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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
Five Are Indicted In Enrolment OF
japanese Boats In U. S. Registry
Federal Attorney Halls Action AS First Drastic Step to
Rid West Coast of Foreign Craft

anese and one of the defendants,
was charged with owning 1856
shares of stock in the New Exam.
nile Fishing company, fishing boat
operators. The Indictment con-
tended this stock had been trans
ferred to him without consldera-
ton by the Van Camp company.
Harrison charged this transfer
constituted conspiracy.
Others named in the indlct-
ment were Walter H. ellis, vice
nresident and director; Montgom-
erv Phister, vice-president, direc-
tor and counsel for the company;
Ron P. Harper, director, and
Harry C. Ward, secretary.
The grand jury action came al
tor months of investigation by
customs, navy and justice Depart.
ment agents into the operation OF
foreign-owned fishing craft, some
of which had been openly charged
with spying upon the U. S. fleet
and coast defenses. Agents said
their investigation revealed that
at least 200 of the 500 fishing
boats operating out of Los Ange-
les and Long Beach harbors are
falsely registered.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02

PARIS. June 2. (UP)-The
French secret service, wary OF De-
coming involved in diplomatic dill
ficulties with the German govern
ment, said last night it would
make no effort to arrest Werner
George Goudenberg for American
authorities when he arrives at
Cherbourg today aboard the Ger
man liner Hamburg. ~
Gutenberg is wanted in the
United States in connection WIN
a federal investigation OF espion-
age activities. r,u
The Surete Nationale-Frances
Scotland Yard-said it held no
warrant for Gutenberg and that
American authorities had made
no formal request for his arrest.
1t was learned, however, tnaG
officials of the United States ano
French governments have been In
communication since the Ham
burg sailed from New York ana
discussed the feasibility OF max
ing an arrest aboard a German
ship inside French territorial wa
tiers.
Such arrests are legal, mas
much as foreign warshlps alone
enjoy extra-territorial rights un-
der international law, but it was
decided that the arrest of Guden-
berg might provoke a diplomatic
incident involving Germany,
France an dthe United States.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
FARM AID PLAN
WaIIace's Assistants Pre-,
sumably Act Upon
His Directions

WASHINGTON, June 2. (UP)
Department of Agriculture Of
fcials today prepared for gil
gantic. farm aid program to bols-
ter the purchasing power Of six
million farmers. y
sTsntatSe plans drawn by the
aHte Of Secretary of AEficultite
Wallace presumably at his direc-
ton, call for federal lending and
spending farm program involving
81, 3O0,00O,000 to $1,400,000,000
in the next IL months.
Direct aid to farmers in soil
conservation payments, rural re-
lief purchase of surpluses, sub
sidy and parity payments, to be
either obligated or paid in the
next year, will total approximate
ly one billion dollars. ?.
In addition government agenc-
les expect to loan farmers up to
$350,000,000 for storage of sur
plus wheat, cotton and corn.
The farm security administra-
ton plans to loan approximately
$100,000,000 to make crops and
buy farms.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
RUFUSCOSTNER
In
MAIL Hold Up
Federal Officials Make An
nouncement; Look For
Further Arrests

ASHEVILLE, June 2. (UP)-
Three persons charged with COM
plicity in the S105,000 mail rob-
berry at Charlotte are to be ar
rested today, Assistant District
Attorney Roy Francis said, They
are Ella Costner and her father,
Frank Costner, Newport, Tenn,
and a man named Sisk at Val
doSta, Ga, a federal officer said.
ASHEVILLE, June 2.-Rufus
Costner has confessed that he par
ticipated in the $4,000 Charlotte
mail truck holdup on the morning
of November Is, 1885, it was an
nounced yesterday by Frank Lit
tlejohn, chief of Charlotte detec-
tives, and w. R. Francis, assistant
u. S. district attorney.
Three members of the Terri
Bile" Touhy gang are now serving
long prison sentences for the rob-
berry. A fourth accused Of partlcl-
pating in the holdup, Charles
(Ice) Corners, was found shot to
death in Chicago.
Francis stated that warrants
would be issued this morning for
the arrest of three other persons
who are alleged to have received
part of the stolen money. He de-
chned to give names of the sus-
CONTINUED on page FOUR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
France Not To Arrest Two Germans
Fleeing In U. S. Espionage Inquiry
FBL Passes Buck in Escape Of Spy Ring Witnesses to
U.S.. Attorney in Charge Of Case

NEW YORK, June 2. (UP)-
The Federal Bureau of Investiga.
ton last night officially passed
the buck for the escape of two
German witnesses in an interna-
tional spy ring inquiry, directly
to the office of Lamar Hardy, U.
S. attorney in charge Of the In
vestigation.
A statement issued by Reed
Vetterli, head of the New York
FBI office, on instructions from
]. Edgar Hoover, chief Of the
federal bureau, said the "respon-
sibiltiy" for the escape Of the two
witnesses belonged to "the Unit
ed States attorney and not the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation:
The statement said the FBI had
brought the witnesses before the
grand jury and turned them over
to the u. s. attorney, and that 1t
had not placed them under sur
veillance after they were turned
over.
The two witnesses. DR.. 1gnatz
T. Griebl and Werner Gutenberg,
an aviation mechanic at Bristol,
Pa, airplane factory, departed
for Europe aboard the German
liners Bremen and Hamburg
without notifying federal author
tiles.
Hoover's statement was issued
in denial Of q reported Shake
up" of the New York office Of the
FBI as a result os the escape Of
the two men.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
SENATE ACTS on
CRISIS WARNING

WASHINGTON, June z. (UP)
Needing a warming from Presi-
dent Roosevelt of a threatened
unemployment crisis this summer,
the senate last night voted ST.
425,000,000 for work relief and
a "dole" to the needy and approx
ed the distribution of $2l2, 0OO,-
100000 in price parity payments
to farmers.
Forced into a night session by
Majority Leader Alben w. Bark
ley in an effort to pass the re-
covery-relief bill today, the SEN
ate raised no objections to in
creasing the proposed $780,
100000 WPA fund by $175,-
100000. Likewise, it approved
after perfunctory debate Bark
ley's amendment to increase the
amount of WPA money which the
president may divert a "dole" or
direct relief from the house-ap-
proved figure of $50,0o0,000 to
125,000,000.
Barley hastily withdrew his
proposal that the chief executive
be given unbridled power to re-
allocate WPA funds for the
"dole" at his discretion, however,
in the face of considerable oppo-
sition. The $75,000,00O increase
was predicted on Barkley's argu,,
wont that the S50,O00,000 would
be insufficient to meet demands
for aid from thousands in thlckly
populated industrial centers who
lCantinued on page fOur)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
R. L. WHITMIRE WILL BE NEXT
CONGRESSMAN, COSTON SAYS
Speaks at Breyard Tonight,
Says Evidence Ample
in His Charges

K. Lee Whltmlre, candidate Tor
the Democratic nomination for
Congress in this district, will
speak in the court house in Bre-
ward tonight at 8 o'clock. at which
time he has promised to answer
statements made in The Asheville
Citizen this morning by friends of
Congressman Zeb Weaver. .rs'-- -s..as
2 Pennsylvania being the native
county Of Mr.. Whitmire in which
he has family connections and a
large number of friends, is ex-
pected to give the candidate a
large and enthusiastic audience at
this meeting.
In a statement made today to
this newspaper Mr.. Whitmire said
he would present ample evidence
to support his CHARGES in regard
to the number of North CAROLYN
ians employed in IVA dam con-
struction in Cherokee county and
also his charges in regard to Con-
gresham Weaver's activities in
behalf of the establishing of the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park.
j. C.. Coston, manager of the
Whitmire-for-C Congress campaign,
predicted this morning that Mr..
Whitmire would be the next rep
resentatiVe of the Eleventh Dis
trict.
Mr.. Coston, who has personally
visited every county in the dis
trict in the interest of Mr.. Whit
mire's campaign, said that the
Henderson county candidate will
carry ~ of the 10 counties of the
district and poll a sizeable vote
in Buncombe, home county OF
Congressman Zebulon Weaver.
"People throughout the district
are eager for a change" said Mr..
Coston, "And they are looking to
Hendersonville and Henderson
county for leadership in bringing
about this change in the person
of Lee Whitmire."
Calling upon the people OIL
Henderson county to support to
the fullest their first Democratic
candidate for Congress in the his
tory of the county Mr.. Coston
said that the hearty support that
has already been pledged to Mr..
Whitmire in Henderson was an
outstanding factor in bringing
other counties to his support.
His statement follows:
"Since l have travelled over the
entire 18th district, and have
found the people so eager for a
change, the question has been
asked me time and time again,
what is Henderson countv going
to do?' My answer has been re-
peatedly that Mr.. Whitmire will
get all but a few scattering OF
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
F.B.I. AGENTS GUARD
ACTIVITIES CLOSELY

PRINCETON, Fla, June e.
(UP)-A heavy summer rain
storm broke over the Florida Ev-
erglades today, beating out pos.
sible clues in the kidnapping OF
Jimmy Cash, 8, and hampering
the search by . posse numbering
A corps Of Omen, led by In
spector e. ]. Connolly, believe
that greed Of the kidnapers, or
desperate need FOR money to make
a getaway may lead them to at
tempt to pass some Of the $l0,-
600 RANSOM money paid by James
Cash, ST., father Of the abducted
baby.
Printed lists of the serial num-
bers Of .hot money" appeared on
almost every cash register and OF,
the desk Of iAtery bank teller in
Florida. -.
Omen who moved into action
swiftly yesterday after remaining
in the background for. 70 hours
were reported TO be questioning
a father and son last night in con-
nection with the kidnapping.
The father, n. F. Braxton, b5,
a heaviest, florida-faced carpen-
ter who lives within q block Of the
Cashes,, was picked out Of q crowd
of posseuieh standing near the
missing ehild,s home and whisked
away 70 Miami by two agents OF
the FB1.
Shortly aftsrward, It was re-
ported, Bfixton's son, j. w. Brax-
ton, / fisherman, was detained at
Cape sable, south Of here. The
arrest of the elder Brsxton was
confirmed by the FIJI Office at
Washington, but no comment was
made either here or at Washing
ton about the son, -
A third member Of the family
was reported under surveillance,
but FBf agents greeted al queries
with silence a. they screened heir
movements and activities In. ~
crecy.
In contrast with events of the
first three days after the blond
youngster Vas xnatchsd from hfs
baby bed, yesterday was filed
with fast-breaking developments,
sudden dashes by FRI agents to
mysterious destinations and re-
ported arrests Of suspects.
: Reports; for which there was
no official confirmation, said that
at least seven men were being
questioned lsSt night by federal
agents, not Including two youths
picked up yesterday afternoon
who were. released shortly after.
ward. Aaothsf unsenArmable re-
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
HOUSE, SENATE.
RELIEF FIGHT.
is F0RESEEN|
House Pilot OF Bill Flatly
Opposes Latest Senate
Changes
WASHINGTON. June 2. CUP

WASHINGTON, June 2. CUP
A house ana senate fight over
President Roosevelt's recovery bill
was foreshadowed today when
Representative Clifton Woodrum
3D., Va.) house pilot of the bill,
declared he is opposed to the
$212,000,000 farm parity pay
men plan approved by the senate
last night. ~'....a $50
Woodrum made the announce
ment as the senate prepared to
meet early in an effort to COM
plete work on the lending-spend-
ing measure.
The parity payments amend
ment was sponsored by Senator
Richard B. Russell, Jr., 3D., Ga.)
Woodrum said he also wanted to
study the amendment sponsored
bv Senate Majority Leader Alben
Barley, which would set aside
$125, 100000 for direct relief in
SltlCos s..,a,..., -;yrt s..l !
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
LOS ANGELES, June 2. (UP)

LOS ANGELES, June 2. CUP
The governments campaign
against Alien-Owned fishing boats
brought indictments yesterday
from a federal grand jury against
Ave officers of the Van Camp Sea
Food Company, Inc, and an alien
Japanese. d.
Gilbert Van Camp, president of
the company, was one of those in
dicted, ,
The company's officers am
agents were alleged to have en-
couraged and aided japanese in
making false affidavits and en-
rolling foreign owned-boats I'M
der American registry.
Archie Ekdale, attorney, mott
fed the u. S. marshaPs office the
defendants would surrender vol
unfairly, probably on Mondav
He asked that service of warrants
be withheld until that time.
The indictment was hailed by
u. S. District Attorney Benjamin
Harrison as the first drastic step
in the drive by the department OF
justice and navy department to
rid the west coast of foreign
owned fishing craft.
Three boats were named In the
true bill-the gas screw vessel
Indianan, and the oil screw hsh-
ing boats, example and new ex-
ample, which operate IN the
mackerel beds off the Southern
California coast.
Genkiehi Koiski, an alien jap
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
Chinese Pirates
Rob Americans
On River Vessel
New Silver Agreement Is
Made With China to
Aid Purchases
tBy UNITED PRESS

SHANGHAI: Chinese pirates
seize u. S. river boat near Shang-
hal; rob 800 passengers: shoot In
dian guard; steal 1000 bags of
rice; a Portuguese vessel pirated
south of Shanghai and her master
and purser held for ransom; more
U. S. mission institutions bombed
by Japanese planes and the Japa-
nese again warn foreigners their
property will not be spared if Chi
nese soldiers congregate near it;
little change in Lung-hai battle
area.
WASHINGTON: U. S. Treas
ury reaches new agreement with
China for purchase of Chinese sill
yer which is converted into dol
lars and used largely as credit for
purchases of American goods;
100000 ounces purchased since
May. 1886, at 45 cents an ounce;
new purchases being made at 43
cents an ounce.
LONDON: British officials be-
lieve Germany obtained an agree
ment from Japan which will en-
able Germany to participate in
economic exploitation of North
China in return for ordering home
German advisers to the Chinese
army and cutting off German mu-
nitions sales to China; government
accepts Japan's regrets for bay.
onetting of a Briton in Shanghai
by Japanese sentries who found
him in a Japanese military area.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
CONFIRMATION OF
BOMBINGS AWAITED

. WASHlNGTON, June z. (UP)
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
yesterday revealed he had sent
another sharp note to Tokyo re-
buking the Japanese government
for bad faith in guaranteeing the
American rights in Chinese war
zones and demanding prompt re-
medal measures.
The disclosure came as the
state department awaited official
confirmation of press reports that
Japanese air raiders deliberately
bombed United States mission
school properties at Haichow,
Suiten and Tsing-Kiang-Pu al
though each displayed huge
American flags.
There was no official ,comment
;pnsfh4 yepos teA IeqtHf
ficials privateIy exprS 10 ft4a
concern and Indicated an einphaf
tic protest will be lodged II the
reports are confirmed.
In his newest protest, delivered
in Tokyo yesterday by American
Ambassador Jos. C. Grew, Hull
CURLY upbraided the Japanese
military for breaking promises
and expressed "the increasing
concern" of the American gov
eminent over interference with
Americans and their properties,
especially in the Shanghai area.
"My government" his note
said, sis confident that the Japa-
nese government can not but con-
cede that the infringement of and
interference with American rights
in China by Japanese authorizes
involved in the situation to which
attention is herein brought, are
contrary to repeated assurances
of the Japanese government that
American rights will be respect
ed; that the Japanese govern
ment will take immediate steps,
in keeping with such assurances,
to cause the return to their right
full owners Of the premises Of the
University of Shanghai and other
American property under the oc-
cupation Of Japanese armed fore
es; and that the Japanese gov
eminent will issue instructions to
have removed the obstacles inter-
posed by the Japanese authorities
in China against the return by
American nationals to places such
as those mentioned in the areas
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
Davidson River
Road Impossible
Those Wishing to Fis h
Should Go by Bent Creek

For those desiring TO fish in the
Pisgah Forest area on June 3, a
and 5, John w. Squires, ranger
in Pisgah Forest, has advised that
the road to Davidson River is I'M
passable at this time. He is ask
ing that fishermen Of this COM
munity go by way of Mills River,
Yellow Gap road to the Pink Beds,
where the checking station is To-
Gated.
For those desiring to make the
trip to the Pink Beds, Ranger
Squires states that such trip will
be possible again this week and
that the route by way of MT.
Pisgah and Bent Creek expert
ment station should be used.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
MORGENTHAU
ISON DEFENSE
Answers Charges With Re.
gard to Sterilization
Funds Uses

WASHINGTON, June 2. (UP)
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., today de-
Tended the treasury against the
charges that the $2,000,000 stabi-
lization fund was used to aid in
depreciation of foreign currencies
to the detriment of American
trade sterilization.
Fund operations have been I'M
der attack from Senator Burton
K. Wheeler, who charged there
were reports that the fund was
being used to devalue foreign
currencies, thus injuring this
country's business.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
b. Reynolds Is
'pected To Make
let Stop Here

fs y from Charlotte to Ashe-
|a ~ vote in the Democratic
A.. On Saturday, u. S. Sena-
viii Z, Reynolds, of Ashe-
,bon u stop in Hendersonville
noo" ' 10 or 20 minutes this
H. .4nl9 NOR senator from North
t6o m VIII stoU in front of the
kuect se and greet friends. He
EocI ~ TO arrive here about
b as, tnls evening.
b = n will be accompan-
aa,UOtoreade from Charlotte
ae Sai North Carolina, and
1 Ina 'e y here by a party of
b. ~ :. cars from Asheville, ac-
J tS,t.O advices this morning
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
Lar Wreck Is Fatal For A. J. Henderson
HULL SHARPLY REBUKES JAPS
FOR BAD FAITH in FAILURE TO
GUARANTEE AMERICAN RIGHTS
Great Britain Is Reported
Proposing to Pave Way
For Spanish Armistice
(UNITED PRESS)

Diplomatic and economic NOV
es today appeared to be develop
ing in an effort to dampen the
fires of war in Europe and the
Far East.
Following the first United Stat
es note sent to Japan yesterday
insisting on American property
rights in China, Great Britain
prepared to take the lead in seek
ing a Spanish civil war armistice
as foundation for further stabili-
cation of European peace.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
BREAK
now LOOMING.
IN Cash CASE
Army Of Searchers Active
But Fear Hard Rain
Wipes Out Clues
FEW BELIEVE CHILD
TO BE FOUND ALIVE

PRINCETON, Fla, June g.
(UP)-Director J. Edgar Hoover
of the federal bureau of investi-
CATION arrived in Florida today to
take personal command Of the
hunt for the kidnapers of Jimmy
Cash.
The chief Of the Omen arrived
by plane as hundreds Of men, or
ganized into armed posses, search
ed the Everglades, the Keys and
the farmlands Of southeastern
Florida for the fve-year-old boy
who was kidnapped last Saturday
night.
Hoover's presence here added
weight to reports that q; break in
the. case may be approaching.
Neither the chief Oman or his as
sistants would comment on such
reports, however.
Hoover, who hitherto had d.
rected the manhunt for the kid
napers from his Washington head
quarters, established the center of
the hunt in the Miami Offices Of
the FBI-25 miles from the home
Of James B. Cash, ST., where the
blond little boy was snatched.
With Hoover here, the drive to
capture the man or men who kid
mapped the Cash boy, collected
$4,000 ransom and then failed
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
8 MEN BURNED
IN MINE BLAST

PITTSTON, Pa, June, 2. CUP
men were burned at least
four seriously and nine others
trapped below the surface by an
explosion in Butler Slope of
Volpe Mining company near here
today.
Ambulances and state motor
police sped to the scene and res
cue squads, wearing gas masks
entered the shaft at once to
search for the missing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
TROOP ONE OF GIRL
SCOUTS WILL MEET

Troop 1 Girl Scouts will meet
at the cabin Friday afternoon at
$50 o'clock. Troop members were
asked in connection with the an
nouncement to note the earlier
hour for the meeting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
NO SOFTBALL GAME
TONIGHT, ANNOUNCED

H. E. Katzenmoyer today an
nounced that there will be no
softball games at the athletic
field at East Flat Rock tonight
because of the continued rains
and wet grounds there.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
INVITATION TO BRU

HAVANA, Cuba, June 2. (UP)
Mayor William Albury of Key
West, Fla, yesterday arrived here
to invite President Federico Lare-
do Bru to attend the formal open
ing of the Key West-Miami high
way July 2.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-02
DOG CASES FILL. COURT

DALLAS, Texas, June z. lUFJ
police court went to the
dogs yesterday. Of 245 cases call
ed for trial before Judge King S.
williamson, 191 were for viola
tions of the city dog license law.