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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 it,UME LX I *» The Regulator February 2. 1876 Oldert Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY. JUNE 29, 1937 To The Courier her 13. 1879 ___$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURS yfr A.ND SUNDAY NUMBER 63 Teachers A Noted For Randolph County And Asheboro City Schools ;tate Education Board in Session sheboro Will Have 15 High School and 32 Elemen tary Teachers. 258 in County flUnty Board Will Adopt 1937-38 Fiscal Plan On Monday, July 5. Randolph county schools, includ r the city of Asheboro yesterday is alloted 62 high school teach and 196 elementary grade tea by the North Carolina school ission meeting in Raleigh. ie state board alloted a total of 3 teachers and principals for 1937-38 school year. v ;cher T. Bulla, county super lent of education today stat ,at the several district boards ie county are working out the mnel of their teaching staff that the appointments will he Side within the next few weeks. [Tiere will be several changes, ?e lid, with resignations and promb ions. Monday, the Randolph county joard will meet to adopt its 1937 18 fiscal program and discuss other iroblems relative to the new year’s fork. The state board alloted the City if Asheboro 15 high school teachers and 32 teachers for the elemen ary grades. A total of 47 high ichoo! teachers and 174 elementary jrade teachers were alloted to ichool districts otuside the city iroper. Robeson county led all other un ts in the number assigned, having 17 high school and 397 elementary eachers. Charlotte was next with i total of 469; Johnson county had ,29; Wake 420; Buncombe 390; iuilford 399 and Winston-Salem OB. ■ lamage Caused By Lightning Here Wires and Switches in Cour ier Plant Burn; Other Damage. Sunday’s electric storm played havoc with power wires and tele phone wires in this section of the county. The greatest damage reported occurred at The Courier plant in Asheborc where a bolt of lightning burned out two heavy cables sup plying the switch and motor which runs the large Duplex newspaper press. The side wall, where the switch was located was badly burn ed and scorched by the flames but 30 further damage was done. The Carolina Power company had the wiring replaced and power running into the plant within a ihort time after being notified of the damage. Other wires in va 'ious sections of the county were >ut out of commission temporarily mt the crews of the power com *ny lost no time in correcting the rouble. Similar trouble occurred to sev eral telephone lines in and outside the city but no material delay in traffic resulted. Two Die in Auto Accident Sunday rhomasville the Scene Of Fatal Crash, One Car Burned. Thomasville. — Paul Kennedy, rhomasville route 1, was instantly killed and C. L. Berrier, Jr., of this place died on the way to the Greensboro hospital, Sunday as a Jesuit of an automobile accident here. Lindo Collins, Greensborct sustained serious injuries. The accident occurred at Unity street »*id the national highway. Berrier was alone in one car and the other was occupied by Ken j*edy. Collins and Wilbert Hilton. Mr. Berrier’s car was destroyed by flames. Mrs. R. Swain 111 Mrs. Roddy Swaim is quite ill her home in Liberty. Mrs. owaim is the mother of Dr. J. W. bwaim of Asheboro and a well known woman of the county. Her condition is reported as serious. the weather North Carolina: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Thun der showers in the south and cen tral portions. , ! News Flashes | -from Everywhere Plants Reopen ^ oungstown, 0.—Steel executiv es mapped plans today to reopen more picket-sieged mills, asserting the 33-day-old strike of John L. Lewis’ C. I. 0. was definitely “broken.” Arraign Killer New York.—A bizarre picture of smiling nonchalance and petulant bravado, Robert Irwin last night pitted thf, skill of one of the na tion's shrewdest criminal lawyers against the threat of the electric chair for his confessed commission of the Gedeon triple slaying of i Easter morning. As the 29-year-old sculptor-bus j boy whirled through the routine of questioning and arraignment, Samuel Leibowitz, through whoso legal strategy 123 clients have side stepped execution, swiftly mapped an indicated insanity defense. ' Newly Weds Hollywood.—Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Rogers already have enough silver nut dishes, vases, and ash trays to set up housekeeping—in a furnish ed home—when they return from their Hawaiian honeymoon. New Plant Kannapolis.—Newspaper editors and publishers from North Caro lina and South Carolina will gather in Kannapolis Tuesday evening for the formal opening of the Indepen dent’s new building on North Main street. The out-of-town newsmen will be honored at a banquet Tuesday ev ening at 7 o’clock at Mary Ella Hall, after which the group will inspect the newspaper plant from 6 to 10 o’clock. Third Term Talk Brings “Revolfj Bankers Told Conservative Democrats Oppose New Leadership. New Brunswick, N. J., June 28. —In the face of the “draft Roose velt” for a third term, started last week by Governor George H. Earle Pennsylvania, a drive to gain the party’s 1940 presidential nomina tion for an old line candidate is be ing made by insurgent leaders of the party, according to Frederick Shelton, Washington, D. C., law yer. “A major struggle for future do mination of the Democratic party i3 now being staged under cover of the rumblings of revolt now heard in Congress,” Mr. Shelton told the class of banking executives enrolled in the two week’s course sponsored by the American Bank ers’ association in cooperation with Rutgers university here this week. “Gentlemen who have nursed the Democratic party through a gener ation of lean pickingc now see it being taken over bodily by politic al newcomers, laborites and that nondescript body of reformers, Mr. Shelton said. 10th Rhododendron Festival Closes; Randolph Man Active Asheville, June 29.—The ten.h annual rhododendron festival, the greatest in its history, due partly to the work of Brady Byrd, Ran dolph native and, now a director of the Merchants Bureau of this city and, his associate members of the 1937 committee, closed its success ful activities last week. A week in June is set aside an nually in “The Land of the Sky to honor the most regal of all the flowers. This feet has been growing from year to year and is now by way of becoming a sort of sum mer Mardi Gras. Heretofore only 10 southern states have been in vited to send sponsors, but this year Cuba and three northern states were also invited—Ohio, Il linois and Indiana. The selection of young women sponsors is made through the col leges, on the basis of good looks, popularity and scholastic record. Photographs and snapshot pictures are taken and passed upon — the selection usually being made from juniors and seniors. Finally the ap pointment is confirmed by the Gov ernor of the State. But an inflex ible rule is that the sponsor must be a true native of the state she Irwin Returned to New York by Plane I Shackled to Detective Prank Crimmins, Robert Irwin, “the mad sculptor”, calmly smokes a cigarette as he is led from plane at Floyd Bennett Field, New York City, after flight from Chicago, where he sur rendered and was purported to have confessed to the triple murder of Veronica “Ronnie” Gedeon, beautiful artists’ model; her mother and a roomer in their apartment or. Easter Day. Irwin was flown to New York in a chartered plane after waiving extradition. Experts Suggest i Several Changes [Would Place Practically All Jobs Under Civil Service Law at Once. Civil service was the chief mut ter under consideration for the ! President’s committee on adminis i trativ.e management. Experts from I this committee recommended this week that the civil service be ex tended to include all government jobs except a few policy-making positions. [ They proposed also that the pres ent civil service commission be ^abolished and succeeded by a sin gle administrator under a non-po litical board of seven. The board would be appointed by the Presi dent, subject to the approval of the senate. The report, a 75-page document, which explored many government personnel problems, was prepared by Floyd W. Reeves, of the Univer sity of Chicago, and Paul T. David, director of studies of the vocation al educational committee. To prevent “the practical politi cal problem of the patronage” from obstructing an approach to “the Democratic ideal of equality of opportunity in accordance with merit,” the experts recommended that appointments be as far de moved from politics as possible. They suggested that in naming the civil service board the Presi dent be forbidden to appoint any one who within the preceding five years had been a member of any party committee or who had been a candidate for any public office. The principal duty of the board would be to select other boards to examine applicants for, govern mental posts, including that of the. civil service administrator. The top board would receive no salaries but would be reimbursed for time and expenses. represents. Entertainment includes tours to the Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park and to the Craggy Rho dodendron Gardens—visited by 6, 000 visitors in a single day of the festival. On a certain day, the streets oi Asheville were astir with parading bands and knights in cloth of goI( capes, riding on chestnut steeds, and floats with women in lovely gowns, each sponsor on her own float, and finally the float of the King and Queen of the Festival attended by their court. There ap peared also a group of the eastern band of the Cherokee Indians in na tive costume. On another day was the Baby parade where incredibly tiny tots held court in dainty floats, perhaps the most imaginative of these be ing “Baby’s Boat’s a Silver Moon.’’ There was furthermore, a Negro Children’s afternoon parade and a parade of pet dogs. There were balls and teas and tours of the Asheville flower gar I dens, a pageant picturing the dance of the flowers, and the week’s fes tivities ended with a carnival night of farce, fun and confetti. 1 Ex-Slaves, All Over 100, Seek _U. S. Security Wilson, June 29.—Three negroes who were once slaves in this section before the WaP Between the States filed ap plication with the local office here this week for social se curity. The age of each was asked by M. G. Fulghum, Wil son county superintendent of public welfare. Then the ages were added up. The total was 307. The three are thought to . be oldest living negroes in the State and one of them is be lieved to be the oldest in the United States. The three are Henry Roun tree, 106; Chanie Sellp, 101, and Blount Baker, 101. Rountree was so chipper that, ir. a shaky but still legi ble hand, he signed his own application. Chanie has a dau | ghter who is way past the so cial security age limit, her | self. All were slaves at the be ginning of the War Between the States. Heat Prostration Throughout South Officials Link Crime Wave With Unusual Heat During Month of June. The weather mail is talking heat, with summer officially a week old. News reports of scat tered deaths from heat and pros trations are recorded about over tho country. In North and South Carolina the average temperatures ranged in the middle 90’s, with the entire south sweltering and—the mercury rising. In Birmingham, Ala., where .of ficers saw a relationship between increased emotional crimes and the hot weather, the deaths of a white man and a negro were attributed to. heat prostration. The city had a I 9!) degree maximum Sunday. San Francisco, which registered j its hottest June 26 in 61 years with 87 degrees recorded Saturday, re ported one dead of a heat-induced heart attack. Cooling breezes moderated the heat wave that descended on north central California Friday but above normal temperatures as 100 in Bakersfield, 93 in Sacramento and 84 at Oakland ideveloped Sunday. Three were overcome by Oakland’s heat Friday. Rain fell today in New Orleans for the 15 day this month. The city, with an 88-degree Sunday at' ternoon, had one death from heat prostration during the last week.^ It was cooler Sunday at St. Louis where mercury touched 94 Saturday. The range, after an early morning rain, was in the high seventies. One died there of the heat several days ago. Little Rock, Ark. had its hottest day of the year Sunday with a 98. It was 100 at Blytheville in the same state. Memphis had an un official reading of 97.2 degrees Sunday with an unofficial 94 re corded in Atlanta, Ga. Chatta nooga, Tenn., had 93 degree wea ther. Atlanta’s airport weather bureau office said the heat wave at present centered in the southeast. i Burnis W. Kearns Funeral Tomorrow Service at Home; Hurial At Shepherd Church, Family Burial Plot. With the arrival of the body of Burnis Wm. Kearns Tuesday morn ing, funeral arrangements were announced by the family for 3:00 m. Wednesday at the Kearns home. Rev. H. I* Powell, pastor of the First Methodist church of Asheboro, will be in charge, assist ed by Rev. Mr. Shore, pastor of Shepherd church. Burial will fel low in the Kearns family burial lot at Shepherd church. A quartet from the Asheboro church will furnish the funeral mu sic with Miss Kathleen Mclever of Burlington, soloist. Pall bear ers will be close friends of the de ceased: Nimrod Harris and Tate Horton, both of Burlington; Eddie Steere, Worth Morgan, Hal Ham mer Walker and Sam Hayworth, of Asheboro. A group of girl friends from Asheboro and Burlington will carry flowers. It will be recalled that death oc curred on Thursday, June 24th, following an automobile accident near Santa Monica, California, on June 19th. The rear tire of the car blew out, throwing the car over a 1200 foot, embankment, burning up. Mr. Kearns was badly burn ed, dying as a result a few hours before his mother, Mrs. E. M. Kearns, arrived by plane. The mother accompanied the body back home, arriving at High Point nt 10:40 Tuesday morning. The body remained at Pugh’s funeral home a few hours before being taken to the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Kearns. 65,(100 Acre Plot To Open July 16 Resettlement Project At Hamlet Dedicated By Secretary Wallace. Rockingham.—The hugs 65,000 acre land utilization project of the resettlement administration in the eastern part of Richmond county will be dedicated with elaborate ceremonies Friday, July 16, it was decided Friday night when a group of 50 men from Richmond, Hoke. Scotland, Moore and Robeson coun ties met at the RA office near Hoffman and formulated plans. Expected for the dedication will be the Ft. Bragg band, Governor Hoey, Representatives Lambeth and Cooley, Senators Bailey and Reynolds, and other rignitaries. with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace as the chief speaker. This will be capped by a free barbecue, and then the visitors will have the opportunity of in specting the 65,000-acre develop ment. Incidentally, peaches in this sandhills section will be full ripe on this date. Of the total area 45,000 acres lie in Richmond county, 2,000 in Moore and 18,000 in Scotland county. Al ready 20 separate ponds have been built for the largest fish hatchery in the entire eastern America; and the RA has planted 18,000,000 lo cust and pine seedlings for refores tation. Newspapers Join “Tax Dodgers” On Treasury’s List New York Sun, The Scripps Publications and Others Cited By Helvering. Sun Strikes Back Says “Even Tax Experts” Should Understand Its History in Library. Washington, June 29.—Newspa pers and newspaper publishers have been brought into the “tax avoidance” charge’s of the Treas ury department during the past three or four days. The New York Sun Inc., and its president, William T. Dewart were cited Iasi week while the E. W. Scripps Co., Robert I’. Scripps Co., and The Consolidated Publishers Co., owned by Paul Block, have been added to the list over the week-end. The Sun, through its publisher, has printed in that publication an answer to the charges in which it sets up the financial structure which shows that employees con trol most of the preferred stock. Mr. Dewart, it contends, has not violated any laws. Declaring the Government has suffered an “enormous and progres sively increasing loss of income by the tax avoidance device of the personal holding company, Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of inter nal revenue, laid names and figures before the congressional joint com mittee. The use of such devices, he declared, is “spreading rapidly under the present tax-avoidance publicity conditions.” The Sun in a caustic publication outlined its financial structure, which it stated has been published from time to time and that "The Story of the Sun” published in 1928 is filed in the Library of Congress.” “Even a Treasury expert,” the publication added, “should grasp the truth about the New York Sun, Inc.” Other firms mentioned by the Treasury department include the followmg: Kovik Investments, Ltd.—Big gins (no first name given.) The Tennessee Co. — W. W. Hawkins. Peter Berkey Corporation—Peter Berkey. Lawrence Industrial Corporation —Colon E. Summerfield. Falk Investment Co.—Herman W. Falk. Terrace Finance Corporation — Clement C. Smith (deceased) and wife. Marion Finance Co.—Estate of George P. Miller. Smoot Sand & Gravel Co., of Canada, Ltd.—L. E. Smoot. Altew Co., Ltd.—A. S. Brown. Other Names Listed It was brought out, as the com mittee looked over the analysis, that the Tenn. Co., listed as owned by W. W. Hawkins, later had more than 50 per cent of its stock ac quired by James Hammond, who, Mr.v Helvering said, was a publish er and editor. Names of Thomas W. Lamont, Mrs. F. C. Lamont, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Mrs. Irene Jackson Sloan, Roy W. Howard and Mrs. Roy W. Howard were submitted as persons who had formed personal holding companies. Stating once more to questioners that the device is legal and spread ing, Mr. Helvering said: “The atmosphere in which such schemes grow so rapidly is well il lustrated by a recent statement ap pearing in the press in which J. P. Morgan is reported to have said, ‘If the Government doesn’t know en ough to collect its taxes a man is a fool to pay them.’ That attitude is fairly general.” Asheboro To Have Open Air Church Ministerial Group Arranges Evangelistic Service; Opens August 29. The Asheboro Ministerial asso ciation has completed tentative plans for the open air evangelistic services which it- plans to open August 29 and continue well into i September. The actual date of the opening session depends upon the schedule of Dr. George Wood Anderson, na tionally known evangelist. Dr. Wood recently completed a series of meetings in Lexington and is now in the north. He is a native New Englander. The local association has ob tained a large tent, 150 by 60 feet which will accommodate the 2,000 seats already here. The tent will be located at Cox and Wainman streets. Slightly Improved Mrs. W. H. Moring, who has been quite ill for several weeks, is slightly improved. Mrs. Moring is at her home in Asheboro. ManIVHomes Planned In Vi ’ous Sections Of Ramseur in the Future Canadian Heads World Kiwanis An attorney, first president of his home club and the first Cana dian ever to hold the world office F. Trafford Taylor, above, was el ected president of Kiwanis Interna tional at the convention in Indian apolis. His home is in St. Boni face, Manitoba. Cotton Raisers Hopes Revived Court Decides They May Recover For Tax Ex emption Notes. Washington.—The United States court of appeals yesterday raised hopes of thousands of cotton pro ducers for recovery of $6,100,000 paid in 1935 and 1936 for tax ex emption certificates. Reversing a lower court decision the appellate court held that four -Alabama .-and Mississippi cotton growers, J. Wood Thompson, A. W. Fisher, D. S. Hobson and S. J. Ward, were entitled to recover $8, 500 paid to the surplus cotton tax exemption pool for tax exemtion certificates. The court asserted that more than 100,000 cotton producers who purchased $3,500,000 worth of cer tificates under the Bankhead act, since repealed, were entitled to re cover. James W. Morris, chief of the justice department’s tax division, said he would confer immediately with aides on the advisability of seeking a Supreme Court review of the entire situation. “The money has already been distributed to farmers who sold their certificates to the pools,” one attorney said. “It is doubtful that purchasers of the certificates ever can recover because, in our opinion, they will have to sue the farmers.” Guardsmen Pitch Tents For Drill Local Company Preparing For Summer Training Period July 18. Members of Headquarters com pany, 3rd battalion, 120th lnfdji try in command of Lieut. Roy Cox. last night transferred work from the armory floor to out-of-doors and devoted most of the drill hour to pitching pup tents on the vacant lot on Salisbury street, formerly known as the Old Bone Yard. Last night’s work was prepara tory to leaving for the regular fif teen day training period at Camp Jackson, Columbia/ S. C., July IS Stores May Close Monday, July 5th Merchants Bureau Seeking Information; Discuss New Secretary. The Asheboro Merchants asso ciation at a special meeting last night discussed the qualifications of several applicants for the posi tion of secretary caused by the resignation of Tagg Cox. No de finite action was taken. The association is interviewing merchants in the city relative to closing stores here Monday July 5. No definite decision had been ar rived at up to a late hour this af ternoon. Town Shelled Madrid.—The Febus (Spanish government) news agency reported today that a warship, “believed to be foreign”, shelled the town of Arenys de Mar, in the northeastern Spanish coast, last night. Rent Houses Will | Also Be Included Business is Good During Sum mer Season; Building and , Loan Praised. _ Improve Talc Mine ! Chicken Thieves Make Way With More Than 100 Fowls; Other News Items. Ramseur, June 28.—Ramseur i3 progressing in many directions this spring and summer. Many new homes are in process of erection throughout the several sections of town. Mr. Fisher, automobile dis tributor, who has recently come to town, and several other newcom ers plan to erect homes very soon. These new homes will be built near the residence of W. I. Jones on the Raleigh road in the E. H. Bray de velopment. Several others are plan ning to build on the other side of town near the new home of W. A. Brown. The new building and Loan association is responsible for some of these homes in the plan ning and for several that will be built for rent. Many friends and relatives of Billy Watkins attended the Wat kins-Schenck wedding at the home of the bride at Guilford College Saturday evening. This marriage was of unusual interest, as well as beauty. Mr. Watkins is a son of Mrs. Ernest Watkins of Ram seur. The heal wave that reached Ramseur the latter part of last week caused an exodus of part "of the population to the each and oth er vacation spots. Willie and Coy Gardner and Miss Hazel McNeal and a friend from Liberty spent some time at Caro lina Beach and Wrightsville re cently. Miss Patty Gant is spending some time in company with fttr. and Mrs. Beane at Carolina Beach and in South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Stuart of Prescott, Arizona, accompanied by his mother and brother of High Point, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D .E. Highfill last week. DwigRt Kimrey of Oklahoma Is spending some time here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Kim rey. Messrs. Arthur and Cecil Kirk man and sons, Earl and Jesse, spent the week-end at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. J. C. Whitesell and daugh ter, Anne, and Mrs. Chas. Robbins and friend of Spruce Pine, visited Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Moffitt the past week. The chicken thieves seem to have broken loose in this section again, more than a hundred chickens are reported to have been stolen the last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Marley, Chas. and Joe Harris visited Mr. and Mrs Whitehead at Leaksville Sunday. On their return they were accompanied by Miss Addie Whitehead and Boby and Billy Marley who had sepnt the week | there. j Dr. and Mrs. L. J. Brandwell and daughter spent one day last week at Wendell. Miss Bessie Bramley is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. An drews near Chapel Hill. Claud H. Caveness of Asheboro was a visitor in town Saturday. M. E. Johnson is soon going to remodel his residence on Liberty street and it will be occupied by W. L. Hobson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie K. Thomp son and family of Greensboro snept Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. White. The establishing of a quarter million dollar plant at the Soap Stone Mountain near the Ed Mc Master’s place north of Ramseur. the Spruce Pinf Products Corp. will grind the talc that is now Us ing mined there in great quanti ties instead of shipping crude ore as heretofore. This is a valuable addition to Randleman industries Hebron Curtis of Greensboito spent Sunday here with parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Curtis. Mrs. Lowry Patterson and two daughters and sister of Fayette ville and Georgia were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Bush recently. Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Thompson of Winston-Salem visited friends here Sunday. Mrs. Thompson is spending the week here with friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leonard of Asheboro visited Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Wylie, Mrs. J. D. Leonard and Mrs. Sallie Johnson Sunday.