the courier and asheboro march IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS Hta tri-weekly ®8t< .A5 Th* Regulator February 2. 1876 PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN Changed To The Courier September 13, 1879 ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE LXI Oldert Paper Publiahed In Randolph County ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1937. PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY NUMBER 55 President Places Steel Sitnation In Perkins’ Lap fi^retary of Labor Receive ^petitions of Strikers; Showdown Halted. 73,000 Affected ..labor Holiday” at Lansing As Motor Car Plants Cease Operations. The proposed Federal interven .i„n in the deadlocked steel strike placed in the lap of Miss Per line Secretary of Labor last Ikht President Roosevelt, who reived the plea for intervention from the steel strikers, immediate ly tamed the matter over to the National Labor Relations Board „d to Miss Perkins. A showdown in the western area 0f the controversy involving three hie independent steel producers affecting 73,000 men was averted temporarily. Governor Frank Murphy, Micni «n stepped into the “labor holi day” at Lansing. The United Automobile Workers of America ailed the demonstration. All mo tor car plants there suspended op erations. Virtually all downtown stores were closed. Several thous and unionists and sympathizers joined in a protest against the ar rest of pickets. Including in the papers sent to Secretary Perkins by the President were appeals from steel strikers in two agencies in a day marked with new disputes and demonstrations and an endorsement of wage and hour legislation by John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for In dustrial Organization. As steel operations declined 15 points under average of a month ago, Senator ridBges (R-N.H.) de manded a Senate investigation of reports that the Post Office had declined to deliver food to work men in picketed mills in Ohio. Judge Hayes Firm On Liquor Stand Addresses Grand Jury To Serve Federal Court In Greensboro During Week. Judge Johnson J. Hayes, well known jurist of this district who has lived for many years in Greens boro, made a ringing charge to the federal grand jury as that body prepared to serve the week in court there. Addressing the grand jurors particularly and a well filled court room generally, Judge Hayep de voted a considerable portion of his message to the evils of liquor, to the effect of olcohol on the human system and the fallacy that legaliz ed control will eliminate the boot leger. The propaganda being spr ead, coupled with the increasing use of liquor and the new victims en gulfed almost daily, combine to re quire that serious thought be given the subject. The court declared that the only way to be sure of avoiding becoming a victim of drink is to refrain from its use entirely. The more the matter is considered in a sane manner, the more apt the people are to advocate and support full law enforcement. The tragedy of the evil should hold the atten tion of every serious-minded per son, declared Judge Hayes. Urging the fallacy of the argu ment for revenue from liquor, Judge Hayes pointed to the strides made by North Carolina in the past 30 years in public school and college education, in manufacturing in agriculture and in municipal and good roads development, the period following the enactment of legislation education, in manufac turing, in agri- of liquor and all brought about without liquor rev enue. “It is time for the average citi zen to think about these things, and become aroused to the true facts,” Judge Hayes declared. The jurist felt that when men and wo men calmly weighed all the facts nut one conclusion could be reach ed and that was to make the in sidious drink as scarce as possiple. Edward W, Smith Family New Home Connecticut! People Join Aaheboro’s Circle Of Newcomers. Mrs. Edward W. Smith and three children arrived yesterday to join Mr. Smith, superintendent of the Central Palls Manufacturing com lumv Mr. and Mrs. Smith and family nave moved into their recently street, i his du i I • r Varied News From Farmer Section Rev. Clyde Boggs Preaches At Church Sunday; Funeral For Mrs. Oglesby Sunday. Farmer, June 7.—Mr. and Mrs. Rankin l’ickett of Charlotte, were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mr3. H. C. Nance. Rev. Clyde Boggs, Mrs. Boggs and little son, Jimmy, are leaving today for their home in Mt. Sterl ing, Ky., after a visit of two weeks to Mrs. Boggs’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kearns. Mr. Boggs preached at 11 o’clock on Sunday ct Farmer church, and in the after noon at the M E. church in New London. Rev. W. L. Lanier and Mrs. Lanier of New London were guests Sunday afternoon of Mr. and Mr3. J. H. Kegrns. Mrs. Claude Dorsett returned last week from a visit to relatives in Allendale; S. C, Her sisters, Misses Verbena and Eleanor Pries ter came home with her for a visit of some length. Dr. C. C. Hubbard, Mrs. Hub jbard and Miss Hope Hubbard at tended the Homecomers Day pro gram at Worthville on Sunday. Marjorie and Dorothy Hill of Java, Va., are visiting their grand mother, Mrs. Paul Hammond of Asheboro. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cranford, Mrs. C. W. Scott, and Mrs. W. B. Lassiter of Asheboro, spent a short time Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Cranford. Hal Lackey, Jr., of High Point spent several days last week with his cousin, James Cranford. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cranford of Union, S. C., were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ridge. Mrs. Estella Oglesby, of the Pi ney Grove community, committed suicide last Friday by hanging her self. She had been in ill health for sometime. She is survived by her husband, W. E. Oglesby, two sons, Hewsl, and Willard E., Jr., her mother, Mrs. Wm. M. Smith, two brothers, Harper and Ivey Smith, of Wall burg, and one sister, Mrs. Treve Thaoms of Winston-Salem. Funeral was conducted' at the First Baptist church in Thomas ville on Sunday, and interment Al lowed at Abbotts Creek church. The family had moved a few months ago to the Piney Grove community from Thomasville. Business Group Meeting Tuesday There will be a meeting Wed nesday evening at 8:00 o’clock at the home of Mrs. R. P. Sykes on Worth street for discussion and formulating plans for perfecting a Business and Professional Wo men’s club for Asheboro. A num ber of cards have been sent out this week to a group of the busi ness women of the town and it Ts hoped that the organization will get well under way at this meet ing. Clyde Bailey Jailed; Second Liquor Arrest in Two Weeks Clyde Bailey, arrested two weeks ago by Sheriff Carl King, charged with operating a still in New Hope township, and subsequently released on *«00 bail, is again in the toils of the police charged with maintaining and operating . a still in Randleroan township. Bailey and Marshall Isam were arrested this past Saturday night when Sheriff King and his deputies seiz ed the still and a Urge quantity of liquor and mash. The two men were taken by sur prise by the officers and attempt ed to escape but the pursuing po lice overtook them a short distance away. They were lodged in the Randolph county jail pending ar rangements for bonds. l' •''-.5^'.'■ , v . ■; y.'.y, if ,;Ui News Flashes -irom Everywhere Cotton Drops $2 New Orleans.—A flood of liqui dation brought a sharp slump ol' over $2 e bale on the New Orleans cotton exchange today and at the finish active months showed losses of 35 to 42 points compared with Saturday’s close. Blizzard Takes Life Lander, Wyo.—The second death caused by a June Wyoming bliz zard was disclosed today with dis covery of the body of Merlin S. Cook, 52, a Denver salesman, who died of exhaustion after his auto mobile skidded off a mountain road into a ditch. Amelia Leaves Dakar, French Senegal.—Amelia Earhart, on the way around the world on a flight “just for fun,” took the South Atlantic ocean in her stride yesterday. Ford Plant. Reopened Richmond, Calif.—The gates of the big Ford assembly plant here, closed for 12 days by strike, gpeii ed to returning workmen today. Of the 1,800 men normally employed, about 200 went to work preparing the plant for arrival of materials. Clarence Bulwinkle, manager, said all would be at work soon. Robert Hill Shot Taken To Hospital Worthviile Man Claims He Was Injured By Doug Brady; No Arrests. Robert Hill, Worthviile, is in the Randolph hospital with a bullet wound in his right arm, inflicted, he told Sheriff Carl King, by Doug Brady who resides in the same community. Sheriff King today stated his department had ■fioc been able up to this afternoon to apprehend Brady. Hill, under the care of Dr. Demp sey Barnes, is not in a critical con dition. The bullet, fired from a re volver, entered the fleshy part of his arm, about four inches below the shoulder. The shooting, according to what meager details the Sheriff’s depart ment was, able to obtain from Hill followed a wordy altercation at the home of Elwood Hinshaw who re sides near Worthviile. Hill was only semi-conscious when the sheriff questioned him. He did state, the sheriff said, that Brady fired the shot which injured him. Reports at the hospital today were to the effect the injured man was resting comfortably and*In no im mediate danger. Mrs. Cox 111 Mrs. Tagg Cox was taken to the Randolph hospital yesterday for an emergency operation. Her con dition was reported as satisfactory this afternoon. Bailey, according to the sheriff’s department, seems to be determin ed to operate stills and make li quor contrary to the Federal, state and fcounty laws. Two weeks ago, May 29, he and Fred Nixon were arrested at the New Hope plant. They were subsequently released on bail pending trial but immed iately set up another still in an other section of the county. Sher iff King who has been active 'In enforcing the liquor laws followed the activities of Bailey and learn ed of the new situation closed in an him and Isam Saturday night. The still was one of the largest seized in the county. It and the liquor was destroyed. County Chairmen In Session Here Meet With Sixth District Highway Chairman; 8 Counties Represented. Chairmen of county board’s of eight counties in the sixth state highway division were scheduled to meet with Division Chairman D. B. McCrary in his office in the Ac me Hosery Mills, Asheboro today. The session was divided into a morning and an afternoon period. Matters pertaining to the high ways in the several counties were among the matters scheduled for discussion. Chatham, Lee and Harnett counties were represented at £he] morning session while Scotland, Hoke, Robeson, Randolph and Da vidson chairmen attended the aT ternoon session. Giant Plane Has Been Found, Utah Bodies Buried Six Month* I .Found; Five Men And Twol Women Were Passengers. After having been lost six months, a once-mighty air liner lost nearly six months, was found on June 6th near Alpine, Utah. The bodies of the occupants of the plane were buried in drifts 25 to 50 feet deep. The liner itself was so badly battered and tom that the “largest piece above the snow where it crashed was no bigger than a wash tub.” The discovery was made on Lake Hardy ridge, five miles up a tor tuous mountain trail from this vil lage in the Wasatch mountains 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. The ridge is 35 miles east of the regular airline course. The craft was lost in rain and fog. Four men, natives of this region, walked upon signs of the tragedy almost simultaneously at 8 a.m. to day, They announced they would seek to share the $1,000 reward of fered by Western Air Express for the craft which vanished last De cember 15. One report denied flatly by those who found the ship and also by airplane officials, was that the bod ies had been found. Officials said it might be days before they could be uncovered. | A report the plane “exploded” before it crashed into the moun tain peak—only about 20 feet from the highest pinnacle—was prom ptly discounted. Receives Degree At N. C. University Miss Eleanor Ann Hammond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. W. 0 Hammond, will receive her A.B. degree ir. library science at the University of North Carolina to night. Miss Hammond received her A.B. degree last spring and has worked this past term on the degree in library science which she receives tonight. She will have a position during the summer in the library at the University. Miss Hammond, who has been at home for several days, motored to Chapel Hill today for the exercis es. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. W. C. Hammond and her brother, William Hammond, Jr., of Lumberton. REVIVAL CONTINUES AT WESLEYAN M. E. CHURCH The revival service at Stowe Street Wesleyan Methodist church is continuing through this week with excellent results. Rev. Mr. Connor of High Poiiit is the evan gelist. He is assisted by his son, his wife and two other out of town Singers who form a quartet, fur nishing appropriate' music for the meeting. A cordial invitation is extended all pqpjpt# of the town to attend these Congress Facing j Summer Session; ! May Not Adjourn j President’s Program Causes Discussion On Hill; Filibuster Hints. Court Bill On Top Other Proposals May Be Post poned; Income 'rax Bill Up Tuesday. President Roosevelt’s enumera-' tion of bills he would prefer en-’ acted at this session of Congress only served to add to the already distant date for adjournment of this session. Members of the house and senate faced a full week of work as they swung into har ness on Monday noon, determined to dispose of affairs of state as speedily as possible. Several legislators, speaking pri vately, said some portion of the program would have to be post poned if this session is not to run continuously into the next, begin ning in January. Of first importance, as an ad journment obstacle at least, was the president’s bill for the reor ganization of the supreme court. Bitter-end oppositions have threatened to filibuster any com promise proposal to the point jf physical exhaustion. Other items of the list were the establishment of wage and hour standards for interstate industries, anti-tax dodging measures, reor ganization of the executive branch of the government, helping farm owners, conservation of soil, water and power resources and the raz ing of slums and building of mod ern low-cost housing. Jfhfa list furnished the subject matter for essential portions of the week’s program. Senate and house labor com i, in joint session, will con their hearings on the wage bill, with John L. Lewis, lea the Committee for Indus Organization, as their prinei Itness. | majority of the Senate jud’ committee, opposed to the reorganisation Mil was at. work on a report recommending that the Senate reject the meas-i ure. A sub-committee of the Senate committee on agriculture contem plated a modified farm tenanc? bill. Members said it would be completed in a few days. Senator Robinson (D-Ark.) the majority leader was personally over-seeing the preparation of a revised government reorganization bill, intended to compose some of the disputes that problem has aroused. On Tuesday, the House will con sider the Senate-approved resolu tion to create a joint Congressional committees to investigate the strat agems by which citizens and cor porations escape the payment of income taxes. The Senate Interstate Commerce committee will resume its investi gation of railroad financing on Tuesday. The treaties which in sulted from the last winter’s Pan American conference were down on the Wednesday calendar of the for eign relations committee. Jean Harlow, Film Star, Dies Monday Taken 111 May 29th. Uremic Poisoning Creeps Gradually To Brain and Kills. Jean Harlow, 26-year-old film star of wide fame, died in a Los Angeles hospital Monday morning following a week’s illness from ure mic poisoning. Miss Harlow, known as the screen’s “platinum blonde”, was one of America’s best known actresses. Constantly at her bedside during the week was William Powell, close friend, who comforted the mother, Mrs. Jeqn Bello, during the illness and at the end. Warner Baxter, also a close friend, was present when the popular actress died. Despite blood transfusions, all the known methods of counteract ing poisoning of this nature, the girl constantly grew worse and died of the poison spreading to the brain. She was taken ill on May 29th. A private funeral service will be held on Wednesday, it was Btated briefly by Miss Harlow’s mother. VISITORS FROM TEXAS IN STATE FOR STAY Mrs. Henry Owsley and children of Denton, Texas, arrived this week in Greensboro for a visit of several weeks to relatives in this State. Mrs. Owsley is the former Miss Lucille Page, a daughter of the late Dr. J. W. Page and Mrs. >-Page, of Burlington. Mrs. Owsley is a cousin of Mrs. Wm. C. Ham mer and Mrs. H. H. Walker of Asheboro and has visited in Ashe boro frequently. Asheboro May Have City Directory; Nee ° - ‘ ’ ™ lm wi Tumbles Three Floors; Result; One Black Eye Thera is more than one story about this magnificent black eye, three of them, in fact—the three that Dora Marie Autry, It months, fell from the apartment her parents in Buffalo, N. she suffered no other injuries, Many Attend Funeral of Pop ular Resident; Visitors In Town Over Week-end. . Randleman, June 7 The funeral of J. W. Parson was comTucfecT Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Mt. Lebanon church. The floral offerings were many and beautiful and the service was largely attend ed. A. J. Parson of Iola, Kansas, Guy and J. W. Parson Jr. were called home on account, of their father’s death. Mr. and Mrs. Marco Hannon of Dillon, S. C. are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nenl. Miss Edith Sawyer spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Farlow at High Point. Mrs. Cicero Pugh and children, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Stout and daugh ter Jean, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Stout Misses Hilma Dean and Ruby Stout attended the homecoming service at Coleridge, Sunday. Miss Verla Gray visited Miss Faye Hannon at Coleridge, Sun day. Miss Mary Council visited Miss Clara Cole Sherrod at High Point during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Sessoms and children, Myrtle and aJck, of Bur lington spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Sawyer. Ernest Talley has returned to his home after a few days treat ment in the Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro. He had as his guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ellington of High Point, Mr. and Mrs. Ira. Lewis and children of Greensboro. Misses Marie and Dorothy Pear ce of Greensboro spent the week end with Miss Betty Lou Pope. Howard K. Smith died at his home Sunday evening at 6 o’clock. The Randleman P. T. A. is spon soring a program Saturday even ing at the school building. The program consists of a beauty con test, amateur hour and a Shirley Temple Parade. The public is in vited to attend. The doors will be opened at 7;30. Ramseur Industrial Plants Run Full Time; Business Good Ramseur, June 7.—Ramseur in dustrial plants are operating full time now with the outlook good for the coming season. Every business of the community is holding up well even during the usual dull months. Remodeling and building is going on in the community all1 the time. The farmers in the surrounding community are “up to their necks” in harvesting their grain and culti vating growing crops. All Ramseur people rejoice with the Holiness -people in the re-elec tion of Rev. W. R. Phillips as pas tor of the Ramseur Holiness church for another year. Mr. Phillips and his family have become a part of the community. Commerce Bureau i Awaits Approval Will Seek Endorsement Of All Merchants; Points To Municipal Aid. To Revise By-Laws Road Surfacing Committee Reports; Will Meet City Council. The Asheboro Chamber of Com merce at its regular monthly meeting yesterday voted to ap prove a plan for a new city direc tory. The approval of the Chamber, however, is dependent upon the pri or approval of the merchants in general. Members of the Chamber indicated an up-to-date city direc tory would be of great value to the city not only to merchants but to residents generally. It also, they said, would be of great value in determining the population of the city. The Chamber appointed a spe cial committee including C. C. Cranford, C. W. McCrary, and S. B. Steadman to revise the by-laws of the organization. Reports of C. G. Bossong con cerning the poor condition of sev eral streets in the city and need of surfacing and resurfacing were accepted and will be referred to the City Council at its meeting Thurs day night. The members continued their dis cussion and plans for improving the mail service in and out of Asheboro. Examination Of State Domestics Dr. CarTv! Reynolds Saji ilo cal Officers Will Not Be Compelled to Perform. Raleigh, June 7.—The examina tion of domestic servants will not be generally thrust upon local health officers, Dr. Carl V. Rey nolds, State Health Officer, made clear Tuesday night, when he re leased for publication extracts from a letter he had mailed these local officials, in connection with an act ratified March 22, 1937. “At a recent meeting of the Ex ecutive Committee of the North Carolina State Board of Health,” Dr. Reynolds wrote, “it was decid ed that the public health officer should examine, under this act, on ly such servants as are referred to the health department by private physicians, or certified to the health department by the welfare department, as indigent. All those cases who are able to pay private physicians for this service are to go to private physicians. How ever, the public health officers should cooperate with the private physician in following up work of contacts and in making Wasser man tests on all referred to them. This was the recommendation of the executive committee of your Board of Health. “We realize,” Dr. Reynolds continued, “that the examination of all domestic servants, if done by | health department, would be a ra-J ther large order for any health de partment, and all of those patients who can afford to pay a private physician should go to his or her physician. “A number of the health officers have made inquiry as to how nulth of this work they should do, and we trust the above action taken by the Executive Committee of the State Board of Health will serve to clarify your position as health officer,” Dr. Reynolds concluded. It would be a loss indeed to give them up. They are interested in the betterment of everything and everybody and cooperate to that end all the time. The revival at the Methodist church is in progress and much good is being accomplished. The vacation school at Methodist and Baptist churches closed the two weeks’ courses Friday night with splendid programs, showing some thing of the effective training that had been done during these days of study and fellowship. The Ramseur Book club had a very fine meeting with Miss Madge Caveness on Friday. Mrs. W. F. (Please turn to Page 6) Requests For New Highway Filed At County Meeting I - A Vie and One-Half Mile Link -‘ 'Sought Near Flag Church And Kemp Mill. Will Meet Thursday Reconditioned Surface Near Highway 61 Urged; Tax Report By Sheriff. The Randolph county commis sioners yesterday, at their regular monthly meeting, accepted peti tions for one new highway and, one requesting the resurfacing of another. Both petitions will be re ferred to the State highway com mission. Residents in the vicinity of Flag Spring church requested a new stretch of road from the Flag Spring church to Walter Vuncan non’s property and another link from Artmus Garner’s place to Kemp Mill, a total of approxi mately one and one-half miles of highway. A request for improving the condition of about 600 feet of the road from Robert Church’s place to connect with highway 61, a short distance beyond the residence of S. H. Spoon was also received and will be referred to the state de partment. Commissioner Clegg Garner was authorized to proceed with the sep tic tank program at the county home. Sheriff Carl King reported the uncollected tax for 1936 had been reduced to $56,972.91. The original levy totaled $239,217.16. The commission will meet Thurs day morning of this week when it may reach a discussion on the new budget. Injuries Fatal To George T. Miller Paralyzed Over Four Weeks; Picked Up On Highway Neat Cedar Falls. George in the Duke hospital, Durham, Suit day afternoon, from injuries sus tained in an undetermined manner near Cedar Falls about four weeks ago. Miller was taken to the Randolph hospital by his brother, two cou sins, and another man, suffering from injuries to his back, head and other parts of his body. Dr. Tiffney Barnes, of this city, who handled the case at that time said it has never, officially, been ascertained the manner in whidh the man was hurt. According to the report of the men with Miller when he was ad mitted to the local hospital, he had left the automobile in which the group were riding and, later, upon their return towards Cedar Falls, for him, they found him uncon scious on the highway. They has tened him to the hospital where af ter a week’s treatment it was de cided to take him to Duke. Dr. Barnes, the attending physician, said it was apparent at the time that he had sustained a very se vere spinal injury. He was paral ized from the time of the accident until his death. He was the son of H. L. Miller and the late Mrs. Julia Hill Miller. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Viola Williams; two sons. William and Frank of Asheboro; three brothers, Lee, Lester and Gil bert Miller and seven sisters, Miss es ^Frances, Wilma, Mildred, Jua nita, Helen and Iris Miller and Mrs. T. J. Foster of Asheboro. . The funeral took place this aft ernoon at Tom’s Creek Primitive Baptist church with Elders H. S. Williams, J. A. Eudy and A. F. Nance officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Ministers Take Two New Members Two Supply Ministers Are Welcomed By Association; Lecture Next Time. Two new members were accept ed into the Randolph county Min isterial association at its regular monthly meeting Monday in the First Presbyterian church in Asheboro. The new members were the Rev. J. H. Ricks, supplying the pastor ate of the Rev. C. G. Smith and, Herman Dillard, director of the young people’s activities of the Central Methodist Protestant church for the summer months. The Rev. H. M. Stroup, presid- , i ing, announced the address “The Relationship of the Sunday School gj to the Church,” scheduled to lje (V' given by the Rev. 0. P. Ader has %