r _ Hud the Heraltf . 1 A"d Buy At Home VOL. 26 NO. 44 , . jj | Condensed Ii | State And N ?State New*? I I crt L. Gray of The Fuyetievll'c ()i ! .server and Ldeut. \V. II. llyrd of th?; 79th Field Artillery, Fort Brugtt. | wore hurt Saturday, lilght when j their car turned over. They were ret urn lug front a football game at | Chapel Hill. Gray. suffering from lacerations and a pulled ligament in his hue'. IpYy was brought to a hospital here. Bvr1' was released after treatment at tr S? Fort Bragg Hospital. ?m Greenville, S O., Oct, 29.?The So ?3kS; dal Science (Federation of Soutrt : . Carolina College Students will meet a: Furman " University Nov. 7. Raymond (Dennis of Wofford Col .vr logo Is president. Goat on In. Oct. 2!t.- -Coroner ('. C. :'wl Wallace said today that ail Inquest i ; . -will be- held at the courthouse here >\V- Thursday at 5 p in. into the death ' ?'. of* A. Wilson Thompson, 51, Uesspmer .City street and water depart* ' metil , official who whs struck and killed by an automobile Saturday night. HK.v " , The automobile was driven by Paul Bridges. 18. a resident of the VV'j. Myrtle Miils community in Gastonla Charleston, S. C.,. Oct. 20.?Representative J. W D. Zerbst of CharVj-lX lest'on County, Speaker Tempore of 1 the House, predicted the General As sembly would "not pass any mew tax rfSs -es next year. Commenting on a decision of the QMS'" State Supreme Court declaring tinffl constitutional an act 'which diverged State highway funds for general purposes. I Raleigh. Oct. 29.?A State-Federal marketing report said todav that tobacco prices on the new bright and middle belts of North Carolina were a little lower than those ot the preceding week. Price drops of from $1 to $2 a pound, were noted on cutters, smoking leaf and fair to fine grades ot leaf on the bright belt, while coinand low loaf and most- luc grades showed decreases of Croui H 5 f>0 cuts to $1 Nondescript grade MR prices wove pihetically unchanged ?&. lunnberton, .Oot. 29.?J)epult# . Sheriff F. L. Crump, IIS. for the" past sixteen years a police officer in Rob eson County, died suddenly of a heart attack about 1 o'clock thts morning./ ; A local taxi driver found 'Mr. Crump slumped over In his car, removed him to the cab, but Mr. TO 'Crump died before they arrived at 7,'% a hospital. , an] Mr. Crump, a large, robust man |&< had complained early Sunday evening of feeling ill, but later went about hla work and Beemed to be .in good health. Laughing Arou withiRvr A Growing By IftVIN ' | 'HE PARTY was ro full swing i IA gentleman who plainly had air reached this one. It would seem a ^ -done at least two things for him, f appetite and the other being to I capacity. "What I can swallow I can dij he announced dn a loud thick voict . guesta. His roving m fell upon a i He stretched forth his hand and anybody here fly* dollars," ha said, of wine without taking it down fro la thoaa pro-Prohibition days b purely as a supporting proposition t The wager was posted and the nee "Now then.he said to the los host, "111 give you a chance to gel that big bowl or salad dressing yor Again the money was put up a Wiping his mouth on his sleeve h? to conquer. "Come on, let's try again," he you a really attractive offer. Let's Ladles and gentlemen, I've got jus that says I can eat those lace curts (Am*rlcaa New . a , Kings -. "* Vi Brier rorm ational News ?National News? r>i,tw>a mO-Wi of oil ali'itattc rwoM gate. the New York World'* Fair has passed Into history, wcuiiig a crown of superln lives which marked it the king of exposition*. . A lotal of Slrt.Wi>2 cash customers jammed it* 1-216 acres as the curtain catile. down yesterday sending the two-year mark to -i5.0U8.ttk5 paid I admissions us compared with the I previous high of 38.62C.54C attracted by tl?e Chicago Century of Progross' Exposition in 193SP34. Yesterday's crowd wits tho fair's largest. Top ay squads "of wreckers attacked lite Jamboree's gleam lug mender. I iu the first step .toward transforming what one,; was (losing dump Into a great municipal park. Part of it is expected to he ready for New Yorkers next Summer. Philadelphia. Oct. 29.?A new maihoil of destroying cancer ceila by I exploding them' \yilli particles of | atoms was described today lu dis! cussions at the opening meeting of i the National Academy of SeieUces. TIumc rosipirch workers of Col < ] umbia University, New York"3"- de| scribed in the academy's olTicial i journal how they had achieved up to a 50 percent death of cancer grow ing by lirst injecting lithium and bo ron, two harmless chemicals, in and uround the cells add then botn barding tliein with neutrons. Atomic particles which have no elic.ri.e charge. London, Oct. 29.?Ix>ss of the Etnt""ss of Britain, 42,248 ton pride of v >? Canadian merchant fleet, with a probable death list of 45 persons was acknowledged today by the British Admiralty and War Office. . Of the 042 persons on board, most :y military families ginU a "small number of military personnel, 598 already have been lander by warships in British ports, a joint commuuicjce reported. Town Council Meets Members ol tlie' Town Council met Monday night at the City Hall with all members present except e. U .Yeislet. Jr., who waij otit of town On motion of .' L. \V. llinirlek, which was seconded by Tom Fulton the purchase of tlie property at' the end of Mountain street lot the School Stadium was approved. Tile, matter of employing a city manager was discussed but- no olii ; at Utfdiaidson field, parading ap' 1 proximately six minutes each before the judges and spectators. The hands, were judged by tlie l)ai idson liand for straightness of lines, i 'xcelb-iM ot formations and qual-' f it> of playing. The Kings Mountain I Band, tttiuer the direction of Paul I Ilendtix. was judged superior ill ' each of these fields. I One of the striking features of j tin* Kings Mouiiiaiii perfoimance ; was a parade down the field in Wal ?' I time. Bob Garvey. Davidson's heatt dium major, said that ''Ben Bridges, Kings Mountain's drum major, is the best baton twirle.r that 1 have .re-en this- year." Bands repre.A'nU'd were Kings Mountain, Gaslonia. Shelby, Kan nap i ^is, CtnooXmon. Hickory. Stater.-" . lille. Mills Homo of Thomnsyilh . t bcrryvile and Concord of North ( ..rolinji, and BUtcksbUr' and jjlti: caster . of South Carolina.?-Tlio Da \ iu-uiiian. Lions Meeting Postponed l'lio regular meeting of tho Kings Mountain Lions Club which is siii.'ii ; tiled for r.ex; Tuesday, No"., fitly has hern postponed on account of National Klection Day, according to j an announcement . from President J Tom Fulton. Mr. Fulton contacted a i number of the members, who expressed themselves as being in faj vor of postponing the meeting until < a later date. i ?i Will Rogers' Humorous Story . i ? <1 Bj WILL ROGERS A LOT of ailments are Just im** aginary, they aay. Now, there was a Scotchman, according to a | fellow in Chicago, that stuttered like everything right up to tha time he graduated from college. There was a big rumpus in the family about what kind of work the young man should go into, and the folks couldn't decide, because almost any job they could think of had some talking in it, and they was afraid the favorite son would be embarrassed on account of the stutter. _______ (V-r-T-rw* So kia dad got him a Job in his own brokerage house. He was put in charge of a telephone line between the Chicago office and the broker's office in New York, and had to talk on this long distance line about twenty times a day. * The vary first night that guy come home cured. "They didn't tell me what the tolla was. Dad," says the bright son. "but 1 knowed tkey was too high to be stuttering over dimes. I found out I could say nlckles and' cents without any trouble at all, and so I Just had 'em bid a nickle or a cent at a time. Now I'm so 5ood I guess 111 be able to bid imes and dollars tomorrow." "Nay, nay," says the sire, "you needn't mind. Well make you vice president tomorrow." A swims H?w? futuM, Im lerald For Stadiii Red Cross Lends [ Helping ihiiKf* 1 1 To Veterans ll.' '.-if"" r r . ' ' ' r / * i.'. * The local Itcd I'riiss chapter i?iiclvwl instructions this w< ek- to stand Ijy for National liofehse wort- I -isrlh as a laisnn lietwren homes an.I American soldiers and sailo>? ami a so for First Aid ittslriK lid 's, neon tor which is much greater at tills time ihati normally, according to Mrs. Kuth (jaiuble, Kxec.utive' Secretary. 11 ( , The work of the local lc? I Pror* Chapter will ho to keep up the morale of- tin service titan through fro nuetit contacts with tiis family had.' home- "KviVj e.'tort will hi tna.le hy military authorities to liofei tho i. those tlicn w Inr have dependents, itnt no matter how opreftii tile, selection ot a lilrgr -Anti) and Nav.v, it is certain to hriug many families I , iiciul and eionomic dis''ess. Men oC-servce age, whctlter married or ingle. are usually contributing t.ri the income and domestic life of the household, lien- Is whole tile lt'id I ( ross enters tin' putail' | Not every tninily. by any means. ; will require material belli. Rather j there. w ill be a mowing .need tor lit! t'yinnutlnil , unit ease woi>t service, j w*. quote 111)111 a letter u> the local ! tied -Cross. "Kvorj mail who leaves J your 'community for this . serious business 01' iiiiliiany training: -should ' go with the "fit assurance that bis I family may turn to the Red. Cross ! in any emergency." ' I That there will bo a great demand j for First'-Aid training tins mining 1 year and that the need to tench it | to every person' who .can and will | lake it Is shown by experience in , European countries at the present I lime. "Tliere is an urgent demand for a much or.eii.r output ig_ iliu ! ensuing yi ar. NVwly organizell Nit* tional Defense groups' will, rfHUiv'J i lied Cress Kivst Aid training. The j CCC and similar governmental agen I eiea are requesting Instruction , (1 reatly expanding activities in iti j dnstry inevitably will be aecompanj ied by an increase i:t 'lie nuiiiiiei of i eeeidi'tits". says a letter from na j tional headquarter1? of Red Cross. Anticipating this need. Red Cross fir?! aid is being ,laught to s nd\ is ; in the Kngs' Mountain High .School i Kverulivc Meeting Of I P. T. A. Held ...... Tin* KvpchMvi' !< ? of tho i : CentrM ih'hco) P-'sreni-T ai tier \>-o i rial ion met at the home of M>?. I1 Haywood K. I.yn -'* ' V # FIVE CENT8 PER COPY in Bought ~ IW's fin I fi< pi opolrf y . Ml tlto end hi I2.i*. Mount Sli'.'t.'t is now iu tile -M.llt* >' ill! t"H\ M ill. Tl|? I.Ill I M>M?iisaaM?aiii>an nu a i'i?i?i? ^>a> In, which in. .his tli.il lllo inurh ti<"iji-i| -i lni(?: vadium will -ii'Hi iu I'll' a h-:i Ili.y^Vriii- |OU|l (oil of-thn |>i m|k i t y was ' approved nv . i lm ?t< hotil ll?..ii !. tin- Tii.mi I'd nu ll ami Tin- Committee in charm*' of" thn . ft Stadium project. V Tin' land which is'ideally lota i.*d is also a natural Mil it! It t < i- tin* athletic field. Tlii- property is jitsr otic block from I ho now Post OfTic* lluitdinp. ami -will face on thrc'J Mit'octs. (insioti. Carpenter and (lohl The properly is ap|iro\iiuateh 4.10 fret square. which Is''hIiuhI I acres. Thv sta/liu?n site was soyuroil for S-.L'Miu sicr'inltni! to- the record at .'to City Hull t'runt lite following: T P. McCill. Mrs Ulu Jack* son, $1175 12 I, Campbell. Si'O'.i.Vi; ami Mr. ami Mrs. J 12. Adorliolllt, il.'nili I . * ' , ' ' ' I Tft. now athletic field when coin pleted. will have concrete stands, I dressing room, showers, and will h't I up-to-date ill ev< rv respect. Fieh'.i will lie laid nut- for fpotW.i 11. baseball and tiaeu. ' Thomas 1). Hose. (ivil engineer of Shelby. ?iiu had charge of tlio Shelby Stadium and tin* Southern States Fair iu Charlotte has been employed ami has already started to ! work surveying and laying out the ! property. He is to.draw plans ami 1 specifications to h<- submit.ed ' fued vyil? go to pan >" del lay tin co t of ?ipn site amf" " ?the ionstrttc:ion ol the Stadium. .Mi mix. rs of tin cominit'ei- weo have labored faithl'uily to ac?a.;n- " b.lish what has been .lime are; Paul iic.sl r from the School Ho-1 tel. C. .' K. Mauney - from the Town ('unit. it. a.ud Charlie Thoiiiitssoii, from tlio town gt large. ' 1 "... ! Ro/cllc To (live Bible ! Lectures At Central Methodist The Rev. K. O Rnzxelle. I'a: *c r of Main Street Methodist Cliuroh, Qastonia. will deliver a series of Bible lectures at Ceiitj-al Methodist Church November 11-15. These lectures, sponsored by the Daughters of Wesley Bible Class, will be open to the public, and members of otber churches are cordially Invited. Tho lectures will he given ouch evening ' at 7:;10 o'clock (Wmhinqton &Q?iapshcU by JameS Presto* '.Opinions Expressed in This Column Are Not Necessarily the Viewa of Thit> Newspaper.) . l,ike a woman, Congress reserve:# (he light to change it> mind. When the fire scut session began in January, Congress wits economy (bent In the first three weeks of the session, it cut, appropriations $128,000,000, below amounts requested by the President. By mid-October, however, 'nation-, al defense" had impelled It to von for the expenditure of $27,580,0011,000. Some indication of the size of this amount may be had from the fact that during the last war lb* biggest expenditure in any one yOar wub ?1S,522,000,000. The peak World War expenditure amounted to $176.40 for every man wofnan and child In the United States. This year's figures ate $210.28 per person. If all this money were to bo spent on ''national defense." s substantial portion of tho people probably (Cont'd on uext page) , > ' V-. i?