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the courier and asheboro march IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS t.weekly UJME LXI As The Regulator February 2, 1876 _01dert Paper Published In Randolph County PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN — :—.. -~ ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937 Changed To The Courier September 13. 1879 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY NUMBER 75 en Stores Co. ake Possession Of New Building jerj Concern Placing Shelving in Cranford Structure. fears Completion te Highway Branch Will Take Quarters in Fifteen Days. ,e main floor of the new Cran building, located on Church * in rear of the Asheboro office, has been turned over to Allen Stores, Inc., and em MS of that concern are now ing shelving and other fixtures opening in the near future, be upper floor, according to the er c. C. Cranford, will be jr for occupancy of the 6th Di State Highway department, [bout fifteen days. The lower r is to receive one additional r coating before it is ready for ness of the Allen company. inor finishing touches including ement of sections under the t windows and pointing up of special concrete front will be ipleted in the near future. ^ upper floor, which will se the highway division, is di ed into a number of offices to idle the various branches of de tmental work. L special heating system, for the ier floor has been completed, is system will be entirely sepa e from the system used on the nind floor. ipect Roosevelt To Name Justice ashington Expecting An nouncement Today Or Tomorrow. Washington. — Under the pres t of a growing movement for Hmnient, both houses of Con bss convened today with a nuni oi important measures waiting ion. -■ * ^ subcommittee of the Senate Ju iary Committee spent the weok d at work on a revision of the urt reorganization measure. A ember of the subcommittee said night that a redraft of the bill d beer, completed and that the bcommittee would expedite its udy of the measure so it might presented to the whole cominit e early in the week and then be iced before the Senate as soon as ssible. Another matter which some Sen ors believe may come before the enate this week is the necessity passing upon the appointment President Roosevelt of a new itice of the Supreme Court to ke the place of Justice Van evanter. who retired in June. Choice This Week Ihe expectation is general m the enate that the President may sub lit the name of the man of his loice for the appointment in time >r the Senate to act on his con nnation this session. One Sena * who has been in the thick of * court light since its inception iM tojight that he would not be “prised if the President should «ke his choice this week. He nfeted out that the new majority »der, Senator Barkley, spent the ?ek-end with Mr. Roosevelt ab nd the Presidential yacht and id he expected that a tentative Pgram. including the appoint •wt of a Supreme Court justice, Wld be mapped for the rest of >e session. Another senator who is regarded ' his colleagues as an authority i constitutional law and proce tre said that under the traditional instruction of the Constitution it 38 customary to fill a vacancy at occurred during a session of ingress before that session tomes ° a close. “This is only the usual construc J#n that has been placed on the institution,” he said, “not a mat er of law.” News Flashes -— from Everywhere Farmers Stand Washington. — The American “"fin Bureau federation decided J? "lake a last stand before the House agriculture committee Tucs “*y for enactment of a crop con bil1 at this session of Con gress. Earthquake Toll Mexico City.—Bodies of 30 per il* had been taken from the ™“is m Vera Crus and Puebla , where a heavy earthquake mght plunged cities into dark Overcome By Urge to Fly, Boy Crashes Runaway Ship The urge that seizes every boy when he stands before an airplane —to jump into the cockpit, grab the controls and roar away—be came a dream realized with a near disastrous ending, ictured above, for Julius Balmut, left, 16-year-old Clevelander. He gazed hungrily at three visiting army airplanes, then suddenly climbed into one of them and' roared ox. At a speed of .40 miles an hour he crashed headon into one of the other ships, smashing both. Each cost 35,000. Balmut told police he learned to fly in school. He was sent to a de tention home. Vandenberg, Wheeler And Barkley Seen as Possibilities Extortion Plot Is Apprehended Montgomery County Youth Confesses After Federal Officers Set Trap. Montgomery county officers were baffled over an ertortion plot against William Robert Woolev, 75-year- old farmer of Mt. Gilead until Evander Ralph Andrews was apprehended. The Charlotte divis ion of federal bureau of investiga tion were called in and cooperated with Sheriff Earl D. Bruton of Montgomery and four of his depu ties. Mr. Wooley received a letter de manding $250, threatening death to him and his two sons if he did not comply. He was instructed to de liver the money to a point on Steele Bridge on Little river, about six miles from Mount Gilead on Route No. 3. * , , Six agents from the federal of fice with Sheriff Bruton and his posse surrounded the pay-off spot Saturday afternoon as the 18-year old perpetrator of the plot ap proached the bridge. Andrews at first denied having any connection with the extortion, saying that he was going to the ri ver to set a trout line; but later he confessed to local F. B. I. agents taht he wrote the extortion letter. Andrews is in custody at the Troy jail pending preliminary hear ings. , , Andrews, who lives at a farm ad joining the Wooley farm on Route No. 3, Mount Gilead, wrote the let ter July 20. The envelope was ad dressed to William Robert Wooley. The letter itself was addressed to Wooley and his sons, demanding $250, with the threat to kill Woo ley and his sons if the money were not paid. The letter stated that the money should be delivered to Steele bridge, Saturday at noon. Faces Federal Trial Wooley notified the local division of the F. B. I. Six agents were de tailed to investiate and, with the co-operation of Sheriff Bruton, ar rested Andrews. . Andrews, according to the local F. B. I. office, declared that ha did not mean to harm Wooley or his sons. Authority to prosecute Andrews for violation of the Federal extor tion act was received b/'0^; agents from the office of United States Attorney Carlisle Higgins of Greensboro. Agents also filed a complaint with United States com missioner J. B. Ewing. Andrews probably will be taken into custo dy by federal authorities today, ac cording to the local F. B. I. and he will be tried at The September federal court in Rockingham, the United States district court for'the middle district for North Carolina. Highway Patrol In Census Role Sets Up Weighing Station Between Asheboro And Seagrove. Members of the State Highway patrol, yesterday, set up a station between Asheboro and Seagrove where they are weighing trucks and contents and passing out cards in interest of improving highway traffic. ■ It is part of the program insti tuted by the state and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads to carry out a “Planning Survey” in the in terest of all highway users. The cars, handed to motorists, and which the patrol requests im mediate mailing to the department seeks the following information. Where is vehicle owned; where did trip begin; to what point is motor ist traveling; route planned; busi ness or pleasure trip and other in teresting features. , Three Senators Seen As Candidates For 1940 Nomination. Washington.—Presidential candi cies have been under discussion in the past week. Mr. Roosevelt’s plea for econo my, and his veto of the bill contin uing low interest rates on farm mortgages were overridden in the Senate, 71 to 19. The vote would have been 72 to 18 if it hadn’t been for Arthur H. Vandenburg (R. of Michigan, commonly men tioned as a Republican presidential possibility for 1940. Mr. Vandenberg was the solitary Republican to support Mr. Roose velt. And Mr. Vandenberg, is is pointed out, was keeping his rec ord straight on the ecenomic issue, perhaps with 1940 in mind. A great many senators have de manded economy of Mr. Roosevelt. None of them has been more em phatic than Mr. Vandenberg. When the issue is raised in concrete terms few Democratic budget balancers and only one Republian adopt a consistent course. Even Senator Carter Glass (D) of Virginia de clares that he is not going to begin economizing “at the expense of ths farmers.” He voted to override the President’s economy veto. But Mr. Vandenberg stands firm. The fight of the Supreme Court (Please turn to Page 5) August 18 Date Of F. D. R.’s Visit President Plans Complete For Roanoke Island Celebration. Washington—The White House announced yesterday plans for President Roosevelt’s contemplated visit to the Roanoke Island cele bration in North Carolina August 18. Mr. Roosevelt has said he will attend tho celebration, commen orating the 35th anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage born in the new world, if the congressional situa tion permits his absence from the capital. Tentative plans call for the Pres ident to go to Elizabeth City, N. C., by train and there board a coast guard cutter to Roanoke Is land. Returning, he plans to mo tor to Norfolk, Va., to board the presidential yacht for the trip back to Washington. Representative Lindsay C. War ren of Washington, N. C., who in vited the President to the Roanoke island celebration scaid he was pleased with the President’s plans. The celebration has been in pro gress several weeks and wijl con tinue until fall. Legion Voting On Commander; Two Out For Office Veterans Hear Secretary Of War Urge Hands-./! Europe’s War. Session Closing Asheboro’s Delegates Will Return Here After Election. Durham.—The N.orth Carolina Department American Legion, af ter a thorough wetting in yester ady’s parade, settled down this noon to ballot for election of offi cers, Two men, Arthur B. Corey, Greenville, and Hector C. Blacky well, Fayetteville, are candidate* for the post of commander held for the past year by Wiley M. Pickens, Lincolnton. Blackwell, according to convention information, had a slight lead over Corey this morn ing. Yesterday, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, cautioned the vet erans against taking sides in con versations regarding disputes be tween foreign nations. Such ac tions, the speaker said, often lead a neutral nation into war. “Americans,” no said, “are justi fied in viewing the foreign scene with much concern. Let us then, refrain from moral judgments, ex pose promptly all propaganda di rected towards involving us in for eign warfare and oppose any pres sure exerted by our own emotional or racial groups that might have such consequences.” Secretary Woodring admitted, that the avoidance of participation in a general war is no easy task in these times because of the mul tiplied inter-dependence of nations, but said the United States is for tunately situated both geographi cally and by exemption from other conditions that might seriously im peril the peace of the nation. The delegation from Dixon Po3t 45, Asheboro and its auxiliary are planning to return to that city at. the close of the convention late* today. Midsummer Cool Wave Moves East Weather Talk Has Proved Source of Interest in Coun try Generally. Easterners who have sweltered under the beating sun and burn ing heat of this summer will re ceive with joy the news that the middle west’s midsummer coo! wave moved eastward last night to replace high temperatures beyond the Alleghanies. Warmer weather already had en tered the north central states, Forecaster J. R. Lloyd said at Chicago, coming in from Montana, where midday readings were in the 90’s. Minneapolis and Chicago re gistered 72 degrees at that time, while some points in the Great Lakes region continued in the 50’s and 60’s. Sault Ste. Marie and Al pena, Mich., had the low mark of the nation at 1:30 p. m. (E.S.T.) with 52. Lloyd said temperatures were above normal in the New England states and eastern New York, the middle and south Atlantic states, along the gulf coast and in the far west. The cool weather which has over spread the north central states, the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley should be felt in some of the east ern warm areas by morning, and by evening should be spread over New England, New York and the middle Atlantic states, the fore caster said. Rain was sighted for most of that area today. Lloyd said the prospect was for precipitation in the eastern Great Lakes region, New England, New York and the Atlantic states Temperatures were in the 70’s in the upper and middle Missouri bai ley yesterday Fair weather gen erally was in sight in the north cen tral states Three-way Tie Forest City and Dunn-Erwin joined Charlotte in the state finals of the American Legion junior baseball program. Charlotte had advanced to the finals last week. Yesterday, Forest City beat Gas tonia, 11-2, and Dunn-Erwin beat Hamlet, 3-1 to win their way to the finals. Medical Staff Raeligh.—Governor Hoey an nounced yesterday the appointment of the board of trustees and the medical staff of the State hospital for the Insane in Morganton. John A. Scott of Statesville was named a trustee to succeed Buren Jumey, now a member of the In dustrial , commission. Other new appointees to the board are W. A. Richards of Charlotte and James E. Shipman of Hendersonville, who, Governor Hoey said, would fill long standing vacancies. Post Office and Store At Coleridge Robbed; Washington Notified plected to Head Business Women Elected president for the next two years by the National Federa tion of Business and Professional Women at its Atlantic City con tention, Miss Earlene White, above, of Jackson, Miss., postmis tress to the U. S. Senate, will lead the organization’s fight for strict equality of the sexes under law. She succeeds Miss Chari Ormond Williams in the post. it_ Judge Rousseau Fines Sentelle Representative in Past Legis lature Gets Involved In Legal Action. An interesting case that haz re cently come before Judge Julius A. Rousseau, now holding court in Randolph, was that is R. E. Sen telle, representative from Bruns wick county in the past legislature, ife Sentelle recently drew g fine of $225 and a 30-day jail sentence on conviction of a recorders court charge of driving an automobile while he was ain an intoxicated condition, say the Brunswick rep resentative is going to Raleigh shortly to present his case to the court of public opinion. ■ Taken first into the recorder’s court of Montgomery the Bruns wick barrister appealed from a con viction which carried a more mod erate fine and automatically of course took his drivers’ license. On appeal he fell into Judge Julius A. Rousseau, was convicted, and given the stiff fine and jail sentence. Representative Sentelle has appeal ed that case to the Supreme court, but his sole hope there would be abuse of discretion and seldom oo the courts interfere on that score. The act under which the jurist im posed his punishment carries plen ty of latitude and longitude. Judge Rousseau previously had indicated his purpose to be hard in such cas es. Despite jurist’s and jury’s ver dicts against the former school su perintendent, minister, farmer and present lawyer, the Sentelle repu tation has been against liquor. Many members of the general as sembly as well as outside friends declare the attorney’s habits en tirely against the use of liquor. As-, sociates in these legislatures find that the most difficult thing in the controversy. They never saw and never heard anything to indicate that the legislator ever took a drink. The Brunswick man says he had taken no drink then and none in decades prior to that date. It may turn out to be a case for the governor. The late Rev. R. L. Davis, superintendent of the Anti Saloon league, got himself convict ed twice in Wake courts and had to be saved by Governor Craig who took a great delight in doing Rev. Mr. Davis wasn’t popular. He had a genius for rubbing peo ple the wrong way. He had pre ferred charges of bootlegging against a city official. He had pre sented bottles of liquor alleged to have been sold from that official’s store. The case went to trial. The alleged liquor man was acquitted and the witnesses against him damned. The friends of the boot legger assaulted Brother Davis’ witnesses before they could escape from court. Brother Davis was reputed to have busted the head of a thug who pounced upon the wit ness. Rev. Mr. Davis denied hitting the assailant, but recorder’s court and later a Superior court jury found him guilty. He was fined, Governor Craig with great joy ac quitted thq preacher. Governor Craig did not believe Rev. Mr. Davis struck the thug, who at tacked the Davis witness, and his excellency was sorry that the pretfeher did not club the head off the attaoker. Governor Hoey may be asked to intervene in the Sentelle case. Stamps, Money, Is Taken As Loot Crime Took Place After Night Watchman Had Completed Making Round. G-Men Notified Left Clue in Tire Tread; May Rtesult in Final Identifi cation of Culprits. Merchandise valued at between 300 and 400 and currency and stamps, property of the United States postoffice department was a part of the loot taken by uniden tified persons from the Enterprise Manufacturing company’s store and adjoining postoffice in Cole ridge township early Sunday morn ing. Sheriff Carl King, whose office has been investigating the rob bery, today said they had no clues to point towards the identity of the culprits but had ascertained the manner in which the crime was committed and two or three other important features that may prove of value in future identification. According to police reports, the robbers gained entrance to the building by means of a ladder which the robbers gained entrance. It is believed the men who par ticipated in the affair were well ac quainted with the community and the operations of the store. The robbery was staged shortly after the nightwatchman had made his rounds and had finished his duty for the day. The night force at mill nearby had commenced opera tions. The window, used as en trance, was located on the far side of the building, away from the mill locationfi. The time of the crime was de termined by Sheriff King who lo cated the position of an automobile about one half mile from the store. The fact that this car was used by the men in their get-away was evi dent, as a large dry spot, showed tire treads leading from the dry location into the damp ground j nearby. It had rained for a short | period between the hours of mid- j night and 4 o’clock in the morning. | In addition to facing a robbery charge, the men when located, will be charged with entering and rob bing a United States post office. Details of the crime have already been forwarded to Washington and a Federal investigation is an ticipated in the near future. HAY AND WHEAT WIELDS DOUBLED IN MITCHELL Bakersville, July 26.—Although exact figures are not available, many Mitchell county farmers re port their hay and wheat yields have doubled on fields where they applied triple-superphosphate last year. The phosphate was supplied by the TVA to farmers who agreed to conduct demonstrations to show the value of this element in soil im provement, said Frank L. Woodard, assistant county farm agent. Bailey Opens Fight Against Adminstrations Wage Bill Washington. — As the Senate squared itself today for a battle royal over the Black-Connery wage and hour bill, designated “desir able” by President Roosevelt, Sen ator Josiah W. Bailey, North Car olina, announced his unalterable opposition to the measure. “I am not,” the Senator stated, “in favor of turning the industry of this country over to five men, and that is all there is to it.” The declaration by Bailey was the prelude to an all-day struggle in which the railroad employes of the country won their second Sen ate victory of this session through passage by an overwhelming non record vote of the bill of Senator Pat. McCarran, Democrat of Neva da, to limit the length of all trains to 70 cars. The other railroad bill, passed and approved by the President, represents the major ac complishment of railroad brother hools. It is the retirement pension law, now in effect. Opposes Train Bill Senator Robert R. Reynolds an nounced before the yote that he would support the 70-car limit bill, while Senator Bailey said he would vote against it. Making his statement good late in the afternoon when a weary Senate had debated for hours on the 70-train limit law, Bailey talked at some length against the 70-car measure. As the Senate debated the train measure during the day, with Me Prefers Mother To $500,000 Elaine Harnett, 9, will have the love of her mother and baby broth er to compensate her the rest of her life for the loss of a $500,000 inheritance, she indicated as this affectionate picture of the three was made in Chicago after the girl’s decision. She chose living with her mother, Mrs. Veronica Harnett, and her brother, Bobby, 3, rather than with her grandmo ther, who offered to make her heir ess to the half-million-dollar es tate. Pinchot Quizzes FR’s Third Term Says President’s Plans Would Lead Country Into Fascism. Washington. — Amos R. E. Pin chot, New York attorney and, bro ther of former Governor Gifford Pinchot, Pennsvlyania, in a letter to President Roosevelt this week, called for a “clear outline of your program and your intentions, in cluding whether or not you propose to remain in the White House af ter 1940.” The letter attacked the Su preme Court bill, now shelved, the executive reorganization bill and, the Black-Connery wage and hour measure. Pinchot said he based his attack on a study of the measures “a3 they came from the White House” and claimed their passage without changes, and then subsequent up holding by what he termed “a packed court” would “throw the country into fascism in a fort night.” “I fear,” he wrote “you have not studied these bills long enough to gather their full force, especially when all three of them are consid ered together. The original drafts —as approved by yourself—are of immense importance, because, only by studying them can the country discover where you propose to lead it.” THE WEATHER North Carolina: Generally fair with moderate temperatures today and tomorrow. Scattered showers along the coast. Carran in charge, it was evident that the upper branch of Congress had approached the question some what half-heartedly. The galleries were filled with railroad lawyers and lobbyists who moved on Washington last week to line up opposition to the bill. All day Sat urday and early today they had been calling upon senators and stressing the point that the meas ure was unnecessary and that the railroads should be let alone In their business. McCarran Good McCarran, who two weeks ago appeared in a stellar role against the Supreme Court bill with the statement that he was perhaps risking his life by speaking dur ing the heated season after his doctor had counseled against it, was in good form. In opening his debate, McCar ran made it plain uopn interroga tion by Bailey that such a law would not increase employment by a single man. He said that safety was the main reasons for urging the bill. The Nevada senator had hardly concluded before several senators, in their opposition to the measure, charged that loss of life and in juries were being gradually reduc ed on railroads and stressed that the Interstate Commerce commis sion, to which the bill was referred for comment, had refused to ap prove the bill and had remained neutral. I ' . . Three Men Struck By Lightning; One Severely Burned Jasper Allen Sustained Burns On Head; One Tossed Into Stall. Flash at Mill Creek Residence of Herman Pell Hit By Bolt, Damaged By Flames. Jasper Allen, and three other men, working on a threshing ma chine in the bam of Dewitt Cox, Mill Creek near Bean’s Mill, nar rowly escaped death late yesterday afternoon when a bolt of lightning danced a dangerous tune into and out of the building in which they were working. The bolt knocked Allen against the threshing machine cut and bruised him and left a large scor ched spot, the size of a silver dol lar, on top of his head. Dr. John son, Ramseur, who was called to the scene advised Allen to remain in bed for a day or two. Albert Cox, working near Allen, was tossed into a mule stall and sustained severe bruises about his body. Two others, men named Scott and Moffitt were shocked. Men working outside the bam said a great wave of heat rolled out of the bam and virtually burned the shirts they were wearing. According to a report of the af fair the lightning bolt came with out warning. The first thing the men realized, they were tossed in different directions. They recall seeing a sheet of flame, appar ently following the wiring in the barn, then it was over. They be lieve the bolt found some ground, which it followed out of the build ing. The building was not fired. In the meantime, about one mile away, another bolt struck the resi dence of Merman Pell and caused considerable damage. Mr. Pell was attending court in Asheboro and Mrs. Pell with the aid of other women managed to extinguish the uames. Wake Is Allotted Three ABC Stores Two Will Be Located in Ra leigh and One at Wendell; Norrisville Suggested. Wake county plans to open three ABC stores, possibly early in Au gust. According to plans, Ra leigh will get two and Wendell will have the third. That town by a very small majority voted against the stores, but its proximity to the county line and its distance from any stores in Johnston, aNsh, any stores in Johnston, Nash, the convenient place. It has been predicted within the state ABC board that when Wendell opens one of those big sellers in Nash will close. Middlesex has been catching Raleigh’s thirst, but Clayton in Johnston is about 15 miles nearer Raleigh than Middlesex is, and Wendell splits the Raleigh trade wide open. The Wake people have been urg ed to hurry for the fall trade, but neither the state nor the county boards have felt the impulse to push things. The whiskey dealers have sympathized with that de lay.' Their view is that a bad op ening would be dramatized in Wake as nowhere else. Here the news papers abound. Every dry eye is on Wake. Raleigh negroes with Rev. G. A. Fisher as their spokesman, have suggested the opening of a store in the ward which carries the largest negro population. The minister who went to school in Oxford, England, found control so easy in the old country that he hopes for more abstemious and more temper ate conduct among his own people. The county commissioners are not disposed to grant the request of the clergyman. Representative Walter D. Siler, of Chatham county, has not press ed the matter, but as a conven ience to Chatham trade, he has suggested that Morrisville, 13 mil-33 from Raleigh, be given a store. Judge Siler remembers when his constituents bought nearly all of their legal liquor in Morrisville which lies close to Chatham. He thinks they might do it again if. the Wake commissioners would meet them half way. NEGROS WELCOMED New York—What looked like most of Harlem all but raised the roof of Pennsylvania station yes terday in shouting a thunderous welcome to four bewildered Negro youths freed in the latest chapter of the Scottsboro massrape case. DOOLING DEAD New York,—James J. Dooling, Tammany hall chieftain, died of a stroke yesterday at his home in Belle Harbour, Queens. Dooling, 44, had been in 01 health for months.