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'01 <17ME LXI
ASHEBORO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1937
NUMBER 16t
■Oaklawn City Cemetery P
pale; Council
Vshebaro t» Follow State’s
Plumbing, Building and El
ectrical Rules.
Buy Street Grader
The Asheboro city council, at its
egular ir.eet.ng last night, adopted
i resolution placing burial plots in
he new Oaklawn cemetery on sale.
The cemetery has been mapped
md driveways surfaced and, the
nam section of the land has been
u-aded, rolled ar.d seeded.
' The sale price of the plots range
rom $12.50 to $250, depending up
>n the size and location of the plot,
daps, showing location and price
>f plots, are now on display in the
ity hall where sale will open to
norrow.
The council adopted a resolution
iroviding for the purchase of a
noto-grader which will be used to
naintain good condition of the sev
«ral clay and sand surfaced streets
n the city. The council recently
mrchased a street flusher and, with
he addition of the motor-grader,
he street department employes are
ivell equipped to handle the ever
ncreasing problems caused by the
apid expansion of the city.
The motor-grader was purchased
from the North Carolina Equip
ment Co., of Raleigh.
Action upon a petition of the
Merchants association, the council
rescinded a recent resolution pro
viding special parking spaces m
Fayetteville street and Sunset ave
nue for automobiles used by phy
sicians and other professional men.
The petition was signed by many
merchants conducting business al
ong those two streets. #
The council also adopted a reso
lution designating Trade street as
a “no parking street.” The resolu
tion provides that no private cars
or commercial automobiles will be
allowed to park there. Trucks car
rying merchandise will be allowed
sufficient time to unload and re
load.
A further step to meet with re
quirement of the growing city was
taken by the council when they de
cided to adopt a plumbing, electric
aM bm'd’ng code. This code will
follow the North Carolina state
coue and will go into effect as soon
as details are worked out to meet
with 'requirements in this locality.
Wage And Hours
Measure Splits
House Members
proposal that wage and hours stan
dards be administered by one man
in the labor department instead of
by an independent board.
The house labor committee adopt
ed thd single administration am
endment to the bill last night by a
9 to 6 vote.
Its decision ended a day of be
hind the scenes conferences, in
which administration leaders en
couraged support to stave off re
publican attacks on the entire mea
sure.
Th,'. committee’s idea is in favor
of a five man board, in the bill,
passed by the senate last summer.
The senate proposal has wide
spread support in the house where
it was said a scrap is in prospect
when the bill comes up Monday.
CHRISTMAS
SUPERSTITIONS
Washington, Dec. 10.—<7P)—Dis
agreement developed among house
members today over a committee
The spirit of Christmas is ex
emplified .in a Polish supersti
tion which holds that Jacob’s
ladder is brought back to earth
on Christmas Eve, and the
angels descend, bringing peace
and goodwill.
Jean De Koven Slaver Gang j
Escapes French Police Net
Paris, France, Dre. !0.—(.TV
The assorted scar faced chief of
an abduction gang, whose “(rips in
murder” slew Jean I) > Rover,
Drocklyn dancer, escaped a police
net, and was sought today by rov
ing patrois along the highways of
southeastern Franco.
With him, police said, was his
mistress and a third suspect. Judi
ciary police first announced their
capture but later changed this to
say the three had iled their hotel
last night.
The trio fled, police said, after
a mysterious telephone call to their
WPA Opens Plirse Strings;
Will Provide 350,000 Jobs
Washington, Dec. 10.—CP)—The
government ordered a $23,000,000
a month increase in WPA spending
today to cope with mounting un
employment.
Harry L. Hopkins, the Works
Progress administrator, announced
that work relief projects would be
examined within the nex few weeks
to provide 350,000 additional jobs.
His announcement increased
speculation as to whether President
Roosevelt’s announced goal of a bal
anced budget in the next fiscal year
could be achieved in view of the
business recession.
Hopkins said he was not thinking
at this time of asking a deficiency
appropriation to supplement the
budgeted for WPA tWs^fisca/ year,
which ends next June 30.
Dr. Hurley Speaks to Library
Club at F. McCrary Home
Dr. Leonard P. Hurley, head of
the English department at the Wo
man’s College of the University of
North Carolina in Greensboro, last
night was the guest speaker of 1
the Randolph Library club, which
•net at the home of Mrs. Frank
McCraftr, with Mrs. Harris Coffin
and Mrs. Laurence Saurs associate
hostesses.
As one of his series of lectures to
the Library club, Dr. Hurley spoke
last night on current novels, say
ing he did not think Hemmingway’s
“To Have and To Have Not” and
Brofield's “The Rains Came” were
significant at to literary value, but
went into thorough details in his
discussion of “They Seek a Victory"
and “The Turning Wheel”. Other
books discussed by Dr. Hurley last
night ware "The Anointed”, “The
Roosevelt Warns Railroads
Of Financial Difficulties
Washington, Dec. 10.—UP)—Pres
ident Roosevelt said today the in
terstate commerce commission is
seeking to preserve the solvency
of the nation’s railroads with a
view to retaining them under pri
vate management and private
ownership.
Discussing the financial situation
of the carriers, at a press confer
ence, the President said the quicker
a final determination was reach
ed on the roads’ applications for
higher freigh rates, the better it
would be all around.
He said he wanted to avoid
government ownership but at the
same time, he reminded, railroad
receiverships could not continue
without some steps being taken to
1 adjust the financial setup.
Asked if government subsidies
were planned, Mr. Roosevelt said
that was working towards state
socialism and once that was started
the same would probably be done
with oil and other industries.
Mr. Roosevelt said the adminis
tration had no definite plans to
help the railroads, adding the in
terstate commerce commission was
the only federal agency to deal with
the problem.
New York, Dec. 10.—UP)—Doris
Duke Cromwell, tobacco heiress,
has been easing that hankering to
shake her feet by taking tap lessons
from “Bojangles” Bill Robinson, the
old master from Harlem, the man
who taught Shirley Temple.
vpar!mart leaving all their bag
gage behind. Th? three left in a blue
automobile.
Authorities identified the al
Iraged leader of the gang that
sought to build an efficient, pro
fitable business on kidnapping and
death, as Roger Million, a'French
man.
His mistress, the police said, was
a blond French woman.
Authorities believe Million to be
the man who employed Wugene
Weidmann, 29-year-old German ex
convicc as killer for the gang.
But Representative Elletibogen,
Democrat of Pennsylvania, urged
that Congress appropriate'half a
billion dollars more for the work I
relief agency, declaring:
Asks For More Money.
“I’m convinced that regardless of
business developments, the situa
tion is such that we must have at
least a half billion dollars. I’m con
vinced the administration will ask
for it soon.”
Word that President Roosevelt
still intended to balance the budget
came, however, from Chairman
Johnson, Democrat of Oklahoma, of
a Democratic House group which
protested to the Chief Executive
in next year’s outlays for the'Civi
ipoied -§75 J)00,000 cut
iian Conservation corps.
Seven Who Fled”, “The Outward
Room”, “And So Victoria”, “North
west Passage,” “The Tide of Time”
and “Bugles Blow No More.”
The McCrary home was beauti
fully decorated with flowers with
Christmas accention. The lighted
candles gave the room an atmos
phere of the Christmas season
which was furthered with refresh
ments in the form of Santa Claus
and candy trees, and bells. A large
number of guests were present. ‘
The accomplishments of the
Library club have been numerous
and the bringing of Dr. Hurley and
other educational speakers to Ashe
boro that the' club members may
be given the opportunity of hear
ing them is only ohc of their many
ideas.
Hoey Paroles
Four Convicts
Raleigh, Dec. 9.—C/B—Hubert
Lanier and Adolph Edwards, sen
tenced in July, 1932, in Duplin coun
ty, to 10 to 15 years for second de
gree murder received paroles today
from Governor Hoey.
The two were convicted of slay
ing Ambrose Lanier, an uncle of
Hubert. Two other defendants, who
also werg sentenced for the killing
previously had been paroled.
Four other paroles also were an
nounced today, and 21 requests for
clemency were denied. Freed were
George Downer, sentenced last Sep
tember in Anson to four months for
temporary larceny of an automobile
R. B. Denton, sentenced in July in
Nash to two years tot possession of
illegal whiskey, and Jasper Carter
and James Ezell, sentenced last
May in Nash to one year for house
breaking and larceny.
Moscow, Dec. 10.—C.T)—Officials
of the United States embassy to
night failed to pierce the mystery
of the disappearance of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald L. Robinson of New
York form the National hotel next
door to the embassy.
The Weather
Noith Carolina: Fair tonight and
Saturday. Continued cold.
Three-Ring Aerial Circus
Cavotuiife through tns at: Ukejfftskv guu*_ three otar.es enthiaii
3 mass exhi
tnaneu vei'a.
Uavoiuitfc mrougn ins au uk^vhukv suns uurt u
spectators at the Municipai atrpprt. Miami Fla: with
bit ion of ikywritiiag, us to* rajartViStii amauil eu
Jonas Raps GOP 1
Leaders;%s 4
South Ignored
Lincolnton, Dec. 10.—UP)—
Charles A. Jonas, republican nat
ional' committman from North
Carolina, charged today that the
party's national leadership had
“sacraficed party growth in the
south in exchange for ‘controlled’
votes in the committee and at the
national convention.”
Jonas, a former representative
in Congress made public a telegram
which he sent a weekly magazine,
which asked comment on a recent
statement by Republican governor
George Aiken, Vermont, critizing
members of the Republican party
in the south.
Efforts of ‘‘respectable republi
can leaders in the south”, he said,
“has met with constant opposition
by eastern members of the com
mittee.”
“The party organization should
be revitalized and nationalized”, the
telegram concluded, “rebuilding
should begin where the dry rot
started.”
City Employe
Awarded Turkey
Walter E. Yow, city treasurer
and, Amos R. Winnin^ham, city
clerk, attended the business session
and barbecue of the Carolina Trac
tor Equipment company at Salis
bury yesterday. ''
Mr. Wimiingham drew one of five
lucky numbers at the barbecue, and
was awarded a 10 pound turkey.
Gamer Named
“Best Leader”
Washington, Dec. 9.—UF)—Sena
tor Ellison D. Smith of South Car
olina, serving under his sixth vice
president in 29 years, remembered
them all today and came to the i
conclusion none of the previous five >
could compare with John Nance
Garner.
The democratic dean of the sen
ate ranked Gamer “tops.”
“He is the best presiding offi
cer', the best parlimentarian, the
best mingler, the best leader, the
best politician and the best poker
player of all six,” Smith said.
Negroes Die
. Raleigh; Dec. 10.—UP)—Walter
Caldwell and William Perry, both
negroes, were executed today in
the state’s gas chamber.
Caldwell, convicted of rape went
to his death on his 37th birthday.
Perry, 78, died for murder of Mrs.
W. T. Hamlet of Chatham county.
Names Tarheel
fethef#
Security Board
Washington, Dec. 10. — CPI —
President Roosevelt nominated
John Hanes of North Carolina and
Jerome N. Frank of New York to
day to be members of the securities
commission.
Hanes will succeed J. D. Ross of
Seattle who resigned when appoin
ted administrator of Bonneville
Dam.
Frank takes the place of James
N. Landis who resigned to become
dean of the Harvard law school.
Car And Truck
Stolen Yesterday;
Trial Today
As a result of stealing an auto
mobile. and a truck about 4 o’clock
yesterday afternoon near Seagrovo,
Tom McConnell this afternoon is
appearing in Randolph’s Superior
court charged with theft.
McConnell swiped the car and,
pursued by officers, had the misfor
tunes of having it stop with him.
'A'tifljsik,yhqidentally loaded with
.chickeriSr was handy so McConnell
traded and continued on his jour
ney. But not for long. The offi
cers overtook him and brought him
to 'the Aaheboro jail where he re
mained last night.
McConnell is from Randleman
tlpje; time , of liis arrest was
eAlisted In the CC camp at Fay
etteville.
Wintry Blast
Kills 25; Seven
Die In South
(By The Associated Press)
Weather from the Pacific coast
to Florida’s chilly citrus belt, bat
tered the nation today. The wintry
assault cost at least 25 lives.
While skies were generally clear,
east of the Rockies, intense cold
caused discomfort in all sections of
the country.
Traffic was hindered and the
threat of floods appeared in west
era Pannsylvania’s ice chocked
rivers.
Twenty-five deaths were attri
buted directly to weather, eight in
upper New York, ten in Pennsyl
vania and 7 throughout the south.
New York, Dec. 10.—CP)—Mich
ael A. Ford called upon the dog
breeders of the nation today to give
New Yorkers dogs without barks.
“I am convinced”, he said, “that
one of the crying needs of this
city, is a barkless clog.”
Japan’s Troops
In Nanking; No
Word Of Sixteen
U. S. Citizens
<"By The Associated Press)
Shanghai, Dec. 11.* Saturday).
The Japanese command announced
today that Kuanchasman, principle
| southeaster* gate of Nanking’s mas
sive walls, had been captured bv a
detachment of Japanese 9th Divi
sion
Japan’s Rising Sun banner was
laised over the gate as soon as it
was taken late Friday.
Shanghai, Dec. 10.—(/ft—Japan
ese forces today s track from all
sides of Nanking in a general at
tack, which a Japanese spokesman
declared tonight had put the Chin
ese eanitol “in the process of fall
ing.”
The attack was launched when
the Chinese commander refused to
heed a Japanese general’s ultima
tum to surrender the city by noon
or face a general assault.
Four hours later, the Japanese
asserted a part of the 100,000
troops encircling the city had cap
tured Turble mountain, overlooking
Nanking.
Chinese positions on the hill
previously kept the Japanese from
an encircling assault. Six hours
later the Japanese Spokesman said
he “as3umed”that Japanese troops
already had penetrated Nanking’s
great 'wall and were engaged “in
mopping-up operations”, which, he
explained, meant street fighting.
The spokesman said he had no
details of operations.
Earlier today reports from the
front said bitter hand-to-hand
fighting. was in progress outside
Nanking’s walls.
There was no report on whether
Americans inside Nanking were
and 15 more were on the United
States gunboat Panav.
I Tlie Panay reported tonight that
; all communications with the in
1 side of Nanking were severed,
i
Social Security
Claims Filed
„ Greensboro, Dec. 10.—Claims filed
in Region IV during November for
lump-sum payments the social se
jcurity board is making now under
! the old-age insurance system es
; tablished by the social security act
j were nearly three times the number
I filed during September, W. L. 0’
j Brien, Jr., manager of the Greens
I boro field office said today.
There were 307 claims filed in
| September, 672 in October and l,
012 during November. Region IV
comprises North Carolina, the Dis
trict of Columbia, Maryland, Vir
ginia, and West Virginia.
“The increase in the number of
claims filed undoubtedly can be
attributed to a growing realization
of the fact that lump-sum pay
ments now are being made by the
board under the old-age insurance
system,” Mr. W. L. O’Brien said.
| “An interesting development has
been the recent rise in the number
of claims filed by living workers
who have reached 65 since Jan
uary 1, 1937, as compared with the
number of claims filed by the es
tates or relatives of eligible work
ers who have died. During Sep
j tember there were 276 claims filed
i by relatives or estates of workers
I who had died as compared with 151
{claims filed by living workers. In
October the number of death claims
i was 404 and the number of claims
filed by living workers was 268.
During November, however, there
were 464 claims filed by living wor
kers as compared with 54S death
claims.
“Simple forms have been pre
pared by the board for the use of
claimants and ample stlpplies of
these forms are available at the
Greensboro field office which serves
not only the city of Greensboro but
the counties of Guilford, Rocking
ham, and Randolph.
“Supplies of these fonns will be
furnished employers who may wish
them to aid their eligible employ
es who become 65 or the relatives
of those eligible employes who die.
Every assistance will be given clai
mants by our office.’*
Engine Wrecked
At Charlotte
Charlotte, Dee. 10.—(.!')—A Nor
folk and Southern locomotive over
turned at a crossing here today and
took three freight cars with it. One
negro frieman was injured.
Last Year’s Nominee
Visits Roosevelt; To
Remain In Politics
Herbert Sued,
She Divorces
When Clifford V. Herbert, son
of the noted composer, Victor
Herbert, was sued for breach of
promise, Clifford’s own wife,
who smiles so charmingly above,
didn’t think much of the oc
currence-even though her hus
band won the suit. So , she
sued for divorce in Los An
geles, and got it.
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Plot To Murder
French Minister
Uncovered Today
Valencines, France, Dec. 10.—(,'P)
—A plot; to slay French foreign
minister, Yvon Delbos, was dis
closed today by police who seized
a coded letter giving details of the
plan.
The letter, police said, was ad
dressed to a Hungarian, now in
ja.il here.
"He is Koloman Budai, arrested
here November 8 charged with
firing shots at a window of the
League of Nations building at
Geneva in 1935.
The letter revealed, police said,
that Budai had given information
to a band of terriorists to facilitate
an attempt on Delbos life.
Newspapers In
New Agreement
With Unions
Washington, Dec. 10.—(JP)—The
American Publishers association
and the International Printers and
Pressmens union signed a new 5
year agreement today.
This is designed to prevent
strikes and lockouts in newspaper
press rooms.
Miss Mary Lindsay
Resigns Position
Welfare Dept
Miss Mary Lindsay, who came to
the Randolph county welfare de
partment approximately one month
ago, yesterday resigned' her posi
tion, leaving Asheboro this morning
ing for Charlotte and planning to
go from there to her home in St.
Paul.
Washington, Dec. 10.—(/P)—
Governor George D. Aiken, a
weather-beaten Vermonter, stepped
into the middle of the national po
litical scene today and gave the
Republican party this tip:
“Millionaires and college, profes
sors never won elections.”
Hammond, Ind., Dec. 10.—UP)—A
federal court jury decided early
last night James Dalhover, last sur
vivor of the A1 Brady gang, should
die in the electric chair for the
murder of State Ppliceman Paul
V. Minr.eman.
Senator Capper
Accompanies Alf
To White House
Washington, Dec. 10.—CP)—For
mer Governor Alf M. Landon of
Kansas, said today he would not
be a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1940
and would not accept the nomina
tion should it be offered to him.
The 1936 nominee made the an
nouncement to newspapermen
upon arrival here for the Gridiron
Club, a newspapermen organiza
tion, dinner.
Landon said his statement did
not mean he was withdrawing from
politics.
“I am taking this step so I can
be more active in republican party
affairs”, he said.
Soon after he reached the capitol,
the governor was invited by a
White House secretary, by tele
phone, to visit President Roosevelt
at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon.
The purpose of that conference,
ns two opponents in last year’s
presidential election, was not im
mediately disclosed.
Landon will be accompanied by
Senator Capper (R-Kas.).
Surrounded by many newspaper
man, who accompanied him on hia
campaign trips in 1936, Landon
was asked if he wanted to take
“anothei* whirl” at the republican
nomination.
He hesitated a second, then said,
“I have not any intention of being
a candidate in 1940 .and ip ord(
that’”
will not accept the nomination in
the remote contingency that the
Republican National-Convention
should offer, it to me.” x
Edward Gave Up
Throne One Year
Ago Today
London, Dec. 10.—UP)—Great
Britain today, outwardly ignored
the anniversary of one of the most
intense dramas of her long history
—the abdication of Edward the
Eighth.
The government completely “for
got’ and the presshardly took notice
of the fact that one year ago—the
bachelor King signed the instru
ment of abdication, relinquishing
the throne to his next younger bro
ther.
The Duke of Windsor and his
American bom wife for whom ha
gave up his Kingdom observed the
day quietly in France.
House Rejects
GOP Plans; Rap
Administration
Washington, Dec. 10.—UP>— The
house rejected a republican pro
posal today to compel use of civil
service employes when adminiatra
1 ting the pending farm measure.
The proposal came from RepreW
sentative Luce (R.-Mass.) and sou
nded a word of “caution to demo
crats not to send requests for $25
contributions to further the admin
istration of the Roosevelt adminis
tration.”
“The assistant treasurer of the
democratic national committee,” ho
said, “had solicited such contribu
tions.
Luce’s was one of several minor
amendments the house swept aside
in the push towards a final vote
late today. •
South Carolina
Banks Declan
Dividends
Columbia, S. C., Dec. i.u.
Chief bank examiner A. F. Wayne
said today dividends voted for du
tribution by South Carolina >«»«'
“arc averaging higher’* than
for the same period last year
He announce ddividend paj
by fourteen South Carolina
just approved by the board