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ASHEBORO, N- C., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8,1937
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• NUMBER 101
yreat Britain-France
Rush Warships to Join
Mediterranean Force
Ordered To Scene
At Cabinet Crisis
L'o Be Near Any Trouble”,
Order Issued During Italy*
Soviet Rife.
France Sends Ships
fasten to Naval Battle Be
tween Spanish Rebel And
Government Ships.
Algiers, Algeria, Sept. 8.—UP\—
Spanish government fleet of two
cruisers and five trawlers steamed
[into battle array in the western
lediterranean today to engage an
Insurgent warship and try to keep
la sea-lane clear for supply ships.
London, Sept. 8.—(A5)—Three
[British destroyers and three French
{warships'sped today to the scene
[of the Mediterranean naval battle
[between Spanish insurgents and
the government ships.
The order sending British war
| ships to the scene came just as the
[British cabinet adjourned for lunch
[after a “crisis” meeting in the
midst of the rife between Italy
■ and Soviet Russia.
The admiralty in London did not
explain the movement but other
sources said they were to aid pa
trol, "to be near any possible
trouble.”
Two French gunboats and a
French destroyer also put out from
Algiers with orders to proceed to
the vicinity of the engagement.
20 Year
--rajTTj^
Kills Attacker
Father of Two Children Slain
In New Jersey Last
Night.
Iselin, N. J., Sept. 8.—(JP)—A 20
year old school girl, admitted af
ter hours of questioning today, ac
cording to police, she killed Paul
Reeves, 25 year old father of two
,children when he attempted to as
lult her.
The Woodbridge township police
identified the girl as Margaret Dre
nner and said she admitted she was
the “lady in red” seen running
from the house where Reeves was
shot last night.
William Clyde Cox
Dies of Injuries
Franklinville, Sept. 8.—W. R.
Cox received a letter Friday morn
ing that his son, William Clyde
Cox, 33, had been fatally injured
Saturday night, August 28, by a
train, between Lillington and Rock
fish, Va., and that funeral service
was conducted with interment fol
lowing near Lovington, Va.
Mr. Cox and son, Richard, left
here Friday afternoon for High
Point where they and W. K. Wat
son, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. W. K.
Watson, Jr., left early Saturday
morning for Lovington, Va., to find
out more about his death and bu
rial. Ha will* be removed to
Franklinville M. E. cemetery.
He is survived, besides his fath- i
er, by two sisters, Mrs. W. K. Wat
son ani Mrs. Charles Bryant of
High Point; hjs stepmother, three
half-brothers and two half-sisters
of Franklinville.
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Temperature-!
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THE WEATHER
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy
tonight with local showers.
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County Medical
■ Meeting Monday
Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Sykes To
Entertain; Randolph Phy
/ sieians Invited.
The Randolph Medical society
will be guests of Dr. and Mrs. R.
P. Sykos, at thvir residence Mon
day evening, September 13 at five
o’clock.
The guest speaked will be Dr. W.
L. Mattison who will discuss artifi
cial menopause. Dr. J. H. Soady
will open the discussion.
At the conclusion of the business
session the host and hostess will
serve dinner. AH physicians in the
county have been invited to the
meeting.
Cotton Prices In
Drop In Market
Government Report of Heavy
Crop Lowers Price
$1 a Bale.
Washington, Sept. 8.—(JP)—Gov
ernment crop estimaters increased
today their indications of a 1937
crop of cotton to 16,000,000 bales,
a gain of 606,000 from the official
forecast based, on August 1 produc
tion.
New York, Sept . 8.—(JP)—Cot
ton futures sold down nearly $1 a
bale today after government otfi
eiaie cotton crop report indicated
the highest yield per acre on rec
ord.
New York, Sept. 8.—UP) — Some
sections of the market were up.
Cotton dropped suddenly.
Local Patrolman
Examines Drivers
H. V. Norris Examines 75
Randolph Drivers; Twelve
Fail Examination.
H. V. Norris,, state highway pa
trolman located in Randolph coun
ty, today examined 75 school bu3
drivers for tho county schoob
which will open in most places on
Thursday. Of this number, twelve
failed in the examination, one of
whom made grades of 100 on hi3
written work. The examination,
according to Patrolman Norris, was
rigid and given as prescribed by
the new state school bus drivers’
law.
From time to time during the
year, it is the intention of Patrol
man Norris to go to each school
gnd instruct the drivers, children
and teachers in the new law relat
ing to school buies. He intends to
enforce the new law in as strict a
manner as is possible for him to do.
He intends to stress the safety pro
gram an set forth by the state
school commission and highway de
partment.
Loyalists Attack
Insurgent Troops
Turn on Pursuers Near Gijon
And Inflict Heavy
Losses.
Hendaye, Spanish-Franco Fron
8.—(AV—The defenders of Gijon, in
the Spanish northwest were re
ported to have whirled about to
day after thirteen days of retreat
before advancing iensurgents and
inflicted a disastrous defeat on
their pursuers.
Reynolds Assures
Farm Legislation
Says Right of Way Will Be
Afforded When Congress
Meets.
Raleigh, Sepi. 8.—CT>—Senator
Robert Reynolds (D-N. C.) speak
ing to 3,000 farmers here promised
today that farm legislation would
be given “the right of way” when
Congress again meets and added
“with all dark spots removed the
future cf agriculture seems bright
er than it haa in many a year.”
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Cap Davis Freed
On Manslaughter
Charge In Court
Judge Rousseau Directs Non
Suit at Close of State’s
Case.
Offers No Defense
Prosecution Centered On
Highway Death of Janies
Saunders.
Judge Julius Rousseau, presiding
at the Randolph term of criminal
court, this morning, uirected a ver
dict of not guilty be entered
against Cap Davis, charged with
manslaughter in connection with
the death of James Saunders, 17,
on highway 220 last October. Davis
was charged with striking young
Saundem while driving in northerly
direction about 11:30 on the night
of October 16.
Charlie Coggin, solicitor was as
sisted ir the state’s case by T. A.
Burns of Asheboro.
Judge Rousseau in non-suiting
action called attention to the “cir
cumstantial” evidence submitted by
the state. The court, and it was
agreed by the state, contended
statement of Sheriff King, was the
prosecution’s strongest link.
This was to the effect the Sher
iff had talked with the defendant,
that the later said he passed a
truck ;it the scene of the accident
about the time young Saunders
was struck, but that he did not see
or strike any pedestrians.
The court, in citing recent decis
ions by the Supreme Court, urged
the fact that the high court spec
ified admissions by defendants
must be taken as a whole and that
parts favorable to the State as well
as statements favorable to the def
endant must be considered.
Calling attention to the number
of deaths caused by automobiles
the court said, “It is a known fact
that thousands of persons are be
ing killed by automobiles, and ac
cording to newspaper reports Nor-,
th Carolina leads the world—based
on gasoline consumption.”
During this morning’s session
the state called John Saunders, an
uncle of the dead boy to the stand.
Mr. Saunders testified he has vis
ited the scene of the accident and
had made comparisons of tire
tracks found there with the tires
on Davis’ car. He said the tracks
were similiar. He also said he
found a dent in the frame of the
of the rear window of the car—
that the window had been broken
and that pieces of glass had been
found at the scene of the accident.
He called atention to what he said
were “smears” along the left hand
side of the machine.
This part of Mr. Saunder’s testi
mony was supported by Sheriff
King who likewise called attention
to the smears. Both, however stat
ed they could not tell what caused
the marks or how long they had
been on the machine.
The defense was not compelled
to offer any evidence, the non-suit
being ordered at the conclusion of
J. V. Wilson’s, attorney for the
defense, motion for dismissal.
At yesterday afternoon’s session
the prosecution brought out testi
mony to the effect that young
Saunders was walking along the
left hand side of the highway when
struck. According to Edwin Hill,
called by the state, he and Saun
ders and another boy were walking
towards Balfour when the accident
happened.
Hill said Saunders was nearest
the edge of the concrete road sur
face. A truck passed the trio, this
witness said, then a horn sounded
and a closed sedan, traveling at
about “70 to 75 miles an hour”
struck Saunders. The car, he said,
did not stop.
The injuried youth, Hill said, wa3
thrown to the ground, his head
near a ditch alongside to the high
way and his feet just off the con
crete surface.
Prior to Saunders’ testimony the
state swore E. P. Spinks, who con
ducts a filling station just north
of Aaheboro. Mr. Spinks said,
Davis stopped at his place about
11:30 and complained of feeling
ill. He said Davis ordered a soft
drink and then when his motor
failed had his car pushed off for
a start. Mr. Spinks, when question
ed by Mr. Bums, said it was about
15 or 20 minutes later when an
ambulance rushed by—going in the
same direction that Davis had
driven.
Roy Cooper, who followed Mr.
Spinks on the stand testified he
saw Davis about 12 o’clock when he
stopped at a filling station about
7 miles north of the scene of the
accident. Cooper said the radiator
of Davis’ car was steaming and
that he filled it with water.
“What would you say as to his
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Eluding1 Death
Race Crash
i
As Count Otto Hagenburg flew
land National Air Races in a sp
to the earth, as shown at upper
dragged the ground, bit In deep*
lngly, Into the wreckage shown
shown at upper right as be was 1
not until he had waved a reass
v be was net!
stunting plane at the Cleve
icular upside down dive close
be came too low, bis rudder
and the plane crashed splinter
>w. The German stunt flyer is
away trom the crash scene, but
band to the crowd to show
idly hurt
Soviet Warns Italy Force
Will Be Uswll in StdrZnne
Soviet Forwards
Italy Sharp Note
Denial of Fascist Subs Unsat
isfactory to Moscow
Heads.
Rome, Italy, Sept. 8.—(^P)—Sov
iet Russia flatly told Italy today
the Fascist answer to Soviet charg
es that Italian submarines had
sunk vwo Russian ships in the
Mediterranean was unsatisfactory.
Russia repeated her accusations
made in her original note. The
second note marked more the ser
ious crisis growing out of the
Spanish civil war and was handed
to Italy’s foreign minister just be
fore noon.
Diplomatic circles consider grave
doubt of either Italy or Germany
participating in the conference
called by Great Britain in deciding
to devise some manner of stamping
out attacks on commercial ship
ping in the Mediterranean.
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Chinese Sailors
Visit Charlotte
Will Carry Scrap-Iron To
Homeland; Claim They
Will Win.
Charlotte, Sept. 8.—Seventy
seven Chinese sailors passed thru
Charlotte on the Southern railway
yesterday afternoon on their way
to Norfolk, Va., where they will
man three freighters loaded prob
ably with scrap-iron bound for
China
The party left China August 14
and landed at San Francisco sev
eral days ago. They are traveling
across the continent on three spe
cial care under guard of immigra
tion authorities.
The sailors declined to talk when
their train stpped here for about
two minutes to take on water.
However, at Greenville, S. C., a
Chinese laundryman was at the
station and they talked with him.
Will Be Long War
At Greenville th sailors said “it
will be a long war, but China will
win.”
Legion Delegates
Harris Birkhead, Walter Craven,
Rufus Ruth and Robert Whatley,
members of Dixon post 45, Ameri
can Legion, have been appointed
delegates to the National conven
tion in New York city.
The post adjutant and comman
der-elect, B. M. Weston today an
nounced one member, Ima King,
Seagrove, joined the post last night
Mr. King is the first enrolled mem
ber for the 1938 fiscal year.
y -
Accuses II Duce of Plan to
Create “New Roman Em
pire in Europe.”
Moscow, Sept. 8.—(.B—The Red
army’s official newspaper, served
notipe today that the Soviet gov
ernment will use force “to call Ital
ian pirates to their responsibility”
if peace moves fail.
The newspaper, the Red Star, de
clared the Soviet government was
determined to obtain redress from
Italy lor the sinking of two So
viet ships which government auth
orities attributed to Italian subma
rines.
If Friday’s conference of Medi
terranean powers fail to obtain
that redress the Star and Soviet
Russia will use its own means. The
newspaper attacked II Duce of “try
ing to create a new Roman em
pire.”
It declared the Soviet govern
ment will find a necessary means
for forcing sea pirates to their
responsibility and forcing them to
fulfill legal demands of Moscow.
Japan-China War
Hurts N. C. Leaf
‘Tobacco Market Feels Effect;
China Was Great
Market.
Wilson, Spt. 8.—The yellow
hordes of General Chiang Kaishek
some 10,000 miles away are threat
ening the tobacco industry in east
ern Carolina.
This was revealed here today
when it was learned that the great
shipping companies of the Pacific
have stepped almost entirely ship
ping tobacco to China, the second
largest buyer in the world of to
bacco from Americai
Johnson Urges 3rd
Roosevelt Term
Says President Should Be
Allowed to Complete
Great Program.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 8.—VP)—
Governor Olin Johnson came out in
today in favor of a third term for
President Roosevelt, so that he can
continue to carry out the program
now under way.
The statement was in answer to
a news question sounding out gov
ernors on a possible third term for
the president.
“The fact is,” Johnson said, “I
put myself on record in favor of a
third-term for President Roosevelt
a year or more ago. I hope he
can continue to carry out the pro
gram now under way.”
Clyde Styres Is
Dead Following
Shooting Sunday
Former Resident of Asheboro
Dies Last Night in Monroe
Virginia Hospital.
Well Known Here
Was Shot While Working On
Railroad; Escaped Convict
Is Apprehended.
Clyde Styres, of Asheboro and
Spencer, who was shot in Monroe,
Va., Sunday afternoon late while
on duty as flagman for the South
ern radway, died in Memorial hos
pital there last night at 9:30
o’clock. Two shots entered Mr.
Styres chest and worked down
ward, resulting in his death. Lit
tle hope of his recovery was en
tertained by physicians from the
beginning.
Immediately after the shooting,
officers arrested two men who were
loafing about and held them for in
vestigation. They were released,
however, when a colored man, who
was an escaped convict, was ar
rested in Richmond yesterday at
noon. The colored man said he did
not want to go back to the pen and
decided to shoot the first man who
looked like an officer, according to
reports made to members of the
Styres family.
Mr. Styres is well known in Ash
eboro where he has made his home
since early boyhood until fifteen
years ago when his work with the
Southern railroad took him to Spen
cer. Since that time, he has run
from Salisbury to Monroe, Va. Mr.
Styres is a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Styres of Asheboro.
When Mr. Styres was married,
some twenty years ago to Miss
Rosabolle Bonkemeyer, also of
Randolph county, they lived on Cox
street, inter building, two houses on
that street, whisb they siiUawn.
Mrs. Styres and the following
children survive: Gordon, Helena,
and twins, Sara Faye and Samuel
Ray. The following brothers and
sisters also grew up in Asheboro,
went to school here, and most of
them lived here until recent years
after Mr. and Mrs. Styres died:
Fred Styres, Raleigh; Shellie and
Miss Viila Styres, both of High
Point; Ivey of Greensboro; Mrs.
J. G. Hendrix and Mrs. L. D. Ca
gle, both of Asheboro.
The body was taken from Mon
roe early this morning to the
Styres home at Spencer where fu
neral arrangements were made.
MORE TO COOME
$16.40 Spoils Nets
Long Prison Term
Dave Hogan Sentenced To
Prison — Received Shot In
Leg After Crime.
Twenty to thirty years in state's
prison, e. bullet hole in his leg and
an estranged wife—and $16.40—
those items comprise the spoils of
one evening robbery committed by
Dave Hogan of Alamance county.
Hogan yesterday arraigned in
Superior court before Jurge Julius
Rousseau, on charges of robbing
two filling stations on the night of
July 25, pleaded guilty but urged
the court to ertend clemency in
fixing sentence.
Annie Hogan, the defendant’s
wife, according to his story, shot
him in the leg while the two were
driving from the scene of one of
the Crimes. He was taken to a hos
pital in Greensboro where he war.
apprehended.
Evidence submitted was to the ef
fect that Hogan held up two men
at pistol point and forced them to
hand ali cash in their filling
stations. While driving away, he
said, he was shot in the leg.
He commenced his prison term
yesterday afternoon. He was sen
tenced to from 10 to 16 years and
ordered to wear “strips” on each of
the two robbery charges.
18 Year Old Girl
Shot In Columbia
.
Youth Held After Accident
In Hotel; Believed She
Will Recover.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 8.—CP)—
“Tommie” Dorn, 18 year old Dew
berry country girl is in good condi
tion at a hospital here with a bullet
wound under her heart which police
say was accidentally inflicted at a
hotel here last night.
Police are holding Robert Boozer,
20, of Dewberry in technical arrest
pending the outcome of the girl’s
injuries.
b
ost
Gets “Cocktail
Teachei
The Saugus, Mass., school board
indicated it had no objections to
beauty in selecting the successor to
Isabelle Hal! in with the appoint
ment of Barbara Wright, above, of
Danvers, Mass., to the post of En
glish teacher in the local high
school. Miss Hallin’s dismissal be
came a national story because of
charges, later retracted, that she
-served pupils cocktails at har home.
Prominent Man Of
Ramseur Is Buried
T. A. Moffitt, For 42 Years
Depot Agent at Ramseur,
Dies After Long Illness.
Ramseur, Sept. 8.—T. A. Moffitt
75, prominent citizen of Ramseur,
died at his home here this morning
at 10 o’clock following a decline in
health of five years and a serious
illness of two weeks. Mr. Mof
fitt, well known throughout this
section, had been a resident of Ram
seur the past 42 years. He had
served the Atlantic and Yadkin
railway here for that length of time
as depot agent and seven years be
fore moving here.
He was a member of the Ram
seur Christian church and for 40
years had been teacher of the men’s
Bible class there and superintend
ent of the Sunday school. He had
served as secretary of the board of
town commissioners, was elected
mayor for several terms a few
years ago, and was a member of
the Knights of Pythias and the Ma
sonic order.
Surviving are his wife, formerly
Miss Lizzie Patterson,a daughter
Mrs. J. C. Whitesell, Spruce Pine;
a son, R. D. Moffitt, Greensboro,
and two grandchildren. Funeral
will be held at the Christian church
this afternoon at 3:3C) o’clock in
charge of Dr. L. E. Smith, Elon
college, Rev. T. E. White, Sanford,
Rev. G. W. Talley, and Rev. R. H.
Hauss. The body lay in state at
the church from 2 o’clock until the
service. Interment was made in
the town cemetery.
M’Grady Resigns
Labor Position
President Accepts With Re
gret ; Has Radio
Connection.
Hyde Park, N. Y,, Sept. 8.—CP)—
President Roosevelt announced to
day the resignation of his chief me
diator in industrial-labor disputes,
Edward F. McGrady, assistant sec
retary of labor.
McGrady, who had held the post
more than four years as assistant
to Secretary Perkins, did not name
his new employer in his letter of
resignation, but it was disclosed
in New York he will become di
rector of labor relations for the
Radio Corporation of America.
The President accepted the res
ignatin with “deep regret” and
said he was “giad” McGrady’s ser
vices would always be available to
the government if special need
arose.
Train Attacked In
Station 30 Miles
From Shanghai
L500 Passengers Wedged In
Coaches; Bodies on Rail
road Tracks.
Had No Warning
New Dangers to American
Citizens as New Drive
Opens on Front.
Shanghai, Sept. 8.—UP)—At least
three hundred Chinese non-combat
ants were killed today when bombs
were dropped on a raielroad train
jammed with thousands of fleeing
men, women and children from the
Shanghai zone. The train was on
a siding about 30 miles from this
city.
1,500 Chinese were wedged into
second class coaches when the
bombs fell without warning. The
cars were shattered by the blast,
lifted from the tracks and their
occupants were strewn all over the
railroad yards.
The train was on the main line
from Hankow. Human forms were
lifted and tossed into the air. The
injured and dying non-combatants
were thrown about the yards as
though they had been shot down
in their tracks.
Both Chinese and Japanese took
action today that have increased
peril to all foreigners remaining in
China and virtually blasted the
last hone of the American-British
French neutrality proposals.
Municipalities
League To Meet
State League Will Hold 27tti
Meeting in Winston-Salem ; /
September 28-29th.
Raleigh, Sept. 8.—Mayor George
Iseley, president of the North Caro
lina League of Municipalities, an
nounced here today that prepara
tions for the League’s 27th annual
convention in Winston-Salem Sept
ember 27-28 are nearing complet
ion.
Invitations to attend the conven
tion are being isused by President
Isley to all officials of the City of
Asheboro and other members and
non-member cities and towns and
the largest attendance in the his
tory of the League is anticipated.
A program for the assemblage of
all municipal officials is being
formulated, President Isley said,
and it will include national authori
ties on municipal problems.
“The League has made consider
able progress during the past 12
months,” Isley said /‘progress of
which its officers are proud. At
the convention we intend to review
that advances made and present
plans for continuing an active and
progressive program for towns
aud cities of the State.”
The League of Municipalities is
a non-profit, cooperative organiza
tion founded and maintained by
cities and towns themselves, which
renders to its members extensive
services in solving various prob
lems with which town and city ad
ministrations are faced. By co
operating through the League, its
member towns have been able to
have many helpful legislative and
local problems brought to a satis
factory solution.
Drawing Jury To !
Try Hasty Case
The case of Arthur Hasty,
charged with manslaughter in con
nection with the death of Babe
Yow, opened in Superior court this
afternoon when work was com
menced on selecting a jury.
The jury had not been complet
ed up to late hour this afternoon.
RENTS HOUSE
FOR 25c
When the ad below was placed
in The Daily Courier little did
Mr. Pierce think it would be ren
ted within three hours.
FOR RENT—6 room house in
North Asheboro, good well
and garage. J. E. Pierce. Tel.
471. It pd
Advertise your property or
rooms ter rent. We know you
will get results with a classified
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