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Batten Given Life.

NORFOLK, Va, July 81 R.-La-
ben L. Batten, 81. former civilian en-
ploye at the Norfolk Naval Base, was
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lap Rocket Burns Plane On u S. S, Augusta
CZECH HUNGARIAN BORDER
TROUBLE FEARED AS PEACE
NEAR IN ASIA'S l4-MONTH WAR
War in China Costs Nearly
Million Lives; Arabs
Ambush Britons
(By United Press)

Peace in the war in China
which in IA months has cost
nearly a million lives drew nearer
today.
With the fall of Canton Japan
csc were definitely in the ascen-
dancy as their troops pressed close
on Hankow, the emergency capt.
tai in North China, and civilians
were fleeing.
With the control of Canton,
Japanese are able to choke off
supplies of foreign arms and mu-
nitions, preventing aid from go
ing to the beleaguered north and
also throttling the trade of Hong
Kong, one of Great Britain's most
valuable trade outposts.
The British are anxious for set
Element, and with Germany, whose
interests also are gravely affect
ed, the British are understood to
be making a joint effort to have
Japanese and Chinese come to
terms.
Meanwhile, in Europe, atten-
ton centered on the dispute be-
tween Hungary and Czechoslo-
vakia over how much territory
Hungary will take.
There was fear of grave border
trouble with hundreds of thous-
ands of troops massed on each
side.
In Jerusalem, two British SOL
diers of the Coldstream guards
were killed and three wounded by
snipers in the old city. A lance
corporal and a private of the Roy
al Scots were wounded from am
bush near Nablus. Twenty-Five
Arabs were killed northwest OF
Nablus when Royal Air force
planes, Royal Hussars and armor-
ed cars went to the aid of an am
pushed column Of the South Wales
border troops.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
lST METHODIST
OFFICERS ARE
REELECTED
Plans Laid for New Year;
Reappointment Of DR..
Combs Petitioned

Officers of the First Methodist
church were reelected last night
as the board of stewards met to
organize and lay plans for actlVl'
ties of the new conference year.
Roy E. Johnson was continued
as chairman of the board for the
second year; L. R. Geiger as vice.
chairman; Burt H. Colt as secre-
tary, and C. Reid Dixon as treas
urer. Other church officers We're
elected at a recent session OF the
quarterly conference.
With DR.. Gilbert R. Combs, pas
tor. attending the annual session
of the Western North Carolina
conference in Charlotte, no
preaching services will be held at
First church Sunday but the
church school and other organlza-
tions will meet as usual. The an,
nual every-member canvass Will
be held within the next week or
two, it was said.
It is not known here whether
DR.. Combs will be returned for
his third year of services. Con,
ference appointments will be read
by Bishop Purcell at Charlotte
Monday. Although the bishop and
M. T. Smathers, presiding elder;
were petitioned by resolution and
by many individual messages to
reassign DR.. Combs to the local
pastorate, no commitment indicat-
ing that this will be done has been
received here,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
OFFICIAL GERMANY IS LINKED
BY RUMRICH TO SPY PLOT
Say Defense to Show He
Lied in Effort to Get
Back in Army
By MARTIN KANE

NEW YORK, Oct. %. (UP)-
Official Germany was linked yes
terday to a Nazi espionage ring in
the testimony of Guenther Gus
tave Rumrich, bungling hanger-on
of the ring, who testified q girl
SOY had named Capt.-Lieut. Erich
Pfeiffer, of German naval intelli-
gence service, as her employer.
The girl spy is Johanna Hof-
mann, red-haired beautician, who
is on trial with Eric Chaser, U. s.
Army private, and Otto Hermann
Voss, aviation technician: Rum
rich pleaded guilty. Pfeiffer,
along with ID others, was named
in the Indictment but is a fugitive,
probably in Germany.
The evidence concerning Pfeli-
fer was part of the governments
unprecedented action in naming q
supposedly friendly power as re-
sponsible for espionage activity.
Traditionally the link between q
spy and the employing country IS
omitted from evidence in peace
time for reasons Of diplomacy.
Cross-examination Of Rumrich
began yesterday, his fifth day on
the witness stand, with an attack
on his veracity, an attempt to pic.
ture him as zone beer-mug man
and a "habitual liar"
Rumrich, who had told Of pre-
Continued on page three)
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CATS DEFEAT
TRY0N, 70 TO 0
Local Boys Held Scoreless
First Three Periods in
Game Friday

TRYON. Oct. 22.-Three touch
downs IN the final period gave the
Hendersonville Bearcats a 20 to 0
win over Tryon high yesterday af-
ternoon.
Held scoreless for three periods,
the visitors scored twice on for.
ward passes and once on a blocked
punt in the final period. The third
period ended with the ball on Try
on's courtyard line in Henderson
ville's possession, and after two
cracks at the line Quarles passed
to Drake for the score. Quarles'
placement failed for the extra
point.
Dorm set up the second Hender-
sonville score, and Quarles then
passed to Dorm again for the
touchdown. Quarles' placement
was good for the extra point.
Trvon was backed up late in
the period and Shepherd recov-
cred a blocked Tryon punt over
the goal line for the third score:
Ouarles added the extra point
from placement. .u
The visitors used two full teams
during the game but were without
the services of Coston in the back
field and Magness in the line.
Both were out due to injuries,
Hendersonville's most efective
gaining was done on forward and
lateral passes and Miller got away
for nice runs around the ends on
a couple Of occasions.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
JUDGE ISSUING
STRIKE WRIT
THREATENED
"Break Down of Law" Un-
der Michigan Governor
Described
By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE
United Press Staff Correspondent

i WASHINGTON, Oct. %. (UP)
Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola, of
Michigan, yesterday blamed Gov
ernor Frank Murphy for the
breakdown Of law and order"
during the 1887 Flint labor dis
orders and revealed that he and
his children were threatened af-
ter he had issued an injunction
against automobile sit-down strik-
ers.
He made his accusation and
disclosure before the Dies COM
mittee investigating un-American
activities. His criticism of Muir
ply was bulwarked later by John
NJ. Barringer, former city mana
ger of Flint, who described the
red haired governors activities in
the struggle as Unreasonable"
The two men presented sur
prising picture Of the labor clash
which gripped national interest.
Gadola described how sit-downers
had taken possession of two Fish
er Body plants and how he had
issued an injunction to remove
them. While the writ still was be-
ing argued, he said, riot broke
out sat a Chevrolet Motor COM
para plant and seven men died,
He described in detail how
Maurice Sugar, former counsel of
the United Automobile Workers
of America; Lee FRESHMAN, chief
attorney of the Committee for
Industrial Organization, and Lar
ry Davidow, another union attor-
ney, appeared thanked by six
Continued on page fve)
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lore FRENCH ARRESTSLOOM
ASDUCE'S AGENTS INVOLVED

ARlS, Oct. %. (UP) -
aees famous "Deuxieme Bu-
one of the worlds finest
a'er-espionage machines, hint
IS9 night at q nationwide spy
9d-up Leading to sensational
enee against Premier Benito
'SSS!InTs secret police, the Ital-
arrests within the past 4S
= OF a high official of the
"gn alien control department
TWO Italian consular agents
lyons, along with three Mar
rs rs police officials, were be-
81 IN some quarters to fore
sSoW a national scandal.
SOm these arrests and more to
NV, NV Il was reported, close ties
"een q Fascist spy ring and
NJ police may be disclosed.
1'S We're dropped that the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
DELEGATION TO
union FARLEY
IS COMPLETED
Methodists Hear Two Lead
ers as Conference
Continues

CHARLOTTE, Oct. 22.-Wes-
tern North Carolina Methodists.
continuing their forty-ninth and
final annual conference before
union next spring with the other
two branches of the denomination.
completed the election of dele
gates to the uniting conference
Yesterday. heard prominent minis
tiers of the faith in strong mes
sages. and prepared to go today
into the last half of the epochal
meeting.
This morning at 8 o'clock the
conference resumed the consider
alton of business, this afternoon
many of the delegates plan to at
tend the Duke-Wake Forest foot
ball game at Durham, and tonight
DR.. G.. L. Morelock of Nashville,
Tenn, general secretary of the
board of lay activities, will ad-
dress the conference.
The conference delegates lad q
very full program yesterday and
CONTINUED on page threef
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Deuxieme Bureaus roundup may
bring into the open sensations an
ticipated last year in a roundup
of lies Cagoulards" (The Hood
ed Ones), rightist organization
alleged to have plotted revolution
and restoration of the monarchy.
The hooded men were alleged
to have received large stocks of
foreign arms-several arsenals
were raided-and to have been
supported by French royalists.
There were predictions last
night that evidence obtained by
Spanish loyalist authorities for
the treason trial of seven leaders
of the Marxist Unification party
in Barcelona may be of great i'm
portance to the French roundup
because it purportedly shows that
foreign agents in Republican
Continued on page fve)
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MILLS CLOSE;
REGULATIONS
CAN'T Be MET
South Carolina, Arkansas,
Alabama Workers To
Be Out of Jobs
CHILD LABOR CLAUSE
ONCE HELD INVALID
(UNITED PRESS)

Operators today blamed inabil-
ity to comply with the new wage
hour law which becomes effective
Monday for mill and plant shut
downs affecting more than 1000
workers in the South.
Four sawmills in Arkansas. the
Scotch Lumber Co., at Fulton,
Ala, Adams Lumber Co., of Mo-
bile, and the Mobile River Saw
mill were closed.
At Charleston, 8. c., two bag
ging companies are closed and at
Lake City, s. c., Mayor Nettles
said tobacco re-drying plants and
three lumber mills are preparing
to close.
The four Arkansas sawnills
closed yesterday by owners in pro-
test of their inability to meet the
provisions Of the wages and hours
act were: the Northern Ohio Lum-
Der company mill at Parkin; Frs
kline Williams mill at Madison;
Dooley mill at Brinkley, and the
Wallin mill at Earle. A total of
265 men were thrown out Of work
by these shutdowns.
A survey Of larger mills in Ar
kansas showed that none planned
to shut down permanently al
though O few may close temper
arily to readjust working hours.
Officials at the Charleston, S.
c., bagging plant of the Ameri-
can Manufacturing Co., employ
ing 400, had announced "indeti-
mite suspension" of operations due
to uncertain conditions" result
ing from the wage-hour law be.
coming effective next Monday and
to government subsidy for cotton
bagging competing with jute COW
ering for bales.
The Lake City, s. c., tobacco
re-drying plants which will close
employ 1900, and three lumber
mills also to close there employ
300 workers. Lake City's popula-
ton is 5000, but many of the
workers live in the surrounding
area.
Mayor N. B. Nettles of Lake
City said he had telegraphed ap-
peals to President Roosevelt,
South Cardinals two senators, Z.
D. Smith and James F. Byrnes,
and Burnett R. Maybank, Charles
ton, governor-designate, seeking
federal aid for those who will be
unemployed. He had received no
reply, lie said.
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ABSENT VOTE
MINIMIzED BY
MANON BOARD
Hollingsworth Takes View
After Examining Appli-
cations Here

The absentee ballot is mot
such a bugaboo as both parties
seem to think" Joe Holdings
worth, Republican member of the
county board of elections, stated
this morning after an examina-
ton of the records of absentee ap-
phcations.
A few days ago Mr.. Holdings
worth was given authority to eX-
anime and copy the record of abb
sentee applications by the state
board. Relative to this request,
Mr.. Hollingsworth stated this
morning that this request was
made when l.. T. Dermid, chair
man of the county board, stated
that he was unable to find any
law making this record public pri-
OF to the election. Mr.. Dermld
did not refuse the request to see
the record, Mr.. Hollingsworth
said, but wished authority to do
so.
Mr.. Hollingsworth stated that
mis- examination of the record
showed a total of 800 absentee
applications, of which 100 were
Republican and 1877 Democratic.
He stated that no check or in
vestigation had been made, but
that from his personal knowledge
of the people of the county there
appeared to be only a few appli-
cations which would be chal-
lenged.
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lNESE BITTER
Ter CANTON'S FALL

bright, 1888, by United Press
long KONG, Oct. %. (UP)-
Yu Han-mou, military COM
der Of Kwantung province,
decided TO surrender to ia
the Japanese announced Of
ly here today.
Pc statement was made short
fter the Japanese mechanical
fes had completed their seizure
he great South China metropo-
p Canton. the Kwangtung cap
and while the japanese were
pairing for a triumphal entry
the captured city.
was understood that Prince
fhibu, eldest of the brothers of
nese Emperor Hirohito, would
Pmpany the conquerors into
ton.
ne statement that General Yu
"surrendering" lent color to
COntinued on page three)
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COUNTY Cop.
CONVENE
Platform Convention Will
Be Held in the City
Tuesday Evening

The Henderson county Repub.
lican executive committee will
hold a platform convention in
Hendersonville on Tuesday night,
October 25, James ]. Pace, chair,
man of the committee, announced
today.
The party platform for the cam,
paign preceding the November 8
election will be drafted at this
convention, Mr.. Pace said.
Mr.. Pace stated that, IN his
opinion, the party platform should
favor a more conservative county
government, taxes favorable to
home owners and industry, in
creased old age pensions, higher
wages for school bus drivers, re-
lief and assistance for needy, a
reduction of unemployment and
increase in payrolls throughout
the county by closer cooperation
with industry, and a long range
farm program providing a full
time county agent and county
demonstration agent.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
LARGE CROWD
TOHEAR HOEY
MONDAY P. M.
Governor Will Discuss No.
vember Election Issues;
Public Invited

A large crowd is expected at
the Henderson county courthouse
on Monday night to hear Govern
or CLYDE R. Hoey, who will dis
cuss affairs of state and issues in
the campaign to be decided in the
election on November 8.
A special invitation to all citi-
Gems to attend the meeting re-
CARELESS of political faith has been
extended by M. NJ. Redden, chair
man of the Democratic county
executive committee.
Mr.. Redden will preside at the
meeting and will introduce Gov
ernor Hoey, who is widely known
in this county where he has ap-
peared on the platform many
times. =,
Special music prior to the
speaking and during the course
of the evening will be given by
the Rogers String band.
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MUST PAY CASH
FOR ALL OVERTIME
Nv GERRY ROBICHAUD

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. %. (UP).
Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer
F. Andrews late yesterday ruled
that employers must pay in cash
for all overtime in excess Of "A
hours a week at one-and-one MALT
times the regular hourly rate paid
before the fair labor standards act
becomes effective at 1901 a. m.
Monday.
The ruling was aimed at err
ployers who legally may reduo
hourly rates of pay now in exec s
of the 25-cent minimum limit
established under the act, with
pledge that they will continue the
same total weekly wages paid be-
fore the law became effective.
Experts, explaining this latest
ruling, said that without it an en-
ployer who had been paying 80
cents an hour could reduce the
wage to the 25-cent minimum and
(Continued on page three)
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FRENCH PRETENDER DEMANDS
THRONE TO BLOCK NAZI PERIL

four-power "peace of Munich" on
September 20.
The count gulped down a glass
of champagne with the CORE
spondents, hoped back into his
plane and was back in Belgium
before the news Of his visit be-
came known.
Because he is liable to imme-
date arrest if found on French
soil, the rendezvous was kept un-
til his plane had crossed the Bel
gian border.
The situation in France, ne
warned, has reached such a pre-
carious state that "only the mon
archy will succeed in coordinating
efforts Of harmony and good WILL
He referred to the Munich &C
cord as "the German Diktat" and
said that it was "not only a hu-
initiation unprecedented in our
Continued on page four)
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NEARLY 5000 u. S. VOLUNTEERS
DIE IN SPANS RED RANKS

to remove all foreigners from the
battlefronts, gained their first
fame in Spain when they helped
repulse the insurgent attack on
Madrid two years ago.
Frontier advices yesterday es-
timated that about 500 Americans
were being removed from Spain:
Twenty Americans arrived NJ
Paris yesterday to sail for New
York October 80.
Frances Salamanca headquar:
tiers also revealed that the United
States government has made o.
ficial inquiry to learn the exact
number of Americans now prison.
ers of the insurgents but it was
not disclosed whether any reply
had been made.
u. s. Ambassador Claude G..
Bowers, now at Saint Jean de Luz
Continued on page three)
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PARIS, Oct. %. (UP).-The
Count De Paris, 30-year-old son
of the pretender to the vanished
Bourbon throne, yesterday violat-
ed his exile and flew to france
with a demand for restoration OF
the monarchy to save France from
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler s
domination.
The count, Henri de Guise, De-
fled arrest by flying from the
Chateau D'Anjou outside BruS-
sells to a secret rendezvous WIN
group of selected French news
paper correspondents near Paris.
On behalf of his 64-year-old IA
Their, the Duke de Guise, the sec
ond in succession as "most Chrls-
tian king of the French" gave 10
the newspaper correspondents d
manifesto condemning the french
government for surrendering TO
Fuehrer Hitler's terms IN the
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dORS PERSISTING
\ YU SELLS OUT

ING KONG, Oct. y. (Ufl-
falissimo Chang Kai-Shek
Said on high authority today
1--we arrived in Hong Kong,
hbly to meet the British am
ador and discuss peace be-
b China and Japan.
lie military leader Of all Chi
las accompanied by his talent
kmerican-educated wife; by
4 Chung-Hui, China's foreign
tier, Il Yale graduate, and by
s Ching-Wei, president Of the
6tiye council until the war
reorganization of the gov
Sent, when ne was stripped of
|ostS. Chinese credit him both
being a peace at any price"
and the originator of the
kched earth policy of de-
BE- British ambassador, Sir A.
ke Kerr, has said that he had
ktentiOn of mediating the war,
Reliable reports were received
Rrday of a joint British-Ger-
effort to persuade Japan and
IA 10 come to terms.
Piang was in a difficult posi-
faced by dissension within
banks of his own followers,
bitterness among the Chinese
the easy Japanese capture of
ton, almost without the firing
shot.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
AIRSHOW AT MEYERS
PORT HERE SUNDAY

An, air show, featuring sensa..
tional stunning by a number OF
outstanding pilots and the famous
bat wing act by Charles Zmuda, IS
scheduled to be held at Oscar
Meyers airport. on the Spartan
burg road, on Sunday afternoon,
beginning at 2 o'clock.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
Mrs. Wing Chosen
Chairman Health
Seals Campaign

A message received here today
from DR.. R. l.. Carlton, managing
director of the North Carolina
tuberculosis association, announc-
ed the reappointment of Mrs. Geo.
F. Wing, Jr., as chairman for
Henderson county in the annual
Christmas seals campaign.
Funds derived from the sale of
seals here are used to operate
milk stations in the public schools.
Mrs. Wing said she had accept
ed the appointment and that plans
for the campaign will be made
public later,
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hang READY
r PEACE, IS
ny DECLARED
h China Governor ito
lrrender, p" Japs o.
ficially State
NESE CIVILIANS
EVACUATE HANK0W

aANCHAI, Oct. %. (UP)-
,sket, fred during the Japan
federation of the fall of Can
struck the United States
.er Augusta, setting FIRE to
.;rulane on the ships deck.
augusta was anchored in the
bspoo river off Shanghai.
Wing of the plane was burned.
! other damage was done.
4 protest was forwarded to
he.e naval authorities.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-22
One-Time Capone
Aide Is Murdered

CHICAGO. Oct. %. (UP)-An
assassin shot and killed Bert De.
laney, SO, former superintendent
of All Capone's $20,000,00O boot
leg brewing industry during pro
hibition, as he stepped out OF his
automobile. 1t was the eleventh
gang Staying in Chicago in four
months,
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BY HARRISON LA ROCHE
n o. l.

BY HARRISON LA ROCHE
United Press Staff Correspondent
HENDAYE, Franco Spanish
Frontier, Oct. %. (UP)-Nearly
5000 American volunteers, most
ly members Of the Abraham Lin
coin and Washington Information
al brigades, have been killed while
fighting in the Spanish loyalist
ranks, an insurgent announcement
said yesterday.
Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co.'s insurgent headquarters at
Salamanca listed 2,S88 American
dead since the outbreak Of the
Civil war 27 months ago. It was
believed that a large part OF them
fell in three major offensives-
the Ebro, Brunette and Teruel.,
The American volunteers, who
are being repatriated under the
Barcelona governments decision
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TO
HEAR REV. ]. A. ORR

ne Rev. ]. A. Orr, DID,, of
Sourgh, Pa, will preach at the
F. m. service at the local Pres
Fran church tomorrow. DR..
Is pastor of the First United
Eoyterian church of Pittsburgh.
subject will be, knowing
flSt'S Love 8,
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REV. WALL RETURNS;
TO PREACH SUNDAY

Rev. B. E. Wall, pastor of the
First Baptist church, has returned
from a vacation spent in South
Carolina, and will preach at both
the II a. m. and 1880 p. m. SER
vices on Sunday.
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WEATHER

ar and warmer Saturday
:, catered showers and cold
;, Sunday.
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GOOD AFTERNOON

Drop kicking il no longer con-
fined to the sports page. The poll
ticians start kicking when the re.
lief rolls drop.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-10-10

friction between the Independent
Democratic club membership and
Democratic State Chairman j.
Francis Smith developed over the
weekend with the club member
ship charging betrayal" by the
state chairman. But Chairman
smith today had no comment 10
make on the charges OF Roger v.
Conner and Eugene Sheehan relat-
ing TO the beating their candidate
William clipper" Conley received
"wednesday In the 10th Senatorial
district convention.
The Democratic conventions VIII
conclude tomorrow night with q
background OF upsets, 80 far as the
Independent Democratic club Is
concerned, II appeared today.
Mahancy Assured
Assured Of denomination is Rep
Daniel j. Mahaney, four-term Rep
resentatiye from Waterbury to the
General Assembly. Choice between
Attorney Hugo l.. Guastaferri and
Joseph DeLuca will be made by the
20 delegates for the other Demo-
cratic nominee, II appeared today
duastaferri will have the support
Of the Independents. fnasmuch as
their proportion OF the delegates Is
the strongest factional unit, his
chances were accorded the edge over