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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
CONFESSION IS
PLACED IN SPY
TRIAL RECORD
Voss Acted for Glove of
Fatherland;" Says Much
Armament Data Gotten

NEW YORK, Nov. l. (UP)-
Over protests of defense counsel,
the federal government read into
the record of the Nazi espionage
trial yesterday confession by
Otto Hermann Voss that he be.
came a German spy "for love of
the Fatherland.
According to the statement,
Voss did most of his espionage
during two years employment as
a mechanic at the Seversky avia-
ton plant in Farmingdale, N. 7.
During this time, the statement
said, Voss was able to turn over
to Nazi agents specifications of 35
army training planes and IT pur-
suit planes and other armament
data.
Charles w. Philipbar, Jr., coun-
sci for Voss. charged the state
ment was obtained under duress
by Reed Vetterli, who resigned
recently as head of the New York
nsfiea@of the Bureau of lnvestlga-
ton
Eleanor Boehme, pretty Hunter
college graduate. testified that
once when she visited Kate Moog,
a government witness who had
dealings with some of those in
dicted, Miss Moog pressed into her
hand a match box which she later
discovered contained a secret
code.
Miss Moog had testified that
Karl Schluter, escaped spy, had
given her a package of paper
matches with instructions to turn
one over to Miss Boehme, who
would understand the reason.
But Miss Boehme testified yes
terday that she had no under,
standing of the code and had
known Schluter only casually.
Martin Schade, former engineer
for the MISUNDERSTANDING line,
testified that Johanna Hoffman,,
girl defendant, had accompanied
Schluter on several visits TO
Schads's apartment.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
5000 European Jews Without Shelter
Brazil Virtually
Banishing Six
Ranking Leaders

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. T.
(UP)-Virtual Punishment from
Brazil of six ranking political
leaders was revealed last night
with reports from Bahia of the
departure for Europe of former
Foreign Minister Octavio Manga
beira.
Mangabeira was the first to
leave the country after the six
were "jnvited" to depart before
Nov. 8.
The others include former Pres
ident Arthur Bernards. Armando
SALES. one-time governor of Sac
Paulo state and candidate for
president before elections, sched-
uled for last January, were can
celled by President Getulio Var
gas; Lirdolpho Color, former Ia
Dor minister in the Vargas gov
eminent; Mario Brant, former di.
rector of the Bank of Brazil; and
Julio Mesquite. director of the
newspaper, o Estado Do Sac Pau.
10, which supported Sales in last
pears campaign.
While the reason for the depar-
lures originally was said to be va
cations, it was understood the six
were charged with opposition to
the present regime.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
Months Precipitation l.
.2S Inch; Temperatures
Range From e to Sc

Somewhere there is a line about
October's bright blue weather.
However it reads, it is a perfect
description of the weather during
the past 81 days.
The temperature was only .06
degrees below the normal for Oc-
tober; rainfall was recorded on
only two days. amounting to %
inch, and q of the 81 days were
recorded as clear.
The rainfall during the month
was 4.0S inches below the normal
of 4.36, bringing, the total def
cheney of the year to 11.9S inches.
The normal rainfall for the first
10 months is 51.32 inches, the fall
this year has been only 1884, and
the percentage deficiency for the
first 10 months is "a per cent.
The normal mean temperature
for the month was 1884 degrees
as compared to the normal mean
of 56.4 degrees.
Both summer time and early
winter temperatures were record
ed during the month. A maximum
of SO degrees was attained on the
9Th, 18th and 10Th, and a mini
mum of 20 degrees, degrees be-
low freezing, was recorded on the
22nd.
Daily temperature ranges were
great, averaging 34.42 degrees
daily and the greatest daily range
was as degrees on the 18th, when
the mercury ranged from 40 to
So degrees.
The deficiency in rainfall by
months is shown in the following
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
2 CZECH SOLDIERS
KILLED BY GERMANS

PRAGUE, Nov. /. (UP). "A
commission of German and Gee
choslovak army officers last night
was reported investigating a
shooting affray between border
patrols of the two countries IN
which two Czech soldiers were kill
ed and three wounded.
The incident repeatedly occur
red when German patrol crossed
the Delineation line in the Sude-
ten area of Moravia Moravska
Chrastova.
According to authoritative
sources the German patrol pene-
trated into Czech territory to the
town of Chrosdova Lhota, where
one Czech soldier was wounded.
The patrol then returned to Nor
avska Chrastova where skirmlsh
occurred in which the two Czechs
were killed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
RADIO DRAMAS WAR SCARE
REEVES CONTROVERSYOVER
FEDERAL CENSORSHIP PLAN
Nations Ministers in Past
10 Days Protested to
Terror" Programs
BY MACK JOHNSON
aited Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. /. CUP
The Federal Communications
Commission began preliminary
inquiry yesterday into the broad
cast, "The War of the Worlds"
amid congressional demands for
stricter governmental supervision
Of radio,
FEC Chairman Frank R. Nc
Ninch telegraphed the Columbia
Broadcasting System for the script
and a transcription of the Sunday
night program. which depicted an
imaginary attack by monsters
from Mars on New Jersey and
brought a deluge of reports of
panic and mass hysteria from
many parts of the nation. He
promised to place the matter be-
fore the commission at its next
session. n
til later" McNinch said, "but any
broadcast that creates such gem
eral panic and fear as this one is
reported to have done is, to say
the least, regrettable.
'The widespread public reac-
ton to this broadcast as indicated
by the press is another demonstra-
ton of the power and force of
radio, and points out again the
serious public responsibility of
thbse who are licensed to operate
stations"
President Neville, Miller of the
(Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
DIES FLAYS HIGH OFFICIALS
FAILING TO HELP INQUIRY
OF UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
Denounces Campaign OF
Ridicule, Will Extend
Probe South, West

WASHINGTON, Nov. l. CUP
Chairman Dies of the house COM
mittee investigating un-American
activities today indicated he would
continue his inquiry into subver-
sive activities after denounclng
high administration officials for
their Campaign of ridicule" and
torrent of abuse Embossed on us. "
Dies said he expected to con-
tinue the inquiry through sub
groups on the west coast in New
York, Washington, and in the
South about December l.
Dies charged cabinet members
declined to comply with the terms
of the house resolution creating a
committee, by failing to assign
lawyers and investigators to aid
the inquiry.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01

LONDON, Nov. 1. = CUP? -
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain completed the reshuffling OF
his cabinet yesterday when Lord
Hailsham resigned as lord presi-
dent of the council and was re-
placed by Viscount Runciman,
Britain's unofficial" mediator in
the early stages of the Czecho-
slovak crisis.
Malcolm Macdonald, colonial
secretary, also was made domin-
ions secretary, succeeding the
late Lord Stanley, thereby mefg-
ing at least temporarily the two
cabinet portfolios dealing with the
overseas units of the British en-
pire.
Sir John Anderson, former gov
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
SAYS NEW DEALERS
SEEK TO BALK QUIZ
By GERRY ROBICHAUD


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. l. (UP)
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex,
of the house committee investi-
eating un American activities
charged last night that top-flight
New Deal officials had sought to
hamper the work of his group by
refusing to cooperate and by heap
ing "abuse" and "ridicule" on its
hearings. .-..
In a nationally broadcast speech
Mutual network Dies asserted
that various government depart
ments had "refused to comply
with the resolution creating the
committee by failing to assign in
vestigators and attorneys to help
conduct the hearings. '.
In a nationally broadcast speech
Mutual network) Dies asserted
that various government depart
ments had refused to comply
with the resolution creating the
committee by failing to assign in
vestigators and attorneys to help
conduct the hearings.
The Texans address preceded
another by Paul Y. Anderson, st.
Louis newspaperman and former
Pulitzer prize winner, who de-
scribed the committees procedure.
Charles Nicholson, publicity d.
rector of the Democratic national
committee arranged for Ander-
Continued on mage three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
DEATH TAKES
MRS. M king
Rites and lnterment Will
Be at St., Iphn in Viii.
derness Wednesday

Mrs. Macmillan c. King, 40,
of Greenville, S. c., and Flat
Rock, died at her Flat Rock home
last night at 10:15 o'clock.
The funeral services will be
conducted at st. John-in-the- Will
derness Episcopal church on Wed
nesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock,
and burial will follow in the GEM
etery there. .
Services will be in charge OF
the Rev. James P. Burke, pastor
of st. James Episcopal church.
Hendersonville. Pallbearers will
be Alester G. Furman, Jr., Rich
ard Riley, Allen Bedell, William
Perry, John Pellet and Steve
Nettles, all Of Greenville.
Mrs. King was a native OF Wa,
terville, Maine. She is survived
by her husband, a Greenville bus
inessman, and one sister, who re-
sides at Long Beach, Calf. She
had made her home at Flat Rock
in the summer for a number OF
years. 's
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
By ROBERT X. BEST
,,vrigb. 1888. United Press)

NopyIlSuNr 1870
BRATISLAVA, Czechoslovakia,
Is. :. LPl-A wretched band
| s. CzechoSlovak Jews, mostly
men. yesterday described how
Erman troops threw their men,
l. into Jail and drove them into
EnO-man'S- land" between Czech
y German frontier posts where
b. have established a crude
hp.
Enwauted by either Czechs or
rnans, these refugees are ex~
BIZ from day TO day under Il
tYas shelter, not knowing where
|turn or what their fate will be.
q visited the camp yesterday
b. Ludenburg, a German-occu-
ID town Of the Sudetenland IA
EeS north Of Vienna, and found
b all their hopes had been plac-
in the efforts of relatives to
fsuade the Czech government
some other country to give
km refuge.
The 81 Jews range from babes
arms to an S4-year-old blind
>mau and include eight children,
married couples and several
2meU past 50,
For three weeks they have been
lng in the no-man's-land and,
Ftne origina. l5S of them, many
Re succeeded in slipping past
+ Czech frontier posts at night
ne and entering Czechoslovakia
search Of aid.
Czech authorities, they said,
Emitted one Of them to be ia
P 70 a hospital after she be-
pa insane and another after
gave birth to Q child in a sec
no maD's-land camp near
Fao.Sourg, few miles away.
4 crude tent, about 500 feet
fg and stretching along an I'M
f. concrete highway outside
len0urg, houses the 81 refu-
r. It was provided by friends
rented a motor truck and OBJ
aed official permission to bring
. them.
Inc stories of the Jews huddled
ag the highway were all the
s' Vi $40 Jews living in Luz
99Eg when the Germans occu-
i only one was permitted to
IAN She was Rosa Winter,
low Of an American citizen,
;;,n,aard Winter.
YUAN y hours. they said, ev-
Jewish man in Ludenburg
SeeN arrested and imprison-
.HeT homes were searched
Tie women were told that
must leave for Czechoslovak-
'Naln - hours.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
COLLINS DENNY, JR.,
IS UNAVOIDABLE
TO CHURCH MERGER

BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, Nov.
l. (UP)-Collins Denny, Jr:, son
of the retired Methodist bishop,
spoke at a mass meeting of Meth
odists here Monday to predict
that a merger of the three
branches of the church would re-
suit in destruction of effective
Methodism.
Denny, who lives at Klchmon9'
Va, said the northern churcn al
ways would be able to controi tne
general conference and thus nave
Complete control over religious,
economic and social rights of the
membership, bishops and minis
tiers.
He advocated preservation of
three units separately despite the
almost unanimous vote last year
to merge.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
British Radio In
1926 Gave Public
Scare With Play
Germans Pleased Because
of Sunday Nights
Incident
By THEON WRIGHT
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK. Nov. l. (UP)-
Orson Welles, 23-year-old theatre
cal prodigy who frightened hun
dreds of radio listeners Sunday
night with dramatizatiOn of
Men From Mars" called in re-
porters last night and promised
never to do it again.
"Pm really quite shocked, he
said. =
He denied that he had any no.
ton that people would accept his
highly dramatized version of H..
G.. Welles' famous novel, "War
of the Worlds" as fact instead of
fiction. q
81 should think" he said, "that
the motion pictures and comic
strips would have made people
realize that the Man From Mars
was only fantasy. 1t is almost a
synonym for fantasy"
The youthful director of the
Mercury theater personally super
vised, produced and tvok part in
Continued on page six)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
HITLER VOLUNTEERS
PEACE WITH FRANCE
BY CLIFFORD L. DAY
Copvright. 1888. United Press)

copyright, 1855, 'Oniteo EIessl
LONDON, Nov. 1.-(UP)-A
Horsepower pact to replace the
moribund League of Nations as
keeper of Europe's peace came
nearer today.
This long has been the desire
of Premier Benito Mussolini of
Italy and Chancellor Adolf Hitler
of Germany and it was Hitler who
actuated today's development:
Der Fuehrer yesterday offered
France q "gentlemen's agree
rient" to refrain from war, the
pact to be of 10 or Is. years dura.
ton, and French Foreign Minis
ter Georges oBnnet eagerly &C.
copied the opportunity to extend
the Munich agreement of the "big
four"-Germany, Italy, Britain
and France-towards general Eu-
ropean appeasement.
Bonnet shuttled back and forth
between diplomatic representa-
tives of the four nations, laying
the groundwork for solving a
half-dozen pressing European
problems, as a result Of the Ell
couraging overture from Hitler.
Diplomats anticipated that this
month would bring formal
Franco-German friendship or non
aggression pact, Remuneration by
Germany of any territorial claims
in Europe against France, re-es-
tablishment of normal friendly
diplomatic relations between
France and Italy, effectivation of
the Anglo-Italian friendship pact
of last April 16, final settlement
of the Czechoslovak- Hungarian
territorial dispute by Italo-Ger-
man arbitration and the granting
of belligerent rights to both sides
in Spain by the London non-inter-
vention committee.
This four-power program, turn
ing Britain and France complete
ly away fro mthe League OF Ma
tions system of collective security,
would bring the Democratic allies
into close collaboration with the
two great European relationships:
Diplomats said it definitely would
kill the small remaining effective.
ness of the league in the field OF
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
CATS TO PLAY
FRIDAY NIGHT
Practice Under Lights to
Meet Strong Canton
Team There

Hendersonville's Bearcats Will
journey to Canton on Friday night
for a game with the powerful
Black Bears of Coach Charhe
Poindexter. :.
Both teams are undefeated in
the Blue Ridge conference race,
the Cats at present holding the
top position by virture of five con-
ference wins and no defeats. The
lone defeat suffered by the locals
this year was at the hands OF
Marion, a non-conference team.
The Bears, rated one OF the
strongest teams in this section
have won four conference games.
The Cats will be decidedly the
underdog in the game, but a bat
tie is expected. Last season
Poindexter brought powerful
team to Hendersonville, but man
aged to take the game by a close
7 to 6 score.
The Cats have been working un-
der the lights at the Chapman
Athletic field this week to get &C.
customed to the night game. All
Canton games are played at night
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
HENDERSON TO
HAVE ; COUNTY
Vide BALLOTS
These To Be Voted in ADJ
dition to Township
Tickets Nov. 8
4 YEAR SHERIFFS' ]
TERMS, ONE ISSUE

Henderson county voters, balls
loting in the election on next
Tuesday, November s, will use
three ballots in addition to town
ship tickets.
The ballots, samples of which
were printed in The Times-News
Monday, are the county ticket, the
state ticket, and constitutional
amendment ticket. Township tick
cts will be voted in some precincts
in addition. a
The county ticket is as follows:
For solicitor, 18th judicial dis
trict, C. o. Rulings CD and Gar
rett D. Bailey (R). :
For state senator, 9th district:
Ralph w. Gardner and l.. b
Prince CD and Mack Saunders
(R).
For representative: L. l.. Burr
gin (D) and Brownlow Jackson
(R). -
For county commissioners: 7.
L. Durham, j. A. Rusher and D..
G.. Wilkie CD, and Burt J. Sit
ton, l.. L. Merchant and Earl I.
Brown (R). ~
For sheriff: w. E, Davis CD
and John W. Drake CRY.
For clerk superior court: George
w. Fletcher (D) and M. n. Orr
(R).
For tax collector: ]. NJ. Stew
art (D) and R. billiard Station
For coroner: ]. F. Brooks (D)
and Benjamin F. Cliff (RD.
For surveyor: Charles B. Tur-
ner CD and j. B. Patterson (R).
For county board of education:
]. w. Morgan. CD, unopposed.
The state ticket is as follows
For associate justice, supreme
court: NJ. V. Barnhill CD and
Herbert F. Seawell, Sr. (R). For
associate justice: ]. Wallace Win
borne (D) and Irwin B. Tucker
(R). For associate justice: A. A.
F. Seawell CD, unopposed.
The following on the state tick
ct for judicial offices are unop-
posed: Harry Mcmillan, attorney
general; Forrest H. Shuford, COM
missioner of labor; Stanley Win
borne, utilities commissioner; G.
Everett Thompson, judge superior
court, first district; Walter J.
Bone, Judge, second district; j.
Paul Frizzelle, judge, fifth dis
trict; Henry L. Stevens, judge,
sixth district; John J. Burney,
judge eighth district; Q. K. MINI
ocks, Jr., Judge, ninth district; Leo
Carr, Judge, tenth district; II,
Hoyle Sink, judge, 18th district;
William H. Bobbitt, judge 14th
district; Wilson Warlick, Judge
18th district; Zeb V. Nettles,
Judge, 10th district; Allen II,
Gwyn, judge 21st district. All are
Democrats.
For United States senator: Rob
ert R. Reynolds CD and Charles
A. Jonas (R).
For congress, 18th district
Zebulon Weaver (D) and Vonno
L. Gudger (R).
The constitutional ticket is on
two questions: an amendment
making the term of office OF
sheriff and coroner four years
and for or against the establish
ment of a department Of justice
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
Mexico Halts Seizure OF American
Owned Lands Pending Settlement

since the start of negotiations,
it was pointed out, concern
lands seized months, and even
years, ago. :,
The president was reported
n he genuinely DESTROYS of
reaching a solution of the land
exnropriation controversy with
tbe limited States, the amount
of naturalization to be based
on Mexico's capacity to pay;
Both sides were said to be still
in disagreement on the amount,
hut the talks were understood
to be proceeding along friendly
lines and announcement of a
settlement is expected soon,
possibly within two weeks.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
Runciman Made Council President
AS British Cabinet Changes Ended

ernor of Bengal and at various
times attached to the home Of
fee, ministry of health and colon
ial office, was made lord privy
seal, a sinecure post left vacant
Thursday when 38-year-old Earl
de La War; was made minister of
education.
The resignation Of Lord Hail
sham, who is &c years old and has
been in the cabinet since 1885,
was attributed to i'll health.
In public life for many years,
including two years Of service as
attorney general to the Duke OF
Windsor when. he was Prince OF
Wales, Lord Hailsham was a dele
gate to the Ottawa conference In
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
MARKS final
BLOW AGAINST
WORLD.LEACUE
Hitler Offers "Gentleman's
Agreement for Long
Peace to France
BROAD SETTLEMENT
SEEN THIS MONTH
Bv UNITED PRESS

The Nazi-Fascist combination
today moved further to the front
in Europe's search for a solid
basis of international relations.
At Vienna, delegations headed
by Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop and Fascist For
eign Minister Ciane were gather
ing to arbitrate tomorrow the MI
nority dispute between Hungary
and Czechoslovakia.
There appeared little doubt that
satisfactory compromise would be
reached and some 1000 square
miles of additional territory and
one million inhabitants would be
cut off from Czechoslovakia. Hum
gary, however, was believed I'M
likely to get a common frontier
with Poland.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
GROWS
FOR VICTIMS
[OF ELECTIONS
|Ome Die, Some go Insane
as Problem Still
Not Adjusted
IOME PASS GUARDS
IN SEARCH OF AID

WARSAW. Nov. 1.-(UP)-
h. Jewish relief committee here
Issr,et that four persons had
Il and three had gone insane
Sorc The 5000 Polish Jews held
r., the PoIish-German frontier.
|T5q committee said that the
sws are being held without shell
were taken to the from
4 from the German interior and
awaiting deportation to Po-
fi, due 10 a dispute, regardless
| Po.ands new citizenship laws.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01

MEXICO CITY, Nov. l. (UP)
A "gentleman's agreement" not
to appropriate further Ameri-
can-owned farm lands pending
settlement of the current Unit
ed States-Mexican dispute over
previous seizures, has been
made by President Lazaro Car
denas, it was learned today.
While the president, in an Of
fetal note to Washington, re-
iected Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull's request that expro-
priations be suspended, it was
understood he will not initiate
any new seizures during the
course of present negotiations
in the United States capital;
appropriation DEGREES issued
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
VISIT ZIRCONIA

Rev. Arthur w. Lowe, Rev. En-
NETT Molineaux and Rev. Paul e.
Biorklund visited at Zirconla on
last Sunday. They visited the
home of Riley Bane and also VS.
tied at the old Station home. Dur
ing the course of the day they
met a number of people.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01

Dismisses Case

s,i; ~; Ga, Nov. l. (UP)
Il, "a e examiner of the National
!. Relations Board regional
f., yesterday recommended dis
~ VI charges of unfair labor
I Inn against the Selling Hos
bus ,n..s' Inc. of Nashville, Tenn.
Inn geS that Gordon Dedmon,
k cn employee, had been dis
b H. t.. !, tor union activity, were
~. W the american Federation
! I,J,y W orkers, a Committee
austria, Organization affili-
,,1o union has 10 days in which
''eo' Inc Communications.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
SUMNER RESUMING
LECTURES TONIGHT

DR.. F. w. Sumner of Mills River.
who gave 10 lectures in the spring
in connection with the vocational
school, at the request of various
members of the class, resumes this
work tonight at the city hall at
1880, when the public is invited to
hear the first lesson of the course
in religious psychology"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
WOODMAN CIRCLES
TEAM DRILL IS SET

All members of the drill team
of the Woodman Circle and those
wishing to be in the drill team
are asked to meet at Woodman
Hall Tuesday evening promptly at
1880 o'clock. This drill team is
under the leadership of t. v.
Lyda,