North Carolina Newspapers

w 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 ynl.UMK LX]_ Est. As The Regulator February 2. 1876 Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN ASHEBORO, N. C., THURSDAy7jUNE1o7i937 il Changed To The Courier September 13, 1379 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY NUMBER 56 louse Adopts Tax Dodging Measure; O’Connor Revolt Resolution Follows Morgan s I statement On Morality 01 Faying Duties. Rap Brain Trust Curbing Of Publicity Power Eased In Agreement With Doughton. Washington.—The House yester day ordered a sweeping investiga tor! into alleged “tax dodging." fl,e resolution was adopted during ■ session marked with spirited de late on the tax-payment philoso phy recently expressed by J. I». Morgan. . . Morgan stated “taxing is a legal question, pure and simple and not a moral one. Anyone has a right to do anything as long as the law toes not say it is wrong. I object strenuously to treating income-tax evasion as a moral issue. Representative Boileau, Progres sive, Wisconsin, said it was unus ual for him to be defending Mr. Morgan but that he agreed that tax evasion was not a moral question. If Congress leaves “loopholes in the laws,” he said, “you can’t blame others for taking advantage of them.” In the House, Representative O’ Connor (I)-N.Y.) led off the debate by criticizing “brain trusters” who, he hinted, had something to do with the resolution as originally drafted. He said he was concern ed lest Congress surrender its pre rogatives to individuals “holding unimportant government jobs to dictate not only the form but the policy of Congress.” It was O’Connor who led a re volt against the original term of the resolution, which ended in a compromise worked out in the rules committee before the measure was presented to the House. Amendments curbing the public ity powers of the joint committee were attached at first by the rules committee but later modified in consultation with Chairman Dough ton, Democrat, North Carolina and other members of the ways and means committee. District Nurses In Asheboro Wed. Hold Interesting Session At Local Hospital; Rev. H. P. Powell Is Speaker. The Rev. H. P. Powell, Ashe boro, was the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Graduate Nurses' club at the Randolph hos pital yesterday afternoon. Mr. Powell gave a very interesting and instructive talk of the subject of “Nursing Service.” Thirty-five members of the dis ! trict organization attended the meeting which included a business session and social hour. Miss Nan nie Stowe, High Point, president of the club presided. The locai^ arrangements were in charge of Miss Annie Reece Quinn, superin tendent at the local hospital. Why Not Items Of Community News Seagrove, June 9.—Mrs. J. A. Auman spent last week with her son, (Jhas. B. Auman and Mrs. Auman at Biscoe. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marshall and Fred, Jr., of Greensboro were week-end visitors of Mrs. Marshall parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lilly, Sr. Mrs. Shephard of High Point spent last week with her daugn ter, Mrs. Floyd Hancock and fam ily. Her granddaughter, Miss Lot tie Hancock, accompanied her to High Point and is spending this week visiting friends there. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Auman and children of Trinity, were guests of relatives here Sunday. Miss Claudine Brown has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. L. A. King, for the past week. Miss Jewell Lawrence returned to Greensboro Monday after spending the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Law rence. Mrs. W. L. Wright returned Sunday from Pinehurst hospital where she recently underwent an operation. Mrs. James B. King and small son, Jimmy, spent last week with relatives at Star. Mrs. Rose Macon of High Point spent the week-end with her mo ther, Mrs. T. W. Laurence. Mrs. E. R. Brown or Hemp spent Monday with her sister, Mrs. R. L. Macon. John Presnell of Asheboro, an official of the Randolph county Sunday School association will talk on Sunday school work at Fair Grove church at Why Not on next Sunday at 8 p. m. Clyde Graves is recovering from *n attack of mumps. I Mapping President’s Conservation Plan I 1— Atlantic Seaboard 5—Arkansas Valley 2— Great Lakes-Ohio 6—Southwest 3— Tennessee Valley 7—Columbia Valley 4— -Missouri Valley 8—Mississippi Far flung control of the natural resources of the nation is that proposed by President Roosevelt in bills now before Congress providing for the establishment of seven great river valley authorities, as shown on the above map. to conserve natural resources, to develop navigation, flood control and electric power. Starting in the east, these authorities would include the Atlantic seaboard; Great Lakes and Ohio valley; drainage basins of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers; drainage basins of the Missouri and Red river ol the north; drainage basins of the Arkansas, Red and Rio Grande rivers; basins of the Colorado river and rivers flowing into the Pacific south of the California-Oregon lines; the Columbia river basin of the Pacific northwest. In addition, the President proposes to con tinuc the existing Mississippi River Commission, as an eighth giant authority governing the channel of the stream itself. Relations Fund Is Given By Kellogg Will Enable Professors To Study Relations With Trend Toward World Peace. Frank B. Kellogg of St. I'aul, Minnesota, former secretary jf state under President Coolidge and co-author of the Kellogg-Briand peace pact has made a donation to Northfield college in Minnesota. The donation amounted to $500,000 for the establishment of a founda tion for the study of international relations. The foundation will be known as the Frank B. Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Re lations. Pierce Butler, associate justice of the Supreme Court, who gave the commencement address, announced the gift. It will permit establishment of a two-man teaching staff with a half time professor from a foreign country. Preliminary plans call for four $1000 scholarships annually for foreign students at the college, and additional scholarships to per mit Carleton students to study abroad. Mr. Kellogg has been a member of the college board of trustees since 1929, and is vice-president and chairman of the executive committee of the board. Bob Bunch Champ County Designator Kiwanian Names 76 of 100 State Divisions; Given Smoking Stand. The Asheboro Kiwanis club, at its regular meeting this week, pre sented Bob Bunch with a smoking stand marking his ability as cham pion county-naming member of the local organization. Mr. Bunch named 76 of the 100 counties in North Carolina in exactly ten minutes. This feature of the pro | gram was in charge of J immy Webb and Wilbur Amos, Jr. Henry Loman of Loman Plumb ing and Heating company was re ceived into the club as a new mem ber. Ermon Trogdon won tne weekly award by being the tenth man to shake hands with Lee M. Kearns. School Board to Assist In Construction Gymnasiums | The Randolph county Board of I Elucation at its regular monthly ! session this week decided to in clude funds in its 1937-38 budget to assist in the cost of erecting gymnasiums in various districts in this eounty. Under the ropvisions of the resolution the communities where the gymnasiums are to be erected will provide a portion of the necessary expense the county board including its share in the supplementary budget. School children in grades one to seven next year will receive addi tional reading matter in the form ' of supplementary readers. The board in voting this extra feature decided a small fee will be neces sary. Six sets of books offered first graders will cost each pupil 50 cents while the books furnished will cost 60 cents. This service students up to the seventh grade is not a part of the free book sys News Flashes -from Everywhere Stars and Bars Jackson, Miss.—The Stars anil Bars of the Confederate nag were raised to the mast today by the trembling hands of General Homer Atkinson, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, to open the forty-seventh annual U. C. V. reunion. Veterans Protest Brussels.—Aroused by a propos al before the Senate to grant am nesty to all war-time prisoners, 400 Belgian war veterans today protested by showering the tomb of the Unknown Soldier with their medals. . Defeat Liquor Atlanta. — Complete, unofficial returns last night showed defeat of a proposal to repeal Georgia s 22-year-old prohibition law by S, 277 votes. The vote was: for repeal, 04,052; against repeal, 102,029. Election of Walter 11. Blair, re tiring mayor of Wilmington, as new state department commander, succeeding O. N. Brown, of Greensboro, and selection of Ashe ville as next year’s encampment city were highlights of the con cluding day’s activities of the sev enth annual encampment of the North Carolina Veterans of For eign Wars Monday afternoon at the King Cotton hotel. Spain.—Conflict flamed anew on old battlegrounds of the Spanish civil war yesterday as heavy rain checked operations around Bilbao. Insurgents launched a violent of fensive in the I’ozoblanco sector in southern Spain, aiming toward the rich government-held mercury mines near Almaden. Raleigh.—Judge Wilson Warlick, of the 16th North Carolina district, yesterday was chosen chairman of the state probation commission and Parole Commissioner Edwin M. Gill its temporary secretary. THE WEATHER North Carolina: Cloudy with oc casional local thundershowers to day and probably Friday. tem adopted by the state. T. F. Bulla, superintendent, was authorized to prepare specifications for fuel wood for the various schools and advertise for sealed bids to be filed not later than the j first Monday in July. The Asheboro school board was authorized to sell vacant school property in this city. The pro-^ ceeds of the sale, of five tracts li.fe ed, will go to the city schools. A request by members of th'e Shiloh Christian church, Coleridge township, requesting an extended lease on vacant school property there was granted by the board. The property will be used in con nection with the church activities. Alf Hamlet was awarded a con tract to haul coal and place it in the bins at the schools at a price of .44 1-2 a ton. Other bidders ran ged from 50 cents to $1.25 a ton. Bible School Has 98 In Attendance Baptist Church Group Opens With Four Separate Instruction Classes. Ninety-eight members have en rolled for the summer term of the Vacational Bible school at the Bap tist church. Sessions opened Mon day. The school has four depart ments, the beginners, the primary, junior and intermediate. Miss ltuth Tucker is the principal. She is as sisted by Mrs. Karl Cox and Miss Margaret Kivett. Those assigned to the various de partments for instruction purpose^ are: beginners department, super intendent, Mrs. Horace Anderson: helpers, Mrs. Karl Cox and Miss Margaret Kivett. Primary department, superin tendent, Miss Virginia Cox; help ers, Mrs. R. S. Allred, Miss Kstelle Councilman and Miss Mabel Dix. Junior department, superintend ent, Miss Margaret Pritchard;, helpers the Misses Janice Thomp son, Klaine Pritchard and Jewel Craven. Intermediate department, super intendent, Miss Ruth Tucker; helpers, Mrs. W. H. Grimes, Mrs. W. H. Leonard and Miss Annie Beck Green. The membership to date: el> ginners, 17; Primary, 24; Junior, 47 and Intermediate, 10. Millard H. Allred Dies Wednesday Well Known Railroad Man For 31 Years; Funeral Ser vice Thursday Afternoon. Funeral service was conducted this afternoon for Millard H. All red at the Allred home near Ran dleman. Dr. S. W. Taylor was as sisted in the service by Rev. H. P. Powell of the First Methodist church of Asheboro. Dr. Taylor is pastor of the Central Methodist Protestant church of which Mr. Allred was a member. Burial fal lowed in the Asheboro ceemtery. Mr. Allred died early Wednes day morning after an illness of about seven months. He was in ured last fall in a train accident and had never recovered from his injuries. He was one of the best known railroad men of this section of the state, having served for more than 31 years, chiefly in this part of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Allred, the former Miss Ruth Fox of Asheboro, made their home in Asheboro for many years until a few years ago when they moved to the old Allred homestead near Randleman which they remodeled and made into one of the most a> tractive and comfortable country homes in the county. Both Mr. and Mrs. Allred have a great many friends, as well as relatives, in Asheboro who have followed his illness with interest and sympathy. Immediately after the accident, Mr. Allred was taken to the local hospital where he ap parently partially recovered. His condition did not remain favorable and he was taken to Richmond where he underwent several opera tions in an effort to relieve his condition. Returning to the local hospital for treatment, he was tak en to his home a few weeks ago, where he died yesterday. Immediate survivors are: Mrs. Allred and one sister, Mrs. Ed Mendenhall of Greensboro. William E. Allred Dead; Committed Suicide in Barn Funeral of Weil Known Man Today; Had Been In Declining Health. Lived at Ramseur Leader in Church Activity For Fifty Years; Taught Over 35 Years. William Elias Allred, 69, one of the best known residents of Ran dolph county committed suicide yesterday morning at about 9 o’clock by hanging himself in bis barn about three miles southwest of Ramseur. Mr. Allred had been in declining health .for the past three montns. Mr. Allred was a member of the Pleasant Ridge Christian church for fifty years. He had served many terms as superintendent of the Sunday school and deacon of the church and had taught the Young People’s class for thirty five years. Beside his widow, Mr. Allred is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Leonard, and Mrs. J. Way land Brown, Ramseur; one son. Raymond Allred, Asheboro; one sister, Mrs. D. A. Grose, Jones boro and three brothers, the Rev. John Allred, Asheboro, star route I, J. Causey Allred, Ramseur route 1, and Homer Allred, Central Falls. The funeral took place this af ternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Pleasant Ridge church. The Rev. J. L. Apple and the Rev. T. J. Green officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery. Scientists Make Eclipse Photos Eclipse of Sun Tuesday Is Carefully Photographed By American Scientists. Records of the longest total eclipse of the sun for 1,200 years were set down Tuesday by Ameri can scientists who encamped on a blistering desert isle of coral and sand. These scientists were re warded for their trouble and dis comfort by complete and rare pho tographic records of this phenome na. The scientists described the event in technical terms, also in lan guage for the layman as follows: “Astronomers throughout the world will await the results of this record with the greatest interest.’’ From the little equatorial island, 5,000 miles off the North American mainland, came this word from the expedition: “We are happy as clams.” What made tnem happy, they raidoed, was unexcelled weathe* which permitted tnem to photo graph under exceptional conditions, the sun's corona, a strange pearly fringe of light snooting millions 01 miles outward from the sun. It was for clues to its mysterious composition and its practical sig nificance that the joint party trav eled for weeks and endured the hardships of an aceanic wasteland. Hundreds of miles to the east of them, in a landless area, the eclipse reached its maximum totality, ox 7 minutes and four seconds. The sky-watchers on Canton ra dioed earlier apprehensions that a storm might, by obscuring the sun at the vital moment, make their tedious efforts fruitless. Then came the voices from Can ton to headquarters here, and Washington scientists heard this account: The cloud-flecked sky cleared at 2 p. m. (E.S.T.), 6 minutes before totality, giving full view of the ce lestial show. The moon approach ed the sun. A thin rim of clouds was chased away. Light began to fade and engulf the little land speck in an unnatural half-twilight A “diamond ring” appeared around the sun when the moon ap parently bit into it. Eleven tons of intricate instruments began to click and the tense scientists went to work. An artist began sketch ing the glory of the color. The moon covered the sun, ap parently. A “magnificent stream er” of blue light, a part of the co rona, shot outward, twice as long as the diameter of the sun. A brilliant star appeared over head. It was the planet Venus. Others popped out. Sea birds rush ed landward to snuggle on the shore and roos,t in the only vege tation—nine palm trees. Lumpy cottony clouds changed from white to dark lavender. Prominences of the moon were visible. “It is painted beauty7, unreal, un natural, almost seems as if it were not there,” came the description. One minute was left of totality. Two hot blue fingers — corona flames—extended upward from the blotted orb and one pierced down ward. It was so dark scientists could not see the second hands of their watches. Court “Vacancy” Questioned; See Trouble Brewing Constitutional Law Issue Raised; Students Say Congress Erred. Inactivity Cited Critics Say Retirement Act Should Have Been An Amendment. Washington.—Possibilities of a fight against seating a successor lo Justice Van Devanter arose to bo ther a much heated capital here yesterday. According to informa tion circulated on Capital Hill, the President’s nomination, or antici pated nomination may bring about a' situation that the Supreme Court itself may be called upon to settle. The question raised is, “Can President Roosevelt legally appoint a successor to Mr. Justice Van Devanter? Is there a possibility that the recent retirement act was unconstitutional, and that Justice Van Devanter, though inactive, re mains a member of the tribunal with no vacancy existent?” These questions are being raised by judges, lawyers and laymen students of constitutional law. They are based on ingenious argu ments. But the presumption is against them. For the Supreme Court itself says what is and what is not constitutional, and presum ably members of the court sup ported the new procedure by which Justice Van Devanter last week became the first “inactive justice” in American history. When Congress provided that retiring justices be called upon to perform judicial duties, if they are willing, “in any judicial circuit,” the critics say, it is put in the pow er of the Chief Justice ability or means to sway the majority of the court one way or the other. Thus,' the critics say, the Re tirement Act provides for a justice to leave the Supreme Court and lower-court job for which th^re is not to leave it; to assume a new no constitutional or statutory ba sis. There are, the critics say, only three ways under the. .Constitution by which a justice may leave the Supreme Court; full resignation, death, or, impeachment for misbsv haviov. Now, not by constitution al amendment, but by a simple act of Congress a fourth method has been added, retirement. Business Women Plan Organization A group of business and profes sional women of Asheboro met at the home of Mrs. R. P. Sykes Wed nesday evening to perfect plans for the organization of a club for the town. Miss Alma Kee presid ed over the meeting and explained the purposes and benefits from such an organization. Mrs. Don Alexander read the proposed by laws and constitution. Miss Dor othy Whitaker, chairman of the nominating committee, asked to defer her report until the next meeting. It was decided to hold a dinner, meeting the fourth Tuesday in this month and probably decide de finitely upon that date and pi for meeting. The advisability and possibility of holding the meeting at the Baptist church will be further investigated and the members notified. The matter of dues and pro grams for the future meetings of the group were topics of discus sion. Miss Myrtle Lea acted as secre tary pro-tem. Bank Robbers Will Serve Long Terms Prison sentences aggregating 90 years and fines totaling $16,000 were imposed on Isaac Coltrane, Guy Northcutt, William Barber and Nettie Jackson upon their con viction of robbing the Bank of Reidsville in Federal court at Greensboro yesterday. The rob bery took place October 1, 1936. Each of the three men received sentences of 26 years in federal prison at Atlanta and were fined $5,000 each. Nettie Jackson was fined $1,000 and was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison. Ministers Plan Religious [ Survey City of Asheboro The Asheboro Ministerial Asso ! ciation, at its regular meeting yes terday, decided to plan for a relig ious census of the city. The asso ciation appointed a committee of which Gerald K. Ford is chairman. His assistants will be Miss Ruth Tucker, young people’s director at the Baptist church, Miss Pauline Steed of the Friends church; Her Wage Fixing! Clause Of Labor Bill I>\aws Fire Of Industri 1 Heads I II Henry C. Jones Merchants Favor Wage-Hour Law Local Merchant Honored; Jones To Serve On Directors Board. Henry C. Jones, of the W. W. Jones department store of Ashe boro was elected a member of the. board of directors of the North Carolina Merchants association at the closing session of their annual convention in New Bern yesterday. The North Carolina Merchants association, with which the Ashe boro Merchants association is af filiated, closed its annual session in New Bern Wednesday with the el ection of L. L. Lee, Asheville as president. Sanford and Elizabeth City are being considered by the board of directors as the conven tion city for 1938. Resolutions adopted included one asking abolition of the tax on un divided profits, approved of the minimum wage and maximum hour law and it also voiced oppo sition to the State sales tax. Albemarle received the cup for showing the largest increase ill membership and Lenoir was award ed a cup for leading in activities during the past year. President Backs Merchant Marine Asks Congress For Funds To Subsidize U. S. Ship Service. President Roosevelt endorsed the American Merchant marine yester day and asked Congiess for a $10, 000,000 appropriation to subsidize new ship construction. At the same time he recommended authorization of an expenditure of $150,000,000 for new construction next year. He contended the only way Am erica can get merchant marine, is to buy it. Except for oil tank ers, he added, not a single sea going vessel of a general cargo or passenger type is being built in an American shipyard; and no such ship has been built here in fifteen years. The President reported that the sums he recommended were ap proved by the budget bureau and by the Maritime commission. The commission was created by Con gress last year to build up the | merchant marine through direct government subsidies. CANCER DISCUSSION AT MEDICAL MEETING Dr. R. L. Herring, recently ap pointed health officer of High Point will be the guest speaker at the meeting of Randolph county Medi cal association at the Randolph hospital Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Dr. Herring will discuss cancers. man Dillard, director of young people’s activities at the Central Methodist Protestant church and the Rev. George Ricks, supply pas tor of the Presbyterian church. The possibility of a city-wide evangelistic campaign was also dis cussed. Dr. S. W. Taylor and the Rev. H. P. Powell are working on the plan. Marwacturers In Joint Criticism Tell House and Senate Group Proposed Law Would Bring Confusion. Classed With NIRA Claims Proposal Would Put Government In Control Of All Business. Washington. — The administra tion’s wage and hour bill came in for sharp criticism during a head ing before the joint house and sen ate committee yesterday after noon. Section 5 of the bill, giving the administrative board wide powers to establish minimum wage levels up to a maximum of $1,200 an nually, received considerable at tention of witness who appeared before the committee. The bill was classed as “a long step towards complete government control of industry and labor, such as exists in several European countries.” Harvey Wilson, general manag er of the National Upholstery ahfl Drapery Textile association, de clared that such a step is neither necessary nor desirable in this country. After quoting from a re cent statement of former NRA ad ministrator, Hugh S. Johnson,.Wil son said: “We believe this bill, as a law, would be wholly unworkable avid would result in confusion in indus try far exceeding that connected with the attempt to administer the NRA, which was bad enough.” Roy A. Cheney, managing direc tor, of the underwear institufe, objected to granting “autocratic power over industry to the Presi dent and demanded mandatory in creases in tariff rates, in propor tion to production evA distribution cost increases effected by Vhe bill. • Unlimited authority .contained in the bill was objected to by Ar thur Besse, of the Wool Manufac turers association. “We are not opposed to minimum wages and maximum hours of work,” he stat ed, “but we can see nothing but disaster in an attempt to endow the board with these broad pow ers.” Representatives of the American Retail association said the bill would result in a material rise in prices to consumers. Son Struck With Bat; Father Held D. L. Holder Sustains Deep Gash on Forehead; Bond Furnished By Parent. D. L. Holder sustained severe injuries about his head yesterday morning said to have resulted dur ing an argument with his father, C. O. Holder, at their home near the White Hall service station on the Asheboro - Greensboro highway. The young mail was taken to the Randolph hospital where several stitches were required to close a gaping wound across his forehead. The father, Claude O. Holder, was arrested by Sheriff Carl King and later arraigned before Justice of the Peace L. C. Williams where bond was furnished. According to reports the two men were having a heated argu ment with one threatening with a gun and the other a club. Finally, it was stated, Holder senior threw him unconscious. He was taken a baseball bat at his son knocking to the hospital in Farlow’s ambu lance and was later carried back to his home. Business Depends On Farmers Trade Rural Sections Hailed As Good Prospects In Face Of Labor Trouble. New York.—The nation’s 1937 crop outlook is tending to offset business worries growing out of labor trouble, political factors, taxing problems and other ele ments that have been irritating to industry, business analysts said today. Those who sell direct to the far mer are counting on an excellent trade this year on the basis of cur rent promise for good harvests. Sharing in this optimism are a wide range of purveyors to the rural regions, ranging from the country store to the big midwest manufacturers of agricultural im plements and leading mail order concerns.