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I,UME LXI
ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, NOV. 23,1937
NUMBER 155
'ive Murder Cases On
Superior Court Slate;
Opens Here December 6
[amie Isley And
''our Others Face
Trial Next Month
jy Cases Involve Liquor
Violations; Will Crcaker
And Bailey Indicted.
[Rousseau Presides
_Eird Wright, Lloyd Mills,
oby Spencer, Amos Kea.ns
Charged With Murder.
five murder cases are scheduled
trial at the December term of
i Randolph county Superior court
kch opens in Asheboro, Monday,
tember 6, with Judge Julius Rou
au presiding. It will be Judge
sseau’s second term here this
Ir.
fhe murder cases, involve sev
I carried over from the Septem
term, including the charges
jtinst Roby Spencer and Amos
■rns, State against Mamie Isley,
pged to have been the driver it
uck at the time her mother and
pt were killed; the case of Wil
i Wright, Lloyd Mills and one
olving murder filed against Lee
nings.
ckless driving, driving auto
Ibiles while intoxicated and illicit
tilling and possession and trans
ition of liquor are among the
jority of cases slated for the De
sber term.
ilyde Bailey, who has-been ar-*
' several times in connection
violation of liquor laws, will
two separate charges of illicit
tilling. Will Croaker, now held
he county jail will face trial on
|harge of possession and trans
tation.
he first case for several terni3,
Diving the alleged slandering of
toman, is scheduled in the indict
ilt filed against Isabelle Boone
This defendant is also char
I with abandonment.
here are several defendants to
rges involving assault, larcenv,
appropriation of funds, trespass,
ng crops and other minor of
|es.
sdge Rousseau will open the
ember term of civil court here
aday, December 13. Forty-one
es are scheduled for trial.
Worth Home
Is Being Moved
fhc home of the late Hal M.
th on Worth street is now own
by Frank Auman of Asheboro,
eing rolled from the present
to a lot on Cox street. Mr.
th built the home in 1907 and
spied it until his death a few
^rs ago.
(r. Auman has not announced
plans for the use of the lot
ch has a 100-foot frontage on
th street.
Iannett Deplores Impaired
’ressol Europe During War
eving an old superstition
it ghosts of the family dead
isit the old homestead on
itmas Eve, families in Scan
via leave their, beds
ists and sleep on the
Shopping 1
Till ShtUtn
Still Dishing It Out
Max Schmeling dons the chefs
cap and samples the chow at
where the Ger- '
man heavyweight has pitched
camp to prepare for his warm
up bout with Harry Thomas,
Eagle Bend, Minn., farmer, at
Madison Square Garden, Dec. 13.
Rev. O’Brian Elected
To Board of Trustees
Pastor of the Asheboro Baptist
church, Rev. L. R. O’Brian at the
state convention in Wilmington last
week was selected one of the trus
tees of the Baptist state conven
tion for the coming year, as well as
being made chairman of steward
ship of the Randolph association.
Rev. O’Brian said the Wilmington
convention was universally concern
ed to be one of the most deeply
spiritual meetings ever held in the
I state.
The convention selected as its
meeting place next year the Taber
i nacle Baptist church in Raleigh.
Wallace Warns Farmers
_
j Wichita, Kas. Nov. 23.—(/P>—
American agriculture must es
tablish its stability, secretary Wal
lace declared today or again be
come the nation’s “forgotten in
dustry” and carry the country back
to another depression.
Addressing a group of Kansas
wheat producers, he proposed a
six-point farm campaign for farm
relief.
Miami Beach, Fla., Nov. 23.—(#1
—Prominent publishers of two
nations, Frank E. Gannett of the
United States and Lord Beaver
brook of Great Britain, disagreed
last night over governmental con
trol of newspapers for propaganda
in war time.
Beaverbrook, in his discussion
with the New York publisher across
a luncheon table, stood firmly be
hind use of the press ‘‘to assist
the national defense in a crisis,
where the country is in peril.”
Gannett deplored propaganda as
“having deceived the American
public and influenced this country
into participation in the World war.
The American publisher said re
linquishing Control of newspapers
in time of war “would impair free
dom of the press in time of peace.
I oppose censorship in any form,
and I believe freedom of the press
is vital if democracy is to survive.”
“Truth, I have found, always tri
umphs," continued Gannett, “and
in the end is far better than de
ception. It would have to be a
supreme emergency that would
justify a newspaper publisher in
deceiving his readers.”
Rice is India’s most important
crop.
American Envoy On
U.S. Gunboat; Left
Aides In Nanking
Ambassador Johnson to Set
Up New Headquarters In
Hankow on Yangtze.
Japs Bomb Chinese
Seek to Drive Defenders From
Keystone Position on Way
To Nanking.
Shanghai. Nov. 23.—UPi—United
States Ambassador Nelson T.
Johnson, and members of his staff,
embarked today on the U. S. gun
boat Luzon for the long Yangtze
river trip from Nanking to Hankow
where a new temporiarly embassy
has been- established.
Hankow, one of the three cities
to which the Central government
had moved under threat of ad
vancing Japanese armies, lies about
280 miles by air southwest of Nan
king and considerably further by
way of the Yangtze.
Johnson left several aides at
Nanking, including second-secre
tary George Atcheson, Jr., and J.
Hall Paxton and, assistant military
attache Frank Roberts and, a naval
assistant attache, James McHugh.
While fhe American ambassador
followed the Nanking government
on its withdrawal, another U. S.
gunboat, the Oahu, steamed to the
assistance of Americans at Wuhu,
Kiukiand and other Yangtze ports
up the river from Nanking.
Japanese navy planes hammered
today at Wufih, keypoint in the
Chinese defense lines, hal way be
tween Shanghai and Nanking.
Although Chinese troops pre
viously were reported in flight from
crumbling defensives, Japanese ad
mitted the Chinese still held Wusih,
seme 95-miles southeast o# the na
tion’s capitol.
Cab Lloyd Jailed
After Auto Crash
Three Children Injured As
Automobile Strikes Car
Parked in Asheboro.
Cab Lloyd, Asheboro, is locked
up in the county jail charged with
[driving an automobile while intox
icated, in connection in an automo
bile accident Sunday in which three
children sustained minor injuries.
The three, Ruth, Charles and
Dorothy Way, children of Mr. and
Mrs. Edsel Way of this city, were
sitting in a car owned by C. L.
Thomas, in front of the latter’s
North Fayetteville street residence,
when the car driven by Lloyd cras
hed into it.
Lloyd’s car was badly damaged,
He was arrested by the local police
charged with driving an automobile
while intoxicated and with assault
with a deadly weapon.
N. C. Employment
Office to Change
The North Carolina employment
office here, under the management
of Clyde Cates, have about comple
ted plans for leasing a permanent
location for the offices, which is at
the present time located in a small
office on the second floor of th3
court house, with little or no room
for filing cabinets, etc. However,
Mr. Cates is deeply appreciative of
the courtesy of the county commis
sioners in loaning this space, until
such time as they were able to se
cure permanent quarters.
Mr. Cates advises that there were
five applicants placed in positions
yesterday,-and that^they have many
desirable applicants, ranging from
AB degrees down, and incidentally
the greatest demand is for colored
cooks, he states that they can find
a job for many Colored women who
likes to cook, there is also some de
mand for laborers, and farm ten
ants, and a few calls each week for
corpenterS, brick masons; and other
skilled laborers. Mr. Cates says
the labor market is generally de
pressed like the stock market, that
is, abundance of labor and few
calls.
The employment service is begin
ning today a survey of the active
files of the state, not to find out
the number of unemployed, but to
“breakdown” the files in such way
as to group the various classes,
such as educated, uneducated,
skilled, unskilled, or in other
words grouping those of applicants
as to their various ability. This
survey is being made all over the
entire country now, in order that
something definite can be worked
out, in an effort to really solve the
unemployment problem.
Black’s Firsit Court Picture
Associate Jtistce Hugo La F
Oun is' s" ' "
© Harris and Ewing.
Mack of the U, S. Supreme
Court is showfi "here in his fitsF^dfRcial’* portrait sincebecoming
a member of me nation's highest court. First appointee of Presi
dent Roosevelt to the tribunal, Black left his Alabama seat in the
U. S. Senate for the judicial post; This is his first picture jn the
traditional robes pf office.
Roosevelt In Conference
To Remedy Business Ills
Washington, Nov. 23.—^Cf)—
President Roosevelt called in
some of his principal advisors
today to discuss ways the gov
ernment can aid business.
Secretary Morgenthau and
under secretary, McGill, the
treasury’s tax expert were
summoned first for a confer
ence on the latest treasury
study of taxes.
Womanless Jury May Create
Issue In Case of Bill Cross
Fayetteville, Nov. 23.—The ab
sence of women from the jury list
may be the basis of an appeal in
case of the conviction of William
Cross, Asheboro deer hunter, charg
ed with murdering John S. Mott,
Fort Bragg ranger, or his three
hunting companions who are charg
ed with being accessories in the
killing of the ranger, who was
found shot to death on the edge of
the military reservation on the
morning of October 16.
Cross was arrainged for the sec
ond time when his case came up
before Judge Vernon Cowper in
Cumberland Superior court Monday
on a change of venue from Hoke
county, where it was found impossi
ble to obtain a jury last week.
Motion Overruled
Counsel for the four defendants
promptly renewed the motion
which they made last week in Hoke
county, that the bill of indictment
be quashed on the ground that
women were excluded from the
Paris Reports Spy
Quarters Captured
Mysterious Raid in Night;
“Somewhere” in Paris; To
Keep Details Secret.
Paris, Nov. 23.—W—-The gov
ernment is on the verge of "impor
tant discoveries” in its drive to
crush an armed secret revolution
ary society, Marx Dormoy, minister
of the interior told the Chamber of
Deputies today. Documents of great
importance, he said, Were seized
(juring a raid last night. Details
wfere kept secret. The raid was
“somewhere in Paris,”
Chairman W. A. Harrison, of
Secretary Roper’s business ad
visory council followed the
treasury officials to the White
House.
A th:rd conference was with
Edward F. McGrady, director
of labor • relations for the Ra
dio corporation of America
and former assistant labor
secretary.
j jui'y box and the jury list. Judge
Cowper overruled this and the
other motions made by defense
counsel, and exceptions were noted.
Judge Cowper ordered a special
venire of 150 men draws from the
jury list of Cumberland county. He
directed that residents of Manches
ter and Seventy-First townships be
excepted in the drawing of the
venire, as these townships adjoin
the Fort Bragg reservation. The
veniremen are to report tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30.
No women were included in the
jury list from which the venire is
drawn, Charles W. Broadfoot, clerk
of the court, stated tonight.
Others Not Arrainged
As they are charged only with
being accessories, before the fact |
and accessories after the fact, it
was deemed necessary to arraign
for the second time the other three
defendants, H. S. Rush, Walter
Routh and Jesse Crotts, all of
Asheboro.
Public Schools To
Close For Holiday
Students Will Enjoy Week
End Vacation; Stores To
Close Thursday.
All public schools in Randolph
county, including the schools in
Asheboro, will close Wednesday af
ternoon and remain closed until
Monday morning in observance of
Thanksgiving day.
Merchants throughout the city
of Asheboro, city and county oifi
ces, bank and the local post office
wili be closed all day Thursday,
Thanksgiving day.
Wage And Hour Bill;
Endangered; Faces
New Labor Split
William Green, AFL Leader,
Asks Revision: J. L. Lewis
CIO, Head, Opposes.
Senators on “Spot”
Many Refuse Signatures To
Force Measure Out Of
Rules Committee.
Washington, Nov. 23.—l/P)—Or
ganized labor’s internal feud, some
legislators said today, has lessen
ed the chances of enactment of the
wage and hours legislation in the
special congressional session.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, de
manded that the bill be revised or
another substituted. He stated his
organization’s position in a letter
to Chairman Norton, (D-N. J.) of
the house labor committee.
House members received last
week a statement from John L.
Lewis, CIO head, urging enactment
of the measure “without further
delay.”
As a result of the labor split,
some representatives said any cam
paign to force the labor standards
bill to a house vote might be en
dangered.
They said some might not want
to appear to be taking sides in the
labor dispute by signing a petition
compelling the rules committee to
release the measure.
The petition has 162 signatures
out of the 218 needed to compel re
lease.
Britain Divided On
Envoy Berlin Trip
Newspapers Hint at Lonchn
Loss of Face; Others Say
Trade Pacts Coming.
London, Nov. 23.—OP)—Viscount
Halifax reported today to King
George at Buckingham Palace.
With the London press specula
ing vaguely about his talks with
Chancellor Hitler of Germany, *he
had already had reported to Prime
Minister Neville Chambei-lain and
foreign .secretary Anthony Eden
on his visit to Hitler last week.
On one hand it was fully intimat- I
ed that the talk was successful—
for Germany. These quarters be
lieved that the journey would re
sult in Britain’s adbandonment of
the policy of seeking general Euro
pean settlement.
The greater body of opinion,
however, was that the talks might
lead to some sort of trade agree
ment between the two countries.
These persons insisted Halifax was
instructed to keep Gel-many guess
ing about the British policy in cen
tral Europe.
Pope Pius 111
Vatican City, Nov. 23.—OP)—
Sources close to the Papal house
hold said Pope Pius suffered a sink
ing spell last night but appeared
considerably better today.
Charles M. Ketchum
Greensboro, Nov. 23.—OB—
Charles M. Ketchum, 52, secretary
and manager of the Greensboro
Chamber of Commerce died today
at a hospital here after an illness
of five weeks.
Detroit Labor Front
Detroit, Nov. 23.—OP)—Charges
that paid provoateurs acted in the
Pontiac, Michigan, wildcat strike,
were voiced today as steps were
taken to make the newest peace in
the automobile labor field a last
ing one.
Hendaye, Spanish-Franco Front
ier, Nov. 23.—CP>—Spanish govern
ment infantrymen were reported
to have driven insurgents from the
Cadus river front today.
Washington, Nov. 23.—The
wages and hours bill would be un
fair to the States and an invasion
of rights that would harm all indus
try, Senator Josiah W. Bailey of
North Carolina declared today in a
new blast at the Black-Connery
proposal now pending in the House.
Fayetteville, Nov. 23.—-Maj.
Schaumburg McGeehee, 13th field
artillery brigade, Fort Bragg, died
late last night in New Orleans from
injuries received in an automobile
accident near Tallahassee, Fla., last
week while on his way to New Or
leans for a visit.
Paris, Nov. 23.—<;TV—‘The exiled
Duke of Guise today proclaimed
his decision “to reconquer” the non
existent French throne as police
pressed their search for leaders of
a secret rightist revolutionary com
mittee.
Democratic Leac^rs
Fail To Break Line
Of House Opponents
Pastor Jailed
on Old Charge
Fighting extradition to Illinois
as a parole violator. Rev. Har
ley Croucher, pastor of the i
Southern Baptist church, at
Alamosa, Colo., where he is pic- j
tured above in a jail cell, doesn’t I
let hjs troubles interfere with
his enjoyment of a baked rabbit
dinner provided by the sheriff.-^
The minister, who has admitted
he was sentenced for forgery,
declares he has led a blameless
life since he became an evange
list seven years ago
_
Mrs. M.H. Hammer
Funeral Tomorrow;
Well Known Resident of Kemp
Mills Died in Hospital
Tuesday.
Ramseur, Nov. 23.Mrs. Nannie
Hammer, 62, wife of M. F. Ham
mer, of the Kemp Mills section,
Asheboro star route, died yesterday
afternoon at 1 o’clock in the Ran
dolph hospital at Asheboro fol
lowing an illness of four days with
pneumonia. She is survived by her
husband; four daughters, Mrs. F.d
Scott of Ramseur, Mrs. William
Morrison, of Asheboro, Mrs. Glenn
Moffit, of Seagrove, route 1, and
Miss Estelle Hammer, of the home;
six sons, Theodore, William, J. Van
and Thurman Hammer, of Char
lotte, and John and Dissie Hammer,
of the home; two half sisters, Mrs.
Franklin Brady, of Bennett route l,
and Mrs. John Johnson, of High
Point; one half brother, James
Gardner of Bennett, route 1, and 15
grandchildren. Mrs. Hammer was
a member of Union Grove Christian
church. Funeral service will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock
at Pleasant Grove Christian church,
with Rev. John M. Allred officiat
ing. Interment will follow in the
church cemetery.
North Wilkesboro, Nov. 23.-—Mc
Kinley Jarvis, 32, was found dead
at a still on the Brushy mountains
Sunday morning.
Sea Island, Ga., Nov. 23.—</P>—
The gunshot death of Howard
Earle Coffin, automotive pioneer
and textile executive, remained of
ficially unsolved today after a cor
oner’s jury failed to decide how the
fatal bullet was fired.
Washington, Nov. 23.—t/Pl— j
Alertness of two Syracuse, N. Y., I
residents in furnishing information
to local police leading to the re
capture there last week of three
convicted kidnappers netted them
$6,000 in Federal rewaids today.
Philadelphia, Nov. 23.— (.<P)—
Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of
State in the Woodrow' Wilson cab
inet, in an address last night said
he thought “it is not an exaggera
tion to say that a large persentage
of our expenditures for relief can
be put down as a ‘racket.’ ”
The Weather
North Carolina: Fair today and
Wednesday. No decided change in
temperature.
Senate Gets Farm
Measure; House In
Battle On Labor
Representatives May Have
Proposed Farm Bill Up For
Debate Wednesday.
Conferences Fail
Rayburn Threatens to Force
Bill From Committee; To
Make Floor Speech.
Washington, Nor. 23.—UP>
—A house packed sub-com
mittee approved complete re
vision of the corporate tax sys
tem.
The new plan would repeal
the undistributed profits tax
for all corporation with in
comes up to $5,000.
The new plan would impose
on corporations with incomes
of $25,020, a tax of 12 1-2 per
cent on the first $5,000 and 14
percent on earnings of from
$5,000 to $25,000.
Washington, Nov. 23.—GD—■
Well informed legislators said to
j day that Democratic leaders fail
ed completely in last minute ef
forts to get southern members of
the House rules committee to with
; draw their opposition to the ad
ministration wages and hourB bill.
Speaker Bankhead and Democra- „
tic leader, Rayburn, conferred
secretly this morning with several
of the bills opponents on the com
mittee and it was learned that they
found no change in their attitude.
The conference took place shortly
before the committee met to re
consider the measure again.
Washington, Nov. 23.—UP)—The
senate got down to business today
on farm legislation but President
Roosevelt’s special session pro
gram still was locked in committee
on the house side.
Despite signs of prolonged con
troversy over the crop control
, measure, senate chieftains took it
! up with obvious relief after south
ern senators talked against the
anti-lynching measure for a full
week of the five weeks session.
House leaders hoped to get the
farm bill into their chamber within
a day or two but their efforts to
pry loose the wage and hours bill
were given a set-back by William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor.
Democratic leader, Rayburn, (D
Tex.) said he would sign a petition
to make the rules committee give
up the wage and hours bill, then
make a speech, unless the com
mittee voluntary releases the mea
sure. ,
The house rivers and harbor com
mittee began healings on the re
gional planning measure, another
of President Roosevelt’s recom
mendations.
Business Helps
Washington, Nov. 23.—UP)—At
tempts of both the Roosevelt ad
ministration and Republican con
gressional leaders to find methods
of helping business resulted today
in four developments.
1. —Members of a house packed
sub-committee showed sentiment
for exemption of a big percentage
of corporate incomes from the un
distributed profits tax.
2. —President Roosevelt began a
series of talks with private utility
power leaders.
3. —Senator Vandenburg, (R
Mich.) offered an “opposition”
program in which, he said, “bus
iness should be allowed a reason
able latitude to run itself.”
4. —House representative at re
quent of Knutson (R-Minn.) viho
opposes the levies, arranged a cau
cas on repeal of the undistributed
and capital gains tax.
SANTA
and the
WHITE FOX
By
SIGRID ARNE
tells how the White Fox steals
Heljca, the Doll of the North,
and how the brave Sailor Doll
sails to her rescue in an ice
boat and how Santa and the
Fairies help save her. Read
The Christmas Story
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