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The Washington times., 1938-02-03
D. c. Sportsmen Hear
Plea for Stadium Again
Sen. R
Urges Need
Of Arena
BY CHICK KENNY
Washington hears it again,

washington hears 1t again.
At the third straight banquet
for the third straight year, Wash
ington heard from one of the Ma
tons law makers the pressing
need of a gigantic stadium for
football games.
Last night it was Senator Bob
Reynolds of North Carolina, who,
as one of the two guest speakers
at the second annual all-Sports
dinner of the Touchdown Club Of
Washington, stated that what
Washington needs is stadium.
And the 500 guests in attendance
in the willard Hotel banquet
room roared with enthusiasm.
Last year at the first annual
All-Sports Dinner Of the Touch
down Club of Washington Senator
Pat McCarran, with that Irish
twinkle in his eye, demanded in
his address that Washington
should be given a great stadium.
And $50 guests acclaimed the en-
dorSement with heavy applause.
NORTON APPROVES IDEA
Two years ago tbs time, Catholic
Universiy's Orange Bowl cham
pion football team was rendered
a banquet ia the Willard Hotel.
One of the principal speakers of
the occasion was Representative
Mary I. Norton of New Jersey, a
member of the House District Com
mittee. Mrs. Norton held the 400
guests in the banquet room that
night spellbound as she clearly
announced that what Washington
needed most, and should have, was
large stadium for football and
other great outdoor attractions.
THREE UPHOLD HOPE
Thus we have thre distinct
guest speakers at the largest sports
banquet gathering each year, up
hold the hope that Washington
should have this much-needed
edifice.
Last night Senator Reynolds
citedm that the United States is
the only nation in the world which
fails to have an outdoor sports
arena in its capital.
The people of Washington
should arouse themselves and
get together with the Repre-
sentatives and Senators on this
thing. The entire United States
should be ashamed for not hav-
ing a stadium comparable to the
other capitals of the world"
doomed out the powerful words
of the Senator from North Caro-
lima.
RANKS FORTY-SECOND
Reynolds pointed out that Wash
ington's largest stadium ranks
forty-second in size as compared
with those in other cities Of the
land. He was referring to Griffith
Stadium.
1--WE have no place to show the
Olympic games in Washington
when they come to this country.
Army and Navy officials have
been eager for years to bring the
Army-Navy games here. where 1t
belongs, the Senator stated" 1t
would be a paying proposition for
the Capital, and an encent1ve to-
other cities to establish similar
athletic centers.
The Washington times., 1938-02-03
hour day.

hour day.
1t might solve everything, and
would be sure to improve busi-
ness conditions for everybody
In baseball outside the St. Louis
Cardinal farm system.
Hickey is the father of the
farm system in baseball and
operates his own chain on the
one-man band principle. That
Is, he is practically the whole
show.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
M'KELLER TO FIGHT
FOR ONE RATE TARIFF

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. -
Discriminatory freight rates in
the south will be under fire at
the forthcoming session Of con-
gress, it was indicated yesterday
by the announcement Of Senator
Kenneth Mcclellan Of Tennessee,
that he had drafted q bill to
establish a uniform freight struc-
ture throughout the country.
In outlining his program to OBJ
tain equitable rates for the South,
Mcclellan said his bill called not
only for a uniform and equitable
freight rate structure, but also
for q report by the interstate
commerce commission after 1t had
established such a rate.
eve now have five freight
rate structures in the United
States" said Senator Mcclellan,
"and l shall demand fair play for
the south. Under the present sys-
tenn, it costs as much to ship from
a southern point east as it does
almost twice the same distance en-
tirely in the eastern or official
territory. This issue is age-old
and nothing has been done about
it. The matter has been neglect
ed so long that it 10 now time for
congress to take a hand and re-
quire this uniform and equitable
CONTINUED on page three
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
Stand TAKEN
IN PLEA FOR
FURTHER COIN
Shutdown of Relief Work
February ] Is Declared
Alternative
EQUITABLE FREIGHT
RATES TO BE SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. (UP).
A WPA request for emergency
funds to avoid a shutdown Febru-.
airy z made yesterday will meet
with opposition from anti-Ncw
Deal Democrats in congress.
Senator King, D., Utah, today
demanded abolition Of the WPA.
King, opponent Of most admin
istration policies, based his de-
mand on reports to the senate
campaign investigating committee
which charged that relief workers
were coerced during election cam
paigns in several states.
In place of the WPA King said
he would introduce a bill to place
supervision. Of distribution of
federal relief funds with the
chairmen of the senate and house
appropriations. committees.
Aubrey Williams, deputy WPA
administrator, yesterday told q
Pennsylvania delegation of relief
workers that the WPA must begin
trimming its relief rolls. on Janu-
airy 26 and close its work COM
pletely in less than two weeks
-afterward.
A number Of Democratic con-
gressmen now in the capital city,
lead by Senator Norris, Ind,
Neb., were confident that con-
gress would quickly approve an
emergency relief appropriation
and placed such a measure at the
top Of their agenda Of prospective
legislation.
Republican Leader Senator Nc.
Nary, Ore, yesterday had ex-
pressed the belief that here
would be little or no Republican
opposition to such q proposal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
Greater Air Defense, More Drastic
Election Laws Among 0bjectves

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. CUP
Speaker of the House Bankhead
today predicted that measures for
increasing the natl ms air
strength will be the main feature
of the national defense program
in the next congress.
Bankhead said he looked for
aviation increases rather than
recommendations for building up
the navy still further.
WASHINGTON, Dec. %. .(UP)
Chairman Morris D. Sheppard ID,
Tex.), of the senate campaign
expenditures investigating COM
mittee, today caustically assailed
the federal corrupt practices laws
as "indefinite and unsound," and
predicted that congress would be
asked soon to put teeth into them;
At the same time, Senator Carl
A. Hatch d., N. M, served
warning that he would continue
his fight in the new congress to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
: Are INDICTED
FOR ESPIONAGE
Russian and American Are
Held in Hijacking of
u. S. Records

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. CUP
An alleged Russian spy plot in
volving theft of highly confiden-
tial records of the United States
naval intelligence service resulted
yesterday in an espionage lndlct-
ment against a Russian and an
American.
The indictment returned by a
federal grand jury named Mix
hail CORN, "a, Pacific coast man
ager of Intourist, Inc, Soviet
travel bureau, and Hafis Salich,
33, Russian-American, an en-
ploye of the intelligence service.
Salich was accused of filching
records from private navy files
and turning them over to CORN.
Authorities said he allegedly re-
ceived at least $1,700 from CORN,
Russian subject, over 10
month period. -,
The grand jury considered the
case only briefly before voting
the indictment, which charges
each of the men with three counts
under the espionage act. The
charges carry a possible maximum
sentence of go years in prison
20 years on each count.
One of the witnesses who ap-
peared before the jury was Henry
Clayborn, agent attached to the
San Pedro office where Salich was
employed.
The arrest of the two men last
week stirred diplomatic circles
and resulted in the Soviet embas-
sy sending a consular official to
Los Angeles to interview them.
The suspects have been held IN
county Jail, in default of S2o,ooo
bail each. They are to be arralgn''
ed next Monday. -.
Mikhall Ivanovich Ivanushkln,
Soviet vice consul at New York,
who flew here last week, con-
ferred several times with CORN,
but insisted he was not interest
ed in Salich, who although nus
sian-born is now an American
citizen. Ivanushkin has been at
tempting to raise bail for CORN
U. S. District Attorney BenJa-
min Harrison who presented the
evidence to the grand jury, said
CORN, who lives in a sumptuous-
ly-furnished home in an exclusive
residential district, first met Sal
ich on September 10, 1881 Inc
meeting, which took place IN i
Salich's more modest home, fol
lowed a visit the latter made to
the Russian consular representa-
tive in San Francisco, harrison
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
Commulnity's Yule
Tree Service Set
8 P. M. Saturday
Music and Worship To Be
Program; Gifts Are
Not Planned Then

A sacred service of Christmas
music and worship will be held at
the Community Christmas tree,
on the vacant lot at the corner of
Church street and Fifth avenue
west on Saturday night at 8
o'clock. ..
The service is being held
through the cooperation of the
city of Hendersonville, Chamber
of Commerce, and the City Minis
terial association, and the pro-
gram will be in charge of the Min
isterial association.
Streets in the vicinity will be
roped off to care for those at
tending.
The program will consist of
music and brief talks, but con-
trary to a previous announcement,
no Christmas gifts or baskets will
be distributed at this time.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
MASS KILLING
At SAVANNAH
IS UNSOLVED
Officers Puzzle Over Wan
ton Murders; No Motive
Is Established

SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec. a.
A wanton murderer yesterday
took a fve-foot section of iron
pipe and bludgeoned to death
four members of a family on re-
lief, and blasted the head off q
filling station nightwatchman with
a shotgun. 49,
County officers were baffled
by the mass Staying. Identity of
the killer was not known. No ar
rest had been made and there
was no suspect to night. There
was not even an accepted motive.
The murderer-believed by Of
ficers to be a crazy or temporar-
ily insane man-went into q. d.
lapidated shack 100 yards off a
main coastal highway on the out
skirts of Savannah. He carried a
five-foot section of a rusty iron
pipe, three inches in diameter.
Sleeping in one iron bed was
James S. Tillman, 81, unemploy-
ed acetylene torch worker, and
his wife Mary Eliza, q. Besides
them on another bed were their
children, Clara Pearl, 8, and Mary
Leola, 6.
Ruthlessly swinging the long
pipe, the slayer battered to death
the four while they slept. The
victims did not arouse even
enough to throw off the bed COW
ers. Their skulls were crushed.
Blood spattered the beds, floor
and walls.
Tom Chester, 40, Waterman,
was decapitated by a shotgun
blast at the small frame filling
station-sandwich stand which had
been closed recently. The filling
station was. on the highway d.
rectly in front of the crude cot
tape in which the Tillmans were
fContinued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
PENNEY WILL
GIVE BONUS
$4,000 Employees to Share
in Gift; to Close Early
Christmas Eve

AS has been the custom of two
previous years, the J. c. Penney
company will pay a bonus to its
$4,000 employees in stores and
warehouses throughout the coun-
try, it was learned here today.
No managers, officials or other
employees who receive compensa-
ton other than salary will partic-
ipate. AS in the past, the bonus
will be paid on a basis of one day
for each month worked during
1888, the maximum amount be-
ing two weeks pay. Regular eX-
ira salespeople will also share in
a proportionate way.
W. F. Algary, manager of the
local Penney store, said all man
ayers and officials are in hearty
accord with the decision Of the
board of directors to pay this bon
us. 1t is not a permanent plan
"but is rather extra compensation
for efficient and faithful service
rendered during 1885," Mr.. Al
gary said.
In order to permit local store
employees to be at home with
their families on Christmas eve,
the Penney store will close at 8
o'clock Saturday night.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
White SLAVE
Ring BLAMED
INPA. MURDER
Find Girl Slain, Drowned;
Sentence Woman in
Manslaughter
4 CHILDREN BURN
in GEORGIA HOME

KEELERSBURG, Pa, Dec. ~.
(UP).-Pennsylvania authorities
today suspected that 19-year-oid
Margaret Martin, whose nude
body was found trussed in a gum
nysack in a creek near here had
been kidnapped and murdered by
white slave ring.
Their suspicion was based on
the similarity in technique used
by the girls kidnaper and known
activities of a white slave ring
which operated in Wilkesbarre re-
Gently.
The man who lured Miss Martin
from her home in Kingston Satur-
day was offering her job as a
stenographer. Nothing more was
heard of her until trapper found
gunny sack submerged beneath
a bridge near here with the girls
body in it. -.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
HUNDREDSDIE
IN EUROPEAN
SUBzERO WAVE
Temperatures Reach Rec
ord Low of Century on
the Continent
JEWISH REFUGEES
PLIGHT SAID SERIOUS

LONDON, Dec. %. (UP)-The
cold wave enveloping Europe con-
tinued yesterday to cause intense
suffering and widespread crop
damage, while deaths mounted in
to the hundreds.
Violent gales swept the Black
Sea, the Baltic and North Sea as
temperatures in the third day of
sub-zero weather reached record
lows for the century or longer in
parts of England, France and
Germany.
Swirling blizzards in the wake
of the freeze added to the suffer
ing of millions, with the plight of
Jewish refugees budding along
the German-Polish and Czechoslo-
vakian borders causing increased
concern.
In Great Britain 25 deaths were
attributed to the cold. Rumania
reported IL known dead; Czecho-
slovakia, 3; Hungary, 2; while 70
persons were reported frozen to
death in the LODI area of Poland.
Ten German-Jewish refugees died
from influenza on the German
Polish frontier:
The death toll in France reach
ed %.
Winter crops were damaged in
parts of Germany, England and
France while extensive property
losses from fire were reported
from Bucharest to London as hose
lines froze, impeding the work OF
firemen.
Tugs and barges were ice-bound
on Germany's inland waterway
systems, and the Elbe was choked
by ice from Hamburg to the North
Sea. Traffic on the Danube and
Rhine was impeded while shipping
was tied up at Memel and other
Baltic ports.
North Sea coastal traffic was
paralyzed and airplanes took over
passenger and mail service to the
ice-bound Tristan Islands, near
which two Dutch ships were frozen
in.
Temperatures of 81 degrees be;
low zero were reported in Poland
and 40 below in Russia. London
shivered in the coolest December
morning in AT years when, the
fercury went to % degrees above
zero. Temperatures in France
ranged down to zero and the cold
est weather in 81 years was lore
cast. Berlin experienced the cold
est December day in 80 years.
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take federal cash and employees
out of political campaigns. He
said he would introduce two mea-
sures directed at this objective.
One would extend to all govern
ment officials and employees the
ban against participation in poll
tics which the civil service laws
impose on those who come under
their Jurisdiction. The other, he
said, would prevent federal job
holders from being delegates to
political convention.
Both proposals were rejected by
the 18th congress. Hatch's amend
ment to the relief bill, which
would have imposed criminal PEN
alties on federal workers taking
part in election activities, was de-
feated in the senate, 40 to 81. 1t
lost, SO to SO, on a motion to
reconsider but only after Major
ity Leader Alben w. Barley o.,
Ky.) had opposed it vigorously.
Continued on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
Japs May Seek To Cut Off Chinese
Munitions By South China Drive

faith" in failing to prevent the
traffic. =,
From Pakhoi the japanese could
invade Kwangsi province, a CHIEF
center of Chinese resistance, from
the south and divert large Chinese
armies now holding up their west
ward drive from Canton at WI.
chow, on the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
border.
Military attaches said the Japa-
nese might be expected to lnten-
sifv their activities in an effort to
end the war before Anglo-Amerl-
can aid to Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek can become effective. =.
They believed that new NUM-
tions shipments to Chang hal'
shek, to be paid for by the $25,-
OOO, 900 credit given him by the
United States and a lesser credit
given by Britain. hardly could
reach China in effective amounts
in less than three or four months
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SHANGHAI, Dec. %. CuP)-
The possibility of a new Japanese
drive in South China, designed to
cut Chinese munitions import lines
from Frances South Asian posses
sions. was seen yesterday follow
ing the announcement by a Japa-
nese spokesman that japanese ma
val planes have bombed the South
China port of Pakhoi.
Pakhoi is on the Gulf of Tong
KING and Just east of the border
of French Indo-China. 1t is con-
nected with Haiphong, big French
Indo-C China port where munitions
ships have been unloading, by a
steamship line.
Japan for more than a year has
been protesting against munitions
shipments from French lndo-China
into the southwest Chinese PROV
inees, where Nationalist Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek now IS oil
recting anti-Japanese operations,
and has accused France OF oao
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
ROTEST MADE.
h SPEECH BY.
ECTY. ICKES.
Hin Told Protest Is I'LL
|Craced'' and Without
"Propriety"
(ULlN MAINTAINS
SPEECH INSULTING

BERLIN. Dec. 22.-(UP)-It
! announced here semi-official-
tOday that Germany has most
ED.y" protested to the United
1 hes state department against
coarse and insulting" remarks
Secretary of the Interior Har-
Is. Ickes in his speech at Cleve-
\ regarding the conditions in
kmany.
Eermany's charge d affaires at
|shington presented the protest
lac under secretary of state.
| Berlin and other cities news
Sers described Ickes as seeking
stir up sentiment for war
INST Germany.
likes in his Cleveland speech
attacked Americans who &C
\ Nazi medals, referring spe-
kally to Col. Charles A. Lind
d and Henry Ford.
Eies' speech before the Zionists
Csveland created the greatest
gcment in Germany. 1t was
| insulting to the leadership OF
fmany that Washington cannot
left in doubt about the detri-
htal effects these impertinenees
Ia cabinet member will have in
Rim"
The controlled Nazi press con-
nded that it was childish" to
! that Ickes could make such
aeches without official sanction.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
MADRID FACES
ITS SADDEST
WARTIME YULE
No Lights or Fires, Food
Nearly Gone, City Vows
to Hold Out
BY EDMUND ALLEN
United Press Staff Correspondent

MADRID, Dec. %. (UP)-A
million men, women and children,
shivering with cold in devastated
Madrid, without fires and light
and almost foodless, under the
cannon mounted in the Casa de
Campo Park just across the river
Manzanares, await their third and
biterest Christmas since the Span
ish war began. But they are grim
ly resolved that enemy troops
"shall not pass"
The wind that blows down
from the Guadarrama mountains,
where Generalissimo Francisco
Francois army is entrenched
amid the snow, according to an
old Madrid saying is mot strong
enough to snuff a candle, but
deadly enough to kill a man." 1t
cuts like knife through the
scanty clothing of the beleaguer-
ed Madrilenos, as families huddle
Continued on page three)
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kzIS SCORED FOR
|TTACKS ON F.D.R.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. (UP)
tag Secretary of State SUM
WelleS today disclosed that
United States emphatically
.scted German protests against
! address by Secretary of the
reriOr Ickes. and at same time
Eticized attacks in the German
sss on President Roosevelt and
cabinet.
The protest was lodged with
eles yesterday by German
barge D'Affaires Hans Thorn
p, At the German embassy here.
Germany requested the United
A.es to make public a statement
regret over Ickes' Cleveland
feech but the United States said
"a protest was iii graced and
p no prOpriety."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
BLOCK LETTER
CLUB TO dine
Annual Football Banquet
for HIS. Set Fri
day Evening

The annual football banquet OF
the block letter club of the Hen.
Jacksonville high school will be held
at the Ames hotel On Friday night,
December %, at 1880 o'clock.
F. M. Waters, city school super.
intendent, will serve as toastmas-
ter.
This banquet is given each year
after the football season for the
members of the club. Mr.. Waters,
Principal L. K. Singley and a num-
Der of other guests will attend.
Members of the club will attend
with ladies. -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
"OFFICE WIFE" IS
GIVEN LONG TERM

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Dec. 22.-
(UP).-Mrs. Fern Patricia Dull,
blonde "officey wife" who killed
her employer and lover, William
Holbrook, today was sentenced
from IA to Is years in Detroit
house of correction. She was
given the maximum term for man.
slaughter.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
Legion AuxiG larry
To Allot Toys For
Christmas Friday

Mrs. Frank Marlborough, presi-
dent of the American Legion
auxiliary, announced today that
the organization was prepared 70
supply toys to organizations Tor
Christmas distribution:
This distribution will be made
between 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning and noon at the Legion
clubhouse. " H..
the auxiliary had some really fine
TOYS for distribution to organlza-
tionS
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
John W. Farmers
Brother Is Dead

M, 'yon " Farmer today received
! 'S q ot the death of his brother,
4 SH.1ar. Farmer, 90, at his home
NJ FRANKFORT, Ky, following an ill,
a., a. o. some time. The deceased
n e a wife and one daughter.
a. Farmer is leaving TO attend
Ia 'a"Gral services which will be
~ u Frankfort on Saturday,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
PARENTS AWAY AS
CHILDREN BURNED

HOSCHTON, Ga, Dec. %. -
(UP)-Four small children were
burned to death last night when
flames levelled their family home
while their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Miller, were absent.
The children. all girls, ranged
from Is months to four years in
age.
The blaze was believed to have
started by CRATE fire in the ba-
bies' room.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
q Shopping Dogs
Il Till Christmds

r ooKINo BACK TO CHRIST
II MAS TWO YEARS AGO
u. Of Wisconsin prexy Frank
fighting custer move. Face
of Literary. Digest still red be-
cause Of THAT POLL. :.
Britons stunned over voluntary
abdication Of King Edward. :. &.
F. D. R., Jr., Ill In Boston.
'You Can't Take It With You
laying 'ern In the aisles. -.
: @(ione With the Wind. outsrip.
ping In sales the equally bulky
sAnthony Adverse. !. Sit
down strikes were spreading.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
Police, Firemen
Are Given Bonus

Hendersonville policemen and
firemen received their Christmas
presents from the city in the form
of cash, it was announced today.
All members of the two depart
ments received a bonus of 10 per-
cent of their monthly salary as a
Christmas present from the city
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
HANCOCK ON BOARD

WASHINGTON, Dec. p. (UP).
President Roosevelt today APP
pointed Franklin w. Hancock, Jr.,
of North Carolina to the Federal
Home Loan Bank board.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-22
NOT SAME HOMER CORN

The Homer Corn, recently re-
ported as in court on a prohibition
charge, is not the painter who re-
sides in the city of Hendersonville.