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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-26
(UNITED PRESS)

\SNA GA I N6SSI
European peace today ap-
peared dependent squarely
on Adolf Hitler a. Franco
British resistance to Ger
many stiffened.
England and France, unit
ed on their war course, sent
a personal message to Hitler
by airplane in a final effort
to avert war over Czechoslo-
vakia. 1t was believed that
the message warned Hitler
that the Nazi ultimatum to
the Czechs is unacceptable
and placed responsibility on Ger
many, il war comes.
British parliament will be CON
voked Wednesday As British and
French government leaders con-
tinue conferences at London.
Germany, militantly united and
steeled for the crisis, awaited Hit.
ler's speech today in which he is
expected to reply to a cable Presi-
dent Roosevelt sent him, appeal
ing for European peace.
German newspapers assailed the
presidents action in placing the
United States influence against
the foreign floodtide of war.
Officials in French and British
quarters praised the Roosevelt
message.
With two million men modified
the new Czech government yester-
day rejected Hitler's demand for
surrender Of the great frontier
territory by October ! and calmly
awaited a showdown.
Czechoslovakia held Ernest
Kundt, Sudeten German deputy to
parliament, and German minority
leader, under arrest.
On other fronts:
Mussolini geared Fascist mill
tary machinery for mobilization
and declared Italy will participate
if war breaks.
The French completed mobiliza-
ton and afraid defense plans with
q million and a half men under
arms.
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e. AMERICANS
Held IN CZECH
LAND BY FORCE
Appeal to Legation After
Hearing of Likely Ger
man lnterment
Nv REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press Staff Correspondent
PRAGUE, Sept. 20. (UP).-A
group Of IS Americans, fearful ol
being placed in NaZi concentra-
ton camps if they flee through
Germany, last night appealed to
the American legation TO aid them
in escaping from CzechosIovakIa
and the menace Of war.
Legation officials under Min
lister Wilbur J. Carr, Immediately
began an investigation.
Milton Shuffro, Chicago lourn-
alist and spokesman for the group
of IS American tourists, students
and artists, said they had boarded
q train for Paris but were turned
back at Eyer in the Sudetenland
near the frontier.
1--WE were turned back when we
were told that our train would be
unable to cross Germany because
Of the danger of our being placed
i'm concentration camps, ShuffrO
said.
The American legation, Shuffro
said, was asked to supply gas
masks, food and shelter for some
Of the 65 stranded Americans
who were awaiting money from
home.
The group, banded together un-
der the name Of "American refu-
gees in Prague" with Shuffro as
their president, also petitioned the
legation to provide a special train
flying the United States flag to
take the refugees to Paris through
Germany
Pending action by Minister
Carr, the group was being housed
in the headquarters of the Czech
Sokol (athletic) organization.
In addition to Shuffro, the
refugee group elected Thomas
Supe Of Pittsburgh, Pa, as its
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-26
SOVIET PLANE
BEING SOUGHT
Three Women FIiers on
Nonstop Flight to Far
East Missing

MOSCOW, Sept. 26. (UP)-The
Soviet government today organ
lied a search for the plane Of
three women filters, who had ia
ken off at SIP a. m. Saturday
on proposed nonstop flight
from here to the far east and had
not been reported since their IA
dio went dead at 6:53 a. m. yes
tcrday.
The pilots, all we'll known, are
Valentino Grizodubova, deputy OF
the Supreme Soviet U.S.S.R., Po-
lima Ossipenko, captain, ana
Marina Raskova, d senior lieuten-
ant.
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HITLER WANTS
PEACE, NAILS
ARE ADVISED
Only Asks Prague to Keep
Agreement Already
Made

BERLIN, Sept. Exchanging
that President Benes, of Czecho-
slovakia, was seeking to create a
"new situation" Hitler today de-
clared that he sought peace and
only wished Benes to fulfill the
agreement he had already made.
He declared that he sought only
predominant German areas OF
Czechoslovakia and had offered to
conduct a plebiscite under inter
national supervision for other
areas.
The Czechs, he declared, how
ever, must give up the predomi-
nant German areas by October /.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-26
HER MARRIAGE ENDS

LOS ANGELES Sept. &c. -,
(UP).--Three months of married
life for the Harold s. Longs was
ended yesterday. Mrs. Long eX-
planned her husband provided her
a honeymoon home in an automo-
bile trailer, and parked the trailer
in the rear of a house occupied by
his first wife. Mrs. Long was
granted q divorce,
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PEACE HANGS
upon HITLER'S
STAND TODAY
Prague Would Further Dis
cuss terms for Quitting
Sudeten Area
THINK ALLIES TURN
DOWN ULTIMATUM

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia,
Sept. 26. (UP).-Czecho-
slovakia has informed Great
Britain that Hitler's de.
mands for surrender of Su-
detenland by October l are
unacceptable and should be
subject to further discus
sions.
The governments decision
was made after a night of
study as the nation prepared
for war.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-26
s FIREMEN HURT

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. &c.
(UP).-Five firemen were injur-
ed when flames swept the Men,
phis Flooring company with DAM
age estimated at 100000 Sum
day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-26
SAY CUNFIRE
INTERMITTENT
AFTER FIGHT
3 Poles, | Czech Police
man Killed; Is Poles
Reported Wounded
WARSAW MAY DEMAND
SAME TERMS AS NAILS

WARSAW, Sept. 70. (UP).-
Official circles today reported
Czechoslosak negotiations for the
return to Poland of the Teschen.
district Temporarily r o k e n
off" The disclosure followed
Czech note proposing further ne
9otiStions.
TESCHEN. CZECH POLISH
FRONTIER. Sept. 20 tCPJ
Sporadic gunfre sounded along
the Teschen border after sharp
clash between Poles and CZrchS.
armed with machinegunS. One
Czech policeman and three Poles
were killed. Fifteen Poles we're
wounded.
WARSAW, Sept. 26.-(UP)-
Informed quarters said early to-
day that Poland might reject q
formal offer by CZechoSlovakia ("
negotiate the TeSchen frontier dis
pute and might insist on mlmedI-
ate Polish occupation Of the area.
The Polish government, 1t was
indicated. might insist upon Gccu-
pying the TeSchen strip in q man
ner similar 10 that laid down IN
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's new memo
randum demanding German occu-
patton Of the Sudetcn German
border areas Of C2echOslOvakIa by
October l.
A Czech reply-said to be con-
tanned in a letter from President
Eduard Benes to President lgnacy
Moscicki-waS delivered to the
foreign office here yesterday by
special airplane messenger.
Poland's possible refusal to en-
gage in drawn-out negotiations
regarding TeSchen Silesia. taken
from Poland in 1920 to help form
the postwar republic OF Czecho-
slovakia. was attributed 10 the
Polish contention that the Polish
and German miuOrltieS under
Praeue's rule must be treated
equally.
Poland. it was said, could not
be satisfied with less than the Ger
mans receive.
The Polish press, however, did
not comment on Hit.er'S new
memorandum and centered its in
tereSt on reported clashes between
the Polish Free Corps" and
Czeehs in the TeSchen district.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

Herman Goerins is reported 81.
most recovered from his illness, II
won't be long before he'll be sit
ting Up and receiving medals
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WEATHER

Fair to partly cloudy and warm
err followed by showers late Tues
day.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

first rules our friends will find they have to COM
ply with if they intend to keep their money.
There has been so much talk in this country
against lottery tickets, and don't understand
the opposition to it at all. When you think of
the millions that pour out of the United States
every year into other countries, why on earth
can't we keep that very money here and have
legitimate lotteries? Mrs. Hartman, of New York,
has been fighting for this for many years and
many other people feel that it would be good
thing, and, as for me, cannot see what all the
fuss is about and why they don't put the law
through.
1t is so much better to have these things run
under Government control than by a crowd of
underworld crooks. Thomas Dewey of New York,
has proven that these underworld crooks have
run racket after racket, with slot machines and
in other ways for years. Why not have proper
Government control over these lottery tickets and
everyone take his chance, and keep the millions
In our own country?
1t does seem that if there is any way for us to
let our money get away from these Shores we
certainly welcome it with open arms.
Besides preventing our wealth from drifting out
of our hands, we should also keep pounding away
on this airport in Washington. The papers have
repeated again and again; intelligent flying men
have testified time and again that it is veritable
death-trap and, yet, nothing has been done about
1t, except closing part Of the road recently.
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Gets Steam Up

A T TWO of these, Mr.. Garner,
"A the Vice President, appears
to have again been the life Of
the grim party. He got his
steam up, once at a Cabinet
meeting where the utilities mat
ter was discussed and again at
one of those conferences of con-
gressional leaders with the
President.
His free way of speaking his
mind sincerely in the past has
led to the publication of
accounts, which may have been
considered embarrassing by some
persons. Consequently these two
most recent incidents have been
mentioned only vaguely and in
speculative whispers among the
insiders.
However, Mr.. Garner himself
has told several of his col
leagues that there seems to be
no use in him going down to
those "dad-bummed confiden-
tial meetings any more" His
lament was that he "gets so
het up that I can't keep from
letting off steam while I'm
there and more so when get
out"
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sharp pencil Che writes his col
umn by longhand), continues to
cause the White House almost
daily pain, also received an
LID. from Oglethorpe. So did
David Sarnoff, RCA president;
DR.. James D. Murphy, a director
of cancer research of the Rookie
teller Institute; and seven other
celebrities.
DR.. LaGorce, when interviewed
over the phone about his new
honor. went modest on me and
said, This is the time of the
year when unearned distinctions
are poured like rain on unsus-
pecting heads.
Woodrow Wilson and Frank
lin D. Roosevelt have been hon
ored by Oglethorpe.
Oglethorpe's celebration in
cluded the dedication of the
massive door of a Crypt of
Civilization" This remarkable
h a m Der is an underground
vault built of granite and con-
crete and lined with stainless
steel. Here are being placed
micro-photographic films which
form a composite picture of the
civilization of the present.
At the end of this year the
crypt will be closed-to remain
closed for 5000 years. Already
notices are being sent to every
seat Of learning in the world
telling the latitude and iongi-
tude OF the crypt. Although
during these 5000 years the
face of the earth will change,
there will probably be left
some one college which may
dig down or up and find in the
crypt the record of our times.
Government scientists are CO.
operating with Oglethorpe in
stocking the crypt. The films
will be made of acetate, put in
glass tubes from which the air
is forced out and replaced by
helium stored in cases covered
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Special Privileges


IF the Secretary of Agriculture
4 were a lady instead OF a
gentleman from Iowa. he might
criticize the Supreme Court
more successfully. I know sew.
eral ladies who during the past
year regularly defied the courts
rule that only attorneys should
sit within a certain section in
the court room. If the ladies
wanted to get in the court on a
crowded day they simply took
off their hats and tried to look
like Mabel Walker Willebrandt
and other women lawyers who,
while practicing before the high
est tribunal, must be hatless.
The guards looking at the
scheming visitors assumed that
they were entitled to special
privileges and let them pass I'M
questioned.
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Rand Company Strike

BESIDES the aforementioned troubles, there
- are TOO employees Of the RemingtonRand
Corporation who went on sitdown strike in a
protest aimed at the Supreme Court ruling. True
it didn't last long but it is the first time have
heard anyone using sitdown ~jrike against the
Supreme Court. As I remember it, they first used
their sit-down strike against the industrial mag
mates Now they are moving up to higher realm
and sitting down against Supreme Court ruling
I suppose the next thing will be they will use the
same methods on something the President does
that they don't like.
Yes, we are living in a peculiar and twisted
time, with our millions going to Europe through
the sweepstakes methods, the horrible torture and
death inflicted on children, the deathtrap for air.
planes right on the outskirts Of Washington,
people starving right and left, with no jobs and
no prospects of any, It almost seems when we
read the newspapers like terrible witch's brew,
with everything horrible, dangerous, and loath-
some thrown into the pot and the eternal fire
burning under it.
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Salt Seasoning

MOST of the promises which
NA are being made to con-
slider legislation at the next Ses-
sion are accompanied by an in
visible Saltshaker.
The promise that processing
taxes will be passed next year
to reimburse the Treasury for
the $212,0OO,000 it will pay out
in farm bounties under the
Russell amendment, needs as
much saline seasoning as any.
The only thing it really means
is that Senator Pope will again
try to get his processing tax
amendment through.
The promise was necessary to
exempt this amendment from
the general White House rule
against further expenditures
which fail to provide new means
of revenue for raising the money.
The International Chamber
of Commerce has quietly de-
cided not to go to Tokyo this
year for its scheduled general
conference. 1t will go to Copen-
hagen instead. The inside on
it is the Japs quietly requested
that their invitation be with
drawn on account of the war.
They we're not particularly keen
for having 1000 foreign business
men around at this time.
The official inside word here
is that Henry Ford will not
agree to any shutdown in the
motor industry.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04
POLITICAL FIGHT
OVER CHRISTGAU
DISMISSAL seen.
Minnesota WPA Chiefs
Custer Defended Here
BY EARL GOODWIN

Victor Christgau, whose re-
moval as State WPA administra-
tor creates a red-hot spot in ma
tionaI politics, was "lone wolf"
according to Administration
higherups.
And being lone wolf, he would
not run with the relief packard
so was fired.
In other words, instead of being
out of office for politics, Mr.
Christgau is out Of office because
they say at WPA headquarters
he would not work with them,
would not follow their orders and
adhere to their plans.
GOT IN WRONG
Specifically, he has aroused the
ire of many Minnesota officials
because he refused to go along
with a certain project which Min
nesotans wanted, which the WPA
headquarters here o. k.ed - but
which was not attractive to Mr..
Christgau. The result was a tor
rent of letters begging that this
project be started, many of the
letters aiming direct attacks on
WPA State Administrator Christ
gau.
The office Of Harry Hopkins
has been cycling Mr.. ChriStgau for
year and six months with a view
to getting him ION the reserva-
ton" or getting him another job.
In fact, Harry Hopkins either Of
fered Mr.. Christgau another job,
one in Washington, or he author
lied his chief aide, Aubrey Will
liams, to place Mr.. Christgau here.
However, Mr.. ChriStgau refused,
so it is said here in WPA offices,
to come to Washington.
OUT FOR GOOD
Aubrey Williams, who is acting
WPA administrator, made it clear
today that Mr.. Christgau is "out
for good" Mr.. Williams says that
no matter whether or not Mr..
Christgau was appointed by the
President and confirmed by the
Senate, Mr.. Christgau is "out" just
as completely as if he were mere
90-day appointee on clerical job.
incidentally, while the President
is understood officially not to
know single thing about the
Christgau incident, nevertheless
those in position to know whisper
that removals like that don't hap
pen without someone around the
White House being informed.
FUEL TO THE FLAMES
The Christgau incident adds fuel
to the flames raging over the mat
ter of relief in politics. Just at this
moment there is a snarl in Mime
sofa politics, with the Farmer
Labor party threatening the Demo
cratic party again; and the G.. O..
P. trailing weakly. The ChriStgau
incident was made to appear to
be a martyrdom suffered by an
anti-administration man in charge
Of State relief in a State where
the New Deal wants to tread softly.
Whether this will ever be proved
or MOTT is the Administrations
statement that politics had moth
ing to do with the removal of Mr..
Christgau: and that he was re-
moved because he did not harmon
ize with WPA organization policies.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04
Classes in Art
Opened in Park

The office Of the National Capt.
tai Parks announced the annual
summer art classes will be opened
today in Rock Creek Park under
the direction of Miss Pherne
Miller.
The classes will be conducted
for persons of all ages from 10
a. m. to p. m. each Saturday.
After July 8, classes will be held
Friday and Saturday. About ESQ
persons attended last year.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

Mrs. RooseVelt's pet project, but
for the listening ears of radio
thousands. At Union College,
therefore, Mr.. Vandenberg will
take a pretty opportunity to tell
the young intellectuals how to
shoot Straight-at the New Deal.
Union College is one of the
oldest institutions of learning in
this country. This will be its
143rd commencement. 1t is non
sectarian and was founded by
some liberal Dutch CalviniSts
who believed that a proper edu-
cation should combine "a union"
of religious thought.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04
Beauty of World

How unnecessary and tragic this all is, when
H we look at the beauty of the world around
us and realize the innate goodness in every
normal persons heart. We certainly have all
gotten off on our little side roads with venge.
ance.
But, despite all this heartbreak and tragedy,
there is one thing certain: If people will have
faith and each one do his best each day, things
are bound to come out right in the end and the
world may be better place for all the sorrow
and tragedy it is going through now, because
never forget, that what is in fact within will
show without"
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

Florida something like A. RosGa ca-ts-
100000 acres of land which is most suitable for
the growing of sugar cane There is at least
one company which is doing limited produc-
ton in that territory.
Not long ago. some 1000 heads of families
were added to relief rolls in Southern Florida
The utter incongruity of the picture stirred the
officials of this private company. They went to
Washington, and approaching the Department
of Agriculture, declared that they willing to
do their share toward helping achieve the OBJ
jectives so loudly and persistently proclaimed by
Mr.. Roosevelt-industry must take up the slack
of unemployment if it did not want the Govern
ment to step in.
The sugar company men made this PROPOSE
ton: IF the authorities gave them permission,
they were prepared to expand their facilities,
equipment and production, which naturally
would make them more money. In exchange,
they promised to give employment to 10000
additional people each year for the next 10 years.
or the equivalent of 100000 people in all. Their
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

sum Tor the promotion and
propagation of bigger and bet
ter Minton propaganda. The
only difference, however, is
that the Hobbies Minton has
so far investigated" paid for
their propaganda with private
funds. The Minton committee
flor the promotion of Minton
uses public funds.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04
Traffic Notes

THE chauffeur Of large linn
L CUISINE waiting outside the
RFC building for the RFC
chairman, Mr.. Jesse Jones, to
come out of his office and be
driven to the White House, was
given a ticket for illegal park
ing.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sat
in her own roadster for 20
minutes, waiting for her secre-
tary, Mrs. Melvina Schneider.
Usually secretaries wait for First
Ladies. But Mrs. Roosevelt could
never be called a hide-bound re-
dictionary.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

All the congressional leaders
are understood to have been of
the same opinion on the re-
organization bill, including Sen
ate Leader Barley.
Before the White House meet.
ing he made an agreement with
Senator Byrd which in SUBJ
stance meant the death of the
bill. Due to Byrd's well planned
and alert leadership of the op-
position forces, everyone knew
it would be impossible to get
the measure through.
However, some Cabinet and
House members were pressing
hotly for the other point to boil
Ster their anti-utility campaigns.
Barkley'S public death notice as.
serted Mr.. Roosevelt and the
congressional leaders also had
agreed on that, but it neglected
to mention the lively differences
of opinion which preceded the
agreement.
Senators who hobnob with the
v. P. in the cloakroomS say he is
deeply diSpleased with lust
about everything that is going
on" also. When he speaks to
them, he gets red in the face,
clamps down on his cigar. The
mildest gesture he has been &C
customed to make lately is a dis
gustful shrug of the shoulders.
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winner IN ART
SHOW WILL Be
NAMED SUNDAY
First Outdoor Fair Here
Visited by $4,000

Ballots were being counted to-
day to determine who exhibited
the most popular picture in Wash
ington's first outdoor art fair.
Winners of prizes in the city's
most unique exhibition will be
announced in the Herald. Times
tomorrow.
$4,000 VISITORS
1t is estimated $4,000 persons
saw the show in Madison Place
Northwest. Works of $50 artists
were on view and many of the
paintings and sculptures were in
new homes today as the result
OF sales made right on the side.
walk of the outdoor fair.
Howard Chandler Christy, noted
portrait artist, was one of the
most enthusiastic visitors of the
two-day showing.
This should be repeated
every year" said Christy. IT
am surprised at the really high
quality of work displayed here"
Albert Schmidt, of Cherrydale,
Va, won particular mention from
ChriSty for his exhibition of oils.
The fair, said Marcel Colin,
National Parks Service artist. re.
minded him of his native Paris.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

ment lin e S
against the
utilities W a S
patted quick
ly by an
official spade,
with wholly
/ n a d e quate
Obsequies.
AS Coroner
r 90 S e V e | t
! S S u e d the
death certi-
ficateS only
by proxy. no
one may ever
know exactly
W h a t hap
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

country. OF course, these
people who have never had
much money and suddenly
come into a fortune will soon
realize there is another side to
the picture-the tragic letters
for help, hundreds Of people
asking them to do things; but,
If they did them, they would
be as poor as they were in just
about a weeks time. 1t is hard
to say mo" to people when
they really need help and as
Sistance, but this is one Of the
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

pened. AS a matter Of TACT
none of the members of the
official family seems to want to
know or say. They are content
to keep it out of the newspapers
and let it rest in whatever
public peace can be maintained
about it.
For this reason, some very
lively wakes at the White House
lately may go unrecorded for
posterity.
The Washington times., 1938-06-04

season his ad-
vice with some
poignant re-
marks alb out
t h e present
AdminiStra.
ton.
w ny not?
t he Senator
asks. Presi-
q Ell I 6OOSC
welt spoke out
loud on taxa
ton at Ar
thurdale last
week. Not for
the youn G
students of