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01ATME LXI
ASHEBORO, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DEC '8, 1937
, jyUMBER 165
falter Spreads
Iver Seaboard:
[older Tonight
Carolinas
(liy The Associated Press)
■ Winter spread itself along the
Itlantie seaboard from Maine to
Florida today bringing snow and
|e to parts of New England and
piddle Atlantic states and the
hreat of a fresh cold wave for the
oulh.
North and Central sections of
Jie country, east o. the Rockies,
|]so suffered from cold.
I Eleven inches of snow lay in
buffalo.
1 Snow fell in New England and
h>por New York state and snow
junies were predicted for New
Fork city.
I Pennsylvania reported snow and
|y loads and drifts whipped up by
ligh winds.
1 Weather bureau officials said
Liother mass of cold air was
Roving towards Texas and the
buthwest and that shift would re
jev/ cold misery in Florida which
Bready has suffered extreme crop
amage.
The Carolines enjoyed a momen
arily respite today from a pre
lature cold wave which has gripp
il ihe two states for three days
ut colder weather was predicted
Dr tomorrow.
Although temperatures general
r were several degrees higher
lan yesterday’s lows, the mercury
t many points continued far below
reeaing.
The official forecast said there
ould be light snows or freezing
leet in the interior of North Caro
ina and in the northwestern por
ion of South Carolina tonight.
)odd Resigns
is U.S. Envoy
Washington, Dec. 8.—(fP>—Hugh
:. Wilson, assistant secretary of
tate, will succeed William E. Dodd
1 the post of ambassador to Ger
lany, informed persons predicted
>day.
(It was learned in Berlin that
odd has resigned, effective next
1011th.)
President Roosevelt and state de
artment officials refused to com • |
m reports of the impending'
lange. Other informants said, how
ver, that such a move would pro
ide opportunity for an improve
ient of relations between the
inited States and Germany, which
ave been distinctly cool.
Dodd, a former university pro
?ssor, was appointed to the post in
>33 by President Roosevelt. His
xpressed opposition to dictator
hip has prompted some Germans
) say he was no longer acceptable
s an envoy.
It is understood here that the 68
jar-old educator intends to re- |
time his chair of American history
t the University of Chicago.
If Wilson, an expert on European
ffairs, is named to succeed him,
will be the second time in two ,
ears that President Roosevelt has i
icked a veteran career diplomat j
>r a key post in Europe. William I
hillips, former undersecretary of
ate, was made ambassador to
ome in 1935.
Moscow. Dec. 8.—t/ft—Four So
iet explorers drifting from the
forth role toward the Atlantic in
icated today they were ready to be
sscued as their ice floe approach
d possible danger.
CHRISTMAS
SUPERSTITIONS
On the eve of Epiphany, Twelfth
Night, old women in Syria, go
to the cellar and shake their
lurs of oil and wine. Supersti
tion says that if their faith is
strong the stores will multiply.
Sk&ja/ainy
Opening the Drive Against War
mmfM
A nation-wide campaign to preserve peace for United States, spon
sored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, was launched in Kansas
City, Mo., as Commander-in-Chief Scott P. Squyres of Oklahoma
City signed the protest, in the ceremony pictured above. Honor of
being the first to sign went to Mrs. Howard C. Boone, left, Kansas
City, Mo., national president of Americah War Mothers. Grace H.
Davis, right, of Kansas City, Mo„ is secretary of the national
auxiliary of the V F. W
Record Cotton Crop
Estimated for ’37
New Orleans. Dec. 8.—(.V>—
Despite an all-time record
crop estimate, cotton prices
today advanced 2 to 10 points
on first trades after the an
nouncement by the govern
ment. ,
Trade circles attributed the
jmaftax to the stronger tech-:-,
nical position of the market,
to government loans and the
theory that prices had about
reached the resistant level.
Washington, Dec. 8.—LM—The
agriculture department forecast a
18.746.000 bale record cotton crop
today in its final 1937 estimate.
A bale is figured, by the depart
ment, at 600 pounds gross weight.
Last month’s estimate was 18,
243.000 bales an Increase of 670,000
bales over October.
The previous record was 17,978,
000 bales in 1926. Last year 12,
399.000 bales came from the fields
and in the five year, 1928-32 an av
erage of 14,667,000 bales was pro
duced.
The heaviest per acre yield on
record caused the new production
high. The department said an av
erage of 264.6 pounds had been
grown on 32,930,000 acres.
The department’s estimate of
acre yield and the total production
this year by states included:
Virginia 306 acres, production
41,000; North Aarolina, 336 and
775,000; South Carolina. 292 ar.d
1,025,000; Georgia, 270 and 1,490,
000.
Supreme Court Has Own
JaiIhouse--No Prisoners
Washington, Dec. 8.—(/P>—The
Supreme Court now has a lockup
or what is more vulgarly known
as a hoosegow.
But no one knows—while the
black paint is still wet on the bars
—what is going to be done with
it.
Lawyers, congressmen, and other
good citizens who attended sessions
of the high tribunal are generally
well-behaved. A lifted judical eye
brow invariable selves to calm
rising emotions. And, of course, the
High Court being an appellate one,
criminals do not cross its gleaming
doorsteps.
“It’s just for emergency pur
poses”, a court police official said
today.
Pressed a bit, he said he thought
it would be a good idea to have a
place to lock up a,ny “cranks” pend
ing the arrival of a patrol wagon.
Notwithstanding this hoosegow
is housed in a $11,600,000 marble
building, it appears to be just like
any other hoosegow. It is a heavy
wire enclosure about 15 feet long,
7 feet wide, and is furnished most
unostentatiously with a wooden
bench. '
“We may never need the room,"
said the police officer. “Anyway,
said the police officer.” “Anyway,
that’s what we hope.”
The Weather
North Carolina: Cloudy, probably
occasional snow or, freezing rains
in the interior. Rain, on the coast
tonight. Colder in the central por
tion. Colder Thursday afternoon.
School Survey
In Randolph
During Recess
’Fhe Randolph county school
board at its December meeting dis
cussed further details pertaining to
the survey of all school building.
l’laris were completed ror the vis
it of a representative of the state
education system who will make the
survey sometime during the holi
days.
Other features of county educa
tion were discussed.
Civil Service
Tests Announced
The United States civil service
commission has announced an open
competitive examination for the po
sitions of assistant fisheries statis
tical and marketing agent, $1,800 a
year, and junior fisheries statistical
and marketing agent, $1,620 a year,
in the bureau of fisheries, depart
ment of commerce. Certain educa
tion, and experience in fishery work
are required.
Full information may be obtained
from R. A. Ilriles, secreary of the
U. S. civil service of examiners, at
the post office in this city.
Barrett To Speak
At UNC Thursday
Chapel Hill, Dec. 8.—James F.
Barrett, well-known Republican
labor leader, will address a Univ
ersity of North Carolina audience
Thursday night under the sponsor
ship of he Young Republican’s club.
He will speak in Hill Music Hall
•it 8:30 o’clock.
Mr. Barrett is prominent both as
a Republican and a labor leader.
He is an American Federation of
Labor organizer, and director of
publicity for the Federation in the
South.
Fo rseveral years he has been
prominent in state and national
politics, and has been nominated
for various offices in the state and
nation.'
As a journalist, Mr. Barrett
worked on the Asheville Citizen, |
the Charlotte News, and published
a chain of weekly newspapers.
Legionnaires Plan
Work For Next Year
Dixon Post 46 of the American
Legion met last night in the Legion
room primarily for a business ses-,
sion. During the meeting mem
bers discussed plans for the com
ing year’s work.
Judge Roufseau Hits
At Drunken Drivers;
2,645 Jail Days
Judge Julius Itousseau, presiding
at the December term of criminal
court in Randolph county, yester
day cracked down on'defendants
charged with driving automobiles
while intoxicated and, during the
session which closed at 5 o’clock,
passed out a total of 2,645 days in
jail or on the roads to the steady
string of prisoners paraded to the
bench.
In addition to the jail sentences,
the court, who in no indefinite
manner has classified the intoxicat
ed driver a menace to public’safety,
added further tone of punishment
when several of the defendants
were ordered to pay the county 60
cents( board bill) for every day
of their sentence.
Some of the defendants, seeking
to avoid spending their term in
jail asked for qualifications—and
they got them- usually with a high
cash fine, and ,in event they had
caused damage to property, the
estimated cost of that damage was
added to the fine.
Every defendant who entered a
plea of guilty, or choosing to stand
before a jury, and found guilty,
was deprived of his operating
license for at least 12 months.
Once of the mills of justice got
under way—the wheels ground
steadily and surely.
There was not let up in court. ‘
As quickly as one case was
heard, Judge Rousseau passed out
sentence and the prisoners con
tinued their stride through the
court room, into the anti-chamber
and thence, down stairs into the
jail house.
The cases disposed of yesterday
and sentences imposed are appends;
«1. ‘' ■' '" " :'"‘
Ernest Austin, assault 15 months.
Ed (Dock) Hollbrook, larceny, 6
months.
Alvin Brady, larceny, 15 months.
Elbert Cheek, larceny, 4 months.
Clarence Siler, assault, 12
months.
Intoxicated Driving
E. L. Procter, 30 days, or $100
and costs and 5 days in jail.
J. L. Phillips, 45 days, or $50
and 10 days.
John McCoy, 60 days or $100.
\V H. Brewer, 90 days or cost of
damage, $100 to be paid his term.
Shelton Burrows, 30 days. .
Buck Robbins, 60 days.
Oscas King, 45 days or $300 fine.
George R. Fry, 45 days or $50.
Edmond Glenn Russell, 30 days
or $50.
Sango Robbins, 60 days.
Dwight Kimery, 45 days or $100.
Other Cases
Willard Cross and Floyd Lang
ley, larceny of an automobile, 2
years each on the roads.
T. G. Fields, charged with dis
posing of mortgaged property, was
found not guilty by a jury.
James Robbins, illicit distilling,
90 days.
Reynolds Aims
Campaign Gun
Washington, Dec. 8.—LP)—Sen
ator Robert R. Reynolds yesterday
practically opened his campaign for
re-election on the wages and hours
bill, which he favors, and which
his opponent for the Senate, Rep
resentative Frank W. Hancock, op
poses in its present form.
“I shall do everything in my
power to see a wages and hours
bill, which I voted for when be
fore the Senate, enacted into law",
saic’ Reynolds. “High wages in
crease business all down the line. I
have always favored such legisla
tion, even before I ever became a
candidate for office. I get $10,000
a year as senator. Do you think
I would have the nerve to go be
fore the working people of North
Carolina and say that I voted
against paying them a minimum
wage of $16 a week when I am
drawing down $10,000 a year? I
should say not. Wages have always
been desperately low in North Car
olina, and the scale should be in
creased, and the people given the
benefit.”
Mack Ridge Draws
18 Months
W. Mack Ridge, charged with
wife beating, was given 18 months
on the county roads this afternoon
by Judge Julius Rousseau who is j
presiding over criminal court in
Randolph this week. Mrs. Ridge I
was placed back on the stand at the j
end of the trial and before the en
tire court, swore that his charges
against her were false.
A. CJenkins
Stricken In
Federal Court
A. C. Jenkins, veteran court crier
of the United States district court,
and former deputy sheriff and jail
or of Randolph county, sustained
a severe heart attack in federal
court at Greensboro yesterday and
was removed to a hospital.
Reports obtained at his home,
North Fayetteville street, Ashe
boro, today were to the effect that
he was feeling comfortable.
Mr. Jenkins sustained the attack
just as court was about to open.
His condition was considered so
serious that he was kept in Judge
Johnson J. Hayes office, in care n
a nurse, until late in the after
noon.
Ila Johnson, former deputy mar
shal. brought an added alarm in the
court room when he keeled over
[about noon in the corridor outside
!the court room. He was removed
[to his home.
Christmas Music
t
Woman’s College
Sunday
Greehgbovo, Dec. 8.—The annual
■concert of “Christmas Carols for
Mitnds’1' bv‘ the Woman’s CbTIege
Choir, under the direction of
Geoige M. Thompson of the School
of Music, will be given Sunday af
temoon, December 12th, at five
o’clock, in Aycock Auditorium.
The choir will have as guest so
loist for this occasion, Mrs. E. C.
Caldwell, contralto soloist of the
First Presbyterian Church, Greens
boro, who will sing the contralto
solo in the carol, “While Mary
Slept”, which was written by Mrs.
Hermene Warlick Eichhorn of
Greensboro, an alumna of Woman's
College, who has done outstanding
work in musical composition, and
who has had many compositions
published during the last few
years. Mrs. Eichhorn is organist
at the Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church of Greensboro.
Other soloists appearing on this
program are Geraline Young of
-Angier, Madeleine Schultz of Fre
mont, Pa., Helen Forester of Bir
mingham, Mich., anil Jean Williams
of Warrenton; all students of voice
in the college. Misses Schultz,
Forester, Williams and Gwendlyn
Gay of Fitchburg, Mass., will ap
pear in two traditional carols. Miss
es Young Charlotte Williams of
Faison, Clara Roesch of Jersey
City, N. J., Alta Prine of West
field, N. J., Muriel Fairbanks of
Freehold, N. J., Mary Jean Bron
son of Durham, Aanna Lee Rose
of Chapel Hill, Mary Elizabeth
Taylor of New Bern, and Jean Wil
liams of Warrenton will assist the
choir in singing the “Glory to God
in the Highest” by Pergolesi.
Accompanists for this program
will be Misses Elizabeth Drake of
Scotland Neck, Katherine Take of
Wichita, Kansas, pianists, and Ger
trude Clark of High Point, organ
ist.
The program chosen for presen
tation at this time will include
three numbers from the famous
“Christmas Oratorio” by Bach, as
arranged for women voices by E.
Harold Geer, director of the Vas
sal- College Choir, and Christmas
carols from Germany, Czecho-Slo
vakia, Russia, Italy, France, Eng
lartd, and America.
Spanish City
Bombed Today
Kendaye, Spanish-Franco Front
ier, Dec. 8.—(.Ft—Squadrons of
Spanish insurgent war planes to
day attacked Barcelona, even as
buildings wrecked in yesterday’s
air raids were being searched for
bodies.
A government announcement
said the planes slipped over the
city in a heavy fog but were driven 1
off'by government pursuit planes
and anti-aircraft guns.
Agent Resigns
The resignation of L. L. R8y, as
sistant county agent, was announc
ed today to take effect January 1,
1938.
iTokyo Claims
U. S., Germany,
Italy Seeking
Peace In China
Tokyo, Dec. 8.—UP)—A foreign
office spokesman hinted today that
the United States and three other
powers were attempting to mediate
the Chinese-Japanese war.
“Japan is waiting to hear the re
sult,” he said.
Meanwhile Tokyo clung to the
hope that China would sue for
peace with the fall of her evacuat
ed capitol, Nanking. With Japa
nese columns assaulting Nanking,
Tokyo was surprised that China
still was silent on the question of
peace terms.
While representatives of the war
and navy departments conferred af
the foreign office regarding Ja
pan’s action, when, and if Nanking
is taken, the foreign office spokes
man said:
“The United States, England,
Germany and Italy, who have in
terests in China, may well be work
ing towards peace. Japan is wait
ing to hear the result.
“Whether such action is concert
ed or individual 1 am uninformed,
however, any friendly nation's en
deavor to .make China take the ini
tiative would be welcome.”
The spokesman reiterated that all
Japan desires is for China to aban
don her anti-Japanism.
Nanking, Dm:. 8.—bF>—Chinese
troops blew up and leveled village
walls in Nanking’s eastern sub
urbs today in an effort to destroy
all possible cover Japanese attack
ers could use in a frontal assault.
Tie capital awakened to the
thunder of artillery.
Despite the fear of attack, the
Chinese maintained good order.
There was a steady stream of .civil-.
ians*'To sefni-shfety tones.
Military defense preparations
were war advanced, obliviating any
possible last minute panic.
During the night two British
gunboats moved one and one half
miles up the Yangtze to avoid con
sequences of expected Japanese
bombardment of the Nanking bund.
Attacks on British ships at Wuhu
Sunday and almost daily bombard
ment of Futow, across the river
from Nanking, made the move ad
visable.
The United States gunboat Guan
was ordered to Wuhu because of
increasing danger to American
lives and property there.
Battle lines of the two waning
factions approached closer at Wu
hu.
Ti’.e daily Japanese air attacks
have not directly effected Ameri
cans at Wuhu but have damaged
British property.
Twenty-four Americans were re
ported there and the staff of the
American Mission was said to be
determined to remain.
Shanghai,' Dec, 8.—CP)—The
Japanese ministry authorities to
night warned all foreigners and
Chinese non-combatants to eva
cuate Nanking as quickly as poss
ible.
“Hostilities may engulf the city
in a moment”, they said.
Through the Japanese consul
general at Shanghai, the author
ities requested representatives of
foreign powers, including the Unit
ed States, to inform their respective
nationals of the impending struggle
in the evacuated Chinese capitol.
United State Counset General,
Clarence E. Gauss, transmitted the
Japanese warning to American
diplomatic representatives at Nan
king and Gauss informed Wash
ington of the developments there.
There were 17 Americans in Nan
king.
Hospital Staff
Discuss Cases
Of Interest
The regular monthly meeting
of the Randolph Hospital staff
was held Tuesday evening at the
hospital with a full attendance. At.
this meeting, Dr. H. L. Griffin
presided and led the discussions
which centered around cases of un
usual interest that come under the
care of the various physicians
daily.
leas were exchanged in several
instances that will doubtless prove
beneficial to doctor and patient.
Several matters pertaining to (
the regular routine of hospital ,
cases were also discussed.
White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 8.—
<.P>— Arthur Fried, 32-year-old
Bronx office manager who disap
peared Saturday night, still was
listed as missing today, and West
chester county authorities held con
flicting view’s on what had hap
pened to hint.
McNary Amendment
Lost In Senate; No
Market Limitations
Flyer’s Widow
Weds Chicagoan
wmmm ? m *'
Marriage of the former Lady
Kingsford-Smith, widow of the
famous Australian flyer, and
Alan Tully of Chicago in Sid-.
„ney, Australia^ where they are
pictured" above, has' befin an
nounced by Tully’s parents at
Riverside, 111. Sir Charles
Kingsford - Smith disappeared
over tlie Bay of Bengal two
years ago during a London-to
Austral. flight fully repre
sents an American gasoline com
< .>any in Australia.
07S. Navy Will
Have Four New
War Craft
Washington, Dec. 8. — t.t’i—The
navy, following President Roose
velt’s instructions to expedite gov
ernment expenditures as a stimulus
to business, awarded contracts to
taling $29,884,850 yesterday for
the construction of four new ships.
Twc. auxiliaries, a 9,000-ton de
stroyed tender and a 8,300-ton sea
plane tender, were awarded to the
New York Shipbuilding corpora
tion, Camden, N. J., which sub
mitted bids for $20,(580,555.
Construction of one 1,500-ton de
stroyer was awarded to the Puget
Sound navy yard, Bremerton,
Wash., and another to the Charles
ton S. C., yard. Their aggregate
estimated cost is $9,204,295.
Farm Meetings
Next Week
Farm meetings next week, wiil
take place as follows:
Wednesday, Dec. 15—At 10
o’clock a. m.:
Coleridge school house—Taber
nacle school house-—Providence
school house.
Wednesday, Dec. 16—At 2
o’clock p. m.:
Ramseur school house—Liberty j
school house.
Thursday, Dec, 16—At 10 o’clock
a. m.:
Seagrove school house— Far mi)'
school house—Gray's Chapel school
house.
Thursday, Dec. 16—At 2 o’clock
p. m.:
Mt. Olivet school house—New
Hope school house—New Market
school house.
Friday, Dec. 17—At 10 o’clock
a. in.:
Union school house.
Friday. Dec. 17—At 2 o’clock p.
m.£
Trinity school house.
Saturday, Dec. 18—At 10 o’clock
a. m.:
Agricultural building, Asheboro.
The Hague, The Netherlands,
Dec. 8.—1.P)—Dr. Alexander Alek
hine of Paris today won the world’s
chess championship by defeating
Dr. Max Euwe, who won the title
from Alekhine in 1935.
Alekhine was victor in the 25th
game of the 30-game series, giving
him a total score of 16 1-2 points
out of a possible 30. Euwe had
9 1-2 points.
i
Washington, Dec. 8.—LP)—Ad
ministratio leaders, encouraged by
test votes in the house and senate,
forecast today the long debated
crop bill would win approval by
both chambers this week.
Their hopes were caused by a
double victory for the bill sup
porters yesterday.
1 The house turned down 00
to 5!) a proposition to eliminate
marketing quotas for cotton.
2 The senate defeated, 51 to 25
an amendment by Republican lead
er McNary to limit the farm pro
grain operations to three years.
Washington, Dec. 8.—i.P)—Con
gress still talking about farm aid,
receive^! an agriculture depart
ment’s report today that the cot
ton crop was a half billion bales
bigger than the record breaker it
already was expected to be.
The house, meanwhile approved
tentatively, 86 to 25, a farm bill
amendment for mandatory loans to
coin growers.
In the other chamber of congress/
Republican leader McNary, sought
unsuccessfully to remove from the
senate farm bill, a provision'that
the government give the secretary
of agriculture power to require
corn and wheat farmers to store up
to 20 percent of their current crop.
Washington, Dec. 8-—■-CPI
house packed-sub-committee aban
doned today proposals for federal
taxation of incomes of state and
municipal employees and interest
on federal, state and municipal sec
urities, now tax exempt
Bill Payne At
Shelby; Named
Station Bandit
Shelby, Dec. 8.—CP)—Sheriff Ray
mond Cline said today two men, one
believed to be Bill Payne, widely
hunted North Carolina convict, held
up a filling station attendant near
here last night and robbed him of
$120.
The sheriff said Frank Bradley,
24, whose station is north of the
city picked up a photograph of
Payne from 12 unmarked pictures
and said it resembled one of the
men.
Bradley said the two men drove
into his station and ordered gas
oline. When the tank was filled.
Bradley said, the men thrust guns
against his ribs and took his poCk
etbook and quantity of cigarettes.
They drove away, he said, to
wards Asheville.
AntiTrustTo
Head 38 Plans
Washington, eDc. 8.—UP)—The
principal problem in revising the
anti-trust laws, Senator O’Mahoney
(D.-Wyo.) said today is “the effect
legislation would have upon busi
ness at the present moment.”
He conferred with Attorney Gen
eral Cummings on anti-trust legis
lation which may be a major item
on the administration program for
the 1968 session of congress.
Noted British
Journalist
To Lecture
Greensboro, Dec. 8.—Lady Say
Drummond-Hay, British journalist,
traveller, and war correspondent,
will speak Thursday evening at
8:,‘>0 in Aycock Auditorium at Wo
man’s College, in place of Colonel
Ralph Isani, collector and owner of
the Mala hide Papers, who had been
scheduled for that date on the Col
lege Lecture Course.
Lady Drummond-Hay is known
as “The Stormy Petrel of Fleet
Street”. She Was the only woman on
boa»-d the Graft Zeppelin when it
made its drapiatic crossing in
October, 1928. She crossed the At
lantic again by air on the first
flight of the Hindenburg, May.
191U5. In 1927 she was on the street
barricades in Shanghai. The Rif|
War found her on the fighting lino
with the late Spanish Dictator
General Primo de Rivera. She went
through the entire Ethiopian War. ■
Lady Drummond-Hay began hey
journalistic career in' Egypt, where
she Went as the wife of a retired
British diplomat,
death she went into i
ly.