ALWAYS ABREAST WITH
THE CHANGING TIME
IN RANDOLPH COUNTY
THE COURIER LEADS
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THE COURIER AND
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VOLUME LXT~~
Bit. As The Regulator
February 3. 1876
CM cleat Paper Publiahed In Randolph County
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ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937.
Changed To The Courier
September 13, 1873
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PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY NUMBER 16
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\
th Dist. Congressman
arold D. Cooley Comes
ut For Supreme Court
akes Firm Stand
fith The President
[as Promised To Announce
Stand For Sometime;
Studied Conditions
roins Forces With
Frank Hancock, M. C.
‘resident Will Fire First Big
Shot From His Warfare
Ammunition Tonight
I For at least a week, Congress
man Harold D. Cooley has been
promising an early announcement
bs to his stand on the Supreme
Court question and on Tuesday
knoming he joined forces with
trank Hancock, M.. C. going on
record for the President’s bill,
r Representative Cooley announc
ed his support of the President’s
■court bill in a 40-minute speech, to
[which the house membership ac
corded an attentive, enthusiastic
nearing, while shortly thereafter
[the address of the North Carolina
[member was replied to by Rep
resentative Cox, of Georgia, lead
er of the house bloc opposing the
projected judiciary legislation.
Messrs. Cooley and Hancock are
Enow out in the open in support of
[the bill. Mr. Weaver, a member of
[the judiciary committee, has said,
[with obviously restrained enthusi
asm, that he will abide the ship,
of he does not change his mind.
Representative Bulwinkle is op
bosed, while other members of the
have reserved
udgment. TMS ■’ft" true of Repre
entative Doughton, who was a
uncheon guest of the President
Ifonday.
It is thought by those close to
he President that he will lire his
lig gun in his radio address to
light which will be his last of
icial act before leaving Wednes
lay for his fortnight’s vacation at
Varm Springs.
*erfect Records
By Two Airlines
Despite the increase in airline
disasters in the past few months
vo major aviation transport com
nies can still boast of never
- having had a passenger accident
fatality throughout their entire op
ating history. For this record the
vo lines, Eastern Airlines and
Northwest Airlines, have been
fciven awards by the National
fety Council.
The selections, based upon the
eriod ending December 31, 1936,
vere determined through records
pf the United State Department of
ommerce. W. H. Cameron, manag
director of the council, said
stem Airlines was credited with
^41,794,894 passenger miles with
out a fatality and Northwest Air
lines had 48,768,411 fatality-free
ssenger miles.
To Friends Of
The Candidates
Your Favorite Gets 27,500
I Votes For Second Payment.
Subscribers and their friends
j who have already given their
| favorite candidate a subscrip
tion during the first period in
I The Courier Cash Offer cam
ftpaign can do a great service
land help wonderfully in that
| member’s work by giving her
►ther year’s $2.00 payment.
)f course second and third
eriod counts almost as many
(tension votes.
Such payments entitle mem
bers tp an additional 27,500
votes and with the race so dose
lit will be extra votes which may
the winner of that $600
Award.
Help those who are helping
|them8elves—give your favorite
(candidate a call and show her or
you are a real. friend by
(giving another subscription.
They are all working hard—
[help them along! Your en
> couragement may be just the
incentive needed to win one of
f those wonderful awards. Hurry,
for the campaign ends Monday,
March 15th.
| With President |
HAROLD COOLEY, M. C.
State Capital To
Stage Correction
Displeased With Senator Tyd
ings’ Speech Which Only
Mentioned President Once
To Be Plain Affair
Committee Has Secured Hon.
Harold Iekes, Secretary Of
Interior, New Dealer
Democrats in Raleigh, displeased
with the Victory Dinner held last
week, are planning another to
“purge the record.” Displeased and
'sometfEaf cKagrihed with the guest
speaker, Senator Millard F. Typ
ings of Maryland, who only men
tioned the President once, a group
of old-time Democrats who are
New Deal enthusiasts, have secur
ed Hon. Harold Iekes, secretary of
the interior, who Is an avowed
New Dealer, as the speaker. The
food will be plain—North Carolina
barbecue, is the report, (which
means roast pork) and the plain
people are invited to come.
The dinner will be held Friday
night and will, unlike the Wash
ington Victory Dinner, be an in
formal affair at one dollar a plate.
The speaker is a cabinet member
and oratorical champion of the
New Deal, who was the first ad
ministration man to answer A1
Smith after the New Yorker’s
speech to the 1936 Liberty League
dinner, has accepted the invitation
to address the Roosevelt dinner.
Volunteer ticket-salesmen for
the dinner, which grew spontane
ously out of resentment at the
failure of last week’s/dinner to
celebrate the President’s victory,
began signing up with S. Brown
Shepherd, Jr., chairman of tho
Roosevelt dinner committee yester
day.
Philip R. Whitley, vice president
of the Bank of Wendell and chair
man of the Wake county executive
committee, will be treasurer for
the dinner, which is expected to
attract a capacity crowd of non
apologetic Democrats to Raleigh’3
vast Memorial Auditorium Friday
night.
Volunteers for the men’s ad
vance sale committee yesterday in
cluded LeRoy Martin, Cutlar
Moore, Dewey Dorsett, Frank
Daniels, S. R. Covington, Fred
Dixon, Joseph Barber and Louis
Wilson.
Mrs. Roosevelt
Hates Firearms
Although Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt manages to do without
guards most of the time and dis
likes firearms, she usually carries
a gun when driving alone.
“I go about just as anybody
else," she said recently. “How
ever, when I travel, there are
usually special guards furnished
me. But they are not detailed at.
my request I would much prefer]
to go without them.”
In reply to a question, Mrs.
Roosevelt said bodily harm “never
enters my mind.”
“I do carry a pistol with me
when I ride alone in my automo
bile,” she added “but only then.”
“Can you use it?" a questioner
asked,
“Well,” she aaiid with a smile,
“I had the same training with a
pistol that the New York National
Guard has., Certainly I can use
it.”
But a little later, she confided,
t“I hate guns.”
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James Farley To
Speak Four Times
In Carolina Today
Came To State To Dedicate
New Reidsville Postoffice
At The Noon Hour
At The University
Closes Day With Address To
Railway Mail Association
In Greensboro
Postmaster General Farley,
coming to North Carolina today to
dedicate the Reidsville postoffice,
will speak four times in the state
during the day.
Making his first public appear
ance of the day in Reidsville, the
distinguished visitor will speak in
connection with the dedication of
the new postoffice in that city at
noon. At 12:45 o’clock, immediate
ly following the dedicatory exer
cises at the postoffice, he will be
chief guest of honor and speaker
at a luncheon meeting at Hotel
Belvedere.
At 3 o’clock this afternoon Mr.
Farley will make a speech at the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, under the sponsorship
of the Carolina Political union, a
student organization.
Postmaster General Farley will
be the principal speaker at the an
nual banquet of the Greensboro
branch of the Railway Mail asso
ciation at 7 o’clock this evening in
the ballroom of the 0. Henry hotel
here. With a capacity crowd al
ready assured and with Mr. Farley
delivering the chief address, th6
gathering here should prove par
ticularly enjoyable, Frank P. Aber
nethy, president of the branch, pre
dicted.
School House Is
Burned To Ground
Pleasant Hill school house, near
the Davidson county line in Taber
nacle township, was burned Mon
day night by a fire of unknown
origin. County School Superin
tendent T. Fletcher Bulla has gone
to that community today to check
up on possible causes of the fire.
The school was a two room,
frame building, and comparatively
recently a new tin roof had been
put on it to lessen the fire hazard.
There was only one teacher at
Pleasant Hill and 26 children in
average attendance. These chil
dren will be permitted to go to
either Trinity or the new Taber
nacle school, and transportation
will be furnished to either place.
Pipe Line Used
First Time Today
Water was running through the
new 12 inch pipe line from the city
ponds to the reservoir for the first
time about 11:30 this morning.
The water works force commenced
pumping at 9 o’clock and within
some two hours and a half the
water began to, come through.
With this larger line in use, the
city will be able to count on 100
gallons more per minute. This is
the first step in a program of im
provements to the Asheboro wat
er system, other planned improve
ments being an addition to the
filter plant, more water lines for
fire protection, and more sewer
lines for sanitary protection.
Eugene Garner Is
Buried On Monday
Eugene Garner, 21, of Julian
died Saturday night at the Ran
dolph hospital of pneupionia after
a few days’ illness.
Funeral service conducted from
the home Monday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock with Rev. G. L. Rey
nolds and Rev. Eugene Smith of
ficiating. Interment was made in
Shiloh Methodist Protestant church
cemetery.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
M. C. Gamer; two brothers, Den
nis and George Gamer, all of
Julian; a sister, Mrs. Tom Pugh,
of Pleasant Garden, and a half
sister, Miss Fairy Staley, of Julian.
DR. DAFOE, PHYSICIAN
FOR QUINS GETS RAISE
Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, who since
the birth of the famous quintuplets
in Ontario has cared for them, has
received a raise in salary. In ad
dition to his work for the five
babies, Dr. Dafoe is health officer
for North Himsworth township,
Ontario. Last year his salary was
$75 and he asked for a considerable
raise. Because the township could
not afford to pay him the $360 he
asked, he was granted $150,
Slot Machines In Asheboro
Removed, Chief Bulla Says
From information received
from Chief of Police Dewey Bulla
this morning, it seems evident
that slot machine owners, in
Asheboro at least, have given
up the fight to operate their
machines within the law. Chief
Bulla stated that he had checked
on all these gambling devices in
his territory and found that they
had all been removed but one;
This had been sealed and was
all ready to be taken away, how
ever, so it was not confiscated.
Golf Course Will |
Be Open To AH
—
Asheboro Municipal Golf
Course To Be A Public
Course; Open April 1
Pro Shop Begun
Greens And Rules Committees'
Chosen; System Of Yearly
Privilege Fees ,
Arrangements for the opening
of the Asheboro Municipal Golf
Course on April 1 are progressing
steadily, both with regard to the
course itself and the plan of op
erations.
There has been a false impres
sion, which the golf commission is
anxious to correct, that the
course is to be private. On the
contrary, it will be operated as a
public course, open to anyone
upon payment of the greens fee.
The purpose of the yearly privilege
fee is to provide a reduced rate
for the year and thus attract a
larger number of yearly member^
and a certain amount of revenue^
which can be counted on in, plan-,
ning the operations of the «hb.
The yearly fee for a man wit!
be $80, of which $10 is to be paid
upon joining, with the balance dtie
in two installments of $10 each,
payable July 1 and October 1. The
yearly fee for a lady will be $15,
payable on the same basis as for
a man. There will also be a family
fee of $45, which will entitle a
man and wife and their children
between the ages of 12 and 18 to
all privileges without extra charge.
A man may join for six months at
a cost of $22.50 or for three
months for $15, while the fees for
ladies for shorter periods than a
year will be in proportion.
Two more committee have re
cently been appointed, Frank Mc
Crary, secretary of the golf com
mission, has announced. These are
the greens committee, composed of
C. C. Cranford, C. G. Bossong, and
D. B. McCrary; and the rules com
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While the sheriff was out in
the county on other business this
foioming and could not be reach
ed, it is believed vending ma
chine proprietors throughout the
county have also decided to re
tire from the field and are re
moving their machines without
further protest. They had been
allowed until 6 o’clock Saturday
evening to get the machines out
of the county or have them
seized by the sheriff.
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Entertainment At
Legion Show Good
Practice Monday Night Br
ings Out Several Excellent
Young Performers
Wednesday Night
Show Includes About 25 Num
bers From All Parts Of
Randolph County
Every evidence of very fine en
tertainment for those who attend
the American Legion Amateur
Hour at the Capitol Theatre Wed
nesday was given at a practice
Monday night in the Park street
school. About 25 numbers were pre
sented, with some excellent talent
being displayed.«
The show should have especial
interest for Randolph county folk,
as all the participants are from
this county, and the Legion has
endeavored to make it truly a
county-wide affair. There are sev
eral. entrants whose singing is un
usually good, some outstanding
ytring music, and many novelties,
bpong the best of which is an imi
litlbn of Abner Peabody/
There will be two shows, be
ginning promptly at 7:15 and 9
o’clock Wednesday night.
The following numbers are in
cluded in the show:Rhythm Ramb
lers, Sarah Alice Moore, Rachel
Newsome, Carolina Hot-shots,
Johnnie Ridge, Fred Smith, Bobby
Strickland, Cleo Bennett, Jimmie
Bums, Alice Snyder, Ray’s Quar
tet, Carolina Cavaliers, Carolina
Trio, Mary Frances Betts and
Mary Collins, Craven and Allred,
Denver Langley, Lawrence Sours,
Dot York, Smith Brothers, M. C.
Lowdermilk, Sarah Hollman,
Smith and Nixon, Wright Sisters,
Philip Frazier.
These entries are sponsored by
a group of Asheboro merchants,
including: Hughes-Morris Hard
ware, Grimes Jewelry, Old
Hickory Cafe, Bloom’s Department
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Votes Landed These Last
Few Days Will Decide
Biggest Award Winners
With the close of this great race almost at hand and the work
ers going strong for the $600 and $400 in Cash, Saturday night will
no doubt show greatest returns of any one period of the entire cam
paign, so see to it that you have a strong finish if you wish to be
among the winners. It is up to the workers to finish high and win
big or fall down in this last period and get paid accordingly.
Here They Ate Alphabetically Arranged
In fairness to all candidates the names are listed alphabetically
this week. Pick the one you would like to see win the best prize
and give your strongest support this last and final week.
5 Working Days Left—Where Will
You Finish?
NAME 1 ADDRESS
ANDREWS, MISS LOULA. CARAWAY
ANTHONY, MRS. W. R.GLENOLA
CAMERON, MRS. JOHN.ASHEBORO, R. 2
CHESHIRE, MRS. BOB . ASHEBORO
EDWARDS, MISS CORA.SOPHIA
HASTINGS, HARMON . ASHEBORO
JONES, MRS. ID LA ROUTH ...FRANKLINVILLE
JORDON. MRS. LAWRENCE.TRINITY
KEARNS, MISS ETTA.TRINITY, R. F. D.
KENNEDY, MISS MINNIE LEE.HIGH POINT
KING, MISS DORIS.SEAGROVE
LUCK, MRS. CHAS.SEAGROVE, R. F. D.
POOLE, MRS. LACY.COLERIDGE
WARD, MRS. CLARENCE ......... CENTRAL FALLS
YOW, MRS. WALTER. ASHEBORO
All Workers Must Make Cash Report On This Last Period To
Qualify For Commission.
NOTICE—All candidates are requested to make a personal
subscription report
On Wednesday And Saturday
Reduction Voted
License Plates
By Legislature
Reduction From 40 to 30
Cents Per Hundredweight
For Motor Vehicles
Free Textbooks
Both Houses Working Stead
ily On Important Measures
Toward Adjournment
Speeding into high gear with an
audible clash of gear-shifting, the
legislature is really busy this week
and passing important measures.
On Monday the Senate, by a vote
of 38 to 4 amended and passed the
third reading, a measure providing
free basal textbooks for elementary
school children of North Carolina.
Simultaneously, the house approv
ed the motor vehicle bill.
The textbook proposal which
passed the house without opposi
tion earlier in the session, was
sent back to the lower body for
concurrence in the clarifying
amendments.
After reducing a proposed $50,
000 annual appropriation to $25,
000, the house passed and sent to
the senate a bill setting up a pro
gram of adult education in the
state.
The motor vehicles measure,
which also must be considered by
the senate, provides for a reduc
tion from 40 to 30 cents the hund
redweight in the cost of automo
bile license plates, with a $6 in
stead of an $8 minimum.
The house has already passed
the old age assistance and child
aid social security bill. The
senators, without an opposing
vote, agreed to the house amend
ments and passed it on its third
reading, making it a law, the vote
being 40 to 0.
President Plans
For Warm Springs
President Roosevelt's frequent
visits to Warm Springs, Ga., have
not been as often recently as when
he had more leisure and freedom
of mind and body. His planned
visit for the end of this week will
be his first since the fall of 1»35.
It has been his custom for years
to spend Thanksgiving at his little
j white cottage near the sanitarium
! for paralytic cripples. Last fall,
his visit was omitted because he
was en route to Buenos Aires for
the peace conference. He plans this
time a two week's visit to the re
sort he developed for infantile
paralysis sufferers. During this
time, he will take daily swims in
the enervating waters.
Two Statues Of
Liberty Now Face
The United States Statue of
Liberty and the French Statue of
Liberty are now facing each other
for the first time.
Paris officials, getting ready for
the international exposition, de
cided to turn the fifty-eight-foot
bronze around as a delicate
French gesture of friendship so
that Miss Liberty would no longer
give the cold shoulder to the
United States.
Workmen, using a sixty-foot
pine tree as a lever between the
statue’s lamp arm and head,
pried it around .to face henceforth
toward her sister across the sea.
i
Criminologist Is
Shot Prom Ambusli
_
District Attorney Buron Fitts,
widely known criminal prosecutor
of Los Angeles, Cal., was shot from
ambush March 8th. The shooting
occurred near his suburban home.
The famous attorney is in a hos
i pital suffering considerably from
a flesh wound that is not consid
j ered of a serious nature.
Police investigators state that
they have unearthed several threat
ening letters and are trailing
rumors of verbal threats that may
bring the prepetrators to speedy
justice.
Bankers Attend Meeting
J. D. Ross, James B. Neely and
Eldon Gamer of Asheboro and
Garland Allen of Ramseur attend
ed the annual banquet of the
Winston-Salem chapter of the
American Institute of Banking
Saturday night Bankers from all
sections of western North Caro
lina were present at the meeting,
held at the Robert E. Lee hotel,
and the principal address was
made by a member of the Federal
Reserve Board of Washington.
Any Weawping Among
Leading Workers Will Be
Regretted Monday Night
Seeks Religious
Peace In Mexico
Recently appointed archbishop
of Mexico, Monsignor Louis M.
Martinez, above, will undertake
the difficult task of devising a
religious program to guarantee the
Catholic church freedom of wor
ship in Mexico and still retain the
approval of the government.
Legislature Has
An Enormous Task
7 Of Major Problems Facing
Assembly Yet Unsolved
With Only 10 Days To Go
7 “Must” Measures
Free School Books, Highway
Reorganization, Cheaper
License Plates, Etc.
Within ten days of the adjourn
ment of the state’s general assemb
ly, there are yet seven of the
major issues to be decided.
When the governor took office
January 7, he outlined 16 specific
recommendations to the 1937 Gen
eral Assembly. To date, four of the
recommendations have been enact
ed into law and two have been re
jected.
Passage of the seven “must”
measures now pending would boost
the score to 11 to 2, in Governor
Hoey’s favor. Compromises may
be reached on the three other pro
posals.
The seven recommendations slat
ed to be considered this week,
which are contained in nine bills,
are:
1. Free basal textbooks for ele
mentary school children: The mea
ture, which passed the House with
out an opposing vote, has been ap
proved on second reading in the
senate. It will be law when passed
on third reading.
2. Reorganization of the State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission: A bill calling for the ap
pointment of a chairman and 10
commissioners by the governor,
who would divide the state into 10
highway districts, was passed last
week by the house and sent to the
senate.
3. Cheaper automobile license
tags: The motor vehicle bill, which
provides for reduction of license
plate fees from 40 to 30 cents per
hundredweight, and with a $6 in
stead of an $8 minimum, passed
two readings in the house last week
and will go to the senate if passed
on third reading by the repre
sentatives.
4. Social Security: The old-age
assistance and aid to dependent
children measure has passed the
holise and will be returned to the
senate for concurrence in house
amendments. An aid-to-the-indi
gent-blind bill has passed second
reading in the house. Approval of
both measures would mean 100 per
cent participation by North Caro
lina in the Federal security pro
gram.
5. “Reasonable” working condi
tions, with state rather than fed
eral control of labor: The senate
has passed and sent to the house
a child labor measure and the
house has approved and sent to the
senate a maximum work-house
proposal. Neither of the bills bears
official endorsement, but Governor
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Big Winners Will
Have A Big Week
Any Worker Who Fails To
Work At Top Speed May
Slip Quickly
This Is Your Last
Chance To Win $600
Finish High And Get Big Pay
Or Fall Down Now And Get
Paid Accordingly
Calls for additional receipt books
early this week indicate real action
among leaders. A big finish is pre
dicted. If you have planned to win
be sure your competitor does not
nose you out in the last few hours.
They’re now on the home
stretch. After weeks of strenuous
efforts on the part of ambitious
workers, who have been striving
zealously in quest of subscriptions
, and votes, they see victory just
ahead of them. With closing time
only a few days off, the curtains
will have to come down upon one
of the most far-reaching “Cash
Offer” subscription campaigns
ever conducted in this part of
North Carolina.
Hundreds and hundreds of NEW
subscriptions have been added to
The Courier lists—new friends
have been made—come to stay, we
hope, permanently.
It Won’t Be Long
All is anxiety as the candidates
pound down the home stretch, vie
ing with each other y> reach the
wire first! To come under the wire
first in The Courier “Cash Offer’* ^ ^
Campaign means highest honors tt£p
the winners. > AalHI
Nothing in life worth while is
ever gained without effort, and
while all cannot win the higher
awards in The Courier campaign,
the business experience gained, the
friends and acquaintances made,
will be of inestimable value in
later years.
Plenty At Stake
With the rich awards hanging in
the balance, all candidates are
waging a fast and furious battle
of ballots which will end at 7:00
p. m. Monday, March 15.
If you are expecting to win one
of the big cash awards in The
“Cash Offer” campaign, it is up to
you alone to have more votes than
your nearest competitor. Work
hard—victory is just ahead. The
doors of the campaign office will
close promptly at 7:00 p. m. on
Monday, March 15, and no one will
be permitted to enter after that
time to turn in votes and sub
scriptions.
Protect Past Efforts
If you won one of the “Protecf
You” Vote Ballots last week, this
is your last chance to protect it
by having a big week this last
week. But if you did not win one
of the ballots last week and you
want to win one of the major
awards, you had better see to it
that you have your biggest re
port this week and win one of
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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 HULK
has no effect on extensions
which were originally sold by
the same candidate. EXTEN
SIONS sold on your own busi
ness are good up to the close of
campaign provided they are
checked from your records and
properly marked when turned
in to campaign department.
Other second payments or ex
tensions will be good for the
regular schedule of votes that
is in ffffect 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
ries a far greater numb
votes where the original
turned in during first of
paign.