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vm iVaudeville Show At Carolina Sat. - Presenting- another of the popu lar large vaudeville units, the Carolina Theatre is offering Satur day on the stage, “Girl of Today” with 18 talented perform ers. Featuring a bevy of beautiful girls and a number of sensational acts, “Girls of Today” con tains entertainment for all types of taste in stage show efferings, with fast moving acts, snappy songs and dances, and a brand of hilarious comedy. Th.'re will be four stage shows Saturday at 2:30, 4:30, 7:10 and S):20. Besides the “Girls of Today” o:i the stage Saturday the Carolina is showing on the screen “Gallant Defender,” Peter ii. Kyne’s popular adventure classic, with Charles Starrett, in the title role. The film is an exciting drama | of the hitter feud that existed on the American range between the cattlemen who wanted the land for ! grazing, and the homesteaders who ! wanted farm land. Joan Perry plays | opposite Starrett. with Harr\ j Woods, Ed Le Saint, George Dili-1 ings and a large cast in support. Mutiny Story At Carolina Theatre i • - Mutiny rages on a floating Hades | of Us: ! ..Forty maddened shars i r billers d<-fy the tropic, tempests and-i the relentless rule of their devil i commander! , ! The turbulent drama of this mad < mutiny is the motivating theme of Columbia's “Hell-Ship Morgan,” j featuring George Bancroft, Ann j Sothern and Victor Jory. which is j :scheduled to show Friday at the; Caroline. Theatre. The leading characters in this roaring sea yarn are Captain; “Hell-Ship” Morgan, played by1 Of urge Bancroft.: a waterfront waif enacted by Ann Sothern, who tear'’1 s the swashbuckling Morgan , out of gratitude; and the hand sttiti;' Jury, Morgan’s first mate and third member of the emotion-| a! romantic triangle that grows out of their fateful meeting aboard the ship. Dressmaking: & Tailoring Buttons covered, hemstitching: Phone 336 Mrs. C. C. Rollins 236 N. Fayetteville St. BOWL FOR HEALTH AND SPORT SKATING ASHEBORO RECREATION CENTER Theatre Menu Sunset Theatre MON.-Tl E. George Brent and Beverly Roberts in "GOD’S COENTRY AND THE WOMAN" In Natural Color. Terry Toon Cartoon. “Sunken Treasures". Short. "Washington In Vir ginia.” WEDNESDAY Larry Crabbe and Joe Cook in, ARIZONA MAHONEY” Traveltalk. "Colorful Islands". Headliner Short, "Star Report er In Holljwood". Farmer AI Falfa in. “Tin Can Tourist". THU.-FR1. Bank Night Thur. $50.90. Lily Pons and Gene Raymond in "THAT G1RI. FROM PARIS" March of Time. SATIRDAY Johnny Mack Brown in "BAR Z BAD MEN" Popeye Cartoon, "Never Kick A Woman”. Buck Jones in. “The Phantom Rider" No. 15. Serial. “1 ndersea Kingdom” No. 7. Serial, "The Vigilantes Are Coming” No. 1. Coming Next MON.-Tl E. Jack Benny-Mary Boland Burns and Allen in. “COLLEGE HOLIDAY” Pictorial Review. “Vitaphone Pictorial”. Bill Corum, "Goals For Gold and Glory”. Capito! Theatre MON.-TUE. George O’Brien-Beatrice Roberts in “PARK AVENUE LOGGER” Looney Tune Cartoon, “Litte Beau Porky”. Serial, “Burn 'Em Up Barnes”. News Of The Day. WEDNESDAY Shirley Temple in “LITTLE MISS MARKER" Happy Harmonies Cartoon, “The Pups Christmas”. Screen Song, “Talking Through My Heart”. THURSDAY Bank Night $50.00 Slim Summerville, Shirley Deane, Jed Prouty in “OFF TO THE RACES” Tpbloid Musical, “New Shoes”. Russ Brown, Sandra Johnson in “Strike Your Out”. FRI.-SAT. Enroll Flynn, Olivia De Havilland in, ' _ THE LIGHT JADE”. m Commenting, . m. Up* CURRENT SCREEN ATTRACTIONS AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll and Gene Raymond heading an all-star cast of screen and radio favorites in vTransat! sniic Merry-Go-Round.” showing Monday and Tuesday at the Carolina Theatre. Teddy Roosevelt Picture 3rd, 4th. A stirring pieturization of tho ; historic hundred days war against ; Spain, culminating in -the famous • chary? of "Teddy” Roosevelt's*! Rough Riders up San Juan Hid.! will be seen in “End of rh.< Trail,” j starring Jack Holt, when it will bo j shown at the Carolina- Thea'av 1 Wednesday and Thursday. The picture brings Holt back to : the vigorous type of adventa-rj stories in which he scor ’d hm j greatest successer. Ho is capably > supported in this film. by an . .-I • 1 lent cast including T o:iso Henry, ; tiuinn "Rig Boy" Williams, Doug lass Dumbrille, Gene Morg-.i.l Georg. McKay, and John McGu .*o. 1 Erie C. Kenton, who directed “End cf the Trail.” also appears in t’. • cast as Lieutenant-Colonel veit in the thrilling attack Juan Hill. Roosc- j on San I "End of the Trait” was adapted) to the screen by Harold Shumate1 from Zane Grey's story “Outlaws | of Palouse," which is considered i one of the finest novels ever, writ-1 ter, by this famed American | author. The story, essentially, is that of j two friendly enemies in a small western cow-town who answer the call to colors in the war with Spain. ‘ Pale Brittenham, played by Holt, ! saves the life of Bob Hildreth,' played by Guinn Williams, and loses the sight of one eye. The,* meet Louise Henry, as Belle, a Red Cross nurse, and their rivalry is intensified. They are both in love with the same girl. When they return front Cuba Hildreth is made Sheriff and Brit tenham, unable to get a job. follows a questionable vocation but be | comes very rich. With the gir! between them ami the two former buddies in arms o ', opposite sides of the law. “End of the Trail” develops into an intense ly dramatic story that moves swiftly and thrillingly to'a sur prise climax. FRIENDS Ql ARTEKLY MEET AT BETHEL CHERCH A Southern Quarterly Meeting of the Friends church will be held Saturday, February 27. at Beth?! ■ church., six miles southeast of Asheboro. There will be three ses sions during the day—at 10 a. n. a sermon on “Ministry and Over sight", a meeting for worship it*. 11 o’clock, and a business session in the afternoon. Carolina Theatre Program MON.-TUE. Jack Benny, Gene Raymond, Nancy Carroll, Patsy Kelly, | Frank Parker, Boswell Sisters, and Mitzi Green in “TRAN SATLANl 1C MERRY GO-ROUND” Completing prograpi is a special crime reel, “You Can’t Get Away With It” starring J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G Men. Also latest news events. WED.-TRUR. Jack Holt in Zane Grey’s “END OF THE TRAIL” Also comedy, “Free Rent”, and a new novelty reel, “Snapshots” pf Hollywood stars at work and play. FRIDAY George Bancroft, Ann Sothern, and Victory Jory in “HELL SHIP MORGAN” 18 People Today’. 7:10 and ! Charles 18 People Today’. 7:10 and ! Charles Plus a new hilarious 3 Stooges comedy, “False Alarms”; an Oswald cartoon, “Everybody Sings”, and a new “Stranger Than Fiction” reel- Jack Pot $75. SATURDAY The Stage andeville “Girls of Shows at 2:30, 4:30, 9:20. On The Screen Starrett in Peter B. Kynes’ "HIB uAyiiANT DEFENDER Also Chapter ,4 of Buck Jones in “The Roaring West”, and a aedy, “Sailor Maid”. Electric Grocery StfJre Is Planned Former Operator Of Piggly | Wiggh Chain W ilt Open Sew Undertaking Keedcozle Store AH Pur chases Delivered To I Cu lamer And Bill Added By electricity Cl.-nv <■ Saonders; famous Pig- i Wiy_:;. Store owner, is pro-1 pi. S' to build a third fortune with a eonmliudy electrified grocery store. Hi- w venture is called the “keedoozle" store, for no reason in particular. 11 plant to open his first "1, < A store, in which else trieny delivers the customer's ; parch -vs and adds up the cost. • March fi, and branch out c.nt ! he has a chain covering the World. 1)' the new store the customer I will enter and obtain a “key”— a | fibre rod aboul seven inches long with a knob on the end containing, a red light bulb. He walks past glass-encased shelves. Jl he sees an item he walits. he inserts the “key” in a corresponding hole at the side. This j sots up an electrical contact. The j bulb flashes red. If the customer! c ants two of the item,'he waits i for a second flash. In this way he selects his meats, j his eggs, milk or canned goods. Concluding, he returns to the cashier—the only employe he ever sees—aiid hands in his key. Th - cashier inserts the key in an other bole and presto! It releases all .the contacts he has made. His packages come tumhling out of a conveyor belt even as an electrical ly-operated- adding machine au tomatical!:, totals the cost. Clerks m stock rooms wil 1 fill the containers as they empty. Electrical gadgets of every de scription. motors, and probably 100,000 feet of wire are located j there. Saunders said he began thinking, on the idea about five years ago. j lip said he had ample capital. “This store will be able to hand- \ !e ten. times as many people as the j average.” he said. “We’ll undersell everybody. There’ll be no loss from : shrinkage, spoilage or theft. Customers can’t touch and bruise fruit. This will protect health, too, and every employe will furnish a health certificate every 30 days.” A one-time Clarksvile, Tennl., grocery clerk, Saunders made his, first fortune with his development! of the self-service grocery store, but lost it in a spectacular battle in Wall Street in 1923 resisting a i “bear” raid on shares of Piggly Wiggly stores, Jncv He was deposed as president and later became bankrupt. | With $12,000 borrowed money, lie started a second chain, “Clarence Saunders—sole Owner of My Name.” | He built a second fortune, only to lose that a few years ago. Vermont Citizen Pays Most Taxes 1 -- Melvin J. Dunn, a farmer of Troy, Vermont, has laid claim to I the distinction of paying taxes to i more taxing groups than any other | American citizen. Because his fifteen-acre farm is | situated two-thirds in Canada and i one-third in the United States, he 1 said that he paid taxes to both ! countries, two towns, .a state, a I Province and a county. Milk from the cows on the American side bf his huge barn, I which straddles the boundary, is shipped to American markets, he said, and milk from cows on the Canadian side is shipped to Can adian markets. He makes the j same market division with ,hi» crops. His children, ranging in age from 2 to 14 years, either are attending or will attend American schools. American and Canadian immi gration officials describe him as a model farmer, father and citizen. by “Movie Spotlight” Victor-Jortf’s greatest thrill was catching a. ft Ur. trout which took 22 minutes to Lund, uritk a fUi rod.^.—x tjtorqr Bancroft possesses a. otru fine, coUxitlov of primJwwe. weapons used lnj sewages of Central and South America., the Malcuj Straits cued. China. UNUSUAL FACTS REVEALED Amt Let’S Fall In Low )hi Parti/sOver EicjkT Bills HELL-sHlP MORGAN' Folios BtfqjtK, Thi CjiRL Frimd FfraHd Exit Scenes taken from "Hell-Ship Morgan” playing the Carolina Theatre Friday. .. Charles Starfptt and Woods in “Gallant Defender.” V. M. I. Prepares i For Anniversary! Virginia Military Institute Will Be 100 Years Old In 1939 Glorious History West Point Of South Has Produced Many Famous Military Leaders Virginia Military Institute, the ‘"West. Point of the South”, is al ready making: plans to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1939. The Lexington, Virginia, school is among the oldest in the south and has had an unusual and colorful history. The State of Virginia, maintained an arsenal on the present campus site as early as 1816, and the mili tary college was founded on Nov. 11, 1839, by an odd coincidence the same day and month as the World War armistice was signed. V. M. I. was barely 25 years old when the cadet corps, under Colonel Scott Shipp, then commandant, marched to New Market, Va., and assisted in checking the advance of the Union Army as it drove down the Shenandoah Valley. Ten of the cadets lost their lives, and forty-seven were wounded. “New ■ Market Day,” May 15, is a holiday always observed at V. M. I. V. M. I. is said to be the onlyj military school in the world whose I corps of cadets fought as a body in a decisive battle. Of the 284 who fought at New Market, only three are now living. They are P. N. Page, ’66; J. B. Harvey, ‘67, and W. M. Wood, '67. Although V. M. I. started as a strictly State of Virginia college, it now lists among its cadets young men from almost every State in the country. The corps now totals 6*8 cadets, and the barracks have re cently been renovated and fire proofed. With a parade ground of fourteen acres, the plant now has a valuation of about $2,50O,0Q0. There are fifty active faculty mem bers. V. M. I. has had hundreds of prominent alumni and faculty members. Among its distinguished instructors was Commodore Mat thew Fontaine Maury, the “Path finder of the Seas,” and General Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall") Jackson, military strategist of the Confederate forces in the Civil War. General Jackson was for twelve years military instructor at the institute. In the Civil War, V. M. 1. had S major generals, -18 brigadier ends, 96 colonels, 66 colonels, 110 majors, 310 «a and 222 lieutenants. In the War it had 5 brigadier generals, 45 colonels, 47 lieutenant colonels, 144 majors, .‘119 captains, 318 first lieutenants and 322 second lieu tenants. V. M. I. has had only five super intendents in its history. The pres ent superintendent is General John A. Lejeune, former commandant of the Marine Corps and commander of the Second Division, A. E. F. Famous Old Clock Reaches 100 Mark A handsome and historic clock in the Supreme Court building has just attained its centenary. A gift to the court from a skilled clock maker of Connecticut who was 85 years of age when he made it, the clock came to Washington when Andrew Jackson was President. With its white dial, two feet wide, and its beautifully wrought bronze frame, it has faithfully served the court ever since. In its hundreth year it finds it self supplanted by new-fangled electric timepieces in the marble halls of the new palace into which the court recently moved. But that is all right with the old clock. Though relegated to a basement file room, it ticks along serenely, living up to its reputation as ah excellent timekeeper. Like most other clocks, it might noisily call attention to itself by striking twelve times gt midday. But as if in keeping with the dignity of the court in which it has spent its life, it strikes only one. Long ago it hung in the robing room of the justices, and there a change was made in its mechanism —tradition says by Justice Stephen J. Field. Since then it has struck .its one note at exactly one minute before the hour of twelve, thus warning the black-gowned justices to be ready and waiting to ascend the bench precisely at noon. In its first year in Washington the clock hung in what is now the Law Library of Congress in the Capitol, juat beneath the old chamber of the Supreme Court.-Its promotion to the robing room fol lowed, and then it went to the office of the court clerk. When the court moved to .its present quarters, at taches brought the old clock along. —The New York Times. PORTRAIT OF JURIST TO BE PRESENTED Several Asheboro friends of the late Judge John M. Oglesby of Concord have received invitations to attend the presentation of a portrait to the court house in Con cord on Friday evening, February 26th. This portrait is bring pre sented by the Concord Rotary club of which the late Judge *aa a Those with suspicious natures might think that the ^»o soldiers in question, played by Jack Holt and Guinn "Big Boy” Wi^%jns, wound up in the hospital intentionally. Such was not the case, though both Jack, who is starred in Columbia’s “End of the Trail.” showing Wednes day and Thursday at the Carolina Theatre, and Guinn, Tjrbi is featured, seem to be getting along famously with Louise Henry. The'young lady portrays a war nurse in the film, which deals with the Spnnish-Ameri can conflict. Many Stars Group In Mystery Movie “Transatlantic Merry - Go Round,” sparkling new comedy drama with melody, mystery and j romance, staged aboard a palatial J ocean liner, comes to the Carolina. Theatre Monday and Tuesday. A great cast of screen and radio stars, headed by Jack Benny, Nancy Can-oil and Gene Raymond is seen in this Harry M. Zoetz-Edward Small production, which Benjamin Stoloff directed for release through j United Artists. Benny is seen as a genial master! of ceremonies broadcasting from the high seas, while Nancy plays j Sally Marsh, the star of his trouper j and Raymond is seen as a young Raffles who falls in love with her. j Among the famous screen and radio personalities who take part in Benny’s broadcasts are Mitzi) Green, in her first grownup role;} Frank Parker, The Boswell Sisters. | Patsy Kelly, Jean Sargent and; Jimmy Grier and his orchestra.! Benny’s famous satire, “Grind Hotel,” is a high point of the pro- j gram. j The passengers aboard the liner ; include Sydney Howard, who is i known as England’s Chaplin, play ing a happy, harmless drunk; Sid! Silvers as Raymond’s comic con federate working as a steward; Sidney Blackmer as Lee Lother, a scoundrelly Broadway racketeer who is pursuing Sally: Shirley Grey as a married woman who is infatuated with Lather; Ralph Morgan as her suspicious husband; and William Boyd as (*n escaped gunman who is stowing away aboard the liner. _■ > - AAA Cotton Like White Elephant Government Can’t Sell It Pro fitably, Storage Charges Prove Expensive The government is having a hard time disposing of the throe million bales of loan cotton acquir ed under the AAA, and the stor age is costing $50,000 daily while vain attempts are being made to ! sell it without too great a loss. The i cotton, a very substantial ghost | of the late agricultural adjustment: act, has been up for sale for three weeks, and as yet there has been no rush to buy or respossess it. In announcing its intention to let farmers take back the cotton which has cost around 14 cents a pound for 12.75 cents a pound the gov ernment signified its willingness ; to take a $22,500,000 loss. It was expected th&t a million or i more bales of loan cotton would : find its way into consuming chan ! nels this way. So |ar no figures ’ have been available on the amount : that has been solrf, !!>tt informed I spot men placed the total far be low expectations. The difficulty most complained of by the trade, authorities said, was the complexities of the rul.»g and regulations governing the sale. \ Another factor cited was the price. The government set a minimum price of 12.76 cents a pound. Spot cotton men assert that 12.75 cents is out of line with the present world price of cotton and insist that the price should be lowered to 12 cents or under. If the government lowers the < price it will increase its losses on cotton that has already cost it 14 cents a pound. If they don’t sell it ' the carrying charges of $50,000 will rapidly add to the total cost for the cotton. One important angle that has re ceived much attention in the trade has beer the warehousing feature. At present much of the govern ment’s 3,000,000 bales of cotton is stored in small country warehouses throughout the south. Operators of t. these warehouses have been get ting 25 to 50 cents a bale a month for storing the government’s cot ton. Naturally they are not inter ested in seeing it sold and one re port claimed they have put pres sure on any lowering of the cur rent minimum asking price of 12.76 cents a pound. TODAY SUNDAY MOVIES 2,4,8:45 HIGH POINT * » The Marx Brothers paramount VwALTER HUSTON | Academy Award Winner in “DODSWORTH” Selected as one of the best 10 BROADRURST / A Bert Wheeler Robert Woolscy as “.Vfummy’s Boys” “ANTHONY ADVERSE” with Fredric March Olivia De iiavilland “HELLO FOLKS!” ‘SICK’ IEMV HUES AGAIN! This time he’s riding! the ocean waves on a joyous musical cruise with 10 other great stars! . . Radio’s grandest funster making the waves rock with laughter in a n^rry go-round of merriment, music, and rhythm! in “Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round” with Gene Raymond, Nancy Carroll, Patsy Kelly. ^ Boswell Sisters, Mitai Green, and Frank ‘ Parker. . MOMAV « . * TtESMI Monday & Tuesday 20c All Day < • | ..— Wed., Thur., Matinee 15c Fri. Night 20c EXTRA! First authentic pictures of J. Edgar Hoover, himself, and his “G”-Men, behind the scenes and in action! in. • . “YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH ff” ON THE STAGE wtsinmr' 18 — PEOPLE —18 Gorgeous girls! Snappy comedy! Talent ed Acts! —on the Screen, Charles Starrett In
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