North Carolina Newspapers

Jon Meeting Here On Nov. 17 I * of t!lp 12 American l* of the Amer , ^ts and units ,„s,on auxiliary comprising ■!?* strict will be held in • ItlUN.m j7 with members of post and auxiliary acting Lv Galloway, of Charlotte, dls L^ ipcion commander, Mrs. Tom 1m of Shelby, district auxil chairman will preside at the '* sessions of the two or Zltiont A joint dinner meet ^ held at which a speaker, b, elected, will be present, lit business session of the aux 1 w.l! be held from 3 to 5 O ■Jk and the l!’glon wUI meet at 5 Keck both meetings to be held Vfhe legion building. Following \X£n a dance will be held T hnnor of visitors. «.ts in this district, each of is expected to send a num to the meeting, along with a mher 0f women from each of the 1 T„. units, "re Davidson, I Holly- Belmont. Gastonia, Mountain Grover, Lincoln Hickory, Newton and the two rtrlotte posts, j jland Buying Southern Cotton MANCHESTER. England.—UP)— p^itv in England has spread , the cotton belt of the United flmporta of American cotton are ling at a higher rate, and the . 0f Manchester and other tex [je centers are paying more for the merican staple. fin addition, American growths Us nosed out other cotton In pop jlifity. fit »n example, for the year end I Aug 1, 1936 (the cotton year) i United Kingdom Increased to rts of all kinds of cotton by 325, .0 bales. The increase in American -ton was 353,000 bales. I for the period Aug. 1 to Oct. 9, H, Imports of American cotton .laled 153,000 bales compared with lO.ooo during the same period the >ar before. I All of that cotton sold at higher , too. The average at the end [ the weeks between Aug. 1 and , 9,1M6 was 6.70 pence a pound t the lowest and 7.02 at the hlgh t compared with a range of 6.11 1 for the same weeks of 1936. | Those figures released by the mchester Cotton association tell i side of the story, and econo i and trade observers tell the [ Statistic* show there haa been a and general revival of and Industry in Great Brit i in the last few months. [ Mills have been selling more tex i and demanding more cotton— American eotton. Vidiolson Winner In School Contest | WASHINGTON, D. C., Not. S —<*) ' Nocholson, of North High al, Winston-Salem, N. C., was i honor winner In his state In ! Hth National Safety Essay con of the Highway Education [The second honor went to Eloise Mth of Wadesboro. [Nicholson's winning essay will be I In competition with the best from each state for the na prizes offered by the board. 1 tdditlon, he will receive a gold J' and $15 checks while Miss mth will receive a silver medal 1110. [®$ht third prizes, represented by medals and $5 checks, were J*udcd to Mary Lucy Baynes, cen P»rk school, Winston-Salem; ■"f Jackson, Central school. Fay ‘’Me; Mary McClintock, Ran h school. Asheville; Battle Leon ' Nashville; Clara Bennett. Polk Eaine Patton. Broadway Wwtn Bailey, Huntersville; “ Rlchard Garrett, Liberty high *ool. ^ [Miss Pauline Owen of Bethune • Charlotte, won first honor r tcichers in the contest and her lP» Till be entered in the nation 1 competition. °TAL SUPPORTER travels on bicycle IS ^°NE Nov- 3.—(JP)—Bill Clai kich hl«h sebol youth, Get..... ‘8l 8uPP°rt«r of the ui Btat* *n'1 untied Appalachlt Teachers college footbi tt,. ' h* rides his bicycle ov 40 miles of mounta UW Rrv,^ o^n his home at Lansii pl,v „ !n the MounUinee each Saturday. B1U h« had y L r«iny Saturday wh« fch, 5 ‘ hLS blke 80 mtles f KM w.5,ri?P °f see'nB Appalachis w. *? Car°lina Teachers cc COMle in ,h, miId 1 Gs MOl'NTAIN man • l>ntRGOES OPERATION K'NGS MOUNTAIN, Nov. 3— i«r ,U| Uanager of the Iinper company or Cu, Ju'l"Uu“ earned to the tishi 1,1 Gastonia Saturday hr «nnrr,rtU'lt1erwent an operation P«v. His condition was Uv» .. . hl'' hf *m thought to th« crisis. Cleveland Team Among Those Feted At Banquet COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh, Nov. 2.—The 153 iJorth Carolina 4H club boys and girls who took part in the 4H Judging contests at the recent state lair were feted at a banquet in the State College dining hall Friday night following the contests. Plates were set for 235 persons. The judging teams, their coaches, and speakers at the banquet are shown in the picture above. Each team consisted of three club mem bers from one county. There were 23 livestock judging team*, 14 poultry judging teams, and 14 seed judging teams. Ool. J. W. Harrelson, adminis trative dean of State College, spoke briefly on the objectives of 4-H club work in North Carolina. Dean I. O. Sch* ub, director of the college agricultural extension service, ex tended words of welcome. The team from Cleveland county made the best record in judging livestock, and Johnson County teams scored highest in judging poultry and in judging crop seeds. Fight Now For Congress Seats WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—(A»)— Brisk fighting for the seats of sen ate and house continued “up to”tfie eleventh hour, with expressions of confidence coming from both sides today. „ Republican campaign leaders pre dicted big gains in a congress now heavily Democratic, while Demo cratic Chairman James A. Parley predicted his party would hold its present tremendous majority in the house and gain six to eight seats in the senate. With 35 posts in the senate and all the representatives’ offices be ing filled this year. all factions struggled to the bitter end. One senator, Wallace H. White, Jr., (R., Me.) has already been re elected, but still to be filled are the senate places now covered by the expiring terms of 19 Democrats, 11 Republicans and one Farmer-Lab orite, in addition to one vacancy. For ths 435 seats in the house, voters in every state except Maine (which elected three members In September, are ready to chose suc cessors to the present body—com posed of 308 Democrats, 100 Repub licans, seven progressives ,and three Farmer-Laborites. Of the 17 va cancies now, 13 were formerly oc cupied by Democrats and four by Republicans. Apples Damaged By Coddling Moth COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh, Nov. 3.—Large heaps of cull ap ples were plied up in many North Carolina orchards this fall because the coddling moth had not been kept under control. In places, the damage done by moths and worms was much worse than usual this year, said H. R. Niswonger, extension horticulturist at State college. Some growers blame the weatb*| er, others said their spray mater-w ials were not satisfactory, but a good number did succeed in' controlling the moth, Niswonger added. The pest can be controlled, he declared. The first step in con trol begins immediately after har vest and consists of a general clean up of the orchard and the pack ing house. All dropped fruit under the trees, and all piles of cull apples around 1 the packing house should be re moved from the orchard or bur ied in a trench. Former Resident Visits City Again Mrs. J. W. Sullivan, of Oklahoma City, a former resident of Shelby, spent the week-end here visiting friends and relatives, whom she has not seen since she moved away from Shelby 38 years ago. She will be remembered by older people of Shelby as Miss Prances Wilder of Albany, Ga., who attended the Shelby Female college, here in her girl hood days. It was while she was a student here that the ro mance between her and her late husband began. Mr. Sullivan was killed in a motorcycle accident in Oklahoma City last August. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Huff and their son, John, came with her to Shelby. Mrs. Huff, also formerly lived in Shelby,- having been Miss Janie Durham, priot to her mar riage. CRAVEN IJQITOK STORES ' SHOW A BIU PROFIT NEW BERN, Nov. 3.—The Craven county liquor stores have returned net profits of $22.083.fi8 since they be?an operation In July and August, 1935. Just Ten Years Ago (Taken From The Cleveland Star Of Monday, November 1, 1926.) Between 150 and 200 teachers of Cleveland county schools attended the first general county teachers' meeting of the year held in Shel by Saturday. The high light of the meeting was the decision by the teachers to publish a county-wide school paper once each month. Approximately 70 Cleveland coun ty schools opened for the regular term today, according to J. H. Grigg, county superintendent. About 45 of the 70 are white schools and about 25 are schools for colored children. Following The Star’s custom elec tion returns from the county and Judicial district will be posted on a bulletin board in front of The Star office Tuesday night. The 164 acre farm of the late Ruriis Gardner which was sold at auction Saturday near Fallston on highway No. 18 by. the executors, was bid in by the heirs at $145 per acre. The suit of Rev. C. B. Way against trustees of the Methodist Protestant church of Shelby for unpaid salary will be heard before the state supreme court this week. Coughlin Again Offer* Apology DETROIT, Nov. 3 — UP) —Father Charles E. Coughlin’s second ’pub lic apology to President Roosevelt in the current campaign may pos sibly affect his future political ac tivities but his immediate superior, ‘-Bishop Michael J. Gallagher, said [today the retraction was "satisfac Blshop Gallagher, who had an nounced previously he would vote for President Roosevelt, said it was his “suggestion” which resulted in the priest’s public apology during a radio speech in New York Saturday night. Referring to a speech made a week ago at Cleveland in which he called Mr. Roosevelt the “scab president,” Father Coughlin said: “I wish to close this campaign by apologizing for any hurt which such words have done his persons.” Bishop Gallagher commented: "I feel it was an action of deep humiliation. You know these poli ticians, like the press, hate to take back what they say, I presume Father Coughlin learned that I was displeased and I expected such ac tion from him. Sometimes a sug gestion is as good as an order.” Plan Markers To Celebrate History RALEIGH, Nov. 3.—(AV-'The state committee on historical markers announced today that it would place plates at the Masonic orphanage at Oxford and Davidson college, to commemorate the first-flight of a power-driven airplane at Kill Devil by the Wright brothers, to signalize the founding of* New Bern in 1710 and to mark the site of the home of Gabriel Holmes near Clinton. CAUGHT TRYING TO KUK FILLING STATION WII.SON, Nov, 3.—C/P) —Officers arreted a youth booked us Norman Batchelor of Mt. Olive after a $43 filling station robbery and gun bat tle between the attendant and the bandit , Sumter Girl Is Badly Injured SUMTER, S. C.. Nov. — (A** — Miss Margaret Witherspoon, prom inent young Sumter woman, was In a critical condition In the Tourney Hospital here today from injuries sustained Saturday night when her j car sidewiped the railing of a l bridge in the Wateree river swamp i and plunged into seven feet of wa- , ter. Doctors found It necessary to [ amputate Misi Witherspoon's left leg last night. Her right leg was also broken and she sustained a number of cuts and bruises. Phil Saxe of Greensboro, who was riding with Miss Witherspoon, escaped with minor bruises. He div ed into the water after the crash and brought Miss Witherspoon to shore. Single Letter To Decide The Derby TORONTO. Nov. 3.— (*”) —Upon the differences between a "C” and a “K” may hang $500,000 and the hopes of half a dozen champion childbearers. While the five other apparent joint winners of the Millar Baby Race fortune were receiving con gratulations and planning what to do with their shares, the sixth, Mrs. Lily Kenny, announced her two “missing babies” had been found, properly registered at the bureau of Vital Statistics. It is just a matter of spelling. Mrs. Kenny said. The Infante were registered as offspring of “Mrs. “Cenny.” “This definitely proves that Mrs. Kenny Is the sole winner of the prize for childbearing under the terms of the late Charles Vance Millar’s will,” her counsel said. “There was never any question about her being the mother of nine eligible babies, the same as the other five mothers claim. With this proof of the two other births her total goes, to eleven—and that's the top.” Life Begins At* 100, Declares Jap NEW YORK. Nov. 8.—Kat suzo Nishis, Medical Consultant to members of the Japanese Imperial family, said today that "Americans are wrong. Life really begins at one hundred.” Nishi, who resigned as the chief engineer of the Tokyo and Osaka Subway systems a year ago to preach to the world "the Nishi Sy stem of Health Engineering,” Is ! completing a series of lectures in ' the United States. | If his system of exercises is fol lowed. he said, the normal span of i life will rise to 120 years and it will not be unusual for some persons to live to be 240. The system is based on my the ory that osmotic action of the cap ; illaries and not the pumping action of the heart causes circulation. The heart, despite Harvey’s accept ed theory, Is not a pump but rather | a volume control of the circulation. ! I have a standing offer of $5,000 to i any man who can prove otherwise.” I - “WHO’S WHO MYSTERY* IS CLEARED IIP GUTHRIE, Okla.—(TP)—The mys | tery of the "unknown” resident of this city of 10,000, whose name ap peared in the 1936 of "Who’s Who in America,” has been solved. She is Mother Agnes Arvnl, presi dent of the Catholic college for Women of Oklahoma. She has been president since 1927—and a mem j her of the faculty since 1898. i When her name appeared, sim ply Agnes Arvin, hundreds of resi dent of Guthrie pondered her iden tity. ' Italy, France Are On Chilly Terms PARIS, Nov. 3.—(JP)—Arnault* ,bjr French communist# on Italian Fas cists at Chambery, coupled with Premier Benito Mussolini's freeslng friendship" reference to France In a speech at Milan, subjected Italo j French relations to a revere chill 1 today. i An Italian official indicated that i the Italian Embassy would protest | to the French foreign office as a ' result of the rioting at Chambery, where five Fascists, Including the Italian consul, were beaten In an attack by French communists. Mussolini’s speech was received by informed quarters here as ac centuating the growing rift be tween Italy and France. Take Fingerprints CHARLOTTE, Nov. 3.—(^P>— Charlotte Pythlans. supporting the National Fingerprinting movement, have all sent their prints to the civilian file at Washington. Mrs. Raymond Jones Entertains Daughter (Special to The Star.) LATTIMORE, Nov. 5.-Mrs Ray mond Jones entertained at a de jhtful birthday party Saturday *ftemoon, Oct. 34 from two till five o’clock In honor of her daughter, 'tatty Joyoe, who celebrated her sixth birthday anniversary. Many james were enjoyed and later the children was Invited In the dining room, the table was decorated with pink and white roses. A beautiful white cake with six tiny candles was in the center of the table. Sandwiches, cake and grape juice were served. Mrs. Jones was assist ed In entertaining by Misses Sara Hamrick and Ola Jones. Ouesta In cluded Rosa Mae Phllbeck, Annie Mas and Doris Jones, Oeorge Ham rick, Nancy and Jackie Weather, Margaret Wilson Marietta, Bubby. Ruby and Veva C. Crowder, Aubrey Jr., Calton, Betty Jean Bradley, Bobble Ray Jones. CARNEGIE COUSIN IS DEAD IN WAYNE8VILLE WAYNEBVILLE, Nov. 3.— OP) — John Newman Bhoolbred, 30, a cou sin of the late Andrew Carnegie with whom he came to the United States from England, died hers yesterday. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow. Shoolbred, who bore the name of his godfather Cardinal Newman, has ranged the world over as a mining engineer, many years of which were spent In the employ of Carnegie. jOtb*JGST: pi the glowworm family, only the female is luminous, while in the genus homo, it’s usually the male who gets lit • • • Angling is believed the most popular sport in America, es pecially among the debutantes. • • • We can’t understand why that Waterbury, Conn., burglar who took a bath and shaved in eaoh of 30 houses he robbed, doesn’t come dean. • • • That college band that is hav ing such a hard time finding a student who can play the eupho nium might start out by teach ing students how to spell it • • • A Berkeley, Calif., fellow who worked his way through college with sleight of hand magic must have been able to pull dough out of dad’s hat Burton Jolley, 56 Dies At Prospect (Special to The 8tar.i PROSPECT. Nov. a—John Bur >n Jolley, 56, farmer tiled early Thursday morning near Lavonla Baptist church after a short ill ness. Mr. Jolley was a member of 'Tospect Baptist church where fu j neral services were conducted Fri day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by i the Rev. T. M. Hester. Mr. Jolley la vurvlved by his second wife, who ; before marriage was Miss Qullla McOraw: ten sons and daughters, ! Mrs. E. E. Huskey, Elsie, Kama, Vander, Fay, James Bobby Mabel I 3ue Ralford and Lonel Jolley. A : brother L. J. Jolley, half brother, jc. T. Jolley, half sister, Mrs. Eva llna Jones and sister. Miss Caldina Jolley. Mr. and Mrs. O W Elmore Mr. and Mrs. Ira Elmore were Sun day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamrick and family of Kings Mountain. Mias Pettus Mosteller and John Edwin Mosteller motored to Forest City Wednesday afternoon to visit Mrs. Joe MOrrls. Several attended the singing Thursday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kirby, Sr. Fay Mosteller has been sick but la some better. Move Into New Calvary Building Flint services in the new church house of Calvary Baptist church will be held next Sunday, It was learned today from the pastor Rev. H. E. Waldrop. The building Is hardly complete, but will be In condition for the church to gather. They will also begin use of the ten Sunday school rooms. The new building Is two blocks south of the Graham school building which has been used for a meeting place. It Is located on Oardner and Lackey streets. A revival meeting to be led by Rev. Harold Smith of Greenville, 8. O. has been planned for the week of November 10. FEDERAL RANK IS LOANING HEAVILY WINSTON-SALEM. Nov. S —(IP) —O. K. La Roque, president of Fed. eral Home Loan Bank here, said that October was the sixth consec utive month that the bank's loans exceeded $1,000,000. He listed the month’s total at $1,004,800 and said outstanding loans Oct. $1 were $10,405,720.84 compared with $7,820, 161.70 on the same date last year. Wife Makes Plea For Erring Spouse CHICAGO. Nov. S —<*V-H0WArd Fulgcr's loyal wlfa drafted * plea to the governor of Michigan Mon day In hope of circumventing the fate which, after 17 years, brought Fulgcr's arrest aa an escaped oon vlct. Detectives found him Saturday, working aa an engineer In a Oo\ Coast apartment building where he had been employed nine years as "Howard H. Law.” They said authorities at the Jackson, Mich, prison knew him as No. 11-109, one of a dosen convicts who fled In 1919 after tunneling their way to freedom. Two months later, Fulger related, he married Mrs. Elisabeth Hare, a widow who, at 69, is 13 years hts senior. "For myself I care little,” he said. "But It. Is tragedy for my wdfe. I never had told her the story. I hoped It. never would be necessary.” ”1 wont’ let you go bark,” she declared. "We’ll get lawyers.” But Fulger dissented. "We have so little money,” he said. "Yotl’ll need It all.” "First, of all.” Mrs. Fulger In sisted, "We must write to the gov ernor of Michigan and beg him for mercy." Fulger related that In 1917 he was sentenced to serve ten to 30 years In prison, charged with an offense against his stepdaughter. He In sisted he was convicted because of "deluded” testimony by his first, wife, who, he ssld, had been sent to Insane asylums twice before and once after their marriage. He had been a reformatory guard at Ionia, Mich. New Truck Sales Are Running High RALEIGH, Nov. 3~—I/D—Salee Of new truck* tn NortH Carolina through October this year con tinued to run ahead of the eorres | ponding period In 198# but aalea of new automobiles dropped from last ! year. There were 8.830 new cars sold last month, compared with 8AM In September, and for 10 months sales aggregated 39.503 compared with 46,114 during the period In 1988. In October there were 1,075 new i trucks sold, compared with 1,180 In September, and for this year through Saturday sales totalled 13.647 compared with 11,867 la the 1938 period. Greensboro Builds GREENSBORO, Nor. 8.—</P>—Oc tober building construction here totaled 8931189. AERICA’S FINEST LOW-PRICED rh. Crowning A«hl.«m.nt of Pont.o of Giving Moro for U.» A LOOK t~>kmimbbr—no matter what *'■ other important butine** you have on hand—be aure to aee the 1937 Pontiac*. You’ll be well repaid, for Pontiac ha* built a new six and eight that have no counterpart* in the hi*tory of motoring. The high 1 ights of the 1937 Pontiac* are ahown at the right. But even thi* fmpoaing list can give you only the faintest notion of how completely Pontiac ha* overturned previous idea* of what a low-priced car should be. The new Silver Streak i* bigger— full five Inches bigger—and what a difference that make* in roomineae, riding ease, smartness! It's an even better value—enriched with more basic advancements than any new car at its price. And it is even more economical than last year’s Pontiac, official economy champion of its price-class I Come in—see the latest, greatest models of the most beautiful thing on wheels—let your own eyes prove that everything points to Pontiac for 1937. It is America's finest low-prio*l oar. BIQQER CAR! SETTER VALUE! CREATES ECONOMY! MOM MAUTIfUt. (IIVM STRIAK STYUNO • SAPRTY TRIPtl-SIAlID HYMAUUC MAMS • IONOM WHIIl •AM—UT INCH ON AND Jtl INCH ON ’*•" • l A ROM IUOOAOI AND MAM TIM COMPART MINT • PIRPKTID SAPRTY CINTIR-POINT STMRIN9 • IAROIR UNISTIIl SODIIS >Y PISHIR • BIOMR DOOR! • AD JUST AMI TKTINO S-PAMCNOIR PR&NT MAT • IMPROVID KNII-ACTSON RIDI • PRODUCT OP OfNMAl MOTORS J. Lawrence Lackey WEST WARREN STREET -- SHELBY, N. C.