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THE DAILY COURIER
ASHEBORO, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1937
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Roosevelt Calms
Fear For Hope Of
China Refugees
I Confer With Chief of Navy
Staff; Decide to Send No
Mote Ships.
Sees London Envoy
| Labor Department Head Is
Planning to Leave the
Government Service.
Hyde Park, Sept. 1. —UP)—Sum
mer White House officials today
said United States would rely on
Mval vessels to ‘evacuate Ameri
cans still in the danger zone.
'jhe announcement was made fol
lowing-a conference between Presi
dent Roosevelt and Admiral Wil
liam D. Leahy, chief of the naval
operations. The conference was
at the Roosevelt home.
Officials said the President and
the high naval officer went over
the “problems” in the Sino-Jap sit
uation. They added there was no
need for additional naval vessels
at Shanghai and vicinity.
Since closing of the port of
Shanghai to merchant vessels, fol-.
lowing the bombing of the Dollar
Liner, President Hoover, consider
ation had been given to augment
ing the naval floatilla to take off
the several thousands of refugees
still in the region.
The Roosevelt-Leahy conference
preceded a luncheon engagement
between the President and R. W.
Bingham, American ambassador f,o
London.
Before talking to Leahy the
President saw a group of callers,
including Edward McCrady, assist
ant secretary of labor who has
been considering leaving the gov
ernment service for some time.
Post Game Laws
In Court House
All Details of Fail and Winter
Season; Limit of Bag
Announced.
(lame laws for the fall and win
ter season in Randolph and other
counties in North Carolina have
been posted in the court house buil
ding. Details regarding hunting,
number allowed daily and, for the
entire season, are posted in order
that followers of the rod and gun
need have no excuse for “not
knowing the law.”
Squirrel hunting will open Oc
tober 15. Under provisions of a
recent ruling squirrels may not be
sold. The opossum season will
open October 15 and close Feb. 1.
Quail n.ay be taken from Novem
ber 20 until February 15. The
day limit is 10. The season on
wild turkey will open November
20 and close February 15. One
a day is the limit with 3 for the
season.
Persons possessing or using a si
lencer on Are arms are subject to
a penalty of $100.
Cornell Professor Dies
Ithaca, N. Y., Sept. 1.——
Prof. Herman Diederichs, 63, dean
of the college of engineering at
Cornell university, died last night
in the Clifton Springs sanitarium
of a rare form of anemia.
Relieve Tension
Washington, Sept. 1.—(JP>—
Secretary Roper today said “ten
sion” has been relieved in the
Shanghai district. He said Amer
ican merchantmen would be given
access to Chinese waters.
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Temperature
OP THE LAST 24 HOURS
THE WEATHER
Noith Carolina: Partly cloudy
with possible scattered showers on
the coast tonight and Thursday and
in the extreme western portion
Thursday.
Seven Wounded as Planes Bomb American Liner
Approaching wilhm 50 miles ot Shanghai after a trip to Manila with American women and chil
dren refugees, the Dollar liner President Hoover was attacked and bombed three times by four
planes reported to have been Chinese Seven members of the crew were wounded, two seriously.
The ship made port under its own power. In the picture above the artist has indicated approx
imately where th ■ bomb struck
“Meet Fire With Fire” Britain Fleet
Order; Attacked in Sea Off Gibralter
Closing Ring On
Under-seas Craft
H. M. S. Havock Torpedoed
Off Gibraltar; Depth
Bombs Unloosed.
“Capture or Sink”
Attack Today Climaxed Au
gust, Marked With Many
Ship Assaults.
Gibraltar, Sept. 1.—(/P)—Great
Britain's admiralty concentrated a
lloatilla of 6 destroyers today in
the sea off the Spanish coast to
bring a ring about a submarine
which fired a torpedo at H. M. S.
Havock.
Other warships nearby were
awaiting orders.
The fleet now is engaged in war
ga/nes off Gibraltar and was avail
able for instant duty.
The Havock, it was disclosed,
set off a depth charge after the tor
pedo had missed its mark. The re
sult of the charge is not known.
Other destroyers joined the day
and night search for the myster
ious submarine. They were equip
ped with similar depth charges, ca
pable of blowing up the sub if
heavy guns were unable to sink her
on the surface.
The destroyers were under or
ders “to meet fire with fire.”
A navy order was issued advis
ing commanders to use their own
discretion, to capture, or even sink
ing it.
The attack on the Havock cli
maxed nearly a score of assaults
on Spanish government and other
shipping by subs and aircraft dur
ing the month of August.
Co-Op Meeting At
Ramseur Friday
Raleigh Exchange Manager
To Be Speaker; Public
Invited to Attend.
Ramseur, Sept. 1.—The Ran
dolph county farmers Co-op has
scheduled a meeting for Friday
night in the High school building
here when Sam P. Jones, district
manager of the Farmers Co-op Ex
change at Raleigh, will bring a
message of importance on organi
zation.
Mr. Jones is one of the promi
nent officials of Co-op organization
in the state. He will speak on the
advantage of Co-op organization to
farmers in general. The public is
invited. The meeting will open at
8 o’clock.
Cotton Loans
Washington, Sept. 1.—CO—AAA
officials said today they hoped the
9 cent government was low enough
to encDurage free flow of cotton in
to trade channels.
Autoist Blamed
Goshen, Ind., Sept. 1.—CO—Cor
oner Carl Vetter blamed today a
“speeding motorist who failed to
observe stop signals” for the ter
rible bus-auto crash yesterday
which left five dead and 50 injured.
Greensboro Strike
Greensboro, Sept. 1.—CD—‘■Oper
ations of the Carter-Fredericks
corporation’s dress fabrics plant
located just south of here were
handicapped today when a group of
the third shift, 60 or more, walk%'
out on strike.
German College
Razed By Shell
American Mortgaged Mill
Destroyed At
Shanghai.
Shanghai, Sept. 1.—(,/P)—
Shell fire demolished late to
day the American mortgaged
Wing-owned company’s cotton
mill at Woosung.
The mill had been flying the
American flag.
The German supported, Tun
ghi university, was razed in
the bombardment. The shelling
was so heavy the university’s
newly constructed bomb 0roof
dugouts had to be evacuated.
Woosung suburbs were oc
cupied by the Japanese soldiers
afher hand-to-hand fighting.
Time and again waves of Jap
anese attackers charged the
Chinese lines with gleaming
bayonets. The Chinese lines
fell back.
Thus the Japanese gained
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Wilson New Central Prison
Head; J. B. Bray Assistant
Sweet Potatoes
Given To Needy
1,500,000 Pounds N. C. Sweet
Potatoes Will Be Fed Need}'
Families of State.
Raleigh, Sept. 1.—Mrs. W. T.
Bost, commissioner of the state
board of charities and public wel
fare, has just received authority
from the federal surplus commodi
ties corporation to purchase for
their account up to 1,500,000 pounds
of North Carolina sweet potatoes
for distribution to needy persons in
this state and throughout the na
tion.
This is a total of 50 freight car
loads, 20 of which will be distribut
ed iin North Carolina. The re
maining 30 will go to other states.
Camden and Currituck counties will
furnish the bulk of the potatoes.
Distribution will start within the
next two weeks.
The federal surplus commodities
corporation is furnishing the funds
with which to pay for the potatoes
and is setting the price to be paid,
as well as furnishing experienced
buyers to do the actual purchasing.
The state welfare department is
merely serving as agent in paying
for the potatoes in order to facili
tate the prompt liquidation of the
growers’ invoices.
It is estimated in the letter of
authority received by Mrs. Bost
that approximately $16,000 will be
required to carry on the purchase
program. That sum is being tran
sferred to the state and will be
lodged with State Areasurer Charl
es M. Johnson, who will, upon pre
sentation of proper documentary
evidence, pay the bill.
Such potatoes as may be pur
chased and allotted to North Car
olina will be distributed through
the office of A. E. Langston, direc
tor of commodity distribution divis
ion of the state board of charities
and public welfare.
Chives are gaining popularity
for use in salads in place of onions.
Randolph Young
Democrats Meet
President Robert Wood And
Secretary Sam Miller Urge
Attendance; Concert.
The annual meeting’ of the Ran
dolph county Young Democrats
will be held at the county court
house Thursday evening, Sept. 2nd,
at 8 o’clock. All Democrats are in
vited to attend this meeting at
which time officers will be named
for the local organization and del
egates selected for the state meet-,
ing to be held in Winston-Salem
early in October.
An added feature of the meeting
will be the short band concert by
the High School band. This group
of young folk, under the direction
of Pat Leonard, are generous with
their services and will lend jnterest
to the meeting.
Robert Wood will preside over
the meeting. Sam W. Miller, sec
retary of the club, sent out the no
tices and urges a full meeting.
Honeycutt Is Disciplinarian;
Johnson Takes Post As
Prison Director.
Raleigh, Sept. 1.—(.-?)—Robert
Robert Grady Johnson of Burgaw,
who becomes director of prisons for
the Stats highway and public works
commission announced yesterday
that H. H. Honeycutt would be suc
ceeded as Central prison warden
by Hugh H. Wilson of Louisburg,
now in charge of the prison ware
house and industries.
This change and others in the
personnel which supervises North
Carolina’s nearly 9,000 convicts ami
85 prison units will take effect as
Johnson assumes his new post, and
Oscar Pitts, now acting penal di
rector, becomes superintendent of
prisons.
Honeycutt, who has been warden
since 1929, will be made disciplin
arian, a new position. L. G. Whit
ley of Wilson will continue as dis
ciplinarian.
Bray is Assistant
John B Bray of Raleigh will be
assistant Central prison warden,
Johnson said, and will be succeed
ed as third district supervisor by
H. McD. Morrison of Clinton, now
Sampson county prison camp super
intendent.
Jessie Hilliard, former Pender
county camp superintendent, will
take Morrison’s place.
Johnson said salaries of the new
officers would be recommended to
the Budget bureau by the Highway
commission. He said his own pay
had been fixed at $6,000 a year,
j Wilson’s duties as warden, John
J son said, will include those he now
has as superintendent of prison in
dustries. He has beenin prison
work since 1925.
i Started in 1902
Honeycutt has been with the
penal organization since he became
a guard in 1902. Before beginning
warden he was deputy warden and
in charge of identification.
Johnson, a former member of the
highway commission, is a member
of a committee studying prison in
dustries and conditions, but he said
he did not expect a report could
be made until the full commission
meets September 16.
Free Hazelwood
Of Murder-Rape
Of Step-daughter
Hendersonville Man Released
Today; Case To Be
Continued.
Take No Testimony
Was Accused of Killing 12
Year-Oid Gloria Hauser
August 17.
L Hendersonville, N. C., Sept. 1.—
i/Pb-^-T.' B. Hazelwood, former
Butler university student was freed
today of statutory charges of piur
der and rape filed against him af
ter death, August 17, of his 12
year-old step daughter, Gloria
Hauser. The body was found in a
ravine near here.
Solicitor C. O. Ridings, announc
ed he had decided to nol prosse the
charges.
Hazelwood was released at once.
The solicitor made his statement
after Coroner Bruce Cox had re
called a jury of inquest originally
set for last Saturday when a post
ponement was taken until today.
Cox announced the inquest
would be adjourned and the case
left open.
. No testimony was taken.
The solicitor said he had reached
his decision after conferring with
“Henderson county officers and with
Hazelwood’s attorney.
Tobacco Cropping
Case Tried Here
Two Liberty Men Compromise
Action Before Asheboro
Justices of Peace.
| Ivey Beaman, yesterday obtain
|«d a Compromise judgment, in his
[action brought against Walter
Staley of Liberty, alleging breach
of contract. The case was tried
before Justice of the Peace J. F.
Lambert with L. C. Phillips sitting
as associate.
Beman contended Mr. Staley en
gaged him to crop his tobacco and
agreed to allow $15 a month ex
pense during the growing and crop
ping. He contended Staley had
failed to continue the expense pay
ments.
The court decided upon a com
promise verdict, directing Staley
to continue the expense payments
and further directing Beman to
remain on the premises and com
plete the cropping. William C. York
appeared for Beman and T. R.
Wall, Liberty, represented Mr.
Staley.
Kiwanians Meet At
Lucas Lake Grove
Seagrove M. P. Church Auxil
iary Hosts at Delicious
Dinner.
Members of the Asheboro Ki
wanis club met at Clyde Lucas’
lake and camp near Seagrove for
their weekly meeting last night.
A dinner, including roast ham,
chicken and other delicious foods
were served by the ladies auxiliary
of the M. P. church at Seagrove.
After the dinner the Kiwanians and
their guests enjoyed dancing and
other attractions at the camp.
Lee Kearns won the attendance
contest prize and Jimmie Webb
was awarded the special prize for
the month of August. Theatre
tickets were awarded to Gerald K.
Feayg Widespread War
Rapid City, S. D„ Sept. 1—CP)—
Senator Key Pittman of Nevada,
chairman of the Senate foreign re
lations committee, said last night
he believed a war in which most of
Europl and Asia would be involved
was a possible development of the
undeclared war between China and
Japan.
Lower Deficit
Washington, Sept. 1.—C-P)—
Treasury officials today said the
years’ fiscal deficit will be under the
predicted $410,000,000 despite a
$350,923,000 red ink balance for the
first two months. They said the
July-August deficit would be offset
by increased repayments of federal
loans during the remainder of the
year.
Angus MacLean Dead
Raleigh, Sept. 1.—CP)—Angus D.
MacLean, 60, former United States
solicitor general and prominent at
torney died during the night here.
An announcement at the residence
said he died of a heart attack.
Their Honeymoon is Barred /
m m wm
Regardless of the sentence from five years to life in Folsom prison
hanging over Francis Lee for tavern robberies, he and Helen Fox
of San Francisco took on another life contract when they married
in San Francisco jaiL A nuptial kiss was exchanged before Francis
started to serve his penalty. A municipal judge performed the
ceremony, a deputy sheriff was best man.
7 Member Supreme Court
Meets in First Session
Raleigh, Sept. 1^—U'B.-^Iprth
Carolina’s seven-member Supreme
court sat for its first hearing yes
terday. Promptly at 10 o’clock
with only the usual opening cere
monies, Chief Justice W. P. Stacy
walked to his seat. Behind him
came Associate Justice Heriot
Clarkson, George W. Connor,
Michael Schenck, William A. Devin,
M. V. Barnhill and J. Wallace Win
borne.
Justice Barnhill and Winborne
are new members of the court, ap
pointed by Governor Hoey under n
1936 constitutional amendment and
a 1937 law.
First Case
A moment later W. B. Rodman,
of Washington, made the first ap
pearance before the enlarged court,
moving that the appeal in the case
of Eureka Lumber company versus
Rudolph Shelby be dismissed due
to failure of Shelby’s counsel to
file briefs as required by the court
rules.
Sam Blount of Washington, then
argued the case of William (Pete)
Bell and Sam Rodman, Jr., Beau
fort county negroes convicted of
the murder of Heber Robinson.
Blount and his associate in the case,
Leroy Scott, contended their clients
were at most guilty only of a kill
ing during a gambling argument.
Represents State
Attorney General A. A. F. Sea
well appeared for the state, con
tending there was ample evidence
that Robertson was murdured after
an argument with Bell and Rod
man over some furniture.
The court, as is customary, took
the case under advisement with a.i
opinion to be rendered later. It then
proceeded to hear arguments in
other cases from the first judicial
district with 19 listed. Today and
the remainder of the week it w'il
hear cases from the first, 20th and
21st districts in the order in which
they were docketed. Thirty-four
cases are scheduled for the week
and 21 next week.
Fix Responsibility
Washington, Sept. 1.—(/P>—
The commerce department said to
day th.it failure to give notice of
the erection of an electric light
pole was the “probable cause” of
the recent airplane crash at Day
tona Beach, Fla.
Four were killed and five injured
when the plane crashed.
It was operated by the Eastern
Airlines company and was enroute
between Chicago and Miami. The
report said the pole was erected
some time between 9:30 p. m. and 2
o’clock on the morning of the ac
cident.
New London, Conn., Sept. 1.—CP)
—An army amphibian plane forced
down in rolling seas and a heavy
fog 18 miles south of Montauk
Point, L. I., was taken in tow at
6:15 p. in. (E. S. T.) last night by
the coast guard cutter Active.
Criminal Court
Session Monday
Judge J. A. Rousseau Will
Preside; 4 Manslaughter
Cases Scheduled.
The fall term of the Randolph
county criminal session of the Su
perior court will open in the court
house, Asheboro, Monday mrning
with Judge J. A. Rousseau presid
ing. This will be Judge Rous
seau’s second term in Randolph
county having presided at the civil
term in July.
The calendar facing Judge Rous
seau is one of the largest in sev
eral years. There are four man
slaughter cases to be tried and sev
eral others involving major crimes.
Many others involve manufacturing
and possession of non-legal bever
ages and driving automobiles while
intoxicated.
Defendants to manslaughter
charges are Cap Davis, Roby Spen
cer, Mamie Isley and A. W. Hasty.
Rufus P. Routh today announced
that any case not reached and dis
posed if on the day appointed will
be called on the next day in pref
erence to cases set forth for that
day.
Witnesses for trial of cases will
not be required to attend court un
til the day set for the case in which
they have been subpoenaed. Wit
nesses summoned to appear before
the grand jury must attend the op
ening day and every day thereafter
until released by the court.
Mileage will be allowed for one
round trip at the rate of five cents
for each mile traveled.
The complete calendar is pub
lished in this issue of The Daily
Courier.
Loyalist Forces
Start “Big Push”
Insurgents Fail to Break lip
Thrust At Lines Near
Belchie City.
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, Sept. 1.—</P)—Using massed
1 planes against the apparent gov
1 eminent “big push” on the Aragon
sector, insurgents reported today
to had made 13 separate attacks
from the air on the ring closing in
on Belchie.
Government forces fere threat
ening to strangle the town, in the
north eastern section of Spain. The
air attack failed to halt the steady
advance. The fall of Belchie
would facilitate the government at
tempt to wedge through the long
slant, splitting off thousands of In
surgent troops in that territory.
Ma> Compelled
To ' te Fleets
In Opening Route
Japan Opens Great Drive On
All China; Roaring Fires
In Shanghai.
Chinese Hold Posts
Threat of Jap Fleet to “Steer”
Clear of River Brings U. S.
Action.
Shanghai, Sept. 1.—CP)—A ter
rifying series of great new fires
roared in Shanghai tonight, trump
ted by the opening of naval guns
and air1 bombings, announcing Ja
pan’s big offensive against all of
China.
One of the blazes was clear in
the Soochow creek section facing
the American defended section of
the International settlement.
Twer.ty-one Japanese destroyers
and cruisers sent shells into the
Chapei and Kiangwan sectors of
Shanghai and Japanese war planes
rained bombs on all Chinese posi
tions.
Woosung, Chinese historic de
fense coast, already was in Japa
nese hands but the hard-pressed
Chinese were fighting with un
matched courage, holding firm to
many positions.
The Shanghai curtain raiser,
which is to extend all ovei; China,
found American and British naval
commanders planning to unite their
protective strength to force a way
to the sea for refugees.
That consideration was the re
sult of Japan’s naval commander’s
warning to all ships to steer clear
of Japanese warship concentration
crowding both the Whampoo and
Yangtze rivers.
The Anglo-British naval author
ities discussed a convoy to force
an open and safe passage down the
river.
An open route to the sea is vital
to Safety of 'American and other
foreigners in Shanghai because the
International city is hemmed in by
fighting. The Yangtze and the
Whampoo are the only hopes of
escape.
The Japanese, meanwhile, pre
dicted the spread of undeclared
warfare.
As the U. S. Dollar Liner Presi
dent Hoover, scarred by a Chinese
air attack reached Kobe, high offi
cials at Washington intimated that
a naval order closing the port of
Shanghai to American merchant
men would be lifted.
$200,000 Goes To
Improve Highways
State Board of Awards An
nounce Purchases For
Year’s Work,
Raleigh, Sept. 1.—CP)—The State
Board of Awards yesterday gave
contracts for miscellaneous State
supplies, including $200,000 worth
of orders for the State highway and
1'ublic Works commission.
Biggest award went to the Corbit
Truck company of Henderson,
which will supply 40 trucks at an
average price of about $2,500 each.
Also included were supplies for
Western Carolina sanatorium at
Biack Mountain totaling $21,702.46,
and for North Carolina sanatorium
at Sanatorium, $9,493.50.
Build Gallery To
House Mellon Art
At Washington men are at work
building the National Gallery of
Art which will house the Andrew
W. Mellon collection, one of the
most important private collections
ever assembled. Composed chiefly
of works by the old masters, but
including many American potraits,
it is valued at from $25,000,000 to
$40,000,000. Mr Mellon gave it, to
the people of the United States,
and last March a Congressional re
solution accepted the gift.
Neither Mr. Mellon nor his art
was known to Americans at large
when President Harding selected
him as Secretary of the Treasury.
Then he was revealed as one of
America’s richest men, a Pittiburgh
banker, a Republican of long stand
ing and a magnate whose financi
al interests included aluminum, oil,
coal, steel and power. For eleven
years, under three administrations,
he remained at the head of the
Treasury.
During President Hoover’s Ad
ministration Mr. Mellon on several
occasions acted abroad as Ambass
ador without portfolio, and in 1932
he was named Ambassador to the
Court of St. James. After retire
ment in 1933 he lived a wholly pri
vate life. Last week, at the age of
82, he died in Southampton, L. .I,