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LUME LXI
ASHEBORO, N. C„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937
NUMBER 108
TAMMANY SMASHED BY NEW DEAL SORCES
West Side Opened
Bark Underpass
■ For Students On
ffic Dangers Lowered
With New Concrete
Safety Lane.
D. B. McCrary Gift
cal Industrialist to Bear
Entire Burden Of
Construction.
The unheralded construction of a
ifety underpass for children st
anding the Park street school from
Ve western section of Asheboro
|as announced today, and, the
Rme of its donor, D. B. McCrary,
las learned from sources outside
lie city.
The underpass, according to Su
erintendent of city schools, Regi
ald Turner, will add much to the
ifety of those children who since
lie construction of the Park street
uilding have been forced to dodge
affic as it traveled north and
outh along the highway. The un
erpass will allow one city patrol
man, who has been assigned to the
ossing at the school, for other
uties especially to those crossings
other sections of the city used
school students.
Mr. McCrary, although starting
bork on the underpass several
peeks ago, has continually refused
refer to it. It was only today
bhen definite information was ob
ained to the effec that he was he
lonor would he agree that it was
fis project. The entire cost of the
onstruction will be handled by the
IcCrary interests.
The underpass is of concrete and
|teel. It’s ceiling is so constructed,
pith reinforced concrete, that it
erves also as the surface of the
highway.
The interior passageway is six
feet wide and 7 feet high. It is
dso equipped with electric lights.
Approach to the underpass from
|he east, or school grounds, is via
flight of steps. The western
exit is on a level with the city
park surface.
The safety lane was opened
vith resumption of the fall school
|term yesterday with no ceremonies,
'fo name, up to today has been
given the underpass.
'hina Peeved At
Arms Embargo
Jot “Impartiality” Nor “Neu
trality” Envoys Announce
Today.
Nanking, Sept. 18.—(Jtt—The
linese government it was disclos
today has protested, officially,
to the United States against the
fovernment embargo on arms to
jthe Orient, charging it was unfair
China. «
Dr. C. T. Wang, the Chine'sfe am
bassador to Washington was said
to have conveyed the bitter reac
|tion of the Chinese government to
the United States.
The Washington decision forbid
ling government owned vessels
from carrying war supplies was
characterized by the foreign of
fice spokesman as “certainly not
(impartiality and is certainly not
neutrality”, but, he added, “a com
plete embargo would be at least
fairer for it would halt all ship
nents to both China and Japan.”
Washington, Sept. 17.—UP)—
Tiina through its ambassador to
ay expressed its disappointment
over President Roosevelt’s imposi
tion of an embargo on goods to
the Orient.
lichard P. Davis
Dies In Capital
istinguished Army Leader,
North Carolinian, Answers
Final Roll Call.
Washington, Sept. 17.—A distin
uished North Carolina soldier,
lajor General Richard P. Davis,
stired, whose old home was at
Statesville, last night answered the
final roll call when he died at Wal
er Reed general hospital.
General Davis, who made his
sidence in Washington, D. C.,
»s bom at Statesville; June 23,
11866. He was graduated from the
lU. S. Military academy June 12,
11887 and was commissioned a sec
|ond lieutenant of artillery. He serv
I ed through the various grades, be
[ing promoted to brigadier general
December 4,1922, and to major gen
eral October 4, 1927.
McKellar Has
Fun in Paris
No wonder Senator Kenneth
McKellar, Tennessee Democrat,
is having a good time on his
vacation in France. He is
shown . above having a good
laugh at a lively Paris cocktail
party and—holding hands with
Mile. Jacqueline Tailli, attrac
tive French film star.
Union Services
Drawing Crowds
Crowds Gaining Nightiy; Dr.
Gains Adds to Service With
Music; Good Sermons.
Exceptionally large crowds of
people are attending the union re
vival services that have been in
progress on the school grounds for
the past two weeks and which will
oonfciBRd thaough September. Mtb
The large tent is often taxed to ca
pacity and has constantly gained in
momentum.
ATI added drawing card to the
meeting is the song service con
ducted by Dr. Lewis S. Gaines,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Lexington, and singer of
considerable note himself. This
message in song, coupled with the
excellent sermons of Dr. George
Wood Anderson, are making for a
splendid and satisfactory meeting.
Dr. Anderson’s sermon on Thu
rsday night was considered by
many people to be outstanding
among the many fine sermons of
the week. He said in part:
No man needs turn to any authority
to know what even the slightest
sin accomplishes to the soul, for
all of us have sinned and felt in
our own experience, the conse
quences of that sin. A careful
study of our lives is enough to
warn u-3 of what awaits a sinner
and cause him to flee to. the out
stretched arms of God.
We know that every sin is pun
ished. As heat consumes so wrong
doing brings its regrets, its sor
rows, .ts remorse and disgrace.
All know that the punishmentr is
the natual outgrowth of the sin.
As a plant comes from a seed so
all tears of regret and pangs of
remorse grow out of the sin and
we always know what sin. We need
never go to any spiritual leader to
learn which sin is troubling our
consciences.
We know also that the punish
ment is always just. We have
said: “My punishment is greater
than I can bear,” but never, “God
is unjust.” When we pay the price
of our sins we have to acknowledge
their justice.
We know also that, with the ex
ception of some social sins which
ruin the physical body, that this
punishment is within. It is spirit
ual not physical suffering.
We know that spiritual anguish
is far worse than any physical tor
ture,and men, to escape the hurt of
conscience, have confessed their
sin and gladly gone to the scaffold.
We know then that suffering
from sin cannot end at death for
death only destroys the body and
the punishment for wrong-doing is
spiritual. Death is only freeing the
soul from the body as a bird is
freed from the cage.
These are the facts that you and
I must realize when we carefully
consider our own experience. Sin
is punished here and hereafter.
But you ask why I preach about
this here. Do you wish to fright
en men into right doing? By no
means. I am not preaching hell
fire, I am preaching the love of
God that saves a man from hell.
The law means death, but the love
of God steps between the sinner
and his rightful doom and saves
him. There is only one condition
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China’s Central
Government Rush
Troops Into Line
60,000 Japs Gained Foothold
On Chuman River; South
Of Peiping.
Open River Route
New Troops Come to Aid Of
Half-armed Army; Struck
In Rear.
Peiping, Sept. 17.—CP)—
The Japanese army headquar
ters tonight announced the
Chocow Chinese advance base,
40 miles southwest of here had
been captured in a steam-roll
er Jap offensive along the
Peiping and Hankow railroad.
Shanghai, Sept. 17.—CP)—Addi
tional Japanese reinforcements for
the halted drive against the chief
Chinese defense line were reported
to have been landed today on the
lower reaches of the Yangtze ri
ver.
A Japanese spokesman declared
the troops had already started ad
vancing inland. ' This was taken to
mean a considerable body of Japa
nese had gained a foothold on the
Pootung coast in which they are
opposed by two divisions of Chin
ese troops.
Foreign military observers be
lieve this foreshadows a major
campaign for the Shanghai region
on the south side of the Wangpoo
river which separates Pootung
from the Shanghai delta where the
major fighting has been in prog
ress.
The continued rainy weather re
duced visibility almost to zero and
was holding up major operations
in that sector.
Sporatic air raids and artillery
fire to the north west of the new
Chinese lines were the only opera
tions in progress today.
T’efpfng, Sept. 17.—CP)—Two
armies of crack Chinese Central
government troops were reported
to be rushing to end the slaughter
of half-armed regional troops and
break the Japanese advance in the
south.
The main body of the Japanese
army of 60,000 men were crossing
the Chuman river under the bril
liant light of last night’s moon and
pursuing the bravely resisting Chi
nese rear guard towards Chochow,
the new Chinese advance base,
south of Peiping.
The Japanese were striking the
retreating 8th division of Chinese
troops both in the front and on the
rear wing.
Three In Contest
For Legion Post
Three States Represented In
Fight for Chaplain Of
Vets Reunion.
New York, Sept. 17.—(/P)—New
Jersey threw the race for national
chaplain of, the American Legion
Into a four-cornered fight today,
entering the Rev. Frederick J.
Halloran of Trenton, pastor of the
Sacred Heart church there.
Three others previously had an
nounced for the position which is
one of the key elective offices of
the legion.
The Rev. John B. Bellamy of
Massena, N. Y., Rev. Frank J.
Lawler of Hume, 111., and Rev. Pat
rick N. McDermott of la., are can
didates with Father Halloran.
Father Halloran served as a
chaplain of a number of units in
the A. E. F. and also has been
chaplain of the second New Jersey
field artillery.
City School Registration,
1,653, Creates New Peak
Registration in the white schools
in the city of Asheboro yesterday
totaled 1383, exactly 43 less than
the peake of attendance of last
term. The highest registration re
corded last term was 1425.
This comparison, according to Su
perintendent Reginald Turner, indi
cates the 1937-’38 peak will far ex
ceed the figures of a year ago.
The colored schools yesterday
enrolled 270 students against a
peak figure, last term, of 311. This
year’s total will far exceed that of j
last term, it was indicated, when j
the boy3 and girls complete their j
fall outdoor employment.
The total registration yesterday
including the reports from both the
white and colored schools was 1653,
being only 100 below the peak of
last term’s attendance.
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Japan’s Two Fronts in China
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JHfANOWAH
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'SHANGHAI
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Senator Reynolds Praises
Black; Resignation Hints
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Stands By Black
Senator Reynolds, N. C.
Small Percentage
Tuberculosis Here
Dr. Godwin, State Health Ex
pert, Gratified With Results
As Clinic Closes Today.
The Randolph county tubercular
clinic is closing today with a most
satisfactory record. According to
Dr. C. G. Godwin, from the state
sanitarium, who has been in charge
of the Randolph clinic, there have
been more than 250 people examin
ed during the week. Of this num
ber, only a small percent have
showed up to have tubercular af
fection. Those who have been
“suspects” have been advised by
the doctors as to courses of treat
ment and places where hospitaliza
tion may be secured.
Dr. Godwin is impressed with
the unusually fine response he has
met within Randolph and is espe
cially grateful to the county health
department and individuals who
have urged cooperation with this
splendid health program of the
state, as well as to the patients
themselves.
Yesterday, many teachers from
the city schools and from the coun
ty were examined. The health
record of these teachers is unus
ually good, says Dr. Godwin.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina: Fair tonight
and Saturday. Cooler tonight.
Considerable increase was re
ported in the registration in the
6th, 7t’n and 8th grades this term.
Mr. Turner said he believed this
was due to the enactment and en
forcement of the new child labor
law. With this law in effect, chil
dren under 16 are not allowed to
continue as employes. This has
thrown a large number of that age
back into school work.
The west school, located on Park
street, yesterday totaled 344. The
East elementary school recorded
638 and the high school 401.
The increase in attendance of
the elementary school has created
a serious crowded condition and in
dications, in event the increase is
continued, that additional quarters
may be necessary in another year
or two.
Heavy arrows indicate lines of
Japanese advance and barred
lines Chinese positions. North
ern campaign is outlined at up
per left; small arrows show
where Chinese irregulars harass
the invaders. Lower left, the
Shanghai front, where the Japa
nese broke the Chinese defense
_(thin dotted line).
Boston Attorney Challenges
Appointment; May Ask
For Flat Denial.
Washington, Sept. 17.—CP)—
Talk that President Roosevelt
might ask Justice Hugo L. Black
to resign from the Supreme Court
was heard in the Capital last night
amid new and bitter criticism of the
Alabamian’s alleged Ku Klux Klan
membership.
■t The Washington Evening Star
said the impression was growing
that the President would adopt such
a course unless he receives a flat
denial from Black that he had been
a member of the hooded order.
DiscuSeicm of possible presiden
tial action In the case highlighted
A number of developments, includ
ing a hint from Representative
Fish,. Republican of New York, that
a “thorough investigation” might
reveal a number of southern demo
cratic congressilonal leaders in
the ranks of the Klan.
Reviews Old Idea
Word also came from Boston
that i Patrick Henry Kelly, Boston
attorney and member of the Su
preme Court bar for many years,
had challenged the legality of
Black’s appointment to the bench.
Kelly announced he had filed an
information with the high tribunal
contending there was no legal va
cancy in the court’s membership
for Black to fill and that he was
automatically eliminated from ap
pointment because he was a mem
ber of Congress when “emolum
ents” for Supreme Court justices
were “increased.”
Kelly’s action was the second
attempt to have the Supreme Coutr
itself keep Black off its bench.
Alert Levitt, a former Federal
judge in the Virgin Islands, asked
the high court on August 18 for
permission to file a petition de
manding that Black show cause
why he should be permitted to
serve is an associate justice. Lev
itt resigned from the justice de
partment in July after incurring
his superiors’ displeasure by op
posing appointment of Lawrence
W. Cramer as Governor of the is
lands.
On the other hand Senator Rey
nolds, democrat of North Carolina,
described opposition to Black as “a
lot of spite and political propa
ganda.”
Reynolds Praises Black
“Hugo Black in my opinion is a
gentleman of the highest charac
ter”, said the senator. “It has been
my pleasure to have been associat
ed with him for more than five
years in the senate, and I have
found him always interested in leg
islative justice.
“I voted for Black’s confirmation
to the Supreme Court. I would do
it all over again, because I know
he is honest and able.”
Reynolds said he knew nothing
of the organization to which Black
belonged.
“I am confident he will discharge
the duties imposed upon him by the
Supreme Court with credit to him
self and satisfaction to the Ameri
can people,” he added.
Clipper Damaged
Hamilton, Bermuda, Sept. 17.—
(JPt—The Bermuda Clipper, Pan-1
American Airways flying boat,;
slipped down her runway yester
day, crashed into a tractor, and
stove in two of her hull plates. The
airliner’s scheduled flight to New
York was postponed indefinitely.
Airline officials said she may be
forced out of service until new
plates can be brought from New
York.
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Sub-Piracy Plan
Increases Italy
And German Anger
Great Britain and France
Withdraw From 27-Nation
N on-Intervention.
Rebuff To II Duce
Assign Warships to More
“Important Task”; To
Patrol Coast.
London, Sept. 17.—(.P>—Great
Britain today ended the unsuccess
ful non-intervention patrol of
Spain to make available her full
quota of warships for “the more
important task” of driving pirate
submarines from the Mediterran
ean.
The foreign office announced the
end of the patrol, formed by 27
nations, to keep foreign troops
from assisting either side in the
Spanish civil war.
The decision to end the patrol by
Great Britain and France, after
Germany and Italy retired in an
ger because of reported attacks on
their ships last June, was consid
ered a rebuff to II Duce and Hit
ler.
Italy and Germany already are
openly resentful of the 9-power
agreement giving Britain and
France naval control of the pirate
war in the Mediterranean.
The withdrawal of ships now on
patrol along the Spanish coast, to
strengthen the pirate control, for
eign observers believe, merely
would add to the Anglo-German
resentment.
Rome “Betrayal”
Charged At Nyon
Claims British and French
Fleet Acts “Rehearsal Fori
Future War.”
Romo, Italy, Sept. 17.—GP1—'The
controlled Italian press charged to
day Italy had been betrayed by
British diplomats at Nyon where
nine powers drafted a war against
piracy in the Mediterranean, with
British and French warships in
charge.
The Italian press said its coun
try was offered only a secondary
role in the anti-piracy patrol and
that the French and British fleet
“was a naval demonstration, per
haps a dress rehearsal of the two
fleets ir. future wars.”
Geneva, Sept. 17.—i.T>—The 3
power participants in the war
against piracy in the Mediterran
ean, led by France and Great Bri
tain, today signed a note in accord
which provided for crusades
against airplanes and warships as
well as submarine attacks.
Wheeler Joins In
Black Klan Foes
Montana Senator Contends
Roosevelt Should Name
Investigation Board.
Washington, Sept. 17.—CP)—
Senator Burton Wheeler (D-Mont.)
joined today the critics of Supreme
Court Justice Hugo L. Black’s al
leged membership in the Ku Klux
Klan.
Senator Wheeler declared Presi
dent Roosevelt should appoint an
impartial investigating board to
inquire into the situation.
Good Beginning
For Randleman
Randlman, Sept. 17.—The first
week’s work of the Randleman
school ends today with work shap
ing up in earnest.
All grades are filled almost to
capacity, and the high school en
rolled more than during the entire
term last year.
New teachers employed in the
school this year are: Miss Brown,
Home economics; Miss Mathews,
IB grade; Miss Ridenhour, 4B
grade.
The l'.T.A. will meet Thursday
evening at 7:30 with Dr. Saunders
of High Point as the speaker.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17.—(.P>—
The foreign mission board of the
Southern Baptist convention decid
ed today to evacuate all but about
30 of its 178 missionaries in China.
Durham, Sept. 17.—(.P)—Heavy
sales and an indicated average
price of 25 cents or better marked
the opening of the auction season
on the nine middle belt tobacco
markets and the farmers appeared
satisfied with the bids.
Senator Cv ^ eland In
Caustic Defeat; New
Deal Candidate Wins
New Deal Victor
And, Vanquished
Fiorello LaGuardia
Royal S. Copeland
Above, Mayor LaGuardia, who won
a smashing victory over Senator
Royal S. Copeland, below, in yes
terday’s New York primary.
Roosevelt Radio
SpeecK At 9:30
Will Be Chief Talker at 150th
Anniversary of The
Constitution.
Washington, Sept. 17.—(.¥)—'The
nation celebrated today the 150th
anniversary of the signing of the
Federal constitution amid scenes
similar to that which reaches
around the historic document and
its birth.
President Roosevelt, whose pro
posals for reorganization of the
Supreme Court instigated the pres
ent day dispute, will be the chief
spokesman at a national celebra
tion tonight.
His speech, scheduled for 9:30
o’clock, E.S.T., is awaited with wide
interest as to hints on his future
course for judiciary changes.
Reunion of Dicks
Family Held Sunday
The Dicks reunion was held Sun
day, September 12 at the home of
J. Martine Burton, near High Point
with a large attendance. The
Piedmont male quartet of the pied
mont section, and the Trinity quar
tet of Trinity, furnished music
from eleven o’clock until noon. O.
F. Beckerdite of Harrisonville, Ma.,
uncle of Mrs. Burton, led in prayer
before a picnic dinner yas served.
Out of the state guests were Mrs.
W. E. DeWar and daughter, Patsy,
Miss Marie DeWar and Mrs. Arley
Smuck, all of Largo, Florida, and
Q. F. Beckerdito, of Harrisonville,
Mo.
Antitem Speech
Ant item, Battlefield, Sept. 17.—
(.P>—President Roosevelt said to
day that the nation “has not only
been acting but thinking in nation
al terms” for the first time since
the war between the states.
Raleigh, Sept. 17.—(fPl—L. R.
Brandon, of Laurinburg was a
pointed farm manager of State pri
son camps today by the highway
and public works commission,
which met here in executive ses
sion to dispose of routine business.
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Mahoney Known
As Farley Choice
In N. Y. Run-off
^Tammany Leader and “Al”
Smith Forces Suffer
Caustic Set-back.
LaGuardia On Top
Copeland, Anti-New Dealer
Head. May Organize Inde
pendent Ticket.
New York, Sept. 17.—CP)—The
New Deal won a smashing double
victory over Tammany Hall in the
New York city mayoralty primary.
Tammany’s candidate, U. S. Sen
ator Royal S. Copeland, and, New
Deal foe, was defeated in both the
democratic and republican primar
ies, today’s count of yesterday’s
election showed.
F. H. LaGuardia, heading an an
ti-Fusion ticket and also friend of
the New Deal wrested the republi
can nomination from the Tammany
candidate by more than 30,000
votes.
J. T. Mahoney, choice of James
A. Farley, as a candidate of anti
Tammany and New Deal coalition
defeated Copeland for the demo
cratic romination by more than
160,000 votes.
latest totals were:
Democratic — Mahoney, 411,548.
Copeland 240,140. LaGuardia 55,
837. Sixty-three election districts
were missing.
Republican — LaGuardia 79,862.
Copeland 46,560. Forty-five elec
tion districts missing.
To add insult to injury, more
than 50,000 registered democrats
without any organized backing
wrote in LaGuardia on the demo
cratic ballot.
Defeat was considered by some
Tammany leaders as the most cau
stic ever received.
Tammany’s leader, C. D. Sulli
van, Copeland, and, their chief
advisor, Alfred E. Smith, former
governor, were determined the elec
tion would be a lesson to both La
Guardia and the Roosevelt admin
istration.
Tammany is threatened with still
another beating in the general el
ection, November 2, with Copeland
postponing any definite statement.
His defeat yesterday, local observ
ers said, opened the possibility he
would run as an independent de
mocratic candidate on an anti-New
Deal platform.
Borah In Defense
Of Constitution
Appeals For Uncontrolled
Courts; Only Guarantee Of
American Liberty.
Washington, Sept. 17.—(.l5)—
Senator Borah, republivn of Idaho
appealed last night for the mainte
nance of “uncontrolled courts” as
the only guarantee that traditional
American liberties will be preserv
ed.
In a speech commemorating the
150th anniversary of the signing
of the Constitution, he swung with
out preface into a discourse which
carried his hearers back to the
memorable battle of last winter
over the administration’s proposal
to revamp the Supreme Court.
Still clinging to the objective of
a reorganization of the high tribu
nal, President Roosevelt also will
deliver a Constitution Day address
tonight.
In additio n to his remarks on
the courts, Borah assailed as false
what he termed a current “pessi
mistic” theory that economic secur
ity can be had only by sacrificing
personal liberty.
He criticized those who he said,
have been asserting that the Con
stitution is not a “sacred docu
ment.’ Ic is sacred, he said, against
all changes except those written in
to it by the people.
He referred scornfully to develop
ments in the lands of the dictators
declaring that the Constitution and
free courts to interpret it safe
guard America against such ex
periences.
And he took brusque exception
to the recent statements emanat
ing from Germany concerning the
rights of Nazis abroad.