freight rate structure, but also
for a report by the interstate
commerce commission after it had
established such a rate.
"We now have five freight
rate structures in the United
States," said Senator McKellar,
"and I shall demand fair play for
the south. Under the present sys
tem, it costs as much to ship from
a southern point east as it does
almost twice the same distance en
tirely in the eastern or official
territory. This issue is age-old
and nothing has been done about
it. The matter has been neglect
ed so long that it it now time for
congress to take a hand and re
quire this uniform and equitable
(Continued on page three)
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Till Christmas
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r OOKDfO BACK TO CBKI8T
L MAS TWO Y1AB8 AGO
U. of Wisconsin prexy Frank
fighting ouster move. . . . Face
of Literary Dif est still red be
cause of THAT POLL. ...
Britons stunned bver voluntary
abdication of King Edward. . . .
F. D. R., Jr.. ill In Boston. . . .
"You"Cant Take It With You"
laying 'em in the aisles. . . .
"(tone With the Wind" outstrip
ping in sales the equally bulk)
"Anthony Adverse." . . . Sit
down strikes were spreading.