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'PLUME lxi
ASHEBORO, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29,1937
NUMBER 179
oosevelt Issues Call For More
BattleshipS Jap^\ ese Merchants
’hief Executive
intends Nation
lust Recognize
‘Facts Are Facts”
U'ashoington, Dec.
president Roosevelt's
20.—t/T)—
announce
ment of the projected construct
ion of two new battleships and 1G
■csser craft left a distinct i nip res
lion today his “growing concern”
Over international conditions might
ompt him to ask congress for
{even more naval arms.
“Facts are facts and the United
States must recognize them”, he
aid. in a letter to Chairman Tay
or (D-Colo.) of the house appro
priations committee.
Mr.’Roosevelt said at his press
(inference, however, that the pro
osed increase in this country’s
fleet was not a part of a “prepard
ness' program.
Some observers interpreted his
action as' reflecting a desire to
■hasten the plan for maximum nav
|ai strength, which under present
{proposals would not be obtained
|ur.i> 1942.
The number and types of the
■new vessels, which maybe recom
{mended. by the chief executive, still
{arc a subject of study.
Asheboro Woman
Reports Loss Of
$100 To Police
The Aohcborp police are foUow
hig u clue, which they'beltev^'hiay
prove productive, in attempting to
locate a pocketbook, containing ap
proximately $100, lost by Mrs. L.
J. Jordan, yesterday.
According to Mrs. Jordan’s re
port to the police, she left the pock
etbook on a counter in an Asheboro
store. She walked away from the
counter, she said, and then realiz
ing she had left it, returned but
failed to locate the purse. The
police are investigating the affair.
Aged County Man
Dies In Oklahoma
Randltman, Dec. 29.—News wa*
received here last week of the death
of Isaac P. Farlow, 80 years.oid,
private music teacher who died De
cember 17 in a hospital in Oklaho
ma City, Oklahoma, following a
rtroke of paralysis. He had been
seriously ill for the last four
months.
Mr. Farlow was bom in Sophia,
in 1857, the son of Joseph and Eli
sabeth Branson Farlow. He will
be remembered in that community
and other various communities of
Randolph county as “Singing Ike
Farlow.” He held singing schools
in all sectins of North Carolina. In
1890 he moved to Texas, where ha
lived for several years. He then
returned t.o North Carolina in 1921
moved to Oklahoma City where he
was making his home at the time
of his death. Although he was a
chiropractic years ago, he was bet
ter known for his vocal and . instru
mental lessons.
His only immediate survivor is
his wifa, Mrs. Minnie Farlow of
Oklahoma City. He has several
nieces and nephews in Randolph
county.
HISTORY!
Have you been just a bit too
lazy to satisfy that urge for re
cording history while it’s hot ?
Then here’s your chance!
A series of 12 illustrated ar
ticles—one for each month—on
the great drama of 1937 are
running in this paper.
We suggest yon clip them one
•Jy one and paste them in a
scrapbook.
A few minutes' work will
jive you, in permanent form, a
fast-moving story of the year.
1937—Month by Monlh—1937
By Volta Torrey
News Review Editor,
l/P) Feature Service
Boy is Freed, i
Hunt Kidnapers1
i
Indiana state police followed a
cold trail and meager clews in
the search tot- two kidnapers of
laughing 3-year-old John Bryan,
Jr., top, photo,. snatched from
liis Centerville, Ind., home on
Christmas Eve with his nurse,
Norma Schroy. lower right. The
kidnapers released their victims
when Banker John Bryan, lower
left, organized a fighting-mad
pos.se .instead of complying with
a demand ol $3000 ransom for
hit son's return.
State Grange To
Meet At Oxford;
Elect Master
Greensboro, Dec. 29.—</P)—Se
lection of Oxford as the State con
vention city of the North Carolina
grange in 1938 was announced here
last night at the conclusion of the
annual meeting of the state officers
and state deputies of the organiza
ion.
Harry B. Caldwell of Greensboro,
state master, said that Oxford was
chosen as the meeting place for
next year at a session of the execu
tive committee of the North Caro-!
lina grange in Raleigh December
. 13. The next state convention will
be held October 26, 27 and 28.
Herman Frick of Rowan county
at the meeting here today was elec
ted master of the State Grange
Deputies’ association in succession
to W. K. Behune of Robeson coun
ty. _
Union Members
Fined; Jailed
Springfield, 111., Dec. 29.—(,P)—
IU. S. District Judge Charles G.
Briggle, expressing regret that
heavier punishment could not be
given the leadurs, imposed yester
day the maximum of four years
, imprisonment and $20,000 fines up
ion 36 men convicted of violating
two Federal statutes.
The three-dozen men, all but
two of whom arc now or were af
filiated with the Progressive Min- j
ers union, were convicted recently I
of interfering with interstate com-1
merce and conspiring to obstruct i
the mails in connection with a se
ries of bombings in the Illinois coal
fields between 1932 and 1935.
Hero May Get Reward
Washington, Dec. 29.—(»'P>—War
department officials indicated today (
that Captain Frank N. Roberts
would ha recommended for a deco
ration for heroism for the part he
played when the American gnbouat (
Panay was sunk.
THE WEATHER
North Carolina: Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday. Probably
light rains in the mountains
Thursday. Not much change in
temperature. i
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Cotton Exports
Drop; U. S. Must
Look To Japan
For New Market j
■ ■
Washington, Dec. 29.—<.1 ’)—The |
agriculture department said today
a slight decline in Europe’s pur
chase of American cotton, which
have been relatively heavy this
season, might be expected in the
near ■ future.
Exports to Europe have been
considerably in excess of mill con
sumption the department reported.
Some of the cotton being used, it
said, is to replenish stocks which
were running low.
“Apparently with the outlook
for the European cotton textile in
dustry becoming somewhat less
favorable”, the department said,
“ary increase in the rate of ex
port of cotton from the United
States during the remainder of
the present season will depend
upon the extent to which Japan
ese import restrictions are relax
ed so as to permit a larger im
portation of American cotton by
that country.
Japanese purchase of American
cotton has been only about 1-8 as
large as last season.
Federal Probe Of i
Unlicensed Hydro j
Plants Expected
Washington, Dec. 20.—(.'D—The
povoix coni miss ion’s investigation
I of fnf’censod federal electric pro
jects will place under scrutiny
nearly 1,400 plants in every sec
tion of the country.
The investigation is to determine
whethei an unlicensed hydro
plants are located on streams sub
ject to federal control.
Power commission figures dis
closing the approximate number of
hydro electric plants said they in
clude:! 49 in North Carolina and
2? in South Carolina.
Wilson Named To
Diplomatic Post
Washington, Doc. 29.—(.P)—The
nomination of Hugh R. Wilson,
now assistant secretary of state,
to be ambassador to Germany is
expected to reach the Senate early
in the regular session beginning
next week. When he takes his post,
all corners of the Rome-Berlin
Tol-yo triangle which bulks largely
in the troubled world scene will
have been intrusted to career dip
lomats rather than political ap
pointees.
Just Another Trick
* Byron White
Byron (Whizzer) White tries the
trick of balancing a tea cup and
fingering a wafer, as he will have
to do when he .arrives in England
to attend Oxford as a Rhodes scho
lar. The "University of Colorado’s
All-Amer;can back plays his lasc
game of American football against
Rice in the Cotton Bowl, Dallas,
January 1.
When Engine Dived Over Wall
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tne yards at Pittsburgh a Pennsylvania passenger train
struck a boulder which had rolled onto the tracks, leaped the rails
and plunged 30 feet over the retaining wall shown at left to shatter
into the wreckage pictured here. Engine, tender and diner went over
the wall, killing Engineer Oscar R Rhoads and Fireman William
H. Strous. Several pot ters were injured.
Court of Honor and Scout
Course Scheduled tor City
A court of honor, one of the
most important event* in Boy
Scout work, will be conducted
in the Presbyterian church,
Asheboro, tomorrow night at 7
o'clock.
This work will be preceded
by a special meeting of Scouts
and scoutmasters, in the
church at 7:30 o’clock tonight
when several talks on Scout
work will be given by out
standing workers ir. scouting in
this district.
The speakers tonight include
Ben W. Hackney who will talk
on “Objectives of the Course”:
C. F. Carrol, superintendent of
schools of High Point, who will
talk on “Scouting and What
It Is”, and C. Delk Smith, “A
Successful Troop Program”.
This talk will be demonstrat
Four Children and Heroic
Father Die as Home Burns
Belmont, N. Y., Dec. 29.—</P)—
A farm house fire claimed the lives
of four small children and their
heroic father who tried to save
them early today.
The father, Theodore Oestrith
43, died in a hospital a few hours
Administration Plans To
Fight All Business Foes
Meanest Man
Unidentified Person De
stroys Bulbs On
Church Tree._
Asheboro today had a new
nomination for the “meanest
man’’ in town.
He is that unidentified per
son, who sometime last night,
apparently took keen delight in i
shooting the decorative electric
lighted bulbs off the Christmas
tree in front of the Presbyter
ian church.
When persons connected with .
the edifice arrived at the
church this morning they i
found the grass, around and
under the Christmas tree,
strewn with broken colored
glass.
Upon investigation, they dis
covered that virtually every
bulb, which graced the' tree
and enhanced the beauty of the
church and grounds had been
destroyed.
“A low crime—by a lower
person,” was the just expres
sion given the affair by those
who believe in the Christmas
spirit.
. ed by a troop set up for , the.
'purjifise aSa'a closing talk hy
Mr. Hackney on “What Scout
ing Can Do For Us and Our
Boys."
The course will prove inter
esting not only to Scouts but
to all adults interested in
scouting. The public is invited
to attend both events.
The Court of Honor is sched
upled for 7 o’clock tomorrow
night. The Court of Honor
committee includes Frank Mc
Crary, chairman and the Rev.
H. I’. I’owell, the Rev. C. G.
Smith, the Rpv. S. W. Taylor,
the Rev. L. R. O’Brian and
Hinton Fierce.
Scoutmasters include Ryan
Neely, Carmoif Parks, Waldo
Cheek and Harris Coffin.
after his son, Theodore Jr., 10,
died of burns.
The bodies of the three other
children, Lucile 0, Jack .‘J, and Ruth
Eva 2, were recovered from the
ruins of their home, two miles
east of here early this morning.
Washington, Dec. 29.—(.1")—
Three developments gave fresh
support today to the belief express
ed by many officials that the Roose
velt administration would make r,n
active and aggressive campaign
against his business critics.
1. Reports reached congressmen
from high administration sources
that the President at the recent ca
binet meeting endorsed the princi
ples of the Borah-O’Mahoney bill
to license interstate corporations.
2. Senator Norris (Ind. Nebr.),
a Roosevelt backer, suggested the
senate' lenew its investigation of
lobbying, in an effort to offset
what he termed “organized propa
ganda” against the President’s leg
islative program.
3. Secretary Ickes announced he
would make a radio speech tomor
row night in “It is happening
here.”
Associates predicted he would
discuss relations between the gov
ernment and business.
Reports concerning Mr. Roose
velt’s views on corporation licens
ing led its friends to believe it
might become the chief vehicle foi
the administration’s attack on the
monopoly problem.
Italic type was first used in 1501
by Aldus Manutius, an Italian
printer.
Gas, Water, Street
And Funeral Men j
Tieup All Traffic !
In French Capitol
Paris, Dee. 29.—CP>—A strike
of 120,000 public service employ
ees began in the French capitol
early today, forcing upon the peo
ples’ Front, government of Caro
illo Chautemps, a vital test of
strength.
(.hsu temps condemned the strike
and inferred hidden reasons lay
behind it—especially in the light of
recent Rightists allegations that
communists plotted to overthrow
the j/overnment in mid-November.
The walkout, with the endorse
ment of the French communistic
party, halted bus and subway ser
vice for the city’s 3,000,000. Street
cleaners, sewer workers, water,
gas and electric employees and
garbage collectors walked out.
Taxi drivers did a rushing bus
iness and created a traffic tie
up in taking Parisians to work.
Others, without normal transpor
tation service, walked.
The water, gas and elcctrict ser
vices ran on reserves but there was
danger, that by nightfall, a crip
plin'.; shortage would result.
Hospital employees decided up
on A two hour demonstration daily.
Funeral workers, on strike, limit
ed activity to “urgent burials.”
All struck in protest against a
wage economy section of the 1938
French budget. It could curtail
automatic wage increases promis
ed public employees to cope with
the increasing cost of living.
There was no disorder, but Chau
temps designated mobile guards
men topatrot the city, bolstering
the police force.
Troops were ready for action if
necessary.
Big Business
Attacked; Said
To Be On Strike
Philadelphia, Dec. 29.—(.I1)—As
sistant Attorney General Robert J.
Jackson accused “big business” to
day of going- on a “strike” against
the government in an effort to “li
quidate the New Deal.”
“They wish,” he added, “to liqui
date the New Deal and go off all
government interference in the'V
incorporated initiative.”
Jackson said the government was
the only agency with power to
condition capitalism and industrial
ism to survive and suggested busi
ness was blind to the advantage it
derived from the process.
Measles Takes Drop
Raleigh, eDc. 29.—I.P)—New
measles cases in North Carolina
last week, as reported to the state
board of health today, dropped to
242 from 484 reported the previous
week.
In Nanking With
Ropes for Walls
Undaunteci oy uit unmder ot
bombs and snells as Japanese
battered at the nates ot China’s
capital, Dr. Miner Searles Bales,
above, of Hiram. O.. professoi of
history at Nanking University
and adviser to the Chinese cen
tral government, refused to
leave his post inside the walled
city. The U. S. embassy fur
nished Dr. Dates with wall
scaling ropes to permit mm to
escape at the last moment.
'M
Now \ inding Cargoes
Tax Fit-e at Shanghai
CALLED STRIKE
Everything supposedly was
sweet and lovely when Lefty
Gomez of the New York Yan
kees, and his wife, June O’Dea,
former Follies star, staged this
little celebration after the world
series last fall, but now the
star southpaw is reported in
Mexico seeking a divorce.
Don Marquis, Poet
Playwright, Dies:
Former Editor
New York, Dec. 29.—<.B—Don
Marquis playwright, poet and for
mer newspaperman died at his
home in Forest Hills today after
an illness of several years. He was
58.
Marquis health had been failing
rapidly and for some months he
had been cared for by his male
nurse.
Only a short time ago, he suffer
ed a severe stroke and his doctor
then said death might oCcurr at
any time.
Asheboro To Have
New Mail Box On
Court House Plot
The case and effect, offt concrete
post, which had been deposited on
the court house lawn, near the
Lawyers building was ascertained
today.
The post will be used for the
“hitching” post for a new United
States mail box, to be placed at
the south west corner of the lawn.
Many reasons were advanced,
unofficially, for the post, but today]
it was learned definitely that “Jim”|
Farley's department has decided to j
add one more mail box to the sys- j
tern in vogue in Asheboro.
Heflin Placed
Under Oxygen
Tent Today
Laf'ayt tte, Ala., Dec. 29.—41’)—J.
Thomas Heflin, 64, former senator
was placed under an oxygen tent
today at Wheeler hospital where he
is ill of lobar pneumonia.
Dr. Albert Wheeler described
Heflin a:, “some sicker than the av
erage man suffering with lobar pn
eumonia” but said he was resting
somewhat better than he did yes
terday.
New York, Dec. 29.—-(/P)-—Justice
Willis Van Decanter, who retired
from the Supreme Court last June,
will temporarily return to active
service as a. trial judge in this dis-.
trict next Tuesday.
Honors War President
Washington, Dec. 29.—(.-Tl—•
President Koosevplt observed the
81st anniversary of Woodrow Wil-|
son’s birth today by sending a j
wreath of bay leaves to the tomb
of the war President. _i
Tokyo, Dec. 29.—<.-P)—The
British embassy today inform
ed the Japanese foreign office
that it could not accept the
Japanese military version of
attacks on the British gun
boats Lady Bird and Bee.
The military section of imper
ial headquarters yesterday had
issued a statement explaining
that the attacks were a “mis
take" and expressing regrets.
One British sailor was killed
in the incident which took
place on the Yangtze river on
the same day the United
States gunboat Panay was
bombed.
(By The Associated Press)
Japan’s move to cash-in on their*
Chinese conquest intensified the at
mosphere of foreigners today over
their economic future in the Orient.
While Japanese armed forces
were penetrating deeper and deep
er into China’s territory, Nipponese
merchants were landing cargoes at
Shanghai, duty free and without
custom examinations at Japanese
controlled docks.
Foreigners also feared China
would be unable to pay her debts
to the United States and other
countries since her interior and ex
terior debts, estimated a $800,000,
000, is guaranteed by customreve
nues.
Another cause for concern was
the attempt of the Japanese army
to extend its military laws into
Shanghai’s international aetlement
and the French concession where
thousands of Americans and other
foreigners live.
A Japanese army spokesman'
contended troops could enter for
eign sections and arrest and try
all persons suspected of crimes
against the Japanese armed forces.
Japanese and Chinese troops are
fighting, bitterly, in two of the
nation’s richest provinces—Shan
tung and Chekiang—with Tsing
tao, Shantung’s main seaport ini
immediate danger of capture.
Two United States warcraft
stood by to evacuate Americans.
Heavy fighting was still going on
in Spain for possession of the city
of Terttel where several thousands
of insurgent soldiers and civilians
were beseiged and cut off from in
surgent troops around the city.
Parks Arrested
On Charge Of
Non-Support
Morganton, Dec. 29.—UP)—Ed
Parks 24, came home today and
submitted to service of a warrant
charging him with non-support of
his son, born to Mrs. Martha Bark
i ley Ryan, 0 weeks before her mar
i riage to Basil (Pat) Ryan, member
lot a wealthy New York family.
The warrant was signed by the
21-year-old Mrs. Ryan prior to her
marriage, attaches of the sheriff’s
office said.
Roper Comments
On Jap Boycott
'’Washington, Dec. 29.—( I’l—Sec
retary of commerce Roper, com
ment, mg- on moves to boycott Jap
anese goods asserted today the
department’s official attitude was
to ‘’stimulate trade with ever coun
try”.
“That, attitude”, he added to re
porters, “can be changed only 'by
the state department.”
5toper declined to predict the
course of business in 1938 but
noted there are several signs of
strength in our economy not pre
sent in past recessions. ■ ,
Baby Contest
The Annual Couriei
Contest .open to any family re
siding in Randolph county, will
be conducted again this year,
the prizes to be offered by the
various merchants in Ashcboro
to be announced later this week.
All that iS necessary to win
is to report,