r The Largest Paid-Up Circulation of Any Newspaper Published in Randolph County a f,, ■. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS...-;- N. E. A. FEATURE SERVICE I . * Randolph County’s Only Daily Newspaper THE DAILY COURIER “Over 10,000 People Welcome You to Asheboro, the Center ... of North Carolina” '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.——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 i 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 • :-T*W«T n'Wffl 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.——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,