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ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS TRI-WEEKLY PLUME lx Bst. As. The Regulator February 2, 1876 Oldeat Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ASHEBORq N. C., THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1937. Changed To The Courier September 13, 1879 PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SU $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 108 County Schools Are 100 Percent Open, Says*Bulla While Many Counties In State Are Forced To Close Rural Schools Attendance Good Sixty Busses Now In Use With Only One Which Should Be Replaced While other counties are closing schools right and left because their busses are in poor condition, the roads are impassable, or their sup erintendents cannot make the necessary arrangements, Ran dolph county’s schools continue to remain open 100 per cent. Not only are they open, but the attendance is also holding up, states County Superintendent T. Fletcher Bulla, and in some cases is even better than usual. The fact that the schools are able to stay open is a great com pliment to E. O. Russell, who has charge of the county roads, and C. S. McGill, chief mechanic, Mr. Bulla said. Although the roads in many places are quite badly torn up, they drain well and have been well cared for, so that even after all the rain of the past weeks only a couple of days good sunshine and wind would bring them back to good condition. Mr. McGill is recognized by the state school commission as one of the most capable mechanics in the state, and the way the Randolph busses in his care have pulled through this winter bears out their opinion. He spent a good deal of time during the summer to pre pare the busses for just such con ditions. He usually has a force of two helpers, but Superintendent Bulla has added a third so that all I repairs needed t» keep the bps fleet "fir gBar-sMffe'-lBta-ft'Ttf rrtadt promptly. Randolph county has 60 busses in use now, only one of which real ly needs to be replaced right now. Randolph county schools have been fortunate in that the county auth orities have bought busses to in crease those allowed by the state. Mr. Bulla intends that the county’s fine equipment shall be kept so. He has put in a requisition to the state officials for enough busses to replace all those seven years old or over. County principals, the superin tendent declares, are all eager to keep their schools open, and every thing possible will be done to pre vent their closing, though if the rain keeps on much longer it may become necessary. Meanwhile rural schools in Wake, Wilkes, Mecklenburg, Mc Dowell, and Stokes continue to close, and all rural schools in Hyde, Bertie and Forsyth have ceased work. Bishop Penick In Asheboro Sunday Bishop Edward Penick will be in Asheboro on Sunday afternoon, January 24th, at 3:30 p. m. The service will be held at Pugh’s Chapel on Worth street. Evening prayer in the shortened form, will precede the address by Bishop Penick. The Bishop is considered one of the outstanding speakers of the Episcopal church and it is quite probable that there will be several people who would like to hear him at this time. Visitors will be welcome to the service. Rev. R. G. Shannonhouse, rector of the Asheboro Good Shepherd church, will also be present at this service and issues a cordial invita I tion to all ministers and citizens of the town who care to hear Bishop Penick at 3:30 Sunday afternoon. Quarterly Rally Of Young Friends The Southern Quarterly Rally of Young Friends will be held Saturday, January 23, at Bethel Friends church. The meeting will commence with * business session at 4 o’clock. At the conclusion of business matters * Picnic supper will be held from o:30 to 6:30. There will be a period ~ fellowship and entertainment fr?jn 6:30 to 7 o’clock, and this ^11 be followed by evening wor ship, closing at 8. Gerald K. Ford, director of yeung peoples work pf the Ashe horo M. E. church, will bring the message of the evening. All young Friends are especially “*edto attend this rally, and the ■ . . " ' - --— --—i FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TAKES PRESIDENTIAL OATH | Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes reads the oath to the reelected President. To the right of Hughes are seen Thomas Quakers, the President’s bodyguard; Supreme Court Clerk Elmore Cropley, who holds the Bible; the President, James Roosevelt, RFC chairman Jesse Jonc-s, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Vice President John N. Garner and Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter. Second Roosevelt Inauguration Held Wednesday In Pouring Rain -- Kiwanians Hear Report Of Ball O. B. Moore Says Roosevelt 'IBflr’Wnr’Be-ef'Interest To Non-Dancers Plan Floor Show C. B. Clark Gives News Re port On Work Of Hadley School For The Blind Encouraging progress in pre parations for the President’s Ball to be held in the gymnasium Jan uary 30 was reported by O. B. Moore, director of advertising publicity for the ball, at the meet ing of the Kiwanis club Tuesday evening. Mr. Moore stated that ticket sales were getting under way and urged every citizen to buy one. Those who do not dance may enjoy the dancing and music as there are I 400 seats available in the gym -, nasium for spectators. There will also be various amusement spec ialities in the form of a floor show. He reminded his listeners that 70 per cent of the profits would be' used for crippled children’s work in Randolph county and 30 per cent for the Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia. Consequently even those who cannot attend the ball ■ will be aiding a worthy cause. i The Kiwanians have adopted the | plan of having some member re port each week on a news topic he thinks will be of interest to the club. Tuesday C. B. Clark spoke on the Hadley school for the blind, discussing the scope of its work and its achievements for the sightless. E. V. Hobbs and Rev. N. M. Har rison made short extemporaneous talks on Kiwanis education, ex plaining and illustrating the mean ing, ideas, and aspirations of the club. Several guests attended this meeting. Jack Baker came as the guest of O. B. Moore, Wilbur Amos with Bob Bunch, J. C. Shewmake with Ralph White, and t. C. Hilde brand of Staunton, Virginia, with Ed Morris. The program for next Tuesday includes a talk by Larry Hammond on old documents and a news re port By Roy Champion. Brandon Attends Furniture Show C. W. Brandon, manager of Huntley-Stockton-Hill, has been attending the annual mid-winter furniture show in High Point thisi week. This show, despite the rain, ha a been very successful, the at tendance having been very good and orders large. 1 Not only furniture, but other al lied lines such as radios, mattresses and kitchen cabinets are reported as selling well. In Mr. Brandon’s opinion, the 1987 furniture models j are more beautiful in design than last year’s but will also be more dkpensive. *'s" - News Flashes from Everywhere CHARGE RICHFIELD MAN WITH FATHER’S DEATH Albemarle.—Charged with kill ing his father, Reuben Shaver, Banks Shaver, young Richfield man, is being held in the county jail at Albemarle. Shaver gave himself up, saying that he had done the shooting. The elder Shav er was shot through the head and breast by bullets from a .22 caliber rifle. FLOODS RAGING IN MIDDLE WEST Chicago. — Runaway rivers in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois have routed hundreds of families and inundated hundreds of farms with no prospective letup in the rains which caused the floods. Many com munities in half a dozen mid-west ern states have been isolated by water covering the highways, and 2,650 WPA workers have been ord ered out to repair crumbling levees. FLIES CONTINENT IN RECORD TIME New York.—Howard R. Hughes, millionaire sportsman pilot and movie producer, broke his own ■ transcontinental flight record when | he set his plane down Tuesday at the Newark, N. J., airport just 7 hours, 28 minutes, and 25 seconds after his take off from Los Angeles. He flew at an average speed of 333 Vs miles per hour in shattering the mark of 9 hours, 25 minutes, and 10 seconds he set January 14, 1936. Flying Honor For Orchestra Leader Andre Kostalanetz, orchestra I leader, flew 126,000 miles as a pas senger in 1936 to win for the first time officially the title that the be loved Will Rogers was often ac corded unofficially—the position as the nation’s No. 1 air traveler,. Four of the country’s leading do mestic airlines joined in establish ing this annual award. A silver loving cup will be pre sented to Mr. Kostalanetz at an aerial luncheon on Jan. 26. A new twenty-eight passenger Douglas transport will take off from New ark at 1 p. m. on that day with invited guests, and Clyde Pang bom, first transpacific pilot, will make the presentation. Ceremonies will be broadcast from the plane as it flies over New York, -through the Columbia Broadcasting Company’s network. The winner’s flying time was 675 hours, or 18 days and 3 hours. Attend Inaugural Among the Asheboro people at tending the inauguration in Wash ington on Wednesday were J. D. Ross and C. C. Cranford. They re turned to Asheboro Thursday morning. Ceremonies Are Made More Brief-Because Of CoH ' And Rain Weather Man Rules A Wet Beginning Roosevelt Uses Old Dutch Bible President Sounds Note Of Op timism; Equal Chance t or The masses Standing bareneaaed in the rain, Franklin uelano Roosevelt again took tlie oath of office as the presi dent of the United States, on the White House lawn in Washington yesterday. Despite the rain the stands were practically filled when, at 12:29, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administered the oath to the president, and a burst of cheering came from the throng as he repeated the pledge word for word after the Chief Justice. The ceremonies were from 20 to 25 minutes late in getting started, as the president postponed his ap pearance, hoping for clear skies. As he approached the platform, the marine band struck up “Hail To The Chief.” Immediately after the invocation by Senate Chaplain Dr. Zebame T. Phillips, Senate Leader Robinson administered the oath tc Vice President John Nance Garner. Roosevelt then took the oath, his hand resting on an old family Dutch Bible. As he began on his inaugural address the rain drove down harder than ever and the crowd rapidly thinned. By the time he entered the second half of his speech even members of congress, diplomats, and other distinguished visitors were leaving. The president promised war on the economic injustices which he likened to cancers in our national life. He said “controls over blind eco nomic forces and blindly selfish men” had to be found, so “we re fused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.” Progress in recovery is obvious, the president said, but the “new order of things” brought about since 1933 means more than that. Restating his philosophy in broad terms and leaving his specific pro gram to the future, he spoke of using new materials of social jus tice “to erect on the old founda tions a more enduring structure for the use of future generations.” This year, Mr. Roosevelt recalled, marks the 150th anniversary of that fundamental charter. The fore fathers found it a way out of the chaos that followed the revolution ary war, he said, adding: “They created a strong govern ment with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution. A century and a half ago they established the fed eral government in order to pro 8) Fire Chief Rush Reports A Fine Record For Town Total Fire Loss Of Year Was $4,215, A Considerable Reduction Only One Big Fire Answer 51 Calls During Year 1936; Six Outside Of The City Limits • Last year was the best in a good •while as far as keeping down fires was concerned, Clarence Rush, • chief of the Asheboro volunteer fire ^company, stated this morning in commenting on his 1936 fire re port. , The total fire loss in 1936 was $4,215, while 1934 and 1935 each saw a loss of more than $5,000 and earlier years were worse. This reduction has been accomplished In the face of the growing size of the town, where every additional building means another possibility of fire. The larger part of the fire loss came from contents of buildings rather than on the buildings them selves. Contents valued at $3,180 were lost, and damage to buildings amounted to $1,035. The worth of the fire department may be more evident from the fact that the value of buildings where fire broke out was $219,950 and their contents were valued at $353, 375, yet the loss was held to little more than $4,000. The insurance in force on these buildings was $191, 900, on the contents $227,000. | The only fire of any magnitude was that which burned down the old M & M Cafe with a loss of $3,600 in May. The remaining los3 was scattered throughout the year, ! and in no month was there any epi 'demic of fires. r The fire company answered a *fotal of 51 calls in 1986, 45 in Asheboro and 6 outside the city limits. Grass fires caused the most calls, there being 8 of these. Automobile fires came next with 6, and there were 5 fires believed to have been caused by short cir cuits in the wiring. Probable causes of other fires, Chief Rush reported, were sparks from trash pile, 3; overheated stove, 2; defective flue, 2; oil stoves, 2; sparks falling on roof, 2. The following causes each had one fire listed against them: hot box on line shaft, defective wiring, electric iron, defective cook stove, matches, blow torch, cigarettes, and starting fire with kerosene. Wrights Believed Not First Fliers Witnesses Declare Gustave Whitehead Made Flights Two Years Earlier Doubts that the Wright brothers were actually the first to fly has been raised by Dr. John B. Crane, of Harvard University, who is writing a history of aviation and is seeking for authentic information. Claims that the first flight was made by Gustave Whitehead ap pear so strong that Dr. Crane has asked the aid of a group of avia tion experts in settling the ques tion. For months Dr. Crane has been conducting an investigation of his own. At Bridgeport, Conn., the professor has received sworn testi mony from several persons who de clare they witnessed Whitehead [ “Make flights along the streets” in the early 1900’s. “An engineer now with the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit,” the professor said, “testi fied he had personally witnessed a one and a half mile airplane flight made by Whitehead August 14, 1901.” This was two years before the flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, N. C., December 17, 1903. Dr. Crane has in his possession a photostatic copy of the Bridge port Herald of Sunday, August 18, 1901, telling of the flight to which the engineer testified. The story related that Whitehead flew about 10 minutes at an altitude of 40 to 60 feet in the early morning hours and landed safely. The paper described the plane, with a 20 horsepower motor, as resembling a hat with wings of bamboo covered with muslin and a tail for regulating ascent and de scent. Breaks Arm In Fall Mrs. Clarence Cox of Asheboro, ar route, had the misfortune to I Molnday evening, breaking her ft arm and dislocating the elbow. Three Local Men Will Serve For Scout Council S. B. Stedman Will Act As A Vice President And Chair man For District Named At Dinner T. F. Bulla Heads Rural Scout ing; Hinton Pearce Reelect ed Commissioner Three Asheboro men were honor ed by election to offices in the or ganization of the Uwharrie Boy Scout Council at the council's an nual dinner meeting at the Shera ton hotel in High Point Tuesday evening. S. B. Stedman was elected to serve as one of the vice presidents and will also be chairman of the Asheboro district. Mr. Stedman has been very active in Boy Scout af fairs and is at present heading the movement for organizing Asheboro on an independent basis and for increasing the number of troops here. T. Fletcher Bulla was reappoint ed as head of rural scouting, a po sition which he has filled for sev eral years. Mr. Bulla said today that the interest in rural scouting in Randolph county is increasing and that the work is progressing steadily. Hinton Pierce was reelected as commissioner for this district, a post which he has held with most satisfactory results since the late summer. Mr. Pierce was instru mental in building up the Boy Scouts in Asheboro, having been leader of Troop 24. The annual reports indicated that the Uwharrie Council had en joyed a very good year. The pro gram for 1937 was also outlined by Scout Executive Bunn Hackney, who was reelected to this office. H. A. Millis of High Point was re elected president of thd Sound! fo>' his fifteenth term. Those attending the meeting from Asheboro included Hinton Pierce; Dr. L. -R. O’Brian and Rufus Hill, troopcommitteemen; and" S. W. Miller, Troop 24 scout master. Masons Have Meet At Franklinville Hank’s Lodge Installs Officers For Coming Year Satur day Evening Good Attendance Quarterly Associational Meet ing Of Randolph Baptists At Deep River Franklinville, Jan. 20.—Hank’s Lodge No. 128 A. F. and A. M. met in regular communication Saturday night and held a very profitable meeting with a good at tendance. Among the visiting Master Masons were W. D. Lane and W. R. Maner, members of Marietta Lodge No. 444, Ramseur, and J. F. Marquette of Statesville Lodge No. 487, Statesville. The following officers were in stalled for the ensuing year by J. F. Marquette, assistant grand lecturer: W. L. Grimsley, W. M.; W. P. Rodgers, S. W.; E. C. Routh, J. W.; W. D. Maner, Treas.; C. H. Julian, Sec.; J. A. Cheek, S. D.; .T. A. Wallace, J. D.; J. O. York, S. S.; F. L. Ellison, J. S.; A. T. Saunders, Tyler. The Worthy Master appointed R. D< Garrison, chaplain, and also the following committees: Oxford Or phanage, B. R. Chaney, W. D. Maner and R. C. Curtis; Masonic and Eastern Star Home, E. M. Curtis, E. S. Thomas and J. A. Cheek; finance, M. F. Cheek, J. T. Buie and W. P. Rodgers; reference, E. A. Routh, J. 0. York and G. C. Allred; Masonic education, B. R. Chaney, J. A. Cheek, E. C. Routh, C. H. Julian and J. A. Wallace; reporter to Orphans’ Friend, C. H. Julian. At the close of the meeting re freshments were served, cream, cake and cold drinks. The quarterly associational meeting of the Baptist Sunday school of Randolph association will be held at Deep River Baptist church, Sunday afternoon, January 24 at three o’clock. The general theme of the meeting will be “The Study of John’s Gospel During the First Quarter of 1937.” Teachers and officers are especially urged to attend. Reports from the Shelby conference will be heard, and group conferences for different de partments of the Sunday school will be led by those attending the (Please turn to Page 3) Cash For Who Take A Part In Courier’s Great $2000 Cash Award Event ——-4 Receives Honor HAROLD D. COOLEY. M. C. Harold D. Cooley Named Asst Whip Reappointed To Assist Ma jority Congressional Whip For The Fourth Zone Work Is Praised This Selection Comes As Rare Honor To Congressman Serving This Term Harold D. Cooley, congressman from the fourth district, has been officially reappointed assistant majority whtpof the House*T)f ‘Re5 presentatives for Zone 4, which embraces the states of North Caro lina, Virginia and Maryland. At the first meeting of the whip organization, which was held in the office of Patrick J. Boland, of Pennsylvania, the majority whip, William B. Bankhead, speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn, majority leader, and John J. O’Connor, chairman of the rules committee, were generous in their praise of the splendid work done by the whip organization during the 74th congress. To be selected assistant whip during his first term was a rare honor to Randolph’s congressman; to be reelected on account of his loyalty to party principles and ef ficient service in congress is like wise a signal honor. Mrs. Burkhead To Represent State Legion Auxiliary Represent ative At Conference On National Defense Mrs. George Burkhead will leave Monday for Washington, D. C., where she will attend the Twelfth Woman’s Patriotic conference on national defense. Mrs. Burkhead is state chairman of National De fense of the American Legion Auxiliary and goes as a representa tive from the North Carolina de partment. This conference will be held at the Mayflower hotel Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday, January 26th, 27th and 28th, and is being sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. It will be participated in by forty woman’s patriotic or ganizations and is one of the most powerful and effective contribu tions to the cause of peace through adequate defense. Mrs. Burkhead has served in various offices of the American Legion Auxiliary. She was presi dent of the local unit for two'years. Twelfth district committeewoman, state F. I. D. A. C., chairman, state legislative chairman and has re cently been appointed chairman of the fourth district legislative com mittee. Mrs. C. P. Andrews of Charlotte, state president of the American Legion Auxiliary and Mrs. Thos. J. Gause of Wilmington, national committeewoman, will also attend this conference. ANNOUNCE BOOST IN CIGARETTE PRICES New York.—The manufacturers of the four leading brands of cig arettes announced Tuesday that cigarette prices have been raised 15 cents a thousand and the in crease will probably be passed on by retailers to the smokers. It is said that the advance is due to in • creased costs of leaf tobacco and other materials. $600 And $400 For Two Best Workers 300,000 Extra Votes For Each And Every $30 Club Of Subscriptions Many Sections Open For Real Go-Getters Just Think What You Could Do With $600 In Cash For Only A Few Weeks Work The great Extra Vote Offer, which is in effect during this first period, gives to real workers an op portunity seldom equaled in The Courier’s great “cash offer” cam paign to place this newspaper in more homes. Usually the biggest Extra Vote Offers or inducements are made later on in the race and they are given at a time when subscriptions are harder to find. “The “Cash Offer” Campaign is conducted upon entirely different lines from the ordinary “voting contest.” The Courier is not at tempting to decide the most popu lar man or woman by any means.' There is very little similarity to a “contest” in the “Cash Offer” Campaign. The awards will be made strictly upon a basis of results the candi dates secure during the campaign. “Results Count” is a time-worn slogan and it applies forcibly in the “Cash Offer” Campaign. The cam paign is purely a business propos ition wherein men and women en 4£r into competition withoaghi other on the same basis and the results decide the size and nature of the reward. Every day— New ambitions are aroused. New determination springs forth. And—new nominations are added to the roster of those who will compete in The Courier “Cash Of fer” Campaign. The great award distribution continues to excite en thusiasm throughout Randolph and adjoining counties. Interest is in creasing every day that passes. “The “Cash Offer” Campaign has made a hit everywhere. Those who wished to take a little time to study the campaign carefully be fore sending in their nominations have found that the “Cash Offer” Campaign offers the most equitable opportunity to obtain the richest reward that has ever been made in this section. Names of new workers continue to arrive to be placed in ^he list of nominations. Opportunity Appreciated With such a wonderful array of awards to compete for as The Courier has provided, it is no wond er that the enthusiasm provided has spread into practically every home in the large territory the paper blankets. That out of town candidates are keenly alert to the unusual oppor tunities they have of winning a valuable cash award, is evidenced by the splendid interest manifest ed in the awards. Every rural ter ritory should have a representative in the “Cash Offer” Campaign as all compete upon the same basis and persons residing even on rural routes have an equal opportunity with everyone else to win the very best awards. Subscriptions may be secured anywhere, and positively no limit is placed on one’s terri tory. Outside Interest Grows Towns and villages outside Ashe boro are now starting to line up their favorites with an eagerness that bids fair to make the race an interesting one. The importance of being earnest in everything one does, whether it is work or play in order to obtain most gratifying results is an ex emplary idea that fits nicely into the policy that members adopt to advantage. Haphazard methods lead a person on and on, and though one may seemingly accom plish things one never attains an ultimate end. A systematic canvass of ye closest friends first will bring results. Then, after you your best friends and ances, you should spread new territory, so to speak, make systematic canvass of 1 other fellow's” friends quaintances. You have a friends and hundreds quaintances