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lb™ Circulation of Any ■Newspaper Published I in Randolph County m / MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS «**! N. E. A. FEATURE SERVICE Randolph County’s Only Daily Newspaper THE DAILY COURIER “Over 10,000 People Welcome You to Asheboro, the Center of North Carolina” Mumelxi ASHEBORO, N. C„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1937 NUMBER 135 [O Offers Proposals o AFL; Program Will Put Lewis In Command leration Group ‘fuse To Discuss Opposition, Offer Is' Unions Seek High flace in Federation’s Command Circles. rould Control Unit id Separate Units For 10; Also Rights To Organize Trades. Ishington. Oct. 26.—</P)—The proposed today a reconcilation [the American- Federation of on a basis which CIO lead ed probably would give John vis control of the Federation, vis’ delegates to the peace rence suggested creation of CIO dpartment within the f which would be authorized to hize workers in mass product narine, public utility service asic frabracating industries, i a basis of membership claim the rival organizations, the vould have 3,718,000 members federation compared with L000 workers the AFL now his seems to be a case where puld control the federation by strength of members”, said press, CIO general counsel. AFL delegates stated, “the Bition submitted by the CIO Buch broad terms we are un give any statement in re i but were unable to get help Ithe CIO. The conference meets row at 10 A. M„ at which l we anticipate’, we shall be red to issue statements on oposals of the CIO. nnas D. Stokes Probation Head large of Sixth District Ox tich Randolph is One Of Seven Counties. i not arres |3. D. Stokes, probation offi the sixth probation district -■turned from Raleigh where I been attending the state pro j conference. Mr. Stokes re Ian interesting conference in fch. The conference was ad j by Governor Clyde R. Hoey aid: “I have great hopes for j^ion in North Carolina. You presenting the great spiritual pt of the state. If in the of a few years, you may ,.jclaiiii these people who want nee to do right, you will have not-only a fine service, but a thrl will tell in the future : state. I am definitely com l to the work of human recla i. It will be my policy to ,3 full weight of my office to fher expansion of probation. ; enough to be concerned est, conviction and impris nt. To ignore the economic cial consequences of punish .3 to invite dire results and to se rather than diminish this g9 of crime”. rney General A. A. F. Sea hbo addressed the conference Urged the probation officers' to clear understanding of the nsntals of probation. The ney. general said: “Probation pritoners who want to re ,_j society to be kept separated [ hardened criminals. Probation Jes for those who' would take ptage of ‘another chance’.” ,e Superintendent of Public ction Clyde A. Erwin, termed ibii “the greatest experiment habilitation North Carolina _rer undertaken. If you can out of court all salvageable ma J ind return it to society, you [done a great service for North ilina.” Roy M. Brown, director of division of public welfare and work of the University of i Carolina asserted that “if we olng to make any progress) in attle with crime, we are going live to keep people out of pris Carl V. Reynolds, secretary : board of health, pointed out ccessity "For study of the individual offender, physical, il and emotional as well as the i jocial situation, before plac turn to Page 6) Aids Disfigured Franco Soldiers Repairing the shattered faces of thousands of Spanish Fascist soldiers is the distressing task undertaken by Dr. J. Eastman • Sheehan, above, professor of plastic surgery at the Poly clinic Medical School in New York. ' He toured ' insurgent hospitals to aid General Franco’s troopers, disfigured in the sav age hand-to-hand lighting by slashing knives and bayonets. William R. Curtis is Named Head Research Dept. U. C. (’. in Raleigh Raleigh, Oct. 26. — William It. Curtis, native of Franklinville, Ran dolph county, and for the past 18 months associate economist with the works progress administration in Washington, D. C., has been ap pointed head of the new research and statistical department of the N. C. unemployment compensation commission and has arrived in Ra leigh to take up his work, Chairman Charles (1. Powell announced Mon day. Mr. Curtis will organize the re search and statistical activities in the unemployment compensation di vision and will handle such activi ties in the employment service di vision, in conjunction with Silas F. Campbell, who will continue as sta tistical supervisor of the employ ment service. Mr. Curtis is a graduate of the Franklinville high school, receiving his A.B. in education at the Uni versity of North Carolina in 1930, his M.A. in economics there in 1931, and his Ph.D. degree from the Uni versity of Illinois in economics and statistics in 1935. During his four years at the University of Illinois he taught economics there and taught economics at the University of Alabama for one year, leaving there in May, 1936, to become as sociate economist with the works progress administration. He comes back home with high endorsement from his WPA assdeiates. A member of two honorary scho larship fraternities, Phi Beta Kap pa and Phi Kappa Phi, and a com merce fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi, Mr. Cuni3 is a Mason, a member of the American Economics associa tion and the American Statistical association. He was married in June, 1935, to Miss Lucille Hamil ton, of Urbana, 111. He and Mrs. Curtis arrived in Raleigh Sunday and are now engaged in that usual early arrival activity, looking for an apartment. • “We are well pleased in being able to secure Mr. Curtis for our research and statistical work,” said Ghairman Powell. “He is highly recommended by Washington offi cials for his job and we are glad to be able to bring an able North Car olinian back home.” Montague’s Story Elizabethtown, N. Y., Oct. 26.— <iP)—“Mysterious” John Montague, who puzzled Hollywood by his reti cence, told a jury today he was in nocent of a robbery charge and fled New York state because his cloth ing was found in a hold-up man’s automooile-. Japanese Forces Take China’s Key Defense Position All Day Drive Results in Cap ture of Chapei Radio Sta tion; Nanking Rail. 150 Planes In Attack Severing of Railroad Lines Slows Up Chinese Retreat; Navy Joins Straffing. Shanghai. Oct. 26. —(.W—Jap anese forces defense position 5 miles north of Shanghai and forced their way into several positions on the Nanking-Shanghai railroad. Severing the railway made Chinese withdrawal from Chapei and Kiangwan impossible along that route. Chapei on the northern border o the international settle ment and Kiangwan, north of Shanghai have been kept centuries by Chinese resistcncc. The Japanese advanced, follow ed by air and artillery bombard ment plowed up acres of barb-wired entanglements and leveled bitterly contested Kiangwan and other vil lages. The Japanese were said to have occupied the Chenju radio station on the east border of Chapei, Af ter reaching their first objective, the Japanese columns squared-out in an effort to “pull the string of the bag together.” The Japanese navy spokesman announced that “the entire Japan ese naval airforce in the Shanghai section has been mobilized to as sist the army by bombardment all Chinese positions facing the imper ial army.” Although the Japanese author ity refused to state the number of plpnes participating, foreign mili tary observers counted 49 in the air at one time and estimated 150 were engaged in the day-long bombard Millsaps Urges Farmers Attend Randolph Agent Plans to In spect Guilford Soil Erosion Work on Wednesday. E. S. Millsaps, Randolph county farm agent, announces that he in tends to go to High Point tomor row for the soil conservation field day which will be staged at the municipal lake. Not only does Mr. Millsaps plan to participate in this event, but /urges all farmers of Randolph to go and do likewise. The occasion of the celebration in Guilford is a tour of inspection to be made by Secretary of Agri culture Henry A. Wallace and other notables, as they go over the soil conservation projects in that section. Other prominent visitors will include Governor Hoey, Con gressman Umstead, Dr. Bennett, chief of the soil conservation ser vice and Dean I. 0. Schaub of North Carolina state college. Plans for the calls for Secretary Wallace to arrive at Greensboro in the morning where he will be welcomed by a delegation from the chambers of commerce of Greensboro and High Point. Aft er a trip by the A. & T. College for Negroes at Greensboro, he will make a special tour of the Reedy Fork and Deep River dem onstration projects where 70 per cent of the farmers on the 185, 000 acres in the two areas are co operating with the Soil Conserva tion Service as erosion control dem onstrations. Secretary Wallace is scheduled to attend a luncheon at High Point at noon, where Governor Hoey will be the principal speaker. Following the Secretary’s address at the City Lake, he will go to Winston-Salem where he will speak at the an nual banquet of the State Grange that night. Wallace will speak from the bot tom of an amphitheatre that , is on a completely vegetated 30 percent slope, and near the High Point Lake where a complete erosion-control program to protect the lake from silting is underway. If the slope were in cultivation and unprotect ed it would wash away quickly, Garrett pointed out. The sod of Bermuda gross on it, however, is completely checking erosion, as can be seen by the absence of silt be low, he added. The groups who tour the dem onstration projects will find mark ers along the way directing them to important phases of the erosion control program and pointing out just what is being done in erosion work in Guilford county. Mix preserved * ginger with cream of cottage cheese. Serve the combination with crackers and coffee for dessert. The Sunset ojf Sun Yat-Sen ■ : ssa , .v..- s' 7** ■ / K» Should anyone despoil the statt Japanese soldiers who take sue on the figure of Sun Yat-Sen in war, they say. Tire figure republic, was blown frbm its | ment of Shanghai’s eni of one of their heroes, these same delight in the ignominy heaped tuld be up in arms. But all’s fair Dr. Sun, founder of the Chinese lestal by the Japanese bombard ilrons and later captured. King George ^1 Pledges Aid To End War he Far East London. Oct. 26. (;P)—King George VI in the splendid trap pins of Britain’s aged majesty today pledged his government to attempt to restore peace in China and Spain and at the same time promised air raid protection for all England and forcast help for needy families. The Monarch read slowing from the text of his prepared speech, frequenct pauses— some of 19 seconds—broke the sentences and some words were lost to the gallery. This was due apparently be cause of a speech inpendiment which the King has suffered for years, as he opened his first parliament from the throne with Queen Elizabeth Methodist Parley Makes No Changes In County Pastors Returns to Asheboro Rev. H. P. Powell State Schedules Local Store Sale Stock and Automobiles of M System to be Sold November 10. The state of North Carolina’s re venue department, according to no tices displayed in the M System Grocery store, Sunset avenue, will sell the stock and mobile equipment of that business November 10. The sale will be in accordance with the state tax laws, proceeds of which are scheduled to cover $2,200 in unpaid tax sales. in a chair of state at his side. Unusually the King merely invokes devine blessing on parliament. He said, “my min isters have followed with growing concern the continua tion of conflict in Spain. It is their intention of doing every thing in the power to restore peach among the Spanish peo ple. They believe a strict appli cation of international non-in tervention in Spain will contri bute to the cause for peace. The Far East will continue to en gage the attention of my gov ernment and with members of the League of Nations to Miti gate the suffering caused by the conflict and to bring it to a conclusion.” Asheville, Oct. 26.—Appointments of the Western North Carolina Methodist conference, read by Bish op Paul It. Kern at the close of tbs annual session at Central church here Sunday night include many changes. Changes in location and manage men of charges include; Greens boro district; take Oak View from Ward Street-Archdale and make new charge called Oak View. Take White Chapel from Cedar Falls and add to Liberty circuit. Rev. Walter B. West goe from the presiding eldership of the Ashe ville district to the pastorate of First chuich, Salisbury, succeeding Rev. W. A Newell, who moves to First church, Morganton. Rev. J. 1). Craven goes to West Market Street church, Greensboro, succeeding Rev. W. A. Stanbury, who is appointed to the pastorate of Central cnurch, Asheville. Mr. Cra ven’s successor as presiding elder of the Charlotte district is Rev. G. T. Bond, who leaves Dilworth church, Charlotte, and who is fol lowed by Rev. Loy D. Thompson, who is leaving the pastorate of Central church, Asheville. Greensboro District Presiding elder—W. W. Peele. Ashehoro—First church, H. P. Powell, Ashe boro circuit—P. F. Snider, supply. Cojeridge—O. P. Ader. Draper—P. R. Rayle. Farmer—J. W. Bennett. Gibsonville—L. S. Furr. Greensboro — Bessemer, 0. J. Jones; Battleground road, F.. E. Howard; Lee’s Chapel-Grace, A. L. Latham; Carraway Memorial, J. W. Fitzgerald; Centenary, C. S. Kirk patrick; College Place, B. C. Reavis; Gltnwood, J. W. Williams; Proximity, S. M. Needham; West Market streets J. B. Craven. (Continued on Page 3) Hoover On Radio Hook-Up Tonight; Landon In Topeka Split in Republican Ranks Seen as Two Rivals Get National Spotlight. Alf With Hamilton Former President on Air At 9 O’clock Tonight; Confer ence Next Week. Washington. Oct. 20. —CPI— Both Herbert Hoover and Alf M. Landon, reported rivals for the Republican leadership, were in the political spotlight today. Landon was in Topeka conferring with John Hamilton, Republican National chairman. Hoover will deliver a nation-wide radio speech from Boston at 9 P. M. (E. S. T.) Political observers connected both events with the meeting of the Republican national committee conference in Chicago next week to consider holding a 1938 convention. The proposal has aroused wide spread discussion within the party ranks. Britain Looks For Compromise Link Strives to Bring Warring Na tions Together on Eve Of 9-Power Parley. London, Oct. 26.— f.P)—Britain was believed ready today to offer an 11th hour compromise in hope of salvaging what remained of the 27-nation agreement to keep hands off Spain. The nature of the plan remained obscure in the offing of today’s re of tfift sub committee of the non-intervention nations. However, British Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden, in his familiar role of compromisor moved behind the scenes, trying to get Soviet Russia on one side and the Rome Berlin axis on the other, to modify their stands which wholly in con flict. Ross Ransom $10 Bill At Chicago Second Note Turns Up In Week: Located By Railroad Company Man. Chicago. Oct. 26. —(.‘PI—The Chicago Evening American said today a second ransom bill has been found. It said a $10 bill—identified as part of the $50,000 in currency paid to the kidnapper of Charles S. Ross in a vain attempt to obtain his re lease—was reported by Frank H. Stermmel, an employee of the American Association of Railroads. The first ransom bill—also a $10 note was turned over to the Federal agents last Thursday. D. M. Ladd, chief of the Federal staff, declined to comment. Postpone 9-Power Until November 3 Resignation of Belgium Offi cial Causes Crisis In Brussels Circles. Bruss^b, Oct. 26.—(fP)—The for eign office announced today the 9-power conference scheduled for October 30 to end the Chinese-Ja panese wa: had been postponed un til November 3—because of the cri sis created by the resignation of Premier Paul Van Zetland. Van Zelland quit yesterday to de fend himself as a private citizen, against charges of political enemies concerning the administration of the Belgium bank, of which he was once vice-governor. Dr. Schacht Resigns Berlin. Oct. 26.—<.P>—The resig nation of Doctor Hialmer Schacht, German economic minister was ac cepted by Chancellor Hitler today. “My resignation took effect yes terday”, Dr. Schacht said. “I shall remain as president of the Reichsbank for the time being.” .THE WEATHER North Carolina. Cloudy with showers tonight, probably ending in the east portion Wednesday, fol lowed by rain and clearer. Slightly wanner in the central and east por tions. Cooler Wednesday night. Little Hljbe Seen For Enactmlnt of Entire Administration Plan Will Speak Tonight , Dr.f&a/vm fi Graham Frank P. Graham Asheboro Speaker President ol Greater Univer sity at Park School Tonight. Residents of Randolph county and the city of Asheboro will have an usual opportunity tonight of hearing one of the outstanding cdu^ cators in the south, when Dr. Frank er University of North Carolina, visits this city. Dr. Gaham will speak at a pub lic meeting, under auspices of the Randolph Public Library associat ion in the Park street school audi torium at 8 o’clock. Prior to the meeting, Dr. and Mrs. Graham will be guests at a buffet supper at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Armfield, Jr., Fayetteville street. Members of the club, together with Mr. and Mrs. Armfield and Betsey Armfield will be joint hosts and hostesses. Husbands of mem bers of the club will also attend the reception-supper. Dr. Graham will discuss matters of vital importance along educa tional and library trends. I 129 Memberships Obtained By C. C. Local Organization Adds Many New Names to Roil; Encouraging Reports. The Asheboro Chamber of Com merce today announced its member ship committee has completed one week of successful campaigning i:i its efforts to obtain new and renew al memberships. The committee reported 129 sus taining members have been obtain ed, a number far ahead of the total for last year. The committee will continue its work all this week and concentrate on individual member ships. The work of the chamber in its efforts to enhance the city as a residential place as well as its suc cessful efforts iir interesting indus tries in .Asheboro, and, the adver tising program being carried on by the organization, is meeting with a hearty response by business and professional leaders in industrial circles in Asheboro. Howard Says Morals On Level With Sin Closing the first week of the two weeks’ revival now in progress at the Asheboro Baptist church, Rev. Charles Howard Sunday night told a large congregation that the peo ple of the world today generally felt “We’re too busy to be Chris tians.” “Instead of raising the morals of the people, he said, the standard of morals has been lowered to the lev el of sin” Rev. Mr. Howard charged his congregation “we must have a re birth before we can take one step toward H'm.” Service tonight will begin at 7:30. Rev. Howard’s sub ject will be “Living Above the Av erage.” The topic for tomorrow morning’s sermon will be “The Meaning of Consecration.” House Committee Claims Farm Bill Is Not Completed AFL and CIO Oppose Bill For Wages and Hours; No Rallying of Forces. Cite Anti-Lynch Bill House and Senate Split On Make-Up of Government Re-organization Bill. Florence, S. C. Oct. 26. </P)— Governor Olin Johnson said here today that “the stubborn resistance of President Roose velts enemies against his farm program” was the reason for what he termed the “cotton crisis.” Governor Johnson spoke at the annual cotton jubilee and opening of the cot ton marketing bureau here. Johnson said the President “had met opposition from the outset in almost every step he tried to take towards agricul ture stabilization.” Washington. Oct. 26.—(.P>—Leg islators returning to the capital to prepare for the special session of Congress are not too optomistic that they can enact all of Presi dent Roosevelt’s program before the January session. Some of these measures may have to await the regular 1938 ses sion in the opinion of several mem SeS' wlio deeRiiietf to-Be'qubled hy name. They indicated these factors in support of their contention. 1. Chairman Jones (D-Tex) of the House agriculture committee has declined to predict enactment of a farm bill at the special ses sion. 2. Chairman Smith (D-S. C.) of the Senate Agriculture committee has said a farm bill would not be ready for the Senate before Dec ember. 3. Dissatisfaction with the wage and hour bill voiced generally by the AFL and CIO has given op ponents its rallying point. 4. An anti-lynching bill schedul ed for Senate consideration after disposition of farm legislation may be the center of a prolonged battle, even if southerners do not filbus ter against it. 5. Bills to strengthen the anti trust laws have not been . intro duced. 6. House hearing on a bill to set up regional planning agencies sim ilar to the TVA are not completed. 7. The House has split the gov ernment reorganization program into four measures and passed tw’o of them. The Senate committee has insisted it be handled in one bill. Mrs. Walter Hammond III Mrs. Walter Hammond, who has been ill in a New York hospital fol lowing an operation a week ago, is reported to be decidedly worse. She was apparently recoering from the operation in a satisfactory manner, when unexpected com plications arose making her con dition rather serious. Mrs. Wm. C. Hammond of Asheboro is at her bedside. Gifts To Women War Mothers Presented Silk Stockings At _McCrary Mills._ Visiting' delegates to the conference of the American War Mothers, North Carolina department, who met in Ashe boro Saturday for their annual conference, were presented silk stockings at the McCrary Hos iery Mills. One pair was pre sented to each of the visiting women delegates. The management of the in dustry took the visitors on a tour of the plant, and, needless to say, the women left Ashe boro with nothing but praise of their entertainment here. The Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants bureau when advised of the hosiery gifts pointed out the value of such advertisement to the city as the McCrary gift. * They indicated that enter tainment and gifts of that sort may go a long way in bringing future gatherings of women to Asheboro. V. ./. ;v. -
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