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I VOLUME lxi
ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1937
NUMBER 140
Randolph School Board
Plans Survey; Enlarged
Study Quarters Needed
Ashcboro Schools
Included; State To
Assist Local Men
| Lack of Room Indicated As
Individual Districts Ask
Immediate Additions.
To Sell One Building
(Attendance of Pupils Has
Passed Facilities; Four To
Six Rooms Needed.
. The Randolph county school board
(yesterday decided to take initiate
iteps towards a complete survey of
educational needs in the county.
i>articularly from the standpoint of
(additional room for students.
T The Coleridge school representa
tives, yesterday called the atten
tion of the board to the lack of fa
cilities in that distrfc pointing out
its immediate needs. From four to
lix additional rooms are needed in
(he school the committee said.
T. Fletcher Bulla, county super
ntendent, and members of the
joard, conducted a general survey
If the county proposition and de
cided to call in a representative of
ne North Carolina board of edu
ation to assist in the planned sur
The survey will take the investi
gators into every school district, i»
Kluding the city of Asheboro. Dur
fcg the discussion yesterday it de
veloped that several schools are
onducting classes in auditoriums.
The lack of Boom is due to the
jver increasing attendance of pu
lils and to general response to the
itate and county educational pro
gram which is reaching a high
(lace in Randolph county.
The board also authorized the
of an abandoned school build
JWdJot *t Chariotiev^JCksc*u-.
j of that school are how Attend-1
the Tabernacle school.
lilev Pictures
Inflation Period
tils Worehester Newspaper
| Budget Must Be Balanced
To Save the Country.
|\Vorchestcr, Mass., Nov. 2.—UP>
Senator Josiah W. Bailey, Demo
►t of North Carolina, declared
night that if President Roose
mcant business he could bal
ce the budget.
he senator, in an interview with
Worchester Evening Gazette,
■led that if the President did not
so, the United States was in for
erlod of inflation.
The senator said: “If President
Dsevelt means business, he can
nee the budget. If he does not
f so, the United States is in for a
■iod of inflation.”
ims To Handle
Local Tax Suits
tmissioners Authorize I. C.
loser to Release Pending
Actions.
jfhc Randolph county commiss
>rt, at a special session yester*
adopted a resolution authoriz
A. Bums, present county
>y, to assume charge of tax
and other business matters,
lerly handled by I. C. Moser,
fhe board exempted Edward C.
Franklinville, from poll tax
leuts.
a Destroyed By
Fire Sunday Night
,.o fire alarm that shattered the
■ness of Sunday’s midnight, ac
ting to C. Rush, fire chief, was
i answer to a call bn West Sal
r street where Ott Moffitt,
taxi driver, was frantically
j to do something about his
ning taxi.
he fire was of such headway,
ever, that the fire department
i unable to do much for Moffitt.
car was practically destroyed.
;fitt said his loss was partially
jered by insurance.
Washington, Nov. 2.—bP*—
Bident Roosevelt instructed the
.jtruction Finance corporation
[ night to set up lending machin
with which loans could be made
niter the price of corn.
_S. C., Nov. 2.—UP)—Yegg
| broke into the First National
| of Sharon, rural community
Where, last night and stole cash
ted at from |5,500 to $6,700.
Supplies ‘Tone*
to Art, Science
Science won its place witn art
in the Tone family ot Niagara
Kails when Dr KranK J Tone ot
Butlalo. above, was awardee the
193a Perkin medal (or "valuable
work in applied chemistry ' Dr.
Tone’s contribution to the arts is
his son. Kranchot. biro player
husband ol Joan Crawtord
Unconscious Man
Runs Car On Curb
Flavius Trogdon, Franklinville
Suffers Heart Attack While
Driving Sunday.
“Six-thirty, Winston-Salem. If
anything happens to me, please
notify Dr. Tiffany Barnes, Ashe
what the peddle who
found Flavius Trogdon, 42, of
Franklinville read on the note
clutched in his unconscious hand
late Sunday afternoon after the
car he was driving ran up on the
sidewalk near the post office and
remained there.
Mr. Trogdon was on his way
home from the twin city and, ac
cording to Dr. Barnes, was not feel
ing well. Fearing something might
happen to "him and being alone
driving, he wrote the explanatory
note. And for the curious, that’s
what took Farlow ambulance
screaming down Sunset and Fay
etteville streets toward Randolph
hospital. After diagnosing the case
Dr. Barnes stated Mr. Trogdon was
a victim of an heart attack and ac
companied him to his home in
Franklinville.
Armistice Plans
To Be Completed
American Legion Post Will
Finish Plans Tonight; All
Veterans Invited.
Dixon Post 45, American Legion,
will complete plans at its meeting
tonight, for the annual obser
vance of Armistice Day, Thursday,
November 11.
All ex-8ervice men of the county
are invited to attend the session.
Post Commander, Dr. B. M. Wes
ton, has called attention to the 100
percent membership record made
last year and urges all ex-service
men to obtain this year’s cards
early in order that the post may re
ceive one of the special awards
from the state department.
The Weather
North Carolina: Generally fair
tonight and Wednesday. Slightly
wanner in the west and extereme
southern portion tonight. Colder in
the west Wednesday.
Local Business Men Plan
Scout Drive Tomorrow
A drive will be staged tomorrow
in Asheboro to raise funds for fur
thering the work of the Boy Scouts
in Ashcboro and the county. A
committee of ■ representative busi
ness men of the town will make this
drive, having lent their interests to
this very fine movement for soipe
time.
Tonight at 7:30 in the office of S.
B. Stedman, local textile man of
Asheboro, there will be a meeting
which Bunn Hackney, scout execu
tive of High Point, will attend and
will preside over. Mr. Hackney
will explain the details of the plans
and give suggestions for the drive
for funds which will be staged by
Augusta Admiral
“Clear Decks” As
Jap Shells Drop
Heavy Bombardment Opens
On Shanghai Waterfront;
U. S. Ship in Danger Zone.
Americans in Danger
American Flagstaff Anchored
Near Tokyo Boat; Yarnell
Gives “Safety Order.”
Shanghai, Nov. 2.—(.P)—Hugh
projectiles from Japanese warships
in the Whangpoo river burst along
Shanghai’s waterfront tonight,
menacingly close to the United
States Cruiser Augusta.
The Augusta, lying close to the
cruiser Idumo, Japanese flagship,
cleared her decks and batterned
down port holes as a precaution for
the safety of her crew.
The bombardment was aimed at
Chinese batteries in industrial
Pootung, across the Whangpoo
from the international settlement,
in answer to Chinese shelling of
Japanese forces in the Yangtczpoo
and Honkew sectors of the Shang
hai front.
Shanghai’s international settle
ment and the French concession,
refuge of thousands of Americans
and other foreigners, were shaken
by intensive- Japanese bombard
ment of the Chinese positions, only
a short distance to the west.
Exploding bombs and shells
shook buildings as far away as the
Shanghai bund but no projectiles
fell within the settlement or con
cession.
At St. John’s University, just
west of the settlement, a trench
mortar shell crashed into the roof
of the gym used as a barracks by
the British troops but none was
injured.
The tide of battle swept towards
the Siccawci Catholic mission cen
ter on the southwest outskirts of
the French concession.
Japanese Plan For
Long Sino Conflict
Believe Third Power May Op
pose Peace Moves; 16 Men
To Rule Nation.
Tokyo, Nov. 2.—(JPY—Creation
of a highly centralized Japanese
government with all power in the
hands of “imperial headquarters”
of not more than 16 men was ap
parently in the offering today.
Official sources said they be
lieved War minister Konoye and
the naval minister would present
to the nation such a plan for tak
ing most of the functions of par
liament and the cabinet.
Some sources said the proposi
tion to create the “imperial head
quarters” indicated Japan saw the
necessity if waging a long war in
China or believed a third power,
possibly Great Britain, might in
terfere in any peace plans.
Reports that some drastic gov
ernment revision was developing
were widely circulated as three
ministers held a series of un
scheduled meetings.
Jury “Hung”; To
Have Second Trial
Randleman Man Charged
With Passing School Bus;
Tried by Jury Monday.
The jury which heard evidence
in the case of the State against T.
E. Cox, near Randleman, charged
with violation of the state motor
traffic laws disagreed yesterday
afternoon and Cox was released
pending a new trial.
Cox was charged with passing a
school bus which had halted on the
highway. Police Justice R. A. Col
vin, presided at the trial.
Roosevelt Votes
; Hyde Park, N. Y. Nov. 2.—(.P»—
j Franklin D. Roosevelt, was voter
1299 in the state, town and county
| election here today.
these men on Wednesday morning
in Asheooro, for scout work in the
Asheboro district.
H. K. Moore will serve as chair
man of the local committee who
will meet with Mr. Hackney this
evening and who will canvass the
town for funds tomorrow. The fol
lowing business men will serve with
him: Rufus Routh, Jimmy Webb, |
Dr. G. W. Salisbury, D. W. Dovvn
um, Oscar Blalock, Cleveland
Thayer, S. B. Stedman, Frank Mc
Crary, Hinton Pearce, Harris Cof
fin, Herman Cranford, J. H. Riddle.
Robert W ood, Walter Craven, Fran
cis White and a committee from
the local Rotary club.
Atlantic Flyer,
Actress to Wed
I pm
Screen„ love turned real tor
smiling, blond Colette Lyons, top
photo, movie and vaudeville
actress, and Dick Merrill, trans
Atlantic flyer. Announcement ot
their engagement was made in
London, where they are making
a movie.
Mother Of Pastor
Dies In Virginia
Mrs. Wade Smith, Mother Of
Local Presbyterian Pastor,
Dies at Staunton Today.
News reached Asheboro this
morning of the death of Mrs.
Wade R. Smith at 6:00 o’clock this
morning at a Staunton, Va. hospit
al. Mrs. Smith is the mother of Dr.
Cothran G. Smith, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Asheboro.
The message announcing her
death came early this morning to
John M. Neely prominent church
man and banker of the town. No
funeral arrangements were an
nounced in the message, but it is
though that funeral and burial will
take place in Virginia. Mrs. Smith
was, before her marriage, Miss
Lapsley of Virginia.
When she was first taken ill
several weeks ago, Dr. and Mrs.
Wade Smith were in Staunton at
their summer home. They have
been residents of Greensboro for
many years and for sometime Dr.
Smith was pastor of a Greensboro
church. For the past several years,
however, he has not had a regular
pastorate, but has served his de
nomination as evangelist for the
Southern Presbyterian organizat
ion.
Dr. Wade Smith and Mrs. Smith
have visited frequently in Asheboro
and are well known in Asheboro as
well as throughout North Carolina
and Virginia.
Dr. Cothran G. Smith and Mrs.
Smith left Asheboro Saturday in
response to a telegram from
Staunton and were present when
the end came to Dr. Smith’s mother.
Business Decline
Seen In Next Year
Capital Predictions May Upset
President’s Plan Of Bal
ancing Budget.
Washington, Nov. 2.—(.-P>—A
forecast by government agencies
that the current business recession,
which they said will “run well into
1938” created a thrust at President
Roosevelt’s plans for a balanced
budget. If the forecast by the bur
eau of agriculture should prove ac
curate it would hinder plans for in
crease revenues and make curtail
ment of expenditures more diffi
cult.
Mr. Roosevelt indicated he was
counting on continued business im
provement for this extra revenue
and curtailment of relief and
spending.
Revenue estimates, however, are
based directly on calculation of the
nation’s income. The farm eco
nomics predict the steady rise, in
national income since 1933 would
be broken by a drop next year be
low the 1937 revenue.
Government Grants
Corn Loan Of Fifty
Cents On 1937 Crop
Bushel Price on Products
Sealed at Farm: Must Be
Tested at 50 Percent.
9 Cents On Cotton
Funds Forthcoming in Few
D^ys; Four Cents Higher
Than Wallace Plan.
Washington, Nov. 2.—(.!’>—In
formed officials in the agriculture
department said today the govern
ment would lend 50 cents a bushel
on this year’s corn crop.
This source said details of the
loan program would be announced
within a few days.
They said the program would
concur in general with the previous
corn loan The 50 cent loan will
be on co.In sealed on the farm, test
ing 14 and 1-2 percent moisture
content or less.
The .'ami organizations asked a
60 cent a bushel loan on this year’s
crop and Secretary Wallace said a
loan of about 40 cents w'ould corres
pond with the 9 cent loan of the
cotton crop.
1’resident Roosevelt paved the
way yesterday for the loan by the
organization of machinery set up
within the Reconstruction Finance
corporation.
Office Opens Here
For Unemployment
Clyde Cates Will Take Charge
Of Local Work; Arrives In
Town Monday.
Waldo Porter, district manager jf
the North Carolina State Employ
ment agency, who is located at
Greensboro, was in Asheboro Mon
day with Clyde L. Cates who is in
Asheboro to open the local branch
office here. Mr. Cates, who has
been trained: in the Durham office,
,aod who ia-a.fonner—sehool man
I and fcusmesr man of some note, will
be in charge of the Asheboro office.
Mr. Porter was assisting Mr. Cates
in securing a location for the local
office which will be located over the
Standard Drug Co. and it is hoped
that wilnin a short time the office
will be functioning actively.
Miss Jewel Boling, who is now
with the Winston-Salem office, will
return to her home county of Ran
dolph as interviewer and Mrs.
Helen Foust, of Asheboro, will be
receptionist. After the first few
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Davis Declines
Brussels Crown
Refuses Presidential Seat Of
Sino-Jap Conference
Board.
Brussels, Belgium. Nov. 2.—(.PI
—Norman H. Davis, it was learned
today, has declined an offer to pre
side at the Brussels conference on
the Chinese-Japanese conflict.
Davis, head of the American
delegation to the conference declin
ed, with thanks, the offer of leaders
to make him president.
Bailey Accuses
N. C. Senator Says “Abso
lute Power” Aim
_Of F. D. R_
Worcester, Mass., Nov. 2.—
(/Pi—United States Senator Jo
siah W. Bailey (D-N.C.) in an
address here last night, assert
ed the department of agricul
ture was “seeking absolute
control" over every farm and
Washington “sought control
practically of every business
industry.”
“The current attack upon the
constitution and the Supreme
court”, he said, "Is directed to
wards the destruction of local
self government and the root of
the constitution.”
"No one could wish for a
more plain example of efforts
to expand centralised power
than the pressure to 'have the.
general welfare’ clause so in
terpreted as to give the de
partment of agriculture abso
lute control of every farm and,
the commerce clause to give a
federal board control over prac
tically every industry and busi
ness.
“What shall be said when a
president openly seeks power
to mould the court’s interpreta
tions accord to his own ob
jects.
“Wh.:n a president urged a
member of Congress to resolve
his doubts—a veritable scut
tling of the constitutional
limitation*?”
Presidential Timber Expected
In Today’s Election^ Jersey
f And New York, 191(1 Incu bators
gli / wf*': I .
Lays Jew’s Wreath on Nazi Tomb
III
11 SSL
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Isidor Gennett, Jewish newsdealer and American Legionnaire trom
New York’s Bronx, was only another wreath-layer as you see
him above decorating the grave of France’s Unknown Soldier in
Paris, But in a similar ceremonial in Berlin, Isidor stirred a tempest
in a teapot, decorating Germany’s Unknown Soldier with a laurel
wreath with a ribbon from “Jewish War Veterans. Maurice Krum
holtz Post No. 18.” and securing an official guard of honor to boot.
Gennett’s securing of the guard was investigated b.v Nazi authori
ties, but his wreath remained lying beside one left by Mussolini
on his recent Berlin vtsit.
Duke’s “Man”; Wally’s “Ex”,
Simpson, Dock In New York
A
New ^ ork, Nov. 2.—(A*)—
Charles Bedaux, wealthy emis
sary-without-portfolio for the
Duke of Windsor, arrived last
night to make ready for the
forthcoming American visit of
the abdicated British monarch
and his American-born wife,
the former Wallis Warfield.
Bedaux, who will help chart
a public relations path for the
royal couple, didn’t bring the
news so many had been waiting
for—just what points in the
Insurgent Blockade Termed
Danger to European Peace
London, Nov. 2.—</P>—Mediter
ranean tension was heightened to
day by reports that Spanish insur
gents were throwing a tight air and
naval blockade along the east Span
ish coast to cut the Valencia gov
ernment from outside help from
the high seas.
Genera! Franco’s action sharply
increased the danger of internation
al complications in the Mediterran
ean.
He was believed planning to rely
Randolph Man Charged With
Murder; Held In Local Jail
Lee Jennings Confesses To
Fatal Shooting of Will
Cairrikier Sunday.
Lee Jennings, 45, is locked up in
the Randolph county jail, facing
the possibility of a first degree
murder charge as a restult of the
fatal shooting of Will Cairrikier,
60, at the former’s home Sunday
afternoon.
Carrikier was found shot to
death by Sheriff C. L. King of
Randolph. The sheriff arrested
Jennings at the scene. According
to police reports, Jennings con
fessed the slaying.
Jennings is the second Randolph
to be charged with murder during
the past month. Last month, Bill
Cross, was held without bail in
Hoke county in connection with
the fatal shooting of a game war
den.
Carrikier, an employee in a gold
mine near Thomasville, according
to police reports, had been spend
ing the day at Jennings house. It
is reported that several guests had
been there during the late hour,
just prior to the fatal affair.
Jennings, according to Sheriff
King, admitted shooting Carriker
after the two had had an argument
at his home. The police contend
that Carriker was shot lying on a
cot. A large portion of his head
United States they would visit.
That, he said by ship-to-shore
telephone as the liner Europa
pushed up New York harbor,
would be announced by the
Duke himself.
Just a few hours before Be
daux’s boat docked. Ernest
Simpson, the man who lost a
wife to a King, stepped from
another liner, the Queen Mary,
as did the British ambassa
dor to Washington, Sir Ron
ald Lindsay.
largely on planes, based on the is
land of Mallocra, to rule ship lanes
and cut off Valancia from food and
munitions.
Franco’s naval commander at
Palma has 35 ships at his command
to build up the blockade.
While thus seeking to wall-up
the government by sea and air, the
insurgent forces would press to
split the frontier between Valancia
and France or, drive a wedge in the
government lines.
was tom away by the shot.
Carriker, Jennings contended,
had threatened to kill him and had
a gun lying beside him when the
fatal shot was fired.
Sheriff King said no coroner’s
inquest would be conducted due to
the fact that Jennings admitted the
slaying.
Carriker’s body was taken to the
Russell Funeral Home in Thomas
ville. The funeral was conducted at
the Tabernacle Methodist church
this afternoon.
The survivors include six sons,
Henry, Frank, Roosevelt, Tom, Bill
and Sam Carriker; a daughter, Mrs.
Bettie Hunt, Thomasville Route 2;
a brother, Wiley Carriker, Thomas
ville and three sisters, all of David
son county.
Fire Destroys
Deserted Car
A car totally destroyed by fire
was found at 4:30 this morning on
Highway number 61 by local
policemen, who said the car be
longed to R. L. Howard of 31
Salem.
The car, a 1930 model Oldsmobile
coupe, was vacated by the driver
and when the police found it no
one was present to explain its
presence.
■
ardia, Moore
Anv.ileece May Be
1940 Possibility
Bitter Fight in Detroit; CIO
And AFL Back Two Differ
ent Factions.
Fight in New Jersey
New York Newspapers Pre
dict Defeat For Tammany
And Farley Aspirant. '
(By The Associated Press)
Voters in fifteen states cast bal
lots today in local elections which
may prove indications of the nat
ional political trend.
Personalities, rather than nat
ional issues, dominated the off
year election of mayors in more
than .‘50 cities, legislators in five
states, governors in New York and
New Jersey, and four congressmen
to fill vacancies in New York and
Vii'ginia.
In Detroit, the non-partisn elec
tion shared attention with the New
York mayoralty battle. Patrick H.
O’Brien, endorsed by the CIO con
tested Richard W. Reading, sup
ported by the AFL for the Detroit
mayor’s post.
Some of the winners in today’s
balloting may receive consideration
as presidential timber in 1940,
some political observers believe.
Prominently mentioned were
three men, Mayor LaGuardia,
seeking re-election on the combined
backing of Republicans, Laborites,
Socialists and communists.
U. S. Senator A. Harry Moore
and State Senator Lester H. Cleece
are contestants for the New Jersey,
governorship.
Moore,
gover
Opposing LaGuardia was Jere
miath T. Mahoney, running on a
Democratic ticket with support of
Tammany Hall and National Dem
ocratic Chairman, James A. Farley,'
Governor Herbert H. Lehman and
Senator Robert F. Wagner.
Managers of both candidates
claim victory but a majority of
newspapers predict LaGuardia
would win.
1
Greensboro Man
Talked For Post.
Leroy Shuping, Prominent
Greensboro Attorney And
Politician, For Senate?
News reports from Greensboro
for the past two days indicate that
Leroy Shuping, prominent attorney
and politician of that city, is en
tertaining an idea of announcing'
for the two-way senate race be
tween Senator Bob Raynolds and
Congressman Frank Hancock. The
news story on Monday morning
states that friends of this man were
talking about the advisability of
his entrance into the race.
Tuesday’s news reports indicate
that his record is being discussed
and, with it, the ability of this man
is being flaunted and is proving
not a bad selling point to many of
his friends in Randolph. Mr. Shup
ing has been a national committee
man and was until 1936 when he
just couldn't stand for “new deal”
policies, claiming he was a Demo
crat and the policies of President
Roosevelt were not Democratic, but
entirely off color. This defeated
Mr. Shuping who has maintained
a silence in seven languages since
that time—practicing law and
leaving political matters off.
Around Raleigh, it is the general
concensus of opinion that Mr.
Shuping would take votes from Mr.
Hancock instead of from Senator
Reynolds, but this is a guess and
early to prognosticate. In an ar
ticle in today’s press, Tom Bost,
well known correspondent from Ra
leigh says:
Senator Bailey is in the senate
largely through the discovery made
by Shuping that Senator Simmons
had sinned fatally in deserting the
Democratic candidate for President
in 1928. Shuping’s fine organiz
ing ability in managing the Bailey
campaign was responsible for the
Simmons defeat. But for the Shup
ing poll of leading Democrats it
would have been impossible for any
opponent of the senator to feel safe
in opposing him. In making that
survey Shuping borrowed the very
cunning plan of Sanford Martin
used against A1 Smith. It was not
Martin’s; it was as old as the Sta
tue of Liberty play in football, but
it works in certain seasons with
out fail.
And having led the campaign to
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