Th# Larnpat Paid-Up Circulation of Any . Newspaper Published in Randolph County Randolph County** Only Dally Newspaper if. a. a. F»*ru** saRYicE THE DAILY COURIER I “Over 10,000 People Welcome You to Asheboro, the Center of North Carolina'* 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» Paris Reports rSyo Banned War Materials _Enroute to China. Paris, Nov. 18.—

—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.” i 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 i 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.