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ASHEBORO, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937
NUMBER 164
U. S. Board of Tax Appeals Slashes
Mellon Taxes By Over Two
Million Dollars: No Appeal
)ismiss Fraud
Charge Raised
}v Treasury
Washington, Dec. 7.—(/P)—The
United States Board of Tax Ap
ical* today cut a government tax
jlahn against the iate Andrew W.
Mellon from $3,075,103 to approxi
mately $700,000.
Government attorneys said the
ong pending decision was too com
plicated to make a more accurate
ippraiscl immediately.
Shortly after the decision was an
louuced, Donald D. Sheppard, ex
•cutor of the Mellon estate, and,
rustee of the A. W. Mellon edu
cational and charity trust said in
i statement:
“On hehelf of the Mellon family
ind the other executors and
trustees of his charity trust I may
my that the decision of the board
of tax appeals is a victory for the
former Mr. Mellon.
“The treasury department’s
charge of fraud was the most im
portant issue. The board in reject
ing this charge, confirmed the de
cision of a Pittsburg grand jury in
May 1031 on the same charge, first
raised by the attorney general.
“Mr. Mellon never entertained
the slightest doubt that the charge,
unjustly made against him, would
be found to be without justification.
We deeply regret he did not live
to hear the repudiation of that
charge which the decision rendered
today as settled.”
Northfarolina *
Vet Hospital
Washington, Dec. 7.—The pro
posed new veterans’ hospital for
North Carolina is assured if the di
rector of the budget approves: of
the plans, General Frank T. Hides,
director of the Veterans’ adminis
tration, this afternoon advised Rep
resentative John H, Keer of the
Second North Carolina district. “I
feel that the showing that the
American Legion and others have
made as to the necessity of the
hospital assures an additional in
stitution for North Carolina,”
Judge Kerr said. The project has
already been apprived by the hos
pital division of the Veterans’ ad
ministration and must now nan the
gantlet of the director of the bud
get and the White House before
Congress can be asked to appro
priate the money for it.
plaster Masons to Honor
IBalfour Lodge Birthday
One of the most important events
in the history of Masonry in the
:ity of Ashebaro will take place to
norrow night when Balfour Lodge
188, A. F. and A. M. conducts its
list birthday in the local lodge
■ooms.
Balfour lodge was chartered De
:ember 12, 1867.
Master Masons from all sections
>f Randolph county and many rep
CHRISTMAS
SUPERSTITIONS
If a bachelor fasts for a day
before the Christmas feast, a
Finnish superstition is that dur
ing the meal his future bride
will stand before him unseen by
the other fcasters.
Shopping “PayA
'TiU Shxiitmai
Editor Defies
NLRB Subpena
Threat of federal court action
failed to shake Hartley W. Bar
clay of New York, above, editor
of the trade magazine. Mill and
Factory, ui his defiance of a Na
tional Labor Relations Board
subpena. The board demanded
material on which Barclay based
an article criticizing crmdiift al a
laboi hearing acainsl Wen ton
Bteel Co Bat Hay based at> 3e
'‘inner it ’lit i tit it It
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Plan Ousting Of
South’s 6.0. P.
Montpelier, Vt., Dec. 7.—(,B—
Counting New England Republican
leaders as his allies in a fight for
a revitalization of their party, Gov
ernor George D. Aiken last night
awaited the reaction of the Repub
lican national committee to his sug
gestion it “be purged of the bane
ful influence of the southern com
mitteemen.”
The Governor's open letter yes
terday to the Republican high
command, threatening a party re
volt if “reactionary elements” were
not uprooted and a “broad affirma
tive” program adopted, drew op
position however, from Georgia,
and Arkansas.
Mrs. Bertha M. Field, Republi
can national committeewoman for
Georgia, called Aiken’s statement
“very sweeping—amusing to me”
and suggested “the Vermont Gov
ernor has never been very far
South.”
( resenting lodges in several states
and Canada, now residing in the
county, are planning to attend the
affair.
The party will open at 7:30
o’clock p. m. and includes a special
meeting, a social program and an
refreshment hour.
Balfour lodge is one of four in
Randolph county. The list, includ
ing the present active membership
is as follows: Balfour, 70 members;
Hanks, Franklinville, 33 members;
Randleman, Randleman, 36- mem
bers; Marietta, Ramseur, 50 mem
bers and Biscoe, Biscoe, 110 mem
bers. All these lodges with the
Masters and other officers will at
tend Balfour’s birthday party.
Balfour lodge was named after
Colonel Andrew Balfour, a native
of Scotland who migrated to this
country and settled in Randolph
county in 1778. He was known as
a loyal, influential and devoted lea
der. He was shot to death by a
tory renegade who was a member
of a gang led by David Fanning.
The first master of Balfour lodge
was Francis Cooper. William M.
Parker was senior warden and Ben
jamin Moffitt, junior warden.
Allen Scott is the present war
den.
The local lodge membership has
contributed to the country, state
and county welfare.
John Betts is the oldest living
member of the lodge. Mr. Betts
was born in Raleigh in 1850.
All Master Masons in the county
'jure invited to attend tomorrow
| night's meeting.
I T. A. Burns and A. I. Ferree will
[ be the principal speakers.
17 Americans
Trapped As Jap.
Army Scales Old
Nanking Walls
Shanghai, Dec. 8. (Wednes
day). A Chinese army of 200,
000 massed around the battle
ments of historic Nanking to
day for a stadn against 75,000
Japanese massing for a frontal
attack.
Tension increased.
.Seventeen Americans were
be'ieved to be within Nanking
and hundreds of thousands of
natives, unable to flee, were
massed in the residential sec
tions.
Tokyo, Dec. 7,—Cl*)—Tokyo
was in a state of ecstatic fren
zy today awaiting the fall of
Nanking.
Nevertheless, it was general
ly believed the capture of
Nanking would not mean the
end of the war.
Japan thought General Cha
ing would concentrate his for
ces in Hunan and attempt to
continue fighting with some
sort of help from Soviet Rus
sia.
The Japanese government was
said to be considering issuing
a declaration with drawing Ja
pan’s recognition of the Nan
j king government
(By the Associated Press)
Japan stormed the Avails of Nan
j king in the hfeartr Of Reptablifcaft
! China today.
| The government had abandoned
j the capitol and thousands had fled
i but still within the city were 17
j Americans, some other foreigners
| and many natives.
Eight Americans took refuge on
| a United States gunboat.
Sharply contrasted imoliments of
warfare—modern bombing planes
and old scaling ladders—were
brought into play by the Japanese.
Ninety Jap warplanes swarmed
over the city to unleash a terrific
i bombardment prior to the efforts of
the land forces to scale the massive
walls of Nanking with ladders.
Japan’s spokesmen said a spear
head of the main force had not yet
reached the city proper but “was
progressing satisfactorily and ac
cording to schedule”.
General Chaing, China’s leader,
and Madame Chaing, head of the
nation’s air forces, were reported
to have left Nanking by air for
Nanchang, in the interior.
The Japanese reported they had
blocked all exits from Nanking on
the south and that troops had
closed in on the Yangtze river,
which turns around to the west and
north sections of the city.
Except in the Nanking section,
Chinese spokesmen said, their
troops were more than holding
their own. Flying columns of
Chinese communistic armies were
said to be organizing more than
100,000 to harass the invaders in
north •China.
Old Grad Honors
Tar Heel Team
Chapel Hill, Dec. 7.—Members of
the 19.17 football team and coaches
were guests at a banquet tendered
them at the Carolina Inn Friday
night by W. D. Merritt, of Roxboro
University graduate and trustee
who played football here in the
eaily 'DOies.
. The program was informal,
among those responding with brief
talks biing Co-Captains Crowell
Utile and Andy Rershak, .Coaches
Ray Wolf and Bill Lange, Presi
dent Frank Graham, and Mr. Mer
ritt J. Mary on Saunders, Univer
sity Alumni Secretary', served as
toastmaster.
The occasion was a tribute to the
19J17 team by Mr. Merritt.
Manila Typhoon
Blasts Island
Manila. Dec. 7.—CP)—The chief
of staff of the Philippine army, a
United States army pilot and three
other native army officers of the
later in a bomb-ladened plane, were
missing- today in the third typhoon
in the past three weeks.
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Talking Peace in Person
The seriousness of their discpssiooj .u u...i u.uio.i.njr
faces, William Green, left, president of the American Federation of La
bor, and John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Of
ganization, are shown above as they ended their first face-to-face dis
cussion of labor peace terms. They were non-committal on progress of
the parley.
Judge Rousseau Raps
Liquor In Jury Charge
Judge Julius A. Rousseau, of
North Wilkesboro, opened Ran
dolph county’s December term of
Superior court yesterday morning
with chai'ge to the grand jury in
cluding explanations of the major
crimes of the state, the duty of the
jury toward returning hills, and
hopped on the liquor problem, say
ing for the benefit of mothers and
fathers that it was up to them to
“instill fear into the hearts of their
sons and daughters against the
runious effects” of the alcholic
beverages.
C. H. Coggin, Salisbury attor
ney. is prosecuting attorney.
“I’m a prohibitionist’’, said the
Judge, and continued his lambast
of the liquor guzzlers by painting
a vivid picture of an intoxicated
man on the highway under the
wheel of an automobile, accusing
them of “trespassing upon the lives
of everybody.”
Judge Rousseau named the four
capital crimes in the state of North
Carolina punishable by death—
murder, rape, burglary and arson—
differentiated between the degrees
of each, and discussed each as to
what acts constituted the crimes
mentioned.
In opening his charge, Judge
Rousseau stated there were two
distinct classes of wrongs, private
Ministerial Group Elects
C. L. Spencer President
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Citrus Belt In
Winter’s Grip;
Two Men Bead
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7.—<.-B—The
worst cold wave of the winter sent
southern temperatures below those
in Chicago today and caused at
least three deaths and threatened
widespread property damage.
One weather fatality was report
ed near Hendersonville where a ne
gro froze to death and another
death, apparently from exposure,
was reported in New Orleans.
Heavy property damage was
feared in the Florida citrus and
vegetable growing sections but ex
i tensive precautions were taken and
\ it was impossible today to determ
j ine how great the loss would be.
The Weather
North Carolina: Generally fair
not quiet so cold in the extreme
west portion.
Wednesday increasing cloudiness.
Slightly warmer, followed by snow
in the mountains.
and public. “You arc not concerned
with the private wrongs”, said the
court, “but you are concerned with
the public wrongs. They effect the
entire people and you are the source
of responsibility which must act to
right these wrongs. You are an
important part of the county and of
the state court and it is upon the
diligence, intelligence and honesty
of you men that justice depends."
Concluding, the judge told the
foreman and jury to cheek all the
county offices, the officers in
charge the county home 'and the
jail, and to see that all were do
ing their duty.
“It is your county, it is your
court, and you are the law, said
the judge. “Do your duty.”
Members of the grand jury are:
G. Emory Bullard, Danny Bean,
Cletus Allred, J. L. Marsh, Malcom
Frazier, R. E. Snyder, R. II. Davis,
Dwight Craven, Willie B. Moffitt,
O. W. Flint, John R. Brown, Thom
as J. Stoker, C. T. Patterson, J. R.
Poole, J. N. Trogdon, Artie Hall,
R. G. Allen, and Zeb Rush, fore
man.
Cases disposed of in yesterday’s
court included Alvin Brady, on
six charges of larceny, 15 months;
Rufus Cheek, on three charges of
larceny, 15 months; Elbert Cheek,
larcney four months.
The Randolph Ministerial Asso
Iciation, composed 3of ministers
I throughout the county, met yester
day morning in the Presbyterian
church here and elected C. I-,.
Spencer, president and I)r. .1. L.
Stokes secretary-treasurer, both
new officers of Rand Ionian.
[n the course of the meeting yes
terday the organ of United Pray
ing forces of Randolph county was
combined for the present with the
Ministerial Association, the pur
pose of the union being to strength
en the fight of the two organs for
temperance.
A round table discussion followed
the business meeting covering mat
ters of interest to all the churches
in Randolph county in respect to
character and religion.
The meeting was closed with
pi-ayer by Rev. L. R. O’Brian, pas
tor of the Asheboro Baptist thu rch.
County Commissioners
The Randolph county commiss
ioners yesterday met at a short
session when they transacted
routine business.
The commissioners adopted sev
eral resolutions involving releases
of taxes pertaining to double as
sessments.
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Winter Hitch
Hikes Into Two
Carolinas;Low
At Mt. Mitchell
(By The Assocated Press)
Icy winter paid the Carolinas a
pre-season visit today and sent
temperatures tumbling far b elovv
freezing at some points.
Mt. Mitchell, highest point in
the two states, reported the coldest
weather in the section with 15 de
grees below zero.
Sub-normal marks were report
ed all along the line and some
weather observers termed them un
usual this early.
Although several inches of
snow covered some western sec
tions yesterday and flurries were
general in the central and eastern
portions, the weather for the most
pari was cold and clear today.
The official forecast said there
would be slight moderation tonight
with warmer and rains, or, snow
over the Carolinas tomorrow.
One of the coldest points.in the
section, beside Mt. Mitchell, was
Asheville with 1 degrees above
zero.
Employment Office
To Get Permanent
Quarters Here
It is understood that the. North
Carolina employment office, which
is at the present time located in
temporary quarters in the court
house, will move, on or possibly
before January 1st, 1938, to per
manent quarters over the Standard
Drug company, on Sunset avenue.
It is said that a lease has been sign
ed for four rooms, which will no
doubt seem like a lot of floor space
to the personnel of the since
they have been so badly handicap
ped on account of so little room m
the present quarters.
There will also be anotherd wor
ker added to the staff, the new
member however, will be an em
ploye of the unemployment com
pensation commission, and whose
duties will be the handling of
claims filed under the workmen’s
compensation act.
The establishing of this perma
nent organization should prove an
asset to Asheboro, and will no
doubt render a valuable service to
both employer and employe.
Football Player
To Get Loving
Cup Tomorrow
Tomorrow night at 9 o’clock on
the stage of the Carolina theatre
Roy Champion, manager, will pre
sent a sterling silver loving cup to
the most valuable football player
on the Asheboro high school squad,
the to remain the property of
the selected player.
Beginning last year, the first year
of its existence in Asheboro, the
Carolina inaugurated the trophy
award. A committee of five, com
posed of E. D. Cranford, Odell
Cranford, Larry Hommand, Reit
sell Smith, T. Lynwood Smith and
Mr. Shaw will be the deciding judg
es in making the selection.
Appearing on the stage at the
time of the award will be Reginald
Turner, Coach Swung, and the Ash
eboro school band, under the di
rection of Fat Leonard.
Dental Clinic
Opened Here
Dr. H. R. Pearman, dentist of
the state board of health, yesterday
morning opened a dental clinic at
the Park Street school which wall
continue through this week.
The children of Park Street
school are the first in Asheboro to
receive this aid, Dr. Pearman
having been engaged in schools
throughout the county since being
stationed in Asheboro. The first
part of last week Dr. Pearman was
in the Liberty school, spending the
latter part of the week in the New
Market school.
The program being carried out
by Dr. Pearman is a feature of the
state program spansored for the
better health of pupils in the
schools throughout the state.
New York. Dec. 7.——Grace
Moore’s birthday party at El Moro
cco club last night ended in a flur
ry of fisticuffs, and an unidentified
male member of her party lost a
couple of teeth.
Sponsors Fear Farm
Bill Wreck; Wheat In
Defeat; Cotton Cited
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Guest Speaker
COACH CAMERON
Eddie Cameron, head coach >f
Duke university basketball, who ap
pears at the banquet here tomorrow
night of Duke alumni. After the
banquet Coach Cameron’s Rlue De
vils meet the McCrary Eagles in the
local gym.
Duke Coach And
Team To Attend
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Alumni Meet Here
Fifty or more alumni of Duke
university and Trinity college will
hold the second annual meeting of
-the Randolph county alamni asso
ciation Wednesday evening at six
o’clock.
The association will meet at a
dinner in the basement of the Cen
tral Methodist Protestant church
with W. A. Underwood, Jr., presid
ing.
A special feature of the meeting
will be the presence at the dinner
of Coach Eddie Cameron and the
Duke university basketball team.
Coach Cameron will make a short
talk before the group, and at eight
o’clock the Duke Blue Devils will
meet the McCrary Eagles in a bas
ketball game in the community
gymnasium.
Letters have been mailed to the
sixtjxsix Duke alumni residing in
Randolph. All have been urged to
attend this annual meeting, bring
ing wives or husbands regardless of
college affiliation.
Similar Duke dinners are held
annually in fifty leading North
Carolina cities as well as in fifteen
other states.
Coach Cameron assumed duties at
Duke in 1928 as basketball mentor
and that year and the following
year brought his team through the
Southern conference in second
place. In 1933 and ’35 he again
took runner up honors in the con
ference tournaments.
Mr. Cameron came to Duke in
1926 as freshman football coach
after receiving his A.B. degree at
Washington and Lee university.
He was All-Southern fullback there
for two years, as well as a star
basketball players. Another of his
duties at Duke is scouting, at which
Wallace Wade says he has few
peers.
Supreme Court
Hears Power
Company Case
Washington, Dec. 7.—(.FI—The
Supreme Court heard today renew
ed criticism of government activity
in the construction of municipal
electric plants.
William H. Thompson, attorney
for the Alabama Power company
continued an argument in which he
began yesterday challenging the
constitutionality of government
loans and grants for public owned
power plants.
After that case is disposed of the
Court is to hear an argument
brought by the Duke Power com
pany, in an effort to prevent the
government financing a plant at
Buzzard Roost.
Goldsboro, Dec. 7.—(/H—Judge
Henry II. Grady today sentenced
James Marshal, 30-year-old negro
to die in the gas chamber at State’s
prison, Raleigh, February 4, for
first degree burglarly.
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Southerners
In Vanguard Of
Compulsory Foes
Washington, Dec. 7.—LD—Op
ponents ' of the compulsory crop
control, victorious in theip- first
house test, today proposed further
modification, which some adminis
tration leaders said, would wreck
the farm program. *
The house, tentatively voted 85
to 7(> to eliminate from the farm,
bill a section imposing former ap
proved marketing quotas for wheat.
Representative Coffee (D-Nebr.)
who suggested the change, said he
would attempt to follow the same
procedure when the compulsory
control section is discussed.
Representative Kleberg (D.-Tex.)
offered another, aimed at the wheat
section and it was expected further
similar action would be taken on the
compulsory provision for cotton.
Washington, Dec. 7.—LP>—Minor
ity leader McNary (U-Oregon)
ui'ged the senate today to limit
operations of the pending farm
bill to 1938, 1939, and 1940.
Asserting the legislation pre
sents a picture of disjointed re
lationships, McNary added that a
“three year period will give soma
time to try out this measure, which
is an emergency measure after all.”
Senator Pope (D-Idaho), co-au
thoi of the bill, answered McNary’s
proposals saying it “would serious
ly injure the farm program.”
The house meanwhile resume* de
bate on the compulsory control
thvdftgfi marketing quota.
DuPont Seeks
Federal Pact
To Aid Industry
New York, Dec. 7.—UP)—A ten
year plan, to create three millions
new jobs, through planned invest
ment of $25,000,000,000 by. private
industry was proposed today by
Lamott DuPont in an address of
the National association of Manu
facturers.
1. “Development and populari
zation of new products.”
2. “Vastly broadening the mar
ket for existing products through
3. “Maintaining a rule of fair
return for a 11 efforts not excepting
capital.
“Industry can put this plan into
effect,” he said, “if given a fair op
portunity” through a three-fold
government pledge covering these
points:
1. “Stabilization of tax rates
over a definite period.”
2. “Stabilization of fair labor
ing conditions over a definite pe
riod.
3. “Immediate stabilization of
the ‘legal rule’ under which busi
ness must operate, subject only to
unmistakably public demand for.
amendment.”
Silver Policy
To Continue
Washington, Dec. 7.—(.P)—A
broad hint that the United States
will continue paying American min
ers a premium on newly-minted
silver came last night from Secre
tary Mongenthau.
He said President Roosevelt
would issue a proclamation to re
place the one under which • the
Treasury now pays 77.57 an ounce
for domestic silver. The present
proclamation expires January, h,
and no new proclamation would
be necessary if the program were
to be abandoned.
Fears were recently expressed by
Seratoi-s Pittman, Democrat of Ne
vada, and King, Democrat of Utah,
that abandonment of the domestic
price would close mines and throw
hundred of men out of work.
Former Pastor Is
Honored
Rev. B. C. Reavis, pastor of Col
lege Place church, Greensboro, Was
named head of the ministerial asso
ciation of that city at a meeting
on Monday. Rev. Mr. Reavis is a
former pastor of the First Metho
dist church of this city, and.has
many friends who will be interest*
ed in his election.