WEATHER
Much colder tonight; Wednes
day fair and colder, hard freeze
\Vcdnoday morning..
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GOOD AFTERNOON
The Scotch arc much malifnad.
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Largest Daify Circulation of Any Newspaper in North Carolina in Proportion to Population
VOL. 57—No. 308
HENDERSONVILI.E, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1938
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
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|U. S. Dissatisfied With! Jap Replies
<£s
fOKYO IS TOLD
IS. WATCHING
1SIA SITUATION
nterest Lies in Results of
Japan's Influence, Not
Her Program
JAPAN INQUISITIVE
ON U. S. CHINA AID
I TOKYO, Dcc. 27. — (UP) —
^ : iean Ambassador Joseph
; \v today advised the Japanese
>< .-eminent that the United
>\> s is more interested in re
than in Japanese plans as
t ,-arxis the future status of
Lwican interests in China.
Grew visited Foreign Minister
i, v.ro Arita, and ic was under
t "J he made unusually strong:
* sentations against Japanese
iitcrference with foreign interests
5 China and said the United
kites is dissatisfied with Japan's
!>: ;es to previous protests.
Japanese Foreign Minister Ha
h > Arita reiterated in confer
nces with the British and United
tates ambassadors that Anglo
:r rican loans to China were
triplicating the. question of po
r.t:al settlement of occidental
irhts in the conquered areas, it
las learned yesterday.
I Arita was also said to have in
armed the two diplomats, seek
Ig amplification ol Japan's pro
gram for China, that he deemed
m unnecessary to give any furth
B explanation than that contain
B in the recent statement of
premier Prmce Fumimaro Kon
»jre. The premier indicated even
tual abolition of foreign conces
lions in China under a "new day"
Asiatic Drosrram.
U. S. Ambassador Joseph C.
Grew was understood to have
been promised an early reply to
the American protests against
bombing of various American
pussion properties in China.
| Arita. it was learned, said that
the best method of settling the
China question would be a ces
sation of hostilities, but that early
peace was not aided by Anglo
American loans providing the
r.eans for increased Chinese re
sistance.
Ambassador Grew visited Arita
first and after the conversation it
was understood that he had made
r.ew representations regarding the
lombing of 10 separate properties
of American mission institutions
in China during Japanese air
rai'!3.
Arita reportedlv replied that
investigations would be made in
each case and compensation paid
if the mission organizations are
entitled to it
The foreign minister amplified
Konoye's statement of last week
rosarding Japan's final plans for
P«ace in east Asia and reiterated
tie premier's assertion that the
rights of third powers, such as
to1 United States, will not be in
terfered with so long as thfey do
conflict with Japan's inten
tion to control defense machinery
*n<i hring China into the . anti
"ffiimunist bloc.
Arita's remarks were described
rent-rally conciliatory. Ke at
tempted. apparently without suc
"ss. to find out whether the Unit
's States intends to grant new
credits to China, when the pres
et credit of $25,000,000 through
V. S. Import-Export bank, is
•spanded.
Romulus Reese
Taken By Death
Ror.;tjlus M. Reese. 68. of EI
»-nton. father of W. H. Reese, of
Asrifville, died yesterday at Co
Jumhia, s. C., it was learned
•tere yesterday.
Other survivors include three
Mis. Kate Bruce, of Hen
cersonville, Mrs. Tennie Hender
0} Hot Springs, and Mrs. Sue
r-mrr.:i Huckner. of Big Pine. Fu
^ra! -i-rvicos will be held at 2:30
0 clock tomorrow at Ellenton.
MRS. MUNN TO SPEND
WINTER ON COAST
** S. M. Munn, of Henderson
is in Los Angeles, where she
the winter with L. E.
v i' ' : ' roerly of Henderson
p ^ r,n«i now connected with the
fr* ^troleum Oil Co., in
Hollywood.
>
Drama on High Seas . . . Nazi Flyers Saved
A U. S. Array plane circles overhead directing rescue of five Ger man llyers and one passenger atop me v,u..uui P.«„r i«.«u
into the Chin* Sea off the Philippines. The big Nazi sh ip had flown from Berlin to Tokio before the mishap
SENATOR POPE
! SAID ASSURED
: OF TVA POST
Meanwhile F.D.R. Heads
for Senate Fight
Against Hopkins
1 WASHINGTON. Doc. 27. <UP)|
President Roosevelt, heading into
a senate fight on the confirmation
of Secretary of Commerce Hop
kins, has decided to nominate Sen-'
ator Pope (D., Idaho) to the Ten
nessee Vallev Authority director
ate as his next step in the realign
ment of important Federal posts.
1 it was learned today.
Pope, unseated in Idaho's I)em-!
ocratic primary has received as
surance that he will be nominated
for the TVA post.
The President spent yesterday
working on his state of the nation
and budget messages to be deliv
ered to congress next week.
The chief executive put in a
1 har:l day in his private study whip
pins: into shape the two messages,
which are expected to delineate
future New Deal policies, despite
the fact that the rest of the nation
enjoyed a prolonged Christmas
holiday.
Mr. Roosevelt, however, did not
go t<r the executives offices in the
White House, and no formal con
ferences with his federal aides
were held.
William A. Weihe
Killed In Accident
News of the tragic death of
William A. Weihe of West Palm
Beach and Hendersonville has just'
reached friends here. Mr. Weihe
was driving across a crossing of
i the Florida West Coast railroad
i in his home city and his car was
struck by a train.
He died two days later without
ever regaining consciousness.
Mr. Weihe was well known in
Hendersonville, owning an attrac
tive mountain lodge and many
acres of lahd in the Horse Shoe
I section. He had spent his sum-1
mers here over a period of several
1 years. 1
COLDEST WEATHER OF YEAR
SWEEPING SOUTH; FORECAST
TO HIT FLORIDA, GULF COAST
Snow Impedes Travel in
the West and North
Central States
A cold wave swept down from
Canada today, bringing1 sub-zero
temperatures to the United States
and sending thermometers to their
lowest points of the winter.
Canada and the north central
states, felt the brunt today, but
the weather bureau said that cold
would nip the Atlantic seaboard
and Gulf of Mexico tonight or to
morrow.
Coldest temperatures in the
United States were recorded at
Minot and Devil's Lake, North
Dakota, where the thermometer
was 22 below zero. Duluth re
ported 14 below. The weather bu
reau said that the cold wave will
go as far south as Florida.
Heavy snows were reported in
North and South Dakota and Min
nesota. A light snow fell over
Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan.
In Chicago, Lloyd said a drizzling
rain would turn to snow.
The heavy snows impeded high
way travely in some sections.
Temperature readings of 6 be
low zero at Helena, Mont., and 5
below at Great Falls, Mont., were
reported. With the outlines of
the cold wave extending as far
south as Oklahoma, Kansas and j
Missouri, a dust storm combined
with the cold was reported in
Oklahoma.
A 20-degree drop in tempera
ture was reported at Kansas City.
Lloyd said it would be con
tinued cold in North Dakota Tues
day and colder in Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri,
Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota,
Nebraska and Kansas.
H.H.S. COMMERCIAL
CLASS PLANS GIVEN
Announcement is made that the
commercial class at the high school
will not meet again until January
10th. The advanced commercial
class will resume its work a week
earlier, on January 3rd.
Burke Sees Irresistible Demand For
| Amendments To Wagner Measure
Declares It Has Brought Strife Where Peace Once Pre
vailed and Strangled Industrial Development
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. (UP)
Sen. Edward R. Burke, D., Nebr.,
; predicted last night that the 76th
Congress would amend the Watr
ner Labor Act and curtail the
powers of the National Labor Re
lations hoard in an effort to pro
mote industrial peace and eco
nomic recovery.
Speaking on' a holiday theme of
"Peace in Industry," Burke said
| that "Today, with congress on the
eve of convening, there is an al
most universal demand for action
that will put an end to industrial
discord." His remarks were car
ried over an NBC radio network.
Burke, an administration foe
' and consistent opponent of the
NLRB, recalled an address which
he made a year ago urging amend
ment of the Wagner Act, and said
that the need for change is more
urgent now than over before.
"The ease for vital amendments
to the National Labor Relations
(Wagner Act), and change in the
administrative agency (NLRB),
rests upon the Complete failure of
the present program to bring in
dustrial peace," he said.
"The board has stretched the
provisions of a bad law to the ex
treme limit. It has gone far out
side the law and tried in every
conceivable way to so interpret its
provisions as to most effectually
harass employers and promote a
particular type of labor organiza
tion," he continued, apparently re
ferring to charges that the NLRB
has shown "favoritism" toward
the Congress of Industrial Organ
(Continued on page four)
Alumni Of G.M.A.
Gives Packard To
Col. Woodward
Letters of appreciation written
by Col. J. C. Woodward, president
of Georgia Military Academy at
College Park, and owner and op
erator of Camp Highland Lake,
just south of Hendersonville, re
vealed here today that Col. Wood
ward received a Packard automo
bile as a Christmas gift from
alumni of G.M.A.
The presentation took place on
December 15 in the presence of
many alumni, friends, students
and parents. Cadets formed for
parade at mid-afternoon and af
ter the parade an open square was
formed. Col. Woodward was led
into the square, the automobile
was driven in, and George West,
an alumnus, made the presenta
tion.
"Never have I had such a
thrill," Col.1 Woodward wrote in
appreciation. "For once in my life
I 'felt like a million' in sweet mem
ories and grateful appreciation. As
the shadows continue to lengthen,
I shall ever cherish the kindly,
generous thoughts of G. M. A.
alumni."
NEGRO IS SHOT
AT BRICKTON
Alleged Hit, Run Driver
Held; Christmas Period
Mostly Quiet
One negro was shot at Brickton,
city officers arrested an alleged hit
and run drivre, and a number of
young men were called to police
court for shooting fireworks in the
city, but otherwise city and county
officers reported a quiet Christmas
week-end.
Henry Lynch, negro, of Brick
ton, was in Mountain Sanitarium
today with a pistol wound in the
stomach, and Charles Evans, a'so
colored, was being held in the
county jail without bond after a
shooting at Brickton on Sunday
afternoon.
Details had not been learned this
morning, but several negroes were
under bond as material witnesses.
Officers used a bloodhound to trail
Lynch, and he was arrested by
Sheriff W. E. Davis at a Mills
River farm, where he worked.
man under bond in
DRIVING CHARGE
Mayor A. V. Edwards this morn
ing bound Auda Taylor to the
Superior court under $200 bond
on a charge of drunken driving
and hit and run charge.
He is alleged to have been the
driver of a car which struck an
other driven by Earl Merrell on
South Main street Saturday night.
Merrell was not injured, but his
car had a smashed front fender.
The number of the hit and run
car was obtained, and Officer Seth
Edmundson later located it on 3rd
avenue. Taylor was under the
wheel when the car was found,
Edmundson testified, but the for
(Continued on page three)
REBEL FORCES
PUSH FORWARD
Are Nearing Objectives in
Early Phases of Win
War Drive
BULLETIN
SEGUE FRONT, Dec. 27. (UP)
Military dispatches from the loy
alist front today reported that
government troops had halted the
insurgent drive toward the stra
tegic town of Borjas Blancas. Al
though limited enemy gains arc
admitted along the Catalonian
defense line, casualties running
into the thousands are reported.
While the insurgents reported big
gains the loyalists asserted they
are holding firm.
H END A YE, Franco - Spanish
Frontier, Dec. 27. (UP)—Spanish
insurgent armies today battered
down the strong loyalist defenses
in two thrusts toward the vital
Catalonian communication centers.
Advancing slowly but steadily,
despite the concentration of crack
loyalist Carabineers and assault
guards, rebel Generalissimo Fran
co's aviation, artillery and infan
try forces were reported close to
the main objectives of the first
(Continued on Dage three)
Socialist Party
In France Wants
New Defense Bloc
Would Have U. S. Join
Forces Against the
Dictators
PARIS, Dec. 27. (UP)—The;
Socialist party, the largest in
France, last night approved by a
heavy majority a motion by for
mer Premier Leon Blum calling:
for formation of a bloc of demo
cratic countries comprising: Eu
rope's democracies, Soviet Russia
and the United States to oppose
Germany, Italy and Japan.
The vote was 4,322 to 2,837
with 1.004 abstaining.
Blum's motion was opposed by
Paul Faure, secretary-general of
the party, who made a counter
proposal based in effect on en
dorsement of the Munich pact and
the principle that peace should be
maintained at any price.
Blum urged that ti was useless
to make concessions to the totali
tarian states because it would not
assure peace, that France must be
strong and that the peace bloc be
composed of the European democ
racies, the United States and the
Soviet Union.
The declaration drafted by
Blum wotild commit the French
branch of the Second Interna
tionale to "participate fully and
without reserve in national de
fense of the country against any
aggression or enterprises threat
I ening the integrity of its territory,
the fullness of its sovereignty or
its political independence."
j It would reject in advance any
future Munich accords, declaring
. that no concessions made be made
under the threat of war.
After urging that American
friendship, as well as that of Bri
tain and Russia, would be most
valuable to France, the motion
states that French security implies
the existence of mutual assistance
i pacts in Europe.
LIMA PARLEY
CONFEREES TO*
SIGN ACCORDS
Conference Labors Closing
Today; Hull and Party ,
Sailing Wednesday
i americaniTpleased .
OVER ACHIEVEMENTS
LIMA, Dec. 27. (UP)-—Dele
| gates to the eighth Pan-American
i conference met today to sign 111
; resolutions, declarations and
| projects which they have approv
j ed, including the "Declaration of
Lima" with its pledge of conti
nental solidarity against aggres
sion.
The conforence will end this
afternoon at a plenary session
where delegates will sign the con
ference's "final act," which lists
all its activities.
United States' delegates, con
tent with the declaration of soli
darity signed after many days of
disputes, planned to sail for home
! tomorrow. . .
The conference of 21 American
republics whose achievements are
, limited is still regarded increas
ingly by observers as a triumph
for the policies of U. S. Secretary
of State Cordell Hull.
The parley is scheduled to aid
journ after the several declara
tions, all translated into the fojur
1 official languages of the new
world — Spanish, English, Portu
guese and French—are formally
'stgnett. , , , . '
/IflllMlg tlic UCtlttiablVllO §iTVi*
unanimous backing by the conftr
cnce are the solidarity of tfie
American nations against foreign
armed or political aggressidn,
known as "The Declaration of Li
ma," the declaration pledging v.l
the rpeublics to do everything
possible to lower their tariff bar
riers, and finally, but not by any
means the least important, the
"Declaration of American Prin
ciples."
The latter, which denounces
the use of force as an instrument
of national or international pol
icy and proclaims as "inadmiss
ible" intervention in the internal
or external affairs of any coun
try, was approved late Saturday
night by the final plenary ses
sion. It was not untjl the official
text of the declaration was re
leased that its full importance
was realized.
The declaration constitutes
practically a summary of a policy
which Hull proclaimed for the
United States on July 16, 1937.
The policy, which was widely en
dorsed, was outlined on the oc
casion of a call Hull made for
world peace, directed by implica
tion to China and Japan al
though neither of those two na
tions was named.
The declaration, as approved
unanimously by the conference,
proclaims that:
1. The intervention of any
state in the internal or external
affairs of another is inadmissible.
2. All differences of interna
tional character should be settled
by peaceful means.
3. The use of force as an in
strument of national or interna
tional policy is proscribed.
4. Relations between states
should be governed by the pre
cepts of international law.
5. Respect for and the faithful
observance of treaties constitutes
the indispensible rule for the de
velopment of peaceful relations
(Continued on page three)
mummim 371,000 bn
*[II*S(ElMi;
HHUB SIWS WKS
Italian Attempts to Demonstrate Claims
to Area Bring Defense Move,
Paris Press Says
COUNTERS FRENCH NAVAL SHOW
HELD PROVOCATIVE BY ITALIANS
! . ... -
PARIS, Dec. 27.—(UP)—The Governor General of
French Somaliland has urgently asked Paris for army and
navv reinforcements and the required aid has been sent.
The Paris Le Soir reported today in dispatches from
' Djibouti that the governor general acted because of the
Italian concentration of troops on the frontier and at
I tempts by Italians to demonstrate in favor of Italian claims
to French Somaliland.
i *•
PARIS, Dec. 27. (UP)—Heavy troop movements from
i Italian East Africa towards French Somaliland today were
I reported in two Paris newspapers. •
The papers said that reports indicate that Italians had
91,000 Italian troops, 150,000 native troops, and 130,000
j working soldiers in East Africa, against only a small force
in Frfench Somaliland.
I ' : • .... . . : : "
PARIS, Dec. 27.— (UP)—Premier Edouard Daladier
yesterday conferred with Tunisian and Corsiean authori
ties on plans for a symbolical "hands off" parade of the
French fleet under the eyes of millions' of ltaKans whose
FASCISTS TOLD
FRENCH LANDS
NOT FOR THEM
Official Notice Given no
Territories Will Be
Yielded
HOME, Dec. 27. (UP).—France
yesterday informed Italy in a di
rect diplomatic note that she re
fuses to make either territorial or
nationality concessions in Tunisia
to appease Fascist demands
against the French colonial em
pire.
French Ambassador Andre Fran
cois Poncet forwarded to the of
fice of Foreign Minister Count
Galeazzo Ciano a long note as
serting that France was "unable
to accept" the argument put
forth last Thursday when Italy
formally repudiated the 1935
Laval-Mussoloni accord.
The 1935 accord was in the na
ture of a "friendship" agreement
designed to end bitterness over
Italy's failure to obtain what she
regarded as her just share of the
victors' rewards after the World
war.
The accord provided that chil
dren born to Italians in Tunisia
would retain their Italian nation
ality until 1965 after which all j
Italian born would become French
subjects. In retusn, Italy gas j
given the right to buy a 25 per
cent interest in the Djibout-Addls
Ababa railroad and obtained two
small strips of African territory,
the Island of Doumeirah between
the Red sea and the Gulf of Aden
and the Tibesti Triangle in the
Eastern Sahara.
France's answer to Premier
Benito Mussolini's repudiation of
the 1935 accord was said to have
been firmly but politely phrased,
describing judicial arguments
(Continued on page four)
Battleships, Planes, Submarines To
Try Out Atlantic Coast Defense
Some Experts View Plan to Mass Entire Fleet for
Games as Warning to Europe's Dictators
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (UP)
Naval authorities last night work
ed out details of the fleet's annual
maneuvers which will mass Amer
ica's sea might in the Caribbean
Sea within 60 days.
Although administration officials
i insisted that selection of this area
for a demonstration of the
strength of the nation's "first line
of defense" was without political
significance, some experts predict
ed that it would be considered by
many as a warning to dictatorial
powers abroad.
Also, it was pointed out, the war
games would be on at the time
congress is debating an increased
national defense budget.
The chief problem to be worked
out is general defense of the
i South Atlantic and Caribbean
coast line. The operation will in
volve more than 160 surface ships,
a score of submarines, 60,000 en
listed men and 3,800 officers.
Among the heavier craft will be
12 battleships, nine light cruisers,
60 destroyers and 16 scouting
cruisers.
Airplpanes will be dispatched
from bases in Norfolk, Va., San
Diego, Calif., and Coco Solo, Ca
nal Zone. The new aircraft car
riers, the Enterprise and the York
town, carrying 80 planes and 1,
100 men, will participate in ma
neuvers for the first time.
Present plans call for the main
body of the fleet to leave the Pa
t cific coast early in January for the
Caribbean where it will be joined
by the Atlantic squadron. Guan
(Continued on page lour.)
►dfemands for French territories
have' been followed by warnings
of War.
The naval demonstration will
coincide with' Daladier's personal
inspection tour of French defenses
in Corsica and .Tunis, beginning
New Year's day, which the Italian
assailed as a
provocaHvy development in the
Italo-French - tension
+ Twenty-three warships and more
than 40 warplanes will serve as
Ualadiers convoy to Corsica and
Tunisia and will cruise along the
coasts of Italian Sardinia and Sic
ily, within plain view of Italian '.
It will be France's greatest n..
jval demonstration in the Mediter
ranean since a score of Fren-li
warships were sent there from t'.u
Atlantic two year# ago to hu t
°own the so-called ''submarine pi
rff S . J1' neutral shipping
off the Spanish coasts.
Daladier spent a great part of
yesterday conferring with Erik
Labonne French resident genera!
°f Tunisia, and Georges Petitjean,
prefect of Corsica.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister
Georges Bonnet conferred with
the French ambassador to London,
Charles Andre Corbin, before Cor
bin returns to . his cost after
spending Christmas at home.
They discussed British Prime
Minister Chamberlain's visit to
Rome the second week in January
for consultations with Premier
Benito Mussolini. Corbin was told
that the Paris government would
like to have Chamberlain and Vis
count Halifax, British foreign sec
retary, stop off here en route to
Italy.
Daladier wants to impress upon
Chamberlain that France will not
surrender a single inch of her co
lonial territories and that there is
nothing to be gained from any
j.2? German effort to mediate
differences between Rome and
Paris.
France wants to dissuade Cham
berlain from undertaking any ro'e
of mediation if it means a single
rrench sacrifice. Franco • al^o
wants a statement of British pol
icy regarding the Suez Canal be
cause, although France has over
i# control of the canal it
self, Britain and Egypt control
w*e territory and therefore indi
rectly dominate the Suez com
pany's political policies.
A wide section of the French
press is asking why Chamberlain
roins to Rome when Mussolini's
recent renunciation of the Laval
Mussolini accord of 1935 has cr
ated a situation which Fran™
fears may lead Chamberlain to
consent to further sacrifices to tb<.
dictatorships. The French ambas
sador in Rome today replied to
Italy s renunciation of the 193r>
accord with a long note which•«*.
jected Italy's arguments and re
peated France's determination to
her territorie**^ h of *«
u. S. MECHANIZED
FORCE IS SUPERIOR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (UP)
American armv tanks are techni
cally equal, and in some respects
superior, to any other tanks in the
world, Maj. J. K. Christmas, Army
automotive expert, said today.
Writing in Army Ordnance, Hie
publication of the Army Ordnance
association, Christmas said that
,the exact use of the tank in war
still remains to be settled, but he
insisted that it is a major weapon
>i modern machine warfare,