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OLUME LXI
ASHEBORO, N- C., THURSDAY, NOV. 18,1937
NUMBER 162
Senator Bailey Leads
Fight In Congress For
All First Things First
■nior Senator is of Opinion
Congress Can Do Something
To Help Business.
opes To Arrest
Trade Recession
Senator Josiah William Bailey,
oiior senator from North Caro
ia, was in the political .limelight
jsterday during the discussion of
le anti-lynching bill.
Demands that Congress address
jelf to the consideration of first
lings first, and that a prompt and
itelligent effort be made to arrest
le tide of business recession, were
»de openly in the senate, under
leadership provided by Senator
liley. The North Carolina senator
insiders it of supreme importance
lay aside'all other legislative
jposals, and concentrate on those
Jngs, budget balancing, tax re
sion and kindred measures, which
ould hold a promise of enlisting
le indispensable aid of private
ipital and private enterprise, in
effort to checkmate a national
end that may presently menace
rery American home.
Senator Bailey agreed with Sen
ior Minton of Indiana, and other
illeagues, who made the point that
je President is not standing in the
ay of such efforts that, it is hoped
iuld have a salutary effect upon
i entire economic structure, and
it therefore called imperatively
action “now.“
Senator Bailey began his address
alluding to the constitutional
of the anti-lynching bill, now
inding. The senator is not partici
ting in the obvious filibuster
’ainst the anti-lynching bill, which
stitutional, but part from all
h considerations he thinks fur
r debate thereon should be de
red, to enable Congress to give
tention to matters of greater mo
int, and o ' nearer consequence, in
words of Woodrow Wilson.
Despite its concilatory tone it is
red that the business community
led to find the President’s mes
e to Congress especially inspir
. By some the assembling of
mgress has been counted a bless
but if the national legislature
allowed to drift into the dol
ms, it may occasion real anxiety
ughout the country. The Pres
nt is no longer providing the
rnatic and heartening leadership
,t characterized the early months
his first administration. At the
time there is the disquieting
lumstances that Congress is en
jed for the most part in marking
e, after a drab and uneventful
ming. .
Purpose
teal WPA Takes
Federal Census
rde Cates. Manasrer of Local
tie federal census is being taken
week to find out who are the
uployed and where they live,
i U. S. Post Office is the agency
ployed to take this census, but
| Post Office is not expected to
jobs for the people who are
of work.
lie task of registering and plac
the unemployed on the jobs
ch they are fitted is the res
sibility of the State Employ
Service. |
local State Employment of
| workers an anxious to receive
uployed workers and help them
et located. The office receives
from those who need workers
| keeps on fils a list of unfilled
So all unemployed should be
to visit the office here in
eboro and leave their names
[ addresses, so that when they
needed they may be found.
He local office is located tem
rily on the aecond floor of the
house. The workers an: Mrs.
Faust, receptionist, Miss
Boling, interviewer, Clyde
, manager.
office is open to receive cal
| from 9:00 to 18:30 each day.
ft^moons are spent working
ir office records and visiting
[ factories and stores. So they
ot be in during the afternoons.
people receive calls for
era every day and are charged
the responsibility of assuming
ployed to find suitable jobs,
with the task of assisting
tc
Centers the Stage
Senator J. W. Bailey
Methodists Vote
Huge Church Fund
National Organization to Use
$811,585 in Field Work
At Home.
Chicago, Nov. 18.—(.P)—The Me
thodist Episcopal church board of
home missions and church extension
approved today appropriations to
taling $994,085 for 1938, an in
crease of $0,655 over the 1937 total.
The largest item was $811,586 m
appropriations to the field, which
included $635,585 for maintenance
work in 18 areas of the Un
tension work.
Japanese Forces
Continue Advance
1 Canture Crate to Walled City
Of Hashing; Drive Toward
Sino Hindenberg. Line.
Shanghai, Nov. 18.—UP)—A Jap
anese army spokesman announced
tonight that Japan’s troops, driv
ing to break through the “Hinden
burg Line” between Shanghai and
Nanking, has captured one gate of
the walled city of KaBhing, at the
southern end of the line.
Both Chinese and Japanese re
ported heavy fighting in the sec
tor about Kashihg, 60 miles South
west and 30 miles South of Soochow,
main point of the Chinese defenses.
Chinese told of a spirited engage
ment at Seven Star bridge 4 miles
northeast of Kashing. Japanese
said they were unable to state, of
ficially, that their forces had cap
tured the city.
News of the Japanese push
against the southern wing of the
Chinese defense, stretching from
thfe Yangtze to Hankow bay came
a few hours after official warnings
spurred migration of civilians from
Nanking.
Spanish Conflict
Hendaye, Spanish-Franco Fron
tier, Nov. 18.—IB—Spanish gov
ernment troops harraased insurgent
foes with artillery and infantry in
attacks in the upper and lower Ara
gon sectors today.
Local School, Faculty, And
Students Plan ‘Parents Day’
Tomorrow the Asheboro city
schools, faculty and students, will
he hosts to parents in observance
Of the annual visitors day.
All parents are invited to attend
the school room sessions, special ar
rangements being made for accom
modation of the visitors in the clas3
rooms and during the class session
hours.
Superintendent of schools, Regi
nald Turner, has completed plans
which include the reception of the
visitors by various members of the
student body, tours of inspection of
the school building and, opportuni
ties for the parents to inspect the
work carried on in the various
grades.
Reports of the P.-T. A. which is
cooperating in the program an
nounced (hat four of the five teach
ers in the elementary division have
War Rate Risks On
Cargoes To Orient
Lowered In London
Indications of Lessening Of
Tension Seen as Carriers
Reduce Shipping Rates
Affects Shanghai
Mari tin:.? Trade Uo Spain And
Mediterranean Ports Also
Encouraged.
(By the Associated Press)
War risk rates on international
maritime commerce—one indica
tioan of war tension—were reduced
sharply today on cargoes for the
Orient and western countries.
The reduction was announced in
London by British maritime in
surance un<jerwrit' rs and was be
lieved to be due to three develop
ments.
1. The transfer of the Japanese
Chinese war conflict from the
Shanghai sector.
2. An apparent end of the “pir
acy” in the Mediterranean, an
outgrowth of the Spanish civil
war.
3. An casing of the political
situation in Europe.
The rates on cargoes to and
from Shanghai were cut to $1.25
for each $500 of value whereas a
month ago the rate was $10.
The Mediterranean rates were re
duced from $1.87 to $1.25.
Barn Destroyed By
Fire At Whitehall
Chicken Thieves Believed To
Have Been Cause of Blaze;
Loss Covered.
Persons, who, up to a late hour
this afternoon had not been identi
fied are believed to have been the
a bam owned by Claui
Holden of Whitehall.
Mr. Holden, according to reports,
had several chickens in the bam
and it is believed that an attempt
was made to steal the chickens
when a match was dropped by the
intruders.
The loss was.covered by insur
ance carried by the Farmers’ Mutu
al company.
Kidnap Gang Back
In New York Jail
One Escapee Still at Large;
Captured in Rooming
House at Syracuse.
Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 18.—OP)—1
Syracuse police captured two of
three escaped convict members of
the O’Connell kidnap gang without
firing a shot today and then launch
ed the greatest manhunt in the
city’s history, close on the trail of
the third.
John Oley and Harold (Red)
Crowley were caught in a rooming
house on the fringe of the city’s
downtown business section after
Ivan Whitford, rooming house jan
itor, informed police.
Charles Ross Here
Charles Ross of Raleigh and
Lillington, attorney for the state
highway department, was in Ashe
boro yesterday afternoon and spent
last night with relatives here. Mr.
Ross is a native son of this county
and is always busy greeting
friends, as well as his several rela
tives, when visiting in the county.
visited in the home of their stu
dents.
Mrs. Alexander Kemp, chairman
of the intermediate group of the
Fayetteville Street schhol reported
that her grade representatives have
placed shades in the rooms of their
department.
Mrs. I. C. Moser, chairman of the
high school department, reported
$65 has been raised for the science
department, $45 being the proceeds
from the “Dairy Day” given by
Garland Pritchard and $20 from
other sources.
Mrs. W. F. Redding, Jr., chair
man of the Park Street school com
mittee reported six teachers of that
school had visited the home of each
student in their individual class
rooms.
Attendance prizes last month
were won by Mrs. Odell Cranford’s
room and Miss Brewer’s grade.
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College Girls’ Speech Tested by Machine
Carroll Stoker, a member of tm Junior class at Women’s College of the University of North Carolina in
Greensboro, is shown using the recording machine employed to test students’ voices. Each of the 582 fresh
men in college is given a test by Dr;. E. R. Moses, head of the speech department, and any defect revealed in
corrected in special classes.
Senator Bailey Leads Filibuster
As Upper House Stalls For Time
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C. C. Cranford! Will Serve On
State’s “Hospitable” Board
County Chairman
Vernon H. Dameron, Liberty!
Industralist, Funeral Today!
Dies in Greensboro Hospital'
Following an Illness Of
Two Weeks.
The funeral of Vernon H. Dam
eron, 44, prominent Liberty indus
trialist, who died at a Greensboro
hospital yesterday was conducted at
2:30 o’clock this afternoon at the
residence.
The Rev. Aubert Smith, pastor
of the Liberty M. P. church, and
the Rev. Q. 0. Lyerly, pastor of the
Troutman Lutheran church, officia
ted. Burial was in the Falrview ce
metery.
Mr. Dameron was a native of
Staunton, Po. He moved to Thomas
ville in 1911 and was connected
with the Thamasville Veneer and
Panel company for many years.
Fourteen years ago he moved to Li
berty where he had since made his
home.
He was connected with the Lib
erty Veneer company when he first
came to this town, but later estab
lished the Dameron Veneer com
pany and was owner and manager
of that concern at the time of his
death.
Mr. Dameron was always active
in public affairs and was a very
liberal contributor to the churches
of the town. Though a Republican,
in politics, he was elected a mem
ber of the board of town comm is
sioners in a strongly Democratic
town. He was serving as a member
of the board at the time of his
death.
He was a charter fiiember of the
Liberty Rotary club and was a past
president of that organisation. He
i Governor Clyde R. Hoey yester
day appointed C. C. Cranford of
l Asheboro a member of the North
Carolina hospitality committee. Mr.
t . ahmg wUh..lOQ others
___ tha state/
■ortfcers in Rafedolpn cc&nly/in
a slate-wide movement to “pev
elop a hospitable spirit” arpong
residents of the state.
Governor Hoey in naming the
county committee heads said:
“Each appointee will contact
public officials, hotel operators,
pperators of eating places, filling
stations and other public service
concerns with a view of creating
and developing a hospitable spirit
among all of our people.”
Mr. Cranford will select his co
workers in Randolph county within
the new few days.
Robbery Charge
“Red” Siler, colored, is locked
up in the Randolph county jail
charged with robbery in connection
with an alleged assault upon As
tor C. Luck.
Siler, according to the police,
overpowered Mr. Luck last night
and robbed him of approximately
$80.
took an. active interest in the Boy
Scout movement.
Besides his wife, who before mar
riage was Miss Carrie Tobin, of
Thomasville, he is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. John Coward, of
Liberty; Misses Helen and Betty, of
the home; one son, Everett ,of Riv
erside Military academy, Gaines
ville, Ga.; his stepmother, Mrs. E.
R. Dameron, of Thomasville; three
brothers, L. B. Dameron and Oak
ley Dameron, of Thomasville; V. L.
Dameron, Newport News, Va.; sev
en sisters, Mrs. D. S. Brown, of
Stuarts Draft, Pa.; Mrs. W. A. Har
man, afLyndhurst, Va.; Mrs. Ollie
Patterson, of Hampton, Va.; Mrs.
M. L. Sechrest, of High Point; Mrs.
A. A. Harris, Mrs. Garland Shoe
maker, Miss Wanda Dameron, all
of Thomasville.
Asheboro Man Is
Paroled By Hoey
Among the several paroles an
nounced this morning from Gover
nor Hoey’s office in Raleigh is that
of Glenn Lowdermilk of Asheboro.
Lowdermilk was sentenced in July.
1932, to serve from 20 to 30 years
on a charge of highway robbery.
He was tried in Montgomery coun
ty in July, 1932.
The Weather
North Carolina: Partly cloudy,
slightly warmer in the western
-portion tonight. Friday mostly
cloudy and warmer with rains in
the interior.
Farm Groups Plan
On New Proposals
May End Aimless Debate On
Anti-Lynching Bill Con
ducted By Senate.
Taxes Under Fire
‘Ever Normal Granary’ Meets
Approval; May Adjourn
This Afternoon.
Washington, Nov. 18.—i/Y)—
Near agreement, in the senate
agriculture committee on farm
control legislation, brought pro
mise today of a break in the aim
less debate which has dominated
the special session of congress.
Senator Bailey, (D-N. C.), car
ried on the southern senators fili
buster against the anti-lynching
legislation in the senate.
Chairman Smith, (D-S. C.), told
reporters a farm bill would be
ready Monday to displace the anti
lynching measure.
Fullfillment of this prediction
would bring before the special ses
sion, one week after convening, the
first of a four-point program rec
ommended by President Roosevelt.
Washington, Nov. 18.—l/P)—
Chairman Smith, (D-S. C.), an
nounced today general agreement
of the agriculture committee on
an “ever normal granary” bill,
patterned after the administration
ideas except for cotton conti’ol.
He promised the bill would be
ready for senate consideration Mon
day, but said he would ask leaders
to recess the senate today until
then, to give the committees more
time to work on the bill.
Smith said the committee had
agreed to let southern senators
write the cotton section of the pro
gram and that this work would be
started today.
“There is a rumor that I would
stop it,” the veteran South Caro-;
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Baptist Group Urges More
Liberals; Raps Liquor Laws
Wilmington, Nov. 18.—UP)—A
plain spoken criticism that Chris
tians are not following Christ in
international relations, or in eco
nomics, and a forthright challenge
for “more liberal” ministers to lead
laymen and the “united denomina
tions” in an attack on these prob
lems marked last night’s sessions
of the North Carolina Baptist con
vention.
The convention adopted without
a dissenting vote resolutions con
demning the state legislature’s
passage of local option liquor con
trol acts and its removal of “near
ly all” marriage and divorce re
strictions.
“Why is bread not going around
when there is plenty to go around
—is the church to blame?” asked
M. L. Skaggs of Buies Creek, a
Campbell college professor.
“What would Christ say to cor
porations today which, without
Judge Lifts Case From
Hoke Cou
List Fai
France “Wa
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Paris Reports rSyo
Banned War Materials
_Enroute to China.
Paris, Nov. 18.—</P>—French
foreign office and the Japan
ese embassy formally denied
today that “France had receiv
ed an ultimatum” from Japan
to cease transporting war mat
erials to China over the French
owned railroad from French
Indo China to Wunnan.
Nevertheless Senator Hen
ry Berenger. chairman of the
foreign relations committee,
who declared in a speech that
Japan “had warned” France,
still insisted his statement held
good, since he had not used the
word ultimatum.
State Baptists To
End Parley Tonight
Address of President Read
While Author is 111; To
Elect New Officers.
Wilmington, Nov. 18.—UV)—An
address on “Christ and. Races” by
Dr. William Lpwis Poteat, presi
dent of the Baptist state conven
tion, in which he said of the white
and negro race problem in the
south “we are all here together and
if either group is saved both .must
be” was read to the 107th annual
convention here today.
The president emeritus of Wake
Forest lie? ill at his home there and
the meesage was read to the con
vention.
The three-day convention will
close tonight with the election of
officers and action on resolutions.
Highway Accident
Was “Unavoidable”
Judge Richard Colvin Hears
Case Involving Wreck On
High Point Road.
Judge Richard Colvin this morn
ing dismissed Henry Haugh of the
State Highway department and
V. P. Keever of High Point, both
charged with careless and reckless
driving which resulted in an ac
cident on the highway between
Asheboro and High Point, the ac
cident heing deemed “unavoidable.”
At the trial this morning Mr.
Haugh presented a map to the
court, held in Judge Colvin’s of
fice, in which Mr. Hough attempt
ed to show the court “the facts
about the accident, the ones which
he was sure were true.” The ac
cident occurred December 2.
Tax Relief
Washington, Nov.' 18.—(.PI—A
house packed sub-committee talked
today of granting all corporations
some relief from the undistributed
profits tax.
Chairman Vinson, (D.-Ky.) said
no conclusion had been reached.
Harrisburg, I*a., Nov. 18.—(.Pi—
The National grange today adopted
a resolution advocating submission
of a new child labor amendment to
the constitution.
cause, dismiss men in order that,
after the workers have felt the
pangs of hunger and despair, they
may rehire them at lower wages?”
he asked.
Declaring that “the great .ma
jority of our pastors are distinctly
conservative in their economic
views,” Prof. Skaggs said the lay
men are even more selfish and
need the leadership of their pas
tors” in a more liberal program of
contact with local economic life
in our communities.”
“I doubt seriously,” he said, “if
we have sufficient reason £or re
maining out of the Federal Coun
cil of Churches of Christ in Ameri
ca.
It is time for us to shed ou~
skins of provincialism and join the
Christian forces of the world in
its greatest opportunity for human
betterment.”
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Asheboro Men Will
Face Trial Monday
In Another Court
Jury List of 150 Names In
Discard With One Man On
Raeford Murder Probe.
Both Sides Objected
State Oppose Change; Defense
Sought Continuation Until
Next January Term.
Raeford, N. C., Nov. 18.—UP)—
Bill Cross, Asheboro hunter charg
ed with murder in connection with
the slaying of Sergeant J. T. Mott,
Fort Bragg soldier and forest ran
ger, will be tried in Fayetteville,
Cumberland county, Monday.
The sudden shift in the trial
scene came this morning after a
special panel of prospective jury
men had been exhausted.
One juryman had been agreed
upon by the prosecution and de
fense, late yesterday afternoon and
this man was placed in the hands of
a deputy sheriff over night.
The change of venue was made
over protests of Solicitor T. A.
McNeill, Lumberton and Judge
Walter D. Siler, chief attorney for
Cross. Judge Siler and L. T. Ham
mond. the latter appearing for
three other defendants, charged
with being accessories before and
after the fact, urged postponmpnt
of the trials until the January term
of court.
Judge G. V. Cowper, after the
ptfher wW mctaeusted'andafter *3
hearing contentions of both prose
cution and defendants ordered the
case transferred to Cumberland
county. He ordered all witnesses
to report to the Cumberland county
court house in Fayetteville Monday
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afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
The action by the court wras taken
after a regular panel of 16 and a
special venire of 150 were exhaust
ed late yesterday.
The prospective jurymen partici
pated in a virtual parade to the box
and then out—after frankly stating
they had formed an opinion relative
to the defendant’s alleged guilt.
Cross is charged with the actual
slaying.
His three co-defendants, Hal
Rush, Walt Routh and Jesse Crotta
all of Randolph county are charged
with being accessories before and
after the fact. Their indictments*
were amended when court opened
here Wednesday. Prior to that time
they had been charged with being
accessories after the fact, only.
Mott was found dead just off the
Foi t Bragg reservation on the aft
ernoon of October 16.
One of the state’s witnesses is re
ported to have given police infor
mation which resulted in the arrest
of the four men in Asheboro and
I other sections of Randolph county
later the same afternoon.
This witness, it is said, contend*
he talked to the four defendant?
just a few minutes before he came
on Mott’s body.
Cross recently issued a public
statement in which he contended he
had been attacked by Mott and
knocked to his knees. While he,
Cross, was on his knees about two
feet away, he stated a gun was
fired and Mott fell to the ground
dead.
Hoey Displeased
Over Power Rule
Governor Voices Dislike On
Decision Enforcing License
For Project.
Washington, Nov. 18.—UP)—■
Governor Clyde R. Hoey, of North
Carolina, said today he was “not
very much pleased” by a power
commission’s decision requiring
the Carolina Aluminum company to
obtain a federal license for the
proposed $6,000,000 hydro-electric
plant on the Yadkin river at Tuck*
erton.
Governor Hoey was here to ad*
dress the North Carolina Society of
Washington tonight.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 17 UP)-—
Elmer Rogers, war correspondent
and long chief of The Associated
Press Berlin and Paris bureaus,
died last night at his home hero
after several years of ill health, m
was 74 years old.