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ASHEBORO, N. C., WEDNESDAY. NOV. 3, 19S7
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15 Day M. P. Church Session Opens In Asheboro
Faculty Board Parley
Today; More Than 200
Ministers Will Attend
Central Church To
Be Scene Of Noted
Religious Session
Devotional Service Marks Of
ficial Opening; Many In
teresting Features.
Will Close Monday
Special Program For Young
People; Conference Headed
By Kev. R. M. Andrews.
The most important board
meeting preparing for the
North Carolina conference of
the Methodist Protestant
Protestant church opening here
Thursday morning, will be that
of the conference faculty,
which met at the Central
church here this afternoon at
2:30.
The faculty directs, and pass
es on the course of instruction
provided for prospective nfin
isters. The prescribed courses
and their examiners are, Dr. J.
D. Williams, “Personal Salva
tion,” (fillet) Dr. S. W. Tay
lor, “Introduction to the Bi
ble,” (Van Pelt); Rev. R. C.
Stubbins, “The Minister’s
Week-day Challenge,” (Hying
ton); Rev. T. M. Jbh'rtsoh, ,T)l>
jeetives in Religious Educa
tion,” (Vieth); and examina
tion of the second year sermon
on “Regeneration.” Rev. H.
F. Surratt, “Principles of
Preaching,” (Davis); Dr. Geo.
R. Brown, “The Discipline of
the M. P. Church,” and exami
nation of the third year ser
mon on “Evangelism-” Rev.
B. M. Williams, “Old Testa
ment History,” (Wade); Dr.
R. M. Andrews, first half of
‘The Christian Faith,” (Cur
tis); Dr. A. G. Dixon. “The
Christian Preacher,” (Garvie);
Rev. Geo. L. Reynolds, “The
Curriculum of Religious Edu
cation,” (Betts); Dr. C. W.
Bates, “History of the Chris
tian Church,” (Qualben); Dr.
F. W. Paschall, “The Christian
Message and Program,” (Mc
Afee); Dr. J. E. Pritchard,
“Robert*? Rules of Order.”
Rev. G. W. Holmes, Examina
tion of the first year sermon
on “Repentance.” Rev. J. R.
Hutton, “New Testament His
tory,” (Rail); Rev. H. L. Is
ley, second half of “The Chris
tian Faith,” (Curtis); Rev. J.
E. Carroll, “Teaching Relig
ion,” (Myers); Rev. G. L. Cur
ry, “Church Administration,”
(Leach); Rev. R. A. Hunter,
“Life of Christ,” (Smith).
The first part of the meeting
today was for business and re
ports for the year, which will
be followed by individual ex
amination of candidates during
the late afternoon and evening.
Rev. S. W. Taylor, pastor of
the conference church is chair
man of the Faculty, and Rev.
H. F. Surratt, Graham is the
secretary, these together with
Dr. T. M Johnson. Easley, S.
C. . and Dr. R. M. Andrews,
High Point, make up the com
mittee on entrance, before
which all new men are requir
ed to go for initial examina
tions.
I When the 110th session of the
North Carolina annual conference
of the Methodist Protestant church
opens here tomorrow, it will be the
second time the Central Methodist
Protestant church of this city has
been host to the denominational
meeting within 10 years; it will be
the first meeting within 10 years;
it will be the first meeting since
time allotted for the conference
, sessions has been shortened by one
day, and, as at the previous meet
ing, a president closes his five
year term, and cannot be re-elected.
Rev. R. M. Andrews, D. D., High
Point, is closing his second five
year term as president, an honor
never granted to any other min
ister; of the denomination in this
state during the more than a hun
dred years’ of existence.
In arranging the program for
this session, it became necessary
for the committee to make a place
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1 lx)cal Pastor_
Dr. S. W. Taylor
Pastor of the Central M. P. church
who has charge of local arrange
ments fcr the conference.
Balanced Budget
May Jump Taxes
Rise Will Strike Persons With
Incomes of $5,000; Hear
Washiuglon, Nov. 3.—C-P)—
Treasury experts put finishing tou
ches today on administration reve
nue recommendations which may
call for substantial changes in the
existing tax structrue.
Hearings will start tomorrow
before the House ways and means
sub-committee headed -by Represen
tative Vinson (D-Ky.)
The 1 reasury recommendations
are expected to show whether the
administration intends to lighten
the tax load in business and whe
ther new taxes will be sought in an
effort to balance the budget in the
next fiscal year.
If new taxes are recommended,
they will tail on persons with in
comes of between $5,000 and $100,
000.
President Roosevelt, however, has
said he thought next year’s budget
could be balanced without addi
tional taxes.
New York Opposes
Dixie R. R. Rates
Contends Carolinas Will Take
Mills From North If Rates
Are Reduced.
Washington, Nov. 3.—(;P)—The
state of New York obtained au
thority from the interstate com
merce commission today to oppose
petitions of 9 southern states for
reduced freight rates.
The State’s request for the right
to intervene, said the proposed
southern rates adjustments would
encouiage industries to locate in
the south, rather than in the north,
and would cause existing indus
tries in southern states to increase
their volume at the expense of nor
thern companies.
Southern states, in the plea for
lower rates include, North Carolina
and South Carolina.
Jack Hay worth Will
Be Home Tomorrow
Jack Hayworth, who has been ill
for several months and who has
been a patient of Dr. Coleman in
Richmond for the past month, is
i expected home late tonight. A tel
i egram from Dr. Hayworth to Jas,
i Neely this morning requested Far
■ low's ambulance to meet the train
. in .High Point and convey Jack to
his Asheboro home,
i The trouble started with an i.r
• fected sinus, which has been treat
■ ed by Asheboro, Greensboro and
Richmond doctors for the past sev
; eral months. This popular young
' Asheboro boy has submitted to nu
merous operations in an effort to
■ check and clear up the trouble,
’ which is sufficiently improved fox
i him to be brought to the home of
his parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. A.
Hayworth.
Sixth Division
Road Group Holds
Busy Session Mon.
D. Ii. McCrary, Local Road
Commissioner Presides
Over Session in City.
Many Petitions
Discussion Involves Four Dis
tant Counties; Randolph
Writes Urgent Requests.
The regular monthly meeting of
’ the local division of highway and
: public works commission was held
Tuesday with an unu'sunll busy
session continuing all day. D. B.
McCrary of Asheboro, commiss
ioner for this district, presided
over the meeting and reports the
completion of many matters that
have been under consideration for
sometime as well as hearing new
business connected with the office.
The commissioner of each divi
sion of the highway and public
works commission is required to
give an opportunity to the county
authorities of the several counties
in each division to be heard each
month.
A meeting of the sixth division
was held yesterday. County au
thorities had been notified of this
meeting and delegations from the
following counties were present and
presented road matters to the com
missioner — Robeson, Scotland,
Hoke, Davidson. Information from
i Harnett and Randolph was for
warded to the commissioner by
mail for handling.
Routine matters concerning a
number of projects in several com
munities -swore- gone into, no def
inite action was taken in connect
ion with any of them!
It is the purpose of the commiss
ioner and engineering department
to use every effort possible to put
the school bus routes and the farm
to-market routes in passable con
dition for the winter. This work
is being pushed rapidly as poss
ible while it can be done advantage
ously.
Committee Makes
Effort For Funds
P.-T. A- Group Will Take Wo
men on Inspection Tour To
Garland Lake Dairy.
Extensive improvements have re
cently been made at Garland Lake
Dairy nn l as they near completion,
the people of the convfunity are
asked to inspect the many and va
ried improvements. In considera
tion of this, Garland Pritchard has
made a generous gesture to the
science department of the local
school, which is badly in need of
funds for equipment.
At a recent meeting of the high
school P.-T. A. group, a committee
was named to try to raise funds
for the department. They have
asked for money from the alumni
of the school and now Mr. Pritch
ard offers them a percentage on
every person they take to the dairy
on Tuesday, November 9th. This
money will be used for some of the
very necessary equipment for the
science room, in an effort to bring
the department up to a reputable
standing.
On Tuesday afternoon, especially
between the hours of 2:00 and 3:30,
visitors are welcomed. This is
milking time and it was the idea
that there would be more activity
and more interest at tha time than
any other.
According to Mrs. Arthur Pres
nell, chairman, of the committee,
and Mrs. Don McGlohon, who is
ably assisting her, there will be
transportation provided for each
woman who has no way of getting
to and from the dairy. There are
35 women with cars who,will gladly
call at both school buildings be
tween the hours of 2 and 3:30 and
transport ell women who want to
go for this tour of inspection. Or,
if it 13 inconvenient to meet the
transportation committee at the
school buildings, a telephone call to
Mrs. I. C. Moser, Mrs. King Moore.
Mrs. J. li. Hill, or Mrs. Arthur
Presnell, will mean that a car will
call for the person, or persons.
The committee urges attendance
as it will mean a pleasant trip and
a profit to the science department
as well.
The Weather
North Carolina: Fair tonight and
Thursday. Colder tonight. Frost
in east and central portions.
M. P. Conference
Officers
L
Or. R. M. Andrews
Dr. Andrews, who will preside at
the session, is closing his secohi'd 5
year term as conference president.
Key. C. W. Bales
Brown's Summit pastor is closing
his 24th year as secretary of the
■conference. • -<**
School Destroyed
By Franco Bombs
Fifty Hedies of Children Re-,
moved From Wreck; 125
Believed Killed.
Madrid, Nov. 3.—(cPI—Rescue
squads searched bomb shattered
buildings in the Catalion city of
Merid for additional victims of an
insurgent air raid, already report
ed by government sources to have
taken 125 lives.
Hospitals were filled with wound
ed men, women and children.
More than 50 bodies were re
moved from the primary school,
wrecked over their heads, when 9
tri-motored bombers dumped their
explosives.
A government spokesman called
the raid “a vicious and criminal
attack” upon a civil population.
After the raiders dropped their
bombs, the statement charged they
flew low over the city and machine
gunned many residents.
Farm Prices Off
About 29 Percent
Hogs. Wheat, Corn, Cotton
And Oats Below Average
Level; Cattle Higher.
Chicago, Nov. 3.—</D—Prices
of eight major farm commodities
from which the bulk of farm in
come is derived, has declined an
average of 29 percent in Chicago
markets since recovery peaks were
reached.
A survey showed today their
average level is the lowest since
June 1936.
Six of the items—hogs, wheat,
corn, oats, cotton and eggs—are
selling well below what they were
bringing at the market here a year
ago.
The price of only two—butter
and cattle—are higher.
Legion Armistice Dinner In
Baptist Church; Discuss Hut
Dixon Post 46, American Legion,
last night completed plans for the
annual observance of Armistice
Day here Thursday, November 11.
The day/ will be cjosed with a din
ner served to members of the Le
gion, she Auxiliary and other ex
servico men and women in the
Baptist church at 7 o’clock.
Tickets will be available at the
Old Hickory cafe within a few days.
The post is also sponsoring a
street parade at 10 o’clock in which
the pofft and the auxiliary, Sons
M. P. Program
Daily Plans of Pastors At
•vllOth Conference; Opens
Tomorrow.
W t ..
WEDNESDAY
fhe Faculty Conference was
t, take place this afternoon.
THURSDAY
10 A. M.—Devotional serv
ice.
! 10:45 A. M.—Conference
sermon. Observation of the
Lord’s Supper.
2 l\ M.—President’s mes
sage. Election Of officers.
7:30 P. M.—Mission rally.
FRIDAY
,A. M.—Business sessions.
.. 2 P. M.—Recess for commit
tee work.
7 -'30 p. M.-—Business ses
sion.
SATURDAY
10 A. M.—Board of Trus
tees and education reports.
11 A. M.—Children’s homes
reports.
P. M.—General conference
reports.
SUNDA Y
11 A.- M.—Ordination ser
' mon.
2:31 P. M.—Memorial serv
ice.
Evening — Young People’s
rally.
MONDAY
Committee reports.
Tar Heel Leader
Plans GOP Purge
Jonas Will Urge Talbot Ouster
Fi'om National Committee
This Week.
* Lfneofrrtorr, N. C. Nov. H.—ttf)—
Charles A. Jonas, republican nat
ional committeeman from North
Carolina, said here today an ef
fort is to be made at the meeting
of the national committee in
Chicago, Friday and Saturday, to
oust Joe Talbot from the post of
national committman from South
Carolina.
Just before departing for Chic
ago, Jones said Talbot’s removal
was requested in a resolution drawn
up by the Young Republican cliib
of South Carolina.
Talbot was recognized as boss
1 of the G.O.P. in his state for many
years until early in the Hoover
administration when he was re
placed by J. C. Hanbright of Rock
Hill. Upon the rise of new leader
ship after the Hoover defeat, Tal
bot regained his position as nation
al committeeman.
“It was a bid for the negro of
the north and east,” said Jonas of
Talbot’s return to power. “But it
didn’t work and I for one was glad
of it.” He added he was in sym
pathy with ‘every effort to clean
up the political situation in South
Carolina and establish a decent
G.O.P. in that state.
Wally Will Visit
“Old North” State
Both Carolinas Listed For
Royal Visitation; Valley
Of Mohawk Listed.
New York, Nov. 3.—(.D—The
Duke and Dutchess of Windsor’s
American trip took more definite
shape today as their American rep
resentative said they will “spend
two or three days in the Mohawk
Valley and about 10 days in the
“deep south” before proceeding
westward.
They will arrive November 11
on the German liner Bremen. They
will be in Washington the following
day and tha middle of the following
week will visit the Mohawk Valley
and then go into the “deep south”.
It is expected they will visit Rich
mond, Vt.., the two Carolinas and
Georgia.
of the Legion, Boy and Girl scouts
and school students will partici
pate.
There will be patriotic programs
in both the Lafayette and Park
street schools when the parade dis
bands.
The post appointed a special com
mittee to study the possibilities of
erecting a Legion Hut on the lot
owned by the organization near
Dogwood Acres. This colnmittee
will report at the-December meet
ing.
Democrats Hold
| Recent Gains In
Yesterday’s Vote
i Visions cf New Party Seen In
Election in New York And
Other States.
CIO Loses Detroit
! Tammany Hall Defeated By
i Fusion Ticket; Dewey Is
New District Attorney.
Washington. Nov. 3.—(.-Pi—
Observer}* looked In vain to
i day for any signs of general
poiitical upheavals in yester
day’s off-year elections in fif
| teen states.
Although evidence of party
trends were scattered, they
showed some with democrats
holding gains of recent years.
While the elections disclosed
no evidence of shifts between
the two major parties, they
did suggest to some political
Seers, the possibility of a new
national party emerging in the
next few years.
(By The Associated Press)
Mounting returns emphasized to
[ day the defeat of Tammany Hall
land the CIO in two of yesterday’s
! principal elections.
Old Tammany took its second ds
feat when New York voters elected
Fiorello H. LaGuardia mayor by a
record-breaking total and selected
“racket breaking” Thomas Dewey
for district attorney of New York
county.
The CIO, in its first major bid
for direct political power lost the
Detroit mayoralty to. Richard W.
Reading, endorsed and supported
by the American Federation of
Labor.
Becau.-; * of the dominance of lo
cal issues, party leaders found few
clues to national political trends.
Late returns today showed that:
Senator A. Harry Moore, of New
Jersey, apparently won back for
the democrats, the governorship
leaving the republicans with only
six governors out of forty-eight.
Bruce Barton, advertising execu
tive and author, was elected to the
New York house by the “silk stock
ing" district.
Three other congressional elec
tions failed to develop party swit
ches.
The leaders of Tammany hall,
which in the eentuvy and a half of
its life always had been able here
tofore to beat down any second
term challenge to city hall control,
were silent for the most part, but
Tammany Chieftain Christopher
Sullivan commented that the re-’
turns were ‘bum figures.”
Dewey Also Wins
With La Guardia into office went
Thomas E. Dewey, a special rackets
prosecutor who defeated the Tam
many candidate for district attor
ney of the borough of Manhattan,
Harold W. Hastings.
The mayor, squate, hot-tongued
and politically unconventional, went
into power four years ago when the
Democratic party was split. This
time, it was united outwardly at
least, with Postmaster General
James A. Farley, the Democratic
national chairman, coming home to
New York to go to the stump for
the Mahoney ticket.
Tammany’s loss of the district
attorneyship made its defeat all the
more crashing.
The leaders of the hall, hostile
generally to the national party
leadership of Farley, had opposed
Mahoney in'*the Democratic pri
mary but at that Manhattan was
turning in a better proportionate
showing for him than in any out
! lying borough, all of whose Demo
cratic organizations leaders sup
ported him from the start.
William M. Chadbournc, chair
man of the fusion campaign com
mittee, claimed victory last night
for La Guardia shortly after 8 o’
clock.
"Gone and Done It."
Referring to the fact that never
in history up to now has the city
Democratic machine lost twice in a
row, Chadbourne said:
“The citizens of New York have
gone and done it!”
Cotton Session
More than 300 members of the
cotton manufacturing and allied in
dustries will attend the annual con
vention of the North Carolina Cot
ton Manufacturers’ association
which opens at the Carolina hotel
at Pinehurst tomorrow, said Hun
ter Marshall, Jr., secretary and
treasurer of the organization yes
terday.
Italian Delegation t*
Bans ‘Quarantine’ Ol
Either Japan-China
1
Wins in New York
Fiorelio H. La Guardia
Safe “Crackers”
CaughtBy Police
■>
Columbia Authorities Hold
Three Men, Accused Of i
Over Fifteen Jobs.
Columbia, S. C. Nov. .'5.—(.l*)—
Lieutenant Leo Jenkins, identi
fication officer of the State high
way patrol, said today three men
captured here last night were
“wanted for 15 to 18 safe cracking
jobs.”
He said they gave their names
as J. E. Marsh, 54, Allen Hill, 58
and George Mendell, 32.
Jenkins said he believed the
names were alias and he was tak
ing steps to determine their real
identity.
The three men, Jenkins said, had
rooms in two leading Columbia
hotels, apparently to confuse ef
forts to trace their actions.
Three revolvers and “complete
safe cracking” equipment was
found in their automobile.
Jenkins said he had been advised
by officer's without the state that
these men were wanted for from
15 to 18 jobs and, that he was in
vestigating the possibility that
they were connected with the $5,
500 robbery of the Bank of Sharon
Monday night.
“Checker-Board”
War At Shanghai
Plans Under Way to Relieve
Situation Near French .
Owned Concession.
Shanghai, Nov. .‘S.—<.P>—Nego
tiations were underway today to
move Shanghai's warefare away
from the edges of the French con
cession where many Americans and
other foreigners make their homes.
A Japanese spokesman told of
the conversations to neutralize the
Nantao area, just south of the con
cession.
He declared the representatives
of a neutral power had approached
Japan with the plan, designed to
avoid further endangering of for
eigners and Chinese non-combat
ants.
Foreign military observers re
ported that Chinese lines extend
| ing west from the international
settlement were thinning and added
they would not be surprised ii
Chinese withdrew from the ares
immediately near Shanghai in th<
next few days.
It was disclosed plans for th(
neutralization of Nantao, thi
Chinese quarter which Japanes<
i on several occasions have threaten
ed to bombard, was originated b;
Father Jacquilot, the Catholii
priest, who heads the internationa
refugee committee.
Pinehurst, Nov. S.—CP)—Fir
early last night virtually destroys
the Pinehurst stables in the wes
end of town, but the 37 horses wer
saved.
United States In
Plea For Peaceful
Conclusion Of War
Davis* Speech Leaves Open
Door to Japan; II Duce Lines
Up With Japan.
Laud Both Nations
Italian Stand Seen as Ban On
Roosevelt Suggestion
Against Aggressors.
Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 3.—
(.V)—Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo
asserted today that China
would not be contributing to
the cause of international law
and order, if she accepted peace
with Japan “at any price.”
Chinese representatives to
the conference here in the Chi
nese-Japanese conflict predict
ed “if Japanese aggression in
the Far East is not checked,
then faith in the pledged word
is not restored, then there is
every danger that Japanese
forces will over-run the boun
daries of China and throw
the world into a general war
from which no important pow
er will long be able to keep
aloof.”
Dr. Koo, stating his coun
try’s opposition in the Far
East war, read a 14-page pre
pared speech in which h#
soughr to show' the Japanese
were conducting the “most ut
ter ruthless methods of wel
fare the civilized world has
ever known.”
He said the invading armies
have sought consistently to
undermine the principles of the
“Open Door” and prevent
equalization of commerce with
I all nations.”
I Brussels, Belgium. Nov. 3.—UP)—
! A concerted appeal for direct nego
tiations between China and Japan
I to end their conflict marked the
I opening session of the Brussels
! conference today with Italy as
serting there can be no question of
sanctions.
j Delegates of the United States,
| Great Britain and France joined
' in an appeal for the Chinese and
j Japanese to settle their conflict, by
! "peaceful means.”
II Duce’s representatives Went
further. He said the conference
could not speak of “quarantine”- of
one or the other of the fighting
nations. This, it was believed, was
a reference to President Roose
velt’s Chicago speech.
“It is clear,” said the Italians,
“that there can be no question of
direct or indirect coercive measures
along the lines of those which have
been made by certain irresponsible
elements, or even of speaking of a
quarantine, more or less, towards
one or the other in the conflict.”
Norman H. Davis, United States
delegate, sounded the keynote of
the conference., in proposing" dir
ect negotiations between China and
Japan.
Britain's Foreign Secretary, An
thony Eden, proposed creation of
an executive organ of the confer
ence which would concentrate on
seeking peace quickly.
The speakers were evidently re
ferring to horrors in the Far East
war, at the same time refraining
from arrainging Japan.
It was evident statesmen were
clearing the way to induce Japan to
either change over her mind and
come into the conference—to which
she refused an invitation—or ac
cept direct negotiations with China.
Following closely on the formal
opening of the conference, Davis,
in a direct and clear manner, told
the delegates the' United States
believes direct cooperation between
Japan and China was essential to
the interest of both countries and
to “peace throughout the world.”
Davis declared he was convinced
that peace must be developed by
friendship and fairplay.
The American’s speech was in
terpreted as a bid for direct nego
tiations between the warring ‘na
tions but also as leaving the door
open for mediation through friend
ly, interested nations.
Davis cautioned that any peace
“must be fair to each and accept
able to both” China and Japan.
The conference was impressed By
the tribute paid both China and
Japan for political progress.