COUNTY NEED IS
LESS BUT THERE
ARE CASES LEFT
Mrs. Ledford Says the
Need Is Urgent,
Numbers Off
We do not believe suffering will
be eo acute or relief so necessary
this year as In depression years, but
we hope all the churches and clubs
and relief agencies will give no less
than In former years," Mrs. L. H.
Ledford county welfare head said
today.
Mrs. Ledford said the calls for re
lief at her office have been approxi
mately half as numerous this year
as in some of the worst winters,
but that there will be many fam
ilies who have only barest necessi
ties. "Approximately 100 families in
the county need our help, though
others need many things too.
"Gifts to these will be like bun
dles from heaven, and even with
all the giving or our relief pro
gram, there will still be some who
are not touched."
Some Keep Pride
Many residents out In the coun
ty, even though they are In actual
need, will not ask for help. They
are getting back a certain sort of
pride in keeping themselves up —
which is a good thing. Even if they
ask for help, they expect to work
some for it and do not expect hand
outs. However, in town we have a
certain number of people who have
never worked and never will work.
Whose families are in want. We
have to help them in some way.”
Mrs. Ledford said many of the
older persons in the county are still
under the impression that If they
can just live until the first of the
ytM that social security and old
age pensions will begin coming to
them, with cash payments each
month, and that all their troubles
will be over.
“None of us know exactly when
and how the social security pro
gram will work, but we know it
wont be that soon and feel that one
will get out of it in proportion to
what Is put into it.”
She did not know what relation
ship the social security program
will have to the welfare depart
ment! in the oounty. but there is ex
pected to be some work in common.
Neighbor Plonk
Buried In Lincoln
' LINCOLNTON, Dec. 2. — Joseph
Lafayette Plonk, 85, died Monday
morning in a local hospital where
he had been taken after being
found, unconscious earlier in the
morning o nthe Indian Creek bridge
near his home on highway 150. Mr.
Plonk is believed to have suffered a
stroke of paralysis while he was on
hia way from his home to that of
his son. Phillip Plonk. Surviving arc
the widow, one son, Phillip, and four
daughters, Mrs. L. M. Smith, Mrs.
Qrady Heavner and Mrs. John Sul
livan of Lincoln county and Mrs.
Carl Black of Cherryville. Mr. Plonk,
known to hundreds of friends in
this section as "Neighbor” Plonk,
was for many years one of the
county’s outstanding farmers. Fu
neral services were conducted Tues
day morning at 11 o’clock at St.
Mark’s Lutheran church.
War Debt Talk I*
Very Brief Indeed
PARIS, Dec. 2.—(£")—Prance has
expressed official Interest In re-op
ening the war debt question but
has been told any negotiations must
await the return to Washington of
' PreaMent Roosevelt, a United
States embassy spokesman said to
day-.
The debt question was raised
briefly by Bhreign Minister Yvon
Delbos yesterday during a conver
sation with William C. Bullitt, the
United States Ambassador.
Delbos asked Bullitt if the Unit
ed States were interested in dis
cussed the debts, the spokesman
said. Bullitt was declared to have
replied he was not authorized to
disouss the problem.
The single question and answer,
the spokesman said, constituted the
discussion.
C. C. Harmon Killed
LUMBERTON, Dec. 2.—(A*)—A
„Ar struck and killed a man listed
is C. 0. Harmon, about 60, of Tim
tiionsville, S. C., on a highway near
here yesterday. Officers described
the accident as unavoidable and
held The driver, R. B. Pemberton
of Lumberton blameless.
1-.
Ite
i
AUTO REPAIRS
On All Make Cars
- Rogers Motor* -
->
1 PAINTING ft PAPERING
J. B. M E £ T Z E
Phone 121, Shelby —
. 715-W, Gaffney.
“Better Be Safe Than Sorry’’
m
Confesses Killing
Brother in 1901
Thirty-five years after Henry J
Koehr was reported accidentally
drowned In 1001, hie older brother,
Charlea Koehr (above), now 04, waa
quoted by Chicago police aa con
feaalng ha killed the youth. "All
theae yeara my conscience haa trou.
bled me and now I want to tell the
truth,” he said. (Associated Press
Photo)
Yellow Or Red
Show The Apple
COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh,
Dec. 3.—Whenever an apple has
3-galactosidylcyanldin, it Mush
es a bright red.
But It’s nothing to be
ashamed of. That's just a tech
nical name for the stuff that
gives apples their rich, red col
or, said M. E. Gardner, head
of the horticultural department
at State college.
If the apple has only 3-galac
tosidylquercetln, It may be yel
low, but doesn’t Mush, he added.
This latter substance is found
in yellow apples, but research
workers of the XT. 8. department
of agriculture say it is not re
sponsible for the yellow odor.
EXPORTS AHEAD
DURING OCTOBER
Figure* Announced bj
Commerce Depart
ment Today
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—(/PV
The commerce department report
ed today that exports exceeded im
ports by $93,707,000 during October
Exports for the month totale<
$264,700,000, and imports $213,001,
000.
Hie foreign trade figures com
pared with a $31,989,000 excess ex
ports last year, when sales abroai
totaled $221,296,000 and purchase
from foreign countries, $189,357.00C
For the first ten months of thi
year, exports exceeding Imports b;
$20,092,000 compared with a $98,
435,000 excess of exports for th<
similar period last year.
The increase In exports durlm
October over the same month i
year ago, tlm department said, wai
due mainly to larger shipments o
manufactured cotton and tobacci
and of machinery, vehicles and iroi
and steel products.
In the import trade, gains wen
listed for meats, grains, feeds, al
coholic beverages, crude rubber
unmanufactured wool, newsprint
tin and fertilizers.
October gold exports were $117,
000. compared with $42,000 in Sep
tember and $76,000 in October. 1935
while imports were $218,939,000
$171,866,000 and $315,424,000 for th<
respective months.
October silver exports totalet
$268,000 compared with $204,000 ir
September and $260,000 in Octobei
last year, while imports were $26,
931,000; $8,363,000 and $48,898,00<
for the respective months.
PEACHLAND WANTS
NO BEER, NO WINI
WADESBORO, Dec. 1._{*>)_/
delegation of twenty persons ap
peared before the Anson count;
commissioners to protest the sali
of beer and wine anywhere in thi
vicinity of Peachland. The delega
tion asks the next legislature U
prohibit the sale of beer and wim
within two miles of Peachland.
The action was prompted, thi
delegates said, by the death of tw<
men In a gunfight at a resort li
the community last week. The com
missioners revoked the license o
the place.
Canvass Bids
RALEIGH, Dec. 2.—<JF> — Th
state highway and public work
commission met today to canvas
bids totalling gl.5K492.42 on 1
road and grade crossing projects.
WPA ComoUdatfam
WIN8TON-SALEM, Dec. 2.—(JPh
Consolidation of the fifth and sixtl
WPA districts became effective to
day. The New headquarters are a
Winston-Salem.
•Mm
Today’s
SMALL TALK
mm
By MRS. RENN DRUM
_warn'
I’VE MISLAID MY SENSE OF VALUES TODAY TO THE
extent of masquerading as a dramatic critic and am off
with the determination of telling—well not ALL I know, so
don’t try to shush me, Isabel—but a part of what I know
about the Community Players’ version of “Little Women,”
to be presented here Friday evening.
Isabel Hoey, who can direct a
play as well as act, which she has
already proved by carrying leading
roles In several of the organization's
previous productions, is promoting
the production as both director and
taxi-driver—she drives all over
town each rehearsal evening pick
ing up and delivering members of
the cast as well as snoopers, like
me, who insist on nosing in on re
hearsal four nights before the big
evening—and will probably turn out
to be property man and director of
stage settings, etc., Defore it’s all
over. (Aside to the English teach
ers: I really am ashamed of that
sentence. I know better).
Isabel and members of the cast
admit that “Little Women" is an
ambitious undertaking for a group
of amateurs but the play is shap
ing up well and, even done by a
home town cast, possesses the qual
ity of sweetness and appealing
warmth and charm which the story
has held for readers, theatre goers
ever since the book came fresh
from the pen of Louisa M. Alcott.
cott.
* • • •
SHfelby folk who enjoy plays and
who have been supporters and fol
lowers of the Community Players,
will enjoy seeing Lindsay Dail again
a member of a cast. Lindsay, play
ing the part of John Brooke, the
young tutor, opposite Mrs. 8. C.
Hewitt’s Meg, is quite handsome
and romantic looking in the tailed
coat, tight-fitting, faun colored
trousers, and broad-brimmed hat of
the 60 s.
Mrs. Hewitt, In rehearsal, prom
ises to be a very warm and lovely
as well as lovable, Meg. But perhaps
I liked her interpretation because
Meg was always my favorite among
the four anyway, being a happy
cross between Jo’s bumptiousness,
Amy’s affectations, and Beth’s un
co* goodness. In a pink-sprigged,
hoop-skirted frock, with its blue
shawl collar, ruffled in pink, and
a flopsy pink hat, she’s certainty
pretty enough to Inspire John
Brooke’s ardor.
• • • •
Carobel Lever, always a favorite
with Shelby audiences, appears in
r voluminous Mack skirts and shawl
a cane and plumed bonnet, alac
reminiscent of the 60’s, and a real
istic rheumatic hobble, in the rol<
of the querulous Aunt March, who
you will remember, was the hair in
Jo’s butter. Carobel scolds her waj
through the play but you’ll like her
' just the same.
• • • •
1 Jim Shepard, as Professor Bhaer
will also be a box office attraction
After seeing Jim do the part in re
' hearsal I’m prepared to like the pro
' lessor better than I ever have be
1 fore. Harking back to my first read
1 tng of Little Women, when in mj
- teens, I recall being bitterly clisap
1 pointed when Jo threw down th<
r glittering, charming Laurie ant
’ married the professor, who, at that
* time, I could see only as a fat, stufiy
bewhiskered and thoroughly dill
r
person, certainly not made of the
proper fabric for heroes.
• * • •
Even Paul Lukas, In the movie
version of the piece, was a slightly
disappointing Phofesaor Bhaer. Now,
after all these years of holding the
professor in slight contempt, I feel
a spell of liking him coming on, and
all because I like Jim in the role. He
even puts over a very authentic
German accent, as German accents
go, and in the final act, after his
translation has been completed, is
quite elegant looking in his faun
colored trousers and vest and his
top hat.
• • • •
Another character in the play
whom I liked far the first time after
seeing the Community Players re
hearsal is Beth. Beth with her too
sweet ways ana ner unnatural
bravery in the face of death was
so completely outside my field <4
experience and sympathy I could
never like her in the book, and
Frances Dee, playing the part in
the movies, almost gave me hydro
phobia, but Harriett Gldney does
the part with both sweetness and
a pleasing dignity, which I wager
will win the sympathy of her aud
ience. Even the Faclng-Death-Brave
ly scene, the like of which done
by an amateur, usually leaves an
audience floundering hi embarrass
ment, promises to leave Friday
night’s audience with nothing but
tears in their throats. Harriett man
ages to simulate a very touching
courage without the usual quaver
ing voice and too, too seraphic
smile.
• • • •
Mary Jenkins and Charles Wray,
who proved their ability in the Play
ers’ last production, ‘‘Tight Brit
ches,” are prepared to create for
you Friday night a very likable
and delightful Jo and Laurie. I’m
willing to predict you’ll enjoy them
and the play as a whole almost as
much as you enjoyed the book.
Other parts in the cast will be
filled by Reeves Forney, “Pig" Hol
land, Kathleen Shepard, Frances
Green and Paul Wilson.
' The twins will be played by two
large dolls, to appear wrapped in
concealing shawls, so that only the
role of the robin outside Seth's win
dow remains to be filled. Only a
pair of tooth pick legs and a voice
like a robin are necessary and I
believe Charles Wray has someone
picked out to fill the place.
• • * • : i-. ■ **
I’m just coming out of the swoon
I went into when I heard how much
the Players are paying to rent those
costumes but after seeing them in
action, I’m about ready to admit
they’re worth it.
X might add, for the benefit of
those who’ve had a bad taste In
their mouths since they saw “Tight
Britches,” “Little Women” will be
just the thing to cure that taste. It
makes up in wholesome goodness
for what the last production lacked,
and will be a play the whole fam
ily will enjoy.
!| Kings Mountain Social
And Personal News
r KINGS MOUNTAIN. Dec. 3—Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Jenkins spent the
week-end in Asheville as guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cathey.
Mrs. Ed Abbott spent the week
1 end as guest ol Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Abbott in Hendersonville.
1 Sonny Peeler spent the Thanks
giving holidays in Greer, S. G. with
' his grandmother, Mrs. Draoe.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. D*g» and
1 family spent the week end in
Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Goforth
visited relatives in Spin dale and
: Ellen boro on Sunday.
Mrs. Willim Byrd spent several
■ days recently in Columbia, 8. C.
with her husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Black and
> family, Mrs. Harley Black and
■ family James Cloninger and Miss
■ Mary McCaslin were recent guests
> of relatives and friends in Enoree,
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Suttle and
• family of Charlotte spent the
> Thanksgviing season here with
> friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill Putnam had
f as dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Lee Woodward and family, Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Suttle and family and
Miss Ruth Putnam of Charlotte.
Mi«s Fairy Grace Patterson spent
> the holidays with her parents, Mr.
» and Mrs. A. H. Patterson.
>j Hunter Neisler is a business vis
1 itor to New York.
’ G. A. Bridges, C. C. Edens, David
Hamrick, J. K. Willis. Eugene Ma
this and Eugene, Jt, spent Thanks
giving at 8t. Charles, S. C. on a
- hunting trio.
» Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Tate spent:
- the week end in GafTney. S. C. with
t relatives.
Mrs Moulds Allen Of Etiaabelh j
is visiting relatives here this week.
Miss Rebecca Bradford has re
ceived notice of an appointment
with the post office in Gastonia.
Bun Patterson, Floyd Thornburg,
Gilbert Hord and Lester Hoke have
returned from a hunting trip to
the eastern part of the state.
Misses Maude Williams of Tay
lorsville, Grace Fortune of Char
lotte and Octavia Crawford of Paw
Creek spent the Thanksgiving sea
son at their respective home.
Miss Maude Dengler of Lenoir
Rhyne spent the week ehd with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Dengler.
Miss Madeline Patterson of Rock
Hill, S. C„ was a recent visitor
here.
Mrs. Rdbert Allen and twin ba
bies have returned home from the
hospital in Shelby. Mr. and Mrs.
Carpenter of Lawndale visited Mr.
and Mrs. Allen on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ermon Martin
have moved into their new home,
off the Orover highway.
Miss Nancy Hord of Cherryville
schools spent the week end at
home. J. D. Hord of Pilot. Moun
tain spent the week end with home
folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Carroll of
Burlington ware Thanksgiving vis
itors here.
Mrs. B. F. Ormand and Mrs. W.
C. Caveny were Joint hostesses to
the American Legion Auxiliary in
the parlors of the Mountain View
Hotel on Tuesday. Mrs. A. G. Sar
gent conducted the devotional ser
vice. The meeting was presided over
by Mrs. J. N. Gamble, president.
During the social period delicious
refreshments acre passed.
L
Conference Facts
In Detail Given
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 2.—
(JF)—Pact* of the Inter-Ameri
can peace conference:
What: A conference of dele
gates from 21 American nations
to consider proposals for peace,
Improved trade relations and
International suggestions of
mutual benefit to countries of
the western hemisphere.
When: The sessions open at
6 p. m. tonight (4 p. m., E. S. T.)
In the Argentine congressional
palace with* an address by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Who Proposed It: President
Roosevelt suggested the confer
ence last Feb. 12.—Officials of
Pan-American nations accepted
the proposal and cooperated in
arranging for the meetings.
Who Heads the Conference:
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argen
tine foreign minister and presi
dent of the League of Nations
assembly. He also is the winner
of the 1936 Nobel peace prize.
What Nations Are Participat
ing: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay,
Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil,
Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela,
Panama, Costa Rica, El Salxa
dor, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Hon
duras, Haiti, the Dominican
Republic, Cuba, Mexico and the
United States.
TERRACING UNIT
WORKS AT NIGHT
RALEIGH, Ubc. 2.—<;p>—Short
winter days would not allow the
unit at work on terracing of farm
lands in Yadkin ' county enough
daylight hours for work.
Now the unit has installed a por
table lighting system and is ready
to work 24 hours pen day, if neces
sary, to meet the demands pf far
mers who are lighting soil erosion.
HOOD ATTENDING
BANKERS MEETING
RALEIGH, Dec. 2.—(JF)—Gurney
P. Hood, State Bank Commissioner,
left today to attend a meeting in
Washington today and Thurs
day of the officers and executive
committee of the national associa
tion of supervisors of state banks,
of which he is a member, and the
officers and directors of the federal
deposit insurance corporation. *
_Negro Woman Killed
AIKEN, 8. C., Dec. 2.—(A*)—A car
turned over on a hill near here Mon
day and-killed Essie Mae Ross, 27
! 2^ltevUle negr0 TOBM8- Wymat
Hamilton, negro driving the car
was held pending an Inquest.
RUSSIA POINTS
TO HUGE FORCE
Ilyinsky Says Country
Is Ready For
Anything
i ;
MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—(/P)—Russia
pointed today to millions of well
trained Soviet youth as the power
behind its first line of defense.
M. Ilyinsky, secretary of the Mos
j cow Monsomol (Youth communists)
committee told the congress of So
viets our youth are always ready,to
defend our country.”
He drew a contrast between
communist youth and ‘the youth of
Hitler’s Germany,” who, he said,
"find beating up Jews and other
anti-semitism easier than jumping
with parachutes.”
I Ilysky detailed the number of;
| young men and women trained by
i Osoaviachi m(voluntary society for
. preparedness for air and chemical
| defense’) as follows:
I 1,700,000 VoroshilofI sharpshoot
ers. - '
60.000 snipers and sniper instruc
tors.
4.600.000 experienced chemical and
I aerial defenders.
54.000 horsemen.
In 1936, Ilyinsky said, Osoavia
chim trained 10,000 parachute
jumpers, 9,000 pilots, and 15,000
glider pilots.
“We have the healthiest young
generation in the world.” the sec
retary said, “as evidenced by the
fact that in the 1914 conscription
only four out of every thousand
conscripts were found physically
unfit for service.
About -43 per cent of the Soviet
Union’s population — youth bom
since 1917—Ilyinsky said “know
nothing of capitalistic exploitation.”
There are two towns in Alabama
named Jackson.
Night Coughs
^^Quickly checked
V hvCf without "dosing."
r* X/icks
<bon W VapoRub
COLDS
•nd
FEVER
666
t»m*u ffi-'Snrr-*!
S»hre, Nose Drops Headache, 4)1 minutes
Vrj "Kak-Mjr-TiuB”-World's kest Liniment
GUERNSEYS PLACED '
IN EASTERN COUNTIES
RALEIGH, Dec. 2.— UPh- A. C.
Kimrey, extension dairy specialist
at N. C. State College, Bald today
that 34 fine guernseys had been
placed with fanners in 10 eastern
counties as a result of the fall cat
tle sale held in Wilson last week
and these high quality heifers,
cows and bulls will be a big help in
increasing milk production in those
counties.”
GUILFORD LEADS ALL
COUNTIES IN DEATH
RALEIGH, Nov. 2.—W—Guilford
with five led all other counties in
the number of automobile fatalities
in October. Thirty-five counties had
none at all.
Taxes Increase
RALEIGH, Dec. 2.— UP) —State
tax collection in November totalled
$3,621,657.34, an increase of $92,
756.28 over November, 1935.
PRICELESS INFORMATION lor
I those suffering from STOMACH OR I
DUODENAL ULCERS. DUE TO HYPER
I ACIDITY-POOR DIGESTION. ACID
DYSPEPSIA, SOUR STOMACH, GASSI
NESS HEARTBURN, CONSTIPATION.
BAD BREATH. SLEEPLESSNESS OR
I HEADACHES. DUE TO EXCESS ACID
Explains the marvelous WiUard Treat- I
I meat which is bringing amazing relief.
| Sold on IS dayt trial.
sttttt.f’R drug store
AGED COUPLE HEAD TO
FLORIDA IN TRaiijJ
OLD FORGE, N. Y . Dr,
—Chief Jules Dennis, 76, Aip'rr ,1
Indian of the St. Fr.wi r,
tlon, Quebec, and Mr,. Air vll,„ um
lln, 70, who said she had pro p,..(
ed for gold in the Klondike, . t J
in a motor trailer today [or|
honeymoon in Florida
Orders Payment
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 11.—i/p;_fyJ
eral Judge E. Yates Webb ha* „
dered a 9.58 per cent dividend
holders of first mortgage b.nds ■
the Ozark milk at Gastonia, whJ
is in receivership.
Mi
Baddy Myers Have Son
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. - (/P)
A boy, weighing seven and a hi
pounds was born here today to 5
Charles 8. (Buddy) Myer, *ife
the Washington Senator infleldei
A Three Days’ Cougj
Is Your Danger Si(
No matter how many medli
you have tried for your cough t
cold or bronchial Irritation, you
get relief now with Creomul
Serious trouble may be brewing
you cannot afford to take a ch
with anything less than Crco
sion, which goes right to the
of the trouble to aid nature
soothe and heal the Inflamed met
branes as the germ-laden
Is loosened and expelled.
Even If other remedies
failed, don’t be discouraged,
druggist is authorized to guarani
Creomulslon and to refund yo,
money If you are not satisfied wii
results from the very first
Get Creomulslon right now.
chei
GIVE YOUR PIGS A
PROPER START IN LIFE
By Feeding
CLEVELAND
PIG GROWER
A BALANCED FEED FOR GROWTH
AND HEALTH.
EAGLE ROLLER MILL CO.
STAMEYS
Fallston Polkville
N. C. N. C.
The Season’s First
' OF OUR EXCLUSIVE
FASHIONS
THIS OUR FAMOUS ONCE-A-SEASON SALE. YOUR BIG OPPORTUN
ITY TO SAVE IN A SUBSTANTIAL WAY ON STAMEY’S READY-TO
WEAR. EVERY GARMENT IS TAKEN FROM OUR REGULAR
STOCK. SELECTIONS ARE EXTENSIVE.REDUCTIONS ARE
DRASTIC. COME EARLY.
STAMEYS COATS
Originally to $16.50—Now $12*75 and $15*75
Originally to $ 9.98 — — Now $ 7*98
Originally to $ 7.98 — — Now $ 4*98
Dress and Sports Models. Furred with Lapin, Kidskin, Fitch and Beaver.
STAMEY'S DRESSES
Originally $5.98 and $6.98 — Now $4*98
Originally $ 4.98 — — Now $ 3*98
Originally $ 3.98 — — Now $ 2.9®