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NUMBER 41
government will buy
drought area cattle
Washington.—After devoting al
most the entire session Monday to
the situation of cattlemen in
drought areas, the inter-depart
mental drought committee announc
ed that a government program of
buying drought area cattle, similar
to the emergency measure in 1934.
would probably begin this week.
Between #30.000.000 and $40,000,000
will be available for this purpose,
and Secretary Wallace said it might
be necessary to buy 1,000,000 head
of cattle and process the meat for
distribution by relief agencies. In
South Dakota streams have dried up
so that a serious water shortage has
caused fear of widespread disease,
as many towns are forced to use
water which has not been properly
treated.
VICE TRIAL WITNESS
TORTURED IN WASHINGTON
Washington. — Beaten, tortured,
bound, and left to die in a gas-filled
room Sunday, Jean Costello manag
ed to overturn a telephone and
scream until police came just in
time to rescue her. Miss Costello
said she had been a member of the
vice ring of Charles Luciano, who
was recently sentenced to Sing Sing
-for 30 to 50 years, and had received
threats since her testimony helped
to convict him. Her assailant enter
ed her room while she was in bed
and chiselled the initials, *N\ L.”,
believed by police to stand for
Charles Luciano, and the figures
“3-12”, the position of those letters
in the alphabet, qp her body, the
wounds being inflicted with some
instrument like a nail.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
EPIDEMIC IN ALABAMA
Montgomery.—Dr. J. N. Baker,
Alabama state health officer, has
advised county health boards to
establish quarantines wherever any
possibility of infantile paralysis
exists in order to check the spread
of that disease, which up to Sunday
had attacked 126, killing 8. Most
of the cases were in northern
Alabama, in the Tennessee Valley
region, where in many communities
churches, movies, and the usually
thriving mountain pleasure resorts
were closed up. Children from four
to ten years of age were the chief
sufferers, but two of the dead were
adults.
Wt CADMAN SUCCUMBS
TO PERITONITIS ATTACK
Plattsbnrg, N.- Y.—Dr. S. Parke*
■ Cadman, 71, internationally famed
churchman, died Sunday after a
L w«ek’s illness of peritonitis result
ing from a ruptured appendix. Born
in England, Dr. Cadman came to
this country at the age of 26 and
®^°n attracted attention for his pul
pit eloquence, rising to be pastor
•f the Central Congregational
I cnnrch in Brooklyn, N. Y, and
winning the admiration and devo
tion of thousands by his radio ad
dresses. In his youth he chose the
church in preference to the mines
where his father and grandfather
J>*d worked, and though he rose to
oe President of the Federal Council
" Churches and pastor of one of
New York’s wealthiest churches, he
•{ways preached tolerance towards
»J1 classes and sects- and peace for
«H Peoples.
4DSTRIA AND GERMANY
NEW PACT
Vienna.—All Europe is intently
wattfling for developments from the
Austro-Gernutn pact by which
Germany recognises Austrian sover
•maity, promises not to interfere in
Austria’s internal affairs, and will
» friendly attitude toward
Austria’s treaty with Rome, where
*• Austria acknowledges that she
■ « German state and will grant
8 *"u,e»tiee to Austrian political re
«»gees now in Germany. Practically
, elements in Germany hailed the
•greement, as did most of those in
Austria, although Austrian moaar
dusts saw the and of their hopes
*• cnthroua Prince Otto and the
lightning Strikes
Randolph Mill No. 1
At FiMlinville
Considerable
Little Dam _
Thunder S
Vacation
Smith Family
Sunday At
Home With
ent But
esult Of
unday
1 Ends
s Reunion
Allred
nl Present
Franklinville, July 13.—During the
thunder storm Sunday afternoon,
lightning struck Randolph Mill No. 1
and fire caught on the third floor
which created, excitement for a short
, while. The fire alarm soon brought
1 several to the scene and the flames
1 were soon extinguished.
Mrs. Tom Kivett has bought from
| Mrs. C. C. Curtis, the 11 acre lot on
highway 90 south of Franklinville, ad- i
joining the lands of F. T. Welch, Joe 1
: Nance and C. S. Ingold.
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Jones and son,
Aaron, of Greensboro, and B. C. Pil
kenton of Franklinville spent a few
days last week with friends in
Lumberton.
A. L. Frick and D. C. Parker have
finished sawing the timber on the W.
A. Grimes land and have moved their
i teams back to Salisbury. Jesse Riblin,
j their truck driver, took a truck load,
29 people, to Wrightsville Beach, leav
ing Friday evening returning Satur
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Rural Program Has
Benefits For Scouts
Not In Town Troops
Many Opportunities For Boys In
Rural Areas To Scout Alone
Or In Small Groups
Has Usual Awards
Rural Scouts Get Credit For
Farm Activities; Program
Develops Better Farming
Although Boy Scout activities have
, taken a firm hold in Asheboro, and
troops have been established in other
neighboring communities, boys in the
rural section* .of Randolph .count#
have not availed themselves of the
opportunities offered by the rural pro
gram of the Boy Scouts of America.
When Bunn Hackney, Scout Execu
i tive, first promoted the organization
of Boy Scout troops in the county,
efforts were made to provide for the
boys in the smaller communities or on
t farms. Nevertheless, according to
Fletcher Bulla, who has been interest
ed in the Scout work in the county,
the movement is now confined almost
entirely to town troops. Perhaps if
more boys were aware of the pos
! sibility of doing Scout work alone or
I in small groups, they would take part
j in the rural program.
Statistics reveal that more than 50
j per cent of all boys of Scout age in
! the United States live in communities
| of less than 2^>00 population—that is,
in what the Census Bureau terms
rural areas. Boys of these communities
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P .0. S. Of A. Holds
District Meeting At
Lexington Saturday
The Piedmont district P. 0. S. of j
A. will meet in Lexington, Saturday,
July 18. The Piedmont district is com
posed of camps in Asheboro, Siler
City, High Point, Thomasvillej Re
volution and Lexington. This will be
the regular quarterly meeting for the
district. )
The Asheboro camp promises to
have the best report in the district,
its membership having grown to 84b.
AH members who can make the tijp
are requested to be present Thursday
night, when arrangements for the trip
will be completed. Transportation
will be provided for all who wish to
g0- . „
The contest between the Senior De
gree team, headed by F, L. Presnell,
and the Junior degree team, headed
by C. L. Thomas is keen. Interest is
growing each week, and several new
members have been added recently.
Assistant Postmaster
Will Be Named At
A Near Future Date
Although no action has been taken
as yet upon the appointment of an
assistant postmaster for Asheboro be
cause of the over-worked codition of
the Civil Service commission, Post
master J. 0. Redding has been pro
mised that a report on the Civil Ser
vice examinations taken in January
will be made within a few days. When
this report has been presented,
authorities will have an eligible list
from which to select the assistant, and
this will be done immediately after
the report is made.
An idea of the amount of work fac
ing the commission may be gathered
by the fact that applicants who took
the examinations In August, 1935, are
Just now receiving their grades. It is
Dies Suddenly On Tuesday
JUDGE JOHN OGLESBY
Judge John Oglesby Passes At
Charlotte Hospital Tuesday A.M.
Following Operation Recently
Born In Montgomery County; Was Appointed Judge In Fifteenth
District Under Governor McLean Twelve Years Ago;
Popular, Conscientious And Good Lawyer
I A shock to many North Carolinians
who knew, admired and loved Judge
j John Oglesby, was the news of his
I sudden death this morning. Undergo- j
ing an appendix operation at a |
Charlotte hospital a week ago, Judge!
Oglesby appeared to be recovering
satisfactorily when he died suddenly
Tuesday morning.
Actual details of his death are
meagre as this newspaper goes to
press but the news will be received
in Randolph with considerable regret
of this popular jurist who has so re
cently held court in Asheboro.
John Oglesby was born in Montgo
mery county about 48 years ago while
i his father, a Methodist minister, was
j serving as pastor at Troy. John
j Oglesby -learned early to work for
i himself, his father having been killed
; by a train at Troy. He attended school,
j working his way chiefly and working
j in textile plants at Concord summers
! and after school hours. He received
i his law license at the University of
i North Carolina and, under the gover
IN. C. Press Asso.
Holds Interesting:
Meet In Mountains
North Carolina editors and publish
ers got an eagle’s eye view of the
Great Smoky Mountains National
park Friday and later watched the
Cherokee Indians put on a war dance.
The delegates to the North Carolina
convention were taken on a motor
1 cade to the top of Clingsman dome,
6,640 feet above sea level, the highest
peak in the park.
The group left the convention head
quarters and reached the top of the
peak at noon by way of the skyline
from Newfound Gap.
The association members then went
to the Cherokee Indian reservation,
14 miles down the highway. They
lunched and were entertained by the
Cherokee war dancers.
This meeting began Wednesday and
ended Saturday morning with a large
number of North Carolina editors and
publishers in attendance.
Dr. Pritchard Visits
Dr. J. E. Pritchard, editor of thej
Methodist Protestant Recorder, was a j
visitor in Asheboro Monday afternoon
for a few hours, returning to Greens
boro Monday evening.
Is Critically 111
Mrs. L. M. Fox, who has been quite
ill for sometime, remains in a serious
condition at her home on South
Fayetteville street.
Emergency Peace Campaign Starts Well
In County With Working Organizations
L
The emergency peace campaign,
sponsored in part by the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America and covering strategic areas
including more than three hundred
cities and numerous rural areas, is
getting off to a good start in Ran
dolph.
Miss Fern Stowe, of Hartford, Con
necticut and Miss Marion Harlan of
Women’s college, Mississippi, in co
operation with Miss Lillie Bulla have
opened the work in Sophia and the
surrounding vicinity. Local advisers
are Rev. Penn of the Congregational
church, Rev. West of the M. E.
chursh and Rev. B. B. Bulla of the
Friends church.
aim of the program is to dis
norship of Governor McLean he was!
appointed judge in the fifteenth
judicial district to fill out the unex
pired term of the late Judge Long.
He served in the world war and has
been prominent in legion affairs dur
ing the past several years. Active in
church work, he is well known in
clerical circles as well as among the
state bar members and beloved by the
plain citizens among whom he
numbered his friends by his ac
quaintances. Among the many virtues
of this prominent jurist, his straight
walk along the path of duty as he
saw it, was his chiefest, with a con
science unstretched by modem court
methods.
Among the sufyivors are a large
number of brothers hhd sisters and
half brothers and sisters by his fath
er's second marriage. His wife, Mrs.
Sara Oglesby and two small daugh
ters, also survive at the Concord
home. Funeral arrangements had not
been announced Tuesday afteroon as
this newspaper goes to press.
Young Democrats To
Meet At Courthouse
On Wednesday Night
All Democrats are urged to turn
out for the meeting Wednesday night
of the Randolph County Young Demo
cratic Club at the court house in
Asheboro. Larry Hammond, president
of the organization, has set 7:30 as
the time for the session to begin, and
everyone should come promptly. Old
as well as young Democrats are invit
ed and expected. Many leading Demo
crats of Randolph county are planning
to attend to lend their support and
encouragement to the movement,
them being Arthur Ross, county chair
man.
The most important business will be
the selection of delegates to the state
convention in Greensboro Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of this week.
Members of the club are asked to
come prepared to name their choices.
Officers for the coming year will also
be elected, and there are several other
items of business to be discussed.
It is to be hoped that the at
tendance at the state convention will
be large. Among the speakers will be
North Carolina’s junior senator,
Robert R. Reynolds, Jr., who will ad
dress the meeting Friday.
Miss Bulla Substitutes
Miss Betsy Bulla is taking the place
of Mrs. Clyde Chisholm in the office
of county superintendent of education
T. Fletcher Bulla while Mrs. Chisholm
is on her vacation.
trend toward international conflict
and to forestall our entering into
future wars not of our making.
Among the national leaders of the
movement are Dr. Harry Emerson
Fosdik, Dr. Kirby Page, both inter
nationally known lecturers and writ
ers, Senator James Pope of the
Munitions Investigations Committee
and scores of other prominent men
and women who will lecture in the
cities during the summer. College
students are making their contribu
tion to the work in less populated but
important areas.
"It is the college generation,” says
Harold Chance, leader of the student
group, "that is always asked to make
m
Well Known Citizen
Dies Suddenly From
Heart Attack Mon.
John H. McDowell, Born And
Reared In Randolph, Falls
Dead In His Yard
Funeral On Wednesday
Prominent Livestock And Ferti
lizer Dealer, Bank Director
And Other Connections
Sudden death late Monday after
noon took one of Randolph county’s
most substantial native citizens—
John H. McDowell. Mr. McDowell had
worked hard all day on his farm, com
ing in home about dark. He had start
ed to attend to the stock and evening
chores, accompanied by his son, when
he fell dead. For sometime, it is said,
he has suffered attacks of heart
trouble or indigestion.
Mr. McDowell was the eldest son of
Rev. W. F. McDowell who is a well
known pioneer minister in the
Methodist Protestant church, where
the deceased held membership. He
was a well known livestock dealer,
also handling fertilizer and coal. He
is a former member of the town
board and a director of the First
National bank. He has always been
an active politician and a staunch
1 Democrat, serving his party faith
! fully.
| Funeral service will be conducted
from the Asheboro Methodist Pro
testant church Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock. Dr. S. W. Taylor, j
pastor of the local church, will be'
assisted by Rev. Joel Trogdon. Burial
will follow in the Asheboro cemetery.
Surviving are, the widow, who was
Miss Lillie D. Walker; one daughter,
Katherine; two sons, John Miller Mc
Dowell, a student of High Point col
lege, and Thomas J. McDowell, all of.
the home. The father, Rev. W. Frank
McDowell, also survives as do two
brothers, Ben F. and Joe E. McDowell,
all of Asheboro. Another brother,
Thomas J. McDowell was killed in
France with the local military com
I pany.
Lightning Destroys
Barn And Stock In
Gray’s Chapel Area
During the storm Monday afternoon
lightning struck a bam located about
a mile and a half from Gray’s Chapel
and belonging to J. ft. Hackett, well
known farmer of Randleman, route
two, starting a fire which burned the
bam and everything in it with the
exception of a wagon which was pull
ed to safety. Two Jmrses and two
calves were burned to death, and a
quantity of wheat stored in the barn
was lost. Total damage was estimated
by Mr. Hackett at $1200.
The bam, whose value was set at
$500, was insured only three weeks
ago by Mr. Hackett. The contents of
the bam belonged to his father, J.
T. Hackett, and were not insured.
The storm, which in Asheboro mani
fested itself as a not particularly
heavy downpour of rain, turned into
a severe electrical display in the
neighborhood of the farm on which
Mr. Hackett’s bam was located.
Lightning flashes were numerous, and
several trees were struck, during the
duration of the storm, from about 2
to 3 o’clock. Mr. Hackett said that
within five minutes after lightning
hit the bam the flames covered the
building so thoroughly that nothing
could be done to save it.
BITTEN BY SNAKE
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Fifteen years ago Mrs. J. N. Gor
forth was bitten by a snake, and the
I wound healed. After a while, however,
the spot became painful and each
spring it came back for a short while.
This week she came to a hospital in
Statesville for an operation to relieve j
the recurring hurt. Hospital attaches
Saturday said her condition was satis
factory.
Temporary Transfer
Mrs. W. R. Warren, a member of i
the staff of the Troy office for the
national forest title abstracting work,
has been temporarily assisting H. tH.
Leake in similar abstractly duties.
to register their protest. Emergency
peace volunteers will follow the trail
of service and adventure into every
part of the United States this sum
mer. We believe that living can be
just as heroic as dying!”
More than half of the four hundred
volunteers are college men. Needless
to say that fast growing interest in
world problems and the rapidly grow- ,
ing international tension has given
rise to the movement of which the
Randolph project is a part. The pur
pose of the group is to discuss these
problems with as many individuals
and groups as possible in the county
and to draw on the national head
quarters for such aids as speakers,
marionette shows, talking pictures
and literature. All these are to be
State Board Of Elections
Declines T o Change V otes
Which Are Already Filed
i —
Protests Vote
DR. RALPH MCDONALD
North Carolina Loses
Second Position In
Federal Taxes Paid
Pennsylvania Succeeds North
Carolina As Runner Up To
New York For 1935-36
Illinois Is Fourth
Cigarette Taxes Show Little
Fluctuation; Still Account
For Bulk Of Revenue
North Carolina politicians who have
been harping on the fact that the
state pays more in taxes to the feder
al government than any other except
New York will have to find a new
string. Guy T. Helvering, United
States Commissioner of Internal Re
venue, has reported that for the
| fiscal year ending June 30 Pennsyl
! vania has supplanted North Carolina
| in second place and Illinois is press
ing her for third.
j North Carolina’s loiss of position
l was due principally to the same cause,
1 working in reverse, which caused her
to mount from a position of fifth to
2nd during the depression. Cigarette
i taxes, which account for the hulk of
j the Federal revenue collected in North
Carolina, show a smaller degree of
fluctuation because of prosperity or
the lack of it than any other im
| portant tax source tapped by the
Federal government.
Consequently, when all other forms
of taxes were decreasing rapidly,
cigarette taxes almost maintained
their own, advancing North Carolina’s
relative position as a tax source for
Uncle Sam rapidly. Another and
smaller factor is the failure of North
Carolina to increase its collections in
I better times as rapidly as other
states.
Total internal revenue collections in
North Carolina for the last fiscal year
amounted to $275,732,058 as compared
to $249,881,385 the preceding year, an
' increase of about 10 per cent. Collec
; tions for the country as a whole in
j creased 24 per cent, rising from
$2,773,213,213 to $3,448,302,870.
New York easily maintained its
dominant position in first place, bet
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Randolph Will Lose
Ten Teachers From
1935-1936 Allotment
j The State School Commission has
allowed Randolph county only 227
teachers for the 1936-1937 school year
in the prelimiriary allotment announc
ed Saturday. This represents a loss of
ten teachers from the 1935-1936 allot
ment, which gave the county 237
teachers. T. Fletcher Bulla, county
superintendent of education, stated
that the revised allotment will grant
Randolph a few more teachers after
all factors are taken into considera
tion, so that the actual loss will not
be great.
Albert Martin from the state educa
tion headquarters in Raleigh is con
sulting with Mr. Bulla about routing
school buses for the coming year. Mr.
Martin arrived Monday and will pro
bably complete his work in another
day or two.
Farmers Cooperative
Opens On Salisbury
Street Friday, 10th
The Randolph Farmers Cooperative
opened up its establishment on West
Salisbury street Friday as planned.
Starting in a small way, it is the plan
to build a thorough foundation and
expand gradually.
The cooperative has received its
charter from the state permitting it
“to engage in any activity in connec
tion with the production, sale and pre
serving any farm products of its
members.” The authorised capital
stock of the cooperative is $10,000, and
the subscribed stock is $6. The board
of directors consists of W. R. Brown,
Dr. Ralph McDonald, Defeated
Candidate For Governor, Pro
tests Second Primary
Voluminous Data &
Long Speech Monday
Board Declares Hoey, Horton
And Eure Official Nominees
For The Fall Election
At the meeting of the state board
of canvassers, held in Raleigh on
Monday, Dr. Ralph McDonald, de
feated candidate for the nomination
for governor, asked that body to
“direct and conduct a full investiga
tion” of the voting “to the end that
the nominees of the Democratic party
may be declared on the basis of tha
majority of legal, honest and valid
votes cast.” Dr. McDonald appeared
before the board in person with a
fourteen page protest.
Paul D. Grady of Kenly, anti
sales tax candidate for lieutenant
governor against Wilkins P. Horton
of Pittsboro, also protested the recent
second primary vote. Mr. Grady spoke
only briefly and the board heard him
attentively, applauding at the end of
the brief discourse.
An ultimate aim for the investiga
tion requested by McDonald was pre
sented by Itimous Valentine, associate
manager of his campaign. “I’ve been
here 47 or 48 years,” he said. “God
knows I want there to be a time in
North Carolina when somebody will
be elected and nobody in the world
can point to the election and say
something was wrong.”
Valentine offered to help sponsor
changes in the election law and to
“ferret out an Australian ballot
system that will be bomb-proof and
airtight and, by golly, can’t anybody
get to it.”
Asserting that the allegations of
McDonald were “Sunday school talk”
compared to the 1933 report of the
board of elections, Chairman L. P.
McLendon invited help in amending
the election laws.
At the opening of the board’s hear
ing, McDonald stepped into the center
aisle, where he often stood during
bristling debates in the 1935 house of
representatives, and read his petition
to the board. Every allegation in his
petition was grounded upon affidavits
filed with the board or upon oral testi
mony, a part of which was presented
to the board.
While the board declined to change
the vote of the recently filed returns,
they did order an investigation of ir
regularities.
By its action, the state board de
clared Horton the nominee for lieu
tenant governor on the face of re
turns which gave him 217,230 votes
and Grady 208,248.
The vote for Clyde R. Hoey for
govemor was certified at 266,354 and
for McDonald at 214,414. There was
no contest of the vote of 234,956 for
Thad Eure and 194,015 for Stacey W.
Wade, candidates for secretary of
state.
Resting his case upon the evidence
preserved by Dr. McDonald, Grady
announced that, as a “practical poli
tician,” he had resigned himself to
defeat as soon as the second primary
ballots were counted.
National Chair Co. -
Awarded Contracts '*
For State College
The National Chair company of
Asheboro was among the firms
awarded contracts Thursday for
furnishing state supplies, it was an
nounced by A. S. Brower, director of
the division of purchase and contract.
The contract is for dormitory chairs
for State college, and though the
exact quantity needed has not yet
been decided, W. C. Lucas, manager
of the National Chair company, be
lieves it will be between 75 and 100
dozen. They will be the company's
regular hand-woven, double-caned
chairs. Mr. Lucas expects to begin the
delivery of the chairs soon, as the
contract calls for delivery within 15
days of acceptance.
Problems Of Youth
Is Discussion Heard
By Local Rotarians
A very instructive and valuable
talk was given by Sulon Perree at
the Rotary dinner Friday. Mr.
Ferree, a graduate of High Point col
lege, where he took ministerial work,
and at present director of activities
for the young people of the Methodist
Protestant church, spoke on the pro
blems facing the youth of America
today and how they could best be
faced.
In the absence of the president,
Murray Field, Dr. Cothran Smith pre
sided over the meeting. There were
three guests, Frederick Moore, a
Rotarian of Charlotte, his son, Fred
erick Moore, Jr., and W. M. Andrews,
of Greensboro, the guest of Arthur
Ross.
Sanford Editor Visits
Bill Homer,
Herald, and fa
Sunday visitin
and his family
Waynesvffle wi