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THE COURIER
(.WEEKLY
hflJME LXI
Est. As The Regulator
February 2, 1876
Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County
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ASHEBORO, N, C., SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1937
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Changed To The Courier
September 13. 1879
PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY
NUMBER 65
eachers Oppose
National Tie-Up
In Education
ilutions Group Hit At
Roosevelt’s Federal
Control Plan.
Urge Federal Aid
entry’s Representatives
Say Government “Boss”
" Would Ruin Schools.
Detroit —A smashing blow at
|y merging of education with wel
le in national, state or local gov
nment, approval of nationgliza
tn 0{ the war munitions industry
i a popular vote on war, a strong
claration for federal aid and a
»ht mention of academic free
m, characterize report of the res
ins committee at the conven
,n of the National Education as
ciation here.
A direct attack on President
josevjtl’s proposal for a federal
partnunt of education and wal
reis contained in a statement
hich points out “the necessity for
dependence of education in the
ministrative organization of the
■deral. state and local govern
"ents” and registers “opposition to
,e administrative merging of edu
rtion with functions generally
assified as welfare services.”
The department of superintend
jce, now known as the American
ssociation of School Administra
te, has consistently maintained
jobless toward any alliance be
reen education and welfare, but
ie association itself has never be
j-c come out so strongly against
lie idea
Slice 22,760 Off
North State WPA
lopkins Announces Heavy
Reduction in Relief
Workers Ranks.
Washington—Harry L. Hopkins,
dministrator announced 'yesterday
IVK cut off more than 124,000
lorkers in the two weeks ending
utteSd. That action reduced the
umber of persons employed to 1,
21,151.
Hie reduction is in line with
lopkins intention to trim the
oils to 1,665,477 by july 15.
The number of persons work
ng on June 26 by states included:
ieorgia, 23,761; New York City,
177,204; New York (exclusive of
(ew York City), 66,939.
North Carolina, 22,670; South
Carolina, 19,572; Virginia 19,284;
Alaska, 13; Hawaii 3, 658.
Reduction were shown for all
itates, except Delaware, North
Dakota, Utah, and Alaska, which
showed increases during the two
weeks ranging from one in Dela
ware to 342 in Utah.
Working Permits
Now Being Issued
Souths Under 18 Applying
At Public Welfare
Office Here.
Over me hundred working per
mits, to youths under 18 have
uve been issued by the Randolph
county welfare department during
the past few days.
Superintendent Robert Lloyd
again called attention to the North
Carolina labor laws which require
all youths under 18 to obtain
working permits.
151 Treated at Rotary Club
Crippled Childrens Clinic
The Cripple Children’s Clinic,
conducted under auspices of the
Asheboro Rotary club, has handled
151 cases during its sessions in the
Randolph hospital according to the
feport filed with the club by N. M.
Cranford, chairman of the com
mittee. The average cost per pa
tient, the report stated, was $4(1,51.
The total disbursements were $3,
023.34.
The report extended its appre
ciation to Dr. Thomas Wheeldon,
Richmond, Va., who has made reg
ular trips here to handle the cases
and to the Rotary Anns who have
assisted the club in its successful
work.
“We owe to Dr. Wheeldon,”
the report states, “a vote of thanks
for the work he has done without
financial remuneration to himself,
and to our Rotahy Anns we also
owe a debt of gratitude for their
Part in helping to carry on this
work. To each member of the
club who have made this clinic pos
sible by their financial assistance
and 100 percent co-operation, we
are grateful.
“We attach herewith a report of
disbursements, in detail for the past
year, which with our 1936 dis
bursements in all we have disbur
Earhart Plane Forced Down In Mid-Pacific
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Cross mark on photograph above shows exact location from where the last radio message was heard.
It is believed the plane is in that vicinity. Miss Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, are shown in the
photograph. Above is the plane in which she was making her globe-girdling flight.
Mrs. Ervin Frye Appointed
Merchants Bureau Secretary
News Flashes
-from
Everywhere
Denhardt Sued
Louisville, Ky.—Brig. Gen. Henry
H. Denhardt was accused in a
$70,000 damage suit yesterday of
causing the death of Miss Patricia
Wilson, 25, whose body was found
atop an elevator in a hotel here a
year ago
Strike Armistice
East Chicago.—Nearly 12,500 |
mill workers jubilantly hailed a
“strike armistice” with Inland
Steel Friday night while speakers
in Congress assailed the govern
ment’s stand in the 36-day-old
strike deadlocked and called on
President Roosevelt for a positive
declaration “to end this reign of
terror.”
Kidnap Note
Dunn.—Federal investigation of a
note said to have been thrown from
a speeding automobile and signed
“Mrs. I’arsons” opened here yes
terday. Mrs. Parsons, wealthy
Long Island woman, was kidnaped
from her home June 9. The note
stated the missing woman was in
the vicinity of Raleigh.
Tar Heel Agents
North Carolina’s two-year adver
tising program was launched in
Charlotte last night in an address
by Governor Clyde R. Hoey, who
appealed for beautification of
North Carolina and exhorted every
Tar Heel to "become a sales agent1’
for the State.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina: Partly cloudy
today and tomorrow. Not much
change in temperature.
sed a total of $3,023.34 for 22
clinics or an average of $46.51 per
patient.
“We recommend this clinic ie
continued as a service to those
cripples who otherwise could nou
avail themselves of this treatment.
The summary, commencing Sept.
1, 1985.
“Patients treated free, Oo.
“Private patients, 84.
“Unclassified, 2.
“Total, 151.” J . ..
The report was submitted by w.
M. Cranford, Arthur Ross, I . F.
Craven, C. C. Cranford, Dr. G. H.
Sumner, Dr. J. T. Barnes, D. b.
McCrary, W. K. Holt and C. W.
McCrary, the incoming chairman .
The Rotary meeting this past
week was marked with delightful
musical numbers by Grady Miller.
The program was in charge ol h.
F. Ross, Elwood Riehm and Cor
iett Scott.
Bob Wood presented Murray
?ield with a past president’s pm
Henry Redding was accepted as
i new member. Guests included
lerman Dillard, with Ferree Ross
tnd R. F. Richard, Birmingham,
Via., with Gordon Kennedy.
G. S. Taylor, Florence, b.
vas a visiting Rotarian.
Former Manager of State
Motor Club Succeeds
Tagg Cox.
Mrs. Ervin Frye of this city, has
accepted the position as temporary
secretary of the Asheboro Mer
chants association according to an
announcement made today by the
board of directors. The directors
expressed considerable enthusiasm
over Mrs. Frye’s acceptance whom
they believe will be a great asset
to the organization. She succeeds
Tagg Cox who resigned June 30 to
take a position in Florida.
Mrs. Frye, it was pointed out,
is well fitted for the position. She
is a graduate of the Asheboro
high school and attended N. C. C.
W. for two years. For the past
three years she has been employ
ed as branch manager of the Caro:
lina Motor club, duties which are
somewhat similar to those required
in her new position.
Mrs. Frye is a native of AsirV
boro and is familiar with its prob
lems and wdth the majority of in
dustries and mercantile interests in
the city. She will take over her
new duties, Tuesday morning. Miss
Radie Hughes, who has handled
the majority of the office duties
during the past several weeks, will
remain in her capacity as assistant
secretary.
The directors yesterday left the
matter of closing stores next
Wednesday afternoon optional with
the local merchants. Several
merchants stated they would find
it difficult to close both Monday
and Wednesday. The communica
tion forwarded to the merchant
members is appended.
‘The board of directors of the
Asheboro Merchants association
have considered the proposition of
closing on Monday, July 5th. Ac
cording to the constitution and by
laws of the associtation, this is a
legal holiday, and therefore, the
stores will be closed.
“It was brought to the attention
that this conflicted with the
Wednesday afternoon closing and
was decided that closing next Wed
nesday was left optional with each
member.”
Wade Renfrow Is
Named Secretary
Prominent Politician Accepts
Post as Secretary Civil
Service Commission
Wade Renfrew, well known High
Point politician, was named on Fri
day as secretary to the civil serv
ice commission at High Point. The
appointment was announced simul
taneously with that of the resigna
tion of Ed H. Smith, former sec
retary. .
Mr. Smith, who is a practicing
11 torney and judge of the juvenile
court. High Point, will continue as
a member of the commission. He
had served both as a member and
as secretary to the commission
since it was created under an act
passed during the past season of
the state legislature. ,
Mr. Renfrow has evinced a Keen
interest in political and civic af
fairs of that city and of the state
over a period of years but since the
civic service commission wa3 set
up he has steadily weaned himself
from things politically and has sup
ported the civil service idea and
commission wholeheartedly.
Hoey Leaves For
Speaking Tour
Governor to Visit Counties In
Western Section; Annual
Vacation.
Raleigh.—Governor Hoey cleared
his desk Friday and departed upon
a two weeks’ vacation and speak
ing tour in western counties. Be
fore leaving he witnessed the in
duction into office of his two ap
pointees to the Supreme Court.
The addition of two members to
the court, making a seven-man
bench, brought the first change in
I number since it was fixed at ve
by the Constitution of 1868. The.
governor sat on the bench while
| Superior Court Judge M. V. Barn
hill of Rocky Mount received the
oath from Associate Justice Geo.
W. Connor of the adjoining county
of Wilson, and J. Wallace Win
borne of Marion, retiring chairman
of the State Democratic commit
tee, was sworn in by Chief Justice
W. P. Stacy.
Fountain Of
Youths Located
Families Using Water From
Well Graced With
Twins.
Friends of Ben Gibson, a former
resident of Moore county, whose
brother is a lineman with the Cen
tral Carolina telephone company,
will be interested in the following
dispatch from North Wilkesboro,
where the former now resides: “A
' well left on the Wilkesboro road
where a school was d'tcontinueu
some years ago, is getting blamed
for something fo" such it is eith
er guilty or not guilty. Russ°U
Cuy, Fred Bell an 1 Ben Gibson all
u-.- water from the sam; pump, the
well in question being in the center
of this triangle of houses, water
being pumped to each by an elec-!
tuc motor. Right now there are |
five babies in three homes using
water from that well, one baby at
the Guy home, twin baies, a boy
and a girl, at the Bell home and
twin babies, a boy and a girl, at the
Gibson home. The Gibson twins
arrived on Thursday. The other
babies are some months older. Mr.
Bell’s brother, Clyde Bell, visited
in the Bell home, drank water from
the well, and now he has twins in
his home, several months old. Now
the thing Messrs. Bell, Gibson and
Guy are wondering about is this:
why is the stork hanging so closely
around that well? Is the water to
blame? Is the stork imbibing of
its proliac powers unbeknownest
to them?”
Asheboro Man To
Leave For Italy
Henry S. Miller Awarded
National Scholarship;
Milan University.
New York, July 2.—Columbia
University today announced Hen
ry S. Miller, who gave his resi
dence as Asheboro, N C., will go to
the University of Bocconi, Milan,
Italy, in the 1937-38 exchange of
fellows.
Mr. Miller received his A.B. de
gree from Columbia in 1924 and
the M.A. degree in 1929. He is
now a candidate for the doctor’s
degree in economics.
Sixth District To
Have 6 Engineers;
Selections Made
Frank L. Dunlap, State Head
Announced Appointments;
Three Assigned Here.
Local Commissioner
Asheboro Office Will Be In
Cranford Building When
Completed.
Raleigh.—The personnel of the
state’s ten highway and public
works districts were completed Fri
day by highway chairman, Frank
L. Dunlap.
The sixth district of which D. 1!.
McCrary, Asheboro, is commission
er, has teen assigned six engineers
headed by L. E. Whitfield, assist
ant to Mr. McCrary. The others
are W. H. Foushee, assistant di
vision engineer under Mr. Whit
field; A. J. Hughes, office engineer
and J. W. Spruill, at Lumberton;
J. B. Koonce at Sanford and T. J.
McKim at Asheboro.
The sixth district personnel will
be housed in the C. C. Cranford
building, in rear of the Asheboro
postoffice, as soon as the structure
is completed. It will occupy the
entire second floor of the building.
Division Six
Personnel: Division engineer, L.
E. Whitfield; assistant division en
gineer, W. H Foushee; office en
gineer, A. J. Hughes; stenograph
er, Annie Belle Smith; prison
camp supervisor, Kyle Matthews.
District No. I
Lumberton, N. C., Hoke, Robeson,
Scotland counties.
District engineer, R. W. Spruill;
maintenance supervisor, Roy Me
Keithan; maintenance supervisor,
L. M Powell.
Sanford, N. C., Chatham, Har
nett, Lee, Moore counties.
District No. 2
District engineer, J. B. Koonce;
maintenance supervisor, E. S. Un
derwood; maintenance supervisor,
A. T. Ward
District No. 3
Asheboro, N. C., Davidson, Ran
dolph counties.
District engineer, T. J. McKim;
maintenance supervisor, Fred Ev
erett; maintenance supervisor, E.
O. Russell.
County Solons To
Meet Here Monday
Budget Hearings Will Open
Later in Month; Plan
For Fiscal Year.
The County Commissioners of
Randolph county plan no vacation
Monday due to the pressure of bu
siness pertaining to county affairs.
The commissioners will conduct
their usual monthly meeting in the
court house, according to an an
nouncement made yesterday.
Later, in the month, the commis
sioners will open their budget
meetings, preparatory to complec
ing the fiscal budget for the ensu
ing year.
State’s Supreme
Court Increased
Judge Barnhill and Wallace
Win borne are Added to N.
C. Supreme Court.
When Judge M. V. Barnhill and
jj. Wallace Winborne took their
oath of office Friday, North Car
olina’s supreme court membership
was increased from five to seven
members Judge Barnhill is from
Rocky Mount and Judge Winborne
from Marion.
The ceremony was simple and
attended only by close friends and
relatives of the two men, Judge
l George W. Connor administered
the oath to Judge Barnhill while
Judge W. P. Stacy administered
the oath to Judge Winborne. By
custom, Attorney General A. A. F.
Seawell presented the two new
judges.
The new justices were appointed
by Governor Hoey after voters of
the State approved a constitution
al amendment to increase the mem
bership of the court and the 1937
General Assembly enacted a law
making the increase effective to
day.
After the ceremonies, Chief Jus
tice Stacy congratulated the Gov
ernor on his appointment and wel
comed the two justices.
Among those present was R.
Gregg Cherry of Gastonia, Speaker
of the 1937 House of Representa
tives, whom Governor Hoey has in
dorsed tc succeed. Winborne as
chairman of the Democratic State
executive committee.
The Supreme Court table will be
enlarged to accomodate the new
justices. Barnhill will occupy the
end chair to the right of the chiei
usjtice and Winborne the end chair
on the chief justice’s left.
Roosevelt Gives <
Up Court Bill;
Offers New One
Opposition Claim It Is No
Better Than Oid “Reform”
Proposal.
Hearings Tuesday )
Gives President Power To
Name Justices at Rate
Of One a Year.
Washington. — Administration
forces, abandoning their long fight
for the Roosevelt court bill, put for-1
ward a substitute which opponents
declared is “no better” than the I
original.
Opposition leaders disclosed they
would seek to sidetrack the entire
court issue for the session, asking
that the Senate send the substitute
to its judiciary commitee for sudy.
But those in charge of the new
bill said they had enough votes to
prevent its being sent to the com
mittee—and enough to pass it.
They prepared to begin arguments
for it on the Senate floor next
Tuesday.
The substitute, introduced by
Senators Logan, Democrat of Ken
tucky, Hatch, Democrat of New
Mexico, and Ashurst, Democrat of
Arizona, would permit the Presi
dent to name new justices to the
Supreme Court at the rate of one
a year, up to the total number of
incumbent justices past 75 years of
age.
Peace League Will
Meet In Ramseur
Mrs. Jennie Welborn, Noted
Speaker to Attend; Dr.
Taylor on Program.
Dr. S. W. Taylor, pastor of the
M. E. church, Asheboro, and Mrs.
Jennie Welborn, who attended the
Peace Institute at Duke universi
ty, recently, will be speakers at the
Randolph county Peace League
session in Ramseur Thursday
night. The meeting will be in the
M. E. church there.
Thursday’s session will be the
first meeting of the league outside
the city of Asheboro. A large
number are planning to attend.
The League, according to its of
ficers, was organized about three
months ago and has a good size
membership. The purpose of the
league, the officers said, is to pro
mote and lend its influence to
wards international peace.
Field Worker For
Randolph Named
Mrs. Cecil Clifford Will Have
Charge of Work In
Social Security.
Mrs. Cecil Clifford, Statesville,
has been named a field social work
supervisor aud will have charge of
the general field work pertaining
to the social security program in
Randolph and ten other counties
in the state.
The announcement was made by
the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare in Raleigh yester
day. Field supervisors for every
county in the state were announc
ed at the same time.
Mrs. Clifford’s district in addi
tion to Randolph county includes,
Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson, Guil
ford, Mecklenburg, Montgomery,
Richmond, Rowan, Stanley and Un
ion. The appointment is effective
as of Monday, July B.
Funeral Friday
Accident Victim
Funeral service was held Friday
afternoon at Ellerbe for Parsons
Howell, 23-year-old young man of
Ellerbe who -was killed in an auto
mobile accident early Thursday
morning. Burial followed in the
Parsons family cemetery near Cov
ington, six miles north of Ellerbe.
The car overturned on a sharp
curve on a dirt road two miles east
of Rockingham. Young Howell’s
neck was broken. Hal Henden, a
companion, was only slightly in
jured in the accident. He was a
peach buyer from Georgia.
Howell was graduated from the
University of North Carolina in
1935, and in June completed his
first year in medicine at the Uni
versity of Maryland. He was a
member of Phi Kappa Alpha fra
ternity and was very popular in
social life in this section.
His father has been a physician
in Ellerbe since 1910.
Surviving are his father, h’.s
mother, the former Ina Parsons, a
brother, Billy, who is a sophomore
at Davidson college, and a younger
brother, James, and a sister,
Becky.
The Kearns and Burkhead fami
lies of Randolph county were con
nected with the deceased and sev
eral attended the funeral.
Los AnMes Amateur
Radio 'ports “SOS”
From I5 uelia Earhart
« _
Liberty Bell To
Ring Again
_Today!_
Philadelphia. — The whole
nation will be able to hear
tones of the Liberty Bell,
which announced the birth of
the United States on July 4,
1778, when it rings in the
course of an American Legion
Independence 'Day program
this year. It will be the first
time the sound of the bell has
been radiocast from coast to
coast in a Fourth of July cele
bration.
The program will originate in
Independence Hall — in the
same room in which the Dec
laration of Independence was
signed and the Constitution of
the United States was adopt
ed 150 years ago. Many
furnishings of the room have
been retained as they were in
that period and will be used
during the broadcast in a dra
matization v/hich is a part of
Philadelphia’s all-summer cel
ebrtion of the sesquicenten
nial of the Constitution.
The radiocast, over the Co
lumbia System, will open at 2
p. m., E. D. T., with a band
selection followed by a de
scription of the scene. Drama
tization of the singing of the
Declaration of Independence
will come next, Mayor S. Da
vis Wilson then will strike
the Liberty Bell, microphones
pick up the sound—muffled be
cause of the crack in the bell.
The Mayor will introduce the
National Commander of the
American Legion, Harry W.
Colmery, who will give a brief
address before the band closes
the half-hour program with
the National Anthem.
New Labor Law Is
Shortening Hours
Law Limits Certain Industries
To 48 Hours for Women
And 55 For Men.'
A press release from labor com
missioner, A. L Fletc.her, estimat
ed on Friday that 20,000 to 30,000
mill employes in the state are
working shorter hours under the
new maximum hour law which
went into effect yesterday.
The law limits work hours in
certain industries to 48 a week for
women and 55 a week for men, and
Fletcher said that ultimately
around 200,000 employes would
come under the provisions of the
law.
Fletcher said orders had been
issued to labor inspectors to “go
after violators with all we Ve
got.” Three inspectors and three
office workers were recently add
ed to the department’s staff to
enforce the law.
No Date Assigned
For Relief Work
Randolph County Awaiting
Authority to Receive
Applications.
Dates for receiving applications
for old age relief have not been
assigned for Randolph county ac
cording to information obtained
at the County Welfare department
office yesterday. Many aged resi
dents of the county have been ap
pling daily, since Thursday, July
1, Superintendent Lloyd has had
no authority or papers to com
mence work in that department.
It is understood that dates will
be assigned this county and appli
cation forms received early this
week.
Postal Receipts Decrease
Points to Wide Prosperity
Receipts -at the Asheboro postof
fice for the last quarter, according
to a report filed by Postmaster J.
O. Redding yesterday, show a de
crease of $612.17 from the figures
for the corresponding period of
1937. The comparative figures
are:
1936— $12,726.79.
1937— $12,113.62.
While the comparative figures
show a decrease, several business
men in the city pointed out that it
is due to prosperity.
"It will be recalled,” one said,
“that the business was just enter
Forced Down 100
Miles From Goal
Had Only Half-Hour’s Gas
Supply When Reporting
Yesterday Noon.
Navy Joins Search
Experts Expressed Relief
Plane Could Float For
Many, Hours.
Honolulu, July 3.—Reports of
amateur radio stations to the effect
that the voice of Amelia Earhart
had been heard in an SOS message
today were discounted by the Navy
department who have ordered all
vessels in the vicinity of Howland’s
Island to commence search for the
missing aviatrix.
Official reports indicate that
nothing had been heard from the
missing plane up to 5 o’clock, Eas
tern Standard Time this afternoon.
New York. July 3.—No informa
tion relative to the whereabouts of
Miss Earhart and her navigator,
Fred Noonan, has been learned up
to 11:30 o’clock this morning. A
coast guard cutter left Howland,
Island, the aviatri’s destination
several hours ago.
Apparently headwinds had ex
hausted her gasoline within 100
miles of the end of a projected 2,
570 mile flight from New Guinea.
The alarming silence of the
plane’s radio spurred into search
the coast guard cutter Itasca from
Howland island when Miss Ear
hart’s estimated gasoline deadline
of 7 p. m. E. S. T. passed without
word.
(Aviation authorities had vary
ing estimates of how long the mon
oplane could remain afloat. At
Los Angeles Paul Mantz, an avia
tion associate said he believed the
craft could float “almost indefi
nitely.”)
Message Incomplete
A message trom tne gioDe-gira
ling plane, the time of which was
translated at Washington by coast
guard headquarters as 2:20 p. m.
E. S. T. said she had only a half
hour’s gasoline and had not sight
ed land. A later incomplete mas
sage was reported at 3:43 p. m.
E. S. T. earlier at 1:46 p. m. E. S.
T. The plane was approximately
100 miles from the island.
The cutter Itasca, only vessel
within several hundred miles of
Howland island, set out at 7:30 p.
m., eastern standard time to hunt
the missing plane.
Coast guardsmen here expressed
belief aviation’s first lady and her
companion had overshot the min
ute island and came down some
where in the vast midpacific region
far removed from regular shipping
lanes.
The cutter prepared to search
the little known area northwest of
i Howland.
[ Bound around the world on an
I equatorial trail of more than 27,000
miles Miss Earhart had flown since
May 28 from Oakland, Calif,, in
relatively leisurely stages.
Arriving at Lae, New Guinea,
June 28, Miss Earhart awaited fa
vorable weather for the attempt to
negotiate the unflown miles to
Howland island, the dot of land
which represents the United States’
frontier in the south Pacific and
which is regarded as a potential
stepping stone on an air line be
tween the Pacific coast and the
Antipodes.
Legion Meeting
All members of Dixon Post 45,
American Legion, are requested to
attend the annual meeting Tuesday
night.
Officers for the ensuing year will
be elected and delegates named to
attend the annual state convention
at Durham.
Threatened President
Boston. — Morton D. Wain
wright,72, of Winthrop, was ar
rested Thursday charged with
| pending threatening letters to
President Roosevelt.
ing a wide era of prosperity about
one year ago. Up to that time the
industries, especially, were ship
ping in small quantities by parcel
post. Since the general retail has
taken great strides those merchants
are placing larger orders in local
mills and having their merchandise
shipped by freight or express. This,
naturally will reduce the revenues
of postal stations located in indus
trial centers.”
The small mail, especially drop
letters, have shown a great in
crease here according to the post
office records.