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I VOLUME lxi
ASHEBORO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1937
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NUMBER 113
United States Navy
Ordered to Stay At
Chinese Harbor Post
i
U.S. Citizens To
Have Protection
White In China
Fleet Will Remain After
Nationals Have Been
Taken to Safety- v.
Business a Factor
Americans Refuse to Leave
Until Their Holdings
Are Gone.
Washington, Sept. 24.—(/P)—The
United States navy department
formally issued notice today, that
its Asiatic fleet will remain in Chi
nese waters “as long as the pres
ent controversy between China and
Japan exists.”
It was made public after a meet
ing of the Navy General Board,
the highest policy making body of
the navy department. Presum
ably it had the full support of the
State department.
The announcement said that the
navy policy of maintaining war
ships at ports where needed for
protection of American nationals,
“will continue in full force even
after our nationals have been war
ned to 'eave China and an oppor
tunity to leave offered.
“Most of the American citizens
now in China are engaged in busi
ness or professions which are their
only means of livelihood. Many
of these persons are unwilling to
leave until their business has been
destroyed or they are forced to
leave due to actual physical dan
ger.
“Until such time comes, our na
val foriag cannot be withdrawn for
fear of neglect of duty and with
out bringing great discredit upon
The navy made its announcement
of policy while the President was
discussing another phase. The
question of America’s attitude on
new Japanese claims in China.
The general accepted belief was
that the United States would not
recognize any new claims if it ap
pears to effect its foreign policy.
Roosevelt Will
Continue Plans
Tells Western Audience He i
Will Not Forsake First j
Term Acts.
Cheynne, Wyo., Sept. 24.—</P>—
President Roosevelt told a crowd of
thousands today he was going to |
continue in his second term, the,
same he had in his first, trying to
do the “most good for the great
est number."
The President declared he had!
told a friend recently who had ad-1
vised him to “coast" along from
now on, that ha would not accept
that advice.
“I don’t want to coast along and
the nation doesn’t want me to
coast along with my feet up on the
front wheel.
"People are thinking in national
terms,” he asserted.
“Don’t let anyone deceive you,
the government of the United
States is not going broke,” he said.
Japairfs Reply
Toky i, Sept. 24.—UP)—A ' Japa
nese foreign office spokesman an
nounced today an official reply to
the United States protest against
air bombing of Nanking was in
preparation.
:
O’Mahoney In Greeting To
Roosevelt; Makes Address
iberty Traffic
Detoured Over 64
lighway Department Oiling
Route 62; Temporary
Route 23 Miles.
All automobile traffic from Ashe
oro to Liberty which ordinarily
Highway 62 is being detour
via Highway 64 pending eom
fpletion of surface oiling by the
f state highway department.
A large sign, calling attention
to the detour has been placed at
the intersection of Fayetteville and
Salisbury streets. The sign indi
cates the direction of the devour
giving the approximate distance as \
17 miles of surfaced and 6 miles of
dirt highway.
i Holds Nanking
j Post for U. S.
In-charge of the United States
embassy at Nanking as the
“most merciless” air attack in
history was expected from Jap
anese air raiders, was J. Hall
Paxton, above, second secretary.
Ambassador Nelson Johnson,
with other officials, left under
government orders. Paxton, a
veteran in the Fur East, was on
the consulate stair in 1027 when
Chinese attacked foreigners.
Governor Will Say
When For Bureau
State Bureau of Investgation
Will be Established Ac
cording to New Law.'
"^overnoi^Ctyde' Hoey will say
when the state bureau of investi
gation will set up. It was decided
by the last legislature that such a
bureau would be established, but it
was left with the discretion of the
Governor to say when.
There is now available for the
purpose of establishing the bureau
approximately $3„500 the governor
said, this being half the money
which has been collected in all parts
of the state and turned in to the
act, which went into effect Marci
state treasury. Under the Bureau
22, an additional $1.00 in costs is
collected against every defendant
convicted in criminal courts of the
state, justices of the peace except
ed.
Approximately $7,000 so collect
ed has been turned in to the state,
but half of it has gone into “the
| Law Enforcement Officers’ Benefit
Fund,” which under the act will be
| used to aid dependents of law en
forcement officers killed or ser
iously incapacitated while in the
1 discharge of ruty.
i When the governor decides that
there is money enough to create
the bureau, he 'will have at his
disposal an agency completly unde?
his control and which he is speci
fically authorized-to use not only
in preparing and keeping arr re
cords of identification of criminals
but in (1) investiating and prepar
ing evidence in the event of any
lynching or mob violence; inves
tigating all cases arising from
frauds in elections; (3) investigat
ing cases arising under the Social
Security laws; (4) investigating
violations of the'gaming laws, lot
tery laws and matters of a similar
nature.
Heading the bureau, when set up,
will be a director whose salary is
not specified but which is authoriz
ed to be set by the Budget Bureau.
Foe of Court Proposals Wel
comes President To
Cheynne Today.
Cheynne, Wyo., Sept. 24.—UP)—
President Roosevelt reached Chey
nne today shortly after 9 a. m.
EST and was welcomed by an offi
cial committee including Senator
Joseph C. O’Mahoney, a leading
opponent to the President’s Su
preme Court proposals.
The President delayed a public
appearance until the train could be
switched to a parking place.
Newspaper reporters in greeting
O’Mahoney asked:
“Are you on the welcoming com
mittee ?” ^
“Sure, why not,” the Senator r^
plied, himself laughing.
Mrs. Roosevelt stepped to the
[train during the switching and
I walking up to the welcoming group
i first greeted O’Mahoney.
U. S. Obligated To j
Assist China Its !
Premier Asserts
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i Cites America’s Action In
Calling For Far East
Peace Pact.
Calls On 9 Powers
Chiang Contends War is Bat
tle For Assurance Of
China’s Life.”
Nanking, Sept. 24.—</P>—General
Chaing-Kei-Sheck, premier of Chi
na, declared today the United
States was obligated by her treaty
“to support the Chinese struggle
against Japan’s aggression.’’
The general was visibly moved
as he talked to newsmen. His re
marks were translated by Madame
Chaing, his American educated
wife.
Shortly before, the official Chi
nese news agency had expressed
belief on behalf of the government,
appreciation for the American pro
test against Japanese bombing of
Nanking, adding:
1 “But we hope more positive mea
onslaught against non-combat
sures will be • adopted the
ants.”
The general declared “American
responsibility in the present Sino
Japanesa war is greater than ever
before because she convened the
Washington conference and wa1!
mainly instrumental in concluding
the 9-power pact and the League
of Nations covenant.
“China is fighting not only for
her ow.i existence but for the de
fense of the principles of the 9
power pact—therefore it is up to
the United States and all other sig
natories of the existing agreement
to support the Chinese in their
struggle.”
Local Officials
| Asheboro At Meet
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iRepresentative Group From
City and County Attending
Municipal Meeting Today.
A representative group of town
and county officials are attending
the meeting for municipalties and
good government held in Winston
Salem today. Leaving early thi3
morning were Amos Winningham,
city clerk, and Zeb Keever, of the
city police force. Going later in
the day were Walter Yow, who has
been at the city hall for many
years; W. F. Redding, member of
the city council; Dan Burns, coun
ty attorney; Fred Phillips, county
auditor, and others.
It was the intention of M.->E.
Johnson, chairman of the county
board of commissioners, to attend;
the meeting, and he has probably I
done so. C. M. Hayworth, another |
.member of the county board, and
i Walter A. Bunch, mayor of Ashe
boro, have been held at home on
account of their offices in the Ran
dolph county fair association which
will begin next week in Randolph.
This good government discussion,
which will be treated from a stand
point of government rather than
gpolitics, will include people from
several counties in this central
section of the state of North Caro
lina.
City is Decorated
With Fair Banners
Asheboro is decorated with a
large streamer across the main
street in the center of the town’s
business district, welcoming people
to the Randolph county fair. This
seventeenth annual event opens in
Asheboro on Tuesday, September
28th.
Not only is the streamer invita
tional, out there are other signs and
decorations in various places of
business, all of which are interest
ed in this fall event.
Officials of that organization are
planning: for, and expecting, the
biggest fair in the history of the
organization. They report quite
satisfactory reports from the var
ious sections of the county where
farmers are planning to bring their
“largest pumpkins and hogs.”
Skipper Sentenced
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 24.—(JP)—
(Canadian Press)—Captain Free
man Hatfield, Nova Scotia skipper,
convicted of defrauding the Cana
dian World war reparations com
mission of $71,276, was sentenced
today to 18 months in the Ontario
reformatory.
Aberdeen, Sept. 24.—According
to official figures, 81,290 pounds of
tobacco were sold on the Aberdeen
market yesterday , for $21,570.20,
an average of $26.53 a hundred
weight. This is the highest aver
age of the season and largest of
fering since openin day. All grades
were in good demand yesterday
with prices reaching new peaks.
As Legion Got Down to Business
While their tun-seeking comrades swarmed through the sunlit
streets ot New York, the official ablegates to the American Legion
convention got down to businesUn Madison Square Garden at a
joint session with the auxiliary^ Hie proceedings were to be cli
maxed with the election otja new national commander.
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Oaklawn
Comp
Nearing
Sale Soon
Germany Spurns f j
League Inquiry
■ i
Not to Join Other Nations Ift,
Probe of China-Japan
Relations.
Leagued
Geneva, Sept. 24.—j
many yesterday refused to
anythity^ to do with the ”
Nations investigation of tMe
dar^ w^r between
pari. 1 ^
Through its consul-general at
Geneva the Berlin government in
formed Joseph Avenol, the Lekgue3
secretary-general that Getmany
would not participate in the advis
ory committee revived by the
League to deal with the far eastern
crisis.
Germany has an anti-Comniunist
pact with Japan, but also has
growing commercial interests in
China.
League circles continued interest
ed discussion of British sugges
tions that the Washington nine
power treaty of 1922, guaranteeing
the independence and integrity of
China be invoked in the effort to
halt Japan’s invasion of China.
Farley Resignation
New York, Sept. 24.—(JP)—James
A. Farley’s resignation as postmas
ter general and his acceptance of
the presidency of the Pierce-Arrow
Motor Car company, it was under
stood in influential circles, to have
been delayed by the decline in secu
rities’ and preparation of an S. C.
C. statement of the new position cf I
the Pierce-Arrow stock.
Workmen Busy This Week
Leveling Piots and Smooth
ing Driveways.
This week workmen, are leveling
plots and smoothing over the drive
ways of Oaklawn cemetery, Asha
boro’s new graveyard locatea in the
southeastern section of the town on
the Asheboro-Albemarle highway.
This spot, which was a short time
ago, a','wilderness of undergrowth
of scruj^y trees, is now one of the
most beautiful spots around Ashe
hOfo. “ Wie- curbstones -fcktd been
laid, the glitters finished and the
place is taking oh the aspect of a
really lovely cemetery.
According to Walter Yow, of the
city hall, plots in two sections of
the large tract which is well over
1500 acres, are now complete and
ready for inspection. This is the
section next to the highway, It is
estimated that there will be approx
imately 1300 plots in the cemetery
when finished.
While it is hard to say exactly
when the work will be entirely
complete, it is now thought that,
the sale of plots will begin about
the first of November—possibly
earlier.
It will be recalled by many that
this tract of land was purchased
by the city sometime ago for the
purpose of a cemetery after it be
came known that there were no
available plots in the cemetery lo
cated on Salisbury street. Many
people have been forced to return
to their country homes for the bu
rial "of their loved ones because of
the lack of space in the town ceme
tery which has served Asheboro
since the formation of the village
many years ago.
Held in Check by Wife and Chain
i _
“They took us to dinner last night, but where do you suppose
they’ve been since then?” a woman was heard to remark to friends
in a New York hotel lobby. Here is one wife who makes certain
she won't be among those abandoned to her own devices—she
parades her Legionnaire on Broadway at the end of a chain!
II Duce Promises
To Keep Soldiers
From Spanish War
Gesture Seen Move to Streng
then Power Over
Germany.
To Broadcast Peace
Hitler and Italian Ace Make
Joint Speeches In
Berlin Tuesday.
London, Sept. 24.—(.’P)—-Authori
tative sources said today II Duce
had promised Great Britain and
France he would send no more
troops to Spain making possible the
entry of Italy into the Anglo
French diplomatic front and creat
ing a new balance of power in Eu
rope.
His sudden willingness to prom
ise that no more troops should be
sent to Spain—coming on the eve
of his departure for important
conferences with Chancellor Hitler
—caused many observers to won
der whether Italy was preparing
some nejv and surprising move.
Some British circles—and this was
borne out by Rome dispatches—
were frankly considering his ges
ture of cooperation with France
and England as another effort to
strengthen his position and to drive
harder bargains with Hitler.
Munich, Ger., Sept. 24.—(JP)—
Informed sources disclosed today
that II Duce and Hitler have agreed
to make joint world appeal for
peace when they speak Tuesday at
the close of a Huge demonstration
in Berlin.
Japanese Army
Hit By Cholera
200 Reported Dead From Epi
demic; Open New Air
Drive at Hankow.
Shanghai, Sept. 24.—t/P>—Nine
Japanese airplanes today bombed
Hankow, tlw great port of the mid
dle Yangtze river valley, killing
approximately 100 persons and
wounding twice that many.
The flyers were apparently try
ing to destroy the big army arse-'
nal in Hankow. They dropped
three 'arge bombs on the crowded
city district, two in the river near,
the British gunboat Apis and oth
ers in the surrounding country.
In Shanghai the worst cholera
epidemic in the city’s history was
spreading through the Japanese ar
my units attacking the Chinese line
to the northwest.
Some 200 Japanese troops were
said to have died from the epidem
ic.
Peiping, Sept. 24.—(.P)—The
Japanese army completed its as
sault on the Chinese base of Pa
otingfu, 30 miles south of here to
day and issued an ultimatum to the
Chinese army to surrender or be
annihilated.
The Japanese high command an
nounced the 50 foot high wall sur
rounding the city of 100,000 people
had been breached in a dawn at
tack. The 2nd Chinese army de
fenders was said to be fighting des
perately but the continued Japa
nese artillery bombing was too
•much for it.
In mid afternoon the Japanese
military announced the Chinese
defenders had been driven from
the south and west districts in
hand-to-hand fighting. . The Japs
were said to have taken over three
gates commanding entry into the
city.
Ambassador Dodd
To Speak at U. N. C,
Of interest to several people In
Asheboro who know Dr. William
E. Dodd Ambassador from the
United States to Germany, will be
interested to know that he is book
ed to speak at Chapel Hill on Mon
day evening, September 27th. The
lecture will be held in Memorial
Hall at 8:30 o’clock, according to
announcement made today by Alex
Hard, president of the Union.
A former announcement was
made to the effect that Dr. Dodd
would speak on Thursday evening,
which is not the case.
A close personal friend of Presi
dent Frank P. Graham, Dr. Dodd
is a former member of the univer
i sity’s history department. He also
taught at the University of Chic
ao. This will be his last speeoh in
this country before he returns to
Berlin the first of October. He is
now on vacation.
Golf Tourney
Decided interest in the Asheboro
golf champion tournament has
■ been evident during the past few
days when many of the members
(have been shooting at qualifying
marks to place them in the series.
All qualifying scores must be In
' the hands of the tourney committee
not later than Sunday night.
don Sends Strong
latest to Japanese
iMinst Canton Raid
WPA Problem
Until Identified
“I’ve had him long enough. You
take him now,” said the man
who disappeared immediately
after he pushed this attr&ctm!
two-year-old boy through the
pay window at WPA headquar
ters in Providence, R. X. Despite
bribes of candy and toys, the boy
(was unable to provide a clew to
his identity. He later was iden
tified as Giosuele Ricci by his
aunt, who saw his picture in a
paper, and turned over to her.
Grant Tar Heels
Navy Air Wings
Cadets Enter Third Class At
Pensacola; Two Are
From Charlotte.
Washington, Sept. 24.—UP)—The
navy department yesterday an
nounced names of 27 naval avia
tion cadets who have been desig
nated naval aviators, and who were
detached today from the naval air
station at Pensacola, Fla.
The department at the same time
announced the names of 72 aviation
cadets appointed for flight train
ing in the third class at Pensacola,
beginning September 27.
Among the 72 cadets selected
for flight training in the class be
ginning September 27 were:
From the Anacostia, D. C., avia
tion base, Eugene Russell Cate,
Chapel Hill, N. C.; Dallas Lester
I Morris, Charlotte, N. C.; James
Wyatt Newsome, Wake Forest, N.
C.
From the Opa-Locka, Fla., avia
tion base: Alexander Currie Holt,
Jr, Greensboro, N. C.; George An
derson Little, Charlotte, N. C.:
John Ellison Muldrow, Bishopville.
S. C.
i Robert S. Smith
! Gets Life Term
^North Carolina Convict Guilty
I Of Murdering Lancaster,
South Carolina, Cop.
Lancaster, S. C., Sept. 24.—(.P)—
A jury last night convicted Robert
S. Smith, escaped North Carolina
convict, of murdering Policeman
B. Frank Sowell near here July 4
and recommended mercy.
Judge G. B. Green sentenced the
defendant ,who received the ver
j diet calmly, to serve the remainder
of his 'lift on the Lancaster county
'roads or in the State penitentiary.
A life sentence was .mandatory un
der the verdict.
A few minutes after he was sen-1
tenced Smith was taken by heavily!
armed officers to the State peniten
tiary at Columbia.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina: aFir tonight and
Saturday. Slightly warmer in the
northwest and extreme western
portions..
Ambassador Goes
Direct To Tokyo
Foreign Minister
Expresses Horror Over Kill
ing of Civilians In
Chinese Capital.
Over 2,000 Dead
Two-day Bombing of Non
Combatants Cited in Bri
tain’s Message.
London, Sept. 24.—C-P)—Sir
Robert L. Craigie, British ambas
sador.to Japan, was instructed to
day to make strong representations
to the Japanese government against
non-military objectives by Japan’s
air forces in China.
Official sources disclosed the am
bassador had been told to express
horror felt in Great Britain of
what was characterized as deplor
able, the taking of lives among the
civil population during air bom
bing of Canton.
Japanese air fleets carried out a
series of raids on Canton, great
southern city of China, Wednesday
and Thursday killing and wounding
at least 2,000, mostly all civilians.
Carolina School
Cost Is Computed
Report of Auditor of State
Reveals How School Funds
Are Being Expended.
Carolina’s state-supported eight
months school term cost $21,343,
361.02 fot^ 1936-37. ^ ^
school commission, released today
the complete aduit for the 1936-37
session, prepared by the commiss
ion’s auditor, J. G. Vann.
The schools last year 5.89 per
cent more than the $20,155,735.69
spent in 1935136.
None of the figures included local
supplements.
Teachers ot 83.65 per cent of the
1936-37 expenditures. Their salary
item totalled $17,799,600.75, up
7.25 per cent from the $16,595,646.
16 in 1935-36. For instructional ser
vice a total of $17,852,730.99 was
spent last year and $16,649,427.16
the year before.
The commission had available for
expenditure in 1936-37 an appro
priation of $20,900 and other
funds amounting to $633,447.06.
The appropriation for this year is
clogse to $24,000,000.
Vann reported that instructional
service costs in 1936-37 were $1,
203,945.59 hiher than in 1935-36
but due to a reduction in general
control and auxiliary agency costs
for 1936-37 over 1935-36 was only
$1,167,625.33.
Johnson county got more money
j for current expense items than any
| other administrative district, a to
tal of $419,287.19.
i Other allotment by administra
tive units included: Guilford $412,
078.99, Greensboro $269,559.98 and
Hih Point $211,225.
g 2ign,sn,mgal( oth
James Neely Home
Bedside of Brother
James Neely has returned from
Richmond where he went several
days ago to accompany his brother
in-law, Jack Hayworth who was
taken to a hospital in that city.
Dr. Colman, famous sureon >f
Richmond operated on Jack Hay
worth Tuesday. Reports from his
bedside brouht by Mr. Neely indic
te that the operation was success
ful and that his condition is fairly
good. The physicians and family
have realized the seriousness of the
trouble, however, since the begin
ning almost four weeks ago when
he was suddenly seized with an in
fected sinus.
Embassy Under Guard
London, Sept. 24.—(JPl—Extra
police rushed to protect the homo
of Japanese Ambassador Shigeru
Yoshida late last night when a
crowd gathered in the street out
side and shouted: “Withdraw your
bombers. Take the Japanese mur
derers out of China.”
Russia Kills Fo.ur
Moscow, Sept. 24.—(/PI—Four
employes of the Red Cross gas de
fense corps at Leningard were ex
ecuted today on charges of poison
ing sailers of the Baltic .fleet. They
werg condemned as “Fascist ter
rorists.”
A professional is a person who
is more interested in money than
praise.