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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-28
RECOblNITAL
Vote SET FOR
3 P. M. TODAY
Roosevelt Is Disturbed as
New Senate Revolt En-
dangers Measure
VOTERS URGE SENATE
TO THROTTLE BILL


WASHINGTON, Mar. %. CUP
New Deal senators today had their
backs to the wall in their fight to
prevent q Democratic-Repv blican
coalition from killing Pre- sident
Roosevelt's government reoixan-
ization bill.
Vote on the measure 20 recon-.
nit it will be taken at 8 p. m.
If the senate refuses to recon-
nit it, a vote will again be taken
at s p. m. on the bill. Some op-
ponents of the bill charge that it
is step toward dictatorship and
would give President Roosevelt
greater powers than conferred on
Caesar.
Advocates scornfully reply to
this that "our nations leading
breast beaters" seek defeat Of the
bill by telling the country that
president Roosevelt would de-
stroy our form of government"
The senate was hearing from
back home as both sides pleaded
for help, 49,,
Voters over. the weekend direct
ed an avalanche of kilograms to
their representatives. The Western
Union sent out emergency calls
for extra operators and kilograms
last night were being handled at q
rate Of between 10000 and 3d.
600 an hour. Most of them were
against the bill. :
President Roosevelt, now on q
vacation at Warm Springs, Ca,
was reported to be disturbed over
senate rebellion against the bill.
awe are assured. of enough
votes to recommit the BILL" SEN
ator Bennett Clark, D., Mo-, told
the United Press; "unless there
are switches between now and
p. M, you can't tell what pressure
will do but right now we have 49
sure votes and we may have g."
We've got the votes" Byrnes
said. "The bill will pass and there
"OU Ue any ldoI AiihasS ~ohP<N
mise. They do not have enough
votes to recommit that bill"
But the margin is close either
way and neither side is entirely
comfortable as the zero hour ap-
proaches. 1t is a test vote not only
of sentiment on recognizing the
executive branch of the govern
ment but upon Mr.. Roosevelts
personal and political prestige with
fellow Democrats in the senate.
Officials estimated that the mes
sages were 95 per cent in favor
of recommittal and 5 per cent
against.
It was expected that the total
number would approach the rec
ord figure established in 1885
when voters throughout the coun-
try urged the senate to defeat
proposal for United States entry
in the world court. Its defeat the
following day was attributed TO
the flood Of messages.
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French Leftists
Warned To Keep
Out OF Spain

ROME, Mar. %. (UP)-Italy
last night warned French leftists
that intervention in behalf of
loyalist Spain might cause war in
Europe.
Significantly at the same time
she speeded up her "peace" talks
with Great Britain in q Sunday
meeting of the negotiators.
Lord Perth, British ambassador,
conferred for 40 minutes with
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian
foreign minister. They are beiiev,,
ed to have reached substantial
agreement on an accord, except
for the issue of withdrawing ltal-
ian troops from insurgent Spain.
Immediately after yesterdays
talks, the seni-official lntornla-
zione DipIomatica released RE-
sponsible Italian circles reac-
ton to Prime Minister Neville
Chamherlain's recent foreign pol
icy statement.
share optimistically the British
prime minister's declaration, Of
which the form and substance of
references to Italy were appreci-
ated with sympathy" the state
ment said.
"Italy stands firm in its declar-
alton to live up to the British plan
for withdrawal OF volunteers from
Spain when France and Russia are
disposed to do likewise"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-28
Naturalization
For Philippines
Isolationist Goal
Stefan and Kings Program
Looked on as Vision
AIRY Scheme
By JULIUS C.. EDELSTEIN
Copyright, 1888, United Press)

WASHINGTON, Mar. 2S. (UP)
The congressional isolationist
bloc is preparing to campaign for
naturalization" of the Philippine
islands through post-independence
treaties which would guarantee
them against being turned into
bloody battlefelds by land-l:un-
cry powers, the United Press
learned last night.
The treaties would become eff
fective after the Asiatic Archipel-
ago obtains full independence in
1916 and would embrace all pow
ers with vital interests in the far
east including the United States,
Japan, Great Britain, China,
France and the Netherlands.
Sponsors of the campaign are
Representative Karl Stefan, R.,
Neb., and Senator William II.
King, D., Utah, who are strongly
opposed to the new Philippines
policy recently enunciated by
High Commissioner Paul v, Nc
Uutt, who urged that the United
States retain sovereignty over the
islands to preserve peace in the
Pacific.
McNutt, whose views are en-
dorsed by Senator Key Pittman,
o., New, chairman OF the power
full senate foreign relations COM
mittee, said that granting of in
dependence as scheduled will ex-
pose the rich islands to penetra-
ton and conquest by Japan. This
was a reversal of administration
policy and is concurred in by
leading Filipinos, including Presi-
dent Manuel Quezon, who have
been less anxious for independ-
ence since Japan's invasion of
China.
Those in favor of postponement
Continued on page three)
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five COURSES
SELECTED FOR
BUSINESSFOLK
Four Open to Employees
and One to Their
Employers
FIRST SESSION OF
CLASSES THURSDAY

Classes in craftsmanship, window
trimming, practical psychology and
arithmetic, and business English
will be open to all retail employees
of Hendersonville beginning next
Thursday night, it was decided
this morning by a special commit
tee of the merchants division of
the chamber Of commerce. A fifth
course, community service, will be
conducted in the form of round
table discussion and will be open
to Hendersonville's employers.
The courses of instruction, to
be paid for by government and
state funds, will be free of charge
to all clerks and other retail en-
ployes. They will be conducted
each Thursday evening at the high
school for. period of 10 weeks.
Each class will. occupy approx
mately one hour, enabling en-
ployes to take either one or two
courses.
Reese Jackson, connected with
the APP chain in Asheville will
conduct the course in salesman
ship; T. w. Sumner will have
charge of the course in practical
psychology, and Ray Putnam, dis
play manager Of Ivey's will in
struct the class in window trim
ming. Arithmetic and business
English will be- taught by j. +.
Singletary of Blue Ridge school.
Harry Buchanan, president OF
the chamber of commerce, will act
as leader of the round table dis
cussion to be participated in by
Hendersonville's merchants. The
purpose of these discussions, &C.
cording to Mr.. Buchanan, is to
promote community service and
to determine how our merchants
can better serve the needs Of this
community"
1--WE sincerely hope that every
employer and employee of the city's
retail business will participate in
at least one of these courses" Mr..
Buchanan said this morning in
urging large enrolment for the
classes.
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laps SET UP new CHINESE
GOVERNMENT AT NANKlNG

+;onalist government for leading
nm mnprepared country into an
unequal combat; .h,, nol;,v of
The "scerched earth policy OF y
the Communists was condemned
a s national suicide. Referring to
the Communists, the manifesto
said the Nationalist "invited rob-
hers into our home"
The manifesto was signed by
LANG Cheng-Chi and Wen
Tsnng-Yao, 62-year-old retired
Government official who was vice
6Sinister of foreign affairs in the
first republic.
Il was reported Liang would
head the regime for awhile. If it
nnneared successful, it would b
taken over by Tang Shao-YiI
nrime minister under the repub.
Iic until the Amalgamation WITT
the North China regime.
The government is headed by |
Continued on page three)
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Business Girls
Gym Class Will
Open Tuesday

Attention was called today to
the first meeting of the gymna-
SUM class for business girls, which
will be held Tuesday night from
7:3O to $3.50 o'clock at the high
school gym, following a well at,
tended organization meeting held
last Friday night.
At the same time, it was an
nounced that Mrs. Walter Allen
has been secured as instructor for
the class. A large attendance is
expected on this class and the
sponsors are inviting interested
girls, not present Friday night, to
attend the Tuesday night class
meeting.
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; IN HOSPITAL
IN CAR CRASH
Asserted Drivers of Cars
in Accident Are Held
Under Bond

Three young men were admit
ted to Patton Memorial hospital
Yesterday afternoon and three
others escaped serious injury IN
a collision between two automo-
biles near the intersection of the
Greenville highway and the new
Spartanburg road.
Admitted to, the hispital, and
still hospitalized today were; FL
ton Hoots, Is, of HendersonviIle,
suffering with head injuries. ORR
en- Aiken, 16, of HendersonVllle'
head and body injuries. Jimmy
Brown, II, of Marion, Ohio, cuts
about the head and face and BODY
injuries.
Dale Thompson, Is, of Marion,
Ohio, said to be the driver OF one one
of the cars, was held under sow
bond, and Grady DeitOn, IT, OF
Hendersonville, driver of the 9TH
err car, was held under 5000 bond.
A preliminary hearing before
Magistrate Bruce A. Cox mas
been set for Monday afternoon.
Riding in the car with Delton
were Buford McGuinn and Jimmy
Hendrix. Neither was injured.
Both cars were said TO nave
been travelling toward Henderson
Vile. 1t was understood TO-DAY
that the car driven by Delton va" Mas
in front and was struck by tne
second car as it attempted TO turn
toyyar1 GreenVllle.
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FIGHTING MARKS
REREL ENTRY INTO CATALONIA

from Madrid. They camped last
night on Catalonian soil and they
started off again today with mo-
rale high.
Consolidating their positions ON
the Catalonian side of the river
the Nationalist penetrated the
main Lerida road and took posi-
tons near the Sierra De La Mez-
quite range of hills. They extend
ed their control of the area north
of Fraga on the road along the
Zaidin canal. From the village OF
Masalcorreig, where they first
crossed into Catalonia, the Nation
alists began moving along the Sc
gre river, which runs direct to Le-
rida.
They were hardly more than IL
miles from Lerida, Loyalist gem
eral headquarters as they ad-
vanced on the Fraga-Lerida road,
Continued on page three)
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SHANGHAI, Mar. %. (UP).-
The Japanese-sponsored reform
ed government of the republic OF
China" was proclaimed today with
headquarters at Marking. 80
The five-barred flag of the
former republic was hOisted over
the new Asia hotel here and m
auguration ceremonies were hela
in Marking.
The government is only temper
airy and will be amalgamated with
the Peiping provisional govern
ment of North China "as soon a.
the TientSin-Pukow and Lung.nai
communications are restored.
at is not our desire TO hare
two rival governments within Vne
same country" a manifesto saal'
The manifesto pledged contlhu-
ance of friendly relations between
China and the United States anu
the governments of Europe. A.
1t denounced the Chinese Ma
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-28

EXECUTIVES
WILL CONFER
Mrs. Whitaker Names Cen.
trail Committee; to
Meet Tuesday

Mrs. Charles Whitaker, general
hairman of the committee IN
harge of arrangements for the
celebration of the Tooth annlyer-
,ary of the establishment OF Hen
aerson county, announced today
that a meeting of the central COM
mittee would be held on Tuesday
at 3 o'clock at the, may
or's office in the city hall.
Members of the committee III
addition to Mrs. Whitaker are May
or A. V. Edwards, j. c. Costoh'
Rev. J. P. Burke, j. 7. Fain, ST.
H. F. Buchanan, Nathan Patla'
Mrs. Frank Ewbank, 0. V. Pow
ers, DR.. J. G. Bennett, Mrs. q: ~
Moland, Mrs. r. P. Freeze, MIS-
Sadie S. Patton, Mrs. J. S. Brown
Mrs. Fred Justus, Mrs. +. A.
Smyth 3rd, and H. E. Mitchell
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-28
Oregon Girl
Scouts AreLost
For 70 Hours

=. ..OdLE!D0, Ore, Mar. %. (UP).
W., W. Ilrl Scouts, from 10 TO 10
ST.sI GId, and two leaders were
.,.Is, 66Otdled around Il campfire
az sunday after having been
100 'Gr 20 hours in a heavily
TT S area near here.
i.a5 Is party, found by searehers
~ NJ Oy state police officers,
b. escorted TO safety at Agate
NSS.a' Where they arrived shortly
=, 'e s,. noon. None of the mem
T,S suffered i'll effects.
ssm Je party became lost when the
ss,5 IstS detoured around a
Sos oS containing cattle and
2noer. '"''''''ar route through
&c vas scout tout leaders said a big
,ope 'S of Kept going all night and
&seD VI the girls ATTEMPTED 70
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-28
London Looks For British Italian
Friendship Pact To, BE Signed
With Favorable Secret Clauses
May Be Consummated Be.
fore Hitler Pays His
Visit to Rome
Copyright, 1888, United Press)

LONDON. Mar. 90. (UP)-The
new Italo-B British pact of friend
ship, which probably will be sign
ed before Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's
state visit to Rome the first week
in May, will contain several Sc
cret clauses or "private undertake
ings," it was understood last
night.
These secret clauses, according
to a responsible source, probably
will include:
1-Italy's promise to reduce
her military garrison in Libya, I'M
til recently estimated at between
$4,000 and 100000 troops, which
has constituted a serious threat
to Egypt.
Am agreement determining
grazing rights along the Ethiop-
ian frontiers and fixing EthiOpia's
boundaries with British Kenya
and the Sudan.
"a definition of the future
activities of British and Italian
short-wave radio stations, partlc-
ularly the Italian station at Barr
whose broadcasts to the near-east
were sore spot of Italo-Britlsh
friction.
1t was indicated that the accord
also will touch upon the future
status of Palestine, and that this
subject also might be included
among the private undertakings"
which would be eliminated from
the published text.
Thu chief of the British foreign
Offices near east department, u.
Continued on page three)
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IIU. NJ~r
COMPENSATION PLAN NOT
NV UNITED PRESS)

Insurgent forces smashea ny
Catalonia today with terrlnc
trust at the heart of Loyalist SPAN
in the most desperate large scaie
fighting since the World war.
Three Nationalist columns unaeI
General Francisco Franco crossed
the Cinca river and battered into
retreat the government troops on
the Catalonia border. Italian ana
Moorish troops were prominent IN
the attack
WITH THE SPANISH Ma
TIONALIST ARMY, Catalonlan
Border, March %. (UP)--Natlon-
alist troops advanced into Cata-
lonia on the Fraga sector In three
columns today. A.
They had forced back across the
Cinca river the last of the govern,
ment troops - a division rushed
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Tokyo Agrees To
Panay lndennity
Demand OF U.S..

TOKYO, Mar. 2S. (UP)-Ja-
pan has agreed to meet the Unit
ed States demand for $2,214,0O7
as indemnity for the sinking of
the American gunboat Panay by
Japanese aircraft last December,
it was learned last night.
The foreign office will dispatch
a note to Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull in Washington some
time this week accepting without
question the sum asked by the
United States as payment for loss
of the gunboat and indemnity for
those killed and injured,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-28
WILSON'S war
Time ADVISER
IN 18TH YEAR
s.;I "power Benin d
Throne +" During Wilson's
Administration
DyCLlNE FOLLOWED
ILLNESS LAST JUNE

NEW YORK, March rs. CUP
Edward NJ. House. wartime adviS-
j, 70 President Woodrow Wilson,
die5 today at 3 a. m.
0'I Gordon AuchinloSS, MS SonIin-
,,T said House sdied peacefully;
W i would have been so years OLD
|Iuly %. Tho. - tho
.,n,r behind the throne IN the
W .'.-,, administration, had been
poor health since last June
|Tben he suffered an attack OF
|yelriSy. ,L 40
line had been gradual and at
|ri5uted it chiefly TO his advanced
gouse known as colonel" to
,bs nation and the world, inner
|E,ed this title from serving on the
|,tsF Of Gov. Charles A. Culber-
|sor Of Texas. He naver held pub
| II office and never desired one.
President Wilson sought to name
Elm = cabinet member in 1918,
bnt House declined. He offered
|Nr Wilson his services, however,
and that was the start of the long
|apd intimate association between
heSe Two men.
House never met Mr.. Wilson
uRtl q year before the former
governor of New Jersey was elect
al PRESIDENT. OF this meeting
| HOak said:
ave talked and talked. We
knew each other for cOngenlal
souls at the very beginning. |
don't remember what we said, but
We hit the high spOtS-we talked
in generalities, you know"
That talk was the foundation
1 10! a friendship that led the pecu-
iar geniuseS Of House and Wilson
together through the World War
and into the peace conference at
Versailles.
HOW THEY DIFFERED
Mr.. Wilson was q statesman
with an instinct for politics.
House was a politician with a ge-
Mus for Statecraft.
House entered the field of inter-
national relations in 1914 as the
Presidents unofficial ambassador
70 Europe. He sailed for Ger
many and carried q personal let
ter from Nr. Wilson TO Kaiser
Wilhelm. This was in May, only
! few weeks before Serajevo, and
House had conceived a plan to
avert var, which even then seemed
near. Houses plan was TO bring
about 4 formal understanding
among Great Britain, Germany,
france and the United States
ooang 10 the reduction of arma-
aent' the preservation of peace
Eld closer trade relations.
The result of this One-man mis-
Non was that House was thwarted
n every move he made. While on
Se a!gh seas on his way home.
ls World war began. From that
me antll Americas entrance into
ae conflict, House guided many
tslI'allty missions, and he made
S -. trips to Europe 10 dis
''Ss blockade measures, Subma-
iContinued on page four)
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CHINESE FOIL
JAP ADVANCE
ALONG RIVER
Re-cross Yellow River to
Block March by
Invaders
SAY PRESBYTERIAN
MISSION in PERIL

SHANGHAI. Mar. %. (UP)-
Japanese admit,et toCay that Chi
ncSe attachments had re-crOssed
the Yellow river in north Central
China and that 10000 Chinese
were blocking the Japanese adj
vance.
Drivers of blood are washing
the borders Of Shansi and Shan
tung Provinces" a japanese re-
port said.
Fighting ragged at l-Chow (Lin-
yD and opposing artillery hurled
shells across the vi river.
The Japanese army threatened
to bomb the American Presbyter-
ian mission at I-Chow, which is
in Shantung province, unless Chi
nese troops leave its vicinity, the
United Press correspondent at
Peiping reported.
Chinese claimed the rccapture
of dozen towns as the greatest
Chinese counter-offensive smash
ed at the Japanese at five points
in the north central area.
!! Casualties everywhere were re-
ported enormous.
,stMore than so japanese planes
bombed the Hankow and WI
chang airdromes up the Yangtse
river Sunday i'm Central China 5
biggest air raid.
A spokesman for Lieut.. Gen.
Count Juichi Terauchi, japanese
ambassador in North China, an.
nounced that the U. S. embassy
had been Informed that Chinese
troops were massing near the
mission and that unless they left
the vicinity the japanese all
force may bomb them regardless
of possible damage to the mis-,
sion.
The embassy understood that
Miss Margaret Winslett, Miss
Katharine Hand, Dr.. Benjamin
Harding, and Kenneth Wilson, al
Americans, were in the mission
which is flying American flags OF
all its buildings.
The japanese repeatedly have
! charged that Chinese forces il
the Lung-Hai area are seeking
protection by massing around for
eign properties since they have
learned that the Japanese will mo-
bomb premises flying foreign
! flags. Jack Belden, United Press
! correspondent with the Chinese
has confirmed these reports.
! The Japanese warning was de
hvered to the U. s. embassy Fri
day and embassy officials, in The
absence of Ambassador Nelson 7
; Johnson, who is in Hankow, made
an immediate effort to get il
/ touch with the mission.
/ 1t was understood that Japan
csc planes also flew over the mis-
sion and dropped leaflets warn
| ing the Americans that the!
would be endangered unless thu
Chinese armed forces Withdrew
from the mission area.
One Of the biggest battles Of
the war had developed along Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai Shek'
Lung-Hai railway line defending
/ his provisional capital in Hankow
More than 100000 men were
involved and the Chinese were
counter-attackiNg desperately a
/ five points - near I-Chow, nortl
of Suchow-Fu, north of Kweiteh
near Kaifeng and Tungkwan anc
in western Shansi province cas-
of the north branch of the yellow
river.
The Chinese war office in Han
kow claimed extensive victorie!
and said that thousands of Jap
anese infantrymen" had been kill
ed.
: In western Shansi the japanese
Continued on page four)
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u. S. GOOD WILL POLICY
DEALT SERIOUS BLOW

He is now represented as 1eel-
ing that good neighbOrliness"
has been healt serious blow and
that Mexico acted too hastily.
1t was reported also that the
southern republics confiscation OF
the oil properties had caused
suspension of negotiations affect
ing, border lands along the Rio
Grande.
Under the silver purchase ar.
rangement which was negotiated
last December by Mexican FL
nance Minister Eduaro Suarez,
the U. S. treasury makes monthly
purchases of Mexico's newly-min-
ed silver at the New York price
of approximately IL l-2 cents an
ounce. Mexico is paid for the sill
yer in American dollars which are
used in making commodity pur-
chases in the United States; =.
Although the agreement did not
specify the amount of the month-
w purchases, the treasury has fol-
lowed the practice of taking D.
100000 ounces each month.
Since the first of the year, 3D.
100000 ounces have been pur-
chased.
When the understanding was
reached Secretary Of the Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
agreed to make an immediate
purchase of 35,OOO.0OO ounces
which had accumulated in the
Mexican treasury. This, 1t was
announced, would serve to mann
tain the Mexican peso and the U.
S. dollar at a more desirable ra-
COMPENSATION PLAN NOT
ACCEPTABLE TO U. s.. &,
According to we'll Informed
sources, this government will not
now agree to any settlement win
Mexico in connection with the ex-
CONTINUED on page four)
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WILL CONSIDER "
SENATE RESOLUTION

WASHINGTON, Mar. 20. CUP
House leaders agreed last night to
give right-of-way to the senate
approved resolution for a thor
ough investigation of charges Of
Continued on page FOUR
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'NE DAMAGES ROOF

al sb ort department answered a
oaOn a, ~ u ! o'clock this after
Gfeen. coI tne home of Walter
Seee, and CST'C Sed, corner Whitfield
'aaage , NO. seventh avenue. Small