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ASHEBORQ, N. C., SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1937.
PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY
NUMBER 59
Federal Ruling
Stops Shipment
Into This State
Ladv Mixed Cocktails With
* ,.*Vine Base” Ruled Illegal
Under Law.
federal Board Speaks
Attorney General Seawell Of
f North Carolina Also Takes
Firm Stand.
Prohibition is an uppermost top
i. for conversation in North Caro
lina at the moment with forces
Cued up pro and con. The matter
L rea(ly-inixe(l cocktails is the
Imost recent topic for legal action
Ljth steps taken by the federal
laichohol administration to prohib
it shinment into North Carolina of
ift shipment
prepared cocktails and other mixed
alcoholic beverages, held in viola
tion of the State’s new wine law.
Assistant General Counsel John
j, O’Neill said rectifiers shipping
spirits into the State in violation
of the law would jeopardize their
licenses.
O'Neill’s statement followed a
ruling by A. A. F. Seawell, North
Carolina attorney general, that the
State's wine law, which legalized
fortified wines, did not legalize
prepared cocktails and other mixed
drinks which contained whiskey or
"Seawcli held the State’s law de
fined fortified wine as wine
strengthened in alcoholic content
by brandy, pure alcohol or other
[ fortified wine.
After North Carolina’s wine law
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Taft’s Son Will
Head Steel Quiz
Republican Leader Named
By Rooseveit; Landon
Election Advocate.
Charles T. Taft, Republican, and
second son of the former president,
and labor advisor to Governor Alf
M. Landon in the presidential cam
paign last year, has been named
chairman of a Federal mediation
board to investigate the turbulent
steel strike situation.
Other members of the board in
clude. Idoyd K. Garrison, dean of
the Wisconsin university ;f law
and former vice-president of the
American Federation of Labo.'.
Garrison was former chairman of
the New Deal’s Labor Relations
board.
Secretary Perkins, with Presi
dent Roosevelt, in announcing the
board, said it would investigate the
situation and make recommenda
tions for settlement of the dispute.
Proclaiming the strike of 70,(K<)
to 80,00(1 steel workers constituted
a national emergency, Secretary
Perkins authorized the board to
conduct hearings, make findings of
fact and act as voluntary arbitra
tor if both parties request it to uo
so.
Observers said the group would
have no power other than moral
suasion, or public opinion, howev
er, to compel submission of the
controversy to arbitration or to
force acceptance of its recomir.cn
dations for settlement.
Two Asheboro
Men Pass Test
H. S. Fox and J. W. Tyson
Now Licensed; Took Exams
At Chapel Hil],
Howard S. Fox, son of Mr. and
Mr. Charles M. Fox, 322 Sunset
avenue and Jesse W. Tyson, both
of this city, yesterday passed the
state pharmacy examinations at
Chapel Hill. Both are graduates
of the Asheboro high school. Mr.
Fox took his pharmacy course at
Chapel Hill as did Mr. Tyson.
Mr. Tyson, also attended State
college at Raleigh for two years.
He is employed in a drug store in
Fayetteville.
Young People Are
Off To High Point
Several Asheboro young people
from the Central Methodist Prot
estant church are planning to at
tend the Leadership Training
school at High Point college be
tween the dates of June 21 and 26.
The list includes: Misses Edna
Mae Winningham, Frances Ridge,
Maxine Cole, Mary Lee Huneycutt,
Helen Bulla; Billy Hendersion,
Lacy Lewis, Jr., Bud Phillips and
Thomas McDowell. <■
Some of the young people will
leave this afternoon and some plan
to go Monday in time for the op
ening session.
Remains Seriously 111
The many friends of Mrs. W. H.
Moring will learn with regret that
she remains critically ill at her
home on Fayetteville street.
Morrison Candidacy Is j
Reviving as Political !
Pot Boils in Capital
Legion Juniors To
Open Loop Monday
Locals Flay in High Point;
Five Games in One Week,
Mt. Airy Wednesday.
More mysterious messages. 0'ie
appeared in a New York city news
paepr, carrying his phone num
ber, brought out the possibility
that Gerald M. Livingston, above,
sportsman and stock exchange
member, may be the intermediary
in the kidnaping of Mrs. Alice
Parsons. The Parsons and the
Livingston Long Island estates are
near each other.
May Be Parsons
Intermediary
The Asheboro Legion Junior
baseball players will open the 1937
league Series Monday afternoon
when they face the strong team
representing High Point. The
game will be played in the latter
city.
The season’s schedule was re
ceived by Rufus F. Routh late yes
terday and calls for two out-oi
town games, the second at Mount
Airy, before a home game is play
ed with Winston-Salem here Fri
day, June 25. Wednesday, June
23 the team will go to Mount
Airy.
The season will close Wednes
day, July 7, when the locals pin;,
at Durham.
The series include ten games,
three next week, five the following
week and two the closing week of
the divisional games. The two
leading teams in the division will
compete in the state championship
series.
The week of June 28 will be a
hard one for the local players.
They open the week with a game
at Burlington, Monday. Tuesday
they meet Durham here, Thursday
High Point is the visiting team,
Friday, Mount Airy will play a re
turn game on the local diamond
and Saturday the team will jour
ney to Winston-Salem. Thursday,
July 6, the Burlington team comes
here and Wednesday, July 7, the
season ends at Durham.
The league, as originally plan
ned, was somewhat changed at a
meeting in Greensboro, h rid.n
night. The state department then
decided to add Durham, Winston
Salem and Burlington to the locals’
schedule.
Coach Rufus F. Routh yeserday
said his team will finish first in the
league. He anticipates strong
competition during the series but
believes he has a team that will go
a ■ long way towards the national
finals.
The motorcade will leave here
shortly after 1 o’clock for High
Point and it is hoped that a largo
delegation will make the trip to
give support to the youthful play
ers.
The Schedule
Monday, June 21, Asheboro at
High Point.
Wednesday, June 23, Asheboro
at Mount Airy.
Friday, June 25, Winston-Salem
at Asheboro. ... *
Monday, June 28, Asheboro at
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Plans Opposition
j To Bob Reynolds
Ciegg Cherry Believed Out
I Ot Itace; Slated For State
Chairmanship.
Other Candidates
Junior Circle Support May
Be Found in Morrison
Corner Next Fall.
Washington. — Former Senator
Cameren Morrison returned to the
Caitpal city yesterday and with
him came rumors, to the effect that
he was, paving the way for his re
ported candidacy against “Bob”
I Reynolds in the next Congressional
I election.
The visit is the topic of conver
sation in the North Carolina col
ony of politicians. Other candi
dates mentioned include Frank
Hancock. Representative Doughton
and of course Senator Reynolds.
Uregg Cherry, is slated for the
chairmanship of the Democratic
State committee and is believed to
have no. aspirations for the sena
torial honors.
Mi1. Morrison, who has served the
state as governor and as senator,
has given to a number of persons
here this week the distinct im
pression that he is almost persuad
ed that a second try against Sena
tor Reynolds would have for him
a different and happies ending, that
friends would gladly aid him in a
battle for vindication, and that the
people of the state, hitherto misled
would next year flock to his stand
ard. He thinks he would even be
able to command support in Junior
Order circles, despite the fact that
Senator Reynolds specializes in
anti-alier. legislation.
There are those, of course, who
do not th'nk Mr. Morrison, on sec
ond thought, will enter the pri
mary next year, whatever his in
tentions of the present moment in
the Washington atmosphere.
Mr .Doughton is accredited with
views with respect to the best in
terests of the state not direcly re
lated to personal plans or ambi
tions.
Postpone Hearing
The hearing in the charges
against Leverett Kemp, charged
with assault upon Cass Headers,
colored, scheduled for Thursday,
was postponed until Monday in
Justice of the Peace Colvin’s court,
t Headcn sustained a bullet wound
in his right shoulder, inflicted, he
claims, from a revolver fired by
Mr. Kemp.
R. Rothrock Ends
Life; A Suicide
Well Known Tliomasville Man
Har.gs Self in Bam; No
Reason For Act.
Thomasville.-—Robert L. Roth
rock, 41, Fairgrove community,
committed suicide yesterday morn
ing by hanging himself in a barn
on his farm. He had gone to the
barn to milk and when he tailed to
return an investigation was made
and his body was found by Mrs.
Rothrock, No reason was given
for the act.
He is survived by his widow,
one daughter, Mrs. Lindsay Lam
bert, Thomasville; one son, Frank
Leo Rothrock, Thomasville; his
mother, Mrs. Fannie Rothrock and
two brothers, Ernest and Arlie
Rothrock of Greensboro and one
sister, Mrs. Marion Rothrock. Fun
eral arrangements have not been
completed.
Injured In Wreck
In South Carolina
According to reports from
Moore county, Mrs. Thomas ltay
of Hemp was seriously injured in
an automobile wreck near Kings
tree, S. C., Sunday. She suffered
a concussion of the brain A tire
blowout was the cause of the ac
cident. Mr. and Mrs. Ray and her
sister were on their way back from
Atlanta, Ga. The car overturned
several times, and when it finally
came to a stop was within ten
feet of a large river. Mrs. Ray
was rushed to a Kingstree hospi
tal, from where she was brought
home last Monday. The othei two
members ot the party suffered
bruises and scratches, and were
badly shaken up.
Mrs. Ray is a sister of Bill
Brown of Asheboro and a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Brown of
Hemp. She and Mr. Ray are both
well known in Asheboro. Mr. Ray
has done special advertising with!
several local stores.
Led by a uniformed officer, these club-armed vigilantes step on the
running board of a taxi and become a small “flying squadron” of Mayor
Daniel Shields' citizen-guards at Johnstown, Pa., where pickets and
non-strikers clashed frequently with clubs, stones, knives. The Beth
lehem strike affected 6500 men.
County Boards Meet Briefly
Saturday for Special Work
Johnstown’s Own “Taxicab Army”
At a joint meeting of the
board of county commission
ers and the board of welfare,
held Saturday morning in
Asheboro, the matter of a wel
fare superintendent was dis
cussed. The formal resigna
tion of James M. Green was
read by R. \Y. Wood, chairman
of the welfare board. The
letter addressed to the chair
man, follows: "I have defi
nitely decided not to accept the
post to which your boaid and
the county commissioners re
cently elected me. Please con
vey to these two bodies my de
clination of the election and
express to them for me my ap
preciation of their confidence
in me.”
4
Bailey Backs Proposal For
Shifting Belief Tax Load
News Flashes
-—— from
Everywhere
Fly Over Pole
San Francisco.—Soviet Russia’s
long-distance airplane flashed its
arrival over the North Foie and
then roared south through Arctic
mists last night to Oakland in an
attempted 6,000-mile non-stop
flight from Moscow.
Steel Strike '•>
Cleveland, 0.—Charging that a
“veritable reign of anarchy exists”
and that “civil authority has brok
en down completely before the ter
rorism of the C. I. 0.,” the Repub
lic Steel corporation issued a state
ment opposing Secretary of Labor
Frances Ferkins’ plea for mainte
nance of the steel strike “status
quo” while Federal mediation is
under way.
Amelia Delayed
Akyab, Burma.—Amelia Ear
hart and her navigator, Capt. Frf d
Noonan, hoped that weather wou.d
clear to permit their hop to Bang
kok, Siam, tomorrow.
At Bilbao Gates
With Insurgents Outside Bilbao,
Spain.—An advance body of insur
gents moved down the inside circle
of hills surrounding Bilbao tonight
and halted to await the order to
occupy the city.
Prisoners Strike
Anderson, S. C.—Irked because
they were denied the privilege of
chatting with girl callers while as
signed to floor scrubbing details,
11 white prisoners confined in the
Anderson county jail went on a sit
down strike today.
From Detroit
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Pritchard
and son, Porter, are spending their
vacation in Detroit where Mi.
Pritchard was some years ago con
nected with the country club of
that city Resorting to the old
time picture-post-cord habit, the
Pritchards are assuring their
friends who are not so fortunate as
they and are at home working, that
they having “a grand time.” They
will return during during this
week.
r
I'poll motion of Charles M.
Staley, a member of the wel
fare board, action on the elec
tion of the superintendent of
welfare was deferred until
some person can be found who
will meet the requirements and
approval of the state board, a
necessary stipulation from the
Kaleigh headquarters. The
chairman of the board of wel
fare and the chairman of the
board of commissioners were
then selected by the two boards
to make further investigation
for a superintendent and re
port back to the local joint
group as early as possible af
ter a conference with the state
headquarters, at which time
the selection of a superinten
dent may be expected.
Senate Democrats In Wide
Split; Robinson And
Byrnes in Accord.
—
Washington.—The proposal of
Majority Leader Robinson that
more of the Federal relief load be
shifted to state and local govern
, merits opened a wide rife in the
| Democratic ranks yesterday. Fol
| lowing Kobinson was . Josiah W.
j Bailey, North Carolina, who urged
I the passage of Senator Byrnes
amendment to the President's $1,
; 500,000,000 relief bill as a means
to ‘•decentralize the relief program
j and save the country from bank
j ruptcy.”
j The amendment offered by Sena
j tor James F. Byrnes of South Car
| olina calls for states, financially
able, to put up 40 percent of the
cost of projects.
Advanced as a compromise in the
three-day fight over the adminis
i tration’s $1,500,000,000 relief bill,
! Robinson’s amendment to require
r26 percent local contribution to
1 wards WPA work projects fed new
flames of controversy.
, Senator Schwellenbach (D
j Washington) quickly criticized it
| as a Republican system. Other
| senators, favoring a continued free
S hand for the President in making
i relief expenditures joined in the
attack.
i Robinson, contending the “time
has come to safeguard the credit
of the treasury” submitted the
amendment as a substitute for a
controverted proposal by Senator
Byrnes, to require 40 percent con
tributions.
With Senator Robert R. Rey
nolds in the chair, the debate on the
relief bill grew to a scorching point
when Senator Bailey took the floor
to answer Senator Robert F. Wag
ner of New York who criticised the
Byrnes amendment and intimated
that those against the President’s
bill were not sympathetic with the
unemployed.
In his appeal for the Byrnes
amendment Senator Bailey said:
“I have the utmost sympathy for
the man out of work and I recog
nize every obligation, national,
state, county and personal. I was
speaking in the Senate on that sub
ject in 1932 and I stated then that
it was the duty of us all, the duty
of this government to see to it that
men and of course women, who
were able to work should have an
opportunity to work. We are all
of that view. But that is not the
question before us.
“I am unwilling to encourage
the attitude of putting the burden
upon those of us w'ho offer amend
m
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Charles Laughton t\.id
Safety Razor Inven >r
Called Tax Avoid rs
*
_ * __
jShick, Bache And
Groves Mentioned
Treasury States Man Swore
He Was Penniless; Had
$250,000 Cash.
More Names Later
Claim One Man Jumps Like
Bug; Filed Returns All
Over the World.
Washington.—Charles Laughton,
motion picture actor, who has
made thousands laugh, has been
named a tax dodger by the United
States treasury department. Oth
ers named by the department as
dodging or avoiding payment of
taxes include Jacob Shick, electric
safety razor inventor; Jules S.
Bache, Wallace Groves and Percy
K. Hudson, well known in invest
ment, brokerage and financial cir
cles.
It is understood the joint Sen
ate- House investigating committee
will go into the records of those
named next week.
In addition, a direct violation of
the law was charged to Philip
DeRonde, former president of the
Hibernian Trust company of New
York. Irey testified that DeRonde
swore he was penniless the day
after he received $250,000 and
tunred it over to a personal hold
ing- company incorporated in the
Bahamas.
“Confusing Practice”
A seventh name, that of George
Westinghouse, Jr., was brought in
to the hearings as illustrative of
“the confusing practice” of filing
income tax returns from a different
country each year. Westinghouse
filed in successive years from New
Brunswick, British Columbia and
Jamaica, it was testified.
“He jumps around like a bug,”
said oBswell Magill, under-secre
tary of the treasury.
The stories of these men and
their activities were laid before
the committee as “sample cases,”
in the administration’s drive for
legislation to eliminate legal tech
nicalities whereby, President Roos
evlt had said, taxes are evaded or
avoided.
More names are to follow. In
fact, Senator La Follette, Progres
sive, Wisconsin, plainly indignant,
objected to the use of “samples” on
the ground tsat it would lay the
committee open to charges of dis
criminaion. On his motion the
committee ordered that the names
of all who have engaged in such
practices be laid before it.
Visitor Praises
Asheboro Growth
Retired Railroad Man Says
City Will Soon Equal Fay
etteville Census.
“Asheboro,” said E. H. York, a
former resident of Ramseur, now
of Fayetteville, “reminds me of
Alladin’s Lamp every time 1 visit
the city.” Mr. York, who for 40
years was employed by the Atlan
tic Coast line, thirty of those
years as a passenger conductor,
was a visitor of W. C. York, local
I attorney.
Mr, York was born in Ramseur
but had been employed by the rail
road company up to six years ago
when he was retired.
“Every time I visit the city U
seems to have grown,” Mr. York
said. The business seems to be
firmly established and I believe
Asheboro will soon pass Fayette
ville in population.”
Stayes Granted
To Three Victims
Another 30 day reprieve was
granted three men scheduled to die
Friday in the state’s prison in Ra
leigh because of renovation work
on Death Row'. Paroles Commis
sioner Edwin Gill made the an
nouncement to the press on Friday.
The three—Reed Coffey, Avery
county w'hite man convicted of
murder, George Exum, Wayne Ne
gro murderer; and William Jack
son, Forsyth Negro, convicted of
criminal assoult—now are slated to
die August 6. Under state law, ex
ecutions automatically are set at
the third Friday after the expira
tion of a reprieve.
Bible Class
The Woman’s Bible class of the
Central Methodist Protestant
church will hold its class meeting
at the home of Mrs. S. F. Phillips
on Academy street Thursday even
ing, June 24th, at 7:30 o’clock.
Engineering Will
Have Attention
Slate College Will Boost De
partment ol Engineering; *
New Head.
Mrs. Helen Tiernan, seamstress,
who confessed slashing and burn
ing her young daughter and at
tempting to kill her son in the
Long Island woods, yesterday, in a
successful effort to escape New
York’s electric Chair pleaded guil
ty to second degree murder. Here
she is shown on her way back to
the Tombs, where she will be
held pending sentence to from 20
years to life. Good behavior will
I place this child killer in a position
I to apply for parole in thirteen
years.
Daughter Slayer
On Way to Jail
Raleigh, June 18.—Strengthen-j
I ing its place of recognized lea ler
I ship in engineering education in
| the South, No:th Carolina State
college will this fall offer -for the
first time graduate work in engin
eering mechanics and, strength of
materials.
This new field of engineering
education will be developed under
the supervision of Major 15. R. Van
Leer, new dean of the engineering
school who is expected hi Raleigh
on July l to assume his duties at
State college.
I With the addition of 'graduate
work in .engineering, State college
will become one of the outstanding
engineering schools in the coun
try, gays Col. John W. Harrelson,
administrative dean of the college.
“Geographically and in lustrially
State college is better situated
than any other school in'the* South
to offer graduate work in engin
eering and such a department will
be of great value to North Carolina
and the South,” Col. Harrelson
raid.
According to Col. Harrelson,
State’s undergraduate school and
faculty have been steadily improv
ed upon until today they are on a
par with any undergraduate engin
eering school in the East.
The administrative dean said the
graduate school would not be built
in a year, but would be the result
of much study and planning.
“We plan to make it the equal of
any school in the country,” he said.
To be prepared for students who
will enroll in the new department
this fall, the engineering faculty
will be enlarged to include a new
professor in engineering mechan
ics.
Prof. E. W. Winkler also will be
transferred from Chapel Hill to
become an instructor in electrical
engineering. Prof. Winkler will
become the fourth man to be trans
ferred from the Chapel Hill unit of
the university since the engineer
ing schools of State and Carolina
were consolidated and placed at
State.
State also is doubling the num
ber of fellowships for teaching
and research, effective the rst of
September. The fellowships are
for ten months and carry a stipend
that will take care of living ex
penses and tuition.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina: Partly cloudy
tonight with scattered thunder
showers Sunday.
Electric Storm
Endangered Two
Asheboro Homes
Children of Smith Family
Saved By Mother’s
Forethought.
Dwellings Damaged
Franz Strickland's Quick Ac
tion Saved House And
Family.
Occupants of two Asheboro dwell
ings, Friday night, experienced
strange situations, when lightning
bolts danced a serious and threat
ening tune throughout the homes.
The fact that Franz Strickland,
manager of the Rogers Jewelry
store, and his family were not pos
sibly injured was due to the quick
thinking of Mr. Strickland, who
after a bolt had caused a fire in the
home, extinguished the flames and
then cut off the electric lead into
the dwelling.
Two children of Mr. and Mrs.
Otis Smith, residing on Miller
street, escaped possibly serious in
juries due to the foresight of their
mother. During the height of the
electric storm, Mrs. Smith advised
her husband to pull the children’s
bed away from the wall. A few
seconds later, the ceiling fell to
the floor, directly in the spot where
the bed had originally stood.
The bolt entered the living room,
via a radio socket, shot through an
open doorway into the bath room
where it tore away part of the
wainscoating, then entered the bed
room. It tore a strip across the
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New Agriculture
Building Filling
All Office Room on Ground
Floor Now Occupied And
Few Left on First.
Offices in the new agricultural
building are fast filling up since the
beginning of the past week when
the first move was made. At
present the entire ground floor Is
occupied and only two offices are
vacant on the first floor. These
two offices have been used during
the week for the two special ses
sions of the commissioners and
board of county welfare.
The WPA sewing room has mov
ed from the Ross building on Salis
bury street and are comfortably
situatid on the ground floor of this
building. The book-binding pro
ject has also moved from the same
building into the agriculture build
ing. This was true of the rehabil
itation department.
Another move of the week from
the Ross building was the commod
ities for the welfare department
of the county. This store was
placed in the basement of the
county court house in the office va
cated by E. S. Millsaps, county
agent. It will be a great conven
ience having the commodities from
the welfare department closer to
the welfare superintendent.
District Highway
Men Seek Homes
i
Opening oi Office Brings
Many New Families; In
Ross Buiiding.
Pending the completion of the
two stoiy brick building in rear of
the postoffice, the Sixth division
and Third district offices of the
Highway and Public Works com
mission will be housed in the Ar
thur Ross building, Salisbury
street. The latter building was
formerly occupied by the W. P. A.
organization.
The second floor of the new
building, being erected by C. C.
Cranford, will be cut into various
sized offices for the highway de
partment, of which D. B. McCrary
is commissioner. There will be
3;000 square feet available for the
departmental sub-divisions.
Lewis E. Whitfield, division en
gineer has arrived here and will
bring his family as soon as he finds
suitable quarters. W. H. Foushee,
his assistant has rented a home
at 209 South Park street. T. J.
McKim, also attached to the divis
ion office arrived in the city yes
terday and is seeking a home for
his family.
Moore County To
Fight Bootleggers
Carthage.—The two Moore coun
ty ABC stores will shortly begin
the sale of 50c a pint whiskey and
gin, in an effort to stamp out
bootlegging in this territory. This
scheme has been tried, with suc
cess, in New Hanover. There
will be no profit in the 50c grades,
and theii sale is solely for the pur
pose of combating bootleg wihs
key.