THE COURIER AND 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 ^2.0( 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. [ r FLAMING DEATH TRAP OF AIR VOYAGERS *<• ^ ' s<&' v o'*' V i - ' *&& v •_^ §m C./\ 'v^C"' / mm* %> \|A • v 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. -. i 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: ♦ 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 (Please turn to Page 4) 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-. (Please turn to Page 4) 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! % 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. 1 . ' LA' . ■ 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 ---"J 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