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ASHEBOKO, N. C., SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1937
“Over 10,000 People
Welcome You to
Asheboro, the Center
of the Mid-South”
NUMBER 90!
EAGLES DEFEAT STRONG MAINE TEAM 6-4
CONGRESS ADJOURNS IN WRATHFUL NOTE
ir Senators In
(Defiance To Cry
Of “Oust Them”
ke. Wheeler, Holt and O*
hiahoney Heap-Vials Of
Wrath on Guffney.
IR. Sends Regards
tition Circulated to Remove
Guffney as Campaign
Head.
f Washington, Aug. 21.—(.P)—
egress adjourned tonight em
uiled to the last in a spectacular
between fighting factions
democratic party.
TAfter eight months of furious
tngling, the wearied legislators
_ned homeward, wondering if
sir party’s once solid majority
[ been split beyond repair.
; They wondered too, whether
jev would be summoned back in
Espenai session to deal with prob
es left unsettled and if so, pre
:ted the intra-party row would
on, from where it stopped to
lay
For it ended on a note of wrath
_ defiance.
Four of the democrats who top
'd the Roosevelt court bill
e one after the other and dial
ed the administratiin to unseat
because of that opposition.
Senator Guffey (D-Penn.) had
»sted such a course.
The four, Wheeler, Burke and 0’
loney and Holt, poured vials of
mp* while he spW' looking be
him and said noting.
Then, they circulated a petition
mg their democratic colleagues,
that
position
ratle senati
Ittee. They said they had ob
[ned twenty signatures.
Shortly before the session ended
brmally, Mr. Roosevelt sent the
lenatc a letter expressing his “re
sets and good wishes.”
Onr roll call in the house show
d 250 of the members not in at
tendance.
Asheboro Schools
Staff Completed
Board Adds Marshall R. Cox
And Miss Sue Brewer To
Faculty.
I The Asheboro board of educa
tion at a special meeting last night
elected two more teachers to the
faculty completing the staff for the
1037-38 school term.
Both teachers, Marshall R. Cox,
Jr., and Miss Sue Brewer will be
assigned to the high school divis
ion.
Mr. Cox is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina and
has been teaching for the past
three years at Snow Hill. His
home is in Staley.
Miss Brewer is a natife of Wake
Forest and received her A. B. dc
free at Meredith collegfi last June.
Both come to Asheboro highly rec
wnmended.
Quezon Aids Refugees
Manila, P. I., Aug. 21.—QP>—
Comm in wealth President Manuel
L. Quezon announced Mrs. Theo
dore Roosevelt, Jr., and her son,
Quentin, due yesterday aboard the
liner President Jefferson with other
Shanghai war refugees, will be his
Bests while here.
Hq> Wiohe^/jt!
Temperature
GC-mn. aot 04 houRS
Local thunder
»Kahlv Mon
As Field Piece Showered Death on Tientsin
So casually did Japanese troops take the battle at Tientsin that the scene above looks more like peaceful
maneuvers than grim battle. Nevertheless, the light field cannon hurled its deadly charge at short range
agumst the sorely harassed Chinese defenders, who quickly withdrew and left the city to the invaders. Every
sore of armament was used by the Japanese to insure capture of the city.
Chinese Planes Win Great Battle
Over Nanking; 20 Jap Bombers
Beaten Ofl by Pursuit Ships
Officials Unable to Care For
Throng of Nation’s
Criminal Wards.
U. S. Starts Probe
Will Seek Origin of Shell
Which Struck Cruiser
Augusta.
(By The Associated Press)
Shanghai, Aug. 22.—(Sunday)—
While Shanghai’s battle ebbed and
flowed today towards Nanking, a
Chinese fleet of airplanes fought
and won the biggest air battle of
the tragic war.
So incomplete was its organiza
tion within this great Internation
al community, caught in the vortex
of the undeclared Chinese-Japa
nese war, that its goferning coun
cil decided it could no longer be re
sponsible for its own Ward Road
jail, the biggest in the world.
It prepared to turn the 7,000 in
mates loose outside the boundary of
the International settlement. Mur
derers, narcotics, traffickers, most
ly Chinese but of many other na
tionalities were included in the
derelict throng that must be freed.
The jaii is in the eastern section
of the settlement and was in the
center of a fast (Jhinese-Japanese
battle that has lasted for three
days.
There appeared to be some abat
ement today of the fierce battle but
artillery duels continued across the
Wamgpoo river, Shanghai’s outlet
to the sea.
In the air, the Japenese air fleet
carried their forays far into the
heart of the great Yangtze valley
behind Shanghai seeking to destroy
the Chinese air force.
But the Chinese command at
Nanking claimed for its planes a
series of successes as the raiding
bombers from the coast were turn
ed back at many points.
It was asserted that at least 8
Japanese planes had been brought
down along the Yangtze valVy
while the Chinese lost only three.
The biggest raid was the at
tempt by 20 Japanese bombers, off
the mouth of the. Yangtze. The
raiders were enroute to Nanking
to destroy the Chinese capital
where they were met by an armada
of Chinese pursuit planes.
The greater air battle raged
above fhe Yangtze until the Japa
nese were beaten off with the loss
of three planes. The Chinese ad
mitted cne of their planes had been
shot down and another damaged.
Shanghai.—The United States
navy officially “informed’ Japa
nese and Chinese authorities today
of yesterday's shelling of the Crui
ser Augusta. An investigation had
been opened to determine the origin
of the shell.
So goes the tourney—
Into the laps of the Eagles,
we hope.
The Eagles defeat of the
Lisbon Worumbo Indians yes
terday placed them in a posi
tion to battle one of the out
stnding teams of the series
sometime Monday.
Their opponent and the hour
of play will be announced to
day.
Persons may obtain further
information from Rupert Trol
linger at the Sunset cafe as
The Daily Courier office Asso
ciated Press wire will be closed
until Monday.
Most of the Lisbon players
were college stars.
Among the favorites are
Enid. Okla., Tacoma, Wash.,
Wichita, the home club; Dor
mont, Penn., Buford, Ga., and
McCrary.
Asheboro, unless it watches
its 3tep will lose possession,
in name at least of the Eagles.
The Postal Telegraph com
pany employee at Wichita have
alread} adopted the Eagles as
“Our Team.” The press in
general, throughout the press
box, have taken a great liking
to the Eagles and are constan
tly “speaking up” for them.
Lefty Cheek got a nice plum
in the Wichita sports column
for his work around the initial
sack.
16 teams have been eliminat
ed and more follow today and
tomorrow. May the Eagles
fly high!
Motor Accident
At Central Falla
An accident occurring at Centra!
Fails Saturday morning summoned
Patrolman Norris when the car
driven by Paul Miller of Ashebora
collided with the truck driven by
Bon Ferguson of Liberty. Accord
ing to Fatrolman Norris, it appear- f
ed that the car had turned into a
road in front of the truck.
Riding with Miller was Johnny
Russell also, of Asheboro, who
was slightly injured. Neither of
the other two were injured.
There will be a hearing before
J. P. Colvin on Tuesday.
Hell on Earth
Manila, P. I„ Aug. 21—CP)—
Shanghai is hell on earth, Mrs. R.
M. O’Toole of Washington, D. C.,
so described the flaming Chinese
city as she left the refugee-laden j
liner President Jegerson today at
Manila.
Argentine railways are held re
sponsible for accidents at level
crossings caused by failure to low
er the barriers or gates when a
train is approaching, according to
a ruling by the federal court of ap
peal.
I
"f.
ruck Crash
Farmer Man Blameless Ac
cording to Police Who
Investigated.
Fred Rice and Batson, High Point,
are in the General hospital in that
city with injuries sustained Fri
day afternoon when the automobile
in which they were riding and a
truck driven by Hal Lanier, Far
mer, collided on highway 311
south of Asheboro.
Rice and Batson, according to
the Asheboro police will be charg
ed with reckless driving upon theii
release from the hospital. Lanier
and Lawson Lowe, riding in thei
truck, were not injured. j
Accordng to the police version I
of the accident, the Rice car eut'
directly across the path of the
truck. The truck was loaded with
green timber but managed to stop
within thirty feet of the point of
impact. Lumber on the truck was
driven directly through the cab be
tween Lawson and Lanier, break
ing the glass in the windshield.
The Rice car was virtually demol
ished.
Officers Lee Moore and E. B.
Barnes handled the investigation
for the Asheboro police.
Housing Bill
Washington, Aug. 21.—OW—
Senate and House conferees agreed
Friday on compromise legislation
authorizing a $526,000,000 low
rent housing program. Their ac
tion virtaully assured congression
al adjournment by tomorrow.
New Orleans. Aug. 21.—</P>—
The shell that killed Sailor Fred
die John Falgout on the deck of;
the United States cruiser Augusta j
at Shanghai acected many homes
in the town of Paceland, La.
Falgout’s two younger sisters
and brothers and his father, Har
rison Falgout, sat on the porch of
their unpainted home in Paceland,
shocked over the news. His fiancee
shared the grief. 1
Local High School Band Will
Give Concert This Afternoon
The Asheboro high school band
will give a public concert on the
court house lawn at five o’clock
this afternoon to which the public
is cordially invited. The concert
will consist of a program of sacred,
patriotic and old favorite music.
This group of Asheboro youpp:
people are under the direction of
Pat Leonard of Albemarle, who or
ganized them in January 1935. The
organization, composed of girls and
boys of the town, is a member of
Body Taken From
Sound; Believed
Is Mrs. Parsons
Found Off Coast of New Lon
don; Woman Missed Early
Last June.
\ Was Decomposed
_
Police Never Determined
Whether it Was Murder,
r Suicide or Snatch.
5 New London, Conn., Aug. 21—
—The decomposed body of a
Voman which Captain William
(Babcock said, “could possibly be
(that of Mrs. Alice McDowell Par
sons”, missing Long Island woman
iWas found today in Long Island
'Sound.
Mrs. Parsons, socially prominent
member of a wealthy New York
, family disappeared from her Stony
Brook, L. I. home last June 9 under
circumstances which even the coun
try’s most noted investigators
failed to explain.
A supposed ransom note deman
ding $25,000 for her safe return
was found in Mrs. Parson’s car
but local, state and Federal offic
ials joined in the search for her
never determined, officially, whet
her her dissapearar.ee was a kid
napping, a suicide or a murder. ,
Captain Babcock said the body
was taken from the sound two
tniles northwest of Little Dell
ighihouse and 8 miles south of
(New London by coast guard pat
rol boats. That position is across
the sound and about 47 miles east
c* the Stgny Brook, N. Y. estate
°per
w6u' HD' a 9l]Uau -lmi xn.
“I believe it may be Mrs. Par
sons,” said Capt. Babcock. A med
ical examiner said the body had
been in the water “at least two
months.” It was nude.
Randolph Fair To
Have Best Midway
Veteran Showman Congratu
lates Officials on Securing
Glick’s Midway.
Herbert Tisdale,, veteran show
man who has played Randolph
county fair with Bruce’s shows,
Max Grubert and others, is in
Asheboro this week with Penny’s
Rides, rays that the Randolph fair
will have the best midway they
have ever had on their grounds
here September 28th to October
2nd.
Mr. Tisdale says Mr. Glick of
Baltimore, Md., who owns the
Ideal Shows, sold his old shows
last year for $35,000.00 and bought
new equipment and new shows out
and out and that Mr. Glick has the
best equipped shows on the road
today. William Glick is approxi- j
mately 40 years of age and has
been a successful showman since
early manhood. He has played
practically every state fair in the
Union. Mr. Tisdale stated that
Randolph County Fair Association I
is highly fortunate to secure this
able showman and his popular
shows for their fair here this fall.
The Ideal Shows in addition to
being a complete new outfit, have
installed the most modern and up
to-date kind of lights. The “Neon
Lights” will be used exclusively to
eluminate the midway. Neon liglrs
are those commonly used by mer
chants in placing signs before
their place of business.
New York, Aug. 21.—UP>—Bish
op James Cannon, Jr., of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South, re
turned from Europe yesterday very
much displeased—displeased with
what he found on the other side,
displeased with what he left here.
the Young Men’s Musical associa
tion of North Carolina. Wonderful
progress has been made since the
orgkni/.ation and the people of the
town are unusually interested in
this, the pnly musical organization
of Asheboro.
.At presont Mr. Leonard is mak
ing an effort to work his schedule
to enable students who desire band j
work tp have » daily period afte
schools open in ‘September.
Asheboro’s Loss
Mrs. W. H. Moring
Mrs. W. H. Moring’s
Funeral Is Today
One of Most Beloved Women
Of This Section of State;
Talented Musician.
Mrs. W. H. Moring, one of the
town and co'unty’s most beloved
women, died at her Asheboro home
at 4:00 o’clock Saturday morning.
Mrs. Moring had been ill following
a stroke about two pionths ago,
and her death was a result of this
illness. Forseveral days, the fa
mily had b6en aware of the ser
iousness qf her condition \ and her
four daugmetS were at her Bedside,
with Mr. Moring.
Funeral service will be held from
the First Methodist church of which
she was a devoted and valued mem
ber, th:s afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
Rev. H. F. Powell, pastor of the
church, will be assisted by Dr. Co
thran G Smith, of the Presgyter
ian church. Burial will follow in
the local cemetery.
Mrs. Moring was born Mary
Thorns, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Her pa
rents were the late Frederick D.
Thorns of London, England, and
Agnes Nicholson Thorns of Edin
burgh, Scotland. When Mrs. Mor
ing was a young woman, th? fam
ily came to Asheboro where Mr.
Thorns was interested in mining
property in Randolph county. They
occupied the home of south Fay
etteville street which is now the
Contra! hotel, just aefoss the street
from the present Moring home,
where Mr. and Mrs. Moring have
lived for more than fifty years.
Soon after the Thorns family re
turned to Brooklyn, Mr. Moring
followed and on May 24th, 1883,
Mary Thorns was married to W.
H. Moring, then a prosperous
young merchant of the town. They
returned to Asheboro where Mrs.
Moring immediately made her place
deep in the hearts of the people
with whom she has lived, loved
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Mrs. Hiltzheimer
Injured In Wreck
In Hospital With Painful In
juries; Car and Truck
Considerably Damaged.
An accident occurring Friday
night about 11:30 resulted in con
siderable damage to a car, truck
and trailer, and Mrs. Tom Hiltz
heimer m Randolph hospital with
injuries. The wreck occurred a
mile or so,, north of the city limits
when' it is alleged that Mr. Hiltz
heimer attempted to pass the truck
on th# highway. The truck was dri
ven by Howard Walker, a colored
man of Cheraw, S. C., and was
owned by Clyde McDougall of that
place- After passing the truck, the
car..is said to have hit the trailer
and damaged it to the extent of
about $.250. The car, which was
practically demolished on one side,
left the road and went out into a
tobacco field adjoining the country
home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Hughes.
Patrolman Norris investigated
the wreck and was also present at
the hearing when Mr. Hiltzheimer
paid a $5.00 fine and costs amount
ing to $134.75.
Mrs. Hiltzheimer’s injuries are
most painful, but as yet, it is not
knowp the extent of her hurts
which involve several ribs and pos
sibly »i shoulder out of place,
Bailey-Reynolds
Split Featured
Congress Session
Rep. Warren Sponsored Laws
For National Seashore
• Resorts Here.
Doughton Limelight
Other Tar Heels Carried
Heavy Load During
Long Session.
By Paul Barkley
(Associated Press North Carolina
Correspondent)
Washington, Aug. 22.—CP)—Sen
tor Josiah Wj Bailey’s fight against
President Roosevelt’s Supreme
Court enlargement was an out
standing development of the long
congressional session from a North
Carolina standpoint.
His colleague, Senator Robert R.
Reynolds, himself solidly behind
the President’s policies, supported
the court plan. But Bailey be
came one of the most outspoken
opponents of the judicial reorgani
zation measure.
The scholarly senior senator, one
time editor of a Biblical journal,
took his fight to the press, the ra
dio and for nearly two days to the
senate floor.
When the President’s plan finally
was abandoned, Bailey solemnly
announced, “the victory is won.”
Shortly afterward, before the ses
sion’s end, he went home, admitted
ly a weary man.
Bailey also struck against the
administration’s relief policies and
supported a plan for financially
able local governments to shoulder
a part' bf the eoeL " * •
While the senate prolonged the
court fight, house members from
the state, not called upon to com
mit themselves on the question,
went ahead with their legislative
programs.
Representative Lindsay C. War
ren of Washington sponsored legis
lation creating a national seashore
park on the northeastern coast of
the state.
The state’s representatives unit
ed to obtain a $4,500,000 appropria
tion for the Blue Ridge parkway,
connecting the Shenandoah Nation
al park in Virginia with the Great
Smoky Mountains National park
in North Carolina, after the house
appropriations committee had rec
ommended a reduction to $2,500,
000:
Representatives Robert L. Dou
ghton of Laurel Springs, dean of
the state’s delegation, and Repre
sentative Zebulon V. Weaver of
Asheville led the fight.
The delegation backed by a
movement to establish a veterans
hospital in the eastern part of the
state. Representatives Graham A.
Darden of New Bern and J. Bayard
Clark of Fayetteville had bills pro-,
opsing one in their district if a vet
erans’ administration board deem
ed an institution in that section
necessary.
Representatives A. L. Bulwinkle,
of Gastonia, and Walter Lambeth
of Thomasville called for economy
in governmental expenditures.
A movement for tobacco and
farm legislation was launched by
Representative Harold D. Cooley of
Nashville, who was made chairman
of a special tobacco steering com
mittee.
Representative John N. Kerr of
Warrenton and other members of
the delegation balked farm legis
lation, Kerr’s interest being parti
cularly tobacco and. peanuts.
Piloting a naval appropriations
bill through the house, Represen
tative William B. Umstead of Dur
ham, suddenly proposed a naval
limitations conference, a suggestion
which stirred the house before it
was rejected.
Doughton headed the joint con
gressional committee which inves
tigated tax avoidance and brought
out proposed legislation approved
by the house without a negative
vote.
Representative Frank W. Han
cock of Oxford sought considera
tion of his housing bill, which was
before Congress as the session ap
proached its end.
Hancock and Weaver were among
those in the state’s delegation who
expressed themselves on the Presi
dent’s court plan. They came out
in its favor. Cooley also backed
the plan, speaking for it on the
house floor.
Sugar is believed to have been
introduced to the Mediterranean
countries from Bengal about
fifth century A, D,
% -
5'Joway Strikes
\ -■ |t 14; Sets New
ecord In Series
Vicv ^/Places McCrary In
Vintage Point; To Play
Monday.
Harrington Hurt
Captain Will Be Able To Play
Next Week; Cox Gets
Three.
Wichita, Aug. 21.—(Special to
The Daily Courier)—The McCrary
Eagles, Asheboro’s representatives
in the National semi-pro series,
placed themselves solidly in the
running for future honors here this
afternoon when they defeated the
strong Lisbon Falls, Maine, team
6 to 4. It was another example of
excellent pitching backed by an un
beatable team.
Calloway, who Wichita has been
waiting to see on the mound, turn
ed back Maine hitters by the strike
out route. He passed four but
appeared at the height of any ball
hurler’s career when he fannqjl 3
straight batters in the 4th innmg.
The inning prior he fanned three
but sprinkled the strike-outers over
a string of five men.
McCrary got one run in the sec*
ond, came back with three in the
third, one in the 5th and one more
in the 7th. Lisbon put two over
in the Gth and two more in the 8th.
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Merchants Bureau
Special Speaker
L. H. Buisch Speaks Here
Friday Night; Residents
Invited to Session.
EftUtS"IT. TftrfsPh,' Dayton, who1
will address the merchants and bu
siness men of Asheboro under the
auspices of the Asheboro Merchants
association Friday night, August 27
at 8 o’clock, at the court house, is
one of the most popular and out
standing speakers in the United
States on business topics. All the
merchants in the county are invit;- *
ed to attend and hear him.
During the past year Mr. Buisch
has addressed more than two hun
dred national and state trade asso
ciation conventions, and his keen
knowledge of current problems and
of what leading retailers in all sec
tions of the county are doing to
meet their problems enables him to
bring to a group of retail merch
ants a message of real benefit and
constructive value.
Mr. Buisch has selected for the
subject of his address in Asheboro
the topic, “Better Merchandising”,
and realizing that the retailer of
today is up against the keenest
competition in the history of mer
chandising, and that he wants
something practical rather than
theoretical, he gets down to brass
tacks and talks the language of
business, making practical and
workable suggestions which' can be
put to profitable use by every re
tailer.
Mr. Buisch is a member of the
stag of the merchants service bu
reau of the National Cash Register
company and is devoting his entire
time to assisting business men
solve Ibeir problems. His work
takes him into every section of the
country, and he enjoys the confi
dence of leading merchants and
merchants organizations through
out the United States.
His appearance in Asheboro was
arranged for by W. L. Dowell, ex
ecutive secretary of the North Car
olina Merchants association, as one
of the services the State associa
tion provides for the local mer
chants association here.
New R. R. Agent Is
At Franklinville
Franklinville, Aug. 21.—W. H.
Montgomery of Cheraw, S. C., has
accepted a position as agent at this
place for the A. and Y. railroad. At
one time he was agent at Ramseur
for about three years and for the
past two years, agent at Mt. Airy.
He is a good agent and desirable
citizen and our people welcome him
to our town and community.
Mrs. N. F. Cheek of Pleasant
Garden, who has had temporary
charge of depot here since the re:
, tirement of J. T. Hayes August 1,
has returned home. ' >
Mr. id. I. Bobbitt of ^Greensboro
has accepted the position as con
ductor on the A. And Y. railroad
from Ramseur to Madison. Mr.
Bobbitt has been conductor for
some time on tlie run frorh Sanford
to MC. Airy.r ,