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The Washington times., 1938-10-26
PROBLEMS AIRED.
'ON Distribution.
'OF GAINES.
Atlantic Coast Dealers
Hear Plans for Year

Complex problems of publish
ing and distributing all the read
ing matter demanded by the
people of II States and the DIS
trict of Columbia were discussed
behind closed doors today at the
convention of the Atlantic Coast
Independent Distributors Assc-
citation at the Mayflower Hotel.
WILL TELL PLANS
Representatives of virtually all
the large magazines waited ouG-
side the convention hall for their
turn to be admitted and explain
"off the record' to the distributors
what is planned for the coming
year.
Effects of the new wage and
hour law on the distribution Of
magazines was one Of the para
mount questions before the con-
vention.
DINNER TONIGHT
The approximately 500 distrib-
utors and their wives will be guests
of the publishers at a dinner at
the Mayflower tonight.
Following election Of officers
and committee reports the con-
vention will adjourn tomorrow
afternoon. The association was
formed in Washington three years
ago to coordinate relations Of in
dependent distributors with the
publishers of magazines and large
newspapers.
The Washington times., 1938-10-26
AUSTIN
KILLS HIMSELF

SANTA FE, Oct. 26 G.NS0.
The body of TEX" Austin, So: ia
nous rodeo promoter, was found
in his automobile at his ranch
near here early today with indica-
tions that he had committed
suicide.
Officials said a hose had been
The Washington times., 1938-10-26
Run1rich Finishes
Fantastic StOry
Of Operations

NEW YORK, Oct. 26 I.N.S)
After seven days on the stand
during which he told fantastic
story of espionage activities i'll
behalf of Nazi Germany, Guen.
ther Gustav Rumrich, spy, who
turned informer, completed his
testimony today.
During his long tenure on the
stand, Rumrich reIated that he
was a volunteer German spy and
that in his espionage duties ne
met Miss Johanna Hoffman.
beaut,cian on a German liner,
whom he described as a courier
cVoIY
The Washington times., 1938-10-26
u, 5. 10 Dedicate
Drug Clinic Friday

Surgeon General Thomas Par
ran yesterday announced the U.
S. Public Health Services second
new hospital for drug addicts at
Fort Worth, Tex, will be formally
dedicated Friday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
JAPS GAINING
ON ALL FRONTS
New Chinese Air Fleet Is
Said Making "Devastat-
ing" Attacks

SHANGHAI, Oct. 7. (UP)-A
spearhead of Japan's drive on
Hankow was within 20 miles OF
the vital Hankow-Canton railway
south of the provisional Chinese
capital today and fall of the W.
han (Wuchang, Hankow and Han
YAM area-traditional military
heart of China-seemed certain.
Foreign military attaches be-
lieved the Japanese would be IN
Hankow within three weeks de-
spite desperate resistance by chi
nese Generalissimo Chang Kali
shek, who had organized a new
fleet of airplanes. and thrown
more of his own personal diVl-
sions into the fray. =,
Chinese said their new air fleet
was bombing the japanese with
devastating effect" and the Jap
anese admitted the attacks but
said their losses were compara-
lively small. -.
Japanese said all the new'Chi-
nese planes are of Soviet Russian
make-most of them OF Lilo
type.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
CHURCH WILL
KEEP ITS l3STH
ANNIVERSARY
Davidson River Presbyter-
ian Church Plans Com
memoration Sunday

The l38th anniversary of the
organization of the Davidson River
Presbyterian church, of Transyl-
vania county, will be observed or
Sunday with an all-day meeting
and homecoming. Several hun
dred people are expected to at.
tend.
The program on Sunday will
begin at IL o'clock in the morn
ing with a worship service. al
which time the sermon will be de-
livered by the Rev. R. F. Camp
bell, DID,, pastor emeritus of the
First Presbyterian church, Ashe-
vile.
A picnic lunch will be served OLE
the grounds and speakers and mu-
steal selections will feature the
afternoon program.
The organization of the church
was the outgrowth of a meeting in
1900 at a church known as the
Free Meeting House. dating back
to 1890. The Free House was the
first organized west of Swannanoa
and was used by various denomi-
nations.
The Presbyterian church at Bre-
ward is an outgrowth of the Da-
wilson River church and was orr
ganized about 1887, when it was
Lnou,,, oc Rroyard Chanel of the
Davidson River church. -,.a>ii.,s
The second church erected at
Davidson River in 1850 by this de-
nomination was used as school,
and was the site of Davidson River
Academy for 20 years or more.
When the Academy was discon-
tinued the building was used as a
public school until destroyed by
fire in 1891. =,
A new building was constructed
in 1892 and has been used since.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
Treasury Department Tightening
National Bank Control Powers; See
Bitter Fight In Congress Over Issue

ed Delano's appointment by the
White House.
Meantime, Morgenthau issued q
special order shifting responsible
ity for vital decisions by the
comptroller's legal staff on, bank
ing matters, to Treasury General
Counsel Herman Oliphant, thus
restricting the comptroller's pow
ers. primarily to bank examina-
tions.
During this period Upham called
for and received the designations
Of Marshall R. Diggs, acting comp
troller, and j. G. Oppegard, sec
ond deputy, both carry-overs from
the regime of former Comptroller
j. F. T. O'Connor who resigned to
enter politics in California.
O'Connor and Morgenthau had
clashed frequently over "indepen-
dence" Of the agency.
When Delano was appointed
Morgenthau insisted that he would
have a "free hand" in running the
comptroller's office. He said that
the present situation had arisen
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
STUDY LOVE LETTERS
TO IDENTIFY WOMAN
SAID FED ALLIGATORS

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. T.
(UP)-Texas ranger Lee Miller
and Bexar county officers read
the Glove letters" of the late Joe
Ball, Elmendorf tavern keeper,
last night seeking the identity OF
the small, black-haired woman
whose body Ball allegedly fed to
his pet alligators six years ago.
Miller termed the tracing OF
the many transient women who
disappeared from Balls road
house as an almost "hopeless"
task. ....
"There is no way of knowing
where the women went to. Some
of those who we believe may have
been victims of Ball, may be liv-
ing. The women he employed were
of the type who change their
names frequently and leave no
forwarding address," Miller said.
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KEN EDITOR SAYS
LETTERS SHOW PLOT
10 cERRY PORICHAIJI

BY GERRY ROBICHAUD
United Prsss Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON: Oct. Z. (UP).
The house committee investigat.
ing un-American. activities heard
testimony yesterday purporting
to show that members Of the Sill
yer Shirts, previously described as
a Fascist" organization, once
sought a private conference with
Chairman Tom Girdler of Repub-
lie Steel corporation.
Editor Arnold Gingrich Of Ken
Magazine submitted a letter writ
| ten at Asheyille on July Is. 1887,
by Spencer ]. Warwick to Miss
Susan Sterling. Of l11621 Detroit
Eve hope that when we come you
will be able to ascertain whether
Mr.. Girdler and Mr.. Wysor will be
in Cleveland so that we can have
private conference with them"
Gingrich described Warwick as
Ohio commander of the Silver
Shirts. He said that Warwick
msant Tom Girdler and R. J.
Wysor, Republic president. How
ever, there was nothing in the let
ter, which Gingrich obtained
through Miss Sterling's former
confidential secretary, to indicate
the proposed meeting ever took
place.
In the same letter, Warwick
wrote that ~, also would like to
call meeting Of the Silver Shirts
themselves and show them the
movies for which we have so long
been waiting, concerning the
cavalcade and the junket of the
S. s. on the west coast last fall"
Gingrich, who said he appeared
in answer to q committee subpoena
growing out Of two recent Ken
articles - "prelude to American
Fascism" and exposing native U.
S. Plotters" - introduced a Sec
ond letter from Warwick to Miss
Sterling, in which he allegedly
wrote that important changes to
be made in the work Of the Lib
Grafton" would be announced
shortly in the Silver Shirt publi-
cation. r':
The letter was written at Shar.
on. Pa, November 80, 1886, and
said that the organization was to
20 under cover" It added how
ever, that "thare will be a few
handpicked Legion (Silver Shirt
heavyweights at work underneath
the surface who will be keeping
the Legion fires going"
In the letter Warwick said that
he would Communicate with "Doc-
tor Doron," whom Gingrich identi-
fled as DIR. c. L. Doran, Clevelal I'd
osteopath, "alleged to have BEEN
the head Of the Silver Shirts in
Cleveland"
Referring to thesKen article,
exposing native U. s. plotters,"
which charged that the "real in
side Jobs for the Bunds is not
mere propaganda and conversion
to Nazi theology, but military
organization for sabotage and
espionage in the event of a Euro
Continued on page three)
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TANKER BLOWS
UP and SINKS
2 Men Missing in Waters
Off Florida; One Of
IS Saved Is Hurt

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. z. (UP)-
Two members of the 37-man crew
of the E. j. Bullock, a 6,630-ton
Standard Oil company tanker,
which exploded and sank rs miles
east of Dry Tortugas late yester-
day, were reported missing in ra-
dio messages received here last
night.
The other IS men were picked
up by the o. M. Bernuth, which
advised Tropical Radio and coast
guard headquarters here that one
Of them, the chief cook, was in
jured and would be transferred to
a coast guard boat near Key
West.
Tropical Radio reported the
names of the missing men to be
Thomas Sheppard, boatswain, and
Charles Austin, ordinary seaman.
The name of the injured man was
not given.
Messages received by Tropical
Radio indicated that the explo-
sion occurred at about $3.50 p. m.
(EST) in the forward part of the
boat, where the two men report
ed missing were at the time. The
Bullock had sunk by the time the
Bernuth reached her shortly after
5 p. m.
The Bernuth radioed that she
had rescued 20 men in one life
boat and Is in another.
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convr;sht. 1888, by United Press

Copyright, 1888, by United fress
WASHINGTON. Oct. z. CUP
The Treasury Department has
frightened it's powers over the $500
National banks, which hold more
than s50,000,000,000 Of assets,
by series of recent naneuvers
that may precipitate a sharp fight
when congress convenes in Janu-
ary, it was learned last night.
The move began developing
through a shakeup in personnel
and policies of the office OF the
comptroller of currency, an indie
pendent agency with supervisory
powers over National banks, which
transferred some of its functions
to the treasury and revived an old
jurisdictional fight.
Secretary Of the Treasury Hen
ry Morgenthau, Jr, last week
named his special assistant and
liaison man, Cyril B. Upham. as
first deputy and "acting" comp
troller until Preston Delano. dis
tant relative Of President Roose-
Welt, takes over the post later this
month. Morgenthau recommend
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
Ranking Cotton Concern Goes Into
Liquidation; Report South To Soon
Demand u. S. Quit Cotton Business

NEW ORLEANS, La. Oct. T.
(UP)-Sagging prices and exports
of American cotton last night
brought liquidation of the second
oldest commission house-report-
edly in protest of government in
reference - and suggestion that
100000 bales of loan cotton be
burned.
Private sources said a south
wide movement underway and Gin
Guiding rs per cent of the produc-
ers" would soon demand that the
government get out of the cotton
business altogether.
As to Agriculture Secretary
Henry Wallace's proposed giving
of surplus cotton to relief agen-
cies, one member of the New Or
leans exchange believed such a
move would not take over 1,000,-
900 bales.
He believed the burning of an
other 100000 bales at least
as Brazil burns or destroys sur
plus coffee-would quickly solve a
serious condition involving rec
ord world carryover and produc-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
OF
Youth Is Problem
Before Kiwanis
DR.. Coltrane Endorses Gov.
Hoey's Proposal for
18th Grade

The belief that too many people
now out of employment are look,
ing for types of work with flxedl
salaries or wages was expressed
Yesterday by DR.. E. j. Coltrane'
president of Brevard college, IN
an address to the Hendersonvllle1
Kiwanis club on "Vocatlonal
Guidance.
"More and more young people
especially are going to be forced
to assume responsibility for their
own livelihood" DR.. Coltrane sand
after referring to national stats
tics showing that five million
young people are unemployed. =,
The club elected E. A. Smytn
3rd as vice-president for the COM
ing year and directed the secre-
tary, A. F. Barber, to write a let-
ter of commentator to Miss Juna
Fillmore Harris for having estab..
lished spring and fall sessions OF
her exclusive girls school at Camp
Carlyle on the Chimney Rock
highway.
Mr.. Smyth will succeed G. M.
Flanagan as vice-president, the
latter having been elected presl-
dent last week.
DR.. Coltrane, president OF the
Brevard Kiwanis club, said that
Kiwanis and other similar organ,
izations should give full support
to high schools as they seek TO
deal with vocational problems. and
should help to find jobs for IN
dividual boys and girls as they
finish school. He endorsed Gov
ernor Hoey's recommendation that
a 18th grade of school be au,,
thorized by the legislature, and
said the benefits would be at
least two-fold: (1) it would keep
100000 pupils in school another
year and thus relieve the unem-
ployment situation, and (2) grad
yates of high school would then
be a year older and much better
able to assume the responsibilities
of life.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
Warn Italy On Treatment OF u. S. Jews
200 Armed Arabs
Slain In Palestine
In Past "A Hours
British Troops Planes, Gun
Them After Attack on
2 Jewish Conveys

JERUSALEM, Oct. 7. (UP)-
British troops and machine-gun-
ming airplanes late yesterday kill
ed about 60 Arabs in q six-hour
roatf,ide battle near Acre on the
Raselnakura road, bringing to
nearly 200 the number Of armed
Arabs slain in the past "a hours.
Clashes between British troops
and Arabs throughout north Pal
estine during the past two weeks
have accounted for q death toll
close to the 500 mark, the largest
in any similar period. of the Holy
Lands racial war.
The new clashes around Acre
occurred as Sir Harold MacMich-
ael of the British administration
in Palestine arrived in London by
airplane to report on the blood
shed and terrorism. .
The six-hour battle near Acre
broke out after the armed band
ambushed and fired on, a Jewish
convoy of three motor trucks,
killing two Jewish drivers and
wounding one. A third driver was
reported missing. ,-.-
Police located the band and
charged it and killed 10 Of the
Arabs before military reinforce
ments and Royal Air force planes
arrived, adding so to the toll of
lives. Tae British forces were
without casualties.
Two, Arab policemen7were kill
ea and q Jewish constable was
Wounded in two other clashes.
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ton.
Farmers plowed under 3,OOO,-
900 bales in 1888 and there was
no problem them" he said. I'm,
stead of holding down prices and
running up storage bills on loan
cotton, why doesn't the govern
ment destroy it,"
The firm of Putnam & Green,
established in 1875, yesterday
posted notice of withdrawal from
the exchange. Oscar Green and
other officials of the house were
not available for comment. Ex-
change members would not COM
nit themselves on possibility of
similar Withdrawals but warned
that any loan increase would pile
up government SURPRISES and
block sales in foreign competition.
Middling spot cotton in New
Orleans yesterday was $40 cents
a pound. Present loan value at
SO per cent of parity was $50
cents. The cotton at Liverpool
sold at 10 cents, against Indian
cotton at 7.6S cents and Egypt's
Continued on page. three)
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SAYS FOREIGN
AGENTS HERE
Are PROBLEM
Confers With Prosecutor
for German Spy Case
Soon In Court
NAVY, ARMY BOTH
ARE BEING SPIED ON

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. T.
(UP)-President Roosevelt today
said he 10 concerned over the ac-
tivities Of foreign spies in Amer
lea and is studying means of COM
batting them.
papermen that he had talked over
the spy situation with Lamar
Hardy, United States district at
torney from New York. Hardy is
prosecuting q German spy case
soon to be tried in New York City.
The president said that without
question foreign agents presented
q national problem. He said spy
ing in this country is concentrate
ed on the naval and military es-
Adjustments.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
District Juniors
ToMeet Tonight

Over two hundred delegates
were expected to be present at
the semi-annual district meeting
of the second district Jr. 9. U.
A. M, which will be held tonight
at the Junior Order hall in Black
Mountain.
Of principal interest will be
the resolution to congress with re:
gard to foreign immigration and
on q bill which will be presented
at the next; legislature with re-
gard to the state school system:
State and. district officers will
be present and speak.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
HAS SWEEPING SHAKE-UP TO
QUIET MOUNTING CRITICISM
Seeks Also to Strengthen
New Deal Fight Against
Acute Conditions
By LOUIS J. ScHAEFLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (UP)
In an apparent attempt to
strengthen the New Deals fight
against acute agricultural condi-
tions and quiet mounting criticism
of administration farm legislation,
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace late yesterday ordered
sweeping personnel and admins
trative changes in his department.
Wallace said the changes were
ordered to expedite the depart
ment's service to the public. They
were regarded as especially sig
nificant because of the pressing
problem of low agriculture prices,
crop SURPRISES and sporadic ere
volts" against different phases of
the New Deal farm program.
One of the most important per-
sonnet shifts was the transfer of
AAA Administrator H. R. Tolley
to the position of chief of the Bu-
reau of Agricultural economics,
which will be expanded under the
reorganization order to include
"all general programming. and
planning for adjustment, conser-
walton and marketing programs
for the department"
The changes are effective on
October 16.
A. G. Black, whom Tolley sue
ceeds, was made director of mar
keting and regulatory work,
while R. M. Evans, assistant to
Wallace, succeeded Tolley as AAA
administrator. H. H. Bennett,
chief of the soil conservation SER
vice, takes over responsibility for
physical operations in land-use
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
VISITING ADVENTIST
WILL SPEAK HERE
SATURDAY, SUNDAY

Elder Pernier, of Washington.
D. c., will speak at the Seventh
Day Adventist church, corner Of
Washington and Barnwell streets,
tomorrow, October 8. at II a. M,
and again Sunday night, Oct. 8,
at 1880 o'clock. Elder Pernier is
said to be a most interestinp
speaker and the public is cordially
invited,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
STRIKE HITS
MOTOR PLANT
Stops Production Of Ply.
mouth Cars by 1000
Workers

DETROIT. Oct. 7.-(UP)-A
strike of United Automobile Work
ers Union members today halted
production at the Plymouth motor
car plant.
Union officers said the strike
was called in protest against al
legged violation of seniority agree
ments.
The factory had been produc-
ing 1899 model cars with a force
of about 1000 workers.
Police were on the scene but
there was no violence.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
By REYNOLDS PACKARD
United Press Staff Correspondent

| United fresS Starf Correspondent
PRAGUE, Oct. 7. (UP)-The
government of President-Premier
Jan Syrovy was reported early
today to have asked Premier Be-
nito Mussolini to intervene in
Berlin and prevent scrapping OF
the Munich four-power plan for
plebiscites in Czechoslovakia's
! partly-German districts.
The appeal to Mussolini through
Italian Foreign Minister Count
Galeazzo Ciano was reported to
have been made by Frantisek
Chvalkovsky, new Czech foreign
minister.
Chvalkovsky, who quit as min
lister to Rome to take over the
foreign affairs portfolio in Gen.
Syrovy's reconstructed govern
ment, is preparing to go to Ber-
lin to confer with the German for
eign minister on a final settle
ment of the German territorial
demands.
Czech leaders feared that, as
result OF the international CON-
mission of Ambassadors action in
turning over large sections of the
frontier districts to Hitler as the
"fifth zone" of German occupa-
ton, there would be no plebiscites
of any kind.
1t was reported that Germany
would occupy, or at least take
partial possession Of these sup
posedly-plebiscite areas within
few days.
Disappointed by the failure of
Britain and France to intervene
and demand enforcement of the
Munich accord's plebiscite provi-
sions, the government appeared to
be relying on Chvalkovsky to use
his powers of personal persuasion
in Rome and Berlin.
Faced with sterner demands
from Hitler, which Czech political
leaders said would bring about
Continued on page three)
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lire Prevention
Week Arranged
|rOadcast Tomorrow Will
Feature u. S. Event

In connection with Fire Pre-
Eht!on week, October els. G. w.
Pad' city electrical Inspector, to-
y called attention of a radio
[Oadcast to be given on Satur-
y, morning.
In, ne broadcast will be over the
.bS from 9 to $50 o'clock (CST)
~ To 1920 o'clock (EST).
AS BROADCAST will be from the
pllerwriters laboratory in Chica-
\ Oh the subject, "The One Place
aere 1t Pays to Play with Fire. ="
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eSULT OF WARNING
mot MADE KNOWN

ROME, Oct. I. (UP)-The Fas-
4 Grand Council. in a long seS-
II which ended at 2:40 a. m. to-
"A promulgated a series of Sc
- restrictions governing mar
res between Italians and Jews
a evolved q plan to send Euro
6n Jews resident in Italy TO
fhe council, under leadership of
Nmier Benito Mussolini. also dis
BED United States diplomatic
ervention on behalf of 200
serican Jews living in italy to
)tect them from "discrimina-
b."
q was announced officially
y the Grand Council prohibited
eian men and women from
Frying peoples of Semitic,
hnatic. Negro and other nom
van races"
The council also forbade mar
|ges between Italian state en-
Ees and foreigners, even if
van, and decreed that marriages
tween other Italians and for
herS, even if Aryan, first must
approved by the government.
! member told the United Press
u the Grand Council approved
project to settle European Jews
certain specified regions of
hiopia, provided international
|Fry does not continue to show
unfriendly attitude toward
Ly."
u. s. Ambassador William Phil
B, in two visits to the foreign
hce, one on Wednesday and the
Rer shortly before the council
4 yesterday, warned that dis
n!nation against the American
p IN Italy might jeopardize the
tQS Of Italian citizens living in
United States.
ecuOa by the council on Phil
representations, if any. was
revealed Immediately.
ihe first two items on the coun-
Is agenda were the Jewish prob
2 and foreign affairs.
|Ihe council decided to exclude
pm the expulsion decree, where
foreign Jews must leave Italy
next March IL or be expelled,
reign Jews over IS years of age
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-07
BOY SCOUT MEETINGS
TONIGHT CALLED OFF

Meetings of Boy Scout troops
Nos. l and 4, scheduled to be held
tonight, have been cancelled, 1t
was announced TODAY.
Meetings were called off on ac-
count of the absence of a num-
Der of Scouts, who are attending
the State Jamboree, at Chapel
Hill.