PEOPLE IN A8HEBORO AND dolph COUNTY READ THE COURIER—IT LEADS THE 7,000 PEOPLE WELCOME /YOU TO ASHEBORO, EXACT “CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA” &t. As The Regulator February 2. 1876 Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County .PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ASHEbORO. N. C.. TUESDAY, OCT. 20,1936. Ohan*ed To Hie Coupler September 13. 1879 PUBLISHED TU. AND FRIDAY $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 69. ?ws Flashes ^ from - very where CTwiLL remove r PROFITS FROM WAR jL-Ten factories will pass fnrivate ownership to the gov [L as the first step in na Sing French war industries S the profits out of war, Staigter Pierre Cot announced first plants to be taken be those manufacturing tgM and accessories fof de ?Vith the naval shipyards \ line. Factories not im yeiy nationalized will be sub to strict government supervi Stockholders in the old pri ’ (inns will be allowed to re one-third of the stock, on k tjrey will be paid nominal tads, and will be paid for the Hirds which the government fSeensboro, president, and Lea G. Rose, vice president, Lreelected by acclamation as (lawyers and 100 students from [university of North Carolina, University and Wake Forest fra, assembled in Raleigh Fri t for the annual meeting of the L bar association. Col. O. R. fair*, general counsel to the U. Comptroller general, and Fred g H. Stinchfield, president of (American Bar association, both tithe lawyers to be on guard gat the growing centralization jbareaiicratic tendency of the til government. Judge L. R. pa of Lumberton advised that j»emphasis be put on moral fit i in licensing candidates. Gord Gray, Winston-Salem lawyer. | that the instruction given by l law schools is often not in line | the questions asked by the jminers and that the two should i together on common ground. HOPE DISTURBED OVER BELGIAN KING’S SPEECH ondon.—The speech of Leopold, I of the Belgians, to his cabinet week, urging that Belgium ffceling of alarm In Europe b cooperation for peace. Should pom withdraw from her teal assistance treaty with ace and from the Locarno pact Ithe security of Europe, the nee of power between several ions will be disrupted and ieeful relations threatened, pram is important primarily be R of her strategic geographical ition, but also because she has »ys been counted on as a strong porter of these agreements to Meract recent violations of ir terms by Germany and S HOTEL WHERE MISS CLEVENGER WAS KILLED iheviile.—The trustees, owners, «. and manager of the Battery k hotel in Asheville, where Miss m Clevenger was murdered on eight of July 16, were made mndants in a 160,000 suit for ages brought Thursday by her le, Clinton B. Clevenger, ad fetntor of the estate. The com »t alleges that negligence of Jafendants in the operation of h>tel and lack of careful super “i directly cauiwd Miss Cle iWs death. In this connection »»ce was made to the fact 'the watchman did not visit the f °n which the girl had a room a period of more than two ** on the night of the murder Nngiect resulting in his be ;add for questioning for sever and also that the hotel Pgement failed to investigate jn»8 which several witnesses jM coming from Miss Cleveng 1 "nm and reported to the AT LAKES SHIP CAPSIZES, 30 DROWN >wland. — The Canadian Sand Merchant, carrying ■ of sand to Cleveland, rolled W sank in a heavy gala on ! Erie Saturday night, 19 of *** and one passenger drown Seven of the crew were res «ter clinging to lifeboats for Most of those who lh®“ did not drown im *{**y upon the sinking of the hung to the lifeboats 7* vainly for help until the overcame them and they drop ®“ one by one. ITALY STRUCK T SEVERE EARTHQUAKE persons were killed jPJwty damage was exten gP an earthquake struck ' along the sections being Randolph Democrats To Hold Speakings At Many Places Through County Frank Hancock To ‘ Speak At Liberty By Their Request W. P. Horton, Charles Coggin And Many Other Visting Democrats Many Local Men Are Also Booked Henry Ingram, J. V. Wilson, Joe Ross, Dan Burns And Many Others Politics warms up as does the activity in Randolph county, hotly contested by both the Democrats and Republicans as election day draws near. With exactly two more weeks to go, the two parties are announcing extensive speak ings which will be held at various points in the county. The Democartic executive com mittee of Randolph is putting on an extensive speaking , campaign for the county. A number of the state’s best and most prominent speakers have been engaged to come to Randolph and talk to the voters during the next two weeks. Hon. Frank Hancock of Oxford, congressman from the 5th Con gressional District of North Caro lina, is calendared to speak at the Liberty high school auditorium Tuesday night, October 20, at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Hancock is one of the outstanding members Of congress. Dr. Ralph McDonald has been engaged to speak at the county court house at Asheboro Wednes day evening, October 21, at 7:30 p. m. Dr. McDonald needs no in troduction to the people of Ran dolph county. During the primary he spoke at the court house at Asheboro to a large audience. He era in the state today. The com mittee asked him for three ad dresses in the county, but he was able to come for only one. Hon. Charlie L. Coggin, of Salis bury, solicitor of this judicial dis trict, will speak to the voters at the high school auditorium in Ran dleman Friday night, October 23, at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Coggins has been solicitor in this district for two years. He is very popular and is making an unusually good record as solicitor. H. L. Ingram, nominee for the state senate, and J. D. Ross, both of Asheboro, will speak to the voters at New Hope Academy, New Hope Township, Saturday night, October 24, at 7:30 p. m. Engagements are being worked out for at least two or three other speakings in the county during this week. Next week Hon. Willie Lee Lumpkin, of Louisburg; Hon. Itimus Valentine, of Nashville; J. F. Spruill, of Lexington; Harold D. Cooley, congressman; W. P. Horton, nominee for Lieutenent Governor and others will speak in the county. The dates and places for their appearance will be made public at a later date. Is Improving W. P. Redding is considerably improved after being quite ill for several weeks. Mr. Redding is at the local hospital where he was taken ten days ago suffering with pneumonia. Recent Sanitary Measure Is Now Proving: Popular JT. H. Wylie, county sanitary officer, said Monday that great strides are being made in the im provement of sanitary conditions in Randolph county. About 100 of the new type sanitary concrete privies have been built in the few months since they were introduced. Mr. Wylie stated that there was plenty of free labor, provided by the WPA, available for setting up these privies. The only expense incurred by the owner is the cost of materials. Any one who is interested in getting one of these privies erect*: ed should notify either Dr. George Sumner or Mr. Wylie. The health officials are desirioua of having all home owners who need new privies look after the matter them selves rather than making it neces sary for the officials to check up on the sanitary situation and re port offenders. ... . Since the government first tooic a hand in the sanitary situation, first under CWA, then under ERA, siid now through the WPA, mow than 1,200 privies have been in stalled through the county health officials. j I Will Speak | W. P. HORTON Current ife«s.0f Franklinville Is Varied Interest Former Pastor, Rev. W. A. Elam And Mrs. Elam Visit Friends Attend P.-T. A. Meet Play Given By Local Talent Well Received; Would Have It Repeated Franklinville, Oct. 19.—A good attendance was present Wednesday evening at the P.-T. A. meeting. Mrs. M. F. Cheek, chairman of the program committee was in charge. A curriculum of work on the fol lowing subjects were discussed: art, by Miss Nettie Moon; music, (Please turn to Page 3) Randolph Natives Return To County For Week’s Visit Mrs. C. M. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ketcham have return ed to their home in Hammond, Indiana, after spending a week in Randolph county tracing old rela tionships. C. M. Brooks, husband of Mrs. Brooks and fattier of Mrs. Ketcham, lived here many years ago before going to Indiana. While visiting Mrs. Dave Mc Cain and looking for old records, the party came across an old issue of The Courier dated Octo ber 10, 1889. The editor at that time was J. T. Crocker. On the front page was a sermon by Rev. DeWUt Talmadge. The leading editorial of this paper1 was by the late Wm. C. Hammer, who at that time was county superintendent of education. Much space on the front page was given to an article on the subject of lynching. Honor Roll Is Signal Achievement Under IVew Plans And Requirements Of Schools i I In order that making the honor roll may really be a significant achievement, whereas in the past school authorities have felt that requirements were so easy that they did not represent a sufficient test of the student’s ability, a new honor roll system has been install ed at the Asheboro high school.. At a recent meeting of the honor roll committee the problem of a basis for the monthly honor roll was discussed, and the committee decided to retain two distinct rolls, ■v - /, Teachers Of N. W. District Meet In High Point 23-24 Teachers Of County And City Systems Planning To At tend Two Day Meet Knight To Speakv Debate Between Educator And Banker On Financial Aid N. C. Gives Schools There will be a meeting of teachers of the northwestern dis trict of the North Carolina Teach es association in High Point Fri day and Saturday. County Super intendent T. Fletcher Bulla and City Superintendent Reginald Turner have stated that they are expecting the majority of their teachers to attend. The meeting will begin Friday afternoon, assemble again that evening, and hold a morning ses sion Saturday. Addresses by pro minent state educational figures are scheduled, and the various classifications of teachers will hold their own meetings and discuss problems of their special fields. The superintendents will hold a round table discussion over their difficulties. Such groups as agri cultural teachers, music teachers, primary teachers, and principals will also have their.individual as sembles. The feature event of the meeting is expected to be a debate between T. Wingat Andrews, superinten dent of the High Point city school system, and Leroy Martin, vice president of the Raleigh branch of the Wachovia Bank & Trust com pany, on the question, “Is North Carolina Doing All It Can Fin ancially For Its Schools?” Mr. Martin will uphold the affirmative, Mr. Andrews the negative. The debate will of course be conducted in a spirit of friendliness, and keen arguments are expected, as both men are authorities. Mr. Martin possesses, a first hand acquaintance with the school situation in addi tion to his knowledge of the state’s, financial condition, for he was. formerly secretary of the state school commission, whmbtHbe**h*dr in all. probability, more to do with the alloting of state school funds than any other man in ti>e state. The outstanding address of the meeting will be made by Edgar-W. Knight, of the University of North Carolina, who is nationally known for his achievements in education. He will speak on the topic, "Has North Carolina Made Real Pro gress In Education?” Baptists To Meet At Shady Grove Thurs. And Fri. The second annual gathering of the Randolph Baptist association will meet Thursday and Friday, October 22-23 at Shady Grove church. The meeting will open at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. On Thursday there will be morning, afternoon, and evening sessions. Friday there will be two sessions, with the meeting coming to a close at 3:15. There will be talks on subjects which touch closeiy every Baptist and every Christian, with both ministers and prominent laymen taking part. Reports of the mis sions, B. T. U., W. M. U., Sunday schools, and similar groups will be given. Rev. L. R. O’Brian and Mrs. O’Brian will be in charge of the music. -A large attendance and a good meeting are expected. Alt of the 29 churches in the association will be represented. THE COURIER APOLOGIZES In the last issue of The Courier an error was inadvertently made. It was stated by mistake that Dr. W. L. Mattison was arrested for following a fire truck. It is true that the doctor followed a fire truck to the fire last Tuesday night, and was notified to appear before the magistrate, but he was not arrested. For this reason The Courier is exceedingly sorry and apologizes for this accusation which we brought on His name. but to make one definitely more difficult in its requirements and correspondingly higher in the honor it conferred so that students might be encouraged to strive for better scholarship than was neces sary for highest honors in the p|gt Instead of the old honor rolls, No. 1 and No. 2, the new ones will be called the superior honor roll and the honor roll. While pre viously there was actually little New Deal Wins ' Three Supreme f Court Victories : V - New Deal legislation won three decisions before the U. S. Su ptSemc Court Monday. The 'Justices refused to pass on dis pute! involving the constitution ality? of the 1933 securities act Vequ ring registration of stocks public sale, certain pro jbefofe visio is of the National Recovery «nct, ind the 1935 emergency re lief measure giving the govern ment authority to make loans ’and \ grants for publicly-owned eiecj;rfe jplants. I# the first of these the court refused'the plea of a New York (broker for a review of the case. In tile second the states of Ver mont and New York wanted a Ruling on the constitutionality of "the federal social security act. Tn the third instance the Texas Utilities company and the Ala* bam a Power company were re ’fuseC tbeir request for a special Supreme Court hearing, r before ,ihe circuit court heard their lease. Wany Books Have Been Donated To I Library Recently library Now Has 1,120 £■ Volumes; One Hundred Added In One Week f U. D. C. Generous /Many Books For Children Of All Ages Have Been Bought By Library With many books being donated, the number of volumes in the Ran dolph Public Library had mounted ,Jto 1,120 on Monday. The Randolph chapter U. D. C. has been “most gqijerbus lately in giving books to the library, but many others have ' also helped in this manner. In one '■Week recently 100 books were lidded to the library. & As the quantity, of books and She variety of reading material increases, the circulation figures! %*v*uMen -accordingly*- ’ - HN4W 'Monday the library’s circulation was 15.126. There are now 19 members in the Randolph Library association. The library has recently pur chased popular children’s books. They are “First Lessons In Na ture Study,” by Edith M. Patch; “Wigwam Stories”, Mary Cath erine Judd; “Wonderful Adven tures Of Nils”, Selma Lagerlof; “Famous Legends”, Emeline Crom melin; and “Snipp, Snappy, Snurr, and The Gingerbread”, Maj Lind man. Books suitable for older children which were bought at the same time include “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come”, John Fox, Jr.; “The Red Badge of Courage”, Stephen Crane; “The Hoosier Schoolmaster”, Edward Eggleston; “The Blazed Trail, Stewart Ed ward White; and a collection of Poe’s best known works. At 8 o’clock this evening the library is sponsoring a square dance to be held at the armory. Music will be furnished by Tom Cox of Coleridge and his five piece string band. Speaking Plans For Republicans Randolph County From Republican headquarters in Asheboro comes a list of the speakings scheduled for this week: Wednesday, October 21, 7: 30 p. m.—Gray’s Chapel school house, C. N. Cox and Kalte. Cross Roads school house, Richland township, Ward and Wright. John Callicutt’s home, Union township, J. T. Pre rette. Thursday, October 22, 7:30 p. m.—New Hope Academy, John F. Hughes. Bethel school house, Wright and Ward. Friday, October 23, 7:30 p. m.— Ramseur school house, H. F. Sea well. Balfour school house, John F. Hughes. Saturday, October 24, 7:30 p. m.—Seagrove school house, Worth D. Henderson. difference between the require ments for the two lists, the gap is now sufficient to make the superior honor roll much more of a dis tinction. The complete requirements, as announced by Superintendent Reginald Turner, which a student must fulfill before making the honor rolls, follow. Superior Honor Roll 1. The grades, must be all A’s. 2. Perfect attendance is required James Saunders ^1 Is Killed When Hit By Car Sat Young Asheboro Boy Dies Shortly After Tragedy Oc curs Along Highway HittAnd-Run Car * -- r1 Funeral And Burial Services Held Monday With Rev.| O. P. Dix Officiating A tragic accident occurring in North Asheboro Saturday night resulted in the death of James Saunders, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Saunders. The boy was going home about 11 o’clock in company with two other young boys when a car is said to have passed a truck on the high way, striking the Saunders boy and fatally injuring him. Calling Pugh’s ambulance James was taken to Randolph hospital where he died in a few minutes from his injuries. So quickly did the tragedy occur and so excited were' the boys who witnessed the affair that a very meagre descrip tion of the driver of the -hit-and run car was obtained by officers who have attempted in vain to find the person who is responsible for ttje tragedy. The affair hap pened in the Balfour community, near the Saunders home. Funeral services occurred at the Saunders home Monday morning at 11 o’clock with Rev. 0. P. Dix of the Balfour Baptist church in charge. A large number of people attended the service at the home and at the local cemetery. In addition to' the parents/ who are well known in the town and county are three brothers, Arthur, I Jr., Bjjlly and Leon Saunders, all at hornet Friends Institute Of Evangelism To Be Held Saturday The institute of evangelism of the Southem\ Quarterly Friends Meeting- will be held Saturday. October £4, with the Asheboro Parker, local pastor. The morning session will be opened at 10:30 with a devotional by Allie R. Kemp. Speakers at this session will be Nathan DV And rews, Rev. Murray C. Johnson and Rev. Miss Clara I. Cox, of Greens boro, and Mr. Parker. A devotional by Charles Cross will open the afternoon assembly. Rev. Milo S. Hinckle, Greensboro, Miss Helen T. Binford, Guilford College, and Mr. Parker will speak. The evening meeting will be in the form of a young people’s rally. At 7:30 there will be a song ser vice by the Asheboro choir, fol lowed by a devotional by Miss Pauline Steed. Rev. Tom A. Sykes of High Point will speak, and Mr. Parker will also have a part in the program. Baptist Church To Have Revival Oct 28 To Nov. 8 Rev. James A. Ivey will conduct a two weeks’ revival meeting at the First Baptist church beginning with an evening service Monday, October 26. Thereafter there will be two services daily, at 9:30 in the morning and at 7:30 in the evening, for the full two weeks, ending Sunday evening, Novem ber 8. The pastor, Dr. L. R. O’Brian, will be in charge of the music. Mr. Ivey is pastor of the Bel! Street Baptist church of Knoxville, Tennessee, with a membership of two thousand. He was pastor of the West Asheville Baptist church until about a year ago. He is widely known throughout North Carolina and greatly loved, es pecially by the young people. He was for four years secretary of the B. Y. P. U. of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Mrs. Ivey has assisted Dr. O’Brian before in revivals, and a very good meeting is confidently expected. Everyone is cordially in vited to attend. 3. No unfavorable marks on de portment. Honor Roll 1. No grade lower than B. 2 .No unexcused absences. 3. liot more than three excused absences 4. No unexcused tardies. 6. No unfavorable marks on de portment. Report caids for the first.month were issued Monday, but the honors have not yet been released. Ralph McDonald To jjBke Democratic Speech In^bheboro Wednesday UtietimXi | Asheboro Speaker 1 DR. RALPH MCDONALD New Waterworks For Ramseur Now Near Completion Plumbers Are Busy Installing Modern Plumbing In Many Homes A New Ambulance Brady Funeral Home Pur chases New Ambulance; Baptists At Meeting Ramseur, Oct. 19.—Ramseur people have the plummers of this section busy installing the new water system in their homes, at present it is hard to secure the this task. Trie county engineers are .at work on the water system for the school. Ramseur people are anxious to complete t^ie work be fore the winter season arrives. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Leonard spent the week-end at Wilming ton with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dowell. Mr. and Mrs. Dowell are moving to Raleigh. R. C. White and family spent Sunday with relatives and friends in the Burlington community. A number of Ramseur people at tended the game at Duke Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Moffitt spent some time with Mr. and Mrs. John Whitesell at High Point this week. Mr. and Mrs. Whitesell are soon moving to Spruce Pine where Mr. Whitesell is connected with a hosi ery business. Several of the members of Ram seur Baptist church are attending the annual meeting of Sandy Creek association at Shady Grove church this week. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Williams and some of the members of the Methodist church will attend the annual conference at Salisbury this week. Conference will close Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Mace and K. G., Jr., of Lillington, were visitors here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Brady re turned from Louisville, Ky., Satur day night, after attending the Southern Funeral Directors as sociation. Mr. Brady drove a hand some new Packard ambulance back, which his firm had recently pur chased. Former Resident Tells Rotary Of Asheboro In 1906 A picture of Asheboro 30 years ago was given the Rotary club Fri day by Jim Martin, former presi dent of the Liberty Rotary club. Mr. Martin lived in Asheboro for two years after coming to Ran dolph county from South Carolina, then moved to Liberty, where he has lived for the past 30 years. In 1906, he recalled, there were only four churches in Asheboro, the M. E., the M. P., the Presby terian and the Christian; and in that year the Presbyterians were not holding services, and the Christian church was destroyed by storm and not rebuilt. Mr. Martin also presented figures comparing tax receipts, school attendance, number of ■ teachers, and property valuation in the county then and now. . Dr. B. M. Weston and Dr. O. L. Presnell had as their guests Rev. It. P. Powell, Albert Hesketh, David Christiansen and G. K. Ford. Charles McCrary' had as his guest W. R. Calhoun. Popular Speaker Invited To Three Randolph Places Will Discuss Issues Of Cam paign Before Randolph County Audience Former Candidate For N. C. Governor Well Informed On Many Political Issues Of His ; Adopted State Invited to Randolph for three campaign speeches, Dr. Ralph Mc Donald has been able to accept only one invitation in this county. This will be for a speech in the county court house at Aaheboro. on Wednesday evening, October 21st. Dr. McDonald, one of four candidates for the gubernatorial chair in North Carolina in the June, primary, has been speaking exten sively during recent weeks for the Democracy of North Carolina. He is decidedly sought after as a speaker and is giving of his time in quite a generous fashion fpr his chosen party. While Dr. McDonald has not lived in the state for as . many years as some of the candidates.. He is not native, bom but has, adopted North Carolina as his. state and is taking considerable interest in good government turd politics in this state. He has made a comprehensive study of taxation, in his adopted state and is no mean student on tiie subject. He\ has taught in several consolidated schools in North Carolina and at Salem College which position he resigned to go into politics. , resenting his adopted of Sazsyth in the state terested in North Carolina poll running on the past Democratic primary ticket. In the fall, he en rolled in the law school at the State University at Chapel Hill and is stealing all the time possi ble from his work to speak for Democracy in the general election campaign. The speaking in Asheboro will be held at 7:30 o’clock on Wednes day evening with an invitation to the general public to attend and hear Dr. McDonald. Local Girl Has Decided Thrill At Deep Sea Fishing Miss Dorothy Lewallen returned to Asheboro Saturday after a two weeks trip to New York and Ber muda earned as a prize for selling a $4,000 quota of Frigidaires. Al though Miss Lewallen a most en joyable time on the voyage to Bermuda and sight-seeing there and in New York, to her the highspot of the whole magnificent two weeks came from catching a fish, and a relatively small fish at that. While with a deep sea fishing party off Bermuda, Miss Lewallen hauled up a queer looking denizen of the deep which, though resembl ing an eel very closely, was still definitely a fish. Neither the cap tain nor any of the party, which included several old and experienc ed fishermen, had ever seen a fish like it. Miss Lewallen said that it was about 18 inches long, and that it turned white upon being taken out of the water, though its na tural color in the water was green. An official check was started to find out if this was actually the first of the species to be captured, and up to the time Miss Lewallen left Bermuda it still appeared to be an original discovery. If this is found to be the case, the fish will be called the Lewallen eel fish and put in the government aquar ium in Bermuda. . In New York Miss Lewallen saw Helen Hayes in “Victoria Regina”, which has been rated the metro polis’ major dramatic presentation i ever since it was opened early last winter. Also provided for the en tertainment of the party were visits to the French Casino, pre mier night club of the Great White Way, and Jimmy Kelly’s night club in Greenwich Village. On the boat trip from New York to Norfolk, the ship ran into a storm so severe that for a time the passengers were afraid they might go down. Miss Lewallen aadi that the worst of this storm was between 1:80 and 4:30 in the which made the fading morning, of insecurity all tb Everything cleared off damage was done, ho\ the trip ended as pleai had begun.

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