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ASHEBORO, N- C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937
NUMBER 174
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uick Vote Assured On F. D’s Housing Measure Three Hundred Wonen,
Washington, Dec. 21.—t/f
fhe house recessed for I
lours today after raajoi
leader Rayburn announced
ipecial session of Congress
night adjourn this afternoon.
Rayburn asked for the recess
|xplaining senate leaders
d to pass the house bill at
» and in that event the house
Lould speedily be able to send
Jt to conference and complete
III legislation business possi
It this session.
IVashington, Due. 21.—(.!’>—
Jpublican senators indicated to
they would agree to a quick
• on the administration’s hous
program in order to wind up
I unproductive special congress
l>al session.
Senate approval, before night
ll, leaders said would make im
bsible to compose differences
|,vveen that measure and the
t>si» approved bill in time for ad
ornment tomorrow.
Majority leader Barkley, (D
.), said however, he would pro
tig the session until Thursday,
Jnecessary, to get the bill to the
fiiitr House.
'•tone of President Roosevelt’s
legislative recommendations
been enacted, although the
Inn bill is in such shape that
'rcciuent at the January session
[ expected.
[in order to hasten consideration
the housing bill, Barkley made
agreement. which forecast
[enl tc -for the regular lt»S8 ses
pn. He agreed to make the much
Mussed anti-lynching bill a
erial order of business for Jan
hry G, three days after congress
fnvencs.
irmy-NavyFund
lay Break All
*eace Records
[Washington, Dec. 21.—</P)—
tudents of military and fiscal af
Jura expressed belief today that
Iresident Roosevelt would ask Con
fess next month to appropriate a
jecord peace-time fund for the
rmy and navy.
They 'said requests already re
vived by the House appropriations
binmittec indicated the President
foil'd ask more than the $1,000,
IH',000 provided for the military
htablishment this fiscal year.
Members of the appropriations
[immittee said budget estimates
pr the navy included a $50,000,000
hcrease over its current $518,000,
|00 fund, and that increases for
lie War department also were bc
fig sought.
[>acks Equiptment
Some congressmen of both major
iarties commented that the army
kcked modern equipment. This in
Jicated that proposals for incrcas
kl militai-y expenditures may be
Jupported strong’y in Congress,
lespite curi"r‘v emphasis on the
Iced r--*- a balanced Federal bud
let
Uatwood Sentenced
Willie Hatwood, colored, was sen
enced to serve 60 to 90 days on
iie roads upon conviction Of disor
erly conduct before Justice of the
’eace L. C. Phillips yesterday.
Hatwood was arrested by the po
iec during an altercation on the
ailroad tracks near the Bossong
osiery mill.
Annua] Contest
For First Baby
In 1938
The Courier’s annual New
Year’s contest is brought toj
the attention of Kandolph peo
ple—lest they forget this im
portant event during the Christ
mas rush. For the past three
years, this newspaper has
staged a baby derby, or contest,
in collaboration with the mer
chants of the town, showering
the first child born in the New.
Year with a wealth of gifts.
This brief announcement is
to call your attention to this
annual event which will be dis
cussed more in detail immediate,
!y after Christmas day.
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Alaska’s Girl,
lusher in U.S.
Kur-chtd and smiling, Mary
Joyce, above, 29-year-dld pro*
line tor of an inn at- Juneau,
Alaska, is pictured above as she
_ .arriKtsUlkSSl^yteSlWiW one
of her rare visits to the states.
Miss Joyce aroused admiration
of even hardened Alaskan sour
doughs last year when she made
a 1000*mile dog-sled trek from
Taku ' to Fairbanks * with the
mercury at 60 degrees below
zero. The trip took three months.
| Asheboro Police
Join In Futile
Bill Payne Hunt
The Asheboro police and mem
bers of the sheriff’s department
were busily engaged last night and
into the early hours of the morning,
co-operating with members of the
state police in a state-wide hunt
for the elusive Bill l’ayne
and his cohort, Wash Turner.
Reports were flashed to the local
police from state police headquar
ters that Payns and his companion,
Wash Turner, has been flushed
near Sanford and that he might be
on his way through Asheboro.
Chief of Police Dewey Bulla and
his staff together with state high
way patrolman, H. V. NorriB com
bed all highways in the city and
surrounding country in an attempt
to intercept the pair. They were
not located and, according to infor
mation obtained from the police
today, the whereabouts of the pair
were still unknown.
Kannapolis Man
Robbed Near Here
John Burr of Kannapolis stated
to police Saturday morning that he
had been hit over the head with a
jack handle and robbed of $39.60
Friday night by a man resembling
Bill Payne. He was found on the
side of the road between Asheboro
and Randieman bleeding from deep
gashes in tho head.
Burr said he was at Spencer
bumming to Sweatsonville, near
Graham, when his assailant and a
small woman called “Tuts” by the
man picked him up. Burr said
they halted the'car just outside
Asheboro and assaulted him, taking
his money and leaving him uncon
scious beside the road. He was
picked up by a passing motorist
and carried to the Randolph hos
pital for treatment.
No trace of the robbers has been
uncovered by the local police as ye*.
1 ’ Cummings Stymied
Washington, Dec. 21.—(.V)—
Attorney general Cummings said
today, he had no legislation to
propose regarding wire tapping,
which the Supreme Court outlaw
ed ns a source of criminal court
evidence. -
Great Britain
Calls “Bluff”
01 Japan; Wants
More Than Words
London, Dec. 2i.—(.?>—Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain told
the House of Commons today tint
“no attempt has ever been made
by Japan for peaceful settlement of
her war on China.”
“This is ihe time, now, fur the
Japanese government to show they
are not unmindful of the rights and
interests of foreigners and that
their assurances and apologies
mean something more than words,”
the minister declared.
Concerning the entire foreign sit
uation, he added, Great Britain’s
“definite objective” is the “settle
ment of trouble of the world with
out war.”
Great Britain is considering a
show of naval might to impress
Japan, at war with China, and
hoped today, American and French
warships would join in the Far
Kn‘ t parade which might “cheek
Japan’s aims to dominate China to
its complete exclusion of other
foreign interests.”
Attacks against American and
British gunboats are the current
cause of resentment but the basic
cause is that Britain fears Japan
will try to ease out other nations
with economic interests in the
Orient.
Britain concentrated her naval
migh.t in the Mediterranean in
19.’i5 and inspired sanctions against
Italy by 52 other nations. Both aets
arroused (1 Duce’s resentment.
Oiie deterrent to a British naval
show in Oriental waters is the
continued unrest along the Med
iterranean and British reluctance
to withdraw any number of war
ships now there.
The purpose may be served,
however, by delegation to the
French Mediterranean fleet the
job of keeping watch—while Spain
fights out her bitter civil war.
It could easily be arranged for
the French fleet to take over for
the British—the British army and
navy are linked in mutual assist
ant agreements.
Judges To Decide
Best Decoration
Thursday Eve
The committee from the Wo
man’s Club in charge of Christ
mas decoration of homes urge all
who plan to compete in the con
test to have their homes decorated
an.i lighted by Wednesday evening.
Thursday evening the final judg
ing will take place and prizes will
be announced soon thereafter.
Members of the committee are:
Mrs. Ed. Hedrick, chairman, Mrs.
L. E. Whitfield, Mrs. Fewell and
Mrs. Henry Luther.
Already a great many homes are
decorated beautifully and elabor
ately which with the added decora
tion of the business section of
Asheboro, gives the town an un
usuall festive appearance.
The churches of the town have
been decorated for the anniversary
of the birth of Christ and arc also
attracting attention. One church
has the scene of the Nativity on
the front with concealed lighting
effects and the Star of the East
guiding the Wise Men. Another
has a Christmas tree that is un
usually lovely with wreaths of
Christmas greens on the doors to
welcome holiday worshippers.
All-in-all, Asheboro is decorated
and displaying the real Christmas
spirit this year.
U. S. Steamship
Sinking Off
Netherlands
London, Dec. 21.—t.-P)—Lloyd’s
announced today the United States
liner, City of Hamburg, has wire
lessed rhe was sinking after a col
lision, ten miles east of Terschell
ing, the Netherlands.
“We’re sinking fast, ten miles
east of Terschelling, after collis
ion,” the SOS said.
The City of Hamburg is owned
by the Baltimore Mail Steamship
company and is an 8,424 ton vessel.
She was built in 1919.
The message was picked up by
Lloyd’s north Foreland station.
Gets Medal for Risking Nazi Ire >
Isartore Gennett, right, New York newsdealer, on his return from a
tour with American Legionnaires receives a medal from Harry H.
Schaffer, national commander qf the Jewish War Veterans, in rec
ognition oC his daring while in anti-Semitic Berlin, where he
placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. When a
Nazi officer iioticed that the wreath bore a Jewish War Veterans’
ribbon, Gennett was grilled for three hours.
Landon Back8-up Roosevelt
In Pending Foreign Crisis
Washington, i)cc. 21.—UPV—
Alf W. Landon gave President
Roosevelt today a pledge of
“co-operation and support in
the field of the foreign situa
tion confronting the United
States administration.”
In a telegram made public at
the state department, the Re
publican 1936 standard bearer
and former Kansas governor,
criticized members of Con
gress of both parties, who he
said, “by their acts help create
an impression among foreign
Merchants Association
Office Robbed of $20
t
Unidentified persons, sometime
last nigh', or early this morning,
entered the Asheboro Merchants’
association office, over the Carolina
theatre, Fayetteville street, ani
stole #20 in currency.
Police information this morning
was to the effect that entrance was
gained to the office by use of pass
key as there was no evidence point
ing to a forced entrance
The theft was reported by eni
Greensboro Man Arrested
Here on Mann Ael Charge
Christmas Danger
Chief Rush Warns of Fire
Hazard From Dried-out
Trees.
Fire Chief Clarence Rush
called attention to the high
i’tflamablc condition of trees
used for Christmas decoration
after the trees have been in
doors for any period.
Chief Rush said that all per
sons should take extra mea
sures at this season of the
year to be on the alert for
fires.
Trees placed near open fire
places or near stoves or lamps
he said add an uncstimated de
gree of danger to homes.
Slight Fire At"
Comer Home
An overheated oil stove in the
residence of Mi's. Cora Comer, 318
Worth street, caused slight dam
age to the walls of one room in the
dwelling Sunday night.
The Asheboro fire department
was summoned and extinguished
the blaze before any material
damage had been done.
aitnrr—— •
nations that they do not .trust
the administration of foreign
affairs..”
“They would hamstring your
your conduct in handling an
extremely delicate foreign sit
uation.”
The President’s reply said
“the general spirit of your tele
gram helps me to meet the
problems which confront our
country in the field of foreign
relations during these trouble
some times.”
ployes of the association who found
the office desks ransacked upon op
ening for business this morning.
The police were immediately no
tified and are working on meager
clues which may develop into an ar
rest.
The theft, last night, is one of a
series of minor crimes wjiich have
| been taking place in the city for the
I past several months.
David Lee Perrell, dapper look
ing Greensboro man, was taken
from the Randolph county jail yes
terday afternoon by Sheriff Carl
E. King and turned over to federal
agents, Wallace J. Clark and W. F.
Lomacks on a charge of violating
the Mann act. Perrell is accused
of taking Pauline Jarrell of Ran
dlenian to Grand Rapids, Mich.,
for immoral purposes.
Perreil, according to J. F. “liud”
Routh, justice of the peace in Ran
dleman, took the 18-year-old girl
from Randldman to the northern
state about six weeks ago, return
ing to Randleman for her a few
days ago after she had come back
to her home.
The acquaintance was made, ac
cording to Mr. Routh, at a rooming
and boarding house in Greensboro
where both were staying. Perrell,
it was said, has a wife in a South
Carolina town and has been “mixed
up” in several incidents previously.
Perrell was to be arraigned -n
the commissioners court of the U.
S. middle district, in Greensboro,
this afternoon.
New Bishop
Philadelphia, Dec. 21.—(.1*1—The
Most Reverend, Eugene Joseph Mc
Ginness, D.D., was appointed bishop
of Raleigh, North Carolina, today
by Cardinal Dougherty.
Telegraph Units
Seeking Higher
Rates; First In
Thirty Years j
New York, Doc. 21.—<.P)—Wcst
| crn Union Telegraph company,
ami Postal Telegraph company,
today jointly announced intention
to apply to the Federal communi
cations commission for a 15 per
cent increase in rates.
The increase, it granted, would
be the first in thirty years of
operations, except for the World
War period, when the utilities
were under government control,
! the announcement said.
The increase is needed because
the “financial resources and credit
of tile companies are being placed
in danger by the decline in rev
enues brought on by the general
slackening of business of the
country”, the statement said.
While the proposed new schedule
of rates was not published, it was
reported the increase would be
applied generally, upon various
classes of commercial and public
messages, but not to be the press
rates.
Mother Shoots
Four Children;
Two Near Death
Waveriy, Iowa, Dec. 21.—hi1)—
Sheriff Frank Sager said a Bremer
county woman shot four of her chil
dren m* their sleep' today,- fatally
wounding two of them.
He said Mrs. Elias Watters,
whom he is holding in the county
jail, admitted the shooting, declar
ing th; children “wouldn’t mind
her.”
The shooting took place in the fa
mily farm cabin. Her husband is
employed on a timber planting pro
ject near Lansing, the sheriff said.
The sheriff said the woman told
him she shot her children in the
darkness of the small cabin and
then went to the cabin of Mrs.
Louis Wiehe, nearby, where she
fired a shot through a window. The
sheriff said no one in the Weihe
cabin was injured. He said Mrs.
Watters explained she had “had
some trouble” with Mrs. Wiehe.
Roosevelt Aims
At Peace With
Utility Heads
Washington, Doc. 21.——
President Roosevelt resumed to
day his efforts to stimulate an
early revival of utliity construct
ion through peace talks with
power company executives.
Invited to the White House were
Frank R. Phillips, president of the
Pittsburg company, and William
H Taylor, president of the Phila
delphia Electric company.
The conferences were the first
since W. L. Willkie, president of
the Commonwealth and Southern,
and Ford L. Carlisle, chairman of
the Condolidated Edison and Nia
gara-Hudson Power company were
called in a conference a month ago.
Spain s Loyal
Troops Driving
At Rebel City
Ilipdays, Spanish-Franco Front
ier. Dec. 21.—(.T*>—The Spanish
government today hurled 20,000
more men into fierce struggle for
Teniel, radio advises said, and the
reinforced army, of 55,000, was
ordered to take the capitol at all
costs.
This force, and the insurgent
defenders were locked in hand-to
hand conflict within the city on
the 7th day of the government of
fensive and authorative reports
said the garrison still was holding
out.
Thousands of attackers and
defenders, alike, were reported to
have fallen.
The Weather
North Carolina: Partly cloudy
tonight. Wednesday increasing
cloudiness and warmer.
Many Americans,
Danger In New Attack
Teacher Ousted,
Students Strike
V r.
While students of Kaiamazoc I
College singed a strike demand- i
log Ids reinstatement, Ur. Carey I
Is. Gaming, professor of eco
nomies at the Michigan school,
is shown a hove as he discussed
ina request foi a public airing j
jl "inetlMienev" charges upon j
.which tus--liiakrussa^ Wins.bused. !
Unemployment
Cheeks To Start
In January
Raleigh, Dec. 21.—North Caro
lina will have approximately $10,
000,000 in its Unemployment. Com
pensation fund by the time the
first cheeks are actually delivered
to eligible unemployed workers,
probably on January 28, Chairman
Charles G. Powell, of the N. C.
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission, told the Carolinas Branch
of the Associated General Con
tractors of America at their meet
ing in Charlotte last week. This
fund has been paid by 6,500 em
ployers operating 8,250 establish
ments and on the payrolls of ap
proximately 500,000 workers, Mr.
Powell said.
Mr. Powell, referring to the
present recession in business, said
that it now seems probable that
fully 100,000 checks a month will
go out to eligible unemployed
workers who have established work
records in covered employment
during 1937 after payments start ■
January 28.
Benefit- payments to eligible
unemployed workers which begin
in January will serve to alleviate
suffering and keep the wheels of
commerce moving even though
many employees will probably be
otit of work during the so-called
recession in business that is now
evident, Mrs. J. B. Spilman, mem
ber of the N. C. Unemployment
Compensation Commission, said in
an address to the Lions Club of
Winston-Salem last week.
Mrs. Spilman said that pay
ments which start probably on
January 28 will give the unemploy
ed eligible workers purchasing
power1, even if on a low'er scale,
nof only assuring them of . sub
sistence, but also helping to keep
other workers busy producing the
necessities they can continue to
buy with unemployment eornpen
sat:on payments.
A school for 55 claims inter
viewers, 45 field investigators and
i 10 district deputies for service
at the various employment offices
in the State will be held in Raleigh
all next week, in preparation for
paying unemployment benefits in
January. William R. Curtis, direc
tor of the division of statistics and
research of the State Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission,
will be in charge. Intensive train
ing will be given and tests made of
the abilities of the new workers
before they are sent out. Two days
were dvoted to preliminary train
ing for the 55 claims interviewers
last week.
!
Shanghai, Dec. 21.—liP>—
Major General Kumakicke He
rado announced today, that fur
ther investigation of the sink
ing of the United States gun
boat Panay showed that it had
not tired its cannon at Japa
nese troops, as his report of
yesterday stated.
San Piedro, Calif., Dec. 21.
—OP)—Fleet organization and
training, were the official re?*
sons given today for the sud
den transfer of 9 naval de
stroyers from the San Diego
base at San Piedro.
Staff officers said the United
States fleet was in the higheat
state of efficiency and training
in its history and ready for in
stant action in any emergency.
Shanghai, Dec. 21.—CP)—Japan
ese troop and warship moves to
day aroused China’s fears that
three of the nation's great coastal
cities would suffer the fate of
fallen Nanking.
The Chinese expected .Japanese
to drive against Hangchow, sea
port, some 110 miles south and
west of Shanghai; Canton China's
southern metropolis, and Tsingtao,
Shuntung’s seaport to the north.
There were authortitative rc
poKs that 11,000 Japanese soldiers
withdrew from Nanking and em
barked last night from Shanghai,
apparently bound for Canton.
A party of .‘500 American and
Pritish women and children at
tempted to l'lce war threats in cen
tral China but were turned back
to Hankow, one of China’s three
temporary capitols.
A boom across the Yangtze river
Mstjungr iHO n>des--al(wve fsarw y
‘king, obstructed passage of their
refugee'vessel, a British * ship’ at
YVoosung. • '■
The United States destroyer
Pope, arrived at Kotsing whore
the cruiser Marblehead was due to
day to aid in protecting 300
Americans in the threatened port
and c vacuute them if necessary.
Labor Spies In
Unions, Senate
Group Claims
Washington, Dec. 21.—OR—-The
civil liberties committee said to
day that labor spies were employ
ed by 2,500 firms, a blue book of
American industry—and the .com
mittee added, in a report to the ,
senate on work for the year, “many
spies were found to be union men
—including a national vice presi
dent of his union.”
Payne Eludes
Officers Near
Coastal Resort
Conway, S. C., Dec., 21.—CP)—
The Horry county sheriffs office
said today ai} ail-day hunt oh
Waecamaw Neck had yielded no
tract of two men, believed to be
Bill Payne and Wash Turner, wide
ly hunted North Carolina despera
does.
One officer expressed the belie!
the pair had eluded the net of co
unty officers and state highway
patrolmen, thrown about the nar
row strip of land after a highway
patrolman lost their trail at Myrtle
Beach. .
Ask Pardon , ' *
Raleigh. Dec. 21.—t-Pi—Counsel
and relatives of Herman Casey, 50
year old Lenoir county man, serv
ing 25 to 30 years for 2nd degree
murder asked for a pardon today.
Thrills
Upsets .. Close calls, .. The .
year 1937 was full of ’em for
followers of sports!. The fans
would like to relive the-year;
.. and now they get thei^
chance .. Review 1937 with
Alan Gould, sports editor of
The Associated Press., and. his
staff of experts ,. Mr. Gopld
has supervised a com prehen
sive series of articles starting -
today. Turn to the sports page
and look for—
The Year in