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LUME LXI
ASHEBORO, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1937__
NUMBER 111
rolerance Urged At
Yets Session; Minds
Should Stay Young
[esume Sessions
After Big Parade
Jany Resolutions on Peace
And Foreign Relations
Being Prepared.
’arade Closed Today
leaker Contends Mind i
Should Be Open to Ali
New Ideas.
| New York, Sept. 22.—CPI—The
linericai) Legion today selected
os Angeles, Calif., as the city for
le 1938 annual convention.
[ The choice was made after
rank N. Belgrano, former nation
commander had painted the
lories of the west coast city.
! Denver and Chicago made bids
or the session.
New York, Sept. 22.—(.1*1—Tof
rance towards new ideas was urg
upou the American Legion to
»y by General Frank T. Hines, ad
ministrator of Veterans affairs and
ne of the principal speakers at
bday’s session of the 19th conven
|on of the organization.
‘ Wo must remain young in mind
nd in spirit to the full and fair
Kchange of ideas and by practic
bg tolerance of new ones but at
he same time pointing with pride
the faith we have kept with the
orefathers of this, the greatest
»tion on earth.”
New York, Sept. 22.—(.Tt— The
American Legion gave 5th avenue
ack "today and went to work on
lore ser ious phases of the cdhvfcn
|on.
J'ootweary from a 17 1-2 hour pa
ade—the greatest parade of mar
ling men and music New York
the Legion ever saw—the vet
rans turned to the task of for
mulating a peace program design
to keep America out of war.
•A record crowd, estimated at
least 2,500,000 persons watched
^ith alternating awe and passion
te enthusiasm as 200,000 Legion
|ien and women marched up the
ag-decked world famous avenue
the ptal of bugles and the roil
thousands of drums.
A detail of motorcycle police
assed the reviewing stand at 50th
treet at 8:20 a. m. yesterday and
he last unit wheezed by at 10:40
f’clock this morning.
Today the 1,939 delegates gath
ed to hear reports on resolutions
pneerning finances, Americanism,
dild Welfare, peace relations and
» reign relations.
Insurgent Advance
Jovernor Hoey To
New Orleans Meet
New Orleans, Sept. 22.—Nine
Southern governors have united to
pay in an industrial proclamation
Lnd invitation made public here.
F Included in this gubernatorial
loncert is Governor Clyde R. Hoey
|f North Carolina.
The other governors signing are:
pari E. Dailey, Arkansas; E. D.
tivers, Georgia; R. W. Leche, Lou
giana; Hugh L. White, Mississippi;
E. W. Marland, Oklahoma; Gordon
Browning, Tennessee; James V.
Ulred, Texas; George C. Peery,
Virginia.
“Within the last few years the
Rattle tick, scourge of the southern
dairy farm, has been practically'
Eradicated,” says the joint procla- |
nation. “Milk production through- (
all of the South is rapidly increas- j
JT, anl a field of expanding enter- j
prise for Southerners and for the j
enefit of all of the citizens of the !
South exists in the production of
nilk and in its handling, processing j
nanufacture and distribution, not j
only in fluid form but in the form I
of all the other accustomed dairy j
products.
“This year,” the governors’ state- j
nent continues, “the conventions
of the International Association of j
Cream Manufacturers and the!
International Association of Milk
Dealers are to be held in Dallas, I
Dctober 18 to 23 inclusive, and the!
|National Dairy Industries Exposi-1
tion, the nation’s largest regularly
ccurring industrial exposition, is
o be held in New Orleans, Octo
Iber 21 to 2Tv inclusive.
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, Sept. 228.—(AD—Fresh ad
| vances east and south of Gijon
Iwere reported today by Insurgents.
iThe announcement included a re
|ported capture of another govern
nt village.
Trouble Afoot
for Legionnaire
You’d think L. B. Lowenstein of
Los Angeles had had enough
hiking in the army. But here he
rubs weary feet on arrival for
the American Legion convention
in New York. He came afoot!
County Scouts To
Exhibit At Fair
AH Tioots in County Plan To
Aid in Operation Of
Fair Booth.
The executive committee of the
Randolph county council Boy
Scouts of America have completed
plans for a scout exhibit during the
county tair at the fair grounds.
Every troop in the county has
been invited to prepare articles of
a scout nature for the exhibit.
The committee has obtained a
large booth which will be attrac
tively decorated at which Scouts
from various troops will be sta
tioned during the hours of the fair.
The exhibits include sample of
wood-crafting, rope tyeing, and
•many othed features which are out
standing in scout activity.
Unemployment To
Be Listed By Dec. 1
Roosevelt Approves Plans
Today; Project to Open
At Once.
Hyde Park, Sept. 22.——
John B. Biggers, administrator of
the unemployment census announ
ced after a summer White House
conference today that President
Roosevelt had approved final plans
for the ennumeration. He added he
expected the count would be com
pleted before December 1.
Gaddis Reunion at Tabernacle
The fourth Gaddis reunion will
be held on next Sunday September
26 at Mt. Zion church in Tabernacle
township near Fullers Mill, all fa
mily connections and their friends
are invited to be present and bring
well fillet' baskets.
‘Come to the Fair’Was Theme
Song of State Fair Boosters
Singing “Come to the Fair”,
three bus loads of Raleigh business
men came through Asheboro at
noon today, stopped on the square
and advertised their fair. They
gave tricky souvenirs, tickets, pro
grams and attracted attention gen
erally with their white hats and
colorful Yankee-Doodle feathers
therein.
The State college band, traveling
with the outfit, gave a band con
cert on the lawn of the Moring
home in center town. H. L. Trent
man, 4 Raleigh insurance man,
Japan “Regrets”
Wounding Envoy
Of Great Britain
Note Claims Motor Was Mis
taken for Chinese Military
Lorry.
Bombed August 22
Tokyo Adds Stinging Phase
Pertaining to Demanded
Punishment of Pilot.
London, Sept. 22.—(.P)—Japan
today expressed formal “deep re
gret” for the wounding of the Brit
ish ambassador to China by Jap
anese airplanes, the Reuters News
Agency said in a dispatch.
The Ambassador was shot and
seriously injured by machine gun
bullets from two planes August 22.
The Japanese reply to the pro
test by the British government
said the “incident may have been
caused by a Japanese air plane
which mistook the car” for a Chi
nese army car.
The note admitted, the agency
said, that two Japanese planes ma
chine-gunned and bombed two mo
tor cars “believed in all sincerity
to be military lorries” containing
Chinese army officers.
Of British demands of punish
ment of the air men, the Japanese
note sa>d:
“It is needless to say the Japa
nese government will take suitable
steps whenever it is established the
Japanese aviators killed or woun
ded, intentionally nationals belong
ing to a third country.”
The reply was the second, a pre
vious one having requested time to
investigate the affair.
Roosevelt Says
PWA Exhausted
Will Close When Projects Are
Completed; Aid No Longer
Required*
H;He Park, N. Y., Sept. 22.—</P)
—President Roosevelt announced
yesterday the end of one of his first
alphabetical depression pump-pri
ming agencies—the PWA.
Administratively, the public
works administration will continue
for some time supervising expendi
tures under the 1937 extension act,
but there will be no more money
outlays for construction projects
; because—for one thing—no more
funds remain to allot.
More important, however, the
President let it be known, today
that the PWA administered by Har
old Ickes, Secretary of the interior,
had fulfilled its obligation under
the prespnt law and the need for
stimulating employment through
this form of federal aid had de
creased with the passing of the
“economic extremity.”
Permanent Outlay
He said government “non-relief”
expenditures for public works from
now on would be confined to a per
manent $500,000,000 annual appro
priation listed in the regular budget
for such items as flood control, soil
erosion prevention, river and har
bor impiovements, navigation aids,
drought region reservoirs, refores
tation, and related work.
Thesj expenditures will be ad
ministered by the regular depart
ments and agencies having to do
with such work, he told a press
conference.
In a stateemnt earlier in the day.
the Chief Executive said he had
just approved a few border-line
applications for PWA money, con
cluding allotments under the 1987
extension act.
Atlantic Storm
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 22.—CP)
—The weather today said a hurri
cane rhging in the Atlantic ocean
some 1,200 miles south east of
Bermuda was moving in a norther
ly direction and present indications
held no threat for any part of the
North American coast.
was speaker and issued a warm in
vitation to Randolph folk to attend
this celebration. After the invita
ion, concer and disribution of fa
vors, the men went to the Central
Methodist Protestant church where
they lunched together.
This 16th annual tour will con
tinue for two days through this
state. The group goes from Ashe
boro to Fayetteville, where they
will spend the night, but were
scheduled to make several stops en
40 et 8 Big Noiise of Legion Fun
The 2C0.CC9 and mere veterans Attending the American Legion con
vention hardly ret foot on the jdewalks of New York before they
were carried away by transports of delight—at least if they were
members of the 40 and 8 society. The Detroit voiture, shown
above, clanged its way around town on a miniature of the French
trains used as troop transports in wartime.
U. S. In Steirn Protest
To Japanese Air-Raid
Hull Sends New
Note To Tokyo
. ;___ ' ■ *
Filed at Same Time That
Planes Were Bombing
Chinese Capital.
Washington, Sept. 22.—UP>—The
United States government today
delivered to Japan a second and
more vigorous protest against
bombing of Nanking.
This second, it was announced by
Secretary Hull at his press confer
ence, differed from the other ad
dressed to the Japanese govern
ment in that it constituted a for
mal written note to the Japanese
foreign minister. •
The previous protest was made
on the grounds that the bombing
violated human and international
laws and was delivered orally.
The new representations was
conveyed to the Japanese minister
by American Ambassador Joseph
C. Grew at approximately the
same time that Japanese planes
were bombing the Chinese capital.
Secretary Hull, indicating that
some reply had been received from
Japan, but failing to reveal its
nature, said official reports to
Washington were that one shell
exploded within the American em
bassy compound during the Japa
nese raid on Nanking.
The secretary of state asserted,
however, that there had been 10
report ol damage to American
property or injury to its citizens.
Walsh Says Black
Deceived Friends
Hints at Resignation And
Impeachment; Imposed
On President.
Worcester, Mass., Sept. 22.—OW
—Senator David I. Walsh, D.
Mass.) -today declared Justice Hu
go L. Black of Alabama, by not
“discussing his previous member
ship in the Ku Klux Klan” had at
tained his elevation to the Supreme
Court “by deception.” By his sil
ence, Walsh contended, Black had
grossly imposed on President Roos
evelt, even before his confirma
tion.
Walsh said an impeachment
would have to originate in the
house and he expressed the opin
ion that the most feasible way Oe
could be eliminated would be for
President Roosevelt to obtain his
resignation.
Parade Toll
New York, Sept. 22.—(Ah—One
child was killed and nearly 200
persons injured yesterday as
crowds estimated by Legion offi
cials at more than 2,000,000 persons i
jammed Fifth avenue for the an
nual parade of the American Le
gion. Major A. R. Splint of the
102nd medical regiment which es
tablished three field hospitals along
the line of march, said the casual
ty list was “remarkably small.”
Quizzed About
‘Baby Purchase’
The fact that a $50 gift was left
for the mothers who gave up
their babies for adoption by her
sister led to the detention of
Alice Karnick, above, in Phila
delphia, for investigation of a
possible “baby traffic.” She is
alleged to have “purchased” the
infant- daughter of Mrs. Ethel
Stayton in Milford, Del.
Plan Reduction
In Next Budget
Washington to Cut Work Re
lief in Effort to Balance
The Budget.
Washington, Sept. 22.—<.P>—Fis
cal officials predicted today the
administration would trim work re
lief spending especially during the
next fiscal year in an effort to bal
ance the budget.
Hearings on the 1938-29 budget
have already been started by Dan
iel W. Bell, acting budget direc
tor.
President Roosevelt will submit
estimates to Congress in January.
Plea Self-defense
Shelbyville, Ky., Sept. 22.—(/PI—
A self-defense plea, it was indicat
ed tonight, will be made by Jack,
Roy, and Dr. E. S. Garr, charged
with the murder of Brig. General
Henry H. Denhardt on the eve of
the lawyer-soldier-politician’s wi
dowed sister, Mrs. Verna Garr Tay
lor, his fiancee.
“Men don’t kill each other for
nothing,” was the terse reply of J.
Ballard Clark of La Grange, their
attorney, to questions concerning
reports the Garrs planned such a
plea.
THE WEATHER
North and South Carolina: Fair
tonight and Thursday.
Dental Clinic To
Operate 24 Weeks
Randolph County
A Free Service For Ali School
Children of Randolph Coun
ty Offered by State.
Dr. Pearman Here
Has Taken House and Plans
To Make Asheboro Home;
Schedule to Follow.
Beginning in Asheboro Monday, a
twenty-four week dental clinic op
ened for Randolph county. Dr. H.
R. Pearman, who is employed by
the state board of health for this
full-time work, is in charge of the
clinic and is working with Dr.
George H. Sumner and the health
department of this county.
Dr. Pearman, who has been in
Randolph before, has decided to
take a house here and make this
his headquarters, since it is the
center of the state and couples con -
venience with a decided choice of
Asheboro as a permanent location.
Mrs. Pearman and their son are
with the doctor here.
Dr. Pearman urges all children
between the ages of six and thir
teen to come to him when he is in
their locality for this free dental
examination and work. Monday
•morning, Dr. Pearman went to
Central Falls where he spent two
days attending to the dental needs
of the children in that school. He
was quite pleased with the response
and with the fact that cildren real
ize the importance of this work. He
urges parents to cooperate by hav
ing their children take advantage
of this free service to them offered
by the health department of the
state of North Carolina.. Today,
he went to Bethel school and plans
to make a round of all the county
schools. A complete list of hi3
itinerary will appear in this news
paper as soon as the doctor is able
to complete the schedule.
French General
Reported Captive
Insurgents Said to Have
Placed Ambassador Under
Guard at Malaga.
Bayonne, France, Sept. 22.—(.V)
—The French consulate at Malaga
said advices at this Franco-Span
ish front town today is being held
by the Spanish insurgent forces is
an aftermath to the arrest of In
surgent Major General Julian Tro
ncosos in France on a charge of
conspiracy to steal a submarine.
There was no immediate confir
mation of the report that the con
sul general was under guard at the
Southern Spanish city.
Mrs. Coltrane Is
Buried This P. M.
Funeral service was held at 3:00
o’colck this afternoon for Mrs.
Blanche Coltrane Wall, of near
Randleman, who died at a Greens
boro hospital yesterday. The ser
vice was held at Burnett’s Chapel
in Sumner township with burial in
the churchyard.
Mrs. Wall, a native of Guilford
county, is survived by her husband
J. Monroe Wall; four daughters,
Mrs. Dorothy Laster and Misses
Myrtle, Cleo and Edna Wall, all of
Greensboro; three sons, Claude,
Ray and W. C. Wall, all of Greens
boro; one sister, Mrs. W. B. Gray,
of Greensboro; three brothers, Tyle
Coltrane, of Antes Fort, Pa., and
Grovener and Vernon Coltrane, of
Greensboro, and her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Coltrane, of Ran
dleman road.
Berlin, Sept. 22.—CP)—Ger- \
many, which has an anti-commun- I
istic pact with Japan requested
Tokyo today to refrain from bom- j
bardment of the Reich-Nanking
embassy.
Hyde Park, N. Y„ Sept. 22.—(.P) |
—President Roosevelt ordered his
heavy ciothes packed today for a
whirlwind tour to Seattle and
back to find out if the country is j
thinking about administration ob- j
jectives. i
Asheboro Man Obtains Big
Verdict Alter 9 Year Suit
New Haven, Conn., Sept. 22.
—t.W—A judgment of $21,952
ended a $40,000 civil suit in
progress here for nine years
today when Superior Court
Judge John Booth entered that
judgment for Clyde C. Hart
50 Jap Planes Rain
Death and Fire On
Feeble and Disabled
Exiled Windsors
Visit in Hungary
good humor, the Duch
ess of Windsor, right, laughs
merrily when greeted by Mrs.
Charles Ecdeaux at Mezokovesd,
Hungary. Mr. Bedeaux, left,
chats with the duke in the back
ground. The visit with the Be
deaux, who had been their hosts
at Monts, France, prior to the
wedding, marked the end of the
Windsors' ho~oy-?>—■> >—' ■ •>
Santee-Cooper In
Uncertain Status
President’s Decision to End
PWA Raises Question In
South Carolina.
Washington, Sept. 22.—CP)—
President Roosevelt’s announce
ment of the end of the PWA—in
sofar as new projects are concern
ed—left in doubt today the status
of the South Carolina Santee
Cooper power project.
Although the South Carolina
project has been appropriated $6,
000,000, doubt was expressed con
cerning the remaining $31,500,000
in view of the President’s statement
that no more funds were to be al
located.
PWA officials refused to inter
pret the President’s statement in
reference to what effect it would
have on the Santee-Cooper project.
They said further comment
would have to came from Me.
Roosevelt.
G. O. P. Cheerful
Washington, Sept. 22.—CP)—Re:
publican leaders from the big cities
talked strategy here today and re
ported improved party prospect.3
in many sections.
Under the leadership of John D.
Hamilton, chairman of the national
committee, they-eanvassed trends
of the political situation and pre
dicted a big turnover in next years
congressional elections.
Washington, Sept. 22.—UP>—
Greenwood county, South Carolina,
told the Supreme Court today that
an electric plant at Buzzard’s Roost
would not serve as a yardstick to
fix power utility rates.
zell, of Asheboro, N. C., against
the Acme Wire company. The
suit was based on Hartzell’s
contention the money was due
on unpaid commissions for a
5-year period from 1923 to
1928.
Non-Combatants
Caught In Raid
Straw-hutted Sections Burn
Like Match Boxes; For
eign Envoys in Danger.
Johnson Back in Zone
United States Ambassador
Ordered Back to Office In
War-Torn City
Honkong, Sept. 22.—(.W—
Three hundred lives were fear
ed lost at Canton today in a
series of devastation air raids
by Japanese bombing planes.
The fourth attack of the day
and the sixth within 24 hours
kited the toll of lives and pro
perty and the official toll was
mounting hourly.
Tokyo, Sept. 22.—CP>— The
foreign office announced today
Joseph Grew, the United States
ambassador and Sir Robert
Cragie, the British ambassa
dor had conferred with Minis
ter Koki Hirota on the Japa
nese threat to devastate the
Chinese capital of Nanking,
with air bombs.
The foreign office denied the
ambassadors had protested
against the bombing or reserv
ed the right to indemification
for loss of lives and property.
Nanking. Sept. 22.—<iP>—Less
than forty-eight hours after Brit
ish and American protests to the.
Japanese government against un
restricted bombing of this capital,
more than 50 Jap airjlanes twice
rained death and destruction from
the skies today, killing, wounding
and buring to death more than 200
noncombatant- Chinese.
Killed or injured were mostly
those who had been too feeble or
helpless to join the exodus into the
safer countryside.
Dozens of bombs and high ex1
plosives fell into the native straw
hut section which burned like mat
ch boxes.
Many were caught and burned
to death.
At many places dismembered
legs, arms and heads were to -oe
seen.
The lives of 20 -Americans in
cluding 7 women were endangered
by the bombing and screen of fire
raised b> the Chinese anti-aircraft
batteries.
Despite the American and Brit
ish protests against bombing civi
lian populations and private prop
erty the mostly deeply settled sec
tion of the city was attacked, in
cluding the new residential dis
trict where the American, Italian,
German and Netehrlands embassies
or legetations are located.
Thirty-two sections of the capital
were bombed with an average of
three projectiles for each spot. The
stations of two of China’s most im
portant railroads were bombed
near where American and Brit
ish, French and Italian warships
are anchored in the Yangtze.
Many additional causalties were
reported in this section.
Chinese claimed to have brought
down four of the raiding planes.
Despite the air raid, United
States Ambassador Nelson T. John
son and his staff returned tonight
to the embassy from the American
patrol boat Luzon aboard which
they had taken refuge since Tues
day.
Johnson indicated he is ready to
remain at the capital notwith
standing today’s raid. Chinese of
ficials expressed extreme gratifi
cation and Americans here assum
ed the Ambassador had received
instructions to return from Wash
ington.
Maj, Bruce Craven
Is Convalescing
The many friends in Randolph of
Major Bruce Craven of Trinity will
be delighted to know that he is now
well on the road to recovery after
a recent illness. Major Craven suf
fered a heart attack three weeks
ago and has been resting at hi3
home since that time. He is now
sufficiently recovered to enjoy see
ing friends.
Germany leads the world in the
manufacture of motorcycles, its
production in the last year being
151,000 units out of a world total
of 316,000. Great Britain ranked
Second with a producton of 75,000.