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FOREST CITY COURIER Published Every Thursday in the interest of Forest City and Ruther ford County. Entered Aug. 22, 1918, at tho post office at Forest City, N. C., as second class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. C. E. ALCOCK Editor and Owner CLARENCE GRIFFIN— NeWs Editor MRS. C. E. ALCOCK—Society Editor ARVAL ALCOCK Advertising H. H. HOUSER ... Job Dept. SUBSCRIPTION RATES" Payable'nTAdvance** ~ One year -£~ SI.OO Six months _ -60 $1.50 per year outside of Rutherford County. ADVERTISING RATES Display, per column Inch 30c Reading Notices, per line 10c Classified Column lc per word g TntwdSr* I 7 S*North Carolina, /PRESS ASSOCIATION*)] , THURSDAY, MAY 17. 1928 AUTOMOBILES OVERBOARD IN *TO*M ON LAKE Detroit, May 15.—When th# ship Sultan milled into Chicago y«. cently after a severe storm on Lafce Michigan, Cap., David Smith report ed a remarkable h&ppentng with 42 Essex Super-Six sedans and coaches which were swept overboard .Capt. Smith reported that instead of sinking the cars floated readily amid the higK-rolling waves and could be seen still afloat as the ship travel ed out of sight. As they were closed cars, tightly constructed and with all doors and windows closed, his theory is that the air within the bod- j ies was sufficient to float them un til waves should break the window glass or capsize the whole automo bile in the wave troughs. "That was a sight for you—a line up of cars like a miniature formation of battle ships," said Capt. Smith. "They were loosened from the dieck in whole rows when the rope lashings broke, jzoijsegtfgntly they slipped ov erboard hv regular formation. I ex pected them to fj[o tjp the bottom im : mediately, but not one of them inl sot; - iThfc air kept th*m up "the axles,, motor and frame acted as bal last. They're of good balance for they • floated erectely and steadily in the heavy seas. This was the hardest storm I have ever seen in many years on the Great Lakes." The cars were on theiiv season's first water tfce Hudson Motor Co., of Illinois. The cars were insured, and J. R. Histed, General manager and vice-president, of the concern, was scarcely down hearted pt all about the incident. In stead* he said; "This is just a bit out of the usual as a demonstration, but there are distinctive things about those Essex cars which would simply make them float. The construction is so tight, the doors and windows are so snug, that the air supply would be retained for hours. Essex are much similar to steel ships in their con struction. "Their staunch storm-tight quali ties thus surprisingly proved, are well known to hundreds of thousands of motorists." You are invited to call at the Cliffside Motor Co., and let them show you the Hudson or Essex. BUILDING ACTIVITIES Men were on the ground yesterday, preparatory to beginning the erection of Forest City's new theatre. Mr. Kelly Moore, well known builder of Cliffside, will supervise this work. When started, this work will be push ed to a rapid conclusion. Work is progressing on the new city hall. Mr. Cowan Blanton is planning to open a new dining room over his cafe, work on which has already started. The Kiwanis Club and other clubs and organizations will have meals served in the new dining room, which will prove a most popular meeting place. Mr. Blanton expects to have the new dining room ready for service within thirty days. Forest City is expected to show a renewed building activity within a very short period. A French manufacturer expects a heavy demand for men's lipsticks next year. THE PRIMARY ELECTION LAWS Mr. J. R. Anderson, Chairman of Election Board, Ex plains Rulings J. R. Anderson, chairman of the Rutherford County Board of Elec tions, points out that May 18th is the last day for candidates for se lection as the nominees of any poli tical party for the office of State Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and County and Township offices to file Notice of Candidacy with the County Board •of Election. C. S. 6022, Sec. 109 of the Election Law as amended by Laws 1927. SI.OO Last day for Statements of Ex penditures to be filed by candidates. All candidates for State and Dis trict offices shall file such state ments with the Secretary of State. All candidates for State Senator in districts composed of only one coun ty, members of the House of Repre sentatives, and all county offices shall file such statements with the Clerk of the Superior Court of their county. C. S. 6025, Sec. 112 Election Law. Last day for candidates to file Statements of Expenditures with the Secretary of State and the Clerk of the Superior Court, same as shown for May 22nd above. C. S. 6025, Sec. 112 of the Election Law. You will please read carefully the following in regard to blanks and tickets for absentee voters: Sec. 47 (c, (8, 5963). Ballots to be furnished to absent voters. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the county board of elections or the registrar of . she precinct to mail or send to any voter absent from the county, or whb is physic ally unable to attend in person, upon application in writing for same, by such person or any person for him, as soon as received from the State Board of Elections, one only of each form of ballot applied for to be voted in such election, one blank certificate only of the kind' applied for, and one return enve lope. The said applications for such ballots, certificates, and envelopes shall be preserved by the chairman of the county board of elections or the registrar and shall be filed with the clerk of the Superior Court of the county. In regard to who should vte in a primary election, Democi-ats vote in a Democratic Primary and Re publicans in a Republican Primary. It is the election officer's duty to ; know with what party the elector when he presents himself or herself to vote. Therefore, »f the elector does not affiliate toith the party in whose primary he or she presents themselves to vote, tliey should not be allowed to vete. A survey shows that in Detroit the liquor industry ranks second. The auto industry is first. Perhaps some of the moonshine finds a ready market as a substitute for gaso line ! 72x90 sheets, value 89c, sale price, and have been fitted' up for # picnic 2 for $1.39. Buck Stores. and camping grounds. Twenty-sevei. The above picture shows the members of the editorial staff of The Forester, high school annual of Cool Springs High school, which came from the press this week. They are Elizabeth Barber, editor-in-chief; Bernice Kanipe, business manager; Thomas Long, assistant editor; Merle Price, literary editor; Winnie Price,' art edi tor; Pierce Hyder, jokes editor; Mildred Moore, assistant business manager; Mae Hill, typist; Wallace Long, art editor; Ruth Hollifield, athletic editor; Jane Stataback, junior associate editor; and Macon Hewitt, junior associate business manager. - ■ May 22nd June 22nd Editorial Staff of The Forester SI IrHkl ME± r, I KfIT , J§ A.- S MPK^ H:• ; '-uE j J -m § 12 1 IUHUHSH V ,3! ( , (t "IJT ,Ifm# THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928. A National Tragedy Now Being Enacted This government is based upon the principle of a majority rule. In or der to ascertain the will of the ma jority, political parties were organ ized while America was quite young, and all such parties were supposed to have certain definite issues upon which each depended for popular support. As a result, two major par ties came into existence, and since 1860 what are known as the Re publican party and the Democratic party have had control of affairs in the nation. The majority party, of course, has had control of the country as long as it remained the majority party, and was charged with the great responsi bility of conducting affairs for the best interests of the country as a whole. Yet, if our form of government is worth having,, the minority party owes just as much allegiance to the people as does the majority party, or the party in power. The minority party, by all reasoning, is the one and only force that can function in making the majority party "com* clean" with the citizens of the na tion. During the last eight years the Republican party has been the ma jority party, and in control of the governmental affairs. During that time officials of the United States government have bartered and sold the possessions of the people of this country. The operations of Sinclair and his associates in crime will stand for many years as the blackest pages in American history. When full reali zation of the awfulness of the crimes that have been committed by gov ernmental officials during the past eight years shall have come to the American people, the name of Bene dict Arnold will no longer be used as this nation's only outstanding traitor. True it is, that just a few individ uals have brought all this disgrace to the majority party. Yet the fact that the Republican party has done but little toward punishing such men and thereby clearing its own skiits. leaves that party in a very unenvia ble position. I The Democratic party, as the ( minority party, is also failing in its ; d"uty to the people. It is torn to pieces with internal strife over the • selection of a candidate for presi | dent, and devoting its energies not to j the task of exposing and driving I home to the people the great dangers j presented to our national life witb : thievery in high places, but is en gaged in a brawt as to the nomine? \ FLAT ROCK SWIMMING POOL OPENS THURSDAY 1 Flat Rock Swimming Pool, located J five miles s»uth of Forest City, wiil »pen Thursday, May 17, (today) ac cording to the owner, Mr. J. M. But ler. The swimming pool is built of concrete and is 200 feet lon£ and fifty feet wide, with a ranging depth of water. The pool is fed from a clear, beautiful stream and has an abundance of fresh water it a v i times. surroundings, are of that party for president. Well or ganized effort is being made to nom inate a man by the name of A 1 Smith, whose almost every claim TO distinction is such as to make cer tain a very poor administration in the event of his election. A 1 Smith can never cement the forces of his own party, even. Oil and water cannot mix—never ha:> it been done, nor can it £ver be done. Neither can the conglomeration of foreign born and the first generation, j largely Catholic and avowedly wet element of the Democratic party in the East from a fighting organiza- • tion with the pure Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, prohibition element of Senator j Thomas Hefljn has been that same party in the South, when , ... the leader is such a pronounced rep - dellvenn « a series ° f lectures in resentative of the first group, and so North Carolina against the candidacy diametrically opposite to everything of Governor Alfred E. Smith or any embraced in the latter group. : wet . Tammanyite. Senator Heflin's Very few people outside of his own ! - , . .. . ~ . / , y * i f oes claim he is a little radical at state had ever heard of Calvin Cool- j . idge until the Boston police strike j times but an r true Southern Demo threw the Hub into the hands of 'Crat will admit he is fighting a thieves and thugs. At that time j worthy battle. He is for a dry candi- Mr. Coolidge was governor of Massa-; date, chusetts. He called out the troops and j quelled the mob, stopped the thievery and punished the thieves. Becau.?* of this one act, Coolidge was nom inated as vice president in 1920, and upon Harding's death became presi dent. Conditions in national affairs had developed that were ten thousand times more inimical to popular gov ernment than the Boston police strike, yet Mr. Coolidge did not show the zeal for punishing crimin als and restoring confidence in pub lie officials that marked his activi ties in the Boston trouble. A full, complete, fearless exposure of all misdeeds in national affairs ought to be made by this minority party in the coming campaign. But how in the world does the Democratic party, hope to appeal to the public for purification of gov ernmental affairs with a standard' bearer who has had his only train ing in Tammany Hall, a notorious po litical school that has been con- demned ever since its organizaton, and has had the audacity to laugh at such condemnation? It is tragedy, indeed, a rational tragedy, that A 1 Smith's entrance into the political arena had to be made at this time. In the event of his nomination there can be ro ef fective appeal made to the American people for purification of national affairs, for every charge made by Democratic speakers will be • nswer ed by the hue and cry of "Tammany Hall " —Brevard News. j acres of rock ledge and a large w od jed park, together with a spring of jfine water affords one of the finest j picnic grounds in the county. Tablps i have been built in the park for pL't.ic | parties. Bath houses have been fitted up with all modern 1 conveniences. Mr. Butler has just received a large num ber of new bathing suits, which can be rented at a nominal sum, or par ties may use their own suits for bathing. Harry Hershfield tells of a Scotchman who went crazy trying to shoot off a cannon a little at a time. attractive, U 7 * IVI! >" CRIMINAL COURT IN SESSION Proceedings of Spring Term of Court for Monday and Tuesday Rutherfordton, May • 15.—The \ Spring term of superior court for the trial of criminal cases convened here Monday with Judge P. A. McElroy, of Marshall, presiding. The following cases have been disposed of to Tues day nig^t: Monday State vs. Eli Littiejohn, Trial. State vs. B. P. Putnam, Alias and continued. * • State vs. C. R. Powell, trial. State vs. J. C. Taylor, Mattie Tay lor, Nol pros with leave. State vs. David Arrowood and Earl Burgess, good behavior shown by Ar rowood, continued under former ord er. Nol pros with leave as to Burgess. State vs. Jim Stacy, Alias capias continued. I . State vs. Will Spicer and Lee Haynes, Alias capias continued. State vs. W. L. Montieth, Alias capias and continued. i State vs. Palmer Padgett, Nol pros with leave. 1 • _ 1 State vs. E. M. Jordan, J. S. Hunt, witness, open. State vs. Robert Harrill, on chain i gang. i State vs. George Miller, trial. State vs.^George> Carson, and Chas. Miller, Alias and continued. State ys. Albert Hutchins, Nol pros with leave. State vs. Elwin Small, Alias and , continued. I State vs. Frank Parris, Alias and i continued. | State vs. Glen Wilkie, trial. ! State vs. New Harrill, off. i • ' I State vs. Lawrence Robinson, de i fendant called and failedt judgment i ni si sci fa and capias. State vs. Horace Elliott, Alias and continued. State vs. Ralph Harris and Sid 1 Coffee, trial. | State vs. Leandar Harrison and i Wilkie Toney, Harrison pleads guilty jto public drunkeness. Trial by jury j for affray. Jury empannelled dnd for i their verict return " not guilty as to i Toney." Guilty as to Harrison. Judge ' ment of the court that Harrison pay 'a fine of SIOO and the cost in each ease. State vs. M. H. Reid, Alias capias and continued State vs. Guy Allen, Alias and con tinued. State vs. Paul Williams, Trial. State vs. Floyd Dixon, Nol Pros with leave. State vs. G. A. Martin, Nol pros with leave. State vs. W. C. Carpenter. State vs. Virgil Vassey, Nol pros with leave. State vs. Roy Harris, good behav ior shown defendent dismissed. State vs. L. C. Armstrong, Nol pros with leave. State vs. Daisy Martin and L. A. Wright, good behavior shown, contin ued under former order. State vs. Forest Forney, it appear ing to the court that defendent is dead, action abates. State vs. John Saunders and Manly Butler, good behavior shown dismiss ed. State vs. Jas. Wilson, Alias and continued. State vs. Lerqy Scoggins, Nol pros with leave. State vs. Norris Duffey, good be havior shown, off. State vs. Abe McGinnis, Nol pros with leave. State vs. W. L. Beheler, defendent called and failed, judgement ni si sci fa and capias. State Troy McGinnis, good be havior shown, continued under good behavior. State vs. Eli McCurry, Nol pros. State vs. Quinn Kendrick, defend ent pleads guilty. Judgement of court is that dtefendent pay a fine of $20.00 and costs. State vs. Robert Johnson, defend ant called and failed. Judgment ni sci, instanta sci fa and capias. State vs. Lawrence Johnson, de fendant enters plea of guilty. Judg-1 ment of court is that defendant be 1 confined in state's prison for not less than 2 or more than 3 years at hard labor. State vs Joe McCurry, defendant inters plea of guilty. State vs. B. B. Womack, defend ant called and failed. Judgment ni sci, instanta sci fa and capias. State vs. Yates Moss, called and failed. Judgment ni scJI ' instanta and sci fa and capias. * State vs. Eli Littiejohn, piea of. guilty. Judgment of court is thatX defendant pay a fine of $50.00 and costs. State vs. C. R. Powell. Defendant called and failed. Judgment sci, instanta sci fa and capias. State vs.y George Miller, continual for State. State vs. Lawrence Robinson, De fendant enters plea of guilty. Judg ment of the court is that defendant |be confined in State's prison for nat | less than two or more than tnrt* years at hard labor, j State vs. Andrew Dellinger, Lank ' Miller and J. E. Robertson true bill, j Grand jury comes in to court in a $ body and returns the following A in dictment : Murder. Tuesday State vs. Yates Moss, Deffijbant enters plea of guilty. Judgment of the court is that defendant pay fine v 1 of $50.00 and cost. ' 1 State vs. C. A. Goodie, DefendaSi called and failed. Judgment ni sci instanter scifant and capias, i State vs. Delia Hamilton*. Nol pros with leave. State vs. W. L. Boheeler. Good be havior shown continued on former order. « State vs. William Green. Defend ant enters plea of guilty. Judgment of the court is that defendant state prison for a term of not« than two years or more than tteaft years at hard labor. j State vs. Ed Smart. Jury tried. De fendant pleads not guilty. At close of State's evidence defendant nJpves for judgment of non suit. of not guilty ordered by the court. , State vs. Charles Koon. Defendupt enters plea of guil'v. Judgment of the court is that defendant be con fined to state prison for a term of not less than three years and not more than five years of hard lafror. State vs. Bill Clayton. Jury med. Defendant pleads not guilty. Verdict of guilty. Three Homicide Cases j The court began the trial rk Lank Miller, colored, for murdter Wedn|(s ,day morning. The attorneys appear ing for the state are Robert Reynolds, of Asheville, Ridings and Jones, of Forest City and solicitor J. Will Pless. For the defendant are neys M. L. Edwards and S. P. Dunta# gan, Hamrick and Harris, and Clyde . R. Hoey. The Dellinger case will to trial Friday and on Monday ' Sheriff J. Robinson's case will be >, tried. Grant) Jury, Spring Term W. S. Moss, Foreman; P. C. Hawk ins, J. R. Bennett, G. M. Huntley, J. E. Padgett, Allen Horn, J. H. Fl#, Conway Kennedy, W. N. You^g. s J. W. Carlisle, W. A. Rucker, C. W. Blankenship, Nat Fortune, J. S. Mc- Curry, G. A. Matheny, J. L. Morris, F. C. Dorsey, B. B. Doggett. The recent rains have been most beneficial to alfalfa, lespedeza and clover but terrible on cotton. Farm ers of Union County report fine stands of lespedeza. Thirty-two bales of Big 801 l cotton brought a premium of $230 to J. C. Barber of Rowan Coun ty as compared with the ordinary grades of cotton. Mr. Barber paid his taxes with this premium. James C. McGarren of St. had his wife arrested for breaking his false teeth, but they later made up.
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