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ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS THE COURIER THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN' STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS TRI-WEEKLY VOLUME LXI Est. As The Regulator February 2. 1876 Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES , NOT MEN ASHEBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1937. Changed To The Courier September 13. 1379 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY NUMBER 38 A Successor For Captain Ashe Is Creating1 Concern Captain Ashe Has Served 'through democratic And Republican Regimes Two Men Mentioned Selection Of This Position Is In Hands Of Judge Isaac M. Meekins With the resignation of Captain Samuel A. Ashe as clerk of the United States court on Tuesday, politicians are again busy wonder ing who will be the successor. Judge Isaac M. Meekins will make the appointment of a successor to Captain Ashe and the names of former collector Gilliam Grissom and Wiliiam C. Duncan have been prominently mentioned. Captain Ashe, who had held through all the Republican and Democratic administrations begin ning with Wilson and coming through Roosevelt’s, is now nearly )7 years old and he gives up the ivork which has seldom been so lard that he did not come down ;own and do his part of it. Captain Ashe, illustrious editor, luthor and soldier of the Confed siacy, once owned and edited the Raleigh News and Observer. As listorian he became known for his ourageous statement of the truth [bout colonial history. He raised ome very pointed doubts as to he immortal Mecklenburg declara ion. He wrote marvelously of the lonfederacy. He never revered 'resident Lincoln. He was a great riend and ally of Senator Sim nons. Collector Grissom made a na ional reputation collecting. In 936 he was the Republican can1’ idate for governor and seduced' lore Democrats into voting for im or in refusing to vote for h>3 pponent than anybody has been ble to do since the days of A1 mith. He is the Republican genius jr organization. He was the life ing friend anu’ ally of John Mot iy Morehead. William Duncan is the son of le famous Carl Duncan, Itepuh can national committeeman and' riend of Taft. Judge Meekins was Taft man and a Duncan man, rhich can mean that young Dun an goes into this contest with omcwhat the heft on the opposi ion. But Grissom is at his best low. "ar Stolen Here Found In Virginia Everett Doling was notified Wed esday by the state auto theft iireau that the automobile stolen pom him on March 25 had been ^covered in Martinsville, Virginia, good condition. According to the eager details received by Mr. jjling, Police Chief Stultz of I |artinsville found the car in the psse3sion of two colored men of at city who were able to show at they acquired the car in good Hth and proved they were not in ilved in the theft. Mr. Boling has ne to get the car today. The automobile, a 1928 Ford ian, was taken from in front of Ashlyn hotel the Thursday be fe Easter, Mr. Boling left the in it as he expected Mrs. Bcl „ to get it in a short time. It htained 30 dozen eggs, and it is lieved that the car was stolen for contents rather than for itself. rell Baby Clinic Touches Thirteen thirteen infants were examined the Baby Clinic held in the iinty health office Wednesday, the jest number to come for any Hie yet. These clinics have been adily attracting more babies as parents became better in eed as to their purpose and Assisting the health de tment with the clinic were Mrs. vey Griffin, Mrs. Francis lite, and Mrs. Everett Boling, fibers of the Sorosis Club, which operating with Dr. George finer in his well baby drive. Ijek More Registrations In Homes and Gardens Contest ut 40 Asheboro residents signed up in the Better es and Gardens Contest, said Dan Burns, contest chairman, morning, but the number of e taking part should be at t twice as great. A total of in prizes will be awarded and y person who signs up to take will receive a free theatre t. e judges. Mrs. Henry Robins, H. Named As 1937 “Ideal Mother’’ Mrs. Carl Gray, C7, named by the Golden Rule Foundation as 1937’s “ideal mother,” and pictur ed above sewing at her Omaha, Neb., home, is the mother of. three children, grandmother of five and great-grandmother of one. Her husband, now president of the Union Pacific railway, was 19, she was 17 when they were married. First Conference For School Boards Will Be Held At University Of North Carolina On Wednes day, May 5th Members of the school boards of Asheboro and Randolph county have been invited to attend the first state-wide school board con ference to be held at the University of North Carolina next Wednesday, May 5. Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state super intendent of public instruction; Dr. Julian Miller, editor of the Char lotte -Observer, and Dr,-Marion R, Trabue, director of the division of education of the consolidated Uni versity. are among a number of speakers who have accepted invi tations to appear on the program, according to announcements re ceived here. The meeting will consider the chief problems of administration in education and will attempt to unify practices in so far as pos sible. More than 200 board members, representing 65 per cent of the boards of in the state, have al ready made plans to attend, ac cording to Prof. Guy Li. Phillips of the University department of edu cation who is in charge of arrange ments. Eleven of the more progressive states hold such conferences re gularly, Professor Phillips said. The sessions will get under way at 10 o’clock next Wednesday morning with the election of tem porary officers and appointment of committees. The addresses of Dr. Erwin and Dr. Miller will feature the morning program. Dr. Erwin wil discluss school legislation, and Dr. Miller will talk on school board members as educational leaders. Discussions will follow each ad dress. The afternoon session will get under way with an address by Dr. Trabue on current trends in educa tion. A. L. Calton, chairman of the Cleveland county school board, will at 2:30 preside over a session de voted to school board problems. The following will participate in this session as discussion leaders. J. H. Joyner, Guilford county; D. S. Womble, Winston-Salem; R. E. McDowell, Mecklenburg county; R. H. Whitefield, Granville county; J. E. Sellars, Alamance county; W. J. Grady, Duplin county; R. P. Freeze, Hendersonville; Chas. F. Lambeth, Thomasville; J. B. Turn er, Caswell county; S. W. Black, Swain qounty; and E. S. Bowers, (Please turn to Page 5) cedure. The contest officially opens tomorrow, April 30, and the judges will make their first inspection of homes early-next week. The contest will continue until October 1, and because of the basis fot* judging, which is the de gree of improvement during the contest period, the smaller homes and those not so attractive novv have a better chance at the prize than the showplaces of the town. Anyone wishing to register foi the contest may do so by calling any member of the contest com mittee, Mrs. Dan Burns, Mr3, Charles Fox, or Mrs. James Neely. Many Rivers In Eastern Carolina Are At Floodstage Today At Noon Is Set As Zero Hour For Eastern Rivers To Cease Rising Roanoke Worst Lee A. Denson, State Weather Man, Makes Prognostica tions About Water According to the state weatheri man, Lee A. Denson, head of the weather bureau at Raleigh, flooded eastern North Carolina rivers wili come to a stand in middle portions today and fall in the upper sections while the rise in lower portions is expected to continue until Monday near outlets of the rivers. The Roanoke Ri\ser, heaviest flooded, reached its crest at Weldon at 4i.9 feet, a rise of about 29 feet since Monday, Denson said. Warn ings have been issued for the rise in lower portions where it is ex pected to rise to 13 feet at Wil liamston Sunday afternoon or Mon day. In upper portions, the river is already falling and a fall of two ’feet was reported from Clarksville at 1 o’clock yesterday. The Neuse river started to fall at Smithtield yesterday about 1 o’clock, having reached its crest of 17.5 feet at 8 o’clock in the morn ing. At Goldsboro the Neuse had reached a stage of 16 feet at 1 o’clock and a crest of 18 feet is due Friday, according to Denson. At Kinston the river was reported at 13 feet yesterday afternoon. Den son said it is expected to continue its rise until Monday and to re*ch a crest of about 16 feet, three feet over its banks. While the Tar river is beginning to fall slowly at Rocky Mount, it will reach a height of about 22 feet at Tarboro tomorrow, Denson predicted. At Greenville it will reach nearly 17 feet by Saturday. The Cape Fear has already started falling at Fayetteville and has about come to a stand at Elizabethtown at 27 feet. There is no immediate prospect for heavy rains which will start these rivers on another rise, Den son said. The flood was heaviest on the Roanoke river, but this and other rivers are beginning to fall in their upper and middle portions. Textile Plants May Have NRA Hearings Have Been De finitely Scheduled For Next Week; Ellenbogen Bill The • House of Representatives has received word from the presi dent to go ahead with hearing on the Ellenbogen Hill, which would establish a little NRA for the tex tile endustry. Hearing have been definitely scheduled for next week. Whether the Ellenbogen bill is to be made an exception to the ap parent White House policy to side track all such legislation until af ter disposition of the President’s proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court, or whether the exception applies only to the holding of hear ings was not entirely clear. However, in well-informed qaur ters the latter view was held; and it was believed that after the hear ings are held, the legislation will be held up as other legislation is being held up pending settlement of the Supreme Court issue. In those same quarters, it was assert ed that the administration has not yet reached any decision on wheth er the textile industry is to be re gulated by a separate bill or in a general bill. Representatives of both the in dustry and labor have been invited to express their views at the hear ing, and in view of the recent de cision of the Supreme Court up holding the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, the industry is ex pected to take an entirely different view from that taken last year when the same bill was bitterly op posed. Mrs. Feemster Is News Tip Winner Mrs. Clarence Feemster was awarded the two tickets to see Sylvia Sidney and Melvyn Douglas in “Mary Burns-Fugitive” at the Capitol either Friday or Saturday, in The Courier News Tip Contest today. Mrs. Feemster called about a happening that later became gen erally known but she was the first to call and so received the tickets. The next period has started and will run through until 6:00 p. rn. Saturday. The next ticket award will be for the Norma Shearer and I Leslie Howard in “Romeo and I Juliet” Monday or Tuesday at the ! Sunset. President Roosevelt Is In North Carolina as He Starts on V acation Trip Wallis Simpson Home A Museum A workman hangs the portrait of Mrs. Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor in the museah* into which the Baltimore, Mtl., boarding house where she was born has been converted. For a 50-cent fee sightseers are shown through the remodeled structure filled with mementos of the woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up a throne. Narrowly Escapes A Second Tragedy Within 2 Day Period Demonstrating the maxim that tragedies never come singly, Hansel Elliott of Denton, a son of Pearl Elliott who was killed this week in the highway acci dent near Charlotte, narrowly escaped serious injuries. Mr. Elliott was en route to Asheboro Thursday morning from Denton when his car struck the wire fencing at the bridge a short distance this side of Farmer and overturned. The new Ford V-8 in which Mr. Elliott was riding, was badly damaged neither of the two oc cupants were seriously hurt, a Will Spend More On Array In 1938 House Appropriations Com mittee Recommends In crease Of 250,000,000 $416,413,382 for the United States army next year was recom mended by the house appropria tions committee, an increase of more than $25,000,000 above what was available last year. The com mittee asserted that more funds were needed because our military situation was decidedly disturbing. “Unless there is to be an ap preciably larger allocation to the military arm in future budgets,” the committee said in submitting its recommendation, “our defense preparation very largely will con sist of manpower, unequipped and unimplemented and virtually un prepared to offer resistance to any force equipped with modern offen sive weapons.’’ The bill made no provision for non-military projects such as river and harbor improvements, usually handled by the army engineers. Of ficials said these would be carried in a separate appropriation mea sure, the size of which was not indicated. Discussing future needs, the committee said there was a short age of tanks, armored cars, semi automatic rifles, anti-aircraft guns and accessory equipment, ammuni-' tion and motors. Military housing, the committee (Please turn to Page 5) Presented With 2 Native Tokens Salisbury Citizens Present Barbecue Sandwiches And A Single Red Rose En Route South On Fishing Trip Plans To Relax For Ten-Day Period And Have Rendev ous With Tarpon As President Roosevelt traveled across rain-swept Virginia and the two Carolinas on Wednesday, he stopped at Salisbury where he was presented with a single beautiful red rose and a couple of real bar becue sandwiches—home products of that city. The stop was brief and the Roosevelt special train soon sped onward toward New Orleans where he. today embarked on the U. 'S. S. Potomac for a ten-day fishing trip in Louisiana and Texas waters. En route, he also stopped in Mis sissippi where he motored twelve miles to Gulfport for a visit to a veterans’ home, formerly used as a residence by Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. The president told associates he would seek a complete rest, mixed with plenty of his favorite sport of fishing. He had no formal speeches in mi-nd. He took along a report from At torney General Cummings recom mending creation of a special com mittee to study revision of the anti-trust laws with a view of clarifying them and improving their enforcement. He also had a brief case of mail that arrived too late for him to read before leaving the White House in the rain last midnight. The train, however, did not leave .until after daybreak in order to ! avoid a layover along the route. Club Luncheon The Woman’s Club will give a luncheon in honor of all new mem bers at the Methodist Protestant church on Wednesday, May 5. few minor bruises and scratches constituting the extent of the. in juries. The car did not collide with another car, nor was Mr. Elliott meeting any vehicle. It is thought that he was nervous from the tragedy through he and his family had so re cently passed, in the death of his father. Mr. Elliott and T. C.. Russell, it will be recalled with regret by many of their friends in Randolph were both instantly killed in a truck-bus collision near Charlotte on Tuesday morn ing. Ring George VI Is Real Farmer England’s New Monarch Has Earned High Respect In Agricultural World The approaching coronation, which is to take place May 12, is centering attraction on the inter ests of England’s King George VI. among which is his great love for farming, which he inherits from his father. The royal farms have a century and a half of history. The King is a gentleman farmer in every sense of the word and most of the animals he is to show at this year’s great agricultural shows are home bred. This is a custom in the royal family strongly adhered to by the late King George V, who won many show prizes. Not only with his famous pedi gree herds of short-horns, Here fordshire and Aberdeen - Angus cattle and his Southdown sheep, but with his pigs and his shire horses, has the present King earn ed high respect in the agricultural world. Empire visitors will have much to learn from his famous Show Farm at Windsor. At Sandringham there is the famous experiment in flax grow ing which King George V started and which receives wide attention. The Royal Show at Wolverhamp ton July 6-10, the Welsh Show, and at the end of the year, the Smith field Show, London, will see the (Please turn to Page 6) Asheboro People Urged To Extend Confidence Vote While There Is No Opposing Ticket This Year,'It Is A Patriotic Duty No Opposition Some Cities Are Finding Un opposed Ticket No Cut And-Dried Affair Attention of Asheboro citizens is called to the fact that Tuesday, May 4th is the day set for the municipal election in Asheboro. While there is no opposition to the ticket that has filed according to law before the 16th of April, this does that mean that citizens of the town should not go out and vote for the candidates, or any part of the ticket which appeals to their fancy. With no opposition it i? the na tural thing to let political interesc lag to such an extent that the vote will be a puny affair and discour age the ticket composed of men who are willing to give of their time and efforts to run the town for another term. This should not be the case in Asheboro where a group of citizens are sufficiently interest ed in their town to allow their names to be placed on the ticket. The election this year might well have proved more interesting that is the case for there was rumor of several names of candi dates who were in receptive moods. None of these, however, announced and the same town officers will again go into office after the elec tion on May 4th. In several other places interest is mounting to fever-heat as the day approaches. In Guilford county, for instance, Chairman Crissman is asking that all good men come to the aid of the party and go to the polls on Tuesday because of a situa tion that has flared up within the past two or three days in High Point. When the Republicans fail ed to file a ticket, it looked as the election would be a cut-and-dried affair. The Democrats have got from some source a suspicion that there will be a concerted move to have certain names written in on the ticket in an effort to displace nominees of the party. So, it will be considered a pat riotic thing to go out on Tuesday and vote in the election which will be in the ‘form of a vote of confi dence on the part of citizens to their town officials. Semester Exams Start Thursday Grammar Grades Have First I Exams Followed By High School Next Week ' Semester examinations for the grammar grades, begun this morn ing and continuing tomorrow, herald the approach of the close of the school term for Asheboro boys and girls. Next week, beginning Tuesday, the high school will have its final exams and the commence ment exercises will follow. Superintendent Reginald Turner has announced that he has secured | Miss Alma Vickery of Glen Alpine as commercial teacher to fill the I position left vacant by the resigna tion of Mrs. Juanita Taylor Bishop. Miss Vickery, who is a graduate of Bowling Green Business Uni versity and an experienced teacher, will be here for the remainder of the school year. Mr. Turner said that Mrs. Bishop, who left AsheboCo because of illness and suffered an addition al shock in the sudden death of her husband, seemed to be making a satisfactory recovery at her home in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She is still confined to her bed but her condition is good. Tuesday evening the members of the senior class enjoyed a weiner roast at the city pond given by Mrs. I. C. Moser, Mrs. John Brown, and Mrs. E. L. Hedrick, grade mothers. Miss Massa Lambert, senior home room teacher, and Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Turner and Jimmy Turner were also present. Dr. C. G. Smith spoke to the grammar grade children at their assembly Wednesday morning, and Gerald K. Ford also made a short | talk at the school the same day. METHODISTS BLAME DRINK FOR HALF OF AUTO DEATHS Half of the 38,500 traffic deaths in the United States last year were laid to liquor, in a report adopted by the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church April 17. The report also urged the neces sity of total abstinence, and recom mended that anyone renting or us ing his property for sale of in toxicating Jiquor be disowned as a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Her Suicide Wd Party Sur i m m By committing suicide, Mrs.1 Helen Kimm Mont, above, exotic j Korean beauty and former Broad- : way showgirl, provided the unusual feature promised guests, invited | in a weird chain letter, to a party j at her Park avenue apartment. More than 100 persons had as-1 sembled for the occasion when her gas poisoned body was discovered. Married only a month, she had quarreled with her husband, James Mont, a decorator. Durham County Favors Liquor Vote Tuesday Results In 2-1 Victory For Proponents Of Local Liquor Stores With Durham county voting for local liquor stores by a two-to-one margin Tuesday, the count stands at one victory apiece in the battle between the wets and the drys, Dare county having gone into the dry column Saturday. The vote was 7,784 for the wets; 3,308 for the drys. Only one pre cinct of the thirty in the county voted dry, and the majority was substantial in all others. The Durham county commission ers will meet Monday, in regular I session, to discuss the setting up I of a control board and to arrange tfor the opening of stores. Legal whiskey sales are expected to be gin within a month. In voting wet, Durham main tained intact its record of never having voted dry. Tuesday’s elec tion was the fourth Durham county has held on the question of banning or legalizing liquor, and each time the county has voted “wet”. The other three were conducted in 1883, 1908 and 1933. By its vote Durham became the twentieth county in the state in which liquor sales have been made legal, through vote, petition or leg islative act, in the past two years, since the 1935 General Assembly began the work of destroying the bone-dry Turlington Act, in force for nearly two decades, iijl the pass age of local liquor laws. Seventeen counties voted to legalize sales under authority of the two local law's passed in 1935. In addition, liquor sales in South ern Pines and Pinehurst, Moore county resort towns, were authoriz ed on petition of the citizens. This year, a liquor store was opened in Bertie county in Windsor, under authority of a legislative act. Two other counties have held votes on the question. In 1935, Rockingham voted dry and will not be permitted, under the terms of the present law, to vote again un til after next summer. Saturday, Dare county citizens apparently re gistered a 19-vote victory for the drys, but this result has been ques tioned and the Dare board of elec tions has ordered a recount of the vote. Votes have been set definitely jn Johnston, May 29; Mecklenburg, June 1, and Wayne, June 1, Chow an and Haywood have called votes, but no dates have been set. In ad dition, Alamance citizens have pre sented a petition signed by 2,000 voters, the requisite number to the county board of elections, de manding the calling of an election of the liquor question. Ramseur Commencement Will Begin Friday and Close May 12 Ramseur school is making- plans for commencement which will be gin Friday evening, April 30 with a Tom Thumb wedding and fash ion show. This will be the last en tertainment until Thursday even ing, May 6th, when the music pupils and high school glee club will give a musicale. Following closely thereafter, the commencement exercises will continue through Wednesday, May 12th, terminating with the senior play. On Friday evening,- May 7th, the seventh grade graduating ex ercises will be held. Sunday will be the first of the exercises for the graduating class. This will be the baccalaureate ser Official Makes Local Check For Old Age Benefits i L. O’Brian, Head Of Re ently Established District Office Pays Visit District Check Confers With Postmaster Redding Concerning Num bers Eligible Here W. L. O'Brian, head of the re cently established Greensboro of fice of the Federal Old Age Bene fits Bureau, was in Asheboro Wednesday to check up with Post master J. O. Redding on the man ner in which this work is progress ing here. Mr. O’Brian, whose bureau is a division of the Social Security Board, has charge of the counties of Guilford, Rockingham, and Randolph. After June 30 the Greensboro office will take over the work of registering employees and assign ing account numbers, which is now being done by the post offices. For the present Mr. O’Brian is busy with routine matters such as sup plying information and explaining the doubtful points of the old age benefits program. The bureau will also handle claims from those workers who have reached the age of 65 and are entitled to a lump sum pay ment in proportion to the tax they have paid. This feature of the program, said Mr. O’Brian, was unknown to many people. The basis idea of the program is for all workers to receive a monthly payment when they become 65, but they must have been employed under the program for five years prior to reaching that age. There are many men who are paying their social security tax regularly but who will be 65 before five years have passed and cannot share in the. monthly payment plan, conse qfiently the bureau will return to such employees at 65 a lump sum based on what they have paid. Mr. O’Brian stated that he had found many people confused on the difference between the <dd age benefits, which is a federal agency, and the state old age assistance grants. The benefits are based on the wages earned up to the age of 65 and the program ceases to op erate when the worker reaches that age; the assistance grants are. based entirely on need and pertain to persons over 65. Elderly people often apply to Mr. O’Brian for assistance which he is unable to give, since his work is entirely with the federal bene fits program. It is expected that old age assistance will soon be organized, with the supervisors working with the various county welfare offices. News Items From Around New Salem Randleman, route 1, April 28.— W. A. Brown is recovering from an illness of several days with in fluenza and complications. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Wood an nounce the birth of a sou Monday, April the 20th. Mrs. Clifford Hinshaw has in stalled a washing machine. Our electric line is quite a convenience for those who want modern help for the household. Millard Wright, who was injured in an automobile accident Monday morning, has improved sufficiently to be out of bed. Mrs. Jane Doctor made a busi ness trip to Greensboro Monday. Mrs. James Wright visited her mother, Mrs. Martha Farlow on Back Creek recently. Farmers are very much behind with their spring planting due to the cold wet weather. Mrs. Ivan Siler and children, Miss Delilah and Leon, of Greens boro visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hayes Friday. J. A. Hinshaw has opened a grocery and filling station on the Randleman-Greensboro highway, near here. mon, preached by Rev. H. M. Stroup of Ramseur. On Monday morning, at ten o’clock, the class day exercises will be held. The ! graduating program, conducted by the seniors will be conducted on Tuesday followed by the com mencement play on Wednesday : evening, marking {he close of the J school session. All the evening pro grams will begin at 8:00 o’clock. R. C. White is principal of the Ramseur school and has held a i rather successful school term, ao- - cording to all reports and results. |S The school has moved along quiet ly which is always indicative of a working group.