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ASHEBORO MARCH
IN STEP—AHEAD
BOTH ARE LEADERS
THE COURIER
ALWAYS ABREAST WITH
THE CHANGING TIME
IN RANDOLPH COUNTY
THE COURIER LEADS
TRI-WEEKLY
Est. As The Regulator
February 2, 1876
PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN
Changed To The Courier
September 13. 1379
VOLUME LXI
Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County
ASHEBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1937.
PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUN
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2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 42
Flying Aces Show
Opens At Airport.
This Afternoon
Legion Post Sponsoring Af
fair; Proceeds For Junior
Baseball
Fifteen Acts
Parachute Jumper Will Drop j
12,000 Feet: Girl Will |
Ring Wings
The Flying Aces, scheduled t«
stage a spectacular air show a*- |
Asheboro airport arrived i..
city yesterday and have completed
plans for the program which will
open at ,'l o’clock today. Dixon Pest
45, American Legion is sponsoring !
the show. Proceeds will be used co 1
assist in handling the expenses of
junior baseball activities.
The show has fifteen acts which
include the “death ride” of Miss
Jessie Martin who goes aloft and
places herself on one wing of a
plane while the pilot puts the ship
through a series of loops and bar
rel-rolls. Unless you have been in
a plane during a slow roll you will
be unable to fully* appreciate Miss
Martin’s stunt.
Johnny Crowell, Charlotte aviat
ar, will fly his Gee Bee Racing job
cnown among the craft as the
‘suicide plane.”
Jack Huber, known as “Ameri
ca's most daring parachute jump
er” bails out of his ship at 12,OOP
feet and drops until a few hundred
feet olf the ground before he pulls
the rip cord.
Several of the ships will be used
is bombers during an attempt of
the pilot to drop “bombs” on a new
Ford V-8 as it speeds down the
•unways. They will also stage a
‘dog fight” in the air showing
spectators the manner in which
Aces battled each other during the
vorld war.
Members of the Legion post will
>e at the airport to handle ar
•angements and assist patrons in
ibtaining tickets as they approach
he field.
rNews Flag
Hollywood.—An announcement
>y film strike leaders that nation
wide theatre picketing will begin
Monday was followed today by a
i rediction from screen producers’
ipokesmen that their differences
vith the Screen Actors’ Guild will
>e settled.
Tobacco Thefts
Kinston.—Grim-jawed tobacco
flowers in some parts of this sec
ion of the tobacco belt stood guard
vith shotguns tonight over theii
lelds and plant beds, fearing an
iutbreak of plant thefts due to an
icute crop shortage.
Washington.—J. Edgar Hoover,
hiof of the nation’s crime fighters,
aid he knew of only one major
rime involving a federal violation
hat is “unsolved”—the kidnap
llaying of 10-year-old Charles
lattson.
Fishermen’s Luck
Fishermen got an extra day’s
ishing as a “bonus for good be
avior” when Game Commissioner
. D. Chalk announced that the
pawning season ban would be lift
ed on the holiday, Memorial Day,
May 10, instead of Tuesday, May
11, as originally scheduled.
The ruling applies to all coun
ies east of Alleghaney, Wilkes,
Rutherford and Highway No. 18 in
laldwell and Burke counties.
-from
Everywhere
Movie Strike
Mattson Case
No Verdict
New Castle, Ky. — Brig.-Gen.
lenry H. Denhardt was released on
25,000 bail Thursday, several
lours after the jury trying him or.
n indictment charging murder of
Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor had been
lischarged upon failure to reach a
rerdict. Denhardt left at once for
.ouisville.
New Bank Head
Pinehurst.—The North Carolina
(ankers’ association elected Frank
Spruill, of Rocky Mount, pre3i
ent for the coming year Thursday
fter being warned by speakers at
;s annual conventioh that govern
ment fiscal policies might impair
he country’s economic situation.
Spruill, president of the People’s
(ank and Trust company, will suc
:eed R. Emmett Kerr, vice presi
ent of the American Trust com
lany at Charlotte, who mentioned i
he federal deficit and the ad
linistration’s “reflation” policy as
o*en’tial menances in his report,
elivered at the opening session
lis morning of the association’s!
1st annual meeting. [
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Only seconds after the first hint of disaster, the Hindenburg is a n inferno, its flame resisting steel ribs starkly outlined by the brilliant
light of clouds of burning hydrogen as would-be rescuers stand help lessly by. About half of the 100 passengers and crew aboard were be
lieved to have died. Pictures of the disaster were flown to New York by American Air Lines.
Commencement To
i Open At Seagrove
Dr. Cothran G. Smith Will
Deliver Annual Sermon
To Senior Class
Seagrove, May 9J—Dr. Cothran
G. Smith, pastor of the Asheboro
Presbyterian church will deliver
the commencement sermon to mem
bers of the high school graduation
class, other students of the local
school and their friends and rela
tives tonight at 8 o’clock.
The graduation exercises are
scheduled for Tuesday night. Six
teen seniors will receive their
diplomas. They are Noel Auman,
Max Auman, Leon Lewallen,
Howard Voncannon, Billy Yow,
Nancy Auman, Alice Cole, Claire
Cole, Irma Gray*s,,,Jjois Lambeth,
Cleo Page, «E*w£:'!SinWyjafcille
.StuttJ', Atteva
Voncannon, Inez Williams.
Florence Trogdon is valedictorian
and Irma Graves salutatorian.
The high school play took place
Saturday night.
Welfare Board Is
Appointed By Hoey
Mrs. Charles W. Tillett. Jr.,
A Member; .All Will
Serve Six Years
Raleigh.—Governor Hoey Thurs
day named Mrs. Charles W. Tillett,
Jr., of Charlotte; J. H. Yelton, of
Hendersonville, and Senator Wil
liam B. Rodman, Jr., of Washing
ton, members of the state board of
charities and public welfare for a
term of six years each.
The three succeed Mrs. Joseph
A. Brown, of Chadbourn, Mrs. Her -
bert F. Seawell, of Carthage, and
R. Gregg Cherry, of Gaston coun
ty. The remaining members of the
board of seven are Col. William A.
Blair, of Forsyth, chairman; A. W.
McAlister, of Greensboro; Mrs.
Walter Crowell, of Monroe, and
Dr. E. McNeill Poteat, of Raleigh.
Colonel Blair has been chairman of
the board more than 30 years and
Mr. McAlister a member approxi
mately 20 years.
No meeting has been set for the
new board which will formally
elect with the approval of Gover
nor Hoey a state commissioner of
public welfare. Governor Hoey
has indicated that he will recom
mend the re-election of Mrs. W.
T. Bost, who has been commission
er since April, 1930. '
Lloyd Pickett Is
Critically Injured
Lloyd Pickett of Staley, route 2,
was critically injured yesterday
evening at 6:30 o'clock when th
automobile he was driving struck
a concrete upright on a highway
bridge just south of Gray’s Chapel
community.
Pickett was taken to the Ran
dolph hospital where it was stat
ed he was in a critical condition.
He sustained severe injuries about
his head and chest.
According to those who arrived
at the scene shortly after the ac
cident, the engine was driven
through the front of the car and
back against Pickett’s body.
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Bank Robbed
Laurel Hill.—Two unmasked
bandits robbed the Commercial
State bank here of $3,000 about
noon Friday, and sped out of town
in an automobile leaving officers
few clues to work on.
Sheriff W. D. Reynolds said their
car, a black 1937 Ford sedan, was
last reported three miles south of
here, heading toward the South
Carolina line.
Hints of Sabotage In
Hindenburg Blast To
Be Probed by Officers:
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Eckener Grounds
_Graf Zeppelin
Berlin.—The Graf Zeppelin, |
sister ship to the great Von Hind
enburg, was grounded indefinitely
last night by orders of Dr. Hugo
Eckener, dirigible commander.
This great ship, now in regular
service to South America will make
no more crossings until the Hind
enburg disaster is fully cleared up.
Dr. Eckener made the announce- j
merit last night before taking an !
airplane for Cherbourg, - Francef;
marnbere-'ttfijaS W.
vestigating committee will board!
the Europa for the trip to the
.United States.
The loss of the Hindenburg will |
delay the transportation of corona
tion pictures to New York, it was
stated in Europe today. Plans had j
been made for their transportattion
on the ship now destroyed.
Asheboro Rotary |
Has Vocation Day
Lively Talks On The Other,
Fellow’s Business Marks
The Asheboro Rotary enjoyed a 1
“vocational training day” at its I
regular weekly luncheon Friday
noon. The program was marked
with inspirational talks by several ;
members, all of whom gave their
idea of how the other fellow should i
run his own business. The speak-1
ers were introduced by Elwood j
Reihin.
E. O. Schafer led olf the discus-,
sion with an address based on "A i
few things wrong with the flour
milling business”. Scarcely had he
seated himself when' Dr. O. L.
Fresnel! gave an inspired address
using the topic “faults of the
clergy.”
Not to be outdone by those who
preceded him, Reid Hannah rose to
forensic heights with his discus
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Craft’s Captain
^dded To Death
Toll Now At 34
Veteran Died Asking What |
Caused Accident; Was
World War Ace
One Spectator Dead
Uktited States NaW And New?
Jersey To Open Inquiry
Monday
Captain Ernest Lehmann, stocky
little veteran master of Zeppelins,
joined 33 other victims of the
Hindenburg disaster in death last
night, even as federal authorities
set out to establish if sabotage
caused the fatal plunge of the great
dirigible.
Before he died, Lehmann, who
skippered the Hindenburg on her
.pioneering passenger trips here a
year ago, echoed the views of the
parade of aeronautical experts who
have looked over the grotesque
wreckage strewn over the United
States naval air station landing
field.
“Can’t understand it,” he sa;d,
“I can’t understand it.”
With ugly reports of sabotage re
fusing to be downed, two authori
ties—Dr. Hugo Eckner, head of the
Zeppelin company, and Senator
Copeland (D., N. Y.), chairman of
the senate commerce committee
were on record as saying this pos
sibility of sabotage should be ex
haustively investigated.
Meanwhile, the latest death roll
of last nights flaming disaster re
leased by the Zeppelin company
placed the known victims at 33.
The roll named 11 passengers, 21
members of the crew, and one
spectator as dead.
Inquiry Starts
Tim department of commerce
took over complete charge of an
inquiry already well advanced in-.
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The Bravest Battle
Joaquin Miller
The bravest battle that ever was fought!
Shall I tell yon where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not—
’Twas fought by the mothers of men.
Nay, not with the cannon or battle shot,
With a sword or nobler pen;
Nay, not with eloquent words or thought
From mouths of wonderful men!
But deep in a welled-up woman’s heart—
A woman that would not yield;
But bravely, silently bore her part—
Lo, there is that battlefield!
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No marshaling troop, no bivouac song,
No banner to gleam and wave;
But, O! these battles they lasted so long—
From babyhood to the grave.
Yet faithful, still as a bridge of stars,
She fights in her walled-up town—
Fights on and on in the endless wars,
Then silent, unseen, goes down.
0 ve with banners and battle-shot,
And soldiers to shout and praise,
1 tell you the kingliest victories fought
Are fought in these silent ways.
O spotless woman in a world of shame,
With splendid and silent scorn,
Go back to God as white as you came—
The kir.giiest warrior born.
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Asheboro Pupils
To Stage Pageant
Historical Education Show
At Local Auditorium
Monday Night
The pagent, “Out of the Past”
to be presented in the Asheboir.
high school auditorium, Monday
I night at 8 o’clock, promises to be
one of the feature events of com
mencement week. The participants
will be gowned in costumes symbol
ic of the nations to be represented.
It will depict the influence on pre
sent day education through the
activities and methods of past
years.
The program will open with the
presentation of the daisy chain and
song by the Junior girls. The re
sponse will be made by the Sen
iors who will also sing the wel
come song. The greetings will he
presented by the Senior elas*~pre; -
ident, Bub Hedrick.
The program is appended.
Historian, Sarah Hayworth.
Heralds, Bill and Bob Allred.
Spirit of Education, Betty Pre
vette.
Hand Maids of Education, Velna
Williams, Fernko Johnson, Opal
Keever, Ethel Lee Craven, Mild
red Ferree.
Venetian, Marion Paisley, Baby
lon, Blondell Chriscoe, Egyptian,
Melba Clark, Spirit of Greece.
Margaret Pritchard. Spirit of*
Christianity, Sarah Alice Moore, i
The Monk, Charles Durham. The
Crusaders, June Lutterloh, Howard
Brown, Howard Trogdon, Bud Hed
rick.
Roman Soliers. Wayne Burrow,
Billy Pugh and Bob Yow. Savage
Man, Archie Kirkman. Ignorance,
Charles Durham. Foreign Youth,
Raymond Petty. Greek athletes,
Clyde and Worth Shaw, Tommy
Wilson and Baxter Kearns. Greek
Maids, Helen E. Brown, Helen M.
Brown, Carol Lee Hall, Gladys
Steed, Margaret Huneycutt, Mary
Covington, Virginia Robbins,
Jewell McCain and Jewell Brown.
Superlatives, Mildred Millsaps.
High school instructor, Richard
Moser.
The directors are Miss Cornelia
Ayers and Miss Massa Lambert,
assisted with music by Mrs. Murray
Field, Miss Madge Hobgood and
Miss Ruth Tucker.
A special section will be reserv
ed in the auditorium for parents of
the students. The parents are re
quested to ask the ushers to be
shown seats in that section.
Power Lineman Is
Injured Friday
J. O. Spell, lineman for the Car
olina Power and Light Co., was
injured Friday while working on
some extension lines for that com
pany. Mr. Spell was attempting to
stretch a wire when a truck ran
over it, making it taut and trip
ping him. The fall was so hard
that he got a bad blow on the head
which rendered him unconcious
for several hours after he was
taken to the local hospital.
In addition to the head injury,
Mr. Spell’s left shoulder was frac
tured and his right thumb broken.
Mr. Spell has been very uncom
fortable since the accident. He is
a native of Roxboro.
MRS. CHESHIRE WINS
THEATRE TIP TICKETS
The o£ws tip winner for this J
| time is Mrs. Bob Cheshire who will I
! receive two tickets for the Sunset1
| theatre Monday or Tuesday featur
i ing “Swing High, Swing Low,” a
! delightful musical comedy,
j The next period will run until the
1 deadline for press-time Tuesday
and will Allow the winner to see
the Carolina theatre, “Theodora
Goes Wild.
Young Democrats
I To Meet May 22;
; Hoey To Attend
■ Large Delegations Expected
From All Sections; To
Have Dinner Dance
Expect Contest
Believe Plans For State Slate
Will Be Completed At
Session
Members of the executive com
mittee of the North Carolina
Young Democratic clubs will meet
in Italeigh May 22 instead of May
J2 as originally planned. Miss Mae
Oliver, vice president has notified
all clubs of the change in dates
and at the same time advise them
that Governor Clyde R. Hoey will
attend the session. It is expected
that a number of other state of
ficials will attend the meeting. The
business session will be followed by
a dinner and dance.
Since plans will be made for the
annual state convention and the
meeting place decided upon at this
meeting, good-sized delegations are
expected from the various places
seeking the convention. It is also
expected that a good deal of “poli
ticking” will be done before, at and
after this meeting by the backers
of the various candidates for state
offices in the annual convention and
that the various slates will be pret
ty well formulated by the time the
meeting adjourns.
At the present time, Miss Oliver
is regarded as being in line for the
presidency without any opposition.
There is talk in some quarters,
however, that a man may be
brought out to oppose her for the
presidency in an effort to upset the
precedent which has prevailed over
since the Young Democrats were
organized, whereby the vice pre
sident is automatically advanced to
the presidency every year, with the
president being a woman every
other year. Contests are expected
to develop over some of the other
offices also.
Defeat Is Seen_
For Relief Cut
Rayburn Believes House Will
Override Demand For
Additional Slash
Washington.—According to an
nouncements here yesterday Re
presentative Rayburn of Texas,
Democrat floor leader, believes the
house will over-ride bi-partisan de-1
1 mands for a slash in President
i Roosevelt’s $1,500,000,000 work
relief recommendations.
Rayburn said after a talk with
Charles West, White House-Con
gress liaison man, that he was cer
tain members from populous indus
trial centers would support the
administration request. They con
stitute the bulk of house member
ship.
Representative Woodrum, Demo
crat, Virginia, acting head of fthe
subcommittee studying relief, stood
firm in his determination to cut
$500,000,000 from the President’s
estimate, but declined to predict
what the group would do.
Representative Boland of Penn
sylvania, Democratic whip, agreed
with Rayburn’s view, but said he
was not over-confident the Presi
dent’s figure would be in the bill
reported to the house by the ap
propriations committee.
Any reduction by the committee
could be restored by a majority
vote in the house.
Hughes Speaks
Washington.—Although not men
tioning President Roosevelt’s court
bill specifically, Chief Justice
Hughes Thursday told the Ameri
can Law institute that a “com
petent and independent judiciary”
is essential to the success of de
mocratic institutions.
The remarks of the chief justice,
despite their general nature, were
interpreted by many as attacking
the wisdom of Mr. Roosevelt’s pro
posal to add a maximum of six new
justices to the Supreme court un
less present members over 70 re
tire.
Baccalaureate Tonight By
Dr. Taylor in Auditorium
Dr. S. W. Taylor will deliver the
commencement sermon at the an
nua! commencement exercises of
the Asheboro schools in the school
auditorium tonight at 8 o’clock. All
churches in the city have suspend
ed the usual Sunday evening ser
vice in order that all interested
may attend the commencement
exercises.
Music for the evening will be
furnished by a choir composed of
members of the various churches
in the city. A section of the audi
Three Co
Senatorshi
Reynoldi
nders For
Earned As
Opposition
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Celebration
Dr. J. E. Pritchard
Randolph Citizen
Is Honored Today
Dr. J. E. Pritchard Celebrates
25th Anniversary Of Minist
erial Service
Calvary Methodist Protestant
church in Greensboro will tonight
pay honor to their pastor, Dr. J.
E. Pritchard, a Randolph county
man. This service will be in the
form of a tribute to honor the 25tn
anniversary of the entrance of Dr,
Pritchard into the ministry. Mrs.
L. W. Gerringer, widow of a form
er pastor of the Asheboro church,
is in charge of the program ajid
will speak in behalf of the church
and present greetings from a num
ber of friends of the pastor.
Dr. Pritchard, who was brougiu
up near_Ajsji^G graduated fr
estern- Mainland college m
and from the Westminister Theo
logical seminary in 1912. He has
served churches in Halifax county,
Thomasville, Burlington, Hender
son, Asheboro, Winston-Salem and
Greensboro, coming to Greensboro
from the First Methodist Protest
ant church in Winston-Salem three
and a half years ago.
Dr. Pritchard served as pastor
of the Asheboro Methodist Protest
ant church for eight years, which
fact, coupled with his birth in this
county has endeared him to a great
many of the citizens.
Strike Negotiations
Are Planned In S. C.
Lawrence Takes Hand In Ef
fort To Settle “Author
ized” Walkout
McColl, S. C.—Roy R. Lawrence,
Carolinas administrator for the
textile workers’ organizing com
mittee, announced late yesterday
negotiations would be resumed to
day with the management of the
Marlsboro Cotton mills whose five
plants were closed yesterday morn
ing after a strike of employes
which, Lawrence said, was “un
authorized."
Lawrence hastened here from
Charlotte, N. C., after being notifi
ed that the company’s four mills
here and one at Bennettsville, 10
miles south of here, had suspended
operations because of 3 walkout.
The five plants normally employ
j 1,100 workers.
Oppose Bill
Washington.—Dr. Claudius T.
Murchison, president of the Cotton
Textile Institute, representing
about 800 cotton mills employing
345,000 workers, today opposed the
national textile bill.
Remains Very 111
Millard Allred remains in a cri
tical condition at the Randolph
Hospital. Mr. Allred has been ill
for several months following a rail
road accident.
toriuni has been reserved for mem
bers of the graduating class.
Monday evening the senior class
will present an educational pageant
in the school auditorium.
Clyde Erwin, state superinten
dent of education will be the speak
er at the commencement exercises
Tuesday evening. Fifty-three
seniors will be presented diplomas
at that time.
Schools will close Wednesday
when report cards will be issued the
students.
Morrison Among
Those Named For
Federal Office
Doughton And Hancock Also
Mentioned; Former Strong
ly Favored
Sure Fight Seen
By Politicians
Former Governor Said To
Have Support All Over
The State
Former Senator Cameron Morri
son of Mecklenburg, according io
political gossip in Washington and
Raleigh, may oppose the renomina
tion of Senator Robert Reynolds in
1938. Along with Morrison’s name
is that of Representative Doughton
and Representative Hancock as
possible opposition to Reynolds.
There is no doubt but Senator
Reynolds is to encounter formid
able opposition. The definite de
signation of a man to oppose him
will materalize during the summer
and next winter according to poli
tical gossip in all sections of the
state.
Men who were with Morrison hi
his recent fight against Reynolds
claim the latter’s.election was “just
one of those things.” They contend
that he would make a strong can
didate and would in their opinion
find a happier ending than in his
last race against “Our Bob.”
The name of Representative
Doughton continues to figure in
public print and in all discussions
of senatorial politics. Mr. Dough
ton, chairman of the ways and
means committee, has attained the
heights in congressional circles
and is a regular participant in
White House conferences. It is
believed he will, rema
-lAe-ssppWaeMfcgiwnsa
whether or not he is one of the
principals. He h'as received proffers
of support from all sections of the
state. yg <t%il!
Alfred Lowdermilk
Visits Asheboro
Former Resident Returns
Here After An Absence
Of 63 Years
—
Allred Lowdermilk, 82, who was
! born in • the Flag Springs neigh
borhood, has returned to Asheboro
with his wife and two daughters
after an absence of sixty-three
years.
Mr. Lowdermilk, a son of the
late Ransom Lowdermilk, plans to
visit friends and relatives in this
section during his stay here. His
present home is in Kansas City.
Mrs. Ward Burned
As Gas Explodes
Mrs. Annie Ward of Franklirt
ville is a patient at Randolph Hos
pital as a result of very painful
burns sustained on Thursday. Mrs.
Ward, a young woman of that
place, poured what she thought
was kerosene on a stubborn fire
and inadvertantly poured gasoline
which exploded and burned her
face, chest and right arm rather
seriously. Mr. Ward brought her
to the hospital immediately where
she has remained. Her condition is
not considered serious, but her
burns are most painful.
Who’s Who With
Asheboro Shoppers
Can you identify yourself Mr.
Citizen:
This photograph was taken by
The Courier
photographer a —
few days ago. I
The gentlemar
is evidently en
joying some
kind of a joke
but at the same
time seems a
bit uncertain of
himself.
Possibly he
has just left the
Carolina theatre where he enjoyed
a corking comedy—and possibly
he “caught” the photographer un
aware and is already laughing at
what may be his success in obtain
ing two tickets for Carolina.
If he will walk into The Courier
office and identify himself our
cameraman will be delighted to
proffer the two tickets for any
evening of his selection. •
Watch for the “Who’s Who With
Asheboro Shoppers” again next
Sunday—you may find that our
camera artist has caught you un
aware.