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THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS THE COURIER ■ ru Huh TRI-WEEKLY plume lxi Est. As The Regulator February 2. 1876 Oldest Taper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY, 4, 1937 Changed To The Courier September 13. 1379 PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 40 rotion Picture Cooking School Draws Several Hundred Ladies First of Three Daily Programs fill Be Repeated Two More Times I'ornen From All Over Ran dolph Flock To Carolina Theatre For School twelve Prizes Are Distributed Tues, fcqually As Interesting Prizes |For Wednesday And Thurs day Mornings Several hundred women of Ashe oro, with a few gentlemen added, ktended the Motion Picture Cook fig School Tuesday morning at l) ;U0 o’clock at the Carolina heatre. Entering the theatre, the Julies were met by Mrs. Charles fox, president of the local Wo man’s club, Mrs. W. C. Hammond nd Mrs. H. H. Walker of The ourier, the newspaper sponsoring he school in collaboration with a jroup of local merchants and busi tess men and several national ad ip rtisers. JTwo young girls, Margaret llexander and Lucy Lee Lowder ftilk acted as ushers and accepted he registration cards which proved be of the most interesting fea bres of the school since it gave kch lady who attended the school I chance at one of the twelve prizes warded by local merchants and psiness firms and by national ad p rtisers participating in the fchool. I Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer opened the Ihool with a word of welcome and Ic brief announcements necessary, specially did Mrs. Hammer extend ji invitation to the ladies of the iwn to attend this school which ill be repeated Wednesday and (lursday mornings. On these two pmings there will be a section f the theatre reserved for tin llored people, giving, .maids and oks the opportunity to learn mod n cookery. [ The picture in itself is clever as Jell as most instructive and has lany a tip that a housekeeper ecretly resolves to surprise her kmily with from time to time, mere are practical recipes, party bod and shopping ideas for young rides as well as the more season I housekeepers. It was an interest act on Tuesday to notice that mere were more of the older wo ^en of the town whose ambition be model and modem house jeepers who attended the school. (Please turn to Page 3) H. Faust Wins News Tip Award |l. H. Faust of Ramseur entered ranks of the roving reporters ab this week with his information ilative to an item of unusual in rest to The Courier’s readers. Ir. Faust has been awarded two [kets to the motion picture en tainment at the Carolina either ednesday or Thursday of this ek. The feature attraction is fro Man of Her Own” with Clark jible and Carole Lombard in the ading roles. [The next period ends Thursday 1:30 o’clock. The fortunate re order will be given two tickets to ting of Gambles” playing at the tpital theatre Friday and Satur ►y. Pown Election Is A Quiet Affair [The city election passed off jiietly with a light vote recorded until this newspaper goes ro ess. The town ticket is composed kiefly of the old officials with no ^position which makes the vote ^usually light. For a week or so ere was some .talk of an oppos ticket, or even of several ad tional candidates, but none filed fore the deadline on Friday, pril 16th. The present mayor, W. Bunch and his same city coun group will, unless the unexpect happens, find themselves at the ilm of the city’s business for bother two-year term. >r. G. I. Humphries Is Peace Speaker >r. G. I. Humphries, High Point |llege president, will be the speak at the regular meeting of the ndolph county Peace League, [ursd&y night, May 6, at the ethodist Protestant church in leboro )r. Humphries is an interesting aker and the League is for nate in procuring his services the occasion. The meeting will en at 8 o’clock. The public is Hally' invited. HASTENING TOWARDS REUNION \) Former King Speeds to His Fiancee as Decree Is Granted Grain Of Pop Corn Removed From Ear What is hoped to be the end of ten long years of ear trouble ended for 13 year old Iris Spenc er yesterday. When Iris was 3 years old, a playmate dropped a grain of pop corn in her ear. At that time her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Spencer, removed what they thought was the entire grain but yesterday they again probed, as their daughter complained of continual pain, and found what they believe to be the last of the grain of corn. Iris at her home on Asheboro Star route announc ed her ear felt considerably better. Ramseur Woman Mrs. Kittie Copeland Struck Sunday By Two Cars Near Greensboro Mrs. Kittie Copeland, 75, widow of J. N. Copeland of Ramseur was fatally injured Sunday night when she was stiuck by two automobiles in front of the Guilford county sanatorium near Greensboro. The accident occurred at 10:30 o’clock in the evening and death followed yesterday morning at 4:15 o’clock in the High Point hospital. Mrs. Copeland had been to visit a son, Waldo Copeland, at the Sana torium just prior to the accident. She planned to go on to Greens boro and spend the night, and the bus station had been called and re quested to have a bus stop for her at the Sanatorium. Mrs. Copeland was waiting by the side of the road and saw a transfer truck traveling in the direction of Greensboro. She mistook the truck for the bus and started flagging it down. Just at that moment an automobile came from behind the truck and struck her. A moment later another car traveling toward High Point also struck her. The driver of the latter car failed to stop, but the driver of the car that first struck her, J. H. Petty, of Greensboro, is said to have stopped and giveitall possible aid as did the driver of the truck, whose name was not immediately learned. Petty was charged with manslaughter and furnished $1,000 bond. The case has been set for May 10. Mrs. Copeland had both legs broken, her arms injured and other hurts. The funeral took place at Brady’s funeral home in Ramseur at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The Rev. H. M. Stroup, pastor of the Ramseur Baptist church, officiated. Inter ment was in the Ramseur cemetery. Want Agriculture Teacher Trinity A group of citizens from Trinity headed by A. R. Bullock, superin tendent of the school, C. W. Redd ing and J, P. Royals, members of the local board, appeared before the county commissioners in session on Monday and made their wises known. They expressed the senti ments of the community in request ing a teacher of agriculture for the Trinity school for next year. The commissioners made no de cision because of the financial situation of WPA and school funds, but tjie matter founder advisement and an investigation of conditions wil lbe made before rendering a decision. About twenty citizens of | that community were in Asheboro I Monday in interest of this matter. Mrs. Wallis Simpson Is Grant ed Absolute Divorce Mon day By English Court Wallis Warfield Simpson was granted an absolute divorce from Ernest Aldrich Simpson yesterday in the London divorce court. The decree frees the American born woman from her second husband and she is now able to marry the former King Edward VIII. The news of the divorce was cabled to both Mrs. Simpson and the former king, the latter leaving his chateau near St. Wilfgang, Austria fos Tours, France, where Mrs. Simpson was reported awaiting him. Edward heard of the issuance of the London decree just as he was getting into his mountain climbing togs for a short excursion into the hills. He flung them aside and made immediate arrangements to go to believed •weddhfg* , May 12, out of deference to the duke’s brother, King .George VI. France. Ffiends of the couple until after the coronation Democrats Plan Pro-Court Talks Four Senators To Speak At Philadelphia Mass Meeting On May 10 Four Democratic senators led by Senators Copeland, New York, and Byrd of Virginia are scheduled to speak in Philadelphia, May 10 at a mass meeting “organized as a protest against the president’s plan to pack the Supreme Court.” Senator Gerry of Rhode Island ana McCarran of Nevada are the other two speakers. The Philadelphia meeting will commemorate the first constitu tional convention in that city 1501 years ago. The meeting is being | organized by the same group of court plan opponents who backed a similar demonstration in Car- j negie hali, New York earlier in the year. Recent developments in the court controversy included an ef fort to have the question discussed from the nation’s pulpits. The com mittee for Constitutional Demo cracy Inc., announced it has asked 100,000 clergymen to preach ser mons on constitutional guarantees. May 23 has been set aside for these sermons. The directors of the committee include Crandall Mackey, a Vir ginia publisher, Charles M. Bake well, Yale university and Hugh M. Alcorn, Hartford, Conn. States’ Relief Outlay Billion WPA Chief Hopkins Gives Figures To Show Local Units Put Up Share Hary L. Hopkins, WPA admin istrator, backing up his assertion that state and local governments have carried their share of the re lief burden, this week issued fig ures to show the amount they have thus spent grew from $338,000,000 in 1933 to $1,248,000,000 in 19S6. Figures for 1937 will show a stilll larger total, he said, and “more and more” will be spent in 1938. He said he did not believe more than $100,000,000 was spent in 1929. Hopkins said state and local ex penditures for relief, excluding money spent on social security programs, amounted to more than $2,900,000,000 during the years 1933 through 1936. Social Security Decision Held Up By Supreme Court Russian Agreement Legal; Justices Endorse Tax On Cocoanut Oil Court Unanimous Senate May Adopt New Court Plan; To Vote On Bill May 18 The United States Supreme Court yesterday upheld two extern al policies of President Roosevelt, the Litvin ov agreement with Rus sia and the Philippine cocoanut oil tax. It failed to hand down a deci sion relative to the constitutionality of the Social Security unemploy ment insurance taxes. Both decisions were unanimous except that Justices Harlan Fiskc Stone, Louis D. Brandeis and Ben jamin Cardozo dissented on the method in which their colleagues reached their conclusion in the So viet case. They maintained the court’s record of no decisions against the New Deal this term. Meantime, the Senate judiciary committee showed indications ot selecting the Supreme Court reor ganization program of Senator Carl A. Hatch, (D., N. M.), as a sub stitute for the president’s. The match plan is for a court fluctuat ing in size from nine to 15 justices, depending on their age, instead of a possible permanent increase to 15. The committee also discussed advisability of voting on the pre sident’s bill prior to May 18. The date was set last week. Governor Hoey Is Teacher Sunday 650 White And Colored Prisoners Listen To The Governor Sunday A rare treat for the inmates of the state’s prison, enjoyed by 660 prisoners was the teaching of the SuadajutfhrifllBitiifiUiihh Gove* ‘nb^niPMInaV Sunday afternoon. Governor Hoey became perhaps the first Chief Executive of Norln Carolina to teach a Sunday sthool lesson at state prison as he spoke yesterday to 660 prisoners, crowd ed into the institution’s auditorium, on faith and its rewards. The divergent choices of Abra ham and Lot were the basis of the Governor’s talk. The prisoners, the whites sitting on one side of the auditorium and the negroes on the other, had their regular afternoon Sunday school program. Yesterday however, the negroes sang spirit uals for their Governor. Governor Hoey was introduced by Oscar Pitts, acting director of the penal division. The lesson at the prison was the second to be taught by the Chief Executive yest erday morning. In the morning he filled' his regular position as teach er of the men’s Bible class at thg Edenton Street Methodist church. “Abraham was unselfish and gave Lot the choice of lands,” the Governor told the prisoners, who look to him for paroles and pard ons. “Abraham’s view was on the higher, finer things, and his faith enabled him to select the higher way. These virtues are rewarded today, both by God and through contentment and satisfaction.” | Lot, the Governor pointed out, | “pitched his tent to Sodom,” be I cause he was dominated by ma terialistic views. Abraham unsel fishly gave Lot his choice and whs satisfied with poorer grazing lands, because, he said, “his view on the higher, finer things.” “God offered rewards to Abra ham for his loyalty, and these vir tues were rewarded,” Governor Hoey said. Sunday school attendance at the prison is not compulsory. However, officials said they all enjoyed the Governor’s visit, and had “a fine time.” Governor Hoey said he was in vited to teach the class when he first took office and yesterday was his first opportunity to do so. Yesterday the auditorium at the Edenton Street Methodist church was crowded, and visitors included class of tthe Selma Methodis church and a large delegation from the men’s class of the Franklinton Methodist church. Hopewell Friends Memorial May 16 The annual memorial service of the Hopewell Friends church will take place Sunday morning, May 16, at 11 o’clock. All former resi dents and Friends of Hopewell and the public generally is cordially invited to attend the services. Dinner will be served on the church grounds. Members of the congregation are requested to bring flowers to decorate the graves in the church yard. Pride Of Spanish Rebel Fleet Bombed By Loyalist Airmen me antique .'panisn reoei warsnip r.spapa (aomei may go uowii in navai history as the first battle ship sunk in combat by airplanes. Attacked by a loyalist squadron of 32 planes that answered the appeals of a British freighter for help, a large bomb made a direct hit on the after-deck of the Espana. It sank Within an hour, in sight of the coast guard station at Cabo Mayor, near Santander, Spain. More than 800 men and officers were aboard. The Espara and a sister ship had fired on the freighter. County Commissioners Extend Time for Listing! Taxes Until Saturday, 15j Extension Will Be Quite Welcome Robert Wood Is Named Mem ber Of Local Board Of Public Welfare Two More Members Appointed Shortly Road Petition By Jackson Hill Residents; Sheriff Gives Tax Report The Randolph county commis sioners irt regular session yester day extended the time for tax lin ing until May 15. The Commission be granteSSKPPnxsPextention on all listing untiF and through that date without penalty. The commissioners also appoint ed Robert W. Wood of Asheboro a member of the new board of public welfare which will have supervi sion of welfare, old age assistance and dependent children. The board will consist of three members, Mr. Wood, a second to be appointed by the state board of public welfare and the third to be decided by those two members. The state ap pointee is expected to be announc ed in the near future. In event the two fail to agree upon a third member the appointment will be made by the resident judge of the county. A petition filed by residents along Jackson Hill road in Trinity township requesting improvments to that highway was ordered for warded to the state highway com mission for consideration. A report filed by Sheriff Carl King showed that the uncollected tax for 1936 has been reduced to $64,142.98. The gross levy was $239,217. 16. Farmer School To Close Next Week Rev. T. A. Sykes Will Preach The Baccalaureate Sermon On Sunday P. M. Farmer school commencement will begin on Saturday evening, May 8th, with the senior play, “Crashing Society.” This play is unusually attractive and will prove a real entertainment. On Sunday at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. Tom A. Sykes, pastor of Central Friends church, Tigh Point, will preach the baccalaureate sermon in the school auditorium. Following this service, which marks the real beginning of commencement, is the annual reciters and declaimers con test which will begin at 1:00 o’clock instead of 2:00 as has been pre viously announced. A ball game will follow the contest. This will be between the Asheboro high school team and the Farmer team. Monday evening the class day program and graduating exercises will be held. W. H. Deward, prin cipal of the school, will award the | diplomas,. This will mark the close of the school year which is one of the most successful in the history of the Farmer school. Baseball games scheduled for the week include a game this afternoon with the Denton school team, play ed at Denton and a game between the same teams played on Wednes day at Farmer. Dr. C. C. Hubbard, Mrs. Hubbard , and Miss Hope Hubbard attended ' the state medical meeting at Win j ston-Salem this week. Gone With Wind Publishers Sued Charging that certain parts of her book, “Authentic History of the Ku Klux Klan,” which she is holding in the above picture, were used without permission in “Gone With the Wind,” Susan Lawrence Davis of Washington, D. C., has fil ed suit asking a profits accounting and injunction from further sale of the novel. Miss Davis’ book was ! published in 1924. Springfield Church Observes 147tli Anniversary on Sunday Double Cause For Celebration With Anniversary-Debt Free Program Of interest to many people in this section was the observance of the 147th anniversary of the es tablishing of Springfield Friends church. In addition to the celebra ; tion of the anniversary of the es 1 tablishment of a church on this j site in northern Randolph, Sunday l was the tenth anniversary of the new church building. | Ther was real cause for rejoic i ing by the members of the church | and their friends on this occasion when the announcement was made I that the church was free of debt. Ten years ago just as the plans ; for a new building had been com ; pleted and construction began, | the depression came on so that in ; order to complete and furnish it an j indebtedness of $16,000 had to be ; incurred. There is now in the trea | sury sufficient funds to pay off the I last note of $1,600 which is due at [ this time. An announcement to this j effect was made Sunday morning i and is expected to be received with high satisfaction. The raising of these funds has been made possible by reason of the cordial cooperation of the entire church membership i and the church agencies together with a splendid response from in dividuals outside. This church, one of the oldest in the state and located in a com munity of the county’s most sturdy early settlers, is interesting to many who are not members of this faith. For many years Sprinfield served a much larger area than it | does at present, including as it did (Please turn to Page 3) Russian Army Is Largest In World U. S. 19th In Potential Fight ing Power In Ranking Of 48 Countries A survey by American military authorities this week disclosed that at least 55,000,000 trained men can “spring to arms over night” in forty-eight nations. The regular army, reserves and other trained men in those coun tries, a survey shows, number 54, 412,628, not including China’s un counted military forces, conserva tively estimated as at least 1,000 000. The United States now has an estimated 474,378 men in the reg ular army, national guard, and trained reserves, placing it 19th in potential fighting power in the ranking of the 48 countries. Soviet Russia has the world’s largest army, with 1,545,000 reg ulars and a total of 19,490,000 trained land forces. ader Legion Asheboro Post Host To Dis trict Chairman At Meet ing Tonight W. T. Dowd, Sanford, Chef De Gare of the 40 and 8, fun making unit of the American Legion, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of Dixon Post 45, Ameri can Legion in the Legion rooms in Asheboro tonight. The meeting'will open at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Dowd is also a deputy United States mar shal. John Stephenson, Southern Pines, 12th district chairman is also scheduled to visit the local post. Mr. Dowd will outline the work of the 40 and 8 and it is believed a unit of that organization will be formed in this city. New Farm Board Includes Woman Governor Hoey Appoints Mrs. Vivian Stevens To Re place Husband Mrs. Vivian Stevens of Camden county yesterday became the sec ond woman ever to be named to serve on the North Carolina state board of agriculture. One of eight members appointed on the new 10 member board by Governor Hoey, she will serve a four-year term, succeeding her husband, Luke L. Stevens. The only other woman ever to serve on the board was, Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt, who later married Sen ator Peter Gerry of Rhode Island. She was appointed by Governor Morrison. C. S. Young of Cleveland county was the only member of the old five-member board to be reappoint ed. He will serve for four years. Reeves Noland of Hayvyood coun ty and T. G. Currin of Granville county will continue on the new board by virtue of the fact that their present terms will not expire for two years. In addition to Mrs. Stevens and Young, the governor named on the board J. H. Poole of Moore county, to serve two years; M. L. Aderholt of Davidson-eounty, to serve four years; and C. F. Cates of Alamance county, W. G. Hargett of Jones. Lionel Weil of Wayne, and W. Ivan Bissett of Pitt, all appointed for six-year terms. Fellowship Cited As Leading Part In Church Work County Ministers Open New Campaign To Increase Church Attendance Receive New Pastor Prayer And Properly Timed Services Named Among Important Functions Asserting that fellowship is one of the outstanding agencies of church work the Rev. H. P. Powell, pastor of the Asheboro Methodist Episcopal Church, South, outlined a program to increase church at tendance during the summer months to members of the Ran dolph County Ministerial Associa tion in session at the First Presby terian church here yesterday morn ing. During his address Rev. Mr. Powell emphasized three important church activities. He stated that the people are hungry for fellow ship and expect it when they at tend church. Refering to properly timed services, the speaker asserted that they should begin promptly and end on time. “Many people,” he said, “are trained to expect an hour service and become restless if it is not kept within that limit." Prayer, Rev. Mr. Powell said, is one of the essentials in prcpara | tion for public worship. The Rev. M. C. Henderson, vice president, presided due to the ab sence of the Rev. H. M. Stroup of Randleman. A church attendance campaign was started at the meeting with the following named members of a special committee to have charge of the work during the summer months: the Rev. H. M. Stroup, Rev. E. G. Gowan, and the Rev. Mr. Sykes. The Rev. T. J. Greene, pastor of the Pleasant Hill Congregational Christian church was received into the association. The next meeting will take place the first Monday after the first Sunday in June. The Rev. 0. P. Ader, pastor of the Coleridge charge, and a new minister in the county, will address the association using as a subject “The Relation of the Sunday school to the church.” Dr. Cothran Smith, who sails the latter part of the month for France and the near East received the blessings of the association. He will be the representative of the Asheboro Rotary club to the Rotary International. To Urge Summer Church Interest Asheboro Ministers Plan Cam paign; Californian To Speak May 12 The Asheboro Ministerial As sociation Monday completed plans for its annual campaign to en courage church attendance during the months of May, June«and July. The association appointed the following as a special committe to have actual charge of the cam paign. The Rev. S. W. Taylor, the Rev. H. P. Powell and the Rev. 0. G. Smith. The object of the cam paign, as announced by the com mitte, is to continue the regular attendance at church as well as *.o 'make a united effort to encourage persons who are not in the habit of regularly attending to become acquainted with church activities. The Rev. Mr. Powell, announced the engagement of Rev. Milo Hinckel, of Greensboro, for the union service in the Methodist Protestant church Sunday, May 30 at 5 p. m. The association also decided to appeal to all local organizations to reserve Wednesday nights a3 church night in accord with the long established Christian custom. The Rev. Willard Trueblood, California, a member of the Na tional Preachers Mission will be the speaker at Friends church Wednes day night, May 12 at 8 o’clock. School Hazards Hold Attention Schwellenbach Wants WPA School Projects Accorded Special Statuts Washington, May 4.— Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Wash ington yesterday started a drive to give preferential status to PWA projects for school buildings of which 16 are located in North Caro lina. The information was furnish ed the senate in response to a re solution immediately after the I Texas disaster in which hundreds of children were killed in a gas ex plosion.