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ASHEBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPT-19,1937
NUMBER 109
gHELLS DROP NEAR FLAGSHIP AUGUSTA
European Powers Near
■“Show-down”; General
I Conflict Now Feared
aly refused,
in London were
that France and
»d agreed to d
withdrawal of all f
New Sea Attacks
ish-Franco Border May
Be Thrown Open To
AU Forces.
ily Turns Cold
Shoulder To Bid
it Britain and France
Sent New Invitation
To II Duce.
ondon. Sept. 18.—(JP)—Euro
powers moved nearer a shoiv
in the Mediterranean crisis
ht as Italy coldly received a
invitation to join the “anti
cy patrol.”
new turn in the question vf
eign intervention in the Span
Ivil war was indicated by re
that fresh Italian volunteers
being enrolled.
Surope’s capitals saw increasing
ngers to the general peace aris
from the conflict.
Perils at sea were illustrated
ew by an attempt of an unidenti
airplane to bomb the Britten
stroyer Fearless off Gijon, gov
nment port of northern Spain.
Jreat Britain and France gave
another chance to join the fi
ver patrol to crush attackers of
chant shipping in the Mediter
tgain i
Ticialb
reports
in h
the withdrawal
Great
land
witn
Franco-Spanish border
lolt McPherson To
Leave Enterprise
kes Florida Post; Went To
[Paper in Boyh oed; Work
ed to Top.
ligh Point, Sept.1-18.—(-P)—Holt
fcPherson, editor of the High
^iint Enterprise has resigned to
Ice charge of the Mfuni Herald
areau of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Je will transfer to his new post
arly in October.
J. P. Rawley, general manager
the Enterprise, announced the
iitorship would not be filled im
iiately. John Mebane, city edi
br, will be editor pending appoint
bent of McPherson’s successor.
McPherson has been associated
ith the Enterprise since boyhood,
erving as reporter, telegraph edi
or, city editor and editor. He
le to the paper in 1915.
ears Mounting
For Endeavour
British Racing Sloop Missing;
Four Coast Boats In
Search.
Boston, Sept. 18.—UP>—As fears
lounted today for the missing
Iritish racing sloop Endeavour I
nd her crew of 20, four coast
uard patrol boats swung south
rard and east from Halifax, N. S.,
1 a widening search for the lost
raft.
The four patrol boats reported
o sign of the unsuccessful 1934
.mericon's cup challenger during
Mir search begun at a point 200
liles east of Nantucket, where
lie racing yacht was parted from
Its convoy, Viva, in a gale last
Monday night.
itnie Ruth Smoke
Died Last Night
I Annie Ruth Smoke, 19, daughter
bf Mr. and Mrs. T, L Smoke, who
reside three miles west of Ashe
poro, died at a local hospital last
fight at 6:30 o’clock. Miss Smoke
had been ill for five days.
I The survivors, in addition to the
[parents include five sisters: Mrs.
Clifford Davis, of Cameron and
■the Misses Blanche, Mary, Dorothy
Lee and Marjorie all of the home.
The Funeral service will be at
the West Bend If. E. church Mon
day morning at 11 o’clock. The
Rev. Odell Brown, pastor, and the
Rev. H. P. Powell of the Asheboro
M.E. church wU! officiate.
Burial will be in the church
A 10,000-Mile
‘Proxy Bride’
A "proxy" ceremony was se
lected by Joan A. Kingma, above,
24-year-old Grand Rapids. Mich.,
piano teacher, for her marriage
to Herman A. Voogel, Dutch
ship's officer at Batavia, Java,
in the Dutch East Indies. While
she sat.at home the wife of one
sSSaSPK
scene of the wedding rites. A
church ceremony will be held
when she joins Voogel later.
Asheboro Faculty
Guests Of Rotary
Teachers and Board Meet
With Local Club At
City Pond.
The Asheboro Rotary club*enter
tained the city school board and
members of the faculty at Its reg
ular supper-meeting at the City
i Pond Friday evening.
The meeting was iri charge of Ur.
C. G. Smith, president. Dr. Ollie
Presnail greeted the guests and
gave assurance the club maintain
ed a deep interest in the school
activities. The speaker praised
the high standing of members of
the local faculty.
Members of the school board at
tending included Kemp Alexander,
Mrs. W. A. Underwood, Shelley
Frazier, W. J. Scarborough, Sulan
Steadman, King Moore and Calvin
Frazier. Other visitors were
Professor and Mrs. White, Ram
seur; Miss Emma Rice, New York;
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Redding, C.
Don Alexander and Frank Hicks,
of Louisburg; Mr. and Mrs. John
Neely and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Whitfield.
The dinner was served by the
women of the Charlotte Methodist
Protestant church.
The next meeting will take place
in the rocidl room of the Central
Methodist Protestant church.
Members of the Asheboro faculty
attending the meeting included:
High School
Miss Alma J. Lassiter, Miss Cor
nelia Ayers, Mr. John Garrett, Mr.
Marshall Cox, Ja., Miss Eleanor
Willoughby, Miss Mary Little
Steele, Miss Virginia Barker, Miss
Mabel Robertson, Mrs. John Prev
ette, Miss Sue Brawer, Miss Mary
Moffitt.
West Elementary
Miss Donna Lee Loflin, Miss
Marion Watson, Miss Virginia
Warner, Miss Mary Witherspoon,
Miss Ruth Wicker, Miss Helen
Jones, Miss Lucy Leigh Lovett,
Miss Inabelle Cockrell.
East Elementary
Mrs. Gilbert Councilman, Miss
Anne Fuller Young, Miss Leona
Wood, Miss Callie Vuncannon, Mis3
Rachel Busby, Miss Madge Hob
good, Miss Winifred Eaddy, Mrs.
Eliufteth Woodard, Miss Georgia
Warray - Miss Louise Hunt, Mrs.
Vida & White, Mrs. Bessie Rice,
Miss Rath Tucker, Miss Enolia
Presnell, Miss Nancy Adkins.
Piano Teachers
rMs. Murray Fields, Miss Louise
Swaim.
maid Turner, Supt., Miss
League Heading
For Bitter Tilt
On Spanish War
Charges of Italian and Ger
man Invasion Sent To
Assembly Floor.
Neither Represented
Hitler and II Duce Cited As
“Highwaymen”; Spain Wins
Early Support.
Geneva, Sept. 18.—UP)—The
League of Nations assembly head
ed tonight towards a decision on
charges of German and Italian “in
vasion” in the Spanish civil war.
The Spanish government envoy
set the stage for a n open airing
of the controversy. He termed II
Duce and Hitler “international
highwaymen” and demanded the
League force an end to their “in
vasion on behalf of the Spanish
insurgents.”
His resolution asking that the
question be submitted to the league
political committee paved the way
for bringing the matter to the as
sembly floor.
There, Italy and Germany, al
though not represented, will keep
in toucn with development through
those in sympathy with the Insur
gent general Franco.
The Spanish government is cer
tain of the Soviet backing.
China In Protest
To White House
Envoy Tells President Em
bargo Will Cause One
Sided Harm.
Roosevelt today its protest against
the chief executive’s order placing
a partial embargo on shipments
of arms and munitions to the far
Eastern war zone.
An official of the White House
said Ambassador C. T. Wang dis
cussed with the President the pos
sible damaging effect of the res
triction on China’s conduct of the
undeclared war with Japan.
There was no indication of any
presidential intention of recinding
his order.
Still another aspect of the Sino
Japanese conflict apparently was
studied by Mr. Roosevelt during a
visit to the White House by Sec
retary Hull accompanied by Hugh
Wilson, assistant secretary of state
who is the state department’s Lea
gue of Nations expert.
Jap Shells Again
Threaten Marines
Tokyo Forces Open New
Drive on Chinese; Day Of
Mourning.
Shanghai, Sept. 18.—(JP) — The
Japanese unleashed a new bom
bardmet on Markham road sector
bring new dangers to American de
fenders of the war-shocked Inter
national settlement.
Japanese shells crashed into the
barricade close by the patrol of
United States Marines.
Japanese planes, taking advant
age of clearing weather, resumed
bombing of Chinese position on a
wide front.
Chinese army authorities admit
ted Japanese troops had recaptured
Luopin about 15 miles north of
Shanghai and that Chinese troops
were aetreating from posts on the
Liuhong sector nearer the city.
As the fighting raged, China had
a day of mourning commemorating
the Republic’s loss of Manchuria
in 1931 to the Japanese.
Madame Chiang, the American
educated wife of the premier led an
anniversary visit to the troops en
during severe hardships on the
Shanghai front because of contin
ual down-pour of rains.
Coltrane Clan To
Meet Sept. 26th
Trinity. Sept. 18.—The Contrane
clan will celebrate their annual re
union at Ebenezer M. E. church in
Randolph county near the Coltrane
Mill stie on Sunday, September 26.
We are anxious for all the clan
and connections to be present.
A good program is planned for
the occasion.
Dr. and Mrs. D. A. Stanton are
celebrating their golden wedding on
the 28th of September, and will be
honor guests on this occasion.
D. S. Coltrane, Pres.
V. W. Coltrane, Sec.
Fleeing Shanghai With Children
His two small children
from the yoke across
out of the Shanghai wai
kept hidden most of
instant to take
his'household goods dangled
coolie's shoulders as he fled
in the basket on the right
raised his head only for an
the photographer.
+4
CONSTITUTION DAY — 1937 |
The President
Washington, Sept 18.—(.¥)—Pres
ident Roosevelt returned aggressi
vely to the battle for the reorgani
zation r>* the judiciary with an ap
peal thac the nation give its “feal
ty to the Constitution and not to
is misinterpreters.”
To a scathing criticism of the
“odd man on. the Supreme Cotf**’*’*
Orient social
assured, America may well be
caught in the tides of dictatorship
that have engulfed other lands.
He spoke on the 150th anniver
sary of the signing of the Consti
tution at a gala open air mass meet
ing which climaxed Washington’s
observance of Constitution Day.
His audience spread across a vast
amphitheatre just below the Wash
ington monument.
Only by raising the living stan
dards of the masses, he said, “can
we ensure against internal doubt
as to the worthiness of our demo
cracy and dissipate the illusion
that the necessary price of effi
ciency is dictatorship with its at
tendant spirit of agression.”
Secretary Ickes
Pittsburgh, Sept. 18.—UP)—Sec
retary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes characterized the Supreme
court last night as a “super-gov
ernment” and declared that “some
successors of Chief Justice John
Marshall have followed his “ex
ample in exercising the power he
usurped to pass upon the constitu
tionality of legislative acts.”
Governor Hoey
The Constitution of the United
States is the charter of American
freedom, the protection of the citi
zen, rich and poor alike, and the
bulwark of his defense, Governor
Clyde R. Hoey declared here la5t
night at a luncheon at the Cham
ber of Commerce in observation of
the sesquicentennial of the signing
of that great document.
Judge Parker
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
Sept. 18.—Judge John J. Parker,
senior judge of the United States
circuit court of appeals, gave an
Program for Union Services
Announced ior the Week
During the coming week, which I
brings the union tent revival ser-1
vices near a close, there are some |
interesting topics and plans for the |
meeting. On Tuseday evening, Dr.j
Anderson will discuss, “The White j
Robed Christ”. On this evening, a 1
roll call of churches cooperation in
the meeting will be a feature of the
service.
Wednesday evening will be fam
ily night with the request that
families sit together. The topic for,
this evening will be “Home.” Then.j
on Thursday evening all civic ami i
social organizations will be wel- j
corned as special guests with the!
minister’s topic, “Life’s Biggest
Business ” This will be termed, j
Community Night.
As has been the custom during i
the services, young people will be j
the center of interest at the Friday j
evening service with the topic, i
“Flaming Youth.”
In addition to the evening ser j
vices, there will be. preaching and
praise service on Tuesday, Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday
Iddress on the Constitution st
leeting of the West Virginia Bar
Ssociation here last night.
While emphasizing the import
nce of interpreting the Constitu
Son so as to meet the changing
leeds of the day, Judge Parker
lointed out the danger of the po
alitarian State, as represented by
so many European countries.
—Standing before the face of Ab
raham Lincoln carved out of solid
rock on the steep side of Mount
Rushmore, Senator Edward R.
Burke, democrat of Nebraska, said
last night in a Constitution day
address, “There should be instant
repudiation of the doctrine recently
expressed that the American people
are so well satisfied with present
leadership, or perhaps helpless to
do otherwise, that they are willing
to accept anything the master sug
gests.”
Wm. F. Green
Washington, Sept. 18.—Branding
as most reprehensible “the spec
tacle of a leader of the Committee
for Industrial Organization brazen
ly demanding favors from the gov
ernment in reward for a large com
paign contribution last fall,” Pres
ident William Green, of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, last
night declared his organization
“will have nothing to do with au
tocratic domination or dictatorial
control.”
John D. Hamilton
Washington, Sept. 18.—CP)—
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of
: the republican national committee
| said last night it was “inconceiv
able” that President Roosevelt
“would knowingly have appointed
a Klansman to the Supreme
Court.”
Senator Smith
Dillon, S. C., Sept. 18.—OP)
Senator Smith, democrat of South
Carolina, in a Constitution day ad
dress here last night hailed the Su
preme court as “the sole guarantee
| against usurpation of powers not
! delegated by the States to the
I Washington government.”
I morning at 10:00 o’clock to which
I the public is invited.
Each service ,one of the finest
| and most impressive features, is
I the gospel in song which has at
tracted many lovers. The fine voice
1 of the singer, Dr, Gaines, has won
i many friends for the service, as
, well as the minister’s daily mes
! sages.
REVIVAL MEETING BEGINS
AT MOUNT TABOR
Revival meeting began Sunday
September 26, at Mount Tabor
church. Rev. Fred Reece will as
sist and other.
The public is invited to attend
any or all of the services.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy
with rising temperature today fol
lowed by rain this afternoon and
tonight in the south and west por
tions.
Legion Captures
New York; Entire
Town In Uproar
Broadwayites Take to Sub
ways to Escape Convention
Noise.
Traffic in Snarl
Troops in Possession; One
Man Came in on Roller
Skates.
New ^ork, Sept. 18.—LV)—The
doughboys took possession of New
York tonight and nothing was
quiet on any front.
The roar of reunion rose louder
and louder over a normal quiet of
automobiles and elevated trains as
troops of the American Legion mov
ed in for their annual meeting, and
the wide-eyed folk, of Broadway
stuck their fingers in their ears and
fled to the soothing clatter of the
subways. Traffic was in a snarl all
over town, drums rolled, bugles,
shrilled, bells clanged and cannons
boomed out that the army was here
again after 20 years.
There were no quiet streets. The
troops were on all the streets. They
were on foot. They were in auto
mobiles, rigged up to look like the
ones they traveled in in France.
They were arriving on trains.
They were coming in on boats.
They were coming in on airplanes.
One man even came in on roller
skates.
“Invasion” Cited
Against Germany
Spanish Government Agent
Tells League Italy in Occu
pational Pact.
-!—. « *
Geneva, Sept. 18.——Dr. John
Megrin, Spanish government en
voy, demanded today the League of
Nations name Germany and Italy
aggressors in Spain and force an
end to their intervention in behalf
of insurgent General Franco in
the Spanish civil war.
“The Madird-Valencia win the
war”, envoy opened debate before
the League assembly with the dec
laration that the conflict in reality
has “become a war of invasion by
Germany and Italy.”
“It’s nothing more,” he asserted,
“than at. occupational pact.”
Roosevelt Starts
On Western Trip
Leaves Washington With
“Fire in His Eye”; One
Major Speech.
Washington, Sept. 18.—(.T*>—
President Roosevelt faced west
ward tonight with fight in his eyes.
He prepared tentatively for at
least one major speech on his jour
ney, then packed his bags for a
few days rest at his Hyde Park
(N. Y.) home before taking the
road with all the trappings of a
real hot campaign year.
Carolina State
Beats Davidson
Takes Conference Opener 6
To 2: Revenges Last
Season’s Defeat.
Greensboro, Sept. 18.—(.P> — A
North Carolina State wolfpack beat
back a Davidson eleven here to
night 6 to 2 in a Southern confer
ence opener, exactly reversing the
score of last year’s game between
the two teams.
Other Scores
Rio Grande 0, Ohio University
80.
Clemson 46, Presbyterian 0.
Lumberton Mill
Employes In CIO
Vote Yesterday; Cotton Mills
Of Mansfield And
Jennings Join.
Lumberton, Sept. 18.—(.Pi—Em
ployes of the Mansfield and Jen
nings cotton mills voted today to
affiliate with the Textile Workers
committee, an offshoot of the CIO.
Jennings mill, voting first, voted
179 to 58 for the union and the
Mansfield employes voted 321 to
261.
Springfield is the capital of
Illinois.
All Foreign Warships
Again Under Jap Fire
As Chinese Open Raid
Retiring Landis
Flaying Brokers
James M. Landis, retiring chair
man of the Securities Exchange.
Commission, looses a blast
against Wall Street in his fare
well, statement at Washington,
■ D. C, preparatory to becoming
dean of the Harvard Lew School.
He charged that brokers’ com
plaints anout regulation having
caused a “thin market” were due
to self-interest inspired by lean
earnings, rather than protection
of shareholders.
Fair Officials
Are Enthusiastic
Predict Best Fair Ever: Pleas
ed With Response in Many
Depts.; Good Midway.
Only a week now until Randolph
county’s annual fair will open for
the seventeenth consecutive event.
People throughout this entire sec
tion are looking forward to this oc
casion with keen anticipation when
Randolph’s best products will be ex
hibited end where friends will meet
after possibly a year’s time.
According to W. A. Bunch, pres
ident, and C. M. Hayworth, secre
tary, the agricultural, horiticultur
al, cattle, vocational, industrial
and many other exhibits are shap
ing up in a most satisfactory man
ner. In addition to this, the offi
the six free acts which have been
engaged from Hamid, a veteran
cials are enthusiastic concerning
showman and the midway, which is
the Ideal Exposition shows. This
contract was made with Wm.
Glick, also a veteran showman.
Fireworks will also be a daily
part of the program and will be
enjoyed each evening after the free
acts are over.
Friday evening, again this year,
some young girl will be crowned
Queen of the Fair. There was
considerable interest in this event
last year and already there are a
large number of entrants into this
group.
Withal, all signs point toward a
“bigger and better” fair for Ran
dolph in every department, with
many added features to attract the
crowds.
Kane, Pa., Sept. 18.—CP)—The
first snow of the season fell yes
terday on the highest Pennsylvania
town, sending hayfever refugees
and'townsfolk scurrying for their
overcoats.
London, Sept. 18.—(JP)—Sir Jar,.
Barrie, famous British author who
died June 19, had amassed a for
tune of $867,335, probate of his
will showed today.
Tjrrell May Go West
Columbia, Sept. 18.—t.P)—Unof
ficial returns from 4 of Tyrrell’s
countv’s seven precincts tonight
gave "proponents of 'the county li
quor control 282 votes to the op
ponents 247.
Sepoy is the name given native
soldiers of the British native army
in India.
Four Killed As
New Air Battle
Raged In Night
—
j Home of American Acting As
Finance Advisor Hit By
Jap Shell.
New City Taken
Nippon Forces Steam in On
Chinese Forces At
Kaopeitien.
(By The Associated Press)
Shanghai, Sept. 19.—(Sunday)—
Japanese anti aircraft shells, fired
at Chinese bombers, endangered
the United States flagship Augus
ta, and other foreign warships on
the Shanghai water front during
repeated Chinese air raids last
night and early today.
Four were killed and 14 wounded
in the ir ternational settlement.
One anti aircraft shell pierced
the French concession residence of
S. B. Lynch, American advisor to
the Chinese finance ministry.
Leach and his wife, asleep in an
adjoining room, escaped injury. The
projectile apparently came from
the Japanese war fleet, 3 miles
away.
Peining, Sept. 18.—(A1)—A Japa
nese aviator returned from the
front southwest of Peiping today
to report he had seen an armored
train flying Japan’s sun flag, atearp .
info Kaopeitien, 56 miles fronrhbre’
on the Peiping-Hankow railway.
Attack Destroyer
Off Spanish Port
British Vessel Bombed; May
Have Been Plane From
Loyal Force.
London, Sept. 18.—(JP)—The
British destroyer, Fearless, report
ed to the London naval authorities
today that it had been attacked by
a bombing plane off Gijon, Spain.
Six heavy bombs fell near the
Fearless which was not struck.
Having completed the attack, the
plane flew towards Gijon leading
to the belief in London that it
might have been a Spanish gov
ernment craft.
The Fearless has regulation Brit
ish identification markings and car
ries heavy anti-aircraft guns. It
was not disclosed whether she open
ed fire on the attacker.
It was virtually impossible to
winnow the chaft of rumor from
the fresh harvest of reports which
have heightened the tension of a
major European conflict in which
Germany and Italy have lined up
against newly strengthened Fran
co-Anglo front.
Coward Reunion
Set For Sunday
A reunion of the descendents and
relatives of the late Marshall
Coward of Randolph county will
be held at Liberty on the school
grounds on Sunday, September
26th. The celebration will start at
11:00 o’clock a. m. All relatives are
asked to come with well filled bas
kets.
Tammany Opens
Fight On Mayor
i Will Endeavor to Halt Elec
tion of New Deal
Candidate.
New York, Sept. 18.—<iP>—A
new democratic organization,
pledged to the New Deal numeri
cally one of the most powerful in
; metropolitan history, today began
i its difficult attempt to upset Fior
; ella LaGuardia’s ambition to be
come the first anti-Tammany “re
j form” mayor ever re-elected here.
The century-old power and pres
I tige of Tammany itself was smash
ed—battered into at least tempo
rary oblivion by the hall’s own ef
fort to block the New Deal’s march
to dominance in the city.
Charles Schwab, steel magnate,
started *his career by clerking in
a store for two years.
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