North Carolina Newspapers

The Largest Paid-Up Circulation of Any Newspaper Published in Randolph County hmk lxi OP ASSOCIATED PRESS N. E. A. FEATURE SERVICE ASHEBOKO, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1937 “Over 10,000 People Welcome You to Asheboro, the Center of North Carolina” NUMBER 96 I;holera Breaks Out In French Concession 2,000 Americans There used Port Now Maroons Citizens No Evacuation Hy Intestinal Plague ks Into Shanghai Last Midnight. Pilots Who Bombed Hoover Called For Military Court. anghai, Aug. 31.—(iP)—Chol icbroke out tonight near the ,jr|iai French concession, where of the citizens of the United i live. IThe outburst became known Lrtly before midnight after a day (which United States authorities the port of Shanghai to all lericun shipping except naval „iels, thereby marooning 2,000 jnerirans who have not been evac I from the war zone of the Si _.Jap war zone. [The French concession took ev f measure to halt the spread of deadly intestinal affliction, ich yearly takes its toll of under I Orientals. Little Jamboree. At Fair Grounds strict Secretary Will At tend; All Adults Invited T» Attend. Plans for the “Little Jamboree” Boy Scouts at the fair grounds, mrsday evening, September 2, 'ire rapidly rounding into shape. Troop 27, Asheboro, will play boats to all other scouts and troops in the county, in a welcofne home to David Stedman, the only Randolph scout fortunate enough to attend the International Jamboree in Eu rope this summer. Bunn Hackney, High Point, sec retary of the Uwharrie district council will be present. He plans to bring scouts from other sections of the district, many of whom at tended the European conference. Thero will be a weiner roast ani watermelon feast. Adults interest ed in youth and the boy scout movement are cordially invited to attend the gathering. Kill Three Jews ' Jerusalem, Aug. 31.——Waste torn Palestine was on edge tonight while police and troops prepared to quell violence which followed dis orders yesterday. Three Jews and two Arabs were killed. Wide-eyed fear of another outbreak similar to that of yester day is feared. i Special City-Wide Union Service For Women Tonight i-a Clerk Suicide Lumborton, Aug. 31.—D. K. | Gregory, 67, well-known Lumber I ton clerk, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart at his room yesterday. Miqhe^t Temperature <*TWE LAST 24 HOURS THE WEATHER North Carolina. Partly cloudy today and Wednesday. Possibly in the south and TakesOverHelm rofU.P. System Riling from the position of office boy, William M. Jeffers. 61, above, will climax 47 years’ em ployment with the Union Pacific railroad when he becomes presi dent of the entire system on Oct 1. He succeeds Carl R. Ray who submitted his resignation when he reached the automatic retirement age of 70. Jeffers now ie executive vice president at the railroad. Cripple Ginic Thursday, Sept 2 Rotary Club and Rotary Anns Continued Plan to Aid Children. The Crippled Children’s clinic will take place at the Randolph hos pital Thursday morning, September 2, at 10 o’clock. The clinic is sponsored by the Asheboro Rotary club. Direct supervision, insofar as procuring vehicles and other arran gements have been in the hands of the Rotary Anns since the club in augurated the clinic. Grocery Store Hours Hours for grocery stores in the city of Asheboro, according to an announcement today will be from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. daily, except Sat urday. The Saturday hours will be rom 7 a. m. until 9 p. m. 'Dr. Anderson Conducts Fea ture Evangelistic Programs \ Nightly. The Uuion Evangelistic services, sponsored by the A s h e b oro churches opened Sunday night with Dr. George W. Anderson, noted evangel ist in charge. Dr. Ander son was assisted by pastor of local churches and Dr. Louis F. Gains, pastor of the First Baptist church. Lexington. Dr. Gains has charge of the musical program. A feature of the service will be the one hour prayer and song ser vices each morning at 10 o’clock. There will be no Monday services. Evening services will open at 7:30 o’clock. Tonight’s service as been des ginated as Women Night. Wednes day will be Men’s Night, Thursday, Hospitatality Night and Friday, Young Peoples Night Sunday will be marked with a special afternoon service at 3 o clock, designated a Prayer Ser vice. Saturday night as been designat ed “Bald Heads”, a lecture Dr. An derson gave at the Chautaugua. He and the committee extend a cordial invitation for all residents of the county to make a special effort to attend the meetings. They point oot that shoppers may handle their week-end purchases and be able to attend the Saturday night meetings. Seven Killed In Cross Country Bus And Auto Collision Greyhound Overturns; Car Demolished; Injured Rushed to Hospital. Car Driver’s Fault Took Auto Onto Roadway And Struck Large 40-Pas- * senger Vehicle. Gosher., Ind., Aug. 31.—UP)—At lease 7 persons were killed and sev eral wounded in the crash of a heavily loaded Greyhound trans continental bus and a sedan near here today. ^ Twenty of the injured were brought to a hospital here and at least 15 others were taken to near by citie3. The accident occurred at the in tersection of two roads. Witnesses said the sedan drove onto the highway and crashed into the bus. The vehicle overturned and came to a stop on its top. The sedan was demolished. About 40 passengers were on the bus. The occupants of the sedan were un known. The driver of the bus was Lee Callahan, 32, of Toledo. The bus was traveling from Chicago to Cleveland! Ambulances from Gosh en and Elkhart were rushed to the scene. Some of the dead and in jured were taking to widely scat tered hospitals making immediate identification difficult. Phelps Injured When Car Wrecks Turnersville Man Taken To Hospital; Right Arm Fractured. J. L. Phelps, Kemersville, N. C... is confined to the Randolph hospital with a fractured right arm sus tained last night when the automo bile he was driving overturned near Seagrove. Mr. Phelps’ car was laden with tobacco enroute to the market at Farmington. He was taken to the hospital where to day he was reported to be in a sat isfactory condition. Kennedy Charged With Auto Theft Locked Up in Jail; is Accused Of Taking J. R. Routh’s Automobile. Jesse Kennedy, who resides south of Ashiboro, is locked up in the county jeil charged with larceny in connection with the-alleged theft of J. F. Routh’s automobile. He is also charged with taking two tires from the machine and selling them to a local merchant. The automo bile was taken from its parking place ir. Asheboro about two weeks ago. Kennedy was arrested yes terday Mrs. J. R. Craven Injured In Crash Asheboro Woman Taken To Hospital; Car Struck In Rear. Mrs. J. R. Craven is confined to the Randolph hospital with injuries sustained Sunday evening at 6:45 o’clock _ when the automobile in which she was riding struck by one driven by Earl Shaw. According to reports, the Shaw car ran into the rear of the Craven automobile. Mr. Craven was driving and with him were Mrs. Craven and their small child. Mr. Craven was thrown from the car. According to reports of the affair, the force of the collision tore Mr. Craven’s shoes from his feet. > Farlow’s ambulance was called to the scene and carried Mr. and Mrs. Craven and their daughter to the hospital. Mrs. Craven was un conscious when admitted but was reported to be recovering this aft ernoon. Mr. Shaw was not injur ed. Blockade Runner Seattle, Aug. 31.—Manned by a crew of 27 Chinese and a Nor wegian master, Capt. F. C. Norvick, the rusty tramp steamer Hia D* was outfitting here today to run the Japanese naval blockade with a cargo of 6,000 tons of sulhpur, in gredient of gunpowder. Special guards patrolled the pier. Clever Chinese Shanghai Chief Gen. Pai Chung-Hse, China's most brilliant strategist and recently believed at odds with the Nanking government, is now reported in command in Shanghai region where he is stated to have ordered a tactical withdrawal. President Signs Fifteen New Bills Vetoes Many Because He Hes itates to Take Large-Sums. From U. S. General Fund. Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 31.—UP) —President Roosevelt announced today the signing of 15 more bilb, including measures aimed at both floods and drouths. He also vetoed two more minor proposals passed ini the clsing days of Congress. Besides signing into law the 198| flood control bill authorizing $34, 177| 000 of dew projects, mostly in the Ohio valley, he approved a sen ate measure to promote water con servation, and proper land use proj ects in the dry region of the we3t, under a program to be formulated by the department of agriculture. One of his vetoes rejected a bill which would have appropriated $294,852 out of the treasury for division among various veterans' organization for use in aiding desti tute or unemployed veterans and ther dependents. He said: “I find myself unable to agree with the present proposal to pro vide,out of the general fund of the treasury, for the donation to pri vate agencies of funds to which they have no claim, and to the ex penditure of which the usual gov ernmental safeguards would not apply.” He also withheld approval of a senate bill authorizing a $30,000 appropriation for co-operating with a public school board of Kootenai cunty, Idaho, to build an additional school at Worley, Idaho. The President signed the flood control cmasure despite his disap proval of a provision giving him discretionary authority to remit up to 50 per cent of property contribu tions now required by cities and towns. He had announced previous ly he wouldhave preferred that Congress itself decided this on the merits of each case. Of the $34,177,000 authorized, $24, 877,000 would go'" for flood wall protection for population cen ters in the Ohio valley and $9,000, 000 for control works along Wolf river and Nonconnah creek at Memphis. Army engineers surveys on many streams also are provided. The “dust bowl” bill that won approval declares a policy of Con gress to assist in providing facili ties for water storage and utiliza tion in arid and semi-arid areas. To effectuate this policy, it au thorizes the secretary of agricul ture to: ' 1. Formulate and keep current a program of projects for construc tion and maintenance of ponds, res ervoirs, wells, check dams and pumping installations in areas where it would promote “proper utilization” of lands. 2. Construct and sell or lease, with or without money considera tion, such facilities. 3. Co-operate or enter into agree ments with, or furnish financial aid, to individuals and local agen cies. The secretary could require the enactment of state and local laws on conservation, and contributions in money, services, and materials to any operation conferring bene fits. Washington, Aug. 31.—i/P>—Ja pan’s military machine is function ing with the aid of scrap iron from the Unted States, government and business statistics indicated to night. . China Agrees To Compensate Fully For Hoover Attack Accept Full Responsibility For “Regretable” Affair; Ambassador Calls. Forwards Apology Hull Says Government Is Appreciative of Act Of Promptness. Washington, Aug. 31.—UP)— The Chinese government proposed today full financial and moral re dress for the bombing yesterday of the American Dollar liner Presi dent Hoover. Secretary Hull said profound re gret of the Chinese government and its authorization to compen sate, fully, was made to Ambassa dor Nelson Johnson at Nanking and that Dr. C. T. Wang, ambassa dor of China called upon Secretary Hull this morning. Asked at his press conference, if the apology and statement from the Chinese goveitiment was satis factory to this government, Mr. Hull said he was merely relating what had happened so far. He de clined lurther comment. He ad ded, however, the United States was deeply appreciative of the promptness which the Chinese gov ernment accepted responsibility of the bombing and its accompanying apology. The Chinese government, Mr. Hull said, was specially interested in all matters of the incident and promised the pilot of the ships would be courts martialed and se verely punished. Secretary Hull said the incident was unlawful and inexcusable. Cotton Loans To 'formers Sept. 15 Participation Confined To Those Agreeing to Comply With Laws. Washington, Aug. 31.—<.P>— Secretary Wallace gave the start ing signal for the government’s 1937 program for cotton loans and notified growers their loans would be “ready not later than Septem ber 15.” Participation in the loan subsid ies arrangements, designed to bol ster prices in this year’s large pro duction, will be limited to those who agree to comply with the control measure to be enacted next ses sion. Secretary Wallace said the gov ernment will lend up to 9 cents a pound on the 1937 crop, depending on the grade. Subsidies up to 5 cents a pound on 65 percent of the growers base production will be al lowed. Cotton brokers generally expres sed opinions that the loan program was “conservative” and gave as surances of three good markets. Jap Troops Heed French Complaint Agree to Keep Armies From British and French Zone After Dark. Washington, Aug. 31.—(-P)— Well informed persons said today they understood Japan had agreed to keep troops out of the foreign concession at Tientsin China. An unconfirmed report received here, was to the effect that British and French authorities had complained of an attack of Japenese troops Sunday against police who were trying to maintain order. British and French authorities notified the Japanese that troops would not be permitted to pass through the con cession after midnight last night. The Japanese immediately an nounced that night troop move ments would cease. Jack Hayworth Is Slightly Better The many friends of Jack Hay worth will be delighted to know that his condition today is decided ly more favorable. Having been very critically ill for two weeks, people of the town and county have awaited news of him daily during that time. His temperature today, while still over 101, is lower than for more than a week and he was able to take a very little nourishment. His family and physicians are slightly encouraged with today’s report and his friends are also de with better news. lighted m Derailed Locomotive Blocks Highway For Hour in City Center I Traffic Tied Up In Sunset Avenue High Point Engine Leaves Raiis; Hauls Loaded Box Car With It. Coal Car Jumps Previous Derailment at Gen eral Lumber Plant’s Switching “Y.” Street traffic through Sunset avenue was curtailed for nearly an hour this afternoon when a High Point, Randleman, Asheboro and Southern railroad locomotive jump ed the tracks and hauled a box car with it. The locomotive was backing the box car on the Old Dominion Box company’s siding when it and the car were both derailed. The loco motive was directly on the highway blocking automobile traffic. A locomotive from the Norfolk and Southern railroad company’3 equipment hauled the locomotive and car back onto the tracks. Just about ten minutes prior to the time the locomotive was de railed, on Sunset avenue, a coal car was derailed at the “Y” near the General Lumber company’s plant. A Norfolk and Southern engine hauled that car back onto the tracks. City police, under direction of Chief Btilla detoured automobile traffic through - the side streets “to prevent congestion at the scene. Nine Cent Loan For ’37 Cotton Final Plans Completed By Credit Concern; 65 Per Cent Basis. Washington, Aug. 31.—Cotton farmers will be given a nine-cent a-pound loan on their 1937 cotton crop, it was announced today as the agricultural department and com modity credit corporation worked out final details of the price ad justment plan. In addition, each grower participating in next year’s production control program will be eligible for a maximum subsidy of three cents a pound on 65 per cent of this year’s basis production. New Map of Asheboro Now Ready; Shows Industries Prepared at No Expense To City; Census, Streets And Avenues Marked. R. D. Trogdon, civil engineer, has completed a map of the c\ty of Asheboro which shows every street and avenue, the individual manu facturing plants and many other buildings located within the city limits. The map is drawn to a scale of 1 inch to 200 feet. The names 'of the owners of properties together with tho book and page number of deed registra tion in the Randolph county court house are included upon the map. All streets, running north and south and, avenues, running east ana west, are plainly marked on the map. There are 110 streets and ave nues Running east and west and 105 highways or streets running north and south. The map calls attention to the present population of 10,350 and also cites the 1930 population of 5,021. The city according to engi neer Trogdon is 846.71 feet above sea level. The town of Asheboro was char tered December 25, 1796. Asheboro now contains 3,064 square miles or 1961 acres. The new map also shows a large section of the Municipal Golf golf links and the entire sector of the new city-owned cemetery. It also includes a small insert of a map of the town as constituted in 1843. Mr. Trogdon has prepared the map at no expense to the city. His only return is through the sale of copies of the master-map, large and small desk size which will be avail able Friday of this week. Exile Trotsky Worries Soviet mm i mm One name scares little tots In the Soviet Union, brings dread to high offices in the Kremlin, keeps Comrade Stalin awake nights—Leon Trotsky. The fa mous exile from Soviet Russia, once the daddy of the Red ar my, posed in Mexico for this latest—and best portrait. Peace Pleas Mark Veterans Session Vandenberg and National Commander Urge Plan For End of Wars. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 81.—UP)— A volley of peace pleas bombarded the nation’s Veterans of Foreign Wars yesterday as the ex-warriors opened their 38th annual encamp-1 ment. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan republican, fired the heaviest projectile when he called for “legislation—now—which takes the profit out of any future war.” On the firing line with him stood National Commander-in-Chief Ber nard W. Kearney of Gloversville, N. Y., who asked his aging army comrades to get behind an eight point program that included “fede ralizing” the arms industry. Baptist Missions Heavily Damaged 215 Missionaries Reported Safe, “Japs Hate All Mis sion Schools.” Richmond, Va., Aug. 31.—UP)— The Rev. Charles E. Maddry, ex ecutive secretary of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission board, said today the board’s 215 missionaries in China were safe but that its schools and other properties had been heavily damaged. The Japanese, Dr. Maddry said, have a “deep seated hatred for mission schools, as they represent the spirit of democracy and equali ty, which is opposed to' all Japa nese principles.” He said that he and the Rev. J. W. Decker, executive secretary of the Northern Baptist Foreign Mis sion board, planned to have the U. S. state department present a claim to the Japanese government “for every dollar worth of proper ty” the Japanese have “wantonly and deliberately destroyed.’. The claim would be presented the State department as soon as esti mates can be made of the daipage to Baptist mission property, he said. Nanking, Aug. 31.—CP>—A courts martial awaits the Chinese aviators who bombed the President Hoover according to an announce ment from General Chaing Kel Sheck today. The General, ac cording to his aides, is most grav i ely concerned over the incident. econd Bombing Of *!ercy Fleet Ends In Port Blockade Closed to American Ships Except Fighting Craft; Perils Increase. Italian Ship Hit Was Conveying Refugees From Shanghai Zone; Evacuation Ends. Shanghai, Aug. 31.—UP)—United States authorities closed the port of Shanghai today to all American ships except naval vessels following the second air attack on a mercy ship in two days which has in creased the peril of civilian life at sea n Chinese waters. Air bombers of unknown identi ty bombed the Italian operated steamer, Lung Shan, a 2,700 ton vessel thronged with Chinese refu gees. If caused near-panic on board bur caused no damage to the ship. The bombing took place near Woosung, north of Shanghai. General Chiang Kei-Sheck, mili tary commander of war tom China immediately requested foreign in terference to end hostilities warn ing at Nanking that “Japanese ag gression’’ to establish “a continen tal empire for herself” is a threat I not only 'to China but to “inter national safety.” The attack on the Italian ves sel followed by one day the bomb I ing of the U. S. Dollar liner Presi dent Hoover, by Chinese planes in the China seas yesterday. On the Shanghai battle front Japanese commanders declared Ja panese forces had captured Woo sung, 12 miles north of Shanghai, marking the outset of “big push” against the city’s Chinese troops. A terrific bombardment which resounded through the internation al. settlement wase evidently Ah first stage of an enveloping offen sive developing through the Ki angwan sector, the “back door” to the north. Japanese officials said the Shanghai north station was bombed. Before the attack and fire of planes and heavy artillery began, the Japanese army and foreign of fice combined forces to drive 12, 000 bewildered Chinese from their homes on the Shanghai side. Japanese warning of the native population of impending attack was believed to have been inspired by sharp reaction abroad against; surprise Japanese attacks in which thousands of Chinese have been killed or maimed. Advices from Peiping said Am erican consulate officers in north ern China are alarmed for the safety of 99 United States mission aries who have not been heard from since the college was evacua ted several days ago. In Geneva, meanwhile, Chinese delegates to the League of Na tions placed the whole blame of war on Japan’s policy of “military con quest.” The Chinese called it an “ag gression pure and simple” but framed it in a letter instead of an appeal. The closing of Shanghai’s port for United States merchant vessels by Admiral Yamell, commander of the Asiatic fleet and Consul Gen eral Clarence Gauss, was the re sult of the bombing yesterday of the President Hoover. The effect of the action was to maroon 2,000 Americans including 500 women and children in the war tom city. Because of the absence of navai vessels no decision of the best plan of taking United States citizens from the city has been reached. Washington, Aug. 31.—(/ft— The closing of the port of Shan ghai to American shipping today raised possibilities of similar ac tion towards any other Chinese port which becomes involved in major hostilities. Admiral Harry Yamell and Con sul General Clarence Gauss order ed all vessels flying the American flag, except naval vessels to keep out of Shanghai. The first reaction here was the announcement here by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, that the Ameri can ambassador, Nelson Johnsdn would make a strong protest to the Chinese government. Japs Tighten Censorship Tientsin, Aug. 31—(Jft—Japa nese military censorship of news men covering the North China con flict was tightened drastically to day. Japanese army headquarters issued written orders forbidding in dividual newsmen to go to the front for any first hand observations un less under direct supervision of a aJpanese officer who “must be obeyed.”