ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS ' *■ r ■ THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS ' ' TRI-WEEKLY Bit. As The Regulator February 2. 1876 VOLUME LXI Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ASHEBQRb7frC^WNI)AY,MARCHl,ri9377 Changed To The Courier September 13, 1879 PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND S \ $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 15 State Assembly Sets March 18th For Adjournment Johnson Of Buncombe Intro duced Bill For Adjourn ment In Twelve Days Old-Age Bill Passes Will Meet At Edenton, One Of State’s First Capitals, For Thursday Session With the major problems of the North Carolina general assembly either solved or well* under way, the members agreed on Friday night to adjourn sine die on March 18th. A joint resolution by Johnson of Buncombe calling for adjournment on that date and pro viding that no new bills could be introduced after Wednesday, March 10th. The house passed the resolution without debate at a night session and met again shortly after mid night to approve the resolution and clear its calendar of routine proposals. By a 97 to 1 vote, the House passed the old-age assistance and child-aid social security bill, call ing for expenditures of $16,000,009 during the 1937-39 biennium, and sent the proposal back to the Sen ate for concurrence in clairfying amendments. Grant of Davie voted against the measure and Davis of Hyde was paired against it. Leaders predicted that the bill would be enacted into law next week. Earlier in the session, it passed the Senate with only one opposing vote—that of Bell of Mecklenburg. , Lieut. Gov. W. P. Horton, presid ing officer of the Senate, said he and Speaker R. Gregg Cherry of Gaston had agreed on Thursday as the day the Legislature would meet in Edenton. said they^ had invited President Roosevelt to the meeting at “one of the State’s first capitals.” (Edenton officials were notified by Marvin H. McIntyre, a presi dential secertary, that Mr. Roose velt would be unable to attend the session at one of the State’s early capitals.) A subcommittee was named to arrange transportation for the law makers. A bill to provide free basal text books for children attending ele mentary public schools, already ap I proved by the House, passed the Senate, 37 to 5, on second reading and may be enacted into law Satur day or early next week. §£ Voting against the proposal, S which carries with it authorization f for a $1,500,000 bond issue to fin ance the program were Bell, Hill of Durham, Massey of Union, Rod- j g man of Beaufort, and Taylor of j M Anson. Many Activities Progressing Now At Asheboro High School Extending the book drive which ( the elementary grades of the Ashe-1 I boro schools have been conducting f in recent weeks, the high school is now putting on a campaign to in crease its stock of standard volumes. Plans were discussed and adopted at a chapel meeting Thurs day, and 24 very desirable works To Friends Of The Candidates Your Favorite Gets 27,500 Votes For Second Payment. Subscribers and their friends who have already given their fa vorite candidate a subscription during the first period in The Courier Cash Offer campaign can do a great service and help wonderfully in that member's work by giving her another year s $2.00 payment* Of course second and third period county almost as many extension votes. Such payments entitle mem bers to an additional 27,500 votes and with the race so close it will be extra votes which may decide the winner of that $600 Cash Award. Help those who are helping themselves—give your favorite candidate a call and show her or him you are a real friend by giv ing another subscription. They are all working hard—help them along! Your encouragement may be just the incentive needed to win one of those wonderful awards. Hurry, for the cam paign ends Monday, March 15th. !*■ Will Reorganize Aviation Bureau 1 — Reorganization of the Bureau of Air Commerce, much criticized since a sequence of air tragedies on the west coast shocked the aviation world, was started with the appointment of Fred D. Fagg, Jr., above, to succeed Eugene Vidal as director. Mr. Fagg has been consultant to the bureau, is a World War air veteran and found er of the Northwestern University Air Law Institute. Dies At Pleasant Garden Thursday Mrs. Naomi Keele Whitaker, 70. died Thursday at the Home of her son, M. -' -L. • Bouyer, - Pleasant Garden route olid, after an illness of three weeks. M*a. Whitaker *aa a fomer WdenHif 'fttrfteA* and Atlanta, Ga. She is survived by two sons, M. L. Bouyer and E. K. Bouyer of Pleasant Garden route one; and two daughters, Mrs. W. M. Clark of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Carolyn Bargeron of Atlanta, Ga. Funeral service was held at 11 o’clock Saturday morning froir. Gray’s Chapel church with Rev. J. A. Cox of Central Falls officiating. Pallbearers were Clyde Routh, W. L. Kirkman, Benny Lineberry, George Wallace, T. E. Routh and Hal Connor. Interment was in the church cemetery. Call For CCC Veterans — Robert Lloyd, county, welfare officer, has issued a call for ap plications to the veterans branch of the GCC. Applications must be made immediately, since they must be turned in to the central bureau in Charlotte by March 20. of fiction have already been added. Standard book lists have been posted at the school and students are to familiarize themselves with the names of suitable volumes and ipake solicitations either of the books or of money to be used for their purchase. It is hoped that a great many additional books will be obtained in this way. There will be several prizes to reward those who work the hardest. The students are to turn over the money and books they collect to their home room teacher, and the room having the greatest total will receive a class picture. There will be a prize for the second best room, and the individual who makes the best record will receive a copy of “Gone With The Wind” or some other desirable book. The high school is planning to top off the basketball season by an inter-class tournament to be held the first of this week. Each class is organizing a team for the boys and one for the girls, and the interest is very keen. The pre liminary rounds will be played Monday and Tuesday afternoons and the finals Wednesday night. At the chapel assembly Friday Gerald K. Ford spoke to the high school, using as his subject “Labels.” After describing a variety of labels and the many ways they might be used, Mr. Ford applied the term to aspects of character, telling his listeners that they must be mindful of ac quiring a good label or none at all. There was a session for the first three grades in-each school Satur day morning in order to make up (.Please turn to Page S) Mrs. J. D. Ross Is Winner For This News Tip Theatre Tickets Mrs. J. D. Ross was the winner of The Courier news tip contest for the period ending yesterday after noon for sending in a tip on a very unusual news story. There were many extraordinary news items phoned in during the time allotted to the period and Mrs. Ross finally was awarded the two (2) tickets to see Jack Benny and Mary Boland in “College Holiday’’ at the Sun Greensboro Woman Thwarts Robbers Guilford Officers Hold Two In Connection With Robbery Early Thursday Used Stolen Car Mrs. Mattie Williams Scares Off Two Men Using Clever Stratagem C. T. Wood of Greensboro and P. G. Coy of Reidsville were taken into custody Thursday afternoon by Guilford deputies in connection with the robbery of Mrs. Mattie Williams at her store and filling station near Greensboro early that morning. Woods denied any connec tion with the theft, as did Coy, the owner of the automobile driven by the robbers, which he said had been stolen. Two holes, apparently made by bullets, were found in the wind shield of the car and were first re garded as an indication that the robbers were fortunate to escape With their lives from Mrs. Wil liams’ premises. However, McCoy |$d officers that the- windshield nad already been shattered. The bullets, or whatever missiles made the holes, did not go through the glass, having given it a glancing blow. The men entered the station, flourished a pistol and ordered Mrs. Williams to hand over her money, she told officers. She took some change from her pocket, amount ing to little more than a dollar, and gave it to them. They insisted that she had more and commanded her to get it right away. 'About that time a shutter in the rear of the building was blown shut by the wind, and pretending that her son was in the room, she called for help, she said. The strategy was successful; the robbers ran hurried ly to their car, and Mrs. Williams procured her pistol and followed. She shot at them as they drove away, she stated. Woods said that the car had been driven by his wife to Work and had been left parked on the street. He had not reported it stolen. The keys were found in the vehicle when it was abandoned by the robbers. The car had two sets of license plates. Virginia plates for 1930 were covered with 1937 North Carolina plates. The windshield bore an inspection sticker issued by the state of Virginia. Reidsville officers said that McCoy had been arrested a short time ago by a highway patrolman and made to (procure North Carolina plates. He said he had put them over the Vir ginia plates. Rep. Rankin Asks War Widows Fund Representative John E. Rankin of Tupelo, Miss., asked Congress Friday to increase the compensa tion of dependent survivors of World War veterans who died of service-incurred causes. The bill would set up the following new scale: widow, $60 a month; widow with one child, $80, and $10 more ■for each additional child; no widow, one-child, $40; two children, $80; three children, $100 and for each additional child, $10; mother or father, $50; mother and father, $75. SLIGHTLY INJURED AS HE CROSSES STREET Bud Phillips of North Park street while crossing Park street at the intersection of Park street and Sunset avenue about 8:30 Saturday morning was struck by an automobile driven by a colored man and owned by J. T. Tyree of Rocky Mount. The accident was said to be unavoidable. Mr. Tyree was said to have stopped the car and rendered all possible as sistance to Phillips carrying hi^ to Dr, Tiffany Barnes office for an examination where it *as found that his injuries were not serious, j set, Monday and Tuesday, after much consideration. The new period begins Monday morning at 8 o’clock and continues until Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. The winner will receive two (2) tickets to attend “A Calvacade of Stars” on the stage and “They Met in a Taxi” on the screen at the Carolina, Wednesday or the screen version of “Folies Bergere” at the same theatre Thursday. Pipe Line Ready For Pumping Now — New 12 Inch Line From City Ponds To Reservoir Com pleted On Friday City Board Meets Water Works Crew Has Worked Hard To Put Pro ject Through The new 12 inch pipe line frpm the city ponds to the reservoir within the city limits was complet ed Friday morning and everything? is in readiness to pump water through them. The new line will be put in use some day this week, Walter Yow said Friday, and the city of Asheboro is now assured of a plentiful water supply. The waterworks crew has worked hard and faithfully on this project and feels proud of its accomplish* ment. The work was begun back the fall but was held up by thfe heavy rains, and the force seized every fair day to rush the jok through.”. With , ' the return of pHWftgl Weather -the Street force is baelpj[ the job and is putting forth every* effort to get the streets in good shape after the snow. The city commissioners held their regular monthly meeting Thursday evening, but nothing out of the ordinary came up. The usual bills were paid, after which a discussion of future plans ensued. Gerald K. Ford Speaks At School Gerald K. Ford, director of young people’s work in the First M. E. church, addressed the Asheboro high school assembly Friday morn ing on the subject of “Labels.” After a few words of introduc tion by Bernard Henley, of the sophomore class, Mr. Ford asked the assembly to sing “S-m-i-lee” with him. He then read the story of Cain and Abel from Genesis and called especial attention to this verse: “and the Lord set a mark an Cain.” The speaker called attention to many kinds of labels—for instance, in the drug store. “And so it is with life,” he said. “We find that each one of us has a mark upon him. Who makes that mark?” “The marks of dishonesty, cowardice, grouchiness, and lack of ambition were declared to be dangerous. Honesty, unselfish am bition, cheerfulness, and initia tive,” he said, “were marks of worth.” continuing, Mr. Ford dis cussed the close relation between lying, cheating, and stealing. “I don’t know of any place a liar can live and be a success.” said the speaker. “Who is it that is making the label?” was asked. “You, your self, you cheat, and someone is going to cheat you.” “Let us be careful how we make our lives,” said Mr. Ford. “Honesty is said to be the cornerstone of character.” He closed by a re ference to the mark of the Christian, quoting, “The followers of Christ were first called Christ ians at Antioch.” In closing, the speaker said, “I wonder how many of us could go out on the streets and have it said of us, ‘There goes a Christian.’ ” N. C. Editors Plan Cruise To Bermuda The executive committee of the North Carolina press association^ meeting at Durham recently, de cided upon a cruise to Bermuda for the annual mid-summer meet. The 1937 convention would have met either in the mountains or the seashore—alternating each summer with the midwinter session held at Chapel Hill and Duke University jointly. C. C. Council, president of the N. C. Press Association, stated that the members will sail Jor| Bermuda on June 19th and return , on June 24. It is thought that j there will be about 160 in thsj party. Girl’s Chloroform Death His Nemesis Self-possessed in spite of the predicament in which he found himself, Dr. Richard G. Miller (above) smokes a cigar and puts on his coat after allegedly confessing that Cleo Sprouse, Charlottesville, Va., high school student, died while he attempted to perform an illegal operation “as a favor to her.” Publisher Airs Disputes Of Com. Governor Hoey revealed Friday .that J. L Horne, Jr., Hocky Mount publisher who gave Federal-State rural electrification disputes an legislative com "nesday, had ation as a rural electri fication authority. The Governor said he had re ceived the resignation on February 8 and that Home’s action was prompted by a ruling of the At torney General that no person might serve on two boards, unless one was a charitable agency. “The resignation has no relation to the present electrification con troversy,” Hoey added. Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott also has asked to be re lieved of his duties as a member of the State REA, on the ground that he was ineligible to hold both offices. Horne is a member both of the state board of conservation and de velopment and the REA. He offer ed to quit either post, and the Gov ernor asked him to remain with the conservation board, where he has -pu averts 3uido[OAap ui oajidu uaaq vertising plans, Hoey said. The Governor stated he would not accept the resignations until the General Assembly adjourns, when he will appoint successors to the two men. i Addison Hussey Rites Saturday Funeral rites for Addison Hus sey, 69, who died at 7:15 o’clock Friday morning at his home in Moore county, near Hemp, were held at Smyrna Methodist church at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon by Rev. C. M. Oates, pastor of Pomona Baptist church. Mr. Hussey, who was the father of T. H. Hussey and brother of Mrs. P. T. Moore, both of Greens boro, is survived, in addition, by his wife, the former Miss Julia Ann Garner; two daughters, Mrs. Martha Garner, of Moore county, and Mrs. Ella Ornsby, of Rocking ham; five sons, C. H. Hussey, of Asheboro; B. I. Hussey, of South ern Pines, and J. B., D. E. and F. E. Hussey, all of Moore county, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Garn er and Mrs. S. H. Davis, both of Moore county. Mrs. Roosevelt Is Invited To Speak The South Carolina house of re presentatives adopted a resolution on Friday to invite Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to address it on her Southern tour on March 26, or at a date more convenient to her. Sponsored by Representatives Long of Union and Smith of Barn well, the measure, which was sent to the senate for concurrence, set forth that the President’s wife “has made a diligent study of public af fairs and social conditions, and. . . by her life, interest and conduct! she has shown a keen interest in the affairs of the South.” Clerics of the two Houses would be instructed to forward the invita tion to Mrs. Roosevelt. President Starts Court Attack At Victory Dinner, 4 Advisors Disagreed As To Whether Or Not President Would Mention Court Need Action Now Asserts Definitely That He Does Not Intend To Run For A Third Term At the most popular of the many Victory Dinners, President Roosevelt spoke creating interest from coast to coast. This dinner was held in Washington at the Mayflower Hotel on Thursday even-' ing with cover costs $100 per plate. President Roosevelt was the prin cipal speaker, although James Farley and several other well known political figures were also on hand and made short speeches. For several days before the dinner, it was a matter of con jecture over the nation as to whether or not the President would mention the Supreme Court in his speech—and he did. The President swung into the very center of the fight, which has been imminent for some time, charging that the tribunal’s majority had condemned the nation to be “a no man’s land of final futility.” On the grounds that the justices ’stand on many matters of vital im portance is rendering congress im potent to attack social and econo mic ills, he called for action “now.” This word “now” closed many a sentence and phrase. Mr. Roosevelt recited the New Deal’s effort to deal with the farm; problem by the Agricultural Ad justment administration, and of the effort to improve labor conditions through the NR A. After each ref erence he asserted: “You know who assumed the power of veto, and did veto that program.” Again and again he emphasized in short, emphatic sentences that the conditions which his adminis trations seeks to correct by legis lation are conditions that exist “now.” “If we would keep faith with those who had faith in us, if wa would make democracy succeed, say we must act—now.” “After election day in 1936,” he said, “some of our supporters were uneasy lest we grasp the excuse of a false era of geed feeling to evade our obligations. They were worried by the evil symptom that the pro paganda and the epithets of last summer and fall had died down. “Today, however, those who placed their confidence in us are reassured. For the tumult and the shouting have broken forth anew— and from substantially the same elements of opposition. “This new roar is the best evi dence in the world that we have begun to move against conditions under which one-third of this na tion is still ill-nourished, ill-clad, ill-housed. “We gave warning last Novem ber that we had only begun to fight. Did some people really be lieve we did not mean it? Well--I meant it, and you meant it.” Early in the speech, the speaker made it perfectly clear that he has no intention of running for a third term, as has been a general rumor over the nation. Dr, Ralph McDonald Now In Sanatorium Coming as a shock to his many friends throughout the state was the news that Dr. Ralph McDonald will have to spend six months rest ing in a tubercular sanatorium. Dr. McDonald, who amazed the people of North Carolina with his unusually large vote in the last primary, has recently suffered an attack of flu. It is thought that his strenuous campaign during which time he made often as many as six speeches a day, is partly re sponsible for his lack of strength at this time. Dr. McDonald entered the Forsyth county tubercular hospital Friday for a six month’s rest possibLy longer. FURNITURE ORDER FOR MERCHANTS ASSO. OFFICE The board of directors of the Asheboro Merchants Association met Tuesday and authorized the purchase of a quantity of office furniture which had been inspected and recommended by Tagg Cox, secretary. All supplies and furni ture for the association’s office are now here or have been ordered and will be set up soon. While arrange ments for opening the office are being made, the drive for mem bers is continuing. Subscriptions Sold Last Few Days Oi Campaign To Decide $600 Winner Blazing Car Sets Woodland On Fire A fire which burned over a considerable stretch of woodland before it could be put under con trol Friday afternoon was caus ed by a blazing car, which had been stripped and abandoned about two miles below Gray’s Chapel before being set on fire. Sheriff C. E. King is conducting an investigation to identify the car, find the owner, and disco\er why it was left at that place and burned. A group of colored boys from the Randolph CCC camp fought the fire the entire afternoon and by their hard work prevented considerable more damage to the surrounding property than was the result of this fire. Building, Moving At Franklinville M. F. Cheek Completes Mod ern Home On His Farm; New Families Move C. F. Moon Dies J. A. Wallace Attends Funeral Of Father In Virginia; Other News Items Franklinville, M^rch 6.—Clarence Yojk, who has held a position in the FmnfciftivflTe Difug store for the past few years, left this week for Mebane where he has accepted a position with the Carolina Drug j company. M. F. Cheek has completed a dwelling house on his farm, south of Franklinville and Oscar Henson has moved from his grandfathers’ farm to this building. Jasper All red of Central Falls has moved into the house vacated by Mr. Hen son. J. A. Ellison has moved from the Curtis farm into the home of George Evans. Mrs. M. G. Godfrew of Pomona; spent Tuesday here with her hus- j band. Parris Spoon left Thursday j evening for Hollywood, California.; Clate T. Moon, 44, of Revolu-1 tion, Greensboro, died Wednesday! morning in Clinic hospital, of I paralysis. He was a veteran of the j World War, having served .13 (Please turn to Page 8) ^ Valuable Old Newspapers Are Found In County Court House * * Four old newspapers, three of which will be 100 years old this year, are the most recent of the many valuable old documents which have come to light recently in the court house. These papers are copies of the Southern Citizen, dated December 16-23-30, 1837, and December 13, 1843. This newspaper, which was pos sibly the first published in Ashe boro, was edited by Benjamin Swairn, a lawyer and leading citizen of the county. He was well known as a man of learning and wrote several treatises on the laws of North Carolina. He lived in the town of New Salem at the time when that community was the foremost in the county, and was a member of the Society of Friends. The papers were found in a bundle of wills, inventories, sales, etc., dated 1837-1838, and had been placed there for the purpose of showing certain legal requirements for sales and legal notices had been complied with. These issues are a storage house of information regarding old re sidents and customs of the coun ty. Coffin & Clark, merchants of New Salem, have just received a shipment of fall and winter goods which they are inviting the public to try. They also want to get their accounts settled as they are wind ing up their first year in business, and they remind their customers of the fact still heard today, “short settlements , make long friends.” Blum’s Ahnanac, still a favorite, is advertised in the earliest of the papers. M. A. Hamlin inserts an advertisement for a runaway slave, “a rather drowsy looking molatto woman.” The editor, who seems a man of determined views, lashes Congress for wasting its time spending the public money at the call of every “sycophant who has hurried to Washington”, when the country is in need of a stable currency. His biting editorial accuses the con gressmen of neglecting their duty (Please turn to Page 3) nts or ex »d for the votes that ALL WORKERS EXTENSION NOTICE All extension subscriptions on hand must be turned in by Saturday March 13th by eight o’clock p. m. This is the latest date of the campaign depart ment can accept extensions that have been originally sold by another worker. THIS RULE has no effect on extensions of which were originallv the same candidate. SIONS sold on your ness are good up to campaign provided checked from your records and properly marked when turned in to campaign department. Other second payments tensions will be go~J regular schedule of is in effect this last period. This applies to all candidates and those of you who are ex pecting extension subscriptions on other candidates. Collect them up now and turn them in by Saturday night—Remember an extension subscription car ries a far greater number of votes where the original was turned in during first of p»>gn ' $Mam Campaign ..—.. Great Excitement Increasing Daily All Workers Must Make Cash Report During Last Period In Order To Qualify No Checks Accepted During Last Period Workers Warned To Lose No Time Nor Or Be Prepared To Take Smaller Awards Only seven more short working days and The Courier’s far-famed and widely advertised “Cash-Offer’' Campaign will come to a close. Asheboro and surrounding ter* ritory is waiting, wondering and hustling for the favorite members. The city section is seething with hustle and expectancy; the towns outside are of one accord, deter* mined to help their favorites fight valiantly. Excitement is keyed to the highest pitch. Riding on the wave of this wond erful demonstration of enthusiasm are the ambitious prize aspirants. From every point of the compass they are making vigorous efforts to capture the magnificent prizes. Two very large cash awards will be awarded, together with numerous other awards and a supply of cash with which to pay commissions. From every section the workers are gathering the storm of votes that will be showered upon the campaign department in the clos ing hour. Rich. Prizes ' " Nevfer'T>ef6re was such amrgif*! and valuable array of gifts present ed by a newspaper in this section. Never was such a tremendous bat tle waged to win them. Present indications point to a close finish, and it appears certain that the close margin by which the prizes will be won will occasion the great surprise. No member can appear certain of victory and there is abundant speculation as to the outcome. The last week will decide. The race is too close among too many to bank on any possibili ties; and again there are too many people interested in each member to assure anyone of an easy vic tory. Relaxation at this time is suicidal to success. Determination to win coupled with relentlessness in gathering votes will go a long way in deciding the winner. Judges To Be Announced The names of the judges who (Please turn to Page 8)