■ r'7 v The Largest Paid-Up Circulation of Any Newspaper Published in Randolph County MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS THE Randolph County's N. E. A. FEATURE SERVICE Daily Newspaper COURIER “Over 10,000 People Welcome You to Asheboro, the Center of North Carolina” * VOLUME LXI ASHEBORO, N. C-, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27, 1937 NUMBER 136 Tokyo Refuses Bid to Brussels Conference; Will Fight to End Alleges 9-Power Pact Obsolete In Present Conflict Tokyo Takes Rap at Soviet; Blames League For Acts Of Non-Intervention. * Japan, 1-man Nation’ Ministry Reports Empire De termined to Can y War To Speedy End. Tokyo, Oct. 27—

—Japan for mally declined today the invitation to participate in the Brussels con ference of 9-power adherents on the Sino-Japanese war. A note to the Belgium ambassa dor declared the conference was in spired by the League of Nations and “would put serious obstacles in the path of just and proper solution of the conflict.” The Belgium foreign office an nounced yesterday, in Brussels, the opening of the 9-power conference had been postponed from next Sat urday to next Tuesday. Shortly before the foreign of fice’s delivery of the note to the Belgium envoy, the Japanese for eign minister received imperial ap proval of the reply. The Japanese foreign office re leased a long, informal statement reiterating Japan's contention that Japan was fighting in self defense. The statement asserted the 9 power treaty was absolute because of whit it termed the growth of communism in China and declared, “the Japan nation, rising as one man. in united action is determined to asgniount all obstacles for the puitftrdreffectmg a' S££S? set tlement." Gala Week-End Plans Changed Hallowe'en Celebration to Be Monday Night; Dance Friday Night. Regardless of all preious an nouncements concerning the gala affair that has been scheduled to take place in Ashcboro this week end, there will not be a combination •of Window Shopping W'eck with Halloween friviolity. Saturday night. According to an announcement made yesterday by Mrs. Ervin Frye, secretary of the Merchants Association, the business men will conduct their own celebration, dis tributing their unannounced prizes and presents to the many gathered on Sunset avenue to view the dis rof their window lighting abil HH. And after all the prize winners have received their ^wards, music will blare forth from loud speakers and couples will start “Slumming on Sunset Avenue." The dance will cJosO the day and the week’s ac tivities. Concerning the Halloween cele bration which was previously an nounced as taking place at the same time as the dance, Chief of Police Dewey Bulla has said that the spooks and goblins will post pone their rounds until Monday evening; • “And," Chief Bulla said, “we want the grown-ups to remember that, tjie street celebration is for kids only.” Looking ahead to the traffic situation for the two festive nights, the police chief stated that no ears would be allowed to park on Sunset avenue between North street and Fayetteille after 6 o’clock in the evening. At the present no specific plans -have been made for the Hallowe’en celebration. Chief Bulla confessed his intentions in restricting the masks to children alone was to prevent more gayly minded adults from using such thing as paddles jjtheir supposedly friends. “We'll st get together and have clean hb said. Insurgent Drive irid, Oct. 27. —IM— A new _, to cut government Spain into two parts, was believed for shadowed today by reports of hugh concentrations of insurgents north of Pruel. > Cowlesviile, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Ott -A red-winged airplane crashed mushy field near here last t and farmer* found in the * 9 the bodies of two men i of a woman’* body. Clamoring for Monty’s Autograph if ~ hi iiiiiMMiiTiiiiifiaaf m~~ ■ an "mi.. . waammm Hollywood stars aren’t the only ones who think John Montague is absolutely okay. Ho was acquitted last night of a 7-year-old robbery indictment on which he is on trial at Elizabethtown, N. Y., under his real name, Laverne Moore. Look how the girl spectators at the trial crowd around the film company’s debonair “mystery golfer” for his au tograph. Left to right they arc Betty Smith, Margaret Brua, Pat Brewster, daughter of the judge who set Montague’s bail at $25,000, and Shirley Eggleston, niece of the sheriff. British Fleet Hastens To Aid Vessel Held by Spain I Lloyd’s reported, to assist the British steamship Stanrey af ter it had been fired on and halted by a Spanish insurgent trawler in the Bay of Biscay. Advice to the underwriters concern said the 880 ton vessel Rcss Kidnap Bills Listed In County Banks, Public Officials Have Numbers of Notes Paid In Ransom. Public officials and banking in stitutions m Ashcboro today receiv ed listings of serial numbeis of the bills paid in the Charles F. Ross kidnapping case in Chicago. The listing included a statement from J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, advising the public to notify the nearest bank or office of the de partment in event they locate any of the bills. A list of the serial numbers have been filed with Rufus F. Routh, clerk of the Randolph county Su perior court. All of the |10 and 820 notes were issued by the Federal Reserve bank of Chicago. The 86 notes are regular silver certificates. .Washington, Oct. 27.—The In terstate Commerce commission yes terday held that freight rates that are charged on cotton piece goods from various points in North Caro lina and South Carolina to West Plains, Mo., are reasonable, and a complaint in regard thereto was dismissed. The Weather North Carolina: Partly cloudy in the interior. Thursday fair and colder in east portion. London, Oct- 27. —US)—AH till ‘ .'* range Twelfth District Legion Auxiliary Meeting Here Plans arc practically complete for the meeting of the 12th district American Legion auxiliary meeting to be held Thursday in Asheboro Mrs. P. G. Newsom, district com mitteewoman, in charge of the plans, states that the meeting will be held in the social room of Cen tral Methodist Protestant church, beginning at 10:30 a. m. This district is composed of units from Asheboro, Hamlet, Wadee Jboro, Mt. Gilead, Troy, Southern Pines, and Ellerbe. Representa tives from, each of these units are expected and the various presidents will give outlines of their plans for the coming fear's work. The mem had been attacked three and Austrian port, occupied in last week's fighting by insurgents in northwest Spain. A French tanker messaged the Lands End, England, radio station asking assistance on behalf of the Stanrey. Barber “Bootleg” Sought By State North Carolina Broadening Program to Compel Law Enforcement in Shops. “Bootlegging” barbers are now being hunted by the law. The State Board of Barber Ex aminers has instituted a state-wide campaign to locate men or women practicing the bartering trade who have failed to obtain their state li cense and meet the necessary health qualifications^ The state law provides that all barbers must be registered with the state department before engaging in business. The law also provides they must obtain necessary health certificates from a local physician. M. C. Whitney, of the state de partment is now in Asheboro, car rying" out the department’s coopera tive program with the health de-1 partment. He reported today that every -.hop located within the city of Asheboro has complied with ail law. * Persons who refuse he stated, are subject to a fine. Chicago, Oct. 27.—(If)—The Am erican Medical association criticized federal food and drug laws today as ‘“woefully inefficient” and sug gested more efficient legislation as it reported deaths attributed to an elixir of sulfanilamide had - risen to 51. bership of each unit will also bo recorded. Mrs. H. H. Utley, of Franklin ville, 3rd area vice-president, will be the presiding officer for -thi3 meeting and will introduce several of the state officers who plan to attend and speak briefly. Mrs. H. A. Newell of Henderson, state pres ident and Miss Arelia Adams, sec retary, plan to attend and will be on the program for the meeting. After the morning’s program is adjourned, luncheon will be served at the Old Hickory cafe. Mrs. Newsom expects twenty-five or thirty visitors for the day’s meet ing. -■ ' Soviet Faces Cold* Shoulder Of Non Intervention Pact Great Britain and Others De termined on Spanish For eign Troop Pian. j Will Disregard Sovie| Moscow to Be Given Chance To Unite; Italy Seen As Giving Ground. I London, Oct. 27.——A mo ment, gathering force* among powers to reach some sort xf agreement on Spain foreign diers—with or without Rua threatened today to leave the. viet Union out of the non-int^rVei tion fold. All other participating nati agreed last night to the proposal, specifying that full be granted to both Spanish ment and insurgents when “i stantial progress” the withdrawal from the conflict. When the diplomats their bickering Friday it waa pected they would reach a drawal plan—including Moscow possible but without her if Russia would not come in. i * Informed sources said Italy been persuaded to withdraw flat refusal of neutral detei figures on foreign troops in but Italian quarters said no agreement will be made until personnel and duties of the tigating commission is dete: Cotton Executive Condemns Boyc Institute Told Plan is worthy”; Points to tlenten's Pact. — -- - .Li ■ New York, Oct. 27.—L¥)—Sug gestions of a boycott against Japan were characterized as "morally un worthy of a free people” by Claudis T. Murchieon, president of the Cot ton1 Textile Institute as the cotton mill executive opened its lltjt an nual meeting today. Dr. Murchison's defense of cotton trade with Japan came in the course of a convention which heard Robert H. Montgomery, tax author ity, charge the present federal tax law as a “myth.” The :nstitute president reviewed the organization’s activities during the last year. One main accom plishment. he said, was the conclus ion of a “gentlemen’s agreement” to prevent the dumping of Japanese cotton on domestic markets. William Stutts Seagrove, Dies William Stutts, 80, Randolph county farmer, died at six-thirty Wednesd ly morning at his home on Seagrove route 1, following an ill ness of ubout two weeks. Mr. Stutts was twice married, his first wife being the former Miss Nancy \Vil!iamson and to this un ion were bom five children, three of whom survive: John Stutts, Seagrove route 1; Mrs. Minnie Spencer, Steeds route 1, and Hadley Stutts, Seagrove , route 1. He is survived by his second wife, the former Miss Betsy Ann Williamson and the following chil dren: Mrs. Edgar Carlton, Steeds route 1; Mrs. Manuel Carder, Steeds route 1, and Frances Warren and Rose Stutt.>, all of the home. Funeral services will be conduct ed from the Christian Union church near Seagrove, Thursday afternoon at two o’clock. Rev. John Q. Pugh of Franklinville, will be the offi ciating minister. Burial will fol* low in the church cemetery. Dr. Hudson Will Give Book Talks Greensboro, Oct. 27.*—Dr. A. P. Hudson, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Will lead a discussion of books and reading in the Woman’s College Library Friday afternoon, October 29. Informal book discussions and teas are a part of the library pro gram to promote interest in books. Dr. Hudson’s subject will be “Some Tall Talcs from North Carolina.” He is the author of “Folk Songs of Mississippi and Their Background” and “Humor of the Old Deep South.” The first blood of the American War of Independence was shed, most historians agree, in the West minister (Vt.) massacre March 13, 1775. When pretty Marion Talley goes for a walk, her favorite com panion is Taz, a white Russian iSamoyed, that was given to her s. by a fan. Singer and dog arc \ pictured strolling near her home in Hollywood. '5 anilamides Discussed In N. C. sicians Call Attention To Sale of Drug With out Prescriptions. _ umtfoufl "re* ports have been coming in from sections of the United States tell ing of the fatal effect of certain preparations of sulfanilamide. So far no such reports have been re ceived from North Carolina,” Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, state health of ficer, said here. "Wh:le sulfanilamide is a very useful drug when administered and supervised by the practicing physi cian, the indiscriminate use of this product may be followed by serious reactions and in some instances may terminate fatally. “Certain of these preparations have been used in the treatment of gonorrhea and have been found of value ir. a certain number of cases. “North Carolina has a law cover ing this matter. Section 7199 of the consolidated statutes reads as follows: “ ‘Treatment except by physician unlawful. It shall be unlawful for any person except a regularly li censed physician to prescribe or give away any medicine for the treatment of any person afflicted with venereal disease.’ “The indiscriminate sale of this drug without a physician’s pre scription is therefore unlawful. An individual who buys this drug across the drug store counter is as suming the responsibility for his own treatment, which he is not qua lified to do. The druggist who sells to such a patient is aiding and abet ting this individual in such a dan gerous procedure, and in addition to that, is violating one of our state laws. It seems to us that drug gists throughout the state will be rendering a distinct service by com plying with the letter of the law and thereby placing the responsibil ity for the treatment of these indi viduals upon physicians who are aware »f the dangers in the use of this drug and who are in position to supervise these cases under treatment.” Cooley Named On House Committee North Carolina Man Placed On Special Group to Study Cotton Plan. Washington, Oct 27. ——John L. Lewis’ rebel CIO rejected today the American Federation of Labor’s counter peace proposals. The Federation called for dis solution of the CIO as the terms for ending labor’s big civil war. The Federation three-man peace commission headed by George M. Harrison, president of the Rail way Clerks, submitted the proposal to the peace conference this morn ing. “The proposal suggests abject surrender”, Phillip Murray, chair man of the CIO peace committee said in a statement issued two hours after the Federation had sub mitted its poposal. Muray said the Federation had called for the CIO unions which were originally affiliated with the AFL to “desert and betray” the 23 national and international unions that have joined the CIO since its formation two years ago.” Murray also declared the Fed eration as “merely reaffirmation of "it’s former* policy.’' “Their proposal, as we under stand it, constitute a rejection of | the principles of CIO in mass pro | duction and other basic industries,” i Murray added. The. CIO rejection of the AFL . proposals, made as the meeting ; opened today, left the peace con I ference up in the air with delegates i undetermined, immediately, wheth 1 er it would continue. The AFL proposals called for: 1. Return to the Federation of : all CIO unions that once were AFL | members in good standing. 2. Conferences between all other ' CIO unions and the corresponding unions in the Federation to try to work out a program for bringing the new CIO unions into the Fed eration upon mutual agreeable terms. 3. Settlement of all outstanding differences at the next AFL con vention. 4. Immediate dissolution of the CIO. The Federation peace plans answered Lewis’ equally drastic peace proposals which AFL leaders indicated, privately, they could not accept. Textile Awards . Washington, Oct. 27. (.P)—Caro lina textile mills shared in recent government mill contracts total ing .$814,147. The Rock Hill Knitting and Finishing company was listed as a source of supply or $148,382 to supply textile products to the WPA. Other awards were to the Pied mont Bonded Warehouse of Con cord, N. C., $12,318, and, Cannon Mills, N. C„ $25,575. Approximately 6,000,000 state hunting licenses are issued each year in the United States. Hoover Urges Coalition; All Seeks General Parley j Boston, Oct. 27.—(.V)—Declaring : a coalition of anti-New Dealers was “devoutly to be wished for”, Her bert Hoover last night called on the republican party first to draft a new declaration of principles that would fuse the foes of the Roose velt administration. The focmer President in a nation ally broadcast address, both re iterated his call for an off-year na tional convention of G.O.P. leaders and asserted flatly that he him self did not “want any public of fice.” Speaking from a platform raised before a dinner of the republican club of Massachusetts, Hoover hit out at opponents of the plan to have the party’s chieftains draft and ap prove in national conclave, prior to the 1938 congressional elections, Shanghai SituiMon Brings Crisp orders To Attacked Marines “Fire Back” Says Admiral Yarnell W*. Admiral Harry Yarnell, comman der of the United States Fleet and Forces in Chinese waters, today issued a crisp order to the Marines to “fire back” when attacked. Sail On —Sail On 0 Ship of State Brooklyn, Oct. 27.—

— Laying of the keel of the $60, 000,000 battleship North Caro lina, first such ship under con struction. in the United States b sittce m©; headlined the na tion’s annual navy day pro gram today. •At the Brooklyn navy yard, where the 35,000 ton dread naught designed to be the most powerful afloat, everything was'in leadiness for Assistant Secretory of the Navy Charles Edison, to drive the first rivet. From North Carolina, the state for which a great battle ship has never been named— Lieutenant Governor Horton came to take up the riveter and drive the second rivet into a 70 foot section of steel around the framework of the ship will grow. Horton represented Governor Clyde R. Hoey. Editor C. Goerch Won’t Say—Yet Blowing into town in his breezy, refreshing manner—all his own— was Carl Goerch, editor of The State. Mf. Goerch was en route to Charlotte where he “is alleged” to be going on business. Rumor has it, however, that Mr. Goerch is keeping a weather eye on the gub ernatorial chair in Raleigh. Mr. Goerch didn’t say yes and he didn’t say no—but he smiled Cheshi re-cat‘like when accused of interest and turned the conversat ion toward the more obvious sena torial race. But, there were dis tinct ear-marks about Mr. Goerch. He had on a new suit—one that sort of caught the eye and smack ed of “Esquire” styles and all that. Despite the fact that Edi tor Goerch rarely passes by a fel low editor without a visit, his call today was certainly a pleasant one, and would tend toward very fine fence-building if he does cherish political ambitions. “an honest, courageous declara tion of convictions, of positive prin ciples for forward action.” He warned the republican party against tiying to win elections by “joyriding on mistakes.” Topeka, Oct. 27.—(.H—Alf M. Landon yesterday publicly express ed an insistence that if any mid term national republican convention is held “that the rank and file of the party should be represented in the deliberations as well as in the consideration of any report on be half of ihc policy committee.” Landon, the party’s 1936 presi dential nominee, issued a statement after conferring with Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the repub lican national committee. Directed To Fire At Planes Which Attack Civilians Asiatic Fleet Commanders Is sues Order as Battle Rages At Shanghai. All Craft Included Unprecedented Step Taken Following Machine Gun Attacks on British. Shanghai, Oct. 27.—(.T)—United States Marines were authorized to day to cpen fire, in self defense, on any airplanes attacking them or non-cantoaiants in their sector of the international settlement. Admiral Harry Yarnell, comman der of :hc U. S. fleet, stationed here, authorized the defensive mea sure a3 fierce fighting, intensiefied by the retreat of Chinese troops from Chapei to a new defense line, raged around the international set tlement. Tremendous fires set by the em- j| battling Chinese and Japanese troops raged through Chapei, na- M f ive quarter of North Shanghai and §1 even penetrated the settlement at one point. Chinese aircraft raided the Yant- .«» anzpoo, dropping bombs which star ted more fires. s The combat brought into play full power of Japan’s warships in the Whangpoo against Chinese land batteries. ’Admiral Yamett’S action grew out -"-*3 of repeated attacks by Japanese flyers on Chinese positions along the edge of the international set- | tlement. These raids reached a cli max Sunday when Japanese flyers machine-gunned British troops and a party of Americans on horse back, killing one British soldier. The British immediately ordered their troops to act in self-defense if such actions were repeated. Admiral Yarnell, ordered, “in case of attack with bombs or ma chine guns of any nation on de fense to rets or non-combatants in the section defended by the 2nd United States Marines, the com mander-in-chief has authorized these forces to open fire in self de fense.” President Meets Business Giants Bankers, Newsmen, Lawyers And Politicians Troup To Hyde Park Study. Hyde Park, N. Y„ Oct. 27.—GW— 1 Men conserned with big business trouped through President Roose velt’s study yesterday, but he said that to tie them together in connec ! tion with the Current stock market situation would be creating news. The President made that declara tion at a press conference after he had received William 0. Douglas and Joseph P. Kennedy, present and < former chairmen, respectively, of the Securities commission; Paul Shields of the New York banking house of Shields & Co.; James H. j Perkins, chairman of the board of the National City Bank of New York; and Roy W. Howard, news paper publisher. Others who saw him during the • day were Governor Carl E. Bailey of Arkansas and Basil O’Connor, the President’s former law partner; the former on a cottonseed farm problem, he latter on a newly-cre ated nation-wide infantile paralysis foundation. Asked if the stock market were discussed at any of the various conferences, Mr. Roosevelt said that to single out one subject would be placing false value on it over other subjects that came up. Millikans Visit Virginia Brother Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Millikan of North Asheboro and Mr. and Mrs.’ 1 J. T. Millikan and Robert Millikan of Grav's Chapel visited Mrs. Mil likan’s sister, A. F. Nixon in Pu laski, Va., Sunday. Mr. Nixon, a former resident and native of Ran dolph coantyy hae been in Virginia . for 40 years. Until Sunday it had been 23 years since Mrs. Millikan j had seen her brother. M