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ASHEBORO, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1937
NUMBER 82
he agreement rea
leadcrs when the
Court proposals
Cotton Loans
iLower Court Bill
Passed; Is Sent
To White House
jkhead Halts Confusion In
House; Fish Fires Opposi
tion Guns.
ISenate Recommends Bill Pro
viding For Farm Loan
Legislation.
Washington,- Aug. 11.—(AP) —
he House bitter court controver
was ended today by approving
|the lower court proposal and send
ing the meapure to the White
louse.
It embodied the report adopted
by the Senate without opposition.
During the session statements by
epresentative Fish (R-N Y)
brought 387 of the 432 members to
(their feet. Twice during the read
ling Speaker Bankhead rapped for
order. He told the members theie
as too much talking and confus
ion on the floor.
"I believe," he said this bill will
welcomed and supported by
ourts of the country 'r,-“ u:n
followed closely tl
Ihed hy Senate
Ttoosevelt High
L-erc sidetrack
Farm Crops
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP—
ienator Byrnes, (D-SC) today said
e had proposed to President Roos
velt a solution to the controversy
ver crop loans and farm legisla
ion. lie said tho proposal guar
nteed to farmers a 12 cent price
or cotton provided they agree to
ooperate with cotton control legis
Ition at the next sessoion.
Farm Loan
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)—
t senate agriculture sub-commit
ae -thin- afScrtieow immnwpdefrm:
•ill providing for farm loan legis
ition.
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)—
’resident Roosevelt declared last
light that Congress must give him
t stronger promise of new crop
:ontrol legislation before he will
ipprove Federal loans to bolster
lagging cotton prices.
Despite a threat of congressional
action to compel the granting of
> loans and "parity payments" to
cotton farmers, the President said
at Jiis press conference that he
guessed there would be no cotton
loan if there is no new production
control law by January.
He reiterated his contention that
the country will have to come to
control of crop surpluses. He said
he would be glad to make the ad
vances on cotton if he could get
some definite assurance ‘ that the
surplus problem would be met by
Congress, but that no one as yet
has found a method of getting that
assurance.
Asked what he would consider a
satisfactory promise, the President
said he was the lender and the
other fellow should start that in
stead of him.
Wage Bill
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)—
Postponement of the Administra
tion’s Hour and Wage bill until
next session seemed probable to
day. Senator Byrnes (D-SC) chair
man of the House reorganisation
committee said his committee
would make no effort to send the
bill to the floor until some agree
ment had been worked out.
It was apparent this bill would be
beid up pending some agreement
on the farm legislation.
WlQHE*/?T
Temperature
CFTHE LAST 2>4 HOURS
na: Partly cloudy
unsettled tonight,
ershowers tonight
Anti-Nazi Flareup in-Wisconsin
With “Hitler Shall Not Pass” as their marching cry, anti-Nazi
pickets are shown above as they jeered members of the German-Ameri
can Volksbund meeting in their clubrooms at Kenosha, Wis. Volks
bund members, barred by the town council from holding their annual
picnic in a park, held possessions of the sidewalk’ pickets heckling them
from the street. Sam Brown belts, military caps, puttees, dark trousers
and white shirt3 mark the Volksbund members who responded to the
call expressed on the sign in German above the hall. Its literal trans
lation is “German groups in America, awake. It is in recognition of
your German heritage that you must take part in the gathering in this
hall.”
Chicken on Breakfast
Dining Car Offering
School Faculty
At Franklinville
List of Teachers Now Com
plete; Beauty Pageant And
Amateur Show Success.
Franklinville, Aug. 11.—The
school faculty for Franklinville
consolidated school has been com
pleted for the coming year. There
are only four changes from la3t
year. Prof. H. M. Hackney of
Hoffman, a graduate of the Univer
sityo f N. C. principal; Miss Flos
sie Whitley of Selma, a graduate
of Meredith college, teacher of
home economic* and science; Miss
Nell Cobb, Lumber Bridge; Miss
Mabel Farmer of Marshall, both
graduates of W. C. U. N. C., which
makes the following faculty: Miss
Mabel Fanner, first grade; Miss
Nell Cobb, second grade; Miss Eu
nice Bank*, third grade; Miss Es
ther Moon, fourth grade; Mrs. Lu
cy Davidson, fifth grade; Miss Net
tie Moon, sixth grade; Mrs. C. F.
Caveness, seventh grade; Miss
Florence Whitley, Miss Katherine
Buie and R. C. Fields in the high (
school department with H. M.
Hackney, principal. Mrs. H. M.
Hackney will have charge of the
music department.
The Beauty pageant and ama
iur program held at the school
ailding, Friday night, proved to
» quite a success. The program
sing held under the auspices of
.e Susanna Wesley Bible class,
ut of the twelve girls competing
>r the “Miss Franklinville” honor,
[iss Frances Parks was chosen,
ut of the fourteen children com
eting for the “Little Miss Frank
nville” honor, Martha Jane Cra
en won. The first prize in the
mateur contest was won by Worth
raven and Edward Allred who
layed string music. ,Th® 1.se?0^
rize wa» won by Miss Elizabeth
Wallace, who did a tap dance.
CONGRESS TO TRANSFER
SCOTLAND COUNTY
ashington, Aug. 11.—Senator
iolds said this afternoon he ex
s prompt and favorable ac
by the senate judiciary com
ee on the bill introduced in the
e by Representative Lambeth
iferring Scotland county from
eastern to the middle judicial
Other Travelers
Join Festivities
McFadden Learns Southern
Accent to Impress Wichita
Folks.
Burge Strikes Out
Lankford and Clodfelter Put
On “The Dog”; New
Friends Gained.
By Ben Smith
Enroute with the McCrary Ea
gles, Cincinnati, Aug. 11.—(Spe
cial to The Daily Courier)—Pas
sengers aboard this trans-contin
ental train looked upon the squad
of Eagles from Asheboro this
morning with decided awe and em
pty breadbaskets.
This awe was due to the boys
cleaning up the supply of fried
chicken offered on the menu in the
dining car. The squad have just
finished breakfast and voted, with
I out accent that the breakfast was
' the most “beautiful” thing they
I had ever seen. The scenery also
came in for its praise.
Asheboro boys, used to arising
I early jammed the tables in the
dining car and soon had the wait
ers and cooks on the jump. One
j look at “fried ehicken’*on the me
nu and the orders came thick and
fast.
j One helping was not enough they
■ all played Oliver Twist, “Please
Mister waiter bring me some
more." The* waiters joined in the
fun and when the well known trav
eling salesmen and other passen
gers came in for the early morning
repast—there was just no more
chicken. It all went in fun and the
i boys have a train of passengers al
ready howling for their success in
the series at Wichita.
During the trip across North
Carolina, through Asheville and
Kentucky last evening the boys
were all praising the beautiful
scenery.
Lankford and Clodfelter put on
“the dog” and talked nothing but
the last tournament. They tried
to pass off as big baseball “men”
constantly gives the ‘'youngsters”
advice. This lasted until the squad
rose up enmasse and with pillows,
baggage and what-not and halted
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Franco’s Troops
In Rebellion; 5
Officers Killed
Revolt Widespread West'Of
Madrid; Sheiling Former
Comrades.
Italians Killed
Insurgent Deny Reported Dis
satisfaction; Planes Fail.
To Bomb.
Madrid, Aug. 11.—(AP) — The
Spanish government forces today
reported Insurgent General Fran
co’s artillery had killed hundreds
of Insurgents in an attempt to put
down a revolt in the city of Seco
via where a huge rebellion was
said to be underway.
Government reports indicated
that a heavy conflict was under
way about 45 miles west of Madrid,,
where insurgents were in a bitter
battle with their former comrades.
Reports from the south were to
the effect the rebellion was wide
spread in the city of Secovia and
Granada where Franco’s troops
were shelling positions of the re
volters. Machine guns and rifles
were being used in the battle.
A squadron of insurgent planes
hovered over the battle lines but
did not drop any bombs.
Three Italian officers were re
ported killed in street fighting.
Thirty Insurgent Spanish officers
were arrested and five were exe
cuted.
General Franco’s headquarters
denied any dissatisfaction in his
troops during the more than year
old civil war.
Office For Sixth
Highway District
ftftw Attractive Quarters lit'
Cranford Structure About
Completed.
The second floor of the new
Cranford building, Church street,
in rear of the postoffice building is
about ready for occupancy of the
6th District Highway department.
The floor plan includes eight pri
vate offices, a large work room for
engineers and stenographers, a
waiting room and, a private office
for Commissioner D. B. McCrary.
The partitioning is of ground and
clear glass and attractive designed
woodwork. The doorways are
stained' a dark color.
Work on the main floor, to be
used by the Allen Stores incorpor
ated is rapidly nearing completion.
The company has placed the ma
jority of the shelving and is now
completing a sanitary vegetable
stand. The floor is covered with
squared patented material.
Tobacco Market
Lumberton, Aug. 11.—Governor
Clyde R. Hoey and Secretary of
State Charles M. Johnson came
here yesterday to launch Lumber
ton’s tobacco market for its 1937
season in which it has a goal of
25,000,000 pounds.
Messina, Sicily, Aug. 11.—(AP)
—Premier Benito Mussolini, arriv
ing hers to supervise extensive
mock warfare in western Sicily,
told cheering throngs tpday he wa3
on a “pacific and constructive” trip
and served notice he would make
an important political speech.
Harmony Dinner Is Staged For
Barkley, Democratic Leader
Roosevelt Absent From Stagg
In Honor of ■ Senator
Barkley, New Leader.
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)—
The Senate Democrats gathered
here last night at a “harmony” din
ner.
The chief executive sent a letter
the party gathering instead of at
tending. White House aides said
“pressure of other things” prevent
ed the President from going.
Copeland attended the dinner
announced as a banquet in honor of
the new party leader, Senator Bar
kley of Kentucky—along with vir
tually all of his colleagues among
the strife-ridden Democratic ranks
in the Senate.
It was a stagg affair, behind
closed doors at the Raleigh hotel,
with no outsiders invited and even
ono woman senator, Mrs. Carra
way. Arkansas, left off the guest
list
Senator in charge of the affair
insisted it was purely social, to
honor the new leader and that no
serious speeches were listed.
V- .• .V'K. ' •
Movies’ Banker
On Tour Abroad
Chairman of the general execu
tive committee of the Bank of Am
erica and authority on world fi
nancial conditions, A. H. Giannini
of Los Angeles is shown above as
he embarked on a tour of Europe.
Giannini has long been active in
financing Hollywood film produc
tions and in 1936 was elected pres
ident of United Artists corporation.
County Deputies
. (Capture Liquor
Arrest Kidd and Crocker;
Former Charged With
Attempted Assault.
John Kidd, who operates a fill
ing station on the Cedar Falls high
way and “China” Crocker who con
ducts an establishment in the same
locality are locked up in the coun
ty jail charged with possession of
non-legal alcoholic beverages.
Kidd was arrested last night by
members of Sheriff Carl King’s
department’. They seized 48 gal
lons of liquor at his place.
This morning Crocker’s place
was raided and he was placed un
der arrest.
Kidd faces an additional charge
of attempted assault with a deadly
weapon. According to police re
ports, he threatened Frank Jarrell
with a revolver shortly before his
place was raided. Jarrell has ob
tained a warrant against Kidd.
Gardner Appointment
The possibility that 0. Max Gar
dner might be appointed to mem
bership on the board of five per
sons entrusted with handling the
application of the Black-Connery
act was received favorably by busi
ness interests here yesterday.
Clock Tower For Sale
Anyone desiring a dock tower
may obtain one by applying to
Southwark* Borough council, that
has one which obstructs traffic at
George’s circus in London.
Huge Cotton Crop
In State For *37
———
North Carolina Yield Over
325 Pounds to Acre;
727,000 Bales.
Raleigh, Aurg. 11.—(AP)—W. j
H. Rhodes, chief of the state de
partment of agriculture’s statisti
cal division, said today the per acre
cotton yield in North Carolina this
year was indicated at 325 pounds i
and the estimated probable produc- [
tion 727,000 bales.
These figures compare with the
298-pound per acre yield and the
597,000 bales last year.
The August 1 condition of cot
ton was 26 percent higher than on
the same date last year, 13 percent
higher than the 10-year average
for this date, 1923-1933 and the
highest condition for any year
ince sl923, Rhodes reported.
t
Senator Bailey
Discusses Farm
Matters Frankly
N. C. Senator Speaks Up
About Federal Loans For
Cotton Farmers.
Candid Statement
Opinion That Crop Control
Must Also Mean Better Pro
vision For Little Man.
(By Josiah W. Bailey)
Washington, Aug. 11.—I belive
a candid statement to our farmers
will be of value at this time.
Recently I pointed out that most
of the crops were bringing parity
prices, but that cotton was at about
six cents below parity. Further I
suggested to the farmers that they
had now the right to apply for
loans on their cotton to the Com
modity Credit Corporation. The
legislative authority is in existence
and the Commodity Credit Corpor
ation has about $400,000,000 on
hand.
The Housing Bill now before us
carries $750,000,000 to be spent in
the larger cities to build apart
ments for those who have been liv
ing in what is called the slums. The
fund may provide apartment resi
dences with lights, water, and other
conveniences, for perhaps a hun
dred thousand people. This seems
a large number, but after all it is
relatively small.
If the Government can put up
money to build homes for people, I
should think it could put up money
by way of loans on cotton. In the
present instance, the Government
is not only about to build homes,
but also to pay a portion of the
rent. If the Government can pay
rent for people in New York and
Chicago, it can pay rent for any
body else. I am not favorable to
this sort of legislation for the rea
son that T know-there »
it. If we do these things for one,
we must do them for all and very
clearly the Government doesn’t
have the money to do it for more
than five or ten per cent of those
who are justly entitled to its aid
on this basis.
I believe the Government policy
of landing funds on crops inevitably
predicates control of crop product
ion. This means a strict regimen
tation. Each farmer must be told
that he shall not produce but so
many bales, so many pounds, so
many bushels, for if this should
not be the rule, then the farmers
would be induced by the Govern
ment policy to produce ever in
creasing crops with the consequence
that the Government would pay out
billions of dollars and have the
crops on hand. The existence of
crops on hand would tend to de
press the price fr the reason that
it would be necessary sooner or la
ter to sell them. Otherwise, the
Government would go broke.
_ If we have crop control, there
will be irresistible demand for bet
ter provisions for small farmers
! than were had under the A. A. A.
When the Bankhead act was here,
I offered an amendment dequiring
that there should be no reduction
in the crops of the cotton farmers
who had produced in the base per
iod an average of ten bales or less.
The right of the little man to live
is a profound right. The new Con
trol System will provide for crop
reduction on a graduated scale-the
larger .the farm, the greater che
percentage of reduction. It is nec
I essary so to provide in order that
the little farmers shall have a
chance to support their wives and
children. The same rule will apply
to tooacco farmers. The small to
bacco farmer must in all event be
allowed to produce a sufficient
poundage of tobacco to maintain
| his family. I think the Department
| of Agriculture is inclined to this
same view now. So let us under
stand that control means reduction
very grealy the allotments to the
larger farmers so that living al
lotments may be given to the small
er farmers. There will also be
more strict provisions in behalf of
tenants and croppers.
The President is saying that he
is unwilling to support the lending
of money on cotton unless we put
up a control program. I know the
difficulties of control. I hat c pre
ferred at all times a voluntary sys
tem to the compulsory system. The
! argument against the voluntary
j system is that it may not work.
I The argument for the compulsorv
system is that the power of the
Government can make it work. But
can the Federal Government make
control work satisfactorily ? It has
been tried and proved a failure in
Brazil,in Cuba, in Greece, in the
Congo. It does not succeed with
export crops.
I wish the farmers to consider
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Romance Trap:
Police Officer
In Slaying
Arthur Chalmers
The hunt that Ir
ma Louise l’rad
ier, hospital em
ploye, had
friendly with a
mounted police
man started New
York City detec
tives on a process
o f elimination
that finally point
ed to Patrolman
Arthru H. Chal
mers, seen above,
after he confess
ed killing her ac
cidentally in a
struggle. Her
body was found Irma Pradier
beside Harlem River Parkway and
contained bullets like those police
i Ni 1.11> 4
Senate Approves
Lower Court Bill
Shadow of Orig’iuai Now Goes
To House; To Study
Problems.
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)—
The bill to alter procedure in the
lower courts won the final O. K.
yesterday evening of the Senate,
which appeared glad to get rid of
the six-month controversy about
the judiciary.
The legislation, a mere shell of
the original court revamping pro
posals of President Roosevelt, was
embodied in a conference report
signed earlier in the day by House
and Senate conferees. Only the
routine approval of the House js
necessary, before the bill goes to
the White House.
That the issue is not permanent
ly settled was demonstrated, how
ever, by the appointment of a Sen
ate committee to study the more
controversial problems raised by
the original Roosevelt bill.
Southern Pines
Murder Victim
Decomposed Body of 50 Year
Old Man Found; Had
Been Robbed.
Southern Pines, Aug. 11.—(AP)
—The decomposed body of J. E.
Carraway, 50 year old tourist camp
employe, was found just outside
this city today.
Carraway was last seen Friday
morning when he was reported to
have left the city in an automo
bile with two young men.
The police sent out an alarm for
apprehension of the men. Police
report the man had been robbed
and slain.
Hoods in Accident
Raleigh, Aug. 10.—(AP)— State
Banking Commissioner Gurney P.
Hood and Mrs. Hood were badly
shaken up but escaped other injury
early tonight when their automo
bile skidded off United States high
way 70, near Morrisville. They
were returning from Winston-Sa
lem where Hood spoke to the Ro
tary club
Four Killed
Creedmoor, Aug. 11.—(AP)—
Shock from lightning instantly
killed four pretty daughters of Mr.
and Mr3. Edgar Hester of Creed
moor at about 4 o’clock yesterday
afternoon while they were string
ing tobacco at the Hester farm one
mile north of town on the Oxford
highway.
Destroyer And
Light Cruisers
anchor Off Bund.
—
Armada Believed Opening Of
Undeclared War 2 Japa
nese Slain.
Civilians Evacuate
Chinese Report Defeat Of Jap
Army in Central Govern
ment Region.
Tokyo, Aug. 12.—(AP)—
The war office this morning re
ported Japanese troops had
taken the ramparts of the
Great Wall of China in the
Shanghai section in a final
battle at Hankow Pass which
provided a route for the Chin
ese Central army.
Japanese artillery the report
stated set Chankow city afire.
(By The Associated Press)
Japan answered the slaying of a
Japanese naval officer and seaman
today with.the appearance of a
section of the First Fleet off Shan
ghai.
The fleet included 12 destroyers
j and 3 light cruisers. The ships
landed a detachment of 1,000 ma
rines to augment the troops al
ready stationed in the vicinity.
The appearance of the flet was
understood to be the beginning of
undeclared warfare.
Increased tension was reported
in central China with a battle be
tween Chinese and Japanese troops
at Chankow, 30 miles northwest of
Peiping.
Chinese headquarters reported
the Japanese troops were being
defeated.
Japanese headquarters stated the
city of Nankow, held by North
China troops was in flames.
Arrival of the Japanese war
ships at Shanghai, coupled with ev
acuation of Japanesecivilians i“
‘fty-ratflfge river ihdiattetf'
was preparing for large scale war
fare at the Chinese commercial sea
port.
Tokyo considered the slaying of
the Japanese naval men gravely
endangered peace between the two
Oriental countries. The report
stated he Chinese troops intended
to wage war in all sections of the
country—that the Central govern
ment was ready to move from Nan
ging to Nankow for greater safe
ty.
Tientsin, Aug. 11.—(AP)—Ac
| tion in the undeclared war in North
I China shifted last night to the en
trance to the mountains northwest
of Peiping' where unconfirmed Chi
nese reports said a Japanese army
detachment had been wiped out in
a clash in the vicinity of Nankow
Pass, 30 miles porthwest of Peip
ing.
Japanese officials here, however,
minimized these reports and assert
ed action was limited to slight
skirmishing.
The version in Japanese head
quarters was that Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek, Nanking govern
ment Premier, had ardered the
Chinese holding the Great Wall
pass at Nankow to attack Japa
nese forces in the area.
The Chinese troops feared Jap
anese aerial bombardments, how
ever, the Japanese said, and an
swered the order by engaging only
in small skirmishes.
Expect Lull
Japanese officials indicated that
so far as they were concerned, a
lull of two weeks may be expected
in the region. This was believed
due to difficulties experienced in
getting reinforcements into China
because of washed out railways and
other broken communications.
One spokesman, declaring the
Japanese did not plan at present to
push through the Great Wall,
warned, however, that his country
men would strike swiftly if the
Chinese launched a concerted at
tack.
Edison Dead
Wilmington, Del., Aug. 11.—
(AP)—William Edison, 68, eldest
son of the inventor, the late Thom
as A. Edison, died yesterday at his
home in Westover Hills after an
illness of six weeks.
Committee Revolt
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)
—Chairman O’Connor (D-NY)
of the House Rules commit
tee today postponed the sch
eduled meeting of represen
tatives of both branches of
government to pave the way
for quick action on the pro
posed Wags, and Hour bill. No
reason was given for the ad
journment. It ia believed op
position to the bill has develop
ed within . the ranks of the
House committee.