?v ? i' .** t ? -m I H v' * . 's : one of Kings Mountain's best poker players told me if you didn't want to get broken don't play with *a fellow who is setting in on his .first game. Whew, ain't it hot, I'd like to help Claude Hambright. the Ice Man.,.. O. M. Bridges is making trips to Washington about as often as a Congressman. He was up there last week with the Cnampionship Base Ball team, and the week before with the Band. He had two prize winning outfits to show off to the National Capitol.. . . . Don Blanton is as fond of cats as Dr. LeCompte Hill is of dogs and that's saying a lot. Labor "Runners" Arrested ltALiKIUll. ? Three labor 'run ners. w.ere arresiea auer muinigm recently iu the Wallace strawberry area, on charges of recruiting pickers without license for employment outside the Slate. Evidence has been secured in sev eral other cases In which outside runners" have been engaged iu soliciting North Carolina labor, partit itlarly strawberry pickers, it Is revealed by 0. \V. E. Flttman, Paint t'laceinent Supervisor, operating uu tier the Employment Service Division of the State UCC. North Carolina, by statute, prohibits the soliciting of labor for work outside the State, unless it is dorfe through the reguthrly established governmental agency. the Employment Service, by means ot its clearance system. The State law requires that an out-of-state employ tr, even though recruiting labor for itis own use, shall pay a license fee of $500 for each county In which re cruUlng is done, while municipalities may also charge h license fee. Nearly all states have similar statutes - against recruiting labor within their borders, by means ot a prohibitive license fee for such activity. Mr. Plttman points out. Strawberry growers In the Walace and Chadburn areas have found out In the last week or two that when the man of the house Is draw lug good wages In camfo %wd fort construction work, then the wife ind children will not pick strawber ries for pay. Few of the growers lave enough pickers and some have ,-ery few. The result is that berries ire over-ripe or are rottlnR in many lelds. The maturity of the Virginia crop las added a strong competitive fucor to an already short labor martet. In past ypars. Virginia growers tave relied heavily on North Caroina labor for their harvest. How?ver. this year, not enough labor is available for the North Carolina larvest. i This scarcity of farm labor ^ exenslve in Virginia, Maryland, and Vew Jersey, as well as In North Car >llna, and has added impetus to the judosirable labor runner activities. These runners recruit labor in one *rua and 'sell" workers to growers in another area at so much a head. The arrests indicate the decision of growers in the strawberry areas to itop the unlawful transporting of their workers to other states, Mr. Plttman states. )Duplin County farmers who let their Austrian winter peas and ret :h grow until the mtde'ter of April tad an abundant growth to turn, under, reports L. P. Weeks, assist int farm agent. I - - ' ? " V/ V i. * mi PWQt MOHWTADf WWU11. TH HAL ROACH pcNM f nmil JUARCM VIRGINIA 1 "lit*#*: WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Joan Jluttcrjicld, heiress to the Ifutterficld department "tore,, millions, is bored u> desperation by the necessity of acting as companion to her wealthy but irascible old grandfather. His close watch on her has thyiartcd her repeated /efforts to run away. Called to London on business, he leaves her in charge of his splendid ocean-going yacht in lite Mediterranean, giving orders to the Captain to take her on any trip she desires upon her ironiise not to leave the boat. Joan promptlu orders a trip to ,tfviv York. The Captain, having ,-o choieo but to obey, radios this r.ecs to Mr. Buttcrtlcld. [ .. ho i.roinplln calls on a liner t j lor Nc\o York. 1 | Chapter Two . < ? i t:.:i Sp'-acer wt3 la a vile mood. t 11 ? h'-i little "uso for women in t * .H?*m.l. lie had lees U30 for flighty i lie- uiUiiint .store heiresses whose wv.apades w?re always plunging i tht-'n into Pt.gc 1. And he had no 1 - He-, at all for the idea of getting 1 ffXftVy V S.? I^S I Dreaming of hot coffee up at 3 A.iX. to go out in a reve- t nuo cutter and meet just such a an heiress on her run-away yacht, t But that was his penalty for being ? i ho best reporter on the New York c Press, and all his eloquence had not been sufficient to tsdk editor t Slovens out of putting him on the 1 story. So here was Bill Spencer, 1 with his camera-toting helpmate f "Flash" Fisher, thinking murder- f ous thoughts on the cold wet dock I of the cutter as it approached the ,< young lady's boat. t While the breakfastless journal- t ists were dreaming daydreams of 1 a gallon of hot coffee and a moun- i tainous stack of buckwheat cakes, the NUutiius hove into view. In a 1 few minutes they were scrambling 1 up the Jacob's ladder, bluffing 1 their way past a bulky Swedish l Qunmon on/1 o/iannlnnr tVtn Hnnlr //?? t their quarry. i Joan emerged (rem her cabin, I and the alert Flaah buttonholed 1 her. _ 1 "Listen,' he whispered confiden- t tially. "I gcra get some pictures s of that Buf . rfteld dame. Do you J know her?" "Why, er ? yes," sputtered the 1 surprised Joan. "I'm her ? her < maid. There she is now." She pointed to her Swedish maid. "Miss Butterfleld," she called, giving the girl a wink, "here's a friend of mine who'd like you to pose for some pictures. Do you mind?" Flash set to work feverishly snapping pictures, while Bill engaged the suspicious seaman in a multilingual argument, and Joan unobtrusively slipped Into the Captain's gig wh ich bad been lowered < preparatory to taking him ashore. "Miss Joan!" shouted the Captain from the deck, as they got under way. "You can't do that ? you promised your grandfather you wouldnjt leave the boat!" "Except In case of an emergency!" she called back. "And this * It!" At the same moment Bill Spencer lost his argument with his sailor (Vlend. ""I shall have to ask you to get off the boat," repeated that worthy for the fiftieth time; and this time putting his request Into notion, he , gathered Bill into his brawny arms j and dumped him over the side with the biggest splash Bill had made alnce he broke Page One with the Van Schmals divorce ease. "Hey, squarehead!" sputtered the star reporter, coming up and squirting the water from his tonsils "Toss me my hat! Ifa cold down hers!" see Jflfttl HI ra^tlv IVa A#_ LET US SHOW YOU HO TO FINANCE A NE\* CAR Are you thinking of buying a n ear? It will pay you to talk over financing of 'It with ue. Select your new car and have yi preeent car appraised. Bring ue 1 figures and we will suggest an e< omleal and satisfactory way awing the deal. TALK IT OVER WITH US TOO, First Nati< 2 PERCENT PAID ON I I t ' ' .< ' - ' .. * r - ; * ' v " r -tW:!* c . * i f " , : , OMpiT, MAT *X 1MX I HUffi**\ \ ratw matin Atttm ^S-Tf il^ Bee of her father's attorney, but found the stage well prepared for tier vrrival. Counselor Gormau introduced her to two Imposing-looking gentlemen who wero waiting In tits olllce: none other than Dr. DeVilbiss and Dr. Snezrude, tha :elebrated psychiatrists. After listening to her excited account of ier adventures, tliey shook their aeads gravely, muttered many onrl- ? lous Freudian pbrases, and advised 1 rest cure. After protesting against this obvious dodgo of her grand father's to detain her, Joan desided to use a little psychology on. ier own behalf. Suddenly consentng to go quiotly with the medicos, she entered tho building elevator with them, but as they emerged it, the ground floor she swung shaiply around and slapped the faces of both eminent scientists in :urn. "Why, you nasty old things!" she :rled In the hearing of the swiftly :ollecting crowd. "I've never been 10 insulted in ail my life!" And while the crowd hegan to threaten ho amazed doctors, she slipped iway. With her cash resources amount-' ng to exactly oue nickel, Joan lungrlly tramped the streets of Mew York all day, afraid to speak / I m on a cold, wet deck. o any one lest she be recognized ind detained. Finally, at dlnnerIme,. she entered a shabby oneirm beanery and ordered a cup of :oSee. From the armchair next - to her arose an Indignant outcry from an nexpensively dressed but neatooking girl ? one of the thousands who make up New York's "" treat army of shop-girls. She comilained to the manager that her lish of beef, stew had disappeared he moment her back was turned; and she appealed to Joan for conirmation of the fact that she had really had beef stew. "Certainly," Joan spoke up, fibting like an old-time moocbor. "She lad beef stew and apple pie, and ' t had beef stew and lemon pie.'* \nd while they sailed into their linners which the grudging manager grudgingly "replaced" for hem, they conversed chummily. Peggy, the shop girl, on learning hat Joan had no money, no home the could go to and no place to tleep, invited her new friend to accompany her home/ "I've got a roommate and a cat, tut they're both out most of the .ime." "That's very nice," protested Joan, 'but you don't even know me." "Well, you look all right to rac, and if I like you, then we'll lnroduce ourselves." And hom& they went to share Peggy's half-interest in a- room at he back of a dingy old brown- % itone house. While Peggy was in- . ti a tin fir her truest into the mva tries of the bed that springs out >f the wall, her roommate, Dorothy, tour-faced, violently blonde, good looking in a ten-cent-store sort of say, came home. Dorothy made no lecret of her lack of joy In meeting the Interloper, but Peggy Kaunchly fought for her right to bring home a friend. Finally, when Peggy made a few meaningful references to her roommate's friendship with "Mr. Dobbe, the floorsraTker," Dorothy left la an exceedingly tall dudgeon. "X feel embarrassed," Joan mourned, "causing all this trouble. Has be any place to go?" "Has she! Why, she can stick a pin in say page of the telephone directory ana 2nd a home!" "Has she got a Job?" "Sure ? she works In the same store where X work, and where X"m going to get you a Job tomorrow." "Really? Where is that?" "Butterfleld's Department Store!" Joan staggered slightly and sa* down on the bed. . (To be continued) 11 i - . Ik I ? '* > w Sl"" anal Bank SAVINGS ACCOUNTS ?,' >?.. <;.?v5>'. " ; * '- *. ". '.' .'-*/ >>' " -*. ' ' '*' '#<>?.* - : ;. ".iK - -'a* . : . .., . .. i ,. . . ' " ' ;: ' 'K 'y' A' JUST HUMANS mt aamcA*x v ?r 4SC - :u'jj'ni?m.niui iii " . ,- % 'A Kid Just Said to Him He's So Dark that Llghtnin' Bugsi Follow Him in th' Day Time" New House For Sale > ' * V . , > , Attractive home now under construction will be offered for sale as soon as completed. Beautiful wooded lot, excellent neighborhood ! If interested see HAYWOOD E. LYNCH Hie Herald Office Phone 167 * / ? The\Weather Is Hot! i ' . In fact too Hot to have to do daily shopping ? > ? % so stay at home and just call us?we'll deliver right to your Kitchen table?The very best of ? 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