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THE COURIER AND ASHEBORO MARCH IN STEP—AHEAD BOTH ARE LEADERS THE COURIER Vvtt ALWAYS ABREAST WITH THE CHANGING TIME IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE COURIER LEADS The Regulator February 2. 1878 Oldest Paper Published In Randolph County PRIN.CIPIfJS, NOT MEN ASHEBOKO, N. C., THUBpDAY, AUGUST 5, 1937 Changed To The Courier September 13. 1879 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY NUMBER 79 Kansas City Police To ■ace McCrary Eagles In ■emi-Pro Opening Tilt it vs. West In National Classic lice of Hurlers Believed To Encircle Calioway, Morris and Lankford. First Tilt Friday tinguished Record of Both Teams Place Them In Honor Position. [The crack Kansas City police _eball team, winners of the se jipro title in that section wiil ick up against the crack Mc jry Eagles of Asheboro in the leping session of the National ni-professional Baseball Con es at Wichita, Friday night, Au 13. The game will start at |0 o’clock. Officials of the Congress have acted these two teams as the standing ones in the tourna fcnt. Both teams have gone ough a long season with distin |ished records which has led the fieials to pit the two in the inau contest. According to information receiv i by The Courier today ' Ernie jjgiey, veteran official of the Na nai baseball league will be be the plate. Other officials not been determined. |ford Frick, Hans Wagner and Fonseca, all veteran players now officials of the National ngress will be on hand to guide series. he team will leave Asheboro lesday, August 10. |The probable lineup and batting er of McCrary for the opening eh is as follows: dx, 3b; Short, 2b; Clodfelter, I Griffin, rf; Burge, cf; Kimrev, | Cheek, lb. While nothing defi i has been decided on by the lo [ management it is believed Cal ay, “lied” Norris or Sam Lank will be on the mound for the ener. Harrington will probably | behind the plate. kmily Budgets Discussed Aug. 6 indolph County People In vited to Meeting At Greensboro. ialeigh, Aug. 5.—Following the ding of two of a series of one y institute sessions, for the pur tee of discussing family budgets id various other social problems, has been announced by .the state ard of charities and public wel re that others will be held in the lar future. All will be under the rection of Miss Anna A. Cassatt, ■ector of case work training and mily rehabilitation. The first two meetings were held Waynesville July 29, and in Le ir, July 30. The others will be Id on the following dates and Ices, with representatives pres t from the counties mentioned: Albemarle, August 5; Anson, barrus, Gaston, Lee, Mecklen rg, Montgomery, Moore, Ricn md, Rowan, Stanly and Union, reensboro, August 6; Alamance, swell, Chatham, Davidson, Da , Forsyth, Guilford, Harnett, ndolph, Rockingham, Stokes, fry and Yadkin. Buck Roosevelt Washington.—A new drive for deral crop loans developed in ngress last night despite Presi nt Roosevelt’s statement that is opposed to them unless gen al crop control legislation is opted. & HlOHE«/?T EMPERATUR& 1 "''r 24 HOURS Greece Follows II Duce’s Plan first anniversary of his dic tatorship is being celebrated by Greece’s Premier John Metaxas, above, who models his reign or that of Benito Mussolini. Since seizing power on August 6, 1936, he has abolished all opposition par ties, banned strikes, abolished the free press. Former Randolph County Man Dies Dr. Lindley H. Henley, 80, Well Known in County, Died Friday. Dr. Lindley H. Henley, 80, a for mer resident of Randolph county, died at his home in Santa Cru/., Calif., last Friday. Dr. Henley, who retired from ac tive practice several years ago was a brother of the late Lew F. Hen ley. His niece, Mrs. Victor Par ker, Farmer, received word of Dr. Henley’s death from her son, Gil bert Parker who has resided in Santa Cruz for the past two years. Dr. Henley was a 32nd de gree Mason. Public Schools In County To Open Fall Term September 9 Superintendent Bulla Gives Detail Reports of Many Improvements Here. _ i Public schools in Randolph coun-' ty will open for the 1937-38 school term Thursday, September 9, ac cording to a resolution passed by the county Bchool board in session here this week. The opening date was decided upon after a thorough discussion by members of the board who also considered September 2 as a pos sible opening date. The 9th was selected in order that parents and children outside the city for v«a tions would have ample time to re turn after Labor Day. T. Fletcher Bulla, superinten dent, gave a comprehensive report on the activities of the county de partment since schools closed last spring. Details concerning repairs at several buildings, the repairs and painting of the several school buses and other important matters were called to the attention of the board. Those present were D. J. Boyles, J. A. Martin, C. W. Ken nedy, A. F. Cox, and L F. Ross. Archdale school, under provis ions of a resolution offered by Mr. Bulla and adopted by the board, will have four teachers and four grades during the ensuing term. Children, attending the first four grades at the Trinity school in for mer years and passing through Archdale will under terms of the resolution, continue their studies in the Archdale school. One tea cher will be transferred from the Trinity faculty to the staff at Archdale Superintendent Bulla was auth orized to study the question of a possible Farmer-Asheboro school bus route. The board accepted a quit claim deed to half interest in a lot near the Seagrove school, donated by Charles Tysor. The lot will be uti lized as a playground. C. K. Needham was elected a school committeeman for the Trog Randolph Welfare Department Adds New Case Worker Mrs. Nova Knott Takes Over Duties as Assistant Superintendent. Born In Asheboro Joint Board flans For New Ouice f ixtures; may increase neip. The Randolph county commis sioners acting- joinuy witn tne county boaru ot cnanties ana pub lic welfare have increased tne per sonnel oi the weitare aepartment in tne county with the audition ot an assistant superintendent and case worker. Mrs. Nova Knott a native of Ran dolph ccunty, today assumed the position of assistant superintend ent and case worker in the local of fice. Mrs. Knott left Asheboro about eighteen years ago for An son county where she taught school for some time. Five years ago SlTe entered the welfare department of fice where she handled virtually all matters pertaining to welfare, charity and dependent children’s work. Mrs. Knott comes to Randolph county with the recommendation of the North Carolina department of public welfare. She will be as sociated with Miss Lillie Bulla, who took over the duties of super intendent of the department Mon day. The offices, now located on tht basement floor of the court house, hav.e been repainted and redecorat ed and will be refurnished with new office furniture in the near future. While nothing definite has been announced today it is under stood the joint county board will increase the personnel due th$> mass of work accumulating with the old age pension, dependent children and many other branches of work which are being added to the ever . growing responsibilities in that department. The county board announced to day that the county was fortunate in obtaining the service* of Miss Bulla and Mrs. Knott who have spent several years In relief, wel fare and kindred lines of work. Legion Meeting Walter Craven, chairman of the Dixon Post American Legion base ball committee gave a detailed re port of the finances of the com mittee to members of the past last night. A report concerning activities at the state convention -n Durham was presented by W. H. Grimes one of the post’s delegates. Other routine business matters vere discussed. Over twenty-five members attended the meeting. Prison Inmates Increase in N. C First Six Months This Year Tops 1936; 318 Added. Raleigh, Aug. 5.—North Caro lina’s prison population for the first six months of the calendar year showed an increase of 318 prisoners compared to the same period a year ago, according to a report issued recently by W. C. Ezoll, director of the division cf Institutions and Correction of the state board of charities and public welfare. The total number of incarcera tions on June 30 of this year *as 9,050 in the Central prison at Ra leigh and the prison camps scat tered throughout the state. This number was 8,732 on June 30, 1936. The report also shows that on June 30, 1937, there was a total of 7,072 inmates of mental insti tutions in the state, as compared to 6,608 on June 30, 1936, an in crease of 464. Physical defectives in state maintained institutions on June 30 numbered 638, an increase of five over the number recorded on June 30 a year ago. A decrease of two was shown m institutions for the aged, with the Confederate Soldiers’ home at Ra leigh having seven, three less than a year ago, and the Confederate Womens’ home at Fayetteville 48, one more than on June 30, 1936. A total of 955 juvenile delin quents, an increase of 62 over the previous year, were in state insti tutions oh June 30, 1937. Washington. — The House labor committee, changing its mind about giving broader power to a propos ed wage-hour board, decided today to stick to the Senate’s “40-40’’ clause. Pilots and Government Officials Whd Died in Plane Disaster G. Q. CALDWELL REX MARTIN Pilot Stephen Dunn, Cc-Pilot Lawrence Bickford, and G. Q. Cald well and Rex Martin, United States Department of Commerce officials, who died in the fatal flight of the Santa Maria, Pan American-Graco Airways plane, which plunged into the ocean 30 miles northeast of Cris tobal, Canal Zone, with 14 persons Aboard, on a scheduled flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador. The huge airliner was located, completely sub merged and with no signs of life aboard, by Army and Navy planes. Naval Officer^ Give Up Hope Of RecoverinsLY ictiins Bodies Canal Zone.—The navy depart ment today announced, officially, 14 persons had been lost in the fa tal crash of the giant Pan Ameri can-Grace airliner in the sea off Panama. No hope for locating any of the bodies was held out by the department. Investigations show the air craft was dashed into pieces as sections of the ship, pieces of the motor, deflated rubber life boats and oth er articles have been recovered from the sea over a wide area. According to the Navy investi gation evidence has been uncover ed showing there was an explosion on the craft the moment it struck the water. All planes and vessels working in the search have been recalled the navy officials stated. Washington. — Submarine S-43 reported to the navy department that it had found two bundles of mail and an uninflated rubber life boat in the dreckage of a Pan American-Grace Airways flying boat which sank off Panama. The mail included 52 letters. Other articles salvaged includ ed: Two “ life preservers in a case, five seat cushions, three head rest cushions, one metal foot rest, one container of ice cream, one rug 10 feet square, and numerous broken pieces of plane. None of the 14 passengers and Miss Clara Gill Resigns Position Local Teacher Takes New Position at Wallace; New Instructors. Miss Clara Gill, who has taught social science in the Asheboro high school for the past eight years re signed from the local faculty Tues day night and will assume a posi tion as instructor in history in tho Wallace high school this fall. The school board accepted Miss Gill’s resignation with regret. No ac tion was taken at the meeting to ward naming Miss Gill’s successor. The board filled two vacancies caused by resignations at the close of the school term this spring. Miss Mary Witherspoon, Murphy, and Miss Helen M. Jones, Fayette ville, were elected to fill vacancies in the primary department. Miss Witherspoon is a graduate of the Woman’s college of the University of Greensboro. Miss Jones is a graduate of Salem college. The board approved the recent sale, at public auction, of lots lo cated on Baptist'hill. The board received $630 for the property which is to be used for necessary repairs to school buildings. crew members was located. All are believed dead. To Continue Search The wreckage was found at lati tude 9 degrees and 25 minutes and longitude 80 degrees, 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Part of a wing and an engine casing were reported found by sub marine S-46. The navy said both of the submarines will continue the search. Three destroyers — the Mahan, Babbitt, and Taylor—were also en gaged in the search, officials re ported. Among the passengers were a mother and her two children, two Commercial department officials from Washington, a representative of the National City bank of New York, and an employe of the Ford Motor company. The plane had been missing since Tuesday night, when it reported bad weather while flying from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Cristobal in the Canal Zone. Its last radio message indicated it was descend ing in search of an opening in a heavy cloud bank. Navy and private planes spread fan-wise in search of the giant fly ing boat today, and army officials flashed word to the War depart ment that the wreckage was found by Lieutenant Adair of the navy 20 moles west of Cristobal in “Mo-' squito gulf,” on the Atlantic side of Panama. Miss Alma Kee To Leave Randolph _ V County Health Nurse Takes Position in Cumberland County Office. Miss Alma Kee, county health nurse and president of the Ashe boro Business and Professional Women’s club, will leave this city Saturday to assume a similar po sition with the Cumberland county health department’s office in Fay etteville. Mis3 Lucille Ward, now employ ed in the Randolph county depart ment will take over Miss Kee’s du ties temporarily. Miss Kee has been in Randolph county for more than a year. Dr. George Sumner, today said Miss Kee has performed her duties in an excellent manner but better op portunities caused her to resign her local position. Jap-Sino War Shanghai.— (Thursday) — Hur ried evacuatinn of Japanese non combatants from a vast area of China caused fear today that Ja pan’s week-old undeclared war in North China might spread deeper than had been expected. Leah Hammond Of 1 Farmer New Head Of Young Friends Randolph County Resident Elected President At Guilford Session. Well Known Here Interesting Program For Meeting; Continues Ail This Week. Miss Leah Hammond, well known and popular worker in Friends cir cles, yesterday was elected presi dent of fhe North Carolina Young Friends at the annual yearly meet ing at Guilford college. It is the 200th annual session of the North Carolina yearly meeting of the So ciety of Friends. The sessions are in the {few Garden Meeting house and will continue all this week. The election of Miss Hammond was a tribute to her work in the organization both at Farmer and other sections of Randolph county and the state. She has been one of the acknowledged leaders in Friend’s circles for several years. Young Friends activities, mis sionary work and reports on the spiritual condition of the quarterly meetings received considerable at tention at yesterday’s session. Opening at 9:30 o’clock following a worship period, the business ses sion featured informative reviews of the year’s work in each of the eight sectional quarters. Contenti-, nea, Deep River, Eastern, New Garden, Southern, Surry, Western, and Yadkin Valley quarters. Miss Blanche Weber, assistant clerk of the Geneva, Switzerland, meeting, then spoke of the Friends move ment in Switzerland. Robert Cope, of Newcastle, Indiana, led the mor ning devotional period at 11:30 o’clock. Missionary reports and address es by Errol T. Elliott, of Indiana polis, Ind., and Murray S. Kent worthy, acting secretary of the American Friends board of mis sions, Richmond, Ind., occupied the afternoon session. Miss Leah Hammond, of Farm er, was -reappointed president of the Young Friends group at their business session this afternoon at 4 o’clock in Memorial hall. Reports of the years work were heard, fol lowed by a picnic supper at New Gar’den Meeting house and a ves per service on the steps of the. college library. Three young Friends, David Stafford, Jr., of Oak Ridge; Miss Dorothy Gardyne, .Montgomery Center, Vt., and Seth Hinshaw, ad dressed the evening session. Today’s session, devoted to Friends and Christian education, will find its spotlight on the re port of the president and trustees of Guilford college in the morn ing, reports on religious education in the afternoon, and the college summer school commencement ex (Please turn to Page 6) Carolina Plans President’s Visit Secret Service Men Join With Other Officials in Planning For Aug. 18th Event. Dare county and other sections of the state become President conscious as the time draws near for the presidential visit to Roa noke Island on August 18th. Se cret service men are making plans for the event, along with the oth er folk. Just what is the purpose of the long look-over is not disclosed to the public, but the men who guard the President will take no chances of any- kind. It is the present in tention of the islanders to dine Mr. Roosevelt in one of the big CCG camps, feeding the multitude being the biggest concern of the people at the end of the state. The federal officials went down last week and they are going quiet ly over the land to make it ready for the Roosevelt visit. Twenty five thousand people are expected in Maneto and about Fort Raleigh that day. It is the present pur pose of the managers to put on two performances of Paul Green’s “Lost Colony.” the bjggest single attraction of the presidential or any other day. The secret sendee men will be on hand then, too. It is expected that the President; who knows his North Carolina his tory mighty well, will attend this performance. Indeed, the Dare county people are counting on showing to 6,000 that day and for the remainder of the great pag eant they are looking for visits from all parts of the country. The Roosevelt visit, which once promis ed to pour humanity into the place just for the single day may serve as just the kind of publicity that the event needs. Clearance for more than 5,000 automobiles is guaranteed and if the travelers will drive into the town on time they will have no trouble seeing the President. v Belgium Honors Heroic Allies Rising high over the battlefield at Liege, Belgium, the Tower of Memory, above, reminds future generations of the thousands of al lied soldiers whl> died to drive Ger man armies from their soil. Indi cated by the arrow, is King Leop old, attending the dedication of the monuemnt. Warns Of Old Age Pension Fakirs State Board Announces No Fees Necessary to File Application. Raleigh, Aug. 5.—Officials of the state board of charities and public welfare, taking cognizance of newspaper reports that a “Dr. J. E. Pope” of Washington, D. C., is soliciting members for what is termed the “Pope Plan for Old Age Pensions”—at 25c per morn ber—in North Carolina, have is sued a statement in which it is reiterated that no fees are neces sary in this state for applicants to present their claims for assistance under the North Carolina program. Several weeks ago, the board, through Mrs. W. T. Bost, commis sioner, asserted that the payment of any sum whatever to any indi vidual or organization was not re quired in filing claims for assist ance through this state’s Social Security program. Trained work ers in every county of the state, employed by the board and its county affiliates, are prepared to aid assistance applicants without cost. The newspaper reports indicate that the Washington organization allegedly is of nation-wide scone, and is said to be lobbying for a fe deral statute providing for the payment of graduated sums to all persons above the age of 65. The payments, the reports stat ed, were to be made “by the Unit ed States government direct, re gardless of state in which pension er may live, and without red tape or meddling by states and coun ties.” ' Tax Collections Are Low in July According to Charles H. Robett son, internal collector for North Carolina, collections in the dis trict of North Carolina in July of this year amounted to $28,874, 333.38. By comparison with collections in the sum of $30,661,566.73 for the month of July, 1936, this constitu tes a decrease of $1,787,253.35. However, Mr. Robinson and his as sociates in July of last year col lected more money for the federal government in North Carolina than ever obtained in any other month in the department of internal rev enue, available records indicate. V Kidnaping Brings Court Struggle Of “Parents” Boy Snatched In Mother’s Yard; Out of Wedlock. 1st Mother in Youth’s Eyes Women Claim Custody. Chicago.—The weird “kidnap ing” of little 30-month old Donald Horst today precipitated a strug gle for his custody. The alleged kidnaping brought another story of a mother who gave up her un named child into the hands of oth er persons—then later sought to regain possession of the little one. On one side were John Regan and Lydia Nelson, who admitted snat ching the wide-eyed boy from the arms of Mrs. Otto Horst Tuesday night. Mr. Regan contended he and Miss Nelson were parents of the child who had been born out of wedlock. On the other hand was Mrs. Horst, who told Assistant State’s Attorney Wilbert Crowley she was not the real mother of the lad but had gained possession of him shortly after his birth. “I am going to ask the Regans to let us keep Donald,” Mrs. Horst sobbed.” we love the boy as much as any parents could.” Donald stood bewildered. Tears welled in his eyes. Then he em braced Miss Nelson who cried “I’m your real mother.” ® CD Chicago.—Two men and a wo- »r man kidnaped Donald Horst, two and a half, from the back yard of • his home Tuesday and five minutes — later telephoned a demand for $5, 000 ransom to his mother, Mrs. Ot to Horst, 30, wife of a well-to-do hotel owner and song publisher. One of the men and the woman fought fiercely with Mrs. Horst and a maid, Dorothy Methem, to carry the bewildered child from the yard to a small sedan in which the other man was waiting: to drive them away. Federal agents were called in to assist city, county and state police in a spreading search for the kid* napers. Get Alarm Late Police reported it was not until 35 minutes after the kidnaping that they got the alarm. This was the story told by Mrs. Horst to Po licemen Edward Strandberg, Clar- | ence Benson and George Schneid- | er. Ronald was playing in a sand pile in the back yard when the kidnap ers drove up in front of the spac ious Horst home on Chicago’s nor thwest side. With him was a nei ghbor boy, Kenneth Kffly, 6. Mr3. Horst, a rather slight woman with red hair, was seated a few feet away. The woman and one of the men left the car and approached. “Are you Mrs. Horst?” the man asked. Mrs. Horst nodded. The man then seized Donald and started to run with him to the car, Mrs. Horst caught up with him and threw her arms around her son, tearing part of his shirt away. Her screams brought the maid, a negro. At this point the woman kidnap er turned on the mother, knocking her to the ground. The maid also was pushed off her feet in the struggle. Mrs. Horst arose and followed her son until she was struck in the face by the man. As the kidnapers drove off, Mrs. Horst shouted: Joseph Immel, Jr., a neighbor who by this time had appeared at the scene, said the woman in the car screamed back: “It’s not her baby! It’s mine!” Mrs. Horst stumbled into her home and telephoned her husband, who, police said, was part owner of the Randell hotel and part own er of the United Song publishers. While her husband hurried home, Mrs. Horst said the telephone rang and a man told her, “Your baby’s safe. But we want $5,000 ran som.” Almost an hour later, when the police had arrived, another tele phone call came. Policeman Strand berg answered and tried to dis guise his voice as a woman’s. The kidnaper made a terse demand for “five grand,” he said, and suddenly hung up. Wesley Juniors Host To Orphan i The Wesley Junior Sunday school class of the M. E. church are making a litfle boy happy for two whole weeks. The boy, an orphan from the Winston-Salem Children's home, is supported there by the local Sunday school class and now they are entertaining him in the homes of the var ious members. Each member of the class acts as host to the youngster for a full day and a night.