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Evening star., 1937-09-24

the main Teruel-Valencia road, they
could not spread out, and, after COM
paratively easy country for an ad-
vance they would be stopped by a
series Of mountain ranges and broken
hills forming easily defendable lines
OF resistance for the Republican army.
For months l have known there
must be something wrong with Teruei
as place for Franco to try thrust
coastwards, or the rebels would have
attempted it long before this. After
walking and riding over the terrain I
appreciate how dangerous such an
operation would be.
Another limitation on a Teruel
operation on the biggest scale is Win :
ter, which will close the $500 to 1000
foot passes through which the rebels
would have to drive columns in an
operation Of any great scale. BY the
middle Of November, given the ordi-
nary snow conditions in the Sierras
that rise east and west of Teruel, these
passes will be closed until late in April.
In the Winter the rebels could at
tempt to advance with columns only
along the main Teruel-Valencia and
Teruel-Cuenca roads. An advance on
Cuenca could be dangerous, but any
column attempting 1t would be ex-
tremely vulnerable at many points
during the advance.
1t is not impossible that the rebels
may stage large-scale Teruel offen-
sive, but, viewing the dangers, this
correspondent does not believe they
will attempt 1t once Winter sets in.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

Times and I were the first American
correspondents permitted to make 4
thorough, complete survey.
We were permitted to visit every part
Of the front and any front line obser-
vation posts we asked to see. Our
only difficulty was food and lodging,
which was solved by travelling in an
open truck, buying mattresses and
blankets in Valencia, carrying our own
food and using the truck as base on
returning from the lines. We slept in
the truck nights, cooking our food
over open fires, in village houses and
staff-packed inns and receiving wine
and bread from peasants who had too
little to sell but never too little to give
to strangers. We slept nights in the
back Of the truck, in rooted court
yards, alongside cattle, penned sheep,
mules and donkeys. It's fine life,
but the donkeys wake too early and
make too much fuss about 1t and the
chickens do not know how to leave
sleeping correspondents alone.
I wanted to see the entire front in
order to decide on the possibility of
Gen. Franco making major offensive
toward the coast through Teruel in an
effort to cut between Valencia and
Barcelona. This, on maps, has been a
great and constant threat. After view
ing all the terrain and sizing up the
defensive possibilities, it looks like an
extremely dangerous and difficult
operation to attempt. Granted that
strong enough push could break
through the pass above the town along
Evening star., 1937-09-24

Studying that natural fortress,
guarding the town to the east, flanked
by several thimble- shaped hillocks
thrusting up from the plain like geyser
cones. also all heavily fortified. you
realize the problem Teruel presented
to any army trying to take it from any
direction except the northwest.
Friendly Enemies.
While the anarchist columns had
lain in the hills above it for eight
months, they had so much respect for
the problem that they avoided all
contact with the enemy. At many
places the old lines we saw were from
one to three kilometers from the
enemy wire, with kitchens out in
front of the front lines, which were
regarded as places to retire to, and
the only contact made with the enemy
was on the purest friendly basis, &C.
cording to Loyalist officer now COM
manding part of this sector, when the
anorchistS would issue invitations to
rebel forces for foot ball matches.
Until the notorious anarchist iron
column was disarmed and removed
from the Teruel front, according to
this officer, they often ran an excur-
sion column of trucks to Valencia over
the week end, leaving the lines prac-
| tically unheld. All is changed now
since the abolition Of the Army of
Teruel and formation of the new Army
of the Levante by Comdr. Col. Her.
nandez Sarabia, an old regular army
artillery officer and staunch republi-
can, who is putting the army on a
strict disciplinary basis and moving
all the government lines forward until
actual contact with the enemy is
made.
During the Aragon offensive, the
army of the Levante moved one divi-
sion forward 25 kilometers on a front
of some 80 kilometers. capturing more
Evening star., 1937-09-24

the Madrid front when he bailed out
of the gun-riddled fighting plane he
was flying for the Spanish govern
ment.
Frances aide, cousin also named
Francisco Franco (and apparently the
author of reassuring letter received
yesterday by Mrs. DahD, reported by
telephone to the insurgent leader on
reports abroad that Dahl was about
to be executed.
Cousin Francisco fairly shouted his
protestation when he left the tele-
phone:
Everybody knows the generalissimo
always keeps his word There is abso-
lutely on truth in the story Dahl is
to be executed.
The generalissimo authorizes me to
Say that to you.
ITO invent and propagate such
stories is an infamous, underhanded
trick. There never was any question
Of executing Dahl"
The Dahl issue has grown here from
one of routine handling to major
issue because of repeated and un-
founded reports the pilots life was in
danger. 1t touched an insurgent sore
spot-stories from Santander that the
insurgents were executing an average
of 10 per cent of the prisoners taken
in the recent offensive there.
InSurgent statistics showed that $50
Santander prisoners had been court
martialed among the $4,000 captured.
Death sentences we're handed down in
rs cases of men proved involved in
murders as well as in the war, but only
IL had been shot, it was said.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
CHINA STIRRED BY DRIVE
ON CONFUCIUS'HOME CITY
Japanese, in Attacking Chufu.
Act Like Barbarians,

Ey the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, September 24.-Indig-
nation has swept the country as the
result of Chinese dispatches from
shantung Province today reporting
that japanese airplanes have bombed
Chufu, birthplace of the great sage,
Confucius, and one of Chinas holy
places.
Independent sources have not con-
firmed the bombing of Chufu, but it
Is known that Yenchow and Tsining,
railway towns respectively Is and 80
miles southwest of there. were sub
Jected to Furnishing air attacks
Wednesday. Chufu. about 10 miles
south of Tsinanfu, the provincial cap
ital, lies about 10 miles east of the
railway.
One leading Chinese newspaper
here pointed out that the japanese
repeatedly have asserted their venera-
tion for Confucius, but the willful
destruction of the great sages BIRTH
place shows that they are acting like
barbarians whom Confucius, if living.
would have condemned and ana
thematized."
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why
the office
Evening star., 1937-09-24

than 1000 tons of wheat in what had
been practically no-man's land
occupying important heights above
the main Teruel-Calatayud road, Col
Hernandez Sarabia claimed. This was
the first government advance in the
Teruel sector since their failure in
striking Teruel from the north last
April and their disastrous retreat from
Albarracin in the Universal Noun
tains. when an Anarchist battalion
broke and fled under an attack in
those high mountains and let the
rebels break through and advance to
their present positions in the noun
tains north of the Cuenca road.
First Thorough Survey.
During the last three days, we
climbed steep mountain trails, rode
over newly cut military roads through
precipitous mountain country in
trucks and staff cars, and visited the
highest mountain positions on horse
back with cavalry escort in an
effort to study this lost front, where
Herbert Matthews of the New York
Evening star., 1937-09-24
BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

the cross on the lens is You see it?"
Looking out from the darkness through a
small opening in the perscopc observation
glasses across bright sunlit, tawny plain, you
detached a yellow, flat-topped, steep-f1anked
hill with ship-like prov rising from the plain
to protect the yellow brick-built town clumped
above the river bank. Four cathedral spires rose
from the town. Three roads ran from it lined
with green trees. Around it were green sugar
beet fields 1t looked pretty, peaceful and un-
damaged, and its name was Teruel. The rebels
had held it since the beginning of the war, and
behind it were red cliffs, sculptured by erosion
into columns that looked like organ pipes, and
beyond the cliffs to the left was devils play
ground Of red, waterless bad-lands
You see it, don't you?" asked the man in
the dark.
Yes replied the writer, and, returning
from sightseeing to war. swung the periscope
back to the solitary butte, studying the white
scars and eruptions on its surface that showed
the extent of its Notifications
Evening star., 1937-09-24

And from the way a glacial wind is
blowing into the back Of the truck and
In view of the first snowfalls on the
Pyrenees two weeks ago on the Aragon
front, Winter is getting closer daily.
Copyright. 1877
Evening star., 1937-09-24

In Jail here while
his beautiful wife
waits for him in
Cannes, France,
1t was reliably
learned today.
An aide of
G e n e r a | issimo
Francisco Fran
co. the insurgent
chieftain, S aid
there was not
possibility the 28-
y e a r-o | d flyer
would go before
the firing squad.
Dahl was cap
tured july IL on
Evening star., 1937-09-24
DAHL IS SOON
TO Be RELEASED
Only Red Tape of Arranging
Exchange Holds Ameri-
can in Jail.
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
SALAMANCA, Spain, September "a.
Only the red tape of arranging for
IN exchange of prisoners keeps Harold
E. Dahl, the Champaign, Ill, aviator,
Evening star., 1937-09-24

personnel on International Mercantile
Marine Co. ships. Ia,
The G. I. o. affiliate polled 2.5S3 ,
votes in Labor Board election. COM
pared with ITO for the American Fed
Grafton Of Labors International Sea-
mems Union.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

Subways are becoming the leading
means Of transportation in Moscow.
Russia.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
C.I. o. UNIT Certified
Recognized as Bargaining Agent
for Unlicensed Seamen.

The Labor Relations Board today
certified the G. I. Os National Mari
time Union AZ representative for coll
lective bargaining of the all unlicensed
Evening star., 1937-09-24

Paul Robson has decided TO aban-
don the concert stage.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
Hemingway Doubts That Rebels
Will Launch TerueI Offensiue
Correspondent Cites Dangers of Nego'
tiating Mountain Passes That Soon
Viii Be Closed by Sno,os.


OF to
the Afternoon
the Spanish wartront.
BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
ON THE TERUEL FRONT Madrid NANA)-We
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
KIWANIS TOLD
OF 'AC' WORK
Four Al Club Members
Are Presented by County
Agent and Aide

The Kiwanis club was given
glimpse yesterday of the work be-
ing done by All club members IN
Henderson county when County
Agent G.. d. White and Assistant
Agent d. w. Bennett presented
four girls and boys for brief talks
on their projects at the clubs
weekly dinner meeting. The four
young agriculturists were, Mary
10 Burgin and Frances Burgln
and Burtes Dennis of the Mills
River club and Frank McCraw OF
the Dana club. r. L. Transue, HI
wants agriculture committee
chairman, presided.
Mary 10 Burgin described the
methods she has employed in
feeding calf which now weighs
$50 pounds and will be exhibited
at the Asheville livestock show
on November 3 and also at the
state fair in Raleigh. and Frances
Burgin also told of her calf prof.
ect and declared that since much
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
Goebbels Sees Alliance Between
Bolshevism And West Democracies

and France - for sympathizing
with the loyalist government In
Spain.
"This well-night mysterious al,
lance between Bolshevism ana
this western liberal intellectual
ism can be explained only by as,
suming that psychopathologicaii
factors are at work." he said, and
recited figures showing aid to the
loyalists from democratic powers.
Germany is proud to be
marching at the head of this front
of resistance against Bolshevism.
He added that, behind Nazi
leadership, Italy, Japan, Austria,
Hungary, Poland, Brazil, Turkey
and Portugal were arrayed.
"The conflict in Spain concerns
the whole world. Europe need not
be divided into two parts, for
Bolshevism already has accom-
plished this"
CONTINUED on page three.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
ENKA TOPLAY
ALL-STAR Nine
3 From Green River Place
for Latter Team; Smith
Has Pro Offer

Selection of a composite AL
Star team from the teams Of the
w. n. C. Industrial league to
meet the pennant winning Enka
team on Saturday and Sunday at
Asheville, gave the Green River
SpinnerS three positions. d. K.
Smith, Johnny Jackson and Boots
Mcdonald were named from the
Spinner team.
Smith was signally honored by
being the only man to receive a
unanimous vote of the managers
of the league. Mcdonald received
ID out of a possible Is points.
The vote for the pitchers was not
announced so those for Jackson
are not known.
d. X. Smith, at 20, is the dean
of Henderson county baseball
players. A native of Pelzer, S. c.,
he began his baseball career early
under the direction of Mack Ban.
mister, noted as a developer OF
baseball material. At 10 Smith
went to Lyman with Pacific Mills
and rapidly advanced, both as q
textile worker and baseball play.
err. At present he is an overseel
of a large plant employing over
400 workers.
For the past three years Smith
has owned a home at Lake Sum
nit, where his family spends the
summer.
In 1886 he played with the
Green River team in the Hender,
son County league, performing al
first and as a spitcher. While nc
accurate records were kept, he
was one of the leaders in both hit.
ting and fielding. He also pos
sesses an uncanny baseball brain
and is one of the smartest players
ever seen here.
In 1887 he played in the W. n
C. Industrial league, hitting .346,
with a fielding average of 1857,
handling 152 chances with only
five errors.
An interesting angle of the
present series is that Capt. Smith
of Green River and Ray Norman,
captain of the Enka team, made
baseball and basketball history to-
gether for five yers at Lyman.
Smith has received several pro
fessional baseball offers but has
preferred to remain in the textile
business.
Baldwin (BootS) Mcdonald
Continued on page three.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10

The city schools of Henderson
vile opened this year with an en-
rollment approximately the same
as that at the beginning of last
year, Supt. F. M. Waters said to-
day. Up to the close of the week
the high school had enrolled 352,
the elementary school 635, ana
the colored school 240, a total OF
1927. -,
The classes were organized and
full session started Wednesday.
Courses added this year are
general metal shop, taught by
Frank Halverson, and agriculture,
taught by C. F. Corbin, a gratdu-
ate of Clemson college, who has
taught in this state for several
years. These courses have shown
a great popularity with students
and have met the much needed
training heretofore denied to STU
dents. Supt. Waters said;
A high school band is being or.
ganized under the direction OF
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10

NUREMBERG, Bavaria, Sept.
IO-CUP)-The most fiery of all
Nazis, Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels, yesterday told
the Nazi party congress that a
"well-nigh mysterious alliance
exists between Bolshevism and
the western democracies.
GoebbePs charge, made during
a double-barreled attack on Com
munism and world Jewry, was
significant in the light of Ger
many's formal refusal earlier in
the day to attend today's confer
ence on submarine piracy" at
Lake Geneva. Switzerland.
The German reply limited broad
" that the Nazis would not sit
in any meeting which might de-
velop, under the lash of Russian
anger, into IAN anti-Nazl or ANTI
Fascist arraignment.
Goebbels berated the western
democracies - obviously Britain
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
NAzI RANKSI
j. s. GROWING,
IS DECLARED
Predictions of american
Der Tag" Bring Denial
Coup Is Planned
BORAH AND OTHERS
DEMAND INQUIRIES

CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-(UP)-
Statements of a Chicago newspa-
per that an army of 10000 AM
erican Nazis are preparing to seize
control of the United States
evoked denials from German So
ciety leaders yesterday and de-
mandS from congressional leaders
for federal investigation of the
Nazi movement.
The Chicago Times said In a
copyrighted story it had found by
q six months, under-cover inVes-
tigation "a relatively small but
rapidly growing army is prepar-
ing for the American counterpart
of der tag"
Fritz Kuhn, leader of the
Observation-Disclosures Volksbund, de-
scribed by The Times as "the
American Hitler" denied in New
York his organization proposes to
seize control of the United States.
George Froboese, Milwaukee. a
member of the national council
of the German-American Volks-
bund, termed the story utterly
ridiculous"
al know nothing about any
Nazi organizations" Froeboese
said, 1.-THE bund is in sympathy
with the present regime in Ger
many, but there is nothing mill
taristic about it. Our only aim IS
to give German-Americans the
truth about conditions in Ger
many"
Demands for federal investiga-
ton of Nazi activities in the Uni
ted States came from Sen. VIM.
E. Borah, R., Ida, former chair
man of the foreign relations COM
mittee; Rep. William NJ. Citron,
D., Conn, and Rep. Samuel Dick
stein. D., n. Y.
The Idaho Republican said he
had "no doubt" of Nazi organiza,
tons in this country and added
he was informed they were sup
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
Tropical Storm
Is $500 Miles Off
Florida Coast

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 10. CUP)-
A tropical disturbance, accom-
panied by a small area Of shift
ing gales, was located last night
by the federal hurricane warning
system $500 miles east-southeast
of Miami, moving slowly west
northwestward in the Atlantic.
Caution was advised vessels in
the path of the storm.
There were no ships near the
storms center, which was given
as 800 miles east-northeast Of st.
Martin in the Leeward islands,
and reports of wind velocity and
barometer readings from that
area were lacking.
Closest islands to the storm
area showed only slowly dropping
barometers and almost no winds.
St. Martin last night had four
mile per hour wind, st. Thomas
and San Juan IL miles per hour.
The storm moved approximate.
ly 100 miles Observation-Disclosures
in the last IL hours.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
Metal Working And Agriculture
Are Popular High School Subjects

Thomas J. Harper, and is proving
quite popular among both boys
and girls. 1t is hoped that this
band will progress to become q
definite part of the high school
organization:
T. J. Jackson is organizing a
high school glee club.
Athletics will be directed by
Coach John Stephens with the as
sistance of Mr.. Halverson. A num-
Der of boys have already gone out
for football and are working each
day on the athletic field in order
to be prepared for the opening
game. Basketball for girls will be
directed by Miss Mildred Walker,
who has taught in Saluda school
for the past three years.
1t is hoped that with the add,
ton of these various courses and
a number of clubs that will be
formed, adequate training will be
provided for students in the local
high school, Supt. Waters added.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
10 Powers Talk War On Pirate U-Boats
MOVE TO PUT
TWO WARS UP
TO LEAGUERS
Loyalist Spain, China Will
Press Issue Geneva
on Monday

GENEVA, Sept. 10.-CUP)-
LoyaliSt Spain and China today
moved to force two undeclared
wars--the Mediterranean subma-
rine campaign and the Japanese
invasion of China-before the ma
tons of the world as delegates
from key European nations pre-
pared to meet to map a campaign
against submarine pirates.
The League council opened it's
session agreeing to consider the
loyalist appeal against alleged
Italian aggression.
The loyalist appeal openly de-
nounced Italy for fragrant aggres-
sion in attacking loyalist ships.
Coincidentally, China prepared
to appeal to the League assem-
bly,, which opens Monday, against
Japan's invasion.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
J. N. Brunson
Said Improving
Will Be Forced to Remain
Some Time in Hospital

The condition of J. n. Brunson,
who was injured last Saturday
evening in an automobile acct
dent on the Brevard road, was
said today to be improving as
we'll as could be expected.
Mr.. Brunson, Hendersonville
furniture merchant, suffered a
fracture of the right leg at the
knee and numerous cuts and
bruises on his body and face. He
has been able to see only few
friends and will be confined to
Patton Memorial hospital for
some time. I.-F.
The accident occurred when his
car was in collision with one driv-
en- by Sneed Sinard and two sons
of Brevard.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
Waive Hearing In
3 Liquor Charges

In city court this morning be-
fore Mayor A. V. Edwards, three
men arrested on liquor charges in
a raid by city officers at the Viii
lage Barn, on the Asheville road,
yesterday morning, waived a pre-,
liminary hearing and were bound
to county recorders court. Bonds
remained the same.
The three men, arrested yester-
day when officers seized Ids IL
pints of liquor, were: Ray Brad
burn, w. f. Brouthers and Cor
don Huntley. Huntley and Brad,
burn are under $1,000 bonds and
Brouthers is under 5000 bond.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
HEARS
|ySIAN hint
ILY'S Gull
,,rd and France Deter
med TO Act Despite
Consequence"
HRS SEEKING TO
|VOID GENERAL WAR

kOy. switzerland, Sept. 10.
from ten Euro
| asons today opened a por-
5 conference to decide on
b., 20 end submarine at
i q, Mediterranean sea ship
| T.,og, provoking a general
H. Britain and France en-
| NJ conference determined
rgt, neutra. merchantmen
\, Mediterranean at any cost
ne boycott of these de-
ks1,s by Italy and Germany.
/ y opening of the confer
\ hym IjtviuOv, Soviet for
yrmiSSar. announced that
i Is taking direct action
b qomarine pirates and
!; TIA, Italy is guilty of the
/, Without naming Italy, pre-
a.y in compliance with the
u request of Great Britain
France.
rTr0y said everybody knows
n,i0a which Is reSortiDS TO
D
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
TOPUSH DRY
AMENDMENT
Senator Sheppard Prepar.
ed to Wage Fight When
Signal Given

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (UP)
Senator Morris Sheppard today
said that he is prepared to press
action on q constitutional amend
ment re.establishing prohibition rs
soon as dry leaders give the sig
nal.
Sheppard already has two pro
posed constitutional amendments
bending before the senate judici-
arv committee. One would restore
the 18th Amendment. The other
would give congress the power to
make regulations Of the sale OF
liquor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-10
CRASH IS FATAL TO
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT

PENSACOLA, Fla, Sept. TO-
(UP)-Lieut. C. W. Hughes OF
Mineral, Ark, died yesterday
from injuries received Tuesday
when the airplane he was plotting
crashed into a negro shack on the
outskirts of the city.
His injuries were not regarded
as serious until he relapsed yes
terday and died few hours later.
Alvin Erickson, of Pensacola, a
passenger in the plane at the time
of the crash, escaped with minor
Injuries,