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ASHEBORO MARCH
IN STEP—AHEAD
BOTH ARE LEADERS
THE COURIER
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THE CHANGING TIME
IN RANDOLPH COUNTY
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February 2, 1876
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Changed To The Courier
September 13. 1870
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ASHEEORO, N. C„ TUESDAY. JULY 6, 1937
PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY
NUMBER 66
Camp Will
Enlarged With
Purchase
Site Will Be Extend
Include Several Addi
tional Buildings.
Preparing New Budget
Coming Year; Many
Meetings Planned.
D,e Randolph county commis
ners, in session yesterday, pass
1, resolution authorizing sale of
,roxin,ately 109 acres of land,
„ occupied by the state prison
up, South Fayetteville street, to
i North Carolina Highway and
blic Works department. The
^ will be used for enlarging
e present prison camp site which
|1 include several new buildings.
The board fixed the price at $65
acre. M. E. Johnson, chairman
the board and R. C. Johnson,
rk, were authorized to prepare
deed and complete all arrange
(nts with the state department.
The board also adopted a resolu
in which provides for its fiscal
d business continuance from
ne 30 until th* new budget is
opted. This resolution is requtr
by the state law.
Members of the board are now
igaged in the tedious task of pre
ring the budget for the ensuing
iar. They are considering every
,urce of income in relation to the
icessary expense connected with
e operation of the entire coun
it is believed the budget seas
ons will commence within a week
ten days.
Sheriff Carl King was authoriz
1 to prepare the unpaid tax list
ir publication and prepare for the
igular sale of lands and property
pon which taxes have not been
id in September. Sheriff King
esterday reported he had collect
iover $3,000 during the month if
ime, reducing the unpaid balance
, $52,170.45.
TTie board granted several re
uests for releases of tax on cer
in parcels in the county. The
mounts involved were all decided
Jtnall ones., ^_
Joyd Continues
In Welfare Office
e a t a t i v e Arrangements
Completed Yesterday By
County Board.
Robert Lloyd, superintendent of
;he Randolph county public wel
fare bureau will remain in that ca
lacity tentatively, at least, ac
lording to information obtained in
hat office today.
Mr. Lloyd was at his desk today
ind stated that a tentative arrang
ement had been made with the
ounty organization for him to car
y on the duties of that depart
nent for the time being. No dep
ute arrangement has been made
tnd Mr. Lloyd, it is understood,
las agreed to carry on the work
intil something of a definite plan
las been agreed upon by the coun
y commissioners and the new
county public welfare board.
City Employees
Grade Auto Lot
leveling Up Baptist Church
Property; Donated
By Church.
Employes of the city today are
grading the vacant lot on Church
•treet owned by the Baptist
church. The property adjoins the
city owned land near the City hall.
The lot was donated to the public
hy the church, as a temporary par
king space.
Heavy traffic had placed it in
P^>r condition and the city sup
plied its scraping machine to level
it off. It also plans a drainage sys
tem to keep it from becoming rut
ted in the future.
Mrs. Ervin Frye
Assumes Duties
Takes Over Secretary Job
Of Local Merchants
Association.
Mrs. Ervin Frye, appointed sec
retary of the Ashetioro Merchants
association took over her new du
ties this morning. She returned
yesterday for a short vacation at
“>e shore.
Miss Radie Hughes will continue
Jer duties as assistant secretary.
Mrs. Frye was formerly the branch
manager of the Carolina Auto club
■nd is familiar with all types of
work pertaining to office manage
ment.
starting ‘Strictly B*minp«s’ Atlantic Flio-htq
The flying boat Caledonia. Britain's unit in the transatlantic test flights.
Writing a new chapter in the history of commercial aviation, the Pan-American Clipper, starting east
ward from New York, and the Empire boat of England, the Caledonia, flying westward from Southampton,
Eng., wtre to make the first regularly scheduled transatl mtic flights. Under command of Captain Harold
Gray and Captain A. S. Wi'cockson respectively, the ships will make stops at Botwood, Newfoundland, and
Foyne, Ireland, before proceeding to their destination.
Business Good As
Last Half Begins
Reports From Raleigh of Va
rious Types of State’s Bus
iness Most Optimistic.
A»-the state trf 'Worth Carolina
swings into the last half of the
year 1937, optimistic reports come
from Raleigh depicting business
of varied types throughout the
state.
Allen J. Maxwell, state revenue
commissioner, pointed out in con
i' nection with record state revenues
of $68,184,437.04 for 1936-37 that
even after adjustments for in
creased rates the record $11,013,
081 income tax payments “indicate
a higher volume of taxible income
than for any previous year.”
Federal internal revenue collec
tions for the fiscal year which end
ed last week set a North Carolina
record at $310,996,340.52, it was re
vealed at Greensboro.
At Asheville bank clearings reach
ed $76,067,000 for the first six
months of the year, as compared
with $62,791,000 last year for the
period and $55,198,000 in 1935. For
the fiscal year clearings of $161.
589,000 exceeded those of the pre
vious fiscal period by 31 per cent.
At Greensboro the six-month
1937 building permits total reached
$1,203,780 to exceed all permits is
sued in 1936, a total of $1,704,2 ■ 6,
and at Asheville permits for six
months aggregated $435,871.40,
compared with $368,254.50 in the
1936-37 at Winston-Salem permits
totaled $1,909,257, an increase of
nearly 30 per cent over the prev
ious year.
Real Estate Active
At Henderson the Vance county
register of deeds reported real es
tate much more active than in any
recent year, with 289 deeds record
ed duringg the first six months of
the year as compared with 196 in
the period last year. Marriages
also increased in frequency in
Vance, with 130 in six months when
there were only 118 last year.
Building activity dropped slightly
there.
Greensboro reported more new
automobiles, 1,629, sold there dur
ing the first half of the year than
in any previous first half-year and
tax receipts ot Winston-Salem July
1 set a record for a single day at
$327,181.43.
Inquiries asking specific ques
tions about the Great Smoky moun
tains national park received by the
Asheville chamber of commerce in
six months ending June 30 reach
ed 1,059, compared with 806 in all
Dividends Paid
nks, building and loan asso
>ns and manufacturing enter
s throughout the state dis
ted dividends. At Charlotte
banks and two building and
groups sent out $138,750; at
am four banks paid out $69,
ind a building and loan esso
in $29,731.02.
THE WEATHER
,rth Carolina: Partly cloudy
possibly local showers m ex
e east and south portions to
and tonight. Wednesday,
rally fair.
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News Flashes
—— lrom
Everywhere
Mills Open
Cleveland.—Ohio national guard
1 trucks, loaded with armed troops,
! rolled in Cleveland yesterday to
j enforce peace when four strika
; bound steel mills re-opened.
Knox Boosts Labor Court
New York.—Col. Frank Knox,
publisher of The Chicago Daily
News, returned from Europe yes
terday asserting he was convinced
labor unions could not exist under
Fascism, and with a recommenda
tion the United States establish a
labor court of inquiry, similar to
| that in England.
Identify Killer
Lancaster, S. C.—Police Chief
A. H. Montgomery said last night
I hat law enforcement agencies of
three states had been alerted in a
hunt for William Morgan, escaped
convict, wanted in connection with
the shotgun slaving of a policeman
here early Sunday.
384 Dead
Washington. —America counted
384 dead today from Fourth of
July accidents, but only one was
directly attributed to fireworks.
Traffic accidents mounted to a
record high as 41 states reported
228 fatalities—20 more than were
killed in highway accidents during
the corresponding period last year.
Banker Celebrates
Asheboro was aware that Monay
was the day when “the glorious
foruth” was to be observed, when
A. B. Beasley, Randleman’s genial
banker drove into town in his car
decorated attractively with several
small flags floating in the breeze.
Mr. Beasley attended the meeting
of the board of commissioners.
Children’s Week
At Central Church
Real Meaning of Church Mem
bership is Being Stressed
By Youth Director.
The Central Methodist Protest
ant church this week is observing
Children’s Church Week, with a se
ries of children’s hours every morn
ing at 9 o’clock in the church. The
sessions open at 9 o’clock and con
tinue for forty-five minutes. Chi'
dren from 10 to 14 are especially
invited while others, whatever their
age, will be received.
The hour including readings from
the Bible, Biblical and other stor
ies, instruction in the meaning of
Bible lessons and phrases and the
meaning of the Lord s Supper, and
the real meaning of membership in
the church. The hours are prov
ing to be of great interest to the
children. The work is under direc
tion of Herman Dillard.
Celebration Is
Open At Manteo
Mammoth Pageant Presented
For First Time; Congress
man Warren Speaks.
While the big day of the 10
week celebration is set for August
18th, at which time President
Roosevelt will be on hand, the com
memoration of the 350th anniver
sary of the birth of Virginia Dare,
was opened Sunday. Within a
stone’s throw of the colony site,
where the soldier’s fort, a little log
chapel where they worshipped, and
the quaint, thatched-roofed build
ings, have been restored by WPA
workers. Congressman Lindsay
Warren, representative from that
district, made a brief address
stressing the importance of the
colony on American civilization,
before the performance of the pag
eant which depicted the life of
these earlier settlers. The pag
eant will be repeated thrice weekly
during the ten weeks duration.
“The Lost Colony” was written in
pageant form by Paul Green,
North Carolina writer, and is a
two-hour performance. It is pre
sented in a natural ampitheatre
carved from the giant sand dunes
on Soanoke Island. The leading
role was portrayed by Katherine
Cale, a British-born actress, sup
plied by the WPA federal theatre
project. She played the part of
the Mother of Virginia Dare, the
first white child born of English
parents in America. Accompany
ing the pageant were lyrics writ
ten by North Carolina’s Pulitzer
prize winner playwright to fit
16th century ballads and the early
chants of the Church of England.
King Visits Scots
Edinburgh, July 5.—The keys of
this ancient capital of Scotland
were presented its new sovereign
yesterday as King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth arrived for a pos‘
coronation progress through their
northern realm.
Historic Resolution May Be
Offered in Congress Shortly
Reports coming from Washing
ton indicate that Congress is sitting
on the edge of a collective chair
awaiting a bomb to be quietly
thrown into their midst in the form
of an anti-third term resolution.
This action has been anticipated
ever since Governor Earl’s decla
ration for a third term for Presi
dent Roosevelt. It is understood
also that this action has been
agreed upon recently by congres
sional members but the identity of
the bomb-thrower has not been
divulged, if decided uonp.
The resolution to be offered is
historic, having been adopted by
the house in 1875 when President
Grant’s friends were urging him
for a third nomination ,and by the
senate in 1829 when Coolidge’s "I
do not choose to run” only whetted
the appetites of his political
friends. The resolution reods:
Liberty School To
Have Commercial
Dept. In 1937
Randolph County Officials
Grant Request; No Cast
To Taxpayers.
Loan School House
Program For Agriculture
Department at Trinity
Under Way.
Under provisions of a resolution
adopted by the Randolph county
Board of Education Monday, Lib
erty district will have a ommerciai
department set up in its building
for the school year commencing in
September.
During a discussion of the pro
posal it was brought out that a
teacher could be employed for sal
ary obtained from tuition and the
county and local residents would
not be required to contribute to
wards its upkeep. The board a
greed to aid in furnishing some
eqiupment for the new department.
Property owned by the county
near the St. Peter M. E. church
was placed in the custody of that
church for one year. This grant
was made at the request of the
church officials who want to use
it in connection with church act
ivities. The church agreed the
building would always be at the
disposal of the school authorities.
C. M. Kennedy, Mr. Bullock,
principal of the school at Trinity,
and Mr. Redding, in cooperation
with Superentendent Bulla were
authorized to work out a program
for the establishment of an agri
culture department in the Trinity
school. W. W. McCulloch has been
approved as teacher for that de
partment.
James Pugh was awarded a
contract to furnish wood for Gray’s
Chapel, Providence and New Mar
ket schools for $2.25 a cord for
tfi^ two former schools and $2.50
for the later.
Tom English was appointed a
member of the school committee
at Archdale to succeed W. T. W:n
slow, resigned.
M. A. Pugh and B. H. Lineberry
.were appointed committeemen - to
fill vacancies in the Gray’s Chapel
district school board.
Robert Russell was appointed to
the New Hope school board to
succeed Mr. Surratt.
The annual school budget was
discussed and will be presented to
the county commissioners later
this month.
Tax Penalty Here
After August 1
Two and One-half Per Cent
Faces Delinquents On
That Date. v
Property owners and other tax
payers in the City of Asheboro
were warned today by the tax col
lecting officials that a 2 1-2 per
cent penalty will be added to all
unpaid taxes July 31. The penalty
will be effective August L
Service Station
Is Robbed Sunday
The Grayland service station, lo
cated near the Randolph-Davidson
morning about 3:00 o’clock of $1,
county lines was robbed Sunday
150 in cash. Watt Davis, opera
tor of the station, was held up by
the two armed men, whom he did
not know, and relieved of the mon
ey. In addition to robbing the
filling station, the robbers added to
their loot by holding up a passing
car with four passengers and tak
ing un a collection of all pockets
thereabouts.
Sheriff Carl King and Deputy
Pearl Barnes are investigating the
case but, as yet, have made no ar
rests.
“Resolved that it is the sense of
the senate that the precedence es
tablished by Washington and other
Presidents of the United States in
retiring from the presidential of
fice after their second term has be
come, by universal concurrence, a
part of our republican system of
government, and that any depart
ment from this time-honored cus
tom would be unwise, unpatriotic
and fraught with peril to our free
institutions.”
Adoption of the resolution by the
senate came in the pre-convention
campaign of 1928, four months be
fore the Republicans met in Kan
sas City. President Coolidge vir
tually eliminated himself for re
nomination but a “draft Coolidge”
movement was on among Republi
can leaders who who did not like
the idea of Hoover being the no
minee.
Earhart and N avigator
Believed Safe; Radio
Calls Continued Today
4.
SOS Places Plane, ^
On Unknown Chart1
Latest Messages Come From
Spot 300 Miles Away
From First Call.
Japan Joins Search
Ships Converging in Mid
Pacific Look For Rescue
Today or Tonight.
San Francisco, July 6.—An
amateur radio station, here
late today reported reception
of a message, which he said
was sent by Amelia Earhart.
stating hat she and her navi
gator were alive the ship above
water and the plane was
drifting northwest.
(In event this message was
authentic, it would discount
earlier despatches to the ef
fect that the plane was prob
ably on a coral reef.—Ed.)
Continual drifting, as report
ed in the amateur’s report,
would carry the plane in the
direction of Honolulu and
might place it within striking
distance of the many ships pa
trolling that part of the Pa
cific.
San Francisco, July 6.—George
Putnam, husband of Amelia Ear
hart was reported to be suffering
with nerve strain and under the
constant care of a physician in a
private home.
Honolulu.—The search for tossel
ed haired Amelia Earhart and her
navigator, Fred J. Noonan grew in
to an international one today when
Japan ordered its naval and com
mercial vessels in the south seas to
take up the hunt for the two miss
ing aviators. TTie tinifed States
has already placed every vessel in
those waters into the search.
Early this morning, ragged ra
dio signals sent an armada of ships
racing toward a mystery spot 281
miles north of Howland Island, over
300 miles off the spot where it was
first believed Miss Earhart had
sent out her SOS calls.
That part of the mid-Pacific is
alive with vessels of all descrip
tions. They first hastened towards
a spot 100 miles east of Howland
Island where that signal “only half
hour of gas left” came to the out
side world Saturday morning. La
ter the search was shifted to the
north west then the north of he
island.
It is believed the plane and the
two missing persons will be reach
ed some time today or late tonight.
The British freighter Moorby
was believed only 90 miles from
the indicated objective and it al
tered its course to hurry in that
direction. The navy minesweeper
Swan likewise was proceeding un
der forced draft. The 260-foot,
gleaming white Itasca, a heavy
smoke attesting its speed, was
bettering 15 knots and expected to
arrive at the position at 11:30 p.
m., eastern standard time.
Howland Island a bare dot of
ladn, was the goal of Miss Ear
hart and her navigator, Fred J.
Noonan, on a flight from Lae, New
Guinea. Short of fuel, harrassed
by headwinds, they were cut down
in their flight. Weak, garbled ra
dio messages from the $80,000
plane did not give their position,
nor tell whether the ship alighted
in the tropic seas or reached the
comparative safety of one of the
numerous tiny coral atolls.
Calls Come Through
But yesterday at 7:12 a. m. (E.S.
T.) three radio operators at the
Wailupe naval station heard a
message they believed came from
the globe-girdling plane. It was
fragmentary; faint words between
others that had been blotted out
by static.
The operators pieced it together
to read:
“281 North Howland . . . Call
KHAQQ (the call letters of the
Earhart plane) . . . beyond north
. . . Don’t hold with us much lon
ger . . . above water . . . shut
off."
From this message came widely
varying interpretations. A| Pearl
Harbor lieutenant suggested it
meant the plane was sinking; the
coast guard said it might mean ra
dio transmission from the ship was
being “shut off” by falling batter
ies.
George Palmer Putnam, Miss
Earhart’s husband, said ‘n Oakland
he believed the words “above wa
ter”, indicated certainly the plane
had landed on a reef, that the gas
oline, required to turn the right
motor to provide radio transmis
sion, was being exhausted.
Selling
Stolen Nitro
After pleading not guilty to for
mal charges, Henry Huber, 64, pic
tured in Franklin, Pa., jail cell,
confessed that he stole nitro-gly- j
cerin, then allegedly sold it to C. I.
O. men from Warren, O., scene of
repeated bombings. He was held
without bond and was expected to
testify in trials of others held in
connection with bombings.
Casualty List In
’37 Second Largest
Rates Second Since 1930, But
Smaller Than Fatalities On
July 4th, 1936.
It was a remarkable fact, in re
cording the 325 deaths from the
nation’s celebration of its 161st an
niversary of independence, that not
one was directly caused front fire
works. Automobile accidents were
responsible for 203 of the deaths,
drownii)gsiVJA, ,.&b4 jg&iscellaneous
causes accounted for 48.
This toll is the third largest
since 1930. From the year 1930
through the recently passed fourth
of July, the total number oj’deaths
reported reached 2,117, an average
of approximately 264 deaths each
year. This week’s toll was distinc
tly under last years rate, which
was set at 346.
While there were no casualties
from fireworks, hundreds were
treated for minor explosions. In
the city of Chicago alone, 336 fire
cracker victims were admitted to
hospitals.
New York had the largest num
ber of holiday casualties with Cal
ifornia ranking second. North
Carolina reported 10 and South
Carolina 9. There were four
states, Wyoming, Delaware, Neva
da and Vermont, reporting no cas
ualties.
$300 Fire Loss
At Hasty’s Cafe
Hot Water System Caused
Flames Which Hurried
Rear Section.
A fire loss which, according to
Arthur Hasty, will amount to over
$300 was caused to his cafe build
ing, Fayetteville street, adjoining
the Ashlyn hotel, at 9 o’clock Sun
day morning.
The fire, Mr. Hasty said, was
caused by a defective wick in an
automatic hot water system in a 12
by 12 foot wing in rear of the
cafe proper.
The system, he said, had been
used but a short time when last
week he had some trouble with a
wick in the oil burning plant A
representative of the company
from which he bought the system
put in a temporary wick Mr. Hasty
said but it did not function prop
erly. Sunday morning the rear
section burst into flames with no
warning and Mr. Hasty and his
employees were unable to save any
articles, including clothing which
had been plpaced there.
He said the loss, including the
hot water system, will run well over
$300. He carried no insurance on
the buildirig or contents.
Return From Trip
In Western States
Miss Moleta Morgan, Asheboro,
and Mrs. C. F. Blake, High Point,
and a party from Hickory have re
turned from an extended motor
trip in the western and southern
sections of the United States.
During the trip they visited Col
orado Springs, Pike’s Peak, Salt
Lake City, Grand Canyon, Painted
Desert and the exposition at Dal
las, Texas. They reported excel
lent weather during the entire
trip.
Robert Doughton
Gives His Views
On Tax Evasion
North Carolina Representa
tive Scouts Idea of Altering
Fundamental Methods.
Gross System Hooted
Treasury Official Also Offers
Reasons Why Government
Would Not Approve.
Representative Robert L. Dough
ton, of North Carolina, chairman
of the House Ways and Means com
mittee, is most active concerning
the tax-dodging issue. Speculation
resulting from the recent tax evas
ion healings on the possibility of
the federal government fundamen
tally altering its method of impos
ing and collecting individual in
come taxes was scouted by Mr.
Doughton.
Mr. Doughton, asked if he had
heard of consideration being given
to substituting a tax on gross in
comes, declared he know of no such
proposal in official circles and be
lieved the present system would be
continued.
A Treasury official, who has
charge of studies of world-wide tax
methods for the use of the depart
ment’s policy-formers, offered sud
stantial reasons why the Federal
government could not employ a
gross tax system. He pointed out
that of the twenty-nine states
which adopted emergency sales
taxes during depression years twe
nty-two still retain them. Four of
these employ a multiple type of
sales tax known academically as a
“gross income tax.”
No Loss Allowance Under Plan
The speculation concerning possi
ble use of a gross income tax by
the Federal government grew from
the belief of some observers that
by working out a satisfactory sys
tem of taxing gross incomes the
government could withdraw from
the individual the responsibility for
figuring his own net income, thus
eliminating the cause of the cur
rent tax evasion charges
Under the gross income tax, its ' "
pay a relatively small 'fax, 'scaled
according to the amount, on their
total income for each year as evi
denced by salaries, dividends and
other sources without allowance
for so-called “losses.” If the tax
were withheld at the source the
taxpayer would be further relieved
of responsibility.
The Treasury expert declared
that this type of tax would be un
fair on its face, since an indi
vidual might be taxed for gross in
come of a large amount and have
losses for the year of an amount
exceeding his income. The near
est thing to this sort of levy which
the Federal government now main
tains is the assessment for old-age
benefits levied on salaries at their
source under the Social Security
Act, but this is not regarded as
a tax.
Multiple Sales Tax in Four States
The multiple sales tax in effect
in four states, which college pro
fessors refer to as “gross income
taxes,” amount to taxing each
stage of commodity transactions,
according to Treasury studies. Such
taxes are in effect in Washington,
Mississippi, West Virginia and In
diana.
In addition to its “gross income
tax,” West Virginia has a personal
income tax ranging from 1 to 3 per
cent. Its “gross income tax,” while
varying in rates from those in the
other three States, was said to gen
erally conform to their methods.
The West Virginia “gross tax
according to Treasury records,
amounts to 2 per cent on retail
sales; 65-100 of 1 per cent on am
usements; 1.3 to 5.2 per cent on
public utilities; 1.3 to 7.8 per cent
on extracting (mining); 39-100 of
1 per cent on processing or manu
facturing; 195-1.000 of 1 per cent
on wholesaling; 1 per cent on prin
ting; 1 per cent on real estate com
missions; 1-2 of 1 per cent on
banks; 2 per cent on contractors;
1 per cent on advertising; 1 per
cent on personal services; 1 per
cent on service industries, and 1
per cent on miscellaneous income.
One Accident Near
City Over Holiday
Tourist From Kentucky Hurt
When Car Overturned;
No Others Reported
Asheboro, according to reports
available up to a late hour today,
boasts almost a clean slate insofar
as automobile accidents were con
cerned over the week-end holiday.
One accident was reported, that
occurring when a car driven by D.
P. Blanchard, Louisville, Ky., over
turned on Highway 64. Mr. Blan
chard sustained minor cuts and
bruises which were treated at the
Randolph hospital. He was able to
go to his home in another ma
chine.