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/W«w; ofStaff Ccrrsspondafy ti tforId Centers at Populate* By Paul E. Brokaw International News Service Staff Correspondent (ji. Miller Holland INS. Staff C or respondent.) I,, a Angeles.-— Hollywood has ij • about become the fashion con* nf America, and there simply isn’t any doubt about it. Ask any one in Hollywood and they’ll tell •you. ' Paris had better look to its laurels. Cows worn by beautiful screen stars and players are being copied the world over and come to the small towns, via the screen, 1,0 ■: before the latest Parisian models have had time to reach the outlying districts. Each year various stars start new fads that are instantly adopt ed. This year, for instance, will probably see the following contri butions carried into full effect by spring: Claire Windsor, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, player, contributes her bit to fashion by making a fad of j blue. Many of her gowns are en- I tircly of this color and not a sin-1 gle hat, frock or coat in her ward robe is Without a touch of blue as a .trimming. Norma Shearer has begun the fad for halo hats. All of her dav time chapeaux are brimless with , very tight bands across the fore- j head and with large, pancake! shaped crowns. Lon Chaney, when he isn’t act-1 intr before the camera, likes to ; study words, especially words con tributed to the English language by motion pictures. At least twelve popular words have been added to the language by the screen in the last decade, according to Chaney—a feat which he claims no other industry, cus tom or phase in modern life has fc done. The twelve words are: Closeup, fadeout, cutback, lap dissolve, sun are, registering, emo tion, vamp, sheik, scenarist, con tinuity, projectionist and fadein. “Take the word ‘vamp’ for in stance.” he says. “It has gone be yond the slang stage, ar.d is in ef fect a regular word in the Eng- ! lisii language. Ic was created by i the screen. Theda Bara’s pictures I started a vampire craze, and this 1 led to the verb ‘vamp,’ meaning to employ the blandishments of a vampire. It is a perfect example. “Another case in point is the word ‘sheik.’ It started through a role Rudolph Valentino played— and now any one a hundred thou-! sand young men in America and ! England are referred to every day as sheiks, their clothing is termed sheikish—and it is also becoming a verb, ‘to sheik’ meaning to employ the tactics of a sheik or a Valen tino. “Thus Valentino’s momument is a word contributed to the diction ary. “Ordinarily it takes a hundred years to popularize a new word. The screen has done it—many times—in ten.” They’re going barefoot in Holly wood these days. Mary Astor, beautiful semen actress, began it last week when she introduced the evening bare foot sandal at a motion picture dinner dance. Miss Astor’s novel footwear was a combination of pildjitl leather and frosted silver kid, mediaeval in its inspiration and brought up fo 1927 with high. spiked heels. n he slippers which adorned her feat wore cleverly contrived of "ide thongs extending from the too and side foot to meet an instep atran and a clasp of brilliants. “One could wear stockings with Vnem,” (Mhs Astor explained. Lut really, even the sheerest hose would moil the effect a trifle and with silk hose what it is in color aid texture, wham’s the use?” Spuds” Damaged By Cold Period Elizabeth City.—(INS!—Consid erable damage to the Jrish potato crop in this section has been caused by recent snows. _It was estimated that from 10 to ' 1 nercent of the seed would rot >n the seepage of meltm®1 snow. Many of the early varieties of po tato had been planted before the snowstorm which lusted here for hiore than 18 hours and held the city snowbound for three days. The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. William Storck, of Delavan, Wis., for the 17th time in 22 years. Winter Unger of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., killed a hog with i wo hearts, one normal and the other about the size of a chicken’s heart. Rutherfordton.— (INS)— Rutli erfordton county, which lays a clairft to being, the birthplace of Abe Lincoln, is planning a big , celebration in commemoration of the former president. The celebration, which was ori ginal// postponed on account of j unfavorable weather, will be held at Lincoln Hill, near Bostic on , March 12, according to present j plans. One of the leaders in bringing1 about the celebration was Dr. J. C. Coggins, author of a recent vol ume on the life of Lincoln which attempts to prove that he was born in Rutherford county. Tree Expert Of County Relates About Tree Care Dear Mr. Editor: If you will allow me space in your paper I'll write you a few lines in regards to shade trees and their care. You have a bunch of fine shade trees in Shelby and they should be cared for. Strangers are always delighted to visit a city whose streets are lined with fine shade trees. A tree shouldn’t never be topped. It is not only a hidious sight, but is destructive to the tree. It ruins the cemetrical form of the tree and the stub that re mains will take water and decay. The comfort to be derived from shade trees has long been recog nized. The advent of such civiliz ing agencies as the telegraph, the telephone and the electric lights have added each its shore toward the multilation or destruction of the good trees. Faulty methods of pruning also have caused much disfigurement and ruin. To this mutilation has been added the unnecessary destruction of many trees in center of business because they exclude a little day light or made a store less prom inent, or were some what in the way of using the side walk for merchandise. In spite of all these troubles tree planting has continued be cause people love trees, enjoy well shaded streets, and are will ing to make efforts to get them. The trees on well shaded streets are not only pleasing, but also contribute toward the health of the community by transpiring mois ture Into the atmosphere and by producing a restful effect on eyes and nerves. Good shade is so appreciated that its presence adds a value to adjoining properties. Real estate men recognize this factor and plant shade trees as early as practicable on kind which they de velop. That the beauty of a city is improved by good shade trees is j becoming recognized more and more and is finding expression in the desire of garden clubs, civic improvement associations, and bords of trade for information on this subject. Success in planting shade trees j can be attained only by planning j and controlling the planting as a whole, by selecting the most su>t able varieties, by securing trees in the best condition and planting them properly and by giving the necessary later care. It is very little trouble to trim s» tree into a pood shape by using the pruning knife while the Vmhs are small, but it is usually difficult to reform a tree after it has grown to maturity. One who understands tree growth, however can often reshape the top of a neglected tree to advantage, though many who make a business of trimming irees know so little about it that they do more harm than good. More mature trees have been hurt by severe pruning than have been helped. Of bourse dead or dying wood should be removed whenever it is found, P" v'!'ter what the a^e of the tree. This should be done by cutting off .he limb back to the nearest healthy crotch. A limb should not be cut square across unless the tree is in apparently dying condition and the whole top is treated th’s in an attempt to save its life. In such a case, a sec ond pruning should follow within two year--, at —hi ’"time the stubs left at the first trimming should be cut off in a proper manner near the newly started limbs. Healthy silver maples and wil lows are frequently cut in this way. But the manles in particu lar would better be cut down at once than to subject the public to the dangers of the insidious decay j that almost always follows such an operation on these trees and com pletes their destruction promptlj. Yours truly, FRAY B. PUTNAM Lawndale, March 1, 1927, Johnny Mack Brown, hero of Alabama’s Crimson Tide in its 1925 victory over the University of Washington at Pasadena, is now a dashing cavalryman in a new movie. Reports from Holly wood that he is doing nicely, except for a little soreness here and there—mostly there. Mrs. Harriet Thayer of London spent $2,500 for a radiophone con versation with her son in New York. Thrilling Moments In Eventful Life Of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes. By C. Francis King in Ponnsyl vatva Grit. “There I sat looking down the barrel of a revolver, and in my own j office, too. It was at. awkward sit uation. I could no- get to my own ; cun, which I always kept in my J desk drawer. So I set out to soothe I the intruder. This was a bit diffi- ; cult, especially as I could detect a j strain of insanitv in the eyes') squinted at me down the barrel of -hat gun. “A member or my staff came in from an adjoining room. Taking) in the situation at a glance he asked in a casual way if 1 had call ed him. 1 just sa;d ‘Please show! this gentleman out!’ And out he went!’’ The incident occurred in the of fice of Miss Maude West, who liv es in London, and who has been j aptly called “Mrs. Sherlock Holm-! es.” In disguises ranging from a Salvation army lassie to sailor, from a nurse to a gipsy, she has •tracked some of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Specialty Of Shoplifters. Under her is a Miss Gertrude j Hunter, lady detective extaordin-1 ary, who in the last five years has, caught 778 women shoplifters in! London’s most active department store district. She detects them by ! instinct, according to her own ■ words and with Miss West has en-j joyed very remarkable success at j criminal detection. “The gentleman who leveled his ; pistol at Miss West,” said Miss Hunter, “was a friend of a girl I had arrested for stealing silk stockings. But he lost his nerve j when it came to a show down. “Professional thieves,” she con tinued, “always specialize. Sixty seven yards of ribbon were found on one thief I caught. Eighteen silk dresses were packed in a bag) carried by another. I’ve come to be so expert at this game that I can tell when a woman intends to steal the instant I put mv eyes op her.” Then I turned to Miss West, eag er to learn why and how these two women came to be engaged in this novel business for women. “How did I come to take up de tective work? Well, it was this way" related Miss West. “I have always been interested in crime, and once did a little pri vate work for a firm where I was employed as a typist. “Some one had a duplicate key to the strong-box. Several robber ies had taken place. Attempts to solve the mystery had failed. “I made a device like a mouse trap, so constructed that when the mechanism was released a gun was fired. The shell was a blank car tridge, and the whole apparatus was concealed inside the cash box. “Hiding in the corridor one night I wailed with several officials of the firm. Presently there was a loud report. We rushed into the room and in front of the safe found a woman lying unconscious. The sudden report of the pistol had caused her to faint. Attacked By Appaches. “One of my earliest cases took me to Paris. I was on the trail of a man who was defraudine a Lon don wholesaler. He was believed to be living in the underworld of Paris. I disguised myself as a man, but in time was recognized and in the slum district was held up at the point of a revolver by two apaches. “They were desperate men and I .was thoroughly frightened. I feigned ignorance of French and pretended to be a tourist. Finally they grew tired of questioning me and began to argue with each oth er. I seized the opportunity and es caped. Later I found both the man and merchandise for which I was searching.” On another occasion Miss West told of an instance when she was employed to keep watch on a man sion where burglars were expect ed. It was n'ght nnd she waited in the shadow of some trees. Sudden ly a twig cracked. Then she was seized from behind by a man who pinned her to the ground. In the struggle that followed i she succeeded in drawing: her auto matic, fired and wounded the flee man in the leg:. He was car ried into the house and identified as the suspected participant in the j anticipated robbery. Continuing- her narrative, Miss West told of an elderly man, well known, who had fallen in love | with a beautiful young girl and'! was engaged to her. After a few months he met an older woman and decided she was better suited to him. “But the girl would not release h’m from the engagement,” sr:d Miss West. “That is, unless he j rrnid substantial damages. She knew he occupied a prominent pub-1 lie position and that publicity of such an affair would do him harm. \ Suspecting that the girl had play ed the same game before, the man j came to me. ' “A few days later I met the sec-; ond woman at his home and recog nized her immediately as a dar ing adventuress and a crook of in ternational reputation. It was she and not the girl who was behind the blackmailing scheme. Need less to say, the pretty romance end- j ed abruptly. DOLDRUMS » I While the newspapers of North ; Carolina lead the way in telling the world of North Carolina “firsts” the general public isn’t being told j that right in the newspaper gnmei of this state is an assemblage of I feature writers that few states ■ can boast. The Hearst newspapers, experts of the Fourth Estate opine, built their big circulation around two things. The first sensational news played in a sensational style, and second because of an unexcelled staff of feature writers. Despite the objections of some folks to the Hearst news pages there is no way to get around the fact that the edi torial and feature sections of those papers offers a daily education in life and modern events. Glance over the feature writers of a Hearst editorial page—Brisbane, Norman Hapgood, Robert Quillen, Roy K. Moulten, Winifred Black, Tin; Spectator, S. E. Kiser, K. C. Bea ton, Bugs Baer. Add to that list the feature writers of the other pages —Damon Runyon, on sports; Dor othy Dix, on love problems; Cholly Knickerbocker, on society; and Harry Action, the gungplank coi umist. But, perhaps, the reader inquires what has that to do with North Carolina newspaper writers ? Noth ing more than a mere introduction j to several feature writers the state over who, if combined on any ope newspaper, could dish out a fea ture page with practically as much interest as the Hearst notables. How would you like to pick up a North Carolina newspaper with this run of feature writers: Phil osophy and Satire by Eugene Ash craft, of the Monroe Enquirer; In cidentally by Nell Battle Lewis, Raleigh News & Observer; Shucks and Nubbins by Oscar J. Coffin; Features by Ben Dixon MacNcill, News & Observer, and W .0. Saun ders, Elizabeth City Independent; Humor Stories by Carl Goerch, Washington Progress; Barbs and Paragraphs by Ye Paragrapher of the Greensboro News and Don Laws, the Yellow Jacket stinger; Sermoncttes by Tom Bost, Raleigh Political writer; and Ins and Outs by Otto Wood. Few writers can outclass Ash craft in homespun philosophy and his satire is deadly. Nell Battle Lewis, one of the few outstanding feminist writers in the state is a free thinker as well as a free lance writer. The punch of Oscar Coffin packs in a verse of seem ingly innocent fun is deadlier than that wafted in his heyday by Dempsey the Man Mauler. As for features Saunders ranks today as one of the outstanding feature con tributors to popular national mag azines, while MacNeill is in a class by himself in digging up historical sketches. Goerch. the Columbus of Reuben Bland, champ dad, com pares, and frequently excels, the regular Sunday humor by Lardner and Nina Wilcox Putnam. The Paragraphics of the Greensboro News offer sufficient proof that it doesn't take a column to say some thing, and Don Laws although in an opposing field can out-entertain Mencken himself with bitterness and subtle slaps. Tom Bost, an in teresting political writer, is a bet ter sermon writer than a lot of bishops—and Otto apparently should know what he’s writing about. There are eight columns to the page of a modern newspaper. Think what a page that would lie with a column under the eight heads and by the writers just mentioned. Still Lotlis Graves, the chaff blower of the Chapel Hill Weekiy, and that Kinston writer of freaks m the animal kingdom Would have to break in the page somewhere. The North Carolina Press assoc iation could Well do a little boost ing of it’s own talent. —R. D. FORMER SDLUI IN Kll TALK DENIAL Dunn, N. C.—(INS)—Ex-Con gressman H. L. Goodwin, of Dunn today branded as false reports that he had been offered the of fice of grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina fol lowing the resignation of Judge Henry A. Grady of Clinton who held the office for four years. The Ex-Congressman who has been particularly active in the klan eompaign now going on in the state, declared in a statement to International News Service that no selection of Judge Grady’s suc cessor would be made “until the field is thoroughly organized.” Morgan S. Belsers of Washing ton now temporarilv in charge of the Klan affairs in North Carolina and it will be several weeks or a month probably before Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans sees fit to name a new grand dragon for North Carolina according to God win. * Godwin led the fight in the North Carolina legislature last week against the Johnson bill to outlaw the hooded order from the state in the General Assembly. By International News Service Montgomery. Ala.—The callows a* n mtiins of local execution in Alabama went out March 1 arid it new electric chair was installed in its place at Kilby prison hero. Tho chance was nuthorixed bv the legislature which recently parsed a bill ordering that elec tricity shall take tho place of the old callows with its sinister rope and hangman. Behind the wall of die pvir.on, r. ailer.t stolid prisoner has hern constructing the “chair” which is made entirely of wood. 11" h an expert cabinet maker, an English man—Ed Mason now scrv'ipf a lone sentence. Mason acknowledged that his was no pleasant task. He claims he was promised an early parole a- a reward for his work but the >"• don board recently turned down his application. Several years aye. he carved the frame for the S m tan of naintinr “The Madonna and the Child,” which hnngs in the pri son chapel and critics have pro nounced it a martern’"''". Unles Governor Bibb Grare interyenes, the first man to die in the chair will be Virgil Myna 1 who has been sentenced i o ,pay th ■ sunreme nenaltv for h’ wife, April 2,1. Friends believe the governor, an ex-service man. w ill commute the sentence of Murphy who also* served over ear. New GoM Find? To Enrich Osa^ei Tulsa, Okla.—Cold has horn found in the Osage hill* of Okla homa and the Osage Indians, al ready fabulously wealthy from oil royalties, are opening their coffer to receive new riches. Reports of rich veins run must through its rocky fastnesses have once more made Osage hill a mecca for adventurers and pros pectors and the Color of frontier days has returned. Where once poured wealth in the form of “Black gold" to beckon seekers of riches, yellow gold now lures an eager, varied throng to' the hills of the Indians. j A. Bahl is the prospector credit i ed with the discovery,- Formerly a [railway roadmaster. he dreamed of [gold winding through the hills Ion trains. “There is gold in those hills,” he once remarked. “Gold and min erals worth far more than any Oklahoma oil pool are hidden there.” I Two years ago he disappeared TO EVERYONE WH O EXPECTS TO BUY A CAR THIS SPRING: :€©KliDP ©1DL When you buy your car this spring ... select. Select in the fullest literal meaning of the word, which is “to choose by comparison" ... just as you do with other things you buy. Single out the cars that suit your tastes and meet your needs... com pare their prices.. .then make selec tion on the basis of relative values. any other car—no matter what it» price. Check these known factors of motor car merit in Oldsmobile and you will immediately be impressed with how emphatically it is qualified to gratify your finer tastes as well as satisfy your every need. Go over Oldsmobile features, one by one. Come to your Oldsmobile show* room and see this car. Drive it . . . By all tfcte standards of modern engineering, there is a definite lim> ited number of known fa'ctors of motor car merit. Compare the list of these features as in STANDARD COACH *950 ana tnriu 10 us onuuuu performance. Then, and only then, can you select with jus* tice to yourself, your , purse and your sense of satisfaction. Hawkins Brothers OLDSMOBILE I into the hills and began to disc. A few days ago he emerged, “There is gold out there and I have found it,’ he announced. He urried specimens of cardi and rock, in which he said were not only gold, but iron, soda and alum inum ns well. Government assay reports, ex hibited by Bnhl a few days later, showed gold ranging from $.">0 to S 1,000 for each ton of earth in his shaft. He claims his holdings will produce as high ns $2,000 a ton. Penney Sales Make New Hisfh Records The sales of the J. C. Pennely company throughout the United States were $7,424.920.20 in Feb ruary against $5,470,384.34 in 1920, an Increase of $1,948,541.86 1 nr .15.58 per cent. For January ami February of this year the sales were $18,622, 214.04 against 110,443,485.06 for the corresponding period in 1926, un increase of $8,218,778.98 or 30. ^2 per cent. According to Mr. E. E. Scott, manager of the Shelby Penney store, the local sales increase for January and February of 1927 over the coresponding months of '20, was a trifle over forty per rent. Barnyard Coif Ahead Kinston.— (INS)—Horse shoe pitchers of several eastern coun ties will compete in a championship tournament which will be sponsor ed here next fall by the local fair association, it was announced by Plato Collins, secretary. - 4'M HOTELS ^ Washington. D.C.r COufmouS A^r> OFCOATFO fty M*00\»X, M 5m a LL , Me 3 S ANU MalIOWY ON THF TS'Nf.' iRlE Of Efncit\r .wf^vycg *•** e*cfluent Cuisine* CAIRO HOTEL MARTINIQUE HOTEL ARLINCTON HOTEL COLONIAL HOTEL THE FAIRFAX a room with runn ing water S'* a room with private bath St* TILDEN HALL Wr»te Oh Wine Cowlect Rz &c n.v *Tt qn a RATES PER DAY- MCM r-lOHER ROOMS- FOR ONE PERSON- * ZOO-IS 0 FOR TWO PE R SONS *— 2 50-30 > OMVWiTrt PR.!vATT- BATm - I OR ONE PERSON-300-3 3Q-TOR. TWO PERSONS-4.00*5.00 I • »«rm»*»*«*«»«'**V **» U»M*V# V ♦.**.**,»*,* *>•»* ♦*♦*,*♦•» *»v m.‘ »,*•*•*» »*»*•»♦»»•»»••*♦♦*♦• • <♦»»«♦« »*««»(»« -SCHEDULES liitcr-Carolina Motor Bus Company Shelby to Charlotte—7, P, 7.1, 7, ", E, 7:30—Charlotte t«. Shelby—8, 10, 12. 2, 4, (. K;n;rs Mountain to Charlotte—7:30 9:30, 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 0:30. 8:30. Direct connection made in Kings Mountain for Spartanburg and Greenville in the morning—One hour lay over in the afternoons. Bessemer Cfty to Cl.ailoi e—-7:45, 11:45, 1:43, 3:43, 5:45, 8:45. Gastonia to Charlotte, leaves every hour on the hour, from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. Connection made then* for Book Hill, S. C.; Spartanburg, Creenville, Crmnerton, Lincohiton and Cherryville, York nml Clever S C. Gastonia to Shelby—On the odd hours, making connections for Rutherfordton, Hendersonville, Asheville and Statesville. Gastonia to Cherryville—8:30, 12:10, 4:10, 3:10, Cherryville to Gastonia—7:15, 10, 2, 6 p. m. Charlotte to Rock Hill—8, 10:30. 4:15. Eus leaves Spartanburg 6:15 p. in. Connection at Kingt Mountain, Charlotte. Telephones: l Cnariotto 2071; Gastonia 1051; Shelby 450; Sholby to Rutherfordton—i> a. m. and 1 p. in. Rutherfordton to tjiielby—9:40 a. m. and 2:15 p. m. Shelby to Asheville—10:00 a. rt.. 12 2. 4. 6, p. m. Ashe ville to Shelby—8, 9 and 11 a. tn. and 2, 4 p m. Shelby—7:20 a. m.; 10:00 a. m.; 1 p. m.; 4:30 p. m. Lineolnton’—8:30 a. m.: 11 n. m.; 3:00 p. m.; 0:30 p. m. Schedules Subject to Change. m. You are the average man or woman You spend eight hours of each day in bed. One third of your entire life. If you live to be seventy you will repose upon your downy couch exactly 23 1-3 years. And now the point is, is yours a downy couch? If not, you’.-e out of luck. If I, said the late Elbert Hubbard, had to spend 23 1-3 years in one given spot for a dead certainty, I’d arrange to make that spot the most comfortable spot on the face of the earth. JOHN M. BEST sells mattresses and springs from which the maximum comfort can be secured. Do you know the real difference between a com fortable bed — meaning chiefly springs and mat tresses ?—If not, go to I BEST and learn about it. . Nothing so rare, says the old ad.—as resting on air. BEST sells ’em that make you feel the next morning as though you had rested upon the soft cushion of thd atmosphere. There’s the KINGSDOWN —pure staple cotton felt mattress—firm, . soft and fine. Also beautiful to the eye, as harmonizing to the body. $28.50—jmjl ^or|h • every DOUBLE DECKED SHANNON SPRING, guar anteed for a quarter of a century. $16.50. And others at $14.50 and $9.50. BEST announces a spe cial 10 - PIECE DIKING ROOM SUITE of walnut beautiful, durable and new —$165.00. BEAUTIFUL EXTENS ION TABLE BREAKFAST ROOM _SET_ in walnut— Something especially fine and serviceable — $67.50. ;
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