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ASHEBORO, N. C„ THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1937
NUMBER 171
yap Blue Jackets To Salut
rnipany WillBe
ationed At
:ene Of Attack
iThePanay
•Okyo, Pet. 16.—</P>—'The Japa
e naval ministry announced to
that a company of Blue Jack
would be detailed to honor the
inis of the United States gun
t Panay bombing at the spot on
Yangtze river where they were
•he formal naval salute will he
unprecedented gesture which
horities said was the highest
sible voluntary tribute of one
ion to another.
>ne American seaman and an
lian newsman were killed last'
iday when Japanese bombers
led explosives on the Panay
ut 20 miles up-river from Nan
Tie captain of a Standard Oil
ipany vessel, which was near
at the time was also killed,
tuthoritative sources said the
nned salute was not connected
h the American protest against
attack.
ie admiralty issued a statement
crating Japan’s regrets over
incident, arding, that the navy
d decided to detail a company
Blue Jackets to the spot to hon
the dead.”
t was also announced that the
ors of Japan’s Third Fleet were
acting 5,000 yen ($1,450) to be
tributed to the United States
r>- __
ousing Plan To
e Liberalized
Vashington, Dec. 16.—(/Pi—A
iposal to liberalize President
osevclt’s housing program in the
je of stimulating construction of
lies costing $6,000 to $10,000 won
approval of the House banking
nmittec yesterday.
/ominitteemen also hinted they
uld write into the Roosevelt
asure a provision to encourage
ilding of homes valued at $2,500
less.
The one change was designed.
>y said, to assist persons in cities
ere building costs are high ami
ere $10,000 homes may be no
ter than $6,000 dwellings in
er communities.
[ailey Assails Federal
an on Tuckertown Dam
Nothing sown on Christmas Eve
will perish cvci. though the scec’
is planted in tae snow, accord
ing to an i.ncier.t Netherlands
superstition.
'y if hopping
' Tdl
Carolina
Washington, Dec. 16.—The Tuck
own project came under discus
r. in the senate again yesterday
ion Senator Minton, of Indiana,
»sed to be published in the Con
tssional Record the order rccent
nvcle by the federal power com
ssion relative to t
nn.inum company plant
Senator'Bailey said to the «v«—
"The senator is perfectly right
his view that I complain that
s federal government was un
lesvarily intruding itself upon the
hts and the interests of the com
nwealth of North Carolina and
people. He is not correct in the
piession which he received that
ras making an argument that the
wer commission had not pro
CHRISTMAS
SUPERSTITIONS
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■
Tokyo Recalls Head
Of Airfleet; Part
Of “Regret” Action
Bailey Raps At j
Wallace; Joins
Senator Russell
Washington, Dec. 10.—OD—The
senate refused today to substitute
a domestic allotment cotton pro
gram for the compulsory section
of the ever normal granary bill.
It rejected a substitute offered
by Senator Lee (D.-Okla). in a
roll call vote, 56 to 26.
Previous statements, accredited
to Secretary Wallace, regarding
the farm bill program drew caustic
comment from the senate floor.
“I was amazed that the secre
tary' of agriculture in this morn
ing’s paper said a two price sys
tem on farm crops would lead us
into Fascism,” said Senator Russel,
(D.-Ga.), Russell took the floor to
support Lee’s cotton plan.
Senator Bailey (D.-N. C.) fol
lowed Russell and read from news
papers, statements which Lee at
tributed to Wallace.
“I thank the secretary of agri
culture for his warning,” Bailey
said, “sometime ago we protested
against the radicalism of the secre
tary of agriculture, now Mr. Wal
! lace is one of whom is publicly
! warning us.”
Hehdaye, Spanish-Franeo Front
ier, Dec. 16.—GP>—Farflung war
fare in which rival armies struggled
with each other and against cold
and driving snow, was reported to
day from northeastern Spain.
The Weather
North Carolina: Partly cloudy
tonight and Friday. Possible show
ers in western portion Friday.
Slightly wanner tonight.
ceeded under some law. My com
plaint was that we are making law’s
of that sort and that they were
having the consequences of arrest
ing recovery, the investment of
funds, the. development of power,
the creation of private enterprise,
without which there can be no re
covery. and without which here
can be no real employment in
America.
River Unnavigable.
“Here arc the facts: The Yad
kin river never has been navigable.
The Yadkin never will be naviga
ble. The Yadkin river is a rocky
rjvcr which runs from up in Wilkes j
county, in the northwestern part of
the wtatc of North Carolina, in a
southeasterly direction, flowing into
South Carolina at our southern
boundary, I think in Richmond
county. By reason of the rapid de
scent from the elevation of the
mountain country it is capable of
a great deal of waterpower develop
ment. On that river now are five
[great concrete dam's. Three or four
! of the dams arc below the Tucker
town site, and one is above it. It
may be possible to navigate that
river with an airplane, but it never
will be navigable with a boat.
Yet it is said in Washington that
the river is navigable.
“What is the consequence? The
Carolina Aluminum company would
like to spend $0,000,000 there to de
velop power. The $6,000,000 would
buy a great deal of concrete, would
employ n great many people, would
create a great deal of waterpower.
But the Carolina Aluminum com
pany cannot develop that power,
cannot spend that money, cannot
buy that concrete, cannot employ
those people, because the Congress
enacted a low, and the power com
mission took jurisdiction upon, the
petition for license that had to be
filed, not of the will of the cor
poration proposing to invest the
money, but because the corpora
tion dared not run-into this compli
cation with the federal law.
Shanghai, Dec. Hi.—(.V)—Rear
Admiral Teico Mitsumami, chief
of the Japanese naval aircraft oper
ations, was relieved of his post
today as a result of the bombing of
th<- United States gunboat Panay.
Domei, Japanese newsagency,
which carried the announcement of
his nmoval, declared that Japan
war acting swiftly to carry out its
pledge to America to punish of
ficers responsible for the attack.
Ft was explained that Mitsumami
was recalled because most bombings
had been carried out by naval
plants.
Domei said Matsumami was or
dered to go back to Tokyo but Jap
anese authorities here did not know
what other action he faced.
During the day the Japanese
army carried the warfare into the
inteiior with a series of attacks.
Three columns of Japanese shock
between Shanghai and Nanking,
heretofore a quiet countryside.
Foreign military and naval ob
servers in Shanghai said today they
believed the Panay bombing and
ether attacks may have been made
by young officers who have disre-(
garded the orders of their com
manding officers.
A small fleet of American and
British vessels, bearing the three
dead and most or the survivors of
the Panay incident, was expected
to reach Shanghai sometime to
morrow.
Mrs. Strickland
Added To West
School Faculty
Mrs. Franz Strickland has been
engaged by the Asheboro Board of
Education to teach the third grade
[ in the west school.
Mrs. Strickland, a graduate of
Winthrop college, South Carolina,
fills the vacancy caused by the re
signation of Mrs. Mary Wither
spoon Brown.
Allen Graves, 77,
Dies In Hospital
Allen Graves, 77, Randolph coun
ty farmer, died at the Moore coun
ty hospital Wednesday, following
an illness of two weeks.
Surviving relatives are as fol
lows, his wife, the former Miss
Dora Latham, two sons, S. R.
Graves, Randleman; Frank Graves,
Steeds; five daughters, Mrs. Wil
liam Chrisco, Mrs. Jesse Dunn,
Mrs. Walter Boone, all of Steeds;
Mrs. Manley Boone, Hemp, and
Mrs. M. A. Higgins, High Point.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the Big Oak Holiness
ehureh near Seagrove, Friday at
three o’clock, by Rev. John Har
relson, pastor. Interment will fol
I low in the church cemetery.
—
Germany Wants
Austria Union
Paris, Dec. 16.—(/P)—Former
Premier Pierre Flandin informed
French legislators tonight that Na
zi leaders in Berlin had told him
Germany still was intent on estab
lishing Anschluss (union) with Au
stria.
Flandin said Col.-Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, chief aide to
Reichsfueher Adolf Hitler, and
Baron Konstantin von Neurath, the
Third Reich’s foreign minister,
also:
1. Reiterated Germany’s refusal
to return to the League of Nations
“on any account.”
2. Repeated Germany’s insist
ence on her demands for colonies.
3. Emphasized Germany’s in
sistence that Czechoslovakia accord
greater privileges to German mi
norities.
Nations Differ
Flandin spoke to deputies in the
chamber corridors after indicating
that his just-concluded “personal
investigation” in German of Fran
co-German relations had disclosed
I “considerable differences” in the
nation’s viewpoints.
Lewis Condemns
“Little Steel”;
Cites Girdler
As Murderer
Pittsburgh, Dec. 16.—(.T*)—John
L. Lewis denounced operators of
“little steel” today and told a con
vention of steel workers that his
dream of “unions of steel workers
had come true.”
The founder of the CIO, welcom
er amid a wild demonstration to the
floor of the first national Conven
tion of the SWOC, aasailed Tom
Girdler, president of Republic steel,
declaring the name of Girdler
“should be synonymous with mur-:
dec.” ' . , j
The labor leader took the plat
form only after a delay of twenty
minutes by the ovation and said:
“You have found out for your
selves, for the first time, in your
respective lives, that you could o-r
ganize if you wanted to organize.”
Turning suddenly to speak of the
steel operators and strikes in “little
steel” last year he went on, “the
name of Girdler should be synonjo
muos with that dreaded word* mur
der’, because Girdler murdered our
members.
“This unit, like the Christian
church, is founded on the blood of
man. No one need have fear that
I Weir or Grace is going to destroy
this union in the future.”
Dr, Sprunt, Noted
Presbyterian
Churchman, Dead
Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 16.—UPf—
Dr. Alexander Sprunt, former
moderator of the general assembly
of the Southern Presbyterian
church died in a hospital yesterday
after a confinement since Novem
ber 11, when he suffered a frac
tured hip in a fall. He was 85.
Funeral services will he held
Friday at the First Presbyterian
church of Charleston, S. C., jf
which he was pastor emeritus.
Served 36 Years
He was made pastor emeritus of
the Charleston church when his
resignation on his o4th birthday
last year terminated a pastorate
of 36 years.
Dr. Sprunt was elected modera
tor, highest office of the churcn
in 1923.
Reared in N. C.
A native of Glasgow, Scotland,
Dr. Sprunt came to the United
States as a boy and was reared in
Wilmington, N. C., where he was
a boyhood friend of the late for
mer President Woodrow Wilson.
Dr. Sprunt, who was the son of
Alexander and Jane Dalziel Sprunt,
received his early education in
the schools of Wilmington and
Upper Canada college in Toronto.
He entered Davidson college in
the fall of 1871 and after his grad
uation in 1875 entered Union The
ological seminary at Hainpden
Sydirey, Va., where he was graduat
ed in 1878.
N. Y. Central To
Merge 13 Roads
New York, Dec. 16.—(/P)—New
York Central railroad, subject to
approval of stockholders and the
Interstate Commerce commission,
will consolidate 13 small subsidiar
ies companies through merger, the
road announced yesterday.
I Eight subsidiary companies arc
to be merged into Central’s Cleve
land, Cincinnati, Chicago St.
Louis (Big Four) railroad and five
into its Toledo X Central Railway
Co.
Wage and Hours Bill In
Jam; Senate Grips Control
Washington, Dec. 16.—<rP)—
President Roosevelt’s lieutenants
in Congress tried desperately today
to pass the wage and hours bill
through the house and the farm bill
through the senate without further
delays.
Debate over proposed substitutes
threatened to hold up both key
measures but leaders forced long
sessions-in an effort to wear down
the opposition.
Neither- bill can be sent to the
, White House before the special ses
Panay Attacked By ]
Japs After Being 1
Bombed '
Secretary Hull Today An
nounces Stricken Ves
sel Gunned.
Washington. I)cc. 16.—(.V)—
Secretary Hull announced to
day that official reports had
confirmed that Japanese sur
face vessels machine-gunned
the American gunboat I’anay
after it had been bombed from
the air by Japanese flyers.
In making this announce
ment, the secretary of state
said, this information had been
transmitted to the American
ambassador at Tokyo for pre
sentation to the Japanese for
eign office, in form of repre
sentations, to add to such al
ready set forth in this govern
ment’s formal note protesting
the bombing.
Hull gave no complete de
tails of the information receiv
ed by the state department
concerning the machine-gun
i-ttack.
He clearly stated that infor
mation already received from
government’s representatives
in the Far Hast, confirmed press
reports of the incident as dis
patched yesterday hv news
papermen, quoting eye witness
es.
Hull added, he was expecting
further reports at any time
which may give more detail.
He said as additional facts
come in, they also would be
presented to the Japanese gov
ernment to support the ihfor
' mat ion already set forth in
;America’s demands for' full
satisfaction.
Open At Local
High School
I
. The Asheboro Board of Education
has completed arangements with
B. K. Looney of Greensboro, for
conducting a series of art classes
in the west school here.
Mr. Looney, in charge of art in
struction at High Point and Guil
ford colleges, will take students
from lower grades up to, and, in
cluding the senior students of High
school.
He will also instruct an adult
class. Students and adults interest
ed may meet Mr. Looney at the high
school.
Green Objects
To House Wage
And Hours Bill
Washington, Dec. 10.—(iP)—Wil
liam Green, adding to the general
congressional confusion asked thj
house today to send its wages and
hours' bill back to committed.
The President of the American
Federation of Labor sent telegrams
to all representatives saying the
pending bill was “highly objec
tionable” to the members of his
organization.
He asked its return to commit
tee for revision and study of nec
essary changes in order to make
it a “practical and constructive
measure.”
The house yesterday' rejected a
substitute bill, supported by the
AFL by a 162 to 131 vote.
Green’s message was sent while
the house debated furiously on a
proposed substitute for the pending
wage and hours bill. This proposal
would authorize the federal trade
commission to hold that sub-stan
dard labor conditions were unfair
trade practice.
sion ends, December 22, unless
there is almost unprecedented
speed in conference negotiations be
tween the senate and the house, but
floor managers were still trying.
House leaders’ success in warding
off the first of several suggested
substitutes for the wage and hours
bill, said the “worst is over.”
The vote which encouraged them
was the 162 to 181 rejection of the
American Federation of Labor’s
proposal.^
...
I
London May Add
More Warships
To Fleet Now
In China Seas
London, Dec. 16.—LV)—A move
to urge Great Britain to send more
warships to China’s waters in an
attempt to strengthen British pres
tige was reported underway today
in the House of Commons.
The plea would be voiced in
next Tuesday’s foreign affairs de
bate unless the situation, mean
while, has been eased.
Advocates of the measure, who I
are not grouped along party lines,
contended reinforcements would
stop attacks such as the Japanese
attack on the Panay.
The cabinet considered the ques
tion of strengthening the fleet yes
terday but decided to withhold im
mediate action. •
H. A. Millis Again
Heads Uwharrie
Scouts
H. A. Millis, High Point, was
reelected president of the Uwhar
rie council of the Boy Scoufs of
America for the fifteenth year last
night at the annual meeting of the
group at a banquet at tne Sheraton
hotel.
Other officers reelected were: J.
E. Lambeth, Thomasyille, vice
president; S. B. Stedman, Ashe
boro, vice-president; H. A. Styers,
Lexington, vice-president; Edwin
Earle, Salisbury, vice-president;
H. II. Williamson, High Point,
treasurer, and Bunn W. Hackney,
Jr., council executive, and Mr. f.
M. Stanback, Salisbury, National
council representative.
W. A. Dobson, Atlanta, Ga., re
gional director for region six, de
livered the feature address of the
i evening to the 136 .members of the
council who attended the meeting.
Mr. Dobson said that Scouting
was of a twofold advantage in
building character in youth. Point
ing out that inherent qualities of
character can be developed by as
sociation with civic leaders of the
communities and other boys, he
said the challenge offered by this
opportunity should be met with an
expansion of the possibilities in
Scouting. He quoted figures to
show that 70 percent of the boys in
region six, the Uwharrie Council
region, of Scouting age were in
communities of 1,000 and under in
population. He said that the larger
communities where Scouting is
developed to a higher degree should
go into the rural sections and dev
elop Scouting for the purpose of
j building character under the two
fold purpose already mentioned.
It was also pointed out that
Scouting offers a bridge with which
to join the older persons with the
boys- and permanent link between
the present and the on coming gen
erations.
District committee reports were
made by J. E. Lambeth, Thomas
villc; H. A. Styers, Lexington; S.
B. Stedman, Asheboro, and R. W.
Garrison, Salisbury.
Julian Roberson, Yadkin, present
ed to C. \V. Grub)}, of Yadkin Scout
ing’s highest award, the Silver
Beaver, gvver for outstanding con
tribution to boyhood for the past
year in the Uwharrie Council.
Di. T. M. Stanback, Salisbury,
gave r report on the National Coun
cil meeting in Washington in
June.
B. W. Jenkins, Troop 23, High
Point was given the annual Baby
award for having the youngest
Scout in his family-aged five
niontns 20 days.
Committee reports were made
1 by: 1’rank J. Sizemore, civic ser
vice: O. Delk Smith, troop organ
ization: Dr. W. L. Jackson, health
and safety; J. E. Millis, Camping;
C. E. Diffendale, Court of Honor
and H. R. Williamson, finance.
In Executive Bunn W. Hackney's
annual report it was revealed that
the Uwharrie Council made a gain
of 31 percent for the past year.
Seventeen new troops were added
during the past year and the Coun
cil at present has a membership of
I, 106. The goal under a ten year
objective culminating in 1942, 1,
860.
The following men were elected
to the Council: W. W. Carroll, A.
W. Klemme and Henry Koontz of
High Point and Joe Bland of Salis
bury.
The Council approved participat
ion in the national retirement plan
‘for Scout Executives.
I t
Bailey And Vandei^ urg
Reported In Group®
Urging Business Help
Joins Bailey
T
Sen. ARTHUR H. VANDENBERC
10 \
Soviet Seeking
Lost Couple;
Missed Sunday !
Moscow, Dee. 16.—(/W—lzzest,
organ of the Soviet government,
said today that Soviet authorities
have “taken measures to seek out
and arrest the missing couple
known as Mr. and Mrs. Donald L.
Robinson.”
This was interpreted, in foreign
circles, to mean that the couple who
professed to be Americans have
1 been under arrest since their
■ strange and unexpected disappear
tmw?Tast week, although-the news
’ paper refrained from announcing
> such a statement.
’ After public announcement by
‘ the American state department,
that the. “Robinsons entered Russia
' under passports obtained through
fraud”, the paper said.
! “According to information ob
■ tained by the editor, the Soviet
authorities have taken measures
’ to seek out and arrest the persons
1 mentioned (in the telegrams from
; the state department).
“The most puzzling question
' seems to be the real identity of
! the couple whether they were ac
! tually American citizens.”
Special Term Of
Court Indicated
For January
With the exception of a few cas
es, the entire civil calendar for the
December term of Superior court
in Randolph county, was adjourn
ed yesterday.
Judge T. D. Finley, presiding,
ordered the. adjournment.
While no official information
was forthcoming today, it is un
derstood a special term will be call
ed for this county sometime in
January.
Hoover Crew
Accused Of
Intoxication
_
Washington, Dec. 16.—hi*)—The
senate joint-maritime commission
ordered today an investigation of
reports that the cro of the Dol
lar liner President Hoover became
drunk and terrorized woman and
i children passengers after the ship
' ran aground last Saturday.
Chairman Copeland (D.-N. Y.)
' said the American counsel at Ma
1 nila, where 184 of the rescued pas
: sengers landed, would be asked to
transmit a report on the incident.
: Greenville May
' Re-enter Baseball
League
I Greenville, S. C., Dec. 16.—(/P)—
. Greenville’s return to the South
Atlantic baseball league seemed
assured today by a city council
agreement to lease, rent free, for 5
years, a piece of public property to
i joe Cambria, New Jersey baseball
operator.
Washington, Dec. 16.—LY)t—
Strong support has developed in
congress, a survey showed today,
for resumption of government
spending on a modified scale in
an attempt to help spur business
activity.
Some anti-administration sena
tors; as well as some of Roosevelt
supporters ,said they believed new
spending must start in January or.
February, but there was a dif
ference of opinion as to whether it
should be of the “pump priming”
type.
While these comments were being
made, several senators disclosed
they had been urged, to sign a
public statement, advocating a ten
point program to stop the business
recession.
The steps urged were revis-'
ion of the business practices,
approach towards a balanced
budget, adjust relations bo
tween capital and1 labor, relief
on capital investments, recogr .
njiion of the- profits motive
and superiorly of the Anieri
<-in competitive system. .
Assurances of the safety of
investments, reduction in the
general tax burden, maintain2
ing state's rights, economical
and non-political distribution 6f
relief and preservation of thf
American system of private en
terprise.
No one would claim authorship
of thr document. Some legislators
eported it had been prepared by
n small group, including Senator
Vandenburg (R-Mich.), Bailey (D«
>T. C.), Byrd (D-Va.>, and Gerry
(D-R. I.). ,
Some of these men said they had
; not seen it and, none, but ,JBailey
would comment on it. '
“There was h general feeling" in
the senate”, Bailey said, “that
there ought to be an understanding
l>et\veen each other on what should
be dene about the business recess
ion. ' .
“Nobody, however, has been au
thorized or detailed to frame a
platform.”
Dime Store Girls
Strike; Countess
Barbara At Sea
New York, Dec. 16.^-W9—Em
ployees of three Woolworth 6 and
!0 cent stores went on strike, to
day, following a break down of
negotiations between union repre
j sentatives and the company for
high wages and shorter hours.
Miss Clarina Michelson, organ
izer for the department; ' store’s
union, said about 160 persons quit
work. She added that pickets had
been placed in front of nil the
company’s other stores in New
York city.
Union officials had hoped, to
confer with Countess Prentiss Hut
ton Revcntlow, the former Bar
bara Hutton, regarding the strike
but; she was on the high seas for
Europe. < ;
She left lust night, one day after
her arrival. She then said ske ex
pected to remain for the Christmas
holidays with her father, Franklin
Hutton.
The countess inherited her great
wealth from the Woolworth store
fortune. •
Callers at her stateroom on the
Europe were answered pnly by a
, maid. Ship officers confirmed. her
I presence however. .• • *,
The Woolworth employes seek a
$21 a week and a work week of
40 hours.
Prison Break
Handling 0. K.’d :i
By State Officer
Columbia, S. C-. Dec. 16.
Representative E. W. Stevens, df
Berkley cqunty, Chairman of fhe
house prison commission said to
day that the" attempted prison
break Sunday which respited Mi
the death of guard-captain Clip
Sanders wps handled in an “able
manner.”
Stevens stateipent came .op the
heels of accusations of state-sena
tor Edgar A. Brown, Barnsville.
ranking member of the senates' pfj
son committee, that there
blundering” and that' “it
like somebody was trying to
expense-of S
a shoW at the