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VOLUME LXI
ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1937
NUMBER 115
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I Randolph’s 17th Annual Fair Opens Today
(Crowds Trek to Fair
Grounds for Opening
Of County-Wide Event
Main Exhibit Hall
Center Interest
On Opening Day
Booths Filled With Varied
Products From Ail Sections
Of Randolph County.
Fair Has Retained
Local Representation
Midway of Varied Interests
Entertains Pleasure-Seek
ing Crowds.
When the 17th Randolph County
Fair opened at the fair grounds
this morning, it marked the open
ing of a real, county fair. The
county people were there and as the
day grew older, the crowds became
thicker on all parts of the grounds.
The interest centered in the main
exhibit hall where county exhibits
were on display. Randolph folk
have done what many counties have
lost track of, they have retained
their interest in county products,
rural, textile, gold .mining, farm
ing—all.
At this county fair, the butcher,
the baker, the candlestick-maker
are all represented^hsLhAvejceBre;,
serttativs exhibits. Even strang
ers in the midst of the fair can see
what diversified products come
from Randolph county. Randolph
is one of the few fairs that has
not gone purely commercial. Here
are many evidences of the county’s
best—-in agriculture, horticulture,
cattle, sheep and oxen, yea—the
textiles, furniture and automobiles
which i re sold in our midst.
Education is not forgotten, for
the progress of the schools in the
1 town and county have been a
source of pride for sometime. The
educational booth is splendid and
quite tepresentative. The fancy
work, art and pantry supplies have
always been noteworthy at this an
nual event. The individual farm
booths are even better this year
than last. The main exhibit hall is
filled with splendid exhibits and the
crowds are interested in them.
The cattle and poultry places are
also drawing attention and rur.il
folk are bringing their specimen
that attract attention. Judging
in this department will reveal con
| siderable progress in Randolph
county.
Meanwhile, the entertainment an
gle has not been neglected. The
midway is filled with a varied sort
of entertainment. “Caterpillars”
climb colorfully at night on tracks,
entertaining young and old with
i their thrilling rides—and many oth
er rides give the same thrill. The
ferris-wheel, always alluring, is
about the center of the wheels of
various types with their barkers
with voices fresh and loud. The
sooth-sayers are also on hand.
“Madam Lottie, the famous palm
ist” is here. She has been here
before, tut—well, go for yourself
and she can tell you plenty.
To sum it all up—if you don’t go
to the fair, you will miss some
thing this year.
Japan Denies It
Sank Fish Junks
( German Liner Rescues Ten
Chinese; Claim to Be
Only Survivors.
Tokyo, Sept. 28.——The naval
ministry today issued a denial of
reports from Hong Kong that a Ja
panese submarine sank Chinese
fishing junks and charged the story
as one “fabricated propaganda.
Ten Chinese were brought to
Hong Kong today by a German
liner which had rescued them from
*■ a fishing junk which they said was
the only one of twelve to have sur
vived the attack by Japanese sab
marines. *' *
Asheville, Sept 28.—Funeral ser
I'. vices for Robert Lathan, 56, editor
of the Asheville Citizen, for the
last 10 years, who died suddenly
Sunday night after a cerebral hem
orrhage were conduced here at 10
o’clock this morning.
Fair Officials
Walter A. Bunch
H. P. Corwith, Asheboro,
Hailed as Apple Pioneer
TVA Adds Victory
In Federal Court
Attacked by Utilities in Con
stitutional Phase; 3-Judge
Tribunal.
Nashville, Tenn., ^ept. 28.——
The Tennessee Valley authority
won a sweeping victory yesterday
on points of preliminary procedure
in the federal court suit of 17 priv
ate utilities attacking the agency
on constitutional grounds.
The rhree-judge court set the suit
for hearing at Chattanooga Novem
ber 16. Judge Florence Allen of
the circujt court of appeals, at Cin
cinnati, emphasized that the court
would expect “co-operation” of at
torneys in expediting the hearing.
Preliminary questions on which
the TVA won were motions of the
private utilities for court orders to
do three things.
Permit attorneys for the utilities
to take a deposition from Harold
L. Ickes, Public Works administra
tor whose PWA has authorized
loans to .municipalities to construct
electric systems in competition with
existing utilities.
Permit the taking of a deposition
from John M. Carmody, Rural Elec
trification administrator whose
REA haa financed rural electrifica
tion co-operatives.
All TVA Reports
Compel the TVA to produce or
permit inspection of numerous
maps, reports, estimates, engineer
in data, and the like. j
All three motions were overruled.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina: Fair and slightly
joler in the extreme south western
ortion. Scattered frost in north
west and extreme western section
might. Wednesday, fair.
Roosevelt Ties
Federal Project
Into His Plans
Says Great Bonnerville Dam
Will Increase Its Wealth
To Nation.
Will Balance Budget
States Power Project Will
Spread Help Over
Wide Radius.
Bonnerville Dam, Oregon, Sept.
28.—CP)—President Roosevelt stood
on this great Federal power navi
gation project today and asserted
its course would be returned many
times over improved navigation,
cheaper electricity and distribution
of power in communities over a
great radius.
In the first formal address of
his western cross-country trip he
tied in this $51,000,000 Columbia
basin project with his progress for
regional and national planning.
He declared too:
“This nation instead of spending
half its income on arms as some
nations do” is spending its money
on building such projects “ to give
more wealth and greater happiness
to our children.”
Promised to “definitely balance
1 the budet”—July 1, 1938.
American-China
! Trade Prospects
Seizure of Ports by Japan
-JMay itcjjJttn
Status.
Washington, Sept. 28.—(/P>—Am
erican officials considered anxiously
today the curtailment that Ameri
can trade with China might suffer
if Japan seizes the principal Chi
nese customs ports.
Uppermost in their calculations
was the question whether such big
shipping centers as Shanghai and
other coastal cities might be treated
like the interior Chinese customs
depots which were taken over in
the Japanese conquest of Manchu
ria in 1932-33.
The Iowa collee of agriculture
at Ames has more than 5,000 stu
dents.
Owner of Dogwood. Acres
Acclaimed at Saluda; Apple
Fete Opens.
Henry P. Corwith, well known
resident of Asheboro and owner of
the development known as Dog
wood Acres, has been widely ac
claimed in the western section of
the state this week as the pioneer
Apple grower of North Carolina.
Mr. Corwith came to the Tar
Heel state from Rockford, III.,
about fourteen years ago and at
that time purchased a large acre
age of Dr. John Bushnell of Ra
leigh, consisting of a young apple
orchard at Saluda.
Mr. Corwith immediately com
menced work developing that orch
ard and now it stands as a tribute
to his foresight and courage.
He is also interested in the develop
ment of Asheboro where he has
opened and seen develop into a
beautiful residential district, Dog
wood acres. Recently he contribut
ed a good sized plot there to The
Church of the Good Shepherd
where last week the members of the
church, friends and visiting clergy
men conducted the cornerstone lay
ing ceremony for the only Epis
copal church in Randolph county.
The art ids explaining Mr. Cor
with’s work in the apple industry
in this state is appanded:
Saluda, Sept. 27.—This little
mountain town will celebrate its
largest'apple crop in history with
an Apple festival, beginning today
and continuing through Friday.
The Ozone City, tucked in the
rugged western North Carolina
mountains between Tryon and
Hendersonville, will produce be
tween 60,000 and 76,000 bushels of
apples this year—20,000 bushels
more than ever raised here before
—according to Henry P. Corwith
leading. Saluda orchardist.
Tonight, the festival will begin
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Bill Payne Holds-Up
Bank of Candor; Gets
Loot of Over $2,500
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Escaped Convict
In Daylight Haul
Murder Suspect Forces Em- j
ployes in Vault; Escapes
In Auto.
Had Two Helpers j
State’s Bandit Hunters Speed
To Scene; Girl Identified
Payne.
Candor, Sept. 28.—(.P)—The Bank
of Candor was held up about 11
o’clock this morning-'by three ban
dits, one of whom Sheriff Earl
Bruton said had been identified as
Bill Payne, widely hunted despera
do.
The sheriff’s of
fice said “some
thing like $2,500
was taken.”
The sheriff said,
Miss Ruby Ms
Caskill, assistant
cashier had iden
tified one of the
| robbers as Payne.
Two of the men,
unmasked, walked
1 into the bank
with pistols
drawn and order
McCaskiP
Miss McCaskill and one patron,
county superintendent of schools,
J. S. Edwards into the vault.
The bandits then hurriedly scoop
ed up nil loose cash, jumped into a
new model black sedan and sped
away.
A third bandit manned the car
the sheriff said. He stated the
route taken by the robbers had not
been fully ascertained.
Sheriff Burton said he had learn
ed the bandits had another car,
a coupe, near Big Oak. The alarm
was spread and immediately offi
cers of nearby counties hurried to
all roads.
Candor is a place of about 500
persons in Montomery county, lo
cated between Pinehurst and Troy.
It is on the edge of the Sandhills
peach district.
Payne is one of seven convicts
who escaped from Caledonia pris
on farm last February and, with
Wash Turner, another escapee, in
under indictment for murder in con
nection with the fatal shooting of
State Highway Patrolman George
Penn in Buncombe county.
State highway patrolman H. V.
Norris who received notice regard
ing the robbery via his short wave
set was augmented by another pa
trolman sent here from High Point.
The local police, under direction
of Chief Dewey Bulla were also
summoned to duty and were keep
ing in close touch with develop
ments.
Patrolman Norris received word
shortly after 1 o’clock that Payne
and his gang were headed towards
Fayetteville via Laurinburg and
Aberdeen.
Roosevelt Seeks
Life’s Objective
Peace and Control Over In
dustry Called More Impor
tant Things.
Boise, Idaho, Sept. 28.—(.I1)—
Speaking to his “friends and nei
ghbors’* of' Idaho’s capital, Presi
dent Roosevelt yesterday said he
was trying to think of “the bigger
objectives of American life” instead
of the petty quarrels and disputes
of the moment.
He named as the bigger things:
Peace, better co-ordination and wi
der distribution of control over;
industry, and a more prosperous
agriculture.
Senator William E. Borah, vet
eran Idaho Republican Independent
was among those who welcomed the
President, and twice Mr. Roosevelt
said his words sounded like those
of Borah’s.
Storm Abates
Beaufort, S. C., Sept. 28.—CP>—
A storm heading this way from off
the Florida coast apparently swept
League Mute
Dramatic Silence Marks
Protest Against Jap
Bombing in China.
Geneva, Sept. 28.—(JP>—The
League of Nations assembly
today condemned the Japanese
air bombing of Chinese cities
by a moment of drastic silen
ce.
There was no formal vote.
Aga Kahn form India and
newly elected to the assembly
interpreted as a vote of appro
val, the silence that followed
presentation of the resolution
by the Sino-Japanese advisory
committee.
The assembly acted swiftly.
The resolution expressed
“profound distress” of the loss
of life caused to innocent vic
tims including the great num
ber of women and children as
the result of such bombings.”
The United States was rep
resented.
SOCIAL SECURITY BOOTH
AT FAIR OF INTEREST
W. L. O’Brien of Greensboro, rep
resentative for this district for so
cial security, has taken a booth at
the county fair and will gladly ex
plain the workings of the social se
curity act, answer questions, or
just talk to you. Meet Mr. O’
Brien.
Aboard Roosevelt Train on Way
to Bonneville, Ore., Sept. 28.—UV)—
President Roosevelt accepted today,
the resignation of Prank R. Me
Ninch from the Federal Power com
mission, to be effective only during
the time McNinch requires to reor
ganize the Federal Communica
tions commission.
Asheboro Police to Have
Short Wave Receiving Set
Randolph county and the city of
Asheboro are joining other commu
nities and cities in creating a “beat
the crook” system by the estab
lishment of special short-wave ra
dio sets in police cars and police
headquarters.
Chief Dewey Bulla today announ
ced the city has decided to pur
chase a special receiving set which
will be installed on his automobile
for use of the day and night police
shifts. The county, it is under
stood, is also preparing to install a
receiving unit.
The short wave units will .be I
constantly tuned-in with the state-1
wide state police short-wave dis-1
patching set in Salisbury. It will I
W. A. White, Asheboro Miner
Returned From ‘Kidnapping’
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Official of Keystone Left!
Home Nine Months Ago; S
Unable to Talk.
Return yesterday to Charlotte of
W. A. White, mining engineer
found in a Bristol, Va., hotel Satur
day, deepened rather than served to j
clear the mystery that shrouds one |
of the most fantastic cases in Char- j
lotto’s history.
Mr. White was brought back to
Charlotte by his wife and shortly
after his arrival was taken to St.
Peter’s hospital for observation
and treatment. Although he was I
apparently still deaf and unable to
speak, Mr. White's mind seemed to
be alert, and he appeared to under-!
>stand fully everything happening
around him. He seemed, too, to be
in good physical condition. This
morning it was said last night by
his wife’s attorney, Frank K. Sims,
Jr., he will be given a thorough
physical examination including the
takin of numerous X-ray pigctures.
A string of events that clearly
puzzled and confused crack investi
gators culminated yesterday after
noon in Mr. White’s being found
in a Bristol hotel.
The first intimation that the long
missing engineer would be found
came September 20, when Mrx
White received a mysterious tele
Asheboro Airmail
Day, October 12;
Municipal Affair
Chamber of Commerce Plans
Gala Day; Special Cachet
For This City.
Membership Plans
New System Planned; Will
Take in Every Business,
Industry and Resident.
! -
I The Asheboro Chamber of Corn1
merce at its September meeting last
night completed plans for this city’s
participation in the national Air
Mail week, October 11 to 16. Ac
cording to tentative plans, Ashe
boro’s celebration will be staged
Tuesday7. October 12, when a mail
plane leaving Kitty Hawk will set
down on the local port for special
load of air mail.
The Chamber directors have ap
pointed 51. E. Johnson, chairman
of the county commissioners ami
each member of that body, Mayor
W. A. Bunch and members of the
city council as members of the offi
cial board. Postmaster J. C. Red
ding, who outlined the postoffice de
partment’s plans to the Chamber
last night, is also a member of the
official committee.
The Chamber also adopted a new
plan relative to membership in the
organization and work on that
phase is scheduled to open either
October 10 or 17. The plan invol
ves a system of working out an
adequate and impartial member
ship fee system, one that will han
dle all manner of business, industry
ana those man an*} women in the
city employed or interested in pro
fessional lines.
The Asheboro Chamber has al
ways had a high standing in state
circles and is ranked as a decidedly
active and influential unit by the
parent organization in Washing
ton.
The plans for the air mail day
includs preliminary work in regrad
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also be tuned to receive messages
from the central bureau at Ra
leigh. The Salisbury unit, howev
er, will be the chief source of in
formation for Asheboro and Ran
dolph county as it is located near
er this section than Raleigh. Oth
er broadcasting units are to be in
stalled in Wilson and Fayetteville.
With the broadcasting facilities
made available through the instal
lation of the receiving sets local
police will be constantly in touch
with the state police headquarters.
While no dispatching set will be
installed here, .messages originat
ing here may be dispatched to
headquarters via telegraph or tele
phone.
gram, followed by letters, that ex
plained that Mr. White, stockholder
in the Rudisill gold mine, the Key
stone, at Asheboro, was a victim of
confidence men, who took him away
after they had beaten him almost
to death for the money he carried.
Victim of Conspiracy
The writer of the communications,
who gave his name simply as
James Richardson, professed to be
ni innocent victim of a kidnapping
conspiracy and directed Mrs. White
to her husband, missing since De
cember 1.
Detective Chief Frank N. Little
john talked by telephone with Bris
tol authorities, and said he was in
formed that Mr. White suffered a
lapse of memory and apparently did
not recognize his wife immediately,
Furthermore, it was stated that Mr.
White was unable to speak or hear
and had to write out all questions
and answers.
Chief Littlejohn said he was in
formed that White remembered
nothing until two weeks ago, when
he found himself being transported
through Indiana, Ohio, and other
states by a man knowh to him as
“George." He said this man and
his wife put him on a train at East
Radford, Va., and instructed him to
proceed immediately to the Bristol
hotel.
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Soviet Envoy Speeds
T o Moscow; W arplanes
Again Raid Nanking
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Slayer Jailed
After 21 Years
-Tweirty-one -yeafsr of law-abid^
ing existence failed to wipe clean
the slate for Nicholas Collins,
above, of Maysville, N. C., just
sentenced to 20 years imprison
ment for slaying a neighbor in
1916. Collins was tracked to his
new home in Dendron, Va., by
# a persistent sheriff.
Joseph P. Rawley
Dies, High Point
Publisher High Point Enter
prise Dies at Home of Long
Illness Funeral Wed.
Joseph P. Rawley, one of the
state’s best known newspaper pub
lishers, died at his Hih Point home
late last night after a long illness.
For several days, Mr. Rawley’s
condition has been decidedly grave
and his death was not unexpected.
Mr. Rawley was publisher of the
High Point Enterprise and promi
nently associated with the business,
social and civic life of that city for
many years.
His death was attributed from a
heart ailment. He had recently
returned from a New York hospital
where he underwent treatment. He
was 51 years old.
Funeral will be held at the home,
1209 Johnson St., Wednesday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock by Rev. A. B.
Conrad and Rev. O. C. Williams.
Interment will be held in Oakwood
Memorial park.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Miss Minnie McCoy, of Char
lotte; a son, David Albert Rawley;
three brothers, Glenn P., Lindsay
P., and William H. Rawley, of
Washington, and a grandson.
Mr. Rawley was a native of Sur
ry county, a son of David Albert
and Susan Columbus Rawley. He
left the farm of his father when 22
years of age and journeyed to
Greensboro and later to Charlotte
where he became affiliated with the
late J. P. Caldwell on the Charlotte
Observer. He served on that paper
until May 1, 1912, when he joined
the Greensboro Daily News as cir
culation manager, a position he
held until April 1, 1915, when with
associates on the Daily News He
bought the High Point Enterprise
from the late J. J. Farriss. Asso
ciated with Mr. Rawley in this ven
ture were E. B. Jeffress, of the
Daily News; W. A. Hildebrand,
Washington correspondent of the
Daily News, and the late A. L.
Stockton, then managing editor of
the Daily News.
Hoey Praises Fans
Fayetteville, Sept. 28.—(TP)—
Fairs in North Carolina, Governor
Hoey said today as he spoke at
Cumberland’s opening have resulted
inimproving farms, greater produc
tion and a finer quality of farm
produce.
Japan Calls All
Able-bodied Men
For Army Duties
Sends 600,000 Troops to Si
berian Border: Gets Sting
ing Soviet Note.
Expecting Conflict
Both Soviet and Japs Now On
Fuil War Footing; More
Jap Gains.
Shanghai, Sept. 28 —CP)— Japan
was estimated by foreign military
observers in north China today to
be mobilizing 600,000 troops for a
possible conflict with Russia as
her armies claimed advances on
every Chinese front.
French army authorities at Tien
tsin, headquarters of the Japanese
north China expeditionary forces
reported the full force of strength
of Japan in Korea and Manchoukuo
on the border of Soviet Russia, are
based on a war footing in eve.it
Russia becomes embroiled in the
undeclared Sino-Japanese war.
Dispatches from Tokyo, said the
war office had issued “Bulletin 41”
effecting virtually every able bod
ied man in Japan, had prolonged
military service indefinitely for all
officers and men on both the active
and reserve lists.
Both Japan and Russia were re
ported to be massing huge bodies
of troops, concentrating -then, "a
long the main Siberian frontier.
- Russia has launched a strin;
warning to Japan against bombing
the Chinese capital, Nanking—be
lieved to be a validnt response to
China’s appeal for aid.
In the first claim of progress in
several days in China, the Japanese
army announced that an armored
train had pushed 50 miles south of
the captured Paotingfu in north
China putting the most advanced
force 130 miles south of Pieping.
Envoy Leaves
Nanking, Sept. 28.—UP)—Dimitri
V. Bogomoloff, the Soviet ambassa
dor to China left suddenly for
Moscow today on what was believ
ed to be a vital mission effecting
Russia's position in the Sino-Jap
war.
The ambassador left aboard a
special airliner for direct’ flight to
Moscow after raiding Japanese
planes had been drive off by Chin
ese pursuit planes before damage
could be effective to this city today.
The ambassador was expected to
reach the Russian capital in four
days for an important conference
on the future of the Soviet course.
Russia had declared Japanese re
peated bombing of Naffking inhu
man.
Hitler And Duce
Urge World Peace
Suggest France Give Up
Defense Union With So
viet Russia.
Berlin, Sept. 28.—(.P)—Peace, II
Duce and Adolph Hitler told 600,
000 Germans and a world-wide au
dience tonight will be the main is
sue in a Nazi-Fascist union.
Johnson Car Wreck
An automobile owned and driven
by Luther Johnson was badly dam
aged last night when it turned ov
out East Salisbury street.
Johnson was not/ _
Berlin, Sept. 28.—UP)—-Adolph
Hitler and II Duce of Italy plans a
friendship with England as a cor
nerstone of their policy for Euro
pean peace, informed circles an
nounced today.
The Fascist chief, well informed
spokesmen said, inferred a 4-powsr
pact might be created by stages—>
to include England now and
France later.
The first stage they announced
was the development of friendship
j between Rome and London.
At about the same time, Hitler
j is to seek better relations with
: London.
i The second stage is to convert
France to her interest to join the
London-Berlin-Rome lineup.
An important phase of the plan
it was announced is that France
should forsake and give up her de
fensive plans with Russia.