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"I 1 ■ ■". , , The Largest Paid-Up Circulation of Any Newspaper Published in Randolph County MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS N. E. A. FEATURE SERVICE “Over 10,000 P*i«ple Welcome You to Asheboro, the Center of North Carolina” iLUME LXI THUR ASHEBORO, N. C SPAY, OCTOBER 21, 1937 NUMBER 132 ■Men Follow New Clues In Chicago Kidnapping Crime ease of Ransom Money tory Brings Many To Report Suspicions. elieve Victim Dead leral Men Report That Jharles F. Ross, 72, Was Slain After Snatch. Ihicago; 111. Oct. 21. (/P)—Feder Bgcnts maintained a guarded nee today on the progress of ir hunt for the kidnappers of tries F. Ross after checking eral reports having possible ring on the baffling case, t revelation that the kidnapper collected $60,000 .ransom and r» double-crossed the Ross fam by failing to release the 72-year retired manufacturer led sev 1 individuals to volunteer clues, 'wo reports took investigators western suburbs in the vicinity the kidnapping scene. ;ichard Malone, 20, a law stu t, said he heard two shots fired i car that stopped at the edge Sllwood Park shortly after Ross l seized on the night of Septem 25. lie made vain attempts to aw the car. ivestigators here expressed the lion that Ross was dead before ransom was paid. [rs. Renee Disser reported she two men holding an aged man he rear of a car on the night ;he abduction. Ross was taken n his car while enroute to Cago with a former secretary. motorist who aroused the licion of a Springfield village ion operator was taken into lody. Authorities declined to Dunce his name but expressed opinion he was not involved in Ross case. ill Activities Up In Carolinas th State Spindles K$ep Igh Average; Show Total Of 292 Hours Each. Washington, Oct. 21.—A high of mill activity in both North Mint and South Carolina in jteniber was indicated in the .nercc department’s report on die activity in the Carolinas. ’ the 6,047,234 spindles in place Jie end of the month, in North plinr., 5,613,506 were active dur Seotember. Total hours of ation were 1,763,762,710 or an age of 292 hours the spindle. f. Pearraan Visits School At Staley ly Children are Treated By entist; Honor Roll In cludes Many Names. (Special to The Courier) aley, Oct. 21.—The Staley ol has been visited during the week by Dr. Pearman, a den Fwith the state board of health, [has carried on approximately 1 operations on 75 children’s He attempted to examine i repair the teeth of all children er thirteen years of age. he first report period has just and all students received pr report cards for the first time Wednesday. Those students _Jng sufficient grades for the por roll are as follows: Elemen grades, Clarence Williams, Edwards, Lucy Lane, Calvin |liams, Valor Lindley, Neal ce, Betty Lois Hicks, Lucy bss, Doris Thomas, Jane Ward, ris Wright, James Vestal, How I Cline, Nina Alice Teague; hign >ol, Ruth Burgess, Ethel Mur , Helen Riddle, Wallace Teague, Eliie June Glass, Naomi Turner, man Berry, Jerome Clark, Car Foushee, Martha Kee Lednum, sie Louise Pike, Christine Tca Mary Warren. U1 the teachers in the Staley ,_ol sre making plans to attend Northwestern District Teachers iting in Winston-Salem on Fri . School will be closed on that , and a number of students have xated their intention of attend ■ the fair in Greensboro. )n Monday of this week the jol went on a full length sched This enables the boys and girls begin their athletic activities. i girls have started to play bas dl while the boys are partici ng in soccer. he Staley basketball schedule just been completed. The first te i3 at Coleridge on November The second game is with Fran rj He at Staley on December 3. . will be the first game in the ■ gymnasium provided it is com by that time. In case it is ileted the game will be where. . British Fascist Only Stone’s Throw From Crowd This series of dramatic pictures shows how foes of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of British Fascists, put him out of action at a Liverpool mass meet ing. Atop the loudspeaker bus above, he raises his arms to ward off a barrage of stones hurled by spectators near his “platform.” But Mosley’s defenses were ineffectual. Down he goes, at top, felled by a large rock that hit his thead. A few moments later, the 'unconscious form of the British “Hitler” is lowered to wail ing ambulance men. He suffered a fractured skull, will have to rest several months Britain Indicates Hitler As Halting II Duce’s War Plans ■____ ! Chinese Aircraft Avoid RouteOver Foreign Sections Heed Warnings of United States Envoy; Claim Jap Armies Caused Trouble. Pootung Attacked Sino Warplanes Bomb Jap Mill, Fire Buildings On Whangpoo River Front. Shanghai, Oct. 21.—(.P)—Chinese bombers flew over a new route to day to avoid the international set tlement in their before-ciawn raid on Japanese positions about Shan ghai. In previous raids the planes had crossed ever the settlement and Japanese anti-craft shell fragments had sprayed the city. Yesterday, U. S. Ambassador Nelson Jdhnson made representa tions against this practice to the Chinese government. The Chinese foreipi office spok esman said, unofficially, of John son’s request, that the airmen again were ordered to take every precaution to safeguard the foreign sections. He declared, however, that the Japanese were primarily responsi ble for the situation since they were operating from some sections within the settlement. The spokes man added, that while precaution ary measures were being taken, China is forced to take military ac tion against Japan as long as they occupy Shanghai. Today the foreign population slept through the Japanese anti craft fire, unaware that shells were bursting over Pootung along the highway of the Chinese bombing route across the Whangpoo river. Chinese bombs damaged the Jap anese null on the river bank and set fire to six buildings. The Jap anese anti-craft fire apparently was ineffective. The Japanese navy announced successful night bombardment of positions behind Chinese Shanghai lines. It added, that at one point on the front, Japanese picked up bodies of 2,000 Chinese dead. Ashcboro To Raise $500 For Scouting Details of Campaign Will Be Completed Nov. 2 at S. B. Stodman’s Office. Asheboro’s quota for the Boy Scout chest was fixed yesterday at $500. The campaign will be con ducted here November 3. H. K. Moore is chairman of the local committee and has announced that a preliminary meeting of workers will take place in S. B. Stedman’s office November 2. Market Jittery United States Steel Marks Up Loss In Today’s _Shift._ New York, Oct. 21.—&— The stock market swung into another rally today with active shares higher by as much as $2 but a liberal cashing of pro fits turned some gains into loss es. Higher during most of the session were Bethlehem steel, Sears-Roebuck, Mon’.gomery Ward, United States Rubber and others. United States Steel managed to pick up at the start but later slipped below yesterday’s clos ing figures as did others. Commodities were quiet and price changes were rather nar row. lit the bond market railroad obligations topped the up swing. Brokers who watched Mon day’s stock market break, Tuesday’s rally and yester day’s wide recovery said the irregularities of the market ac tion today was due more to re adjustment of holdings than to the influence of new buying. Remove Old Red Cross Stickers Arthur Ross, Jr., publicity chair man of the local Red Cross, an nounced this morning that the pub lic is urged to take down all old Red Cross stickers, and that new ones will be distributed, the date to be released later. T. Lynwood Smith, chairman of the executive committee announces through Mr. Ross that the state Red Cross was sponsoring a radio broadcast over station Wl’TF, Ra leigh, from 4 to 4:15 every Monday afternoon. New Prison Buildings Will Be Constructed at Raleigh Cost Fixed at $75,000; New Equipment Will Total About $100,000. Raleigh. Nov. 21.—The North Carolina State Prison board, in session here yesterday, authorized construction of a new barracks for women prisoners and a new build ing for house industries. The Prison State Highway and the public works commission sat as a joint board. Members present included D. B. McCrary, Asheboro, Frpnk L. Dun lap, T. Max Watson and R. G. Johnson. The new building for women, as cording to the commission, is to be situated at the prison here and will cost approximately $75,004. It will include recreational facilities “to Germany Dread Of War Believed Ta. Have Turned Duce Unpreparedness of Berlin For Conflict Pictured Lack Of Cooperation. Peace Hope Brightens House of Lords Assemble To day; Nation Awaits Offi cial Statement. London, Oct. 21.—UP)—British officials again worked today on pro posals for sending an international commission to tabulate the number of foreign warriors in Spain and see that they are withdrawn. The plan will be submitted to the Spanish neutrality sub-committee tomorrow. At the same time, the committee is expected to decide whether the first withdrawal shall be equal num bers from each side of the civil war. There was more than a suspicion in London, that Chancellor Hitler of Germany was responsible for the change in Italy’s opposition to the evacuation of outsiders from Spain —a development yesterday which was widely claimed as easing a se rious threat to general European peace. Some London newspapers sug gested Hitler—since he was not ready to risk war—had told II Duee to moderate his stand. The about-face apparently was a demonstration of the Rome-Berlin friendship axis, but, one th.it brought a change that was welcom ed in Baris and in London. Italy’s withdrawal of objections to the British plan for retirement of foreign troops resulted in shoot (Please tum to Page 3) carry out the vocational aims” of the penal division. The industries building, planned for location within the yard of the central prison, the commission stated, will cost about $100,000. It will house the prison’s pre sent mattress-making and auto mobile tag plants in addition to smaller indusries contemplated by the commission. These include a clothing shop, a soap making unit, a tobacco unit, should repairing facilities and a woodworking plant. Installation of these industries will cost about $100,000 in addition to the expenditures for the build ing. The commission elevated H. H. Honeycutt from assistant diciplin arian to disciplinarian, to succeed L. G. Whitley, who resigned, ef fective November 1. * , Asheboro Hunters Released In Bail From Hoke Prison H. S. Rush, Jesse Crotts Anti Wait Routh Post *10,000; 1 Freed Last Night. Bill Cross Held Three Released Men Said To j Have Known of Crime; On Hunting Trip. Three Randolph county men, held in the Hoke county jail, in connec | tion with the alleged siaying of Sergeant J. F. Mott, on the Fort Bragg reservation Saturday, were released in $10,000 bond each last night pending the Hoke county term of . Superior court in Novem ber. The three men, Walt Routh, H. S. Rush and Jesse Crotts, were charg ed with being accessories after the fact. Till Cross, Asheboro hunter, charge! with the alleged slaying, was denied bail. The slaying, according to evi dence submitted at a coroner’s jury session Monday, was to the effect that Cross killed Sergeant Mott, a game protector on the reservation, when thelatter placed him under ar rest. The other three men were noi charged with participation in the crime. They had accompanied Cross on a hunting trip in the vicinity and are alleged to have known that the slaying had been committed. Mrs. J. S. Tillman i Funeral Tomorrow! Widow of Friends Pastor III Six Weeks; Died Wednes day Night. Mrs. Gillie Anna Walters Till man, 59, widow of the late Rev. J. S. Tillman, died at her home on Sunset avenue Wednesday night, following an illness of six weeks. -Jl She vflis arstevoted nrenjber «f the Asheboro Friends church the great er part of her life. The survivors include five daugh ters, Mrs. W. J. Gibbons, Cincin nati, Ohio; Mrs. S. B. Rush, and Miss Mildred Tillman, Asheboro; and Misses Amy and Margaret Tillman, Winston-Salem; two sons, Walter Tillmarn, Tampa, Fla., and Horace Tillman, Asheboro; two brothers, J. W. Walters, Gastonia, and Rev. W. L. Walters, Covington, Va., and two sisters, Mrs. 0. F. Moore and Mrs. J. H. Wright, Mc Adenville. Six grandchildren also survive. Funeral service will be conducted from the Asheboro Friends church Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. C. L. Gregory of Winston-Salem will be the officiating minister. In terment will follow in the Ashe boro cemetery. Eden Thanks Italy For Spain Action Foreign Secretary Tells Com mons Britain Will Maintain Sea-Route. London. Oct. 21. CP)—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, address ing Commons at the opening of the fall session today thanked Italy for making an “eleventh hour” and “very welcomed” contribution to European proposals towards the 1 non-intervention of foreigners fighters in Spain. Eden stated however, Britain is determined to maintain a right of way on this arterial road—the Mediterranean. Jack Garr Denies Murder Plotting Tells Jury His Brothers Had Never Talked About Killing Gen. Denhardt. Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 21.—I.P)— Denial that he and his brothers had ever discussed killing General Hen ry H. Denhardt was made today by Jack Garr, youngest of three broth ers charged with the murder of the portly ex-lieutenant governor on the eve of his second trial for mur der of their sister. “Did you or your brothers come to Shelbyville to kill Henry Den hardt?” Jack was asked. “No”, he replied, and gave the same response when asked if they had planned the shooting of sis ter’s fiancee whose last trial ended in a hung jury. THE WEATHER North Carolina: Cloudy, possibly light rains in the mountains. Slight ly wanner in the south tonight. Fri day, colder and cloudy. Administration Heads Checking Cost of Pr^osed Farm Plans; May Hind|% Balancing Budget Windsor Seeing Germany * irst A good time was had by all, apparently, when the Duke of Windsor inspected a model factory near Berlin. The duke laughs, and the working girl (wages, 10 cents an hour) in the background smiles merrily. Even dour Dr. Robert Ley, Labor Front leader in charge of the inspection tour, wears a satisfied expression. Southern Cotton Farmers Want Cotton Crop Control Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 21.— (.P>—Senator Bankhead (D. Ah«.) - and SHlender. (D.-La.) said today it was their opinion that 75 percent of southern farmers interviewed, favored compulsory crop control. The senate members of a sub-committee of agriculture, came here from Atlanta where they held hearings on farm legislation. Hearings were al so held in Kentucky, North and South Carolina. Many Features Planned For Asheboro’s Shopping Week Merchants to Cooperate With Window Displays; Light ing Featured. Few events have captured the public’s fancy as has Asheboro’s Window Shopping Week which will be staged during the week of October 25 with the majority of retail merchants participating. Committees of the Merchants’ Association have completed de tails of plans for the event and lo cal merchants are how busily en gaged in the installation of special lighting equiptment and in arrang ing for the decoration of their dis play windows so that the entire downtown district will take on the appearance of a merchandise baz aar during-the coming event. Not only will the streets be ablaze with light but the many at tractively decorated window's will afford an index to the latest fall and winter merchandise. • An in spection of the various merchants’ windows will afford an opportunity to see the same merchandise that is now' being exhibited in the large metropolitan shopping centers. Designed to stimulate interest among local residents as well as those of the city’s trading area, Window Shopping Week should serve to acquaint thousands with the fact that every shopping need j can be met through local sources. Thousands of people do not get time to window shop during" the daytime and thus are unable to re alize that local merchants keep abrest of the latest merchandising trends and are able to supply goods of equal style and quality to that offered in the larger cities. Window Shopping Week will not be simply a business move on the part of participating merchants as plans have been made for an enter tainment program which will pro vide many interesting features for those visiting the business district during the week. The climax of the program will be reached Fri day evening, October JJ9, when a committee will judge the various windows, awarding a first prize for the most attractively decorated and best illuminated window. All participating stores will re main open during Friday evening and numbers of prizes will be awarded to the public by the var Alabama agriculture com missioner, K. J. Goode, told the senate committee, approxi mately 15,000 Alabama cotton farmers, in county meetings, voted 96 per cent in favor of crop control. Seventy-seven percent, he said, were in favor of an acre age instead of a balage basis and were in favor of a plan whereby diverted crop acreage could be used for other crops. ious merchants who will also of fer many special bargains for that evening only. A special prize of $10.00 will be offered the person i submitting the best statement on the subject “Why Is good Window Lighting An Asset to Asheboro?” Cards upon which answers to this question may be written will be distributed by the merchants. After several preliminary enter taining features, a huge street dance will be held to which every body is invited. It is anticipated that several hundred couples will take part in this interesting event. Our local merchants are sparing neither time nor expense in pre paring for Window Shopping Week and it is hoped that the public will show their appreciation by visit ing the business district next Mon- | day evening and frequently during j the remainder of the week. Gijon, Government fity, Surrenders Insurgents Capture Last Im portant Seaport of Loyal Spanish Army. Iron Lane. Franco-Spanish Frontier, Oct. 20. OPi—Insurgent military headquarters announced today that Gijon, the Republican government’s last important stronghold in the Spanish north west had surrendered to General Franco’s offensive. The headquarters said brigades of the insurgent forces were ex pected to enter the seaport to morrow morning. Details of the surrender were not given imme diately. The reported surrender came af ter the flight of many Spanish government officials, and the last i unit of the Asturian air force to France. Indications were that the insur gents would clean up quickly the remaining fragment of government territory in Asturian sectors and, transfer the mass of troops from there to eastern Spain, for the impending major offensive there. t Wallace’s Normal Granary Fixed At 7 Hundred Million Leaders Fear Financing May Upset Chief Executive’s 1938 Balance Plan. No Approval by F.D.R. j Talk of Processing Taxes Blur ! Horizon; May Be Necessary This Year. — Washington. Oct. 21. (TP)—Ad ministration officials showed signs of worry today over planning the financing of the proposed new farm program without upsetting Presi dent Roosevelt’s forecast for a bal j anced budget next year. Despite the chief executive’s ex pressed hope of balancing the bud get without increased taxation, there were persistant talk of es tablishing processing taxes to finance a crop control system, at i-least partially. President Roosevelt has not an | nounced support of any particular I farm measure. Some of Secretary Wallace’s aides have estimated the “ever normal granary” system would. cost $700,000,000 a year. That would be $225,000,000 more than the estimated cost of this year’s j program. Together with the pro j jected deficit of $695,000,000 it would make close to*a billion dol | lars to be taken care of in next j year’s budget, aside from all i other current expenditures. That the situation was causing ; some concern was evidenced by a | conference yesterday among the j President, Secretary Ickcs, and Sec retary Morgenthau. [Sergeant Johnson Dies Last Night Well Known Retired Army Man of Ramseur Dies En route to Hospital Ramseur, Oct. 21.—Funeral ser vice will be held Friday morning at 10:00 oclock for Charles C. John ’son who died suddenly last night from a heart ailment. Rev. Mr. Lee, pastor for the local Baptist church will be in charge of the ser vice with burial following in the local cemetery. Sergeant Johnson, who was 57 years olu, was a well known man of the county and has, even while on foreign duty, retained his inter est in his home county. He is wide ; ly and favorably known in this sec tion of the state. Sergeant Johnson’s illness had been of several year’s duration, but his death was unexpected at this time. He had been a patient in the gov ernment hospital at Washington. D. C., lor five months before re turning to his home here three weeks ago, where his condition steadily grew worse. Tonight he was removed to the Randolph hos pital, buc died just before reaching there. He was a quartermaster sergeant of the United States army and had served with the army for 30 years, having been stationed in many foreign countries. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Sallie John son; on-: sister, Mrs. J. S. Wiley; three b'•others, W. E. Johnson and J. C. Johnson, all of Ramseur, and F. M. Johnson, of California. Fu neral arrangements have not been made. Eye-Witness Tells Of Plane Disaster Mountaineer Says Pilot Flew In Blizzard; Hit High Granite Ridge. Salt Lake City, Oct. 21.—UP>—A mountaineer—only eye-witness to America’s worst airplane disaster told a vivid story today of a trans port pilot flying blindly through a mountain blizzard, then a terrific ■ crash which killed 19 persons. Height Profit, trapper from nor theastern Utah’s trackless wilder ness, said he saw the United Air j Line 21-passenger “Mainliner” t barely miss towering pines in his J backyard ( Sunday night, watched the craft’s lights vanish in the storm, then heard it plough into a - granit9 ridge. t Shelbvville, Ky., Oct. 21.—UP)— , The commonwealth today attacked i the defense contention that Roy s Garr shot Brig. Gen. Henry H. Den* . hardt to death in self-defense. » • i a
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