“Over 10,000 People
Welcome You to
Asheboro, the Center
of North Carolina”
—
tJRSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1937
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NUMBER 127
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Washing
idministrsl
♦g swift i
f their
'special
sxtNo
PPP" JW«ler to get ■
bat of the jungle in August
Btgreed to make the ahti-ly nett
ing measure'a sepcial order of
business immediately after a
vote in farm' legislation at the
next .session.
Washington. Oct. 14 (JP>—When'
ingress meets next November
[will be the third time in less than
ne years it has been called into
itra session to legislate ort 'the
irm program”. ; , * '
President .Hoover, redeeming
jmpaign pledges, cajletfan extra
ssion - April IB, 1929, which re
BteUfn the creation- of the Fed
LO. P.
[Board
tSfricuIture on a per
licnt basis, the principle ap
ach suggested to reach that
al is the “ever normal grainary”
Btcred by Secretary Wallace.
Woodpeckers Peck
At Court House
?e Flock of Birds at Local
Building:; Drew Large
Audience.
of water, little
Little drops
■ins of sand'
PBut what has that to do with
ndpeckers a.-pccking at stone
[11s ? ”, asked one of Asheboro’s
[orncys this morning when he
[covered a large flock of those
Ids seeking something to eat on
l walls of the county court house,
the birds, upon closer examina
n, were found to be pecking at
tail sections of woodwork around
pdow-castings and other articles
id in the general sub-construct
i of the building. '
lust where they came from, in
fh large numbers, was a puzzle
[the group of men interested in
(it- antics, *
Surely”, said- one, “the law
kn‘t done anything to them—but
1 law will be put on ’em if they
|r down that court* house.*’
Nature lovers, or rather those
b have studied bud life in PfOrth
rolina, claimed , they bad never
hi more than two or three wood
peers together at once. This
tap, however,' broke all records
[ there were at least - a- dozen
khed at points of vantage over
I north-western section of the
j$JjMpnot molested but ap
atly fitecoming disgusted atithe
:h” pecking fl«W »way to -bbt
fooderies when , the crowd of
atOrs'became boisterious.
cloudy
rrh Carolina ■. , pHm
colder tonight preceded .by
rains in the coast. V. T
:ht to heavy frost in the inter
Harrison and vote
zero*
to re
the
about
also make
ment made
V-t'
Oct, 14.—rA last
minute White House maneuver
which played a vital part in giv
ing Senator Albcn Barkley, of
Kentucky, a one-vote majority over
Senator Pat Harrison, of Missippi,
in the bitter contest for the Senate
majority leadership left vacant by
the death of Joe Robinson, is dis
closed today for the first time by
Joseph Alsop and Turner Catledge,
prominent Washington reporters.
Describing the tense meeting of
Democrats in the Senate Caucus
Room on the morning of July 21
when Robinson’s successor was
chosen, Alsop and Catledge, in The
Saturday Evening Post, out today,
write: ‘The Harrison men remem
bered the early White House pres
sure for Barklejt and the White
House announcement of neutrality.
They knew that, the announce
ment notwithstanding, a three
cornered telephone conversation
between a representative of the
White House, a representative of
the Kelly-Nash machine in Chi
cago, and Senator William H.
Dietrich, of Illinois, had taken
place only the day before. Diet
rich had told them that what"he
had heard over the phone forced
him to desert
for Barkley
‘They knew,
hour Administration effort to make
Senator Harry Truman, of
Missouri, a Barkley voter. They
were laughing, more than malic
iously, at the story of how a
telegram ostentatiously sent to
Truman by the Pendcrgasts’ Kan
sas City organization, had been
followed up by h telephone call
telling- him- to pay no attention, to
stick to Harrison.”
Barkley’s Hint in Reprisals
- Although President Roodevelt
had how accepted defeat, he de
manded, until the Y«y last, the
reporters-say, that the terms of
surrender permit the: court bill to
remain on the caleimAr. Senator
Wheeler; deader of the'opposition,
refused this condition, and, when
Senator Barkley protested, the
MdntaAdn -warned that-if the Ad
ministration didn’t agree, ‘W»’ii
go .in tomorrow and move to
‘our8elvcs.‘ We’ve got
nake no mistake
utl edge
public a signmeant comment
hy Senator Barkley as the Deni
ratic hlgb-command of the Sen-,
met with the Senate Judiciary
.ommittee to decide on the p^o
edfere to be followed in killing
he court bill for good and for $11.
rUo Diuioi/tunf fiomhr *
Now Jittery Over Duces Le
gions Moving Into Medi- f
terranean Isle.
/ Agree To Parley
iiill Insists ’Italy Has But
Otoe “Last Chance”; Na
tions to Decide.
ji Paris, Oct. 14. OH—The French
cabinet today approved a 3-jpoint
proposal providing for admission,
of the question Of withdrawal of
foreign volunteers from the Span
ish civil'Krar to the 17-power non
intervention committee as proposed
liy -Italy7 i
The berms were- said to provide
“a last ehaitcn”. for Italy to con
sent to Withdraw her troops from
Spain.
France ret*m* ihe privilege of
“positive, actitffein caheltaly re
fuses fffrther dw<fter*tibns of th<
committee. **
"The ministers were understood
td have approved a proposal by the
foreign minister to separate the
.question of the Spanish civil war
Jrom the question of. security of
Trances communication in the Me
■, Thus, the withdrawal of foreign,
fighters from die opposing Spanish
armies would be left entirely to the
committee. —
' Security of communication which
French military leaders believed
heightened by large Italian .occu
pancy of the Island of Morrow
would be dealt with by France and
Britain. <> ‘ ! ;
Madrid, Oct.14.—</P>—-Insurgent
tilery killed or wounded 90 per-,
'UK in a disastrous bombing last,
ght of thjsbeseiged city, once the
-gud cupit*! Of all Spain. >{ |
promise tp save some fragments of
the President’s program would
probably have been defeated even
if Senator Robinson had livbgl to
carry on the fight.
Among other dramatic disclos
ures of what went on behind the
scenes during the final phases of
the fight over the Supreme Court,
Alsop and Johnson identify the
senators who made the chief con
tributions to the Judiciary Com
mittee’s famous report rejecting
the court bill. They say that the
man who actually wrote the docu
ment was Senator Joseph C.
O’Mahoney, of Wyoming.
Bankers Demand
Balanced Budget
President Asks That All Ani
ericans Be Made “Deficit
Conscious.”
Boston, Oct. 14.—-UP)—Orval W.
Adams, newly elected president of
the American Bankers’ association
demanded today a balanced federal
budget and called upon bankers of
the nation to make “all people de
ficit conscious.”
Taking office-at. the close of the
63rd annual convention of the as
sociation, Adams, a Salt Lake City
banker, proposed two steps to
wards balancing the budget. These
he said, must me:
1. “First a Substantial decrease
of government'expenditures.”
2. “Ar. increase in taxes, equal
ly divided over a much broader
base.” ,‘i
Mrs. R. Dickens
Is $|ery 111 Today
Mrs. R. I. Sickens of Badin, a
former well knibwn resident of Ash
eboro, is critically ill at tlie home
of her daughter, Mrs. L. D. Per
kins, at Spencer. Mrs. Dickens
was seriously 31 about a year ago,
but recovered;' in a satisfactory
manner and has visited in Ashe
boro several tidies since.
She suffered a stroke of paraly
sis last night |*nd her condition is
considered very grave indeed. Her
daughter, Mrs#. Maude Allred of
Aaheboro, hastened to her bedside
when notified Oif her grave condi
tion. * . - j
Ialians Killed
Rome. laly. Oct. 14. (.T)—Forty
one officers and seventeen soldiers
.have been kilted in attacks by
“Ethiopian bandits” an official an
The-announcement was the Fas
bullets OKed at
efforts to
the Unit
whose w
American diplomsl
and usuwx
-ini; tfle business session it
was decided to hold their annual
iupper and a bazaar on Nov. 6. The
hostesses, assisted by Mrs. Claude
Craven ‘of Ramseur served, a
tempting salad plate to the fifteen
members present
The Fenticostal Holiness group
of this community is preparing to
build a brick veneer church on their
lot at the intersection of Craven
Road and U. S. 64 highway, near
J. W. Ellison fanp. Material is
being placed and work will be
started in a few days. The church
will be about the same design and
size of Pleasant Cross.
The people of Pleasant Cross
community ore placing brick on the
grounds preparatory for the com
pletion of their tower or belfrey on
their- church building.
11. C. Jones has bought a lot
from Miss Belle Dove, on Rose
Street and is building a handsome
brick residence.
VV. L. Burrow has commenced a
modern dwelling house on his lot
on the corner of Allred and Gray
Streets.
Dee Witt Evans has bought a
tract of land from W. C. Burrow
adjoining the lands of J. W. Clark
and C. S. Ingold and is building a
nice residence on the East s.i<|e of
North Brook near Mineral Spring.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lutterloh and
Miss Opal Anpley of Ashehorp 4were
visitors Were Sunday afternoon.
J. A.' Cheek and son Dewey,
wen oh a fishing trip Monday to
Swansboro, Onslow County, and re
ported a delightful trip with a
catch of 306 pounds of nicfe fish.
Many Attend Last >
Rites Airs. Lassiter
..iaiiy people attended the funeral
rites this morning for Mrs. lom
•Lassiter held at •the Lassiter home
Jon Academy Street^ Rev,- H. P.
Powell, pastor of the First Metho
dist church, was in Charge of the
service which was brief and simple.
Many flowers were sent by friends
of the deceased and of the bereaved
family and words andt other ex
pressions have been lavish since the
news of her unexpected death
reached Asheboro Tuesday evening
at 6:00. o’clock, i She died in a High
Point hospital
Burial folio
mily plot in the local cemetery
Roosevelt’s Market Plans
s Praised by Labor Heads
Denver. Oct. 14. President
Roosevelt’s call for creation of new
domestic markets to‘increase pur
chasing: power, drew praise today
from an American Feden
Labor
Week
May Lose Grip
Chairman 0*i
Calling Mem be
Killed in Afigust
Obtain
le At
Members
Farley.
ngton. Oet. 14. W)—Mem
;he House rule* 'committee
it m advance of the special
if Congress to discuss the
time for releasing their
hold on the wage and hour
iWJi O’Connor Y*)
r he was considering send*
d request to all concerned,
e V> pass this legislation
: of the reason* which
IT President Roosevelt to
the innate passed proposal but
hehoUSe rules committee wild it up
vhenRepubficans lined up with op
losition southern Democrats
: (JfConhor said it would be futile
or the committee members to try
0 keep the. legislationfrom the
loor because House memberS were
ertahi to be sent it to aa|i» by
petition.
| 218 members signed the pdffltdop.
!d Age Pension Club of Ran
dolph is Called for Sunday
Afternoon at Courthouse.
The association ’ 'recently organ
cd concerning Old Agdrpenljfbns'
ill meet in the court faoish at 2
m., Sunday, October 1?, and it
desired that every person in
le county interested will be pre
inti '-Ai- . ■ ‘ \
of the club without my knowledge
or consent, and while I am willing
to do anything I can for the cause,
I doubt if I am the right man for
president, as I happen to be about
ten years short of the required age.
However, I have taken up with
the State Welfare Commissioner,
the situation in Randolph County,
and have a definite promise that
prompt action will be taken in the
matter.
Pensions are being paid regular
ly every month in other counties,
and there is no possible excuse for
the same not being done in Ran
dolph.
Bruce Craven, president
Trinity, N. C.
N.C. Music Teachers
Will Meet Sunday
WiH Gather at Woman’s Col
lege Music Building Fri
day, October 15th.
There will be a business meeting
of the North Carolina Music Teach
ers association at 1:30 o’clock Fri
day, October 16, in the recital hall
of the Music buildrag at Women’s
college: ,
The agenda will include adoption
of a constitution, a report on the
operation.of the plan for college en
trance credit in piano and- violin,
and a’discussion of plans .for the
spring meeting. ,
PlanS gre being made for the
amalgamation of the private and
public school teachers of music into
a statewide o&ganization for the
purpose of furthering the cguse of
music in the state.
Present officers of the. North
Carolina Music Teachers associat
ion are: President, Dr. Glen Hay
den, head of the department of
musk. University of North Caro
lina, Chapel Hill; vice president,
W. P. Twaddell, supervisor of
musk, Durham public schools,
Durham, and secretary-treasurer,
Frederick Stanley Smith, super
visor of music, Southern Pfnes pub
lic schools* Southern Pines
The business session will be held
in connection with the ninth annual
conference of North Carolina music
teachers, which opens at the col
lege the same day for a two-day
session,
K Watt, AFL vice-presi
, .president of the Ameri
Earners Protective as
telegraphed Mr. Roose
t declaration of upbuild
lean markets i* magnifi
Smiles for^Son at r«pn Trial
•Mississippi doesn't need a lieu
tenant governor,” said hearty,
jovial J.B. Snider, holder of
that ■ office-* in. that state, and
thereupon hewcnt fishing in the
gulf, oil Biloxi, where he is pic
tured aboyo. He steers his sail
ing croft under trim rigging i.nd
leaves cares of. state to other:
Chinese Leader
Placards Japan
President, of Railroad Says
Tokyo Seeks Control Of
All China.
Tientsin, Oct. 14.—CP>—In an in
terview today Yosuke Matsuoka,
American educated president of the
southern Manchurian railroad dis
closed that Japan seeks control of
the whole of China to prevent it
falling under pressure of Soviet
Russia. The Japanese army, he
said, intends to occupy Nanking,
the capitaT^of China. ?fie explain
ed Japanese plans in north China
have been postponed pending clear
ing of the Shanghai situation.
San Francisco, Oct. 14.—UP)—
Organized labor’s two great war
simultaneously
i- Japanese
’sh, invasion
f!
Hancock’s Statement Caused
Surprise at Capital; “Our
Bob” Away.
Bitter Battle Ahead
Dough ton Announces He Will
Give Hancock Vote And
Support.
United States Tar *
And Marine Struck
In Today’s Battle
Flagship Sailor Ait By; M
Shell Fragment; Bullet
Wounds Lone Marine.
Evacuate Billets
American Defense
Driven From Quarters
Heavy Shelling.
Shanghai, Oct, 14.—
worst bombardment of
.bloody warfare raked the
tional settlement today
-wounding score* of Chine#} civil
ians and wounding a. United States
Marine. rJ
The Marines were, forced to evac
uate two huge cotton mills near
their defense lines where they had
been quartered when -these struc--.
tures were hit by shells believed to
have been .fired front Japaense
guns. ,
None of the Marines billited in,
the mill were wounded j>ut Milton'
Hiati, private of t^e, 4th regiment^
was struck in the shoulder by a
rifle bullet while on duty inside the'
machine gunners
Thirty-seven d
ded ijrom shel
international
within; jthat
added that onl;
edge of the fui
injured had been received.
i ' '■ ’ --
Shanghai, : ’Oct. 14.
Fworks.
y woun
into the
was the toll .
said,, bdt'
sketchy knowl
' ' of dead V a'
shells crashed into the heart
torn Shanghai's international
tlement today killing and w
more than
The dapanese arid Chinese
for control of the approaches to t
Orient’s most important commer
cial cities.
The fighting raged overhead a*
Chinese planes attempted 'to raid
the Japanese air field in the Yant
zetoo and swept along the fringe
of the international settlement.
Some 50 miles west of Shanghai
an added 75 Chinese civilians were
killed when Japanese war planes
bombed r, passenger train.
An American sailor, J. P. McMi
chael of Connersville, Ind., a radio,
man abroad the United States,
flagship was slightly injured when
shrapnel from a Japanese shell
sprayed the cruiser Augusta at an
chor in the harbor.
The Japanese naval cOmmander
! in-chief apologized for the incident
after U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell
| protested against reckless firing by
the battleships.
One gigantic projectile of unde-,
termined origin exploded in the in-,
ternationat settlement killing and'
wounding 36 Chinese civilians..
Forty more were killed and injured
when a street car in which they
were riding was blown off the track
near the barricade held by the Am-'
erican Marines ort the northern
edge of the settlement.^,, . . !
All the Japanese warships, all
the way down the 12 miles oSE-mk
Whampou to the Yangtze joined W
tho atatek. , ,
Whether he ha<jirv mind the con-,
troversy stirred* by- the Black-Klan
episode was a. t?pic of ■ conjecture;
atpong. some of his auditors.
WithSecretary MOrgenthau, the'
Chief Executive came to this city'
of 40-odd thousand on the east’
bank of the Hudson ^as a Dutchess
codnty' “neighbor”- to' help it cele
brate its 260th- anniversary by*
speaking at the laying'of the cor-!
nerstone of a new $300,000 post of
fice.' ' ' ‘ ■
The President drove here with hi»
mother and Morgenthau from Hyite*
Park.
With a silver
lay the. atbne *1
helped