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ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS us= THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS tri-weekly VOLUMELXri Est. As The Regulator February 2, 1876 Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County Principles, not men ASHEBORQ7nTC-7SIJN D AY ' APR?L~4~i~9377 Changed To The Courier September 13. 1379 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PUBLISHED TUESDAY, T >AY AND SUNDAY NUMBER 27 Mid-Year Session Randolph Baptist Association FriJ — Messengers From Twenty Nine Baptist Churches In Randolph Will Attend All-Day Meeting Day Of Devotion And Wor ship Planned By Competent Committee Of Workers Messengers from twenty-nine Jiaptist churches in Randolph As sociation will assemble at Balfour church Friday, April 9th at ten o’clock. Every church will send messengers to enjoy a day of de votion and inspiration. A worthy program has been arranged. Some out of county speakers will be Dr. W. K. McGee of the First church, Thomasville, and Rev. J. Louis ]>rice of the First church, Siler City. Other speakers will be Dr. L. R. O’Brian, Rev. J. C. Ividd, Prof. J. H. Mitchell and Mrs. M. T. Lambert. This is a day of devotion and worship. Good music and fervent singing will be enjoyed. Noon lunch will be served by the ladies of the Balfour church. A committee composed of Rev-, ii. M. Stroup, J. F. Mitchell and Mrs. M. T. Lambert hava arranged the plans' for the day’s program to which all interested people are in vited. The complete program includes: Theme—Stewardship and Mis sions. JO:()0, Devotion led by Mrs. Guy F. Lane; 10:15, Stewardship of Talents discussed by Rev. R. E Heath; 10:40, Stewardship of Money discussed by Rev. J. C. Kidd; 11:05, Stewardship of Life discussed by Dr. L. R. O’Brian; 11 :,“,0, Worship in Song, miscellan eous; 11:45, address, Dr. W. K. McGee, Thomasville. Noon—Lunch. 1:00, Devotion led by Rev. J. C. Edwards; 1:15, State Missions dis cussed by Rev. J. W. Buckner, 1:40, Home Missions discussed by Rev. J. Louis Brice, Siler City; 2:05, Worship in Song; 2:15, Foreign Missions discussed by Mrs. M. T. Lambert; 2:40,-Oiw Soiway School an Evangelizing Force, J. II. Mitchell; 3:05, Miscellaneous; 3:30. Benediction and Adjourn ment. Institute Held N. C. University Editor Of Press Association Of China Believes Next War With Far East Japan Mentioned Many World Renowned Speakers Among Guests At Recent Annual Meeting Speaking at the University of North Carolina before the fourth annual institute of human rela tions, W. T. Wu, editor of the I’ress Association of China, said that the scene of the next great war is more likely to be the Far East than Europe. 1 “Serious as the situation irt Eu rope is, there is no possibility of immediate trouble," said the Ch. nese editor, who was formerly na tional executive secretary of the , student division of the Chinese V. M. C. A. and chairman of the na • tional commission on the Chinese student Christian movement. “The countries involved are too poor and burdened with too many internal problems to dare plunge into an (Please turn to Page 8) I Miss Betty Prevette Will Be Valedictorian Of 1937 Class Betty I’revette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Prevette, will be the valedictorian of this year's graduating class at the Asheboro (high school, if was announced in chapel Friday morning. Miss Pre [vette won this honor by establish ing a general average of 94.6 per ;ent for the four year high school [course. The salutatorian will be Fernko Johnson, daughter of Mrs. J. L. Johnson, who made an average 9R 2 per cent. Other students who av eraged 92 or above and whose splendid attainments won honor able mention are Mildred Millsaps, Sarah Hayworth and Olga Kinney. Attendance figures at Sunday school and church for Easter Sun day, the first Sunday of the drive for better attendance which is go ing on in the public schools, show that Miss Georgia Warren’s sec tion of the 5th grade had the high est percentage of the 35 rooms in the city school system. This room made a percentage of -75.64, with other rooms ranging all the way FUNERAL FOR SLAIN MODEL, MOTHER DRAWS THRONG ■ Am a# * *J6Km« nm ^ »* *. . m . *mm -f Police lines kept in check thousands of curious who thronged to the funeral of beautiful Veronica Gedeon and her mother in an upper east side, New York, funeral parlor. Joseph Gedeon, husband and father of the two murdered women, escorted by detectives, was the principal mourner. Following the ceremony, the two dove-grap coffins were transported by motor hearse to a Yonkers cemetery for burial. The picture shows the two coffins being carried to the crowd encircled hearses. A man’s gray suede glove, size 8'/2. and Joseph Gedeon, right. I were principal hopes of New . York police for a solution of the triple Easter slaping of Veronica, Gedion’s artist-model daughter; his wife, and a boarder. Gedeon, who spent several hours bowling while the bodies of his wife and daughter lay in an undertaking parlor, was quizzed on a four-hour gap in his activities on the night of the murder. He also faced charges of having a gun in his possession. The glove was found in the slain women’s bedroom. North. Carolina Sympliony^En Come To Asheboro April 9tli Visitation Day To Junior Orphans Junior Home Near Lexington Plans Annual Visitation For Sunday, May 10 Senator Reynolds Senator Has Accepted Invita tion To Speak To Group Assembly-Picnic Sanford, April 3.—United States Senator Robert R. Reynolds will be the principal speaker at the second annual orphanage visitation day 10 be held at the Junior Order or phans home near Lexington Sun day, May 10, E. L. Gavin, state councilor of this city, announced today. Plans for the visitation day that is expected to attract hundreds of members of the Junior Order with their families to the model or phanage have been approved by the state board of officers. “A car load from every council” is the slogan adopted for the occasion and already word has been received %by the officials of the state council that many of the councils are mak (Please turn to Page 8) from 25 per cent up to the high mark. Tabulations were also made for attendance at church and Sunday school on March 21 for the pur pose of comparison with that on Easter. The average for the entire school membership for March 21 was 38.6, but on Easter Sunday it had risen to 49.1, a gain of 10.5 per cent of the whole membership, but a gain of more than 25 per cent over March 21. On Monday and Tuesday of this week an expert photographer will visit the schools to take individual pictures of all the pupils in the school system. This work has been done before but several years have passed since these pictures have been taken. The photographer who will do this has been engaged in taking school pictures for many years. These pupils’ pictures will, be sent to the parents by the pupils, and those who so desire may purchase these pictures at a rea sonable price. These purchases are entirely optional—no one is obli gated to buy the pictures. P.-T. A. And 23 Sponsors Will iiring Symphony To Ashe boro For First Time A oiilestpne in the musical life of Asneboro will be reached Friday evening when the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra makes its ap pearance in Asheboro. The or chestra will present two concerts in the high school auditorium, the first in the afternoon for school children from the fourth grade up, with the main concert for the public at 8 o’clock in the evening. This is the first time a sym phony orchestra, or any orchestra of similai size and reputation, has come to Asheboro, and it is one of the ver,v few times tiiat this or chestra has appeared in a town of Asheboro’s size. It was brought here through the efforts of chc Parent-Teachers Association, which is sponsoring the concerts, but there will also be a group of pro bably twenty-five individual spon sors who will be financially re sponsible for the success of the concerts. The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, organized and first directed by Lamar Stringfield. was the first state-wide symphony or chestra in the United States. It plays now under several conductors and it is not known yet which one will conduct here. It is composed of from 35 to 50 musicians, and its work is carried on through the Wl’A. The program for the Ashe boro concert has not been deter mined, but the selections will be varied as much as possible in ord er to appeal to all tastes. Children will be admitted free to the concert in the afternoon, but there will be a small charge at the evening concert. Since the or - chestra is a non-profit organiza tion and only enough will need to be raised to defray its expenses, the P.-T. A. has been able to set the admission fee unusually low. Tickets were put on sale Satur day at central points in the busi ness district, and a canvass of the town is in progress. In charge of arrangements for the concerts are Mrs. Murray Field, Mrs. S. B. Stedman, Mrs, Franz Strickland, and Miss Clara Gill. Mrs. Bertha Rochelle, WPA director here, help ed the P.-T. A. greatly in the negotiations which led to Ashe boro’s securing the orchestra. Mrs. Hayworth III The many friends of Mrs. S. L. Hayworth will regret to know that she is quite ill. Mrs. Hayworth was taken to Randolph hospital Wed ! nesday night and is remaining there for treatment. Many Candidates For State Jobs Especial Interest In 11 Posi tions On New State High way Commission Besiege Governor George Coan, State YVPA Head, Has Many Support ers For Chairmanship More and more candidates for appointments to state positions are besieging Governor Hoey daily, with most of the interest being manifested in the eleven openings on the new highway and public works commission, for which more than twenty North Carolinians have been endorsed. George W. Coan, Jr., State Works Progress Administrator, admitted he was a candidate for the $7,500 chairman ship now held by Capus M. Way nick, High Point editor and Eh ringhaus appointee. He has writ ten a number of letters to friends asking their endorsement for the position. In the letters, Coan said “recent developments in Raleigh indicate the present chairman of the State Highway Commission will be re placed.” He declared he had written “probably a couple of dozen of such letters to associates and friends. . .” While delegations streamed in and out of his office, Governor Hoey was keeping his own counsel, fresh as the carnation in his but ton-hole. “I intend to hear every body—even if 1 can’t do as every body would like,” he said. Under the law passed by the Legislature, the commissioners must be appoint ed by May 1. Until recently, interest in ad ministration appointments has centered around the two i»v justices to be appointed to the Supreme Court by July 1, and around the three-man State Board of Alcoholic. Control, to be ap pointed April 1. But the distant date of the one and the limited number of appointments .on the other , have helped to veer to the Highwav Commission. Nonetheless, a Beaufort county delegation called on the Governor, asking appointment of A. D. Mac Lean, formerly of Beaufort and ro (Please turn to Page 8) Pilgrim Holiness Convention This Week In Ramseur More Than 43 Churches Will He Represented: Rev. W. R. Phillips Host Varied Subjects Mrs. Fulp, Asheboro Pastor, Among Many Who Will Speak During Meeting The ministerial convention of the Pilgrim Holiness church will be held at the Pilgrim Holiness church at Ramseur Tuesdaj, Wednesday and Thursday, April (i-S. More thaii 4.'i churches will be represent ed by their pastors, while Rev. W. R. Phillips is the host pastor. The convention will be opened Tuesday morning by an address delivered by Rev. H. L>. Deiter. A number of other interesting sub jects will be discussed during the remainder of the day and the two days following, with provision be ing made fog everyone to have an opportunity to deliver his remarks by limiting each subject to lo minutes. The rest of the program follows: Tuesday Afternoon A trained ministry, S. M. Stike leather; How to keep ihe church employed, V. G. Story; How to in crease, Sunday school attendance, F, D. Fowler; How to raise the dis trict Mid general budget, H. P. Barger; What place has good mor als m bur religion, H. C. Kivett; Hbw cap we reach non-Christians? D. A. Saunders. >.; . Tuesday Night Define “Free Moral Agency” will it cease at death, Castevens; Will future restribution and re wards vary in degree, Mrs. Saurd Mjfe; What is true Spirituality, Mrs. J. L. -Fulp; Of wnat importance is our church Covenant? Charlie Stout; Difference between human infirmities and Carnality, W. L Coclanan; What is the second deajihV R. 1. McCluskey. hoytRfy* M. A. Baldwin; What constitutes a call to God’s service? C. C. McMasters; The personality of a minister, Mrs. W. S. Deal; Our church standards defined, Wray Smith; How may our young people be reached most successfully, G. Avery. ■ Wednesday Afternoon Qualifications for soul winning, G. W. Hartman; Hobbies, Mrs. M. H. Russell; The type of evangelism that is most profitable, J. W. Cov ington; Why some ministers fail, J. I. Talbert; Cooperation between our churches, also between ouv pastors, T. C. Vaughn; Hind rances to a revival, C. A. Brown. Wednesday Night The necessity of home mission ary work, and how it should ba done, M. H. Russell; Can the Spirit accomplish his work in the world without human agency ? Mrs. J. T. i Kenyon; What state of grace i; described in Rom. VII? J. A. Grout; Is the Doctrine of the Vir gin Birth essential to our faith, I Win. S. Deal; Essentials and non I essentials in our preaching, J. T. I Kenyon; How can Christian per • fection be harmonized with our human infirmities, W. A. Way. Address, H. D. Deiter; Church extension, Win. Roy Phillips; Re lation of evangelist and pastor, F. R. Cooper; The best method of fin [ ancing a church, J. B. Fulp; The place of advertising in church work, T. R. York; The place of the pastor’s wife, Mrs. V. G. Story. Thursday Afternoon What constitutes a good pastor, W. F. Paige; Our attitude toward the modern “Tongues Movement”, L. Schendel; How does missionary interest effect the home church, Mrs. Ware; Should district officers be changed each year ? Why ? or Why not?; A young minister’s at titude toward his district, Veruic Trogdon; The relation of the Y. P. S. to the church, Rees Farlow; Should a minister be allowed to pastor or evangelize in our church, who does not take our church paper? Walter Kirkman. Inesday Morning Deiter; -District Thursday Morning City Ministerial Association Changes Hour For Services The Ministerial Association of Asheboro decided at their last meeting to change the hour for evening church services through out all the churches of the town from 7:30 to 8:00 o’clock. From September 1st until March 31st the evening services have been held at 7:30 o’clock and, beginning with the first Sunday evening in April, all churches will change the hour to 8:00 p. m. Several years ago the hour for the change of evening church ser vices in Asheboro was set for the first Sunday in May, but the pre Mistrial Foun Against Arthu Second Degree Hasty Case Draws Many Spectators Is Tried For Second Degree Murder Of Babe Yow On Night Of March 18th i -- May Be Released Under Bond Soon Two Negroes Found Guilty Of Killing Another Draw Long Sentences Criminal court came to a close in Randolph county Saturday after noon after an interesting' session l that drew many spectators. The ! trial of Arthur Hasty for killing Babe Yow on the night of March 18th was the case about which most interest centered. Yow had worked for tl • nasty's in their cafe for man ' years. The case which was taken up at noon on Fri day terminate*! Saturday after noon at 4:00 u clock after the jury had been ou- sor several hours. A mistrial was the order of Judge Pless since the jury could not agree and stood at six and six. It is understood from one of Hasty’s several attorneys that bond will be arranged for him within a few days until the next term of criminal court in this county when he will again be tried. The bond has not been set as ye,t. Several other cases of interest were also tried before this court, one of which was that of WT1 Cottingham, charged with murder ing another colored man. Marvin Butler was also implicated in the case and was held for providing the gun which killed the man. Cottingham was found guilty, as was Butler, and was given 10 to 15 years in the pen. Butler was given 7 years. Many cases of drunken driving and other liquor cases came be fore the court with fines and jail sentences being meted out with a rather free hand by the presiding judge. Charles Coggin, solicitor in this district, prosecuted the docket. A Cappella Choir In Asheboro Today Choir Of High Point College Will Appear At Methodist Protestant Church Unusual Musicians Choir Has Won Renown On Previous Years In Tour Of Several Southern States i _ The A Cappella choir of High Point College will give a sacred j concert at the Methodist Protestant ! church in Asheboro on Sunday j evening, April 4th, at 8:00 o’clock This choir has appeared in Asha ( boro before and was received warmly by the congregation and I visitors. They have also toured this I and other states and have received j wide publicity and praise in the | places where they have appeared. ! Last spring they made a tour of several southern states, Washing | ton, D. C., and came home with i the glory of their achievements i following them. j The public is invited to hear this | hour of a cappella music. An offer j ing will be taken. Miss Russell, I head of\ the music department of ’ the High Point college, who is in l charge of the choir will direct the program Sunday evening. Miss Russell replaces Miss Margaret Sloan who organized and directed the choir for several years, and won high acclaim for herself and the choir during the time she was in charge. Many who have heard the choir this year, however, claim that it is better now than it has | ever been and quite outstanding from a musical standpoint. sent organization decided that a month earlier was a better time to change the hour for convenience to more people. The Ministerial Association has been unusually active in the town and in the county as well, during recent months. The town organiza tion functions as one unit with the ministers from over the coun ty grouped in a separate organiza tion. The two groups meet simultaneously, however, and often cooperate in movements to ward benefittfng the town and county. Speaks For Peace REV. J. EL WOOD CARROLL Strong Speakers At Peace Meeting Will Deal With Subject Of Peace Action; Denounce War Propaganda Tuesday Evening Hope To Organize Local Forces Opposed To War; Interest Is Great The Rev. J. El-wood Carroll, minister of the Grace Methodist church, Greensboro, and former president of the Greensboro Minist erial Association will be one of the principal speakers at the mass | meeting for peace which is to be held at the First Baptist church j Tuesday evening at 8:00 o’clock. Mr. Carroll is now president of the Guilford County Peace League and comes to Asheboro to deal with the subject of peace action and the organization of local forces opposed to war and war psycology and propaganda. With him will be two other very strong speakers, Rabbi Fred I. Rypins, secretary and treasurer of the Guilford County Peace League, and Rev. Milo S. Hinckle, pastor of the Asheboro Street Friends church, Greensboro. These men come to Asheboro on the repeated invitations of the tentative Peace Council which was formed in Asheboro last year at a meeting of the Emergency Peace j Campaign. The citizens of Ran j dolph county are cordially invited j to attend this meeting. There is no ! obligation. A great deal of interest has al ' ready been created in Asheboro | and throughout the county in this j meeting. People are awakening to the need for action to combat the menace of war and for the Spread of a feeling of international justice and friendship. Dies Friday At Daughter’s Home Mrs. Sarah Chrisco Beane, "8, widow of the late Calvin Beane, died Friday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Red ding, on Hoover street. Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Redding, arc four sons, C. H. Beane of Asheboro star route, W. E. Beane of Ram seur, J. E. Beane of Siler City, and P. F. Beane of Delmar, Dela ware; 29 grandchildren and il great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be conduct ed this afternoon at 2:30 from Pleasant Hill church, near Sea grove. Rev. J. E. Shaw of Thomas ville will officiate, assisted by Rev. M. C. Henderson. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Teachers Meeting Called Wednesday On Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. the state division of instructional ser vice will conduct a conference for the teachers of Asheboro and Ran dolph county on sex problems ana social diseases which are now re ceiving state wide attention at the . hands of the teachers and educa tional leaders. The outstanding fea ture of this conference will be an illustrated lecture by Dr. Leiby of the state board of health. This conference will be held in Asheboro in the auditorium of the west school on Park street. Allen J. Maxwell Named As Head State’s Revenues Commissioner Since 1929, His Re-Appointment Appeared Certain From Beginning Appointment Pleases Widely Popular Man’s Ability Proves Record For His Reappointment Allen J. Maxwell, state revenue commissioner since 1929, was re appointed Friday by Governor Clyde Hoe.v to succeed himself for a term of four years ending January 1, 1941. Barring the commission to Judge A. Hall Johnston a week ago this was the first big appointment that his excellency has made. Judge Johnston’s was an extra as it came through resignation of Judge P. A. McElroy of the 19th district. There never had been any doubt that Commissioner Maxwell would succeed himself. He was first nam ed in 1929 by Governor Max Gard ner who made the appointment after the law was changed taking the revenue commissionership from an elective status. Originally A. D. Watts was made revenue commis sioner by appointment to an office which universally had been under stood to have been created for Maxwell. In the middle of the term Colonel Watts resigned and R. A Doughton was elected after serv ing by appointment the unfinish ed term. The office was changed after the election of 1928 and Gov ernor Gardner made Maxwell, who had been anti-Gardner in earlier politics, commissioner. The incum bent has held unbrokenly since that time Mr. Maxwell’s record in office speaks for itself and there was no concerted effort either for or against him for the place, since he was obviously the man for the place. Mr. Maxwell is well known in Asheboro where he often visits his daughter, Mrs. Ed Cranford, the former Miss Hazel Maxwell. He also has a wide circle of social, business and political friends in the town and county who an pleased with his appointment. County Teachers Name Delegates The county teachers, meeting at the Park street school in Asheboro Saturday morning, chose six dele gates to the annual state conven tion of the North Carolina Educa tional Association in Durham April 22-23-24. They are Robert Ayers of Providence; Mrs. Mary B. Fa. 1 low, New Market; James M. Green, Seagrove; Miss Katherine Mann, Staley; Glenn Robertson, Gray’s Chapel; and Miss Dora B. Doolittle, Balfour. Dr. John H. Cook, dean of edu cation at Woman’s College, de livered the principal address. Dr. Cook spoke chiefly of the speeches and trends disclosed at the national education conference in New Or leans, where emphasis was placed on progressive democracy. April lfi was the date set for the 7th grade examinations and the senior tests. A number of points in the county were tentatively nam ed as centers where the tests would be taken, but these are liable to change, Superintendent Fletcher Bulla said. H. H. Hamilton, principal of the Randleman high school, reviewed j school legislation. Announcements I were made concerning pre-school I clinics .being arranged by Dr. t George H. Sumner, the peace con ference to be held at the Baptist church Tuesday evening, and the meeting Wednesday at Park street school Wednesday evening on sex problem and social diseases, to which all teachers in the county are invited. Who’s Who With Asheboro Shoppers The Courier is inaugurating a new and novel feature today in publishing at random photographs o f Asheboro shoppers o n parade. The rambling photographer of I this newspaper will snap one picture each week of in teresting people mm j on the streets >r the city. No one j connected with the paper knows I the identity of the person whoso I picture appears today, i The idea of the plan is for the i person to come to The Courier office and identify himself or hev self and receive two tickets to see a choice if any picture at the Carolina before Saturday, April 10. Another random photo will ap pear in our issue of Sunday, April 11. Watch for it—your photo may be next.