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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—</P>—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. —<VP»—
Chairman Jones (D-Tex) designat
ed 5 sub committees of the House
agriculture commitee to expidate
agricultural committee to expedite
control program for the special ses
1 sion of Congress.
The sub-committee included:
Corn—Representative Polk, (D
Ohio), Biermann, (D-Idaho), Nel
son, (D-Miss.), Lucas (D-Ill.) and
Gilchrist (D-Iowa).
C.) Doxey (D- Miss.) Owen, (D
Ga.) and Cooley (D-N. C.)
Committeeman described the reg
ulation of the annual corp crop as
the main stumbling block.
AFL Demands CIO
Disband; “Peace”
Conference Off
Drastic Proposals Termed Ab
ject Surrender; Lewis Fol
lowers Refuse.
May End War Truce
Green’s Union Heads Say
They Cannot Accept CIO
Peace Program.
Washington, Oct. 27.—(.4*)—
Labor's peace conference re
cessed today until November 4
after each side had turned
down the others’ peace propo
sitions.
Harvey Fremming, one of the
CIO representatives, said the
recess was “in no way consid
ered a permanent disagree
ment."
Washington, Oct. 27.—<„'P>—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.—</P>—
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