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(OST PEOPLE IN ASHEBORO AND RANDOLPH COUNTY READ THE COURIER—IT LEADS « 7,000 PEOPLE WELCOME YOU TO ASHEBORO, “CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA” semi-weekly VfjTTTMELX _ Brtw A* The Regulator February 2, 187« Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN_ ASHEBORO, N. C.t TUESDAY, MARCH 31,1936? Changed To The Courier September 13, 1879 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY NUMBER 11 Late News State, National and International Happenings Briefly Told WILL DIB TONIGHT, ^cording to reports As The Courier goes to press Tuesday afternoon, all reports indi cate that Bruno Richard Hauptmann will die as scheduled, in the electric chair in the New Jersey state prison at Trenton Tuesday night. The prisoner’s iron nerve has cracked. He called the warden to assert his innocence. He walked the floor most of Monday night talking to the guards. He refused the last meal saying, "I’d like U have that last meal sent to Dr. Condon.” N4ZIS SAY HITLER Sill astound world Adolph Hitler, after receiving the greatest endorsement ever given in any plebiscite, turned to drafting proposals to the Locarno powers in the Rhineland crisis which political sources said would astound the world. Informed sources said that whatever Hitler might demand of the other powers he would demand not as dictator but as the servant of 67,000,000 Germans who com manded him not to yield one inch of German territory or one bit of German rights. TV A ASKS FOR SIX NEW DAMS To complete the development of the Tennessee Valley Project by the building of six new dams, measures have been recommnded to congress for an estimated expenditure of $144,500,000. The recommendations contained in a special TV A report emphasized the importance of the program for controlling floods on the lower Mississippi. The $144,500, 000 with the $185,188,525 cost of the projects already authorised by con gress will bring the total expendi ture for the huge development to $329,688,525. NEGROES GUARDED BY ALABAMA POLICE Four Alabama negroes suspected of attacking and slaying Miss Vivian Woodard of Huntsville, Alabamarwere placed In the county jail at Birmingham after they were transported by automobile from Huntsville by national guardsmen. Twenty-four guardsmen and three state highway patrolmen accom panied the negroes. The trip was without incident. BRITISH DISAGREE ON LOCARNO PACT According to the London press there is serious disagreement among the ministers of the Bigtish cabinet over the advisability of holding military conversations with France and Belgium. Authoritative sources said the cabinet had decided ten tatively to begin the talks next week, although London papers have mentioned certain members of the cabinet as viewing the proposed negotiations with misgivings. PERSHING’S CHAUFFEUR, RUDOLPH VON HAGHT, DIES The man who became chauffeur of General John J. Pershing late in the World War, because of his knowledge of American automobiles died at his home in Milford, Conn., in a gas-filled room. He was Dudolph Von Hacht, a retired on a ten days policeman. He w< leave in Paris, where he leaAied that General Pershing needed a chauffeur with a knowledge of the mechanics of his car (a Locomobile). Von Hacht had been test man at the manufacturing plant for years. mother of steel magnate dies AT HER MODEST HOME Mrs. Pauline Farabeugh Schwab, ■wither of Charles M. Schwab, died at her modest home at Loretto, Pa, after a two weeks illness with pneumonia. She was M years old. She saw her son rise from a dollar* ■-day stake driver in the mills to the presidency of the United States Steel corporation and later chair man of the board of the Bethlehem Steel corporation. COLD WAVE STRIKES middle WEST STATES Frigid winds swooping Colorado, Kansas, Now Mexico, Wyoming and the Texas Panhandles which were preceded by dmt storms, brought sub-aero weather to many portions of the above saentioned states. Sheridan, Wyoming, was the coldest spot on the United States weather n»ap on Monday. The Official re port stated that the thermometer registered 18 below aero. PERSIA CUTS DIPLOMATIC Two Plays Planned For Ram^f During This PreF it Week Operetta Postp ,v ] On Ac count Of Rain? fc j iior Play Slated Fr iday Many Visit* | About Many Ramseur People Attend Funeral Of John Bray At White’s Chapel On Sunday Ramseur, March 30.—The operetta "Sunny of Sunny Side” was postponed from Friday night to Tuesday night, March 31st. The downpour of rain was too much for the folks and the children have such a fine program it was decided to give it at this time. Friday night, April 3rd, at 8 o’clock the senior class of Ramseur high school will give a three act play in the school auditorium, “Adam’s Evening,” a rollicking farce that will give the audience an evening of laughs. The cast is composed of the follow ing seniors: Brady Voliva, Juanita Cox, Clara Vickory, Clyde McAlister, Lucile Bray, James Martin, Martha Stroup, Wister Reece, Billy Kelly and Dixie Craven. Ernest Burgess is directing the stage arrangement, while Flossie Cox is handling the advertis ing. The senior class is a large one and is made up of our fine boys and girls who covet the presence of the public (Please turn to page 8) Springtime Finds Randleman Active Business Circles Work On Church Going Forward With Dedication Date To Be Fixed Soon School Play Presented M. P. Church To Sponsor Pro gram; Weiner Roast Saturday Evening; Personal Items Randleman, March 30.—Work on the new Wesleylan Methodist chorch, which is being built one mile south of here, <*n the WorthviUe road, is near ing completion and the date of dedica tion will soon be announced. This church has been erected through people who have the desire to join when it iB completed. Practically all of the material was donated and as yet, there have been no hired work men on the building but the work has been carried steadily on by the will ing workmen who have so cheerfully given their services. Probably one of the most interest ing and well carried out plays ever staged here, was the junioT play Saturday evening in the high school auditorium. The title of the entertain ment was “Crashing Society7’ and the following members of the junior class made up the cast: George Davis, Ella Dean Heath, Bob Galyon, Katherine Talley, James William Pickard, Helen Jarrett, Hilda Hamilton, Shirley Wall, Dorothy Ferguson, Ruby Stout, Bernard Spivey and Anna Lee Han cock. A large audience saw the entertain ment and door receipts were reported (Please turn to page 4) Cutting Scrape One Of Several Criminal Week-End Offenses Mary Bell McCray, local negro wo man, was cut twice, once across the face and once across the breast, Sun day night in the north end of town near the Holiness church when she met up with her husband, Howland McCray, and another negro woman, Odessa Hines. The cutting is alleged to have been done by Odessa Hines. A brother of the cut negress swore out a warrant for her arrest charging "assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.” She is now in jail. A warrant for Rowland McCray wa.i sworn out by deputy Clifford Myers charging him with knocking his wife down. He was freed after a $200 bond had been posted. / 7 It is rumored that during the fray another contestant entered into the affairs and knocked Rowland in the head rendering him incompetent for sometime. Asheboro Baptists To Present Famous Play On Wednesday The First Baptist church is sponsor ing the Great Oberammergua Passion Play which is to be held in the Ashe boro church on Wednesday evening, April 1st, at 8 p. m. The picture depicts the story of Jesus from the nativity to the ascension. A complete and appropriate musical score will accompany the entire film, blending in with the magnificent scenes which portray in authentic and Presides In Randolph For Third Week •' • f.[ . i ' i.; . ... ' '' • Ij&v JUDGE JOHN OGLESBY Presiding this week over Randolph county Superior court, Judge Oglesby is finishing his third week in Randolph county court as presiding officer. Two weeks of civil docket have preceded this wieek of criminal cases. Judge Oglesby who resides in Concord, is well known in Randolph where he has many friends. ' Wesley Evans, Local Young Man Is In The Randolph Jail Charged With Grave Count Weil known Sports Promoter In Bastille After Grand Jury Finds True Bill Forcible Trespass Is Formal Charge Made Trial Will In All Probability Come Before The Court Sometime Thursday Wesley Evans, well known Ran dolph county man who has lived in Asheboro for sometime, but who is a native of Franklipville, is in the Randolph county jail charged with forcible trespass. Evans, accoxduig to the evidence before the grand jury, to have been discovered in an up stairs room of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Story on Park street on Satur day night. Servants, who sleep in an upstairs wing of the Story home, heard a noise in a room adjoining one occupied by one of the children of the family and, upon investigation, found Evans there. Wes Harris and his wife are the servants who will be used as witnesses in the case. Evans was taken to jail where he remained until Tuesday when the grand jury, now in session because of the current term of Superior court in Randolph, was taken before that body. A true bill of forcible trespass was found against him and he was return ed to the jail where he will probably remain until Thursday when his trial will come up. Epans is well known in town and in the county where he has promoted various sports, especially prize fights and wrestling matches. Evans is, him self, somewhat of an athlete. NEGRO FLEES FROM AN OFFICER AND IS WOUNDED Cliff Kearns, Asheboro colored man, spent a day and night in Randolph hospital as a result of a week-end drunk which turned into a drunk and disorderly charge. Officer Lee Moore, summoned to north Asheboro shortly after church closed Sunday night, at tempted to arrest Kearns who ran. Seeing the officer gaining on him, the colored man turned and drew a rock and officer Moore shot at his hand. Kearns is said to have run again and made good his escape, later showing up at the hospital with a shot in his wrist. Loss of Mood and plenty of whiskey was the thief injury to the man. North Carolina Senator Addresses Maine Democrats Tuesday Noon, 31 Senator Bob Reynolds of North Carolina, keynote speaker in the Maine Democratic convention today, opened his address with a quotation from Maine’s own poet—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Building of the Ship: “Thou, too, sail on, oh. Ship of State, Sail on, oh.Union, strong and great; Humanity with all its fears With all its hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate.” Through the years that Union and all humanity has been helped in more ways than can be told by the sturdy sons and daughters of this honorable state. My own state of North Carolina may have preceded Maine into the Union, but ft cannot ulaim—end can no other—a more distinguished list of of Commissioners Hold Brief Session Tues. To Let 3 Contracts Tuesday afternoon the board of Randolph commissioners held an adjourned session at which time contracts were let for the erection of three county schools. The con tracts let involve approximately $71,687 for Archdale, Colerdige and Tabernacle school districts. At Archdale, the'Contract com plete including heat, plumbing and the actual buildinf entailing, a cost of $16,122 wmrSwfctted man-Sipe & Co.; the same for Coleridge, at a cost of $29,711, went to Fowler and Jones; Taber nacle contract also went to Fowler and Jonesat a figures of $23,854. The total amount to be expended at this time will be around $71,687. Staley Community Folk Attend Rites For Prominent Man John Bray Dies As Result Of Gunshot Wound In Baseball Game Row Saturday Other News Comments Miss Marley Returns From Hospital After Operation; Personal Mention Staley, March 30.—Funeral service for John Bray, young Staley white man who died from wounds received in an argument at a ball game in Staley on Saturday afternoon, was held at the Shady Grove Baptist church Sunday afternoon. Rev. T. F. Andrew was in charge of the serv vice. Interment vis made in the church cemetery. A large crowd at tended the service. Bray was alleged to have been shot in the chest by Archie Marley, a negro of Staley, who was later ar rested and jailed in the county bastil le in Asheboro on a charge of murder. The deceased is survived by his (Please turn to page 4) figures from the state of Maine, Senator Reynolds then plunged into his speech with unusual fervor that brought the Maine Democrats to their feet, loud in praise of the North Carolinian. The burden of his song was the new deal and a fair appraisal of conditions and results. Mentioning the steadily declining condition of business at the time of the induction of President Roosevelt, the speaker pointed out many of the contrasting market prices of common commodities that have increased with such obvious results that it is apparent that some unusual force was in motion in the United States; Speaking of the enactment of many emergency measures ' by Senator Reynolds describe) being “so constructed as i the foundation for the b*i Young Asheboro Man Dies Monday After A Very Brief Illness Edward Hopkins Dies From Spinal Meningitis Develop ing Saturday Night Funeral On Tuesday Son Of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hop kins, Well Known Randolph County Family Edward H. Hopkins, well known young man of Asheboro, died early Monday morning after a very brief illness. Young Hopkins was about on the streets of Asheboro Sunday and Sunday night late was stricken suddenly ill. The young man was taken to Randolph Hospital where doctors battled with his sudden and severe ailment which resulted in his death early Monday morning. Doctors gave meningitis as the cause of his death. The deceased, who was twenty year3 old, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hopkins of south. Asheboro. The Hopkins family have been life-long residents of Randolph county and are well known with wide family con nections throughout this section. Funeral seiVice was held at the Hopkins home on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock. Dr. S. W. Taylor, pastor of the Methodist Protestant church conducted the service which was at tended by an unusually large number of friends of the deceased and his family. The floral tributes were many and very lovely. Burial followed in the Asheboro cemetery. Among the survivors are: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hopkins, Asheboro; a brother, Farlie, and seven sisters, Thelma, Mildred, Nellie, Mary, Frances and Mrs. W. C. Maness at home; Mrs. C. A. Holt and Mrs. Raymond Cain, Asheboro. Mrs. A. D. Freeman of south Fayetteville street, is an aunt of the deceased. Local Officers Attend States Enforcement Meeting On Sunday Walter Yow, R. L. Bunch and officer Pearly Miller attended the meeting of the Association of Law Enforce ment Officers of the Carolinas which was held Sunday in Statesville. The association was organized only yOTC WpWUttlWr The four hundred offfeers who attend ed the meeting included sheriffs, police officers, highway patrolmen, railway and city detectives, federal court officers and state and county officials. The meeting was called to order Sunday morning by President B. M. Hayne of Cramerton in the Iredell county courthouse. Judge Johnson J. Hayes was the principal speaker on the program. In his speech Judge Hayes said that crime was the greatest problem facing the American people today. He advocated doing | away with the fee system and paying !• all officers on a straight salary basis. ■ The next meeting of the association will be held in Kinston on June 28, at which time officers will be elected. J. C. McPherson’s Dime ' According to young J. C. McPher ison, well known Boy Scout of Ashe 11 boro, has today sent a dime to a coin company. According to the company’s catalog, the dime owned by the boy is worth $450. Young Mack says the , dime is perfectly good American j money, dated plainly 1891—making it j forty-five years old. ; Wilbur Amos Away Wilbur Amos of Amos Furniture company and Hobart Cox left Tuesday morning for Raleigh where they will attend a Kelvinator school for three days familiarizing themselves on the servicing of Kelvinators. Ahoos Furni ture company are dealers for the Kelvinator electric refrigerators and ranges. Mr. Cox is service man for Amos Furniture company. Judge Walter Siler of Pittsboro is among the visiting attorneys attend ing Randolph court this week. In discussing conditions throughout the United States, the speaker called attention to the fact that more than 11,000 banks closed their doors during the 13 year period preceding President Roosevelt’s regime; he discussed the many phases of relief measures which are now definitely away from the principle of dole and launched upon a working basis, making for self respect of the citizenship of the na tion. Said the Senator, “no amount of deception or insiduous propaganda can fool the people of this country into believing that the new deal program has not made a definite, invaluable and, indeed, indispensable and per manent contribution to the measure jf recovery that has been accomplish mL Make no mistake about it! The rpward swing in business and in now in progress is a direct Randolph Superior Court Now In Session For Trial Of Criminal Law Offenders -♦ - Criminal Prosecutor | CHARLES COGGIN Solicitor Coggin is attorney for the state in the term of criminal court in progress in Randolph county this week. Solicitor Coggin has a number of cases on the docket which he is carrying forward with dispatch and efficiency. Franklinville Folk Suggest Connecting Direct Highway 62 Citizens In Eastern Randolph Would Have Connecting Road By Central Falls Seniors Planning Play Dog, Supposedly 111, Beats Mast er’s Car From Asheboro To Franklinville Franklinville, March 80.—The state would make no mistake by making a standard road from Franklinville by way Falls has no direct state highway. 'Since the completion of the Coleridge road by the building of this road all the Industrial towns on the river would be connected by good roads. Seniors to present play, “Plain Jane”, which has been selected by the senior class for presentation in the near future. This play, a lively comedy in three acts, full of amusing situations and is built along lines that will enable all members of the cast to appear to good advfitage. Re hearsals for this play are now going on regularly. The date of presenta tion will be announced later. Miss Mabel Cox of Asheboro and James Hayes of Franklinville were united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage, Ramseur, Saturday even ing, Rev. J. W. Williams, officiating. They will make their home at Franklinville. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Mostella and daughter, Miss Lillian, Miss Mary Durham, Daniel and Frank Sweets of Greenville, S. C., and Bolt and Charlie Mostella of Fort Bragg were guests Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Rose. Mrs. Woodrow Allred and children of Asheboro spent a few days last week with Mrs. Allred’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Tippett. Worth Pugh’s new residence on Rose street is nearing completion. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Woodell have moved from Ramseur to their resi dence in East Franklinville. A. W. Trogdon has moved his family from B. I. Parham’s residence to J. H. Burrow’s residence on Allred street. B. I. Parham and family have moved to their own residence vacated by Mr. Trogdon. Our people enjoy and appreciate good mail service, two mails daily (flease turn to page 4) >f Cedar Falla to highway 62. would give the people of Deep •man and Hig r’otot. First Bonus Checks Be Sent Veterans By Middle Of June According to official reports from Washington, the first bonus checks will be sent to veterans by registered mail on June 15th. Work of preparing a bonus package for each of the 3,000,000 veterans is already under way in some Federal Reserve banks, following first ship ment of bonds to the banks on Friday. Each package will be sent out from the Federal Reserve bank of the dis trict in which the veteran is living. Disbursement to veterans residing in the fifth (Richmond, Va.) Federal Reserve district, and to those whose certificates are held at Veterans’ ad ministration headquarters, because of loans, will be sent direct from the Treasury department in Washington, however. All bonus bond shipments will not move out from the Reserve banks on June 15, officials said. The gigantic job of distributing the bonus will be gin that day, but officials could not predict bow Judge Oglesby And Solicitor Charles Coggin Presiding And Prosecuting Three Important Cases Scheduled For Week Three Worthville Mill Robberf Will Face Court On Wednes day On Grave Charge Criminal court got off with a good start on Monday morning with the selection of the grand jury, hearing the Judge’s charge, and lining up the calendar for the week. Judge John Oglesby of Concord is presiding over the criminal term of Superior Court, as he has over the two weeks preced ing of civil cases. Solicitor Charles Coggin of Salisbury is prosecuting the docket. Judge Oglesby, in his charge to the jury on Monday morning, set forth clearly the duties of the grand Jury, pointing out what constitutes capital offenses and minor crimes. The Judge impressed upon the jury the im portance of law enforcement and respect for the courts of the state. II# flayed drunken drivers operating over the highways of North Carolina and ordered the court to look well into these matters of public interest. Of the 270 or more cases, on tho calendar, the majority are offenses of the prohibition laws of the state and nation. There are several somewhat grave cases that will probably come up before the court that are not on the calendar, having occurred since the calendar was made up. Among the cases will probably be the trial of Crawford Barnes, charged with manslaughter in the case of the death of Miss Ruth Arnold within the past week. Archie Marley, Staley negro, was brought into the county jail late Saturday night, charged with fatally shooting John Bray in a ball game argument. While the docket only is fixed through Wednesday, court will prob ably continue well through the week, With the exception of the cases mentioned, there are no unusually important cases the usu cases t^at oxoepfi l,- ^ _ of the Leward milT %t- *Worthvifle ■ which wjlj probably come up on Wednesday. Archie Saferight, M. J. Moore and Eddie Cranford are the men who are being held charged with the robbery of about $2,000 pay roll of this mill in January. It will be recalled, the robbery was a daylight affair, _— , r-7 Spirit Of Comity Revealed Sunday In y - Second Union Meet At the second in a series of fifth Sunday evening Union services, Dr. ! Walter L. Lingle, president of ' Davidson college preached to a large congregation representing the ; churches of Asheboro. The Methodic ‘ Protestant church auditorium with its . Sunday school annex was crowded and ' chairs were set in the aisles,for late \ comers. Dr. Lingle commended the’ 1 spirit of comity existing between our " churches quoting the pagan saying 5 about the Christian churches ef the • 2nd century, “Behold how theiS ' Christians love one another.” The speaker voiced an eloquent plea for reverence for the most sacred i things in life. The name of God, th* word of God, the Lord’s day, the : sacred rights of human personality • and human property—these are worth safeguarding at all costs. The specific i use of names and places, served to : point the truth of these values, con* [ vincing the mind and persuading the heart to a proper worship of the deity and respect for his sublimest creature, man. Good music led by the Methodist Protestant choir, and the cordial hoa. pitality of the local pastor, officers, ushers, members added enough to make it a thoroughly heart refreshing service. The freewill offering served to cover the expense of the service with* out deficit. So far the experiment of com* munity worship has been well receiv ed. Dr. Francis C. Anseomb of Salem college delivering the first address in January on the history of the Bible, Dr. Lingle following with his great sermon on Reverence, Sunday even* ing. NOTED EVANGELIST TO SPEAK AT COURTHOUSE Dr. J. C. Sinclair, noted Scotch evangelist, world traveller and lectur er, will speak at the Randolph county courthouse on Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. and every night thereafter, at the same time until the end of the week. Dr. Sinclair has completed six world tours and is now starting a seventh, He will lecture on many topics in* eluding world problems and events. There will be no offerings or admis* sion charges for the lectures, and the public is cordially invited to attend all of the meetings.
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