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LINCO*jNTON is the TRADE CENTER For More Than 35,000 People. It Is Located in the Heart of Pied mont North Carolina the Most Prosperous Industrial and Agricul tural Section of the Entire Sooth. $1.50 PER YEAR County Officials To Be Sworn In Monday Morning [ NEWS""“"“ | | .-"-"BRIEFS I Changes Freight Rate Washington, Dec. 2.—The Inter state Commerce commission has granted to the railroads authority to establish and maintain rates on cement, in carloads, from Birming ham, North Birmingham, Phoenix ville and Bo> It s, Ala., to joints in North Carolina and South Carolina without observing the long-and short-haul provision of section four of the interstate commerce act. Driver Meets Death Hendersonville, Dec. 2.—S. M. Cole, 60, farmer and trucker of the Dana section of Henderson county, was killed early tonight when a pick-up truck, which he was driving, skidded on the ice-covered Greenville high way and plunged down an embank ment. Fire At Worcester Worcester, Mass., Dec. 2.—Fire last night swept the interior of a group of joining brick buildings used for manufacturing and storage in the southern part of the city, with a loss, estimated by one of the man ufacturers, of SIOO,OOO. Pin Found In Appendix Chickasha. Old*., Dec Bille Roy Jeffries, nine, of Tuttle, swal lowed a pin a few weeks ago. X-ray photographs failed to show it. The child was operated upon today for appendicitis. The pin was found in the appendix. Loses Arm in Gin Sanford, Dec. 2. —W. C. Matthews, a well known citizen of Sanford, lost his right arm Monday morning when it was caught in the machinery of a cotton gin which he operates. Mr. Matthews w-as taken to Lee County hospital. Found Dead at Home Danville, Va., Dec. 2. —George W. Booth, 65, a farmer living near Ken tucky, was found dead at his home with a revolver beside him early this morning. Members of his family could not explain the deed. Produce Musical Comedies New Haven, Conn., Dec. 2.—An tonie J. Waring of Savannah, Ga., and Luther B. Davis of New York city, Yale juniors, said tonight they had organized the “Lily Guilders,” an undergraduate dramatic group formed to produce musical comedies. Man Hit By Car; Dies Lumberton, Dec. 2.—A car struck and killed a man listed as C. C Harmon, about 60, of Timmonsville S C., on a highway near here yes terday. Officers described the acci dent as unavoidable and held the uriver, R. B. Pemberton of Lumber ton, blameless. U. S. Won’t Enter League Buenos Aires, Dec. 2.—President Roosevelt declared flatly today al a press conference there was no pos sibility of the United States entering the League of Nations. His state ment was made to Argentine news papermen three hours before Mr Roosevelt was to open the Inter American peace conference of 21 na tions. $20,000,000 Equipment Ordered By Santa Fe Chicago, Dec. 2.—The Santa Fe railroad announced tonight it has placed orders for $20,303,926 worth of new freight cars, locomotives, rail and rail fastenings, giving “convinc ing evidence of the Santa Fe’s con fidence in the continued upturn of business.” The equipment order, said M. J. Collins, general purchasing agent, included 3,025 new freight tram cars costing $10,183,926, and 27 locomo tives, costing $3,986,000. THE LINCOLN TIMES Installation Ceremonies To Be Held In Connection With Meeting of Commissioners Installation ceremonies for the new county officials will be held i.ext Monday in connection with the tegular meeting of the board of (ounty commissioners. With only three exceptions the personnel of the i ifieial board remains the same. A. 1-'. Reinhardt, who has held the of fice of sheriff for the past eight ;■ ears, will be succeeded by Geo. E. Rudisill, S. M. Roper, judge of the lecorder’s court, will be succeeded by Kemp B. Nixon and Bruce F. Heaf ner will succeed L. Beige Beam as solicitor of the county court. W. H. Boring, who will take the oath as register of deeds, will begin his fourth term in this capacity. Thos. E. Rhodes, who will l*; install ed as clerk of the court to complete the four year term of the kite J. L. Hunter, has been serving by appoint ment since the resignation of Jas. A. Abemethy, Jr. There will be no change in the personnel of the board of county commissioners, which is composed of Ih H. Mauney, Lincolnton township, J. H. Shrum, Ironton township, C. L. Beam, North Brook township, Guy Robinson, Howards Creek towns hip and Joe King, Catawba Springs tc«wn ship. At the time of their election in November Shrum and Robinson were serving on the board by appointment to fill vacancies caused by the death °t D- D. Rhodes and the resignation ol Harris Burgin. Mauney has been serving as chairman of the board and will in all probability be re-elected to this office when the organization meeting is held Monday. Sheriff-elect Rudisill has announc ed the appointment of J. O. Mauney as county jailer, to succeed L. J. Huss, who has held the place under the Reinhardt regime. The new sher iff has not yet made public his corps of deputies but it is understood that all persons appointed in this capac ity will have the same rating and that the office of chief deputy will be dispensed with. Piedmont Boy Scout Leaders To Have Meet Scout Leaders from the counties of Gaston, Cleveland, Lincoln, Ruth erford, Polk, Alexander, Iredell, Ca tawba, Caldwell, Burke, and Mc- Dowell, who are members of the ex ecutive Board of the Piedmont Council of the Boy Scouts of America will join together at the Hotel Cha|rles at Shelby on Tues day night December Bth at 7:16 o'clock to receive reports in connec tion with a membership campaign end to plan for the annual meeting of the Piedmont Council on Tues day night January 12th. Progress is being made in the ex tension of the scout movement in the Piedmont area. Each Troop has been asked to enlist at least five new members and to assist in the organization of new troops. Many Troops have already reached their goal in enlisting new members and are at work in creating interest in the development of new Troops. The aim of the Piedmont Council is to ltave a membership of at least 2,500 by the close of the year. Plans for the annual meeting of the Piedmont Council are being made by a special committee headed by J. W, Atkins, past President of the organization. The meeting is scheduled to be held at Gastonia on Tuesday night January I2th at which time three hundred or more Scout leaders will join to hear reports of the work accomplished in the eleven Counties of the Council area and to hear a speaker of national reputa tion. The meeting will be a banquet affair. Services Announced For Wayside Church J. D. Abemethy, clerk, announces the following services for the Way side Christain church: Sunday School, 9:46 Sunday morning. Preaching 11 A. M. by Rev. T. J. Morris, of Charlotte , Every member is urged to be pres i ent as there is important business to . come before the church just before the preaching hour. Published On Monday and Thursday LINCOLNTON, N. C. THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1936 | Edison to Navy WASHINGTON Charles Edi son, (above), of New Jersey, son of the late Thomas E. Edison, fa mous Inventor, hus been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt, the post vonce_hfild_by_the _ President.,! Lincoln Farmers To Inspect Lime Plant In Marion Brother, Sister Meet After 43 Years William M. Cline, of Baltimore, and Mrs. Sam Goodin, of Miami, Florida, brother and sister, met Thanksgiving day for the first time in forty three years. The happy reunion of the pair Was held at the home of their sister, Mrs. S. F. Lee, who lives on Route 4, Lincolnton, N. C. Mrs. Cline accompanied her hus band on his visit to North Caro lina. BUILDING DOOM UNDERWAY HERE Not for several years has there teen so mucb building going on in Lincolnton as during the past few months. At the present time there are under construction, a federal building, an addition to the First Methodist church and a score or more of residences. During the first ten months of the year twenty one new residences havs been erected in the city at a cost of approximately $66,200. In addition several small tenant dwellings have teen built at a total approximate | cost of $4,816; repairs to homes, $3,500; four new business buildings costing around $16,500; a manufac turing plant costing $1,500; the ad dition to the First Methodist church to cost SB,OOO, and the new post of fice building to cost $42,250, ex clusive of furniture and fixtures. The above makes a grand total of $132,- 766, and does not include several oth er residences, permits for which were issued this month. The 21 new homos built since January, 1936, will average $2,676 each, although several of these resi dences far exceed that amount. Among the handsomer homes built here during the summer and fall are those of M. C. Quickel, on South Academy street; the Rein hardt estate, on Bonview Heights; Ralph Cochrane, on Couth Cedar street; Frank Rhyne, North Aspen street; Harlee Ramsaur, on Sycamore street; John Cromer, North Laurel street; Horace Shidal, North Aspen street; Robert Wise and E. L. Rudi s.ill, on South Mill street; Frank Heavner, North Aspen street; Joe Finger, East Main street; Tom Bur s in, two brick veneer cottages, West Sycamore street, and Claude Good son, on Dixon street. Also two new Sinclair filling stations have been erected during the past summer, one «n East Main street, and on" on North Aspen street. So great has been the demand for ■ killed labor here during the last lew months that aujoining counties had to be drawn upon to fill the gaps. Unskilled labor has also come in for its share of the increased prosperity end the cotton mills are I er ming back into their own. The 1,. J. Huss home on West Water street is now undergoing ex tensive repairs and remodeling. Mr. Huss who is now jailer will move into his home at an early date. Draws Long Term Halifax, Dec. 2.—Judge W. C. Harris sentenced Peter Battle, ne gro, to 10 years in state prison for the near-fatal shooting of Deputy Sheriff G. Frank Grey. [ Want a Date, Gals? \ NEW YORK . Ted"Peckham. (above), who built a business here of supplying college boys as es corts to young women attending social functions. Is row looking for new worlds to conquer. He si >■ d away this week to establish r~i * se, ikt- iu European cities. Governor Ehringhaua and Gov ernor-elect Hoey to Ad dress Gathering A number of farmers from Lin coln county will go to Marion Satur day to visit the State highway stone crushing and lime grinding plant located a lew miles north of there. Farmers from twenty counties in western North Carolina have been in vited to attend the inspection meet ing and Governor J. C. B. Ehring haus and Governor-elect Clyde R. Hoty have been invited to speak to the gathering. The program will start at 10:30 o’clock in the. McDowell county court house. After lunc! inspection of the plant will be made. Lime, say farm experts, is needed on most western North Carolina! farms, especially where triple super phosphate is being applied to the soil, and the Marion plant will make agricultural lime available to that area at a reasonable cost. Dr. R. Y. Winters, director of the North Caro lina agricultural experiment station, will speak to the gathering on lime end its use in agriculture. Special invitation to attend the meeting has been extended to farm ers in Henderson, Polk, Buncombe, Rutherford, Cleveland, Gaston, Lin coln, Catawba, Burke, McDowell, Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, Caldwell, Alexander, Iredell, Wilkes, Watauga, Ashe and Haywood counties. SENIORCLASSTO HAVE STUNT NIGHT The senior class of the Lincolnton high school will present their annua! "stunt night” at the high school audi torium Friday night at 8 o’clock. According to advance notices and press releases the event is to be one of the best ever staged by the sen iors and those who attend are as sured an evening of genuine enjoy ment. Below are a few excerpts from notices being sent out by the pub licity committee: See Ma and Pa at the little red school house given by the P.T.A. Come see for yourself what the Rotarians are having. You won’t be si rry. See P. C. (blushing bride) Costner in the Womanless Wedding. Although the Anna Jackson Book Club is a bit older than the rest, perhaps they’ll show us how they did in those old, old days. Let’s see. The American Legion Auxiliary always has something good. Let’s see what their talent is this time. It won’t be the same, we’ll guarantee that. Californians Visiting Relatives in County Mr. and Mrs. Thos. W. Mundy and I daughter, Helen Mae, of Long Beach, California, have arrived in Lincoln ton to remain until after the Christ mas holidays with Mr. Mundy's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mundy on Lincolnton, Route 2. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Mundy and family of northern California, the former also a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mundy, are ex pected to come to Lincolnton later to spend the holidays with their par ents. 3 COTTON MILLS TO BEGIN OPERATIONS AFTER SHUT DOWN Kings Mountain, Cherryville, Shelby Plants Ready Under New Management Steady employment has been pro vided for 360 textile workers in the Piedmont section of this State hy the sale of one mill and the leas ing of two others, it was learned here today. The Phoenix Mills, Ine., of Kings Mountain has bought the Dilling mill of that city for $125,000 and will start operations with approx imately 200 employes within the I next 10 days or. two weeks. The Dilling mill has been dosed for several months. Its former owners were Textiles, Ine., and its products! were combed yams and rayon dress goods. Capitalized at $450,000 and! equipped with 14,102 spindles and 2i2 looms, it was the second largest | mill in Kings Mountain. New owners of the company are making some changes in equipment but will continue to manufacture combed yarns and ravon dress goods. In Cherryville, the Gaston Manu facturing company, which has been idle for two years, has been leased by W. J. Woods and placed in op eration. This mill is equipped rvith 12,000 spindles on 30-2 and 36-2 yams, warps, and skeins and will have its pay roll up to a total of 100 workers in a few days, it was learned. Mr. Woods has obtained a two-year lease on the mill. The Gaston Manufacturing company is capitalized at $250,000. M. M. Rudisill of Lincolnton has leased the former Buffalo mill at Buffalo, near Shelby, and started operations with 50 employes. This is a yam mill which has not. been operating steadily for some time. Mr. Rudisill’s business i 3 under the! firm name of Murler Mills com pany. 11 casesTtried in RECORDER’S COURT Judge S. M. Roper, presiding over the last session of recorder’s court before he is succeeded by Kemp B. Nixon last Monday disposed of the' following cases: State vs. James Arthur Griggs— j Assault with deadly weapon. Defend ant bound over to superior court. State vs. E. C. Sullivan, Jr.- False pretense. Defendant bound over to superior court. State vs. C. E. Bost—Operating car intoxicated. Fined SSO and the costs, Upon payment of costs fine is suspended on good behavior. State vs. James Logan—Operating car intoxicated. No drivers license. Ninety days on roads. State vs. Alexander Lattimore Operating car intoxicated. Fined SSO and costs. State vs. Chas. C. Fisher, Jr. Carrying concealed weapon. Operat ing car intoxicated. Non suit in first count. Ordered discharged in second j charge. State vs. Sam Miller—Operating car intoxicated. Fined SSO and costs. Defendant appeals to superior court. State vs. Frank H. Crowell—Driv ing car intoxicated. Not guilty. State vs. D. A. Martin—Operating car intoxicated. No drivers license. Reckless driving. Fined SSO and costs. State vs. Lonnie Reep—Habitual vagrancy. Common nuisance. To ap pear in court first Monday in each month to show good behavior. State vs. Bertha Weathers—Com mon nuisance. Vagrancy. Sentenced so State Industrial Farm Women’s Colony for Women for two years. SERVICES ANNOUNCED FOR LUTHERAN CHURCH Luther A. Thomas, D. D. Pastor, announces the following services for Sunday, December 6: Sunday School, 9:45 A. M. There are classes for every age. Chief Service, 11:00 A. M. Sermon by the pastor on: “The Bible, The World’s Hope.” Vespers, 7:00 P. M. The pastor will speak on: “Christ Coming.” Intermediate and Senior Luther League at 6:15 P. M. This church welcomes you. Slip* and Drowns New Bern, Dec. 2.— Jack Jackson, 45, slipped from a wharf in trying to step to a boat and was drowned hart today. Roosevelt Is Hopeful Os American Unity As He Begins Relurn Trip Finds a Family LOS ANGELES'. . Her birth certificate destroyed In the San Francisco fire years ago, Mrs Keeworth Chandler, (above), au thor'ess and playwright, made at tempt this year to establish her citizenship . . . thus she learned she was not an orphan . . . but that her mother was still living and that she had two brothers and v three sisterau/ DEATH CLAIMS S. Mcß. WILLIS ATCHARLOTTE Veteran Member of Queen City Police Force Dies Os Pneumonia Charlotte, Dec. 2. —Officer Sum ner Mcßee Willis, 60, a veteran mem ber of the Charlotte police force, died | here Monday night at 8:30 o’clock j and will be buried this afternoon at the Pisgah Methodist church ceme tery, near Long Shoals. Funeral services will be held here at the Chalmers Memorial church, of which Officer Willis was a mem ber, this afternoon at 2 o’clock. The Masonic rites will be used. Rev. W. B. Lindsay will be in charge. Pallbearers will be members of the rolice department. Officer Willis worked until a week ago. He went home with a cold and later was moved to the hospital where he fought pneumonia until Monday night. He was bom September 23, 1876, in Lincoln county, the son of Jo seph and Elvira Willis. He married Miss Georgia Rhyne, of Lincoln county, in 1906. He served with the Charlotte po lice force for 20 years. Most of that time he was a patrolman in the business section, where he was a familiar figure. A few months ago he was transferred to head quarters where he had been acting as city jailor on the 7 A. M to 3 P. M. shift. Mr. Willis is survived by two children: a daughter, Mrs. Crocker Maddrey, of Roanoke Rapids, and a son, S. M. Willis, Jr., of Charlotte; three half-sisters, Mrs. Bruna White of Shelby, Mrs. Irwin Heffner, of Hickory, and Mrs. J. L. Wilson, of Newton; two half-brothers, W. B Willis and J. O. Willis, both of Char lotte. Men of Kings Mtn. Presbytery to Hold Annual Meet Here The Men of Kings Mountain Pres bytery will hold their annual meet ing next Sunday afternoon in the Lincolnton Presbyterian church. The following program has been arranged for the occasion: 2:30 to 2:so—Devotional, led by Rev. Donald Hyde, of Grover, N. C.; 2:60 to 3:36, Address and Conference on Evange lism by Rev. J. H. Henderson, pastor cf the 2nd Presbyterian church, of Spartanburg, S. C.; 3:36 to 3:45, Eusiness; Special Music by Gastonia quartette; 3:46 to 4:30, Address by Dr. H. H. Sweets, of Louisville, Ky., Executive Secretary of Christian Education and Ministerial Relief. 4:30, Adjournment. Missionary to Africa Speaks Here Sunday Dr. C. L. Crane, of Mutoto, Congo Beige, Africa; will be the guest speaker at the First Presbyterian church next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. LOCAL MARKET COTTON 12A4c pound WHEAT $1.26 bushel CORN 80c bushel EGGS 33 & 35c dozen SINGLE COPY: FIVE ( ENTS President and Justo Cheered By Rain-soaked Throngs In Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Dec. 2.—President Roosevelt sailed homeward across the tioad Rio de la Plata tonight after a tumultous, rainsoaked farewell. En couraged in his hope for a united American peace front which he ex iressed at the opening of tile inter- American peaoe conference yester day, Mr. Roosevelt planned to stop for only a few hours in Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital, tomorrow be fore continuing homeward aboard the cruiser Indianopolis. Behind him Mr. Roosevelt left Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the rest of the United States con ference delegation to represent his country when the inter-American parley gets under way officially to morrow. Cheered by thousands of Argen tines who lined the 60-block route from the Lnited States embassy to the pier, Mr. Roosevelt embraced Argentine President Augustin P. Justo, who went aboard the ship for a few minutes. Waves to Gay Throngs Then as the Indianopolis moved off into the Rio de la Plata, Mr. Roosevelt stood on the upper deck waving a blue and white bandker ch es while rain poured down on him and the thousands ashore, who set up a final roar of vivas. Honoring Justo at a luncheon be fore he left, Mr. Roosevelt declared he would recommend that the Unit ed States senate ratify an Argen tine-United States sanitary conven tion signed a year ago. Under the proposed convention, the ban on meat from Patagonia southern Argentina would be re moved because, Mr. Roosevelt said, that meat was not diseased. Although he said existing United states regulations against Argentine meat were inequitable, the Presi dent asserted ratification of the convention would not bring lower tariffs. The Indianapolis carried the bo 1” cf August Gennerich, the Presi dent’s bodyguard, who dieu yester day morning. President Roosevelt and other United States officials at tended his funeral in the ballroom of ihe embassy before the body was taken to the cruiser. Riding slowly in a car with Pres ident Justo through the city * broad streets and avenues made slippery by the downpour, President Roose velt was cheered again by hundreds of thousands as he had been on bis ei rival Monday. Senator’s Condition Is Found to Be Good Raleigh, Dec. 2 Senator Josiah William Bailey returned today from Duke hospital where he had spent a week undergoing observation of the specialists. All of them thumped him, turned the X-ray on him, lit him up by elec tricity and gave him as complete a research as any bug, beetle or germ ever got. The verdict was unani mous that he is in good condition, without one sign of sickness and evidently fit for a congressional grind which begins very soon. “But I have an awful headache," protested Senator Bailey as the doc tors dismissed him and sent him back home for more punishment by his constituents. “So do I,” the doctor replied. The X-ray did not show the senator’* head ailment. JOE GISH SAYS Do your Christmas shopping early, and do it in Lincolnton.
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