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ASHEBORO, N. C-, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1937
NUMBER 159
pap Naval Crew Seize American
Launch; Rip U. S. Flag From Mast
JAUSS PROTESTS
TALIAN CRAFT IN
IANDS OF TOKYO
rphanage Wiped Out With
Bombs; Children And
Sisters Killed.
issionaries Bring Group Of
24 Children From In
terior China.
Shanghai, Nov. 30.—UP)—Ameri
n consul general Clarence E.
tuss protested to the Japanese
nsulate today after a Japanese
val crew seized an American
med steam launch and lowered
c craft’s American flag.
The launch, owned by the China
(reign Steamship company and
ent of the Roosevelt Line was
ized as it lay along the French
ncession bund.
It was understood Italian au
jrities also protested at the seiz
e of two vessels flying the Ital
r flag.
Earlier the French ambassador
id that Japanese airbombs had
Btroyed a Catholic orphanage at
ishing and killed 85 Chinese
ldren.
tie also said 150 refugees, four
ench sisters and five Chinese
iters who were at the orphanage
re missing.
Reports came as the Japanese
ntinued their advance on Nan
lg. The Chinese defenders of the
nost deserted capitol were re
tted to be falling back to a line
to 60 miles east and southeast
the city with the Japanese col
ins in pursuit.
'he orphanage ^ bombing took
cc 15 days ago but was reported"
the French ambassador by
•nch and Italian fathers who
ked 10 days from Kashing to
lgto and boarded a vessel/for
mghai. /
The two missionaries brought 24
ing Chinese children with them
Shanghai but said all other
idents of the sisters of charity
hanage were killed or missing,
’hey said the Japanese had
nbed the orphanage frequently
1 had finally destroyed six
ldings.
Janking, Nov. 30.—(.P)—Eight
the city’s gates were closed to
fhtin elaborate Chinese prepara
is to meet the Japanese advanc
arrnies.
oldiers built sandbag barriers
bobbed-wire entanglements at
other four gates. A telephone
munication system was set up
ink the defending positions com
lding the land and river ap
aches to the city,
iefugees continued to stream
n the city.
’hirty-one Americans and 41
er foreigners remained and the
ted States gunboat, Panay was
;ioned in the Yangtze off the
iking waterfront.
lunich, Nov. 30.—UP)—Gen.
ch Ludendorff, German World
r commander, was near death to
liami, Fla., Nov. 30.—UP)—Pres
it Roosevelt got out his degrim
fishing togs today to troll for
i at Barracuda.
:hristmas
UPERSTITIONS
iohemia peasants believe
plucking embers from the
tmas fire and throwing
into the wells vis a certain
jard against drouth and
mine in their country.
SfkojQpiny Z?<zyJ
Till Gkxiitmal
When Dog Shoots Man, It's News
Everyone knows that when a dog bites a man, it’s not news. But
when a dog shoots a man with a 12-gauge shotgun, that’s news,
and it may sound very comical to everyone but Cecil Parthemer,
31, inset, who is lighting for life in a Warren, O., hospital, and his
dog, Queen, the remorseful beagle shown above with the fateful
I weapon on her master’s bed. Parthemer rested his gun on a fence
while hunting. The dog jumped-up and touched the trigger with
her. ttaw. semtmg * hta charge Ot wadding and shot into Parthe-*
oV'i s chest and armpit.
President Hooks Mackerel
On Trip* Off Florida Keys
Miami, Fla.. Nov. 30.—
—President Roosevelt caught
the first fish—a large mack
erel—*s he and seven com
panions, one in borrowed cloth
es, cruised southward off the
Florida keys yesterday.
* First word to temporary
White House headquarters, a
message from the yacht Po
tomac transmitted through the
destroyer Roper in Biscayne
Britain and France Refuse
German Territorial Quest
~r
London, Nov. 30. (JP)—Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain
and French foreign minister
Deibos issued declarations to
day indicating they planned
broad consulations with other
powers looking towards ..gen
eral settlement of world un
rest.
They declared that France
and Britain were ready to co
operate with other powers in
protecting their rights and
treaty obligations in the Far
East.
London, Nov. 30.—UP)—The
Premiers and Foreign Ministers of
Britain and France yesterday de
cided in a “successfoul” eight-hour
discussion of major world prob
lems they were not yet ready to
grant ' any of Germany political
territorial demands.
French Px-emier Camille Chau
temps said the British and Flinch
Ministers were in “full soldarity’’
in their search for peace. “We made
a tour of the world," he said as he
Asheboro Hardware Closed;
Bunch Appointed Receiver
The Asheboro Harware store, 101
Worth street, failed to open its
doors for business this morning
due to the appointment of a tem
porary receiver. The action was
taken at the request of creditors.
Walter A. Bunch of thi^ city
has been appointed temporary re
ceiver pending hearing of the pre
liminary action in Superior court
December 9.
The present stockholders have
conducted the business since 1923.
House dust, flour and cornstarch
are dangerous explosives.
t
bay, said the yacht was head
ed toward Dry Tortugas island,
west of Key West, after the
party had enjoyed a restful
day behind rod and reel off
southeast Florida.
Col F'dwin M. Watson, hus
ky senior military aide, who
likes to troll in the proper
regalia, missed his baggage
soon after the Potomac left
the Miami dock and had to bor
row a sailor’s dungarees.
left Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain’s official residence.
The diplomats appeared pleased
with their first day’s work and au
thorized this’ official five-poiht ac
ocunt of the conference: J
1. France fully understood the
limited scope of Lord Halifax’s ex
ploratory talk with Reichsfuerer
Adolf Hitler and agreed with Bri
tain it fulfilled its purpose;
2. The Ministers discussed the co
lonial question in all its aspects and
agreed it required further examina
tion;
3. Both governments expressed
themselves as concerned for preser
vation of peace in Central Europe
and discussed Germany’s ambitions
there;
4. They also expressed their ap
preciation of the “seriousness” of
the Chinese-Japanese war and their
“need for viligance” to safeguard
their interests;
5. They pronounced noninterven
tion the right policy in the Spanish
Civil war.
Dedication Service
At Ramseur Church
.... "
A special dedication service will
be conducted at the Ramseur Pil
grim Holiness church Sunday,
December 6, at 11 o’clock. Rev. S.
M. Stikeweather of Kingswood, Ky.,
will assist the pastor, Rev. W. R.
Phillips in the dedication of a num
ber of bahies. Rev. Stikeweather
will be at the Kildee Pilgrim Holi
ness church Saturday night, Dec
ember ,4, at 7 o’clock.
OSCAR LASSITER
HIT BY CAR
NEAR DEATH
Asheboro Man Struck By
“Hit and Run” Driver /
Sunday Evening.
Internal Injuries
Sheriff’s' Office Conducts In
vestigation; No Trace Of
Offending Car.
Oscar Lassiter, 55, is in the Ran
dolph hospital at the point of
death, it was reported this after
noon, the result of injuries sus*
tained Sunday night when 'struck
by a “hit and run” driver on North
Fayetteville street. »;
Lassiter sustained a compound
fracture of one leg and undetermini
ed internal injuries.
He was taken to the hospital in
an automobile driven by John Mil
ler.
No details pertaining to the ac
cident has been obtained by the lo
cal police or sheriff’s department.
The investigation is in the hands
of Deputy Sheriff Ben Morgan.
Lassiter who resides on Ceme
tery street, according to meager
details obtained today, was walk
ing along the highway when the
automobile struck him. The Miller
car, the first to approach the sceno
was halted when the driver saw
the injured man, and Mr. Miller
assisted by his sister Miss Blanche
th§
"Miller lifted Lassiter into
machine and hastened him to the
hospital.
Hospital authorities this jpoon
summed up his condition as: |
“Unless he improves soon, hd
"won’t be with us long.” V '*
ANDREW JjOOTL
NOW WITH NEWS
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Well Known Greensbocp Man
Resigns as City Manager
To Return to Paper.
Andrew Joyner, Jr., who has
served with the city of Greensboro
since 1927, and since 1932 has
served as city manager, resigned
his post Monday to return to his
first love—newspaper work. Mr.
Joyner announced in his resig
nation, which was only accepted
after deep regret was expressed
by the city fathers, that he would
be connected with the Greensboro
News company as general mana
ger, after December 1st.
Although Mr. Joyner has been
engaged in the practice of law and
municipal administration since
1923, he is not a stranger- to the
newspaper field. His original news
paper job was as a carrier on the
Greensboro Record and subsequent
ly he served in a similar capacity
on the Greensboro Telegram and
still later on the Greensboro Daily
News. His first whole-time employ
ment, just after leaving the Uni
versity of North Carolina in 1912,
was as a reporter' on the Greens
boro Daily News and subsequently
he became assistant to the late A.
L. Stockton, managing editor of the
Daily News.
A Newspaper Family
For a time before he entered upon
the practice of law Mr. Joyner was
publisher of the Greensboro Patriot.
He is a member of a family long
promiently connected with the
newspaper field. His father, An
drew Joyner, Sr., was for many
years a leading figure in the news
paper profession in this section. His
brother, the late Archie B. Joyner,
was one of the owners of the
Greensboro Daily News and for a
number of years its advertising
manager. Mr. Joyner’s nephew,
Archie B. Joyner, is a member of
the advertising staff of the Greens
boro Daily News and the Greens
boro Record, and a member of
the board of directors of the
Greensboro News company. For a
number of years Andrew Joyner,
Jr., was a member of the Greens
boro News company’s board of dir
ectors. He has long been associated
with the company which he is to
serve as general manager.
Mr. Joyner was bom in Green
ville 43 years ago but he has lived
in Greensboro since early boyhood;
he was in the fourth grade in the
public schools at the time of re
moval of the family to this city
from Winston-Salem, to which they
had previously moved from Green
ville.
In Greensboro, Mr. Joyner has I
served widely in civic organizations
and has numerous honors as a
reward for his work. Mrs. Joyner
was the former Miss Pearle Ash
korth, a daughter of Dr. W. C.
Asheworth of Randolph county.
Atttention! All
_Children_
Children, here's news for
you. For a whole year your
parents have ben reading this
newspaper and you have read
the funnies. But, here is
news for your very self. We
have just had a message ovr
our Associated Press wire
straight from Santa Ciaus
hiinslf. The old dear was at i
the North Pole and suddenly
thought about little boys and
girls in Asheboro and Ran
dolph county, so he talked to
us today. He looked at the
calendar and saw tomorrow
is the first of December and
decided to communicate with
us.
Here is Santa s message to
you. Ho wants every little
girl and boy to write him a
letter and send it to The
Daily Courier. We will print
your letters and Santa will
read them and have his
Brownies get right to work
on what you want. Santa
Claus takes the Daily Cour
ier and reads it—even the
advertisements and he wants
to know what you want .
Tou can go to the stores in
AshebOro and buy presents
for your, friends and your
parents, but he wants to
know what you hope to find
in your very own stocking
Christmas mornnig.
Write him a letter just as
soon as you can and send it
to us. We will then publish
these letters in a place that
Santa will read them every
one—then, just be good until
Christmas morning!
Address your letter to The
Daily Courier—Santa Claus
Section. But, don't wait.
Christmas is almost here.
C. E. WEEK WILL
BE OBSERVED
fJtate Finance -Committee
Plans For Active Week; .
Banquet in February.
Plahs for observance in this
sta^e of Christian Endeavor week
and, for the North Carolina Chris
tian endeavor convention were
announced today following meet
ifs£r:4>f the Btate fiance committee
of tne North Carolina C, E. un
ion at the home of Mrs. Glenn
Lambert In High Point.
The union’s observance of
Christian Endeavor week will be
climaxed With a birthday anni
versary which will bo held either
at China Grove or Salisbury on
February 6, it was decided. The
winner of the contest, Miss North
Carioina Endeavorer, will be pre
sented at this banquet and will'
receive a silver loving cup. The
wittner of this title will bo deter
mined according to the number
of votes sent in by each Christian
Endeavor society to Luther Med
lin, state field secretary, box (125,
Gastonia.
Dates for the state convention
were set at June 17-20, and the
sessions will be held at Queens
Chicora college, Charlotte.
It was also decided at the com
mittee meeting to publish the new
Thx HeeL within the next month.
Rev. Kendall Shoffner. Thomas
vllle, president of the union, ap
pointed as editor Mrs. Glenn
Lambert of High Point; Miss
Gladys Routh of Greensbero was
named coeditor and the business
and criculatio manager will be
appointe in the near future.
ittr. Medlin presided over the
meeting in the absence of Kev.
Aubert Smith, of Durham, com
mittee chairman.
PRINCE WAS
INJURED MONDAY
Auto - Truck Crash Iniuresl
Prince of Netherlands; '
Taken to a Hospital.
Amsterdam, The 'Netherlands,
Nov 30.—AP—Prince Bernard,
husband of Crown Princess Juli
ana of The Netherlands, was
badly gashed on the forehead]
when he was thrown against the
windshield of his automobile to
day in a collision with a heavily
laden sand truck.
The 28-year-old Prince Consort
suffered head injuries but court
officials said he was believed to
be not gravely hurt.
He was taken to the Burger
hospital. Doctors said they hoped
to remove him to Kocstdyk pal
ace, his home, later today.
The truck emerged from a nar
row side road as the prince's au
tomobile approached at hlhg
speed.
Bernhard, who was driving a
light American-made (Ford) au
tomobile approached at high
but could not avoid skidding on
the slippery road.
The impact smashed the prince
and a passngre into the wind
shield.
ROOSEVELT ASKS
CURTAILMENT OF
FEDERAL OUTLAY
Special Message Urges A;
New Limit to Aid For
State Construction.
“Trading’’ In House j
Southern Members Signing
Wage-Hour Petition; May
Gain Farm Assistance.
Washington, Nov. 30.—CP)—
President Roosevelt asked congress
today to reduce, greatly, the gov
ernment immediate financial out
lays for aiding states in highway
construction.
Asserting that “definite steps”
were necessary to balance the
budget, Mr. Roosevelt proposed in
his message:
1. —Cancellation of $14,000,000
appropriated for distribution
among the state during the 1939
fiscal year. f
2. —Spreading over the next two
fiscal years, hundreds of millions
of dollars appropriated for the
present (1938) fiscal year.
3. —A limit of $125,000,000 an
nually on all public road author
izations.
4. —Revision of the Federal aid
highway law.
Washington, Nov. 30.—-OP)—
House sponsors of crop control and
wage and hours legislation en
gaged today in some “old fashion”
trading in an attempt to weaken
the stubborn opposition to the two
administration measures.
Chairman Jones, (D-Tex.) of the
house agriculture committee and
three other southern representa
tives added their names to the pe
tition to force the wage and hours
measure to the house floor.
Jones declared that -his sigfjji
ture did, not committ - ham fdr or
againet the Wage and hours bill
which he said was of such wide
spread interest that it merited con
sideration.
While this was going on behind
the scenes, 100 house members
called for prices in major crops
instead of benefit payments and
loans now on the bill and being de
bated.
NORTH CAROLINA
TOPS STAR TEAM
Duke and North Carolina
Dominate All - Southern
Conference Eleven.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 30.—CP)—
Players from North Carolina and
Duke dominate the 12th annual All
southern conference football team
selected foi; the Associated Press by
60 coaches and sports writers of
Maryland, Virgina an dCarolinas.
The team selected for 1937:
Andy Bershak, North Carolina
and Herb Hudgins of Duke, ends.
Henry Bartos, North Carolina
and Joe Brunanski, Duke, tackles.
Elmer Wrenn, North Carolina,
and, Woodrow Liscomb, Duke,
guards.
Charlie Woods, Clemson, center.
Crowell Litle, North Carolina,
Paul Shu, V. M. I., Jim Mead,
North Carolina and Elmore Hack
ney, Duke, backs.
SANTA and the
WHITE FOX / hm
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By Sigrid Arne
Chapter One
The New Doll
This happened on a cold white
night in the North Land. Snow
sifted thick and fine around Toy
land and the North Wind bang
ed with his boney knuckles on the
toyshop windows.
Santa dozed by the fire and Mrs.
Santa sat near him sewing clean,
white fur on his big, red coat.
“Santa”,' she said suddenly, her
brown eyes snapping, “wake up
or stop smoking that pipe. You’ll
burn yourself.”
Santa opened his eyes and
grinned. “Ho, hum,” he said as he
rose and stretched. “The North
wind had be half asleep. Guess
I’ll experiment and make a new
sort of doll.”
“How?” said Mrs. Santa wor
ried. “For goodness sakes, remem
ber the trouble we had when you
made that doll with a whistle in
her throat and she kept us awake
all night.”
“Ho, ho,” chuckled Santa, “No,
this is something else “I’ve been
A:
Routh’s Gun 11 iicated
As Slaying Weaj ln; One
Empty Shell Nef • Body
Dean of Circus
Publicitors Dies
Jfsa
m
© Bacnrach
The circus lost one of its most
colcrful figures — and circus
posters their most colorful ad
jectives—when Dexter Fellows,
66, above, dean of press agents
for the “Big Top." died in Hat
tiesburg, Miss., after a long ill
ness. It was Fellows, in his 40
years with the circus, who
thought up such circus descrip
! tions as: “A colossal, stupendous,
' magnificent. Gargantuan, pano
ramic display of multiple
arenic marvels.”
BABY FffiL mM
AUTO UNHURT
Infant Rolls Into Street
When Rear Car Door
Opened in Street.
An unidentified baby, riding in
the rear seat of an automobile
traveling west across Fayetteville
street, through Salisbury, toppled
from the machine late yesterday
afternoon, rolled and bumped ac
ross the highway with no ill re
sults.
The rear door opened and out
rolled the youngster. The driver of
the machine quickly halted the car,
jumped out, picked up the little
child and resumed the journey into
the western section of the city.
Persons in the vicinity said the
babby did not cry and was evidently
not injured. The child first hit the
running board of the machine then
toppled off on the ground, rolled
across the highway coming to a
stop near the curb.
No report of the affair has been
made to the police.
Washington, Nov. ISO.—LP)—
Majority leader Barkley said to
day he expected the senate to com
plete action on new farm legisla
tion, the anti-lynching bill, govern
ment reorganization and housing
legislation before the session ends.
wanting to make a real doll of the
North.”
Whish!
He went to his work bench and
tossed aside dolls’ shoes and bits
of pink silk.
“Ho, Flash,” he called to a fairy
that was peeking curiously at him
over her pale blue wings. ’“Let’s
sec what’s in that bos the North
Star gave me last summer.”
The fairy flew to a red cupboard
and on the highest shelf she lit oh
a white' ivory box. She touched
her hand to it and whish! it flew
through the air to Santa’s work
bench.
He opened it with; a silver key
and pulled out silky‘'ermine skins
and strings of snowflakes tha$
looked like stars and ’then a shin
ing piece of blue silk.
“Well, here goes,” said Santa.
“This is going to be a story, lit
tle doll, I’m sure.”
So he snipped and modeled.
Slowly under his hands a pale doll
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STATEMENTS OF
THREE MEN HOLD
SPOTLIGHT
Legality of ‘IConfessions” Of
Crotts, Routh and Hal
Rush Quizzed.
Vital To Defense
Attorneys Fighting; State
Representatives to Keep
Statements From Jury.
High lights during the trial
of Bill Cross, Walt Routh, Hal
Kush and Jesse Crotts, in Fay
etteville yesterday.
1. —Federal agent contend
ed one witness admitted it was
his gun which killed Mott.
2. —Routh put five shells into
the gun. When it was returned
by Rush it had but four unfir
ed shells.
3. —One shell, the Federal
agents stated, was found with
in a few feet of Mott’s body.
4. —The four defendants, ac
cording to witnesses, said, they
picked up the dead deer near
Mott’s body and placed it in
an automobile.
5. —Witnesses declared the
car used by the four defendants
was parked on the reservation
when the alleged slaying took
place.
Fayetteville, Nov. 30. (Special S
to The Daily Courier). The trial of
four Asheboro men on trial on
charges growing out of the fatal
shooting of Sergeant J. T. Mott,
on the Fort Bragg reservation last
October 16 recessed today until
tomorrow morning on account of
the illness of the presiding judge,
G. V. Cowper.
Judge Cowper is confined to
his hotel room and his physician
said he suffered from an attack
of influenza.
With the recess, the decision
relative to the admission of alleged
statements of three of the defen- *
dants, was postponed, for another
day, at least.
The fate of Bill Cross, Asheboro
hunter, charged with first degree
murder in connection with the slay
ing of J. T. Mott, Fort Bragg ser
geant-forest ranger, and his three
co-defendants, Hal Rush, Walt
Routh and Jesse Crotts, charged
with being accessories before and
after the fact, may hinge on a de
cision which Judge G. P. Cowper
was scheduled to give this morn
ing.
The decision hinges on the ad
missibility of statements alleged
to have been made by Routh, Rush
and Crotts.
Yesterday afternoon’s session
was devoted entirely to discussions
by the state and defensive attor
ney relative to testimony sub
mitted by Deputy Sheriff W. R.
Barrington, Hoke county, and Paul
Kitchin, Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation staff, stationed in Char
lotte.
It afforded an unusual court
picture and procedure for during
those four long hours of the ses
sion the state unfolded its case—
with the exception as Solicitor T,
R. McNeill said: “one witness and
one new phase of the state’s case.'*
The unusual procedure followed
the court’s action in excusing the
jury while he listened to solicitor
McNeill’s witnesses tell of the ar
rest of the defendants, of alleged
statements made by all save Cross
at the Racford jail or at the scene
of the crime or later, just after
the coroner’s inquest in Hoke co
unty?
During the testimony of G-man
Kitchin, the state’s case was'vivid
ly pictured. Here, according to the
witness’ testimony may lie the
entire foundation of the action in
which the State of North Caro
lina is seeking to convict a man of
murder-,-and too, in which the Fed
eral employees, including repre
sentatives of the Judge Advocated
department of the army in seek
ing to avenge the slaying of a fel
low soldier. The old adage known
to so many in various branches of
the seivice—“An eye and eye” is
here plainly asserting itself.
Not only is the army rep
ed by its Judge Advocate
there are several witness
to take the stand who are
nected twith the