Syd Molloy, Air Mail Pilot,
Known Here Killed In Plane
ISld MoIIot, Who Once Flew Here
Crashes Plane Into Fight
Beacon.
Atlanta —The ait mail plane from
Nf'v York to Atlanta crashed into i
a radio town at Fort McPherson |
early last Friday in a fog, fatally
injuring the pilot, Syd Molloy o(
Columbus, Miss, He died at 8,30 n.
M . at the Fort McPherson hospital
where lie had been taken by soldiers
who pulled him from the wreckage I
of the plane.
'Ihe plane crashed into the tower
at 5:23 a. m.. and caught fire. Offi
cials of the Pitcairn Aviation, Ine , ’
operators of tiie hue, said Molloy, '
flying A few minutes behind sched
ule. apparently was trying to get, tils
bearings so he could find hi. way ‘o
the landing lielri, not far from the j
fort
Molloy had been making iris home j
at Richmond. Va . .- nice the New j
York-Atlanta air mail line began
operations May 1. 1928. He"flew the
first mail from Richmond to A‘
lanta. and had continued on that
.section of the New Y6rk-Atlant.il
line since.
A soldier at the fort saw the plane
crash, dragged Molloy from the
wreckage fund took hup to the army
hospital at Fort McPherson
It was MoPoy s first accident on
the mail line.
Junior College
Game Tuesday
(Continued from page one)
them up Tuesday. Nobody has a
place cinched yet, but I'll pick my
line from the following Havrill,
Robinson. Kelly. Moore, Coble,
Haynes, Morris. Cornwell, Burns,
Vaughn and Phoney. Among my
backs wll lbe Stroud, Bonry. Wip
ers. Chetty and perhaps some of the
new boys. " Rackley said!
timid Schedule.
The Boiling Springs schedule *o
far arranged after the Dallas game
follows:
Sept 28— Rutherford college at
Morganton or Shelby.
Oct 4—Gaffney at Oaffnry.
Oct. 12 Mars Hill at Mars Hill
Oct. 16 Belmont Abbey at Bel
mont Abbey.
Oct 26—Oak Ridge at Winston or
Lexington.
Nov. 9- - Wingate college at Bo l
ing Springs.
Nov. 16 -Campbell collegp at
Buie s Creek.
Nov. 23- Appalachian Normal at
Appalachian.
Nov. 28— Thanksgiving game
pending with Blue Ridge.
Bmmmitt Explains
Calling Out Troops
(Continued tfom page one.)
declaring a state of Insurrection
rests whoily upon the governor and
if he declares it. he can use the
militia to suppress it regardless ol
the civil authorities. It is pointed
out, however, there would ne\er be
any danger of his resorting to such
an extreme measure unless the ne
cessity was so obvious to the law
abiding people of the state that
they would endorse his action and
sustain it. Even in such an extreme
position he would have no right to
suspend the operation of the writ of
habeas corpus.
In the case of invasion and oc
cupation by a foreign foe, and such
possession would require martial
law in the territory so occupied to
the extent necessary to repel in
vasion.
Cotton Market
(By John F. Clark and Co.)
Coton was quoted at noon today
On New York exchange:
December 18 78. Saturday's close:
December 18 82
Eight p. m. weather map mostly
cloudy, raining at San Antonio ano
Vicksburg, Scattered showers east
ern belt. Forecast Tenn. and N, C
lair today probably showers tomor
row. S. C.. Ga. cloudy probably
•howers tomorrow Alabama and
Mississippi showers. Ark. and Okla
homa showers and cooler east
Texas thunderstorms and cooler
north portion today, Tuesday local
showers, west Texas showers.
Herald-Tribune; Memphis .Term
says crop of valley states has im
proved during the past week becau *
of relief from drought except in
Central and south Mississippi where
rain too heavy. Worth street busi
ness for week described as fair
Prices firmer. Hedge selling was the
main factor in Saturday's dcclir.,'
and may be in evidence again to
day. Trade demand, however, is ex
pected to increase if mtrket works
lower. Forecast should be regarded
as unfavorable.
CLEVENBURG.
J. M. Mull has completed the
second monolithic concrete silo in
Burke county. W. H. Avery built
the first one and Mr. Mull used
Vac same forms.
Negro Unable To
Recall How He
Was Slugged
• Conti nurd from pane onr.J
floor next morning They Ml rirartk ;
alcohol together and set, about talk*
ing Emm that, point- on everything
wax hazy to him He remembered |
.nothing more very clearly until he
wax in the hospital. .
Green, the white youth, took the
stand to make lii.s public denial of
any connection with the slugging.'
He went to Hie Meek:- shack, just a
.short distance from his home on
Graham street,, around Mi o'clock,
lie said hoping to get a drink and
having had a drink or two already
Meeks, he said, did not have any
thing to drink hut gave him a dol
lar and acht. him to the drug store
a Her a pint of alcohol He returned
he continued, with the alcohol, a
cigar and live cents change .Short
ly thereafter, hr said. Louis Kill's,
llic negro held with him, fame to
the shack and they all drank alco
hol together and talked until about
12 30 in the morning At that time,
lie said: Ellis got. up and said he was
going down to I he oil niM and
would be bnrk Green said lie also
left .lust a few minutes after Ellis
At that time he declared Meeks was
all right except that he was pretty
drunk. He did not know anything
more about it. lie said, until the
next morning about 0 o’clock when
lie saw a crowd around the Meeks
shark and learned that Meeks had
been slugged on the back of the
head with an ax On cross-examin
ation by Attorney D Z Newton, who
aided Solicitor P C. Gardner in the
prosecution. Grrrn repeatedly de
clared that Meeks was not slugged
whllp hr was present
All Right At fi.
It was shown by Orem's father
that the youth arrived home about
2 30 then Attorney Peyton MCSwain
representing Green and Attorney It
T Palls, representlnR Kills, placed
Sam McKee, a young white man, on
the stand to show that Meeks had
net been tut at 6 o'clock tlie »e* *
morning McKee said he came ^
Meeks' shack about R o'clock or :•
little before and stopped At -that
time, he said. Meeks was up sitting
in a chair in the shack and another
negro, whom tie did not recognize.
I was lying across the bed.
Testimony by Police Chief Mc
Bride Poston nad Deputy Sheriff
Ed Dixon was introduced to show
that Meeks was found about f
I o'clock Sunday morning lying in e
) pool of blood on the floor of t he
•hack, his skull fractured from the
i rear, and a gory nx was lying on
the bed near his body Deputy Dix
on also testified that hr found a
bloody handkerchief in a pocket ol
Kills' overalls when lie arrested the
negro, and that there were blood
spots on his overalls.
The entire affair seemed to be
buried under an alcoholic haze a:
j ter as tlie slugged negro and his
| white and negro companions were
concerned, and i( is doubtful it
1 Meeks, still blinking in a dazed man
her from the blow, will ever get I us
sense of memory back to the extent
that he can remember the incidents
tight up to tire time he was slug
I geri
Both defense lawyers marie a mo
tion for dismissal, but the motion
, was refused by Judge Kennedy, who
said that lie thought they should
j br bhhnd over although a jUrv
| could hardly convict them unless
I more evidence w as secured
Probe Killing Of
Woman In Gaston
(Continued From Pane Onev
‘ between Bessemer City and Gas
tonia. had been turned back r.t
the I.orav mills bv a mob and when
(hey started back to their homes
; were followed by a number of cars,
j Superintendent Spencer of the
American mills testified that he was
passing as the truck ran into the
rear of the passenger ear He said
he heard a shot as the crash oc
curred. He stopped his automobile
nnd got out, lie testified As he did
so. he saw men running across a
cotton field. Three or four men. lie
said, standuig near a house identi
fied as “the Gamble house,'' were
shooting at the fleeing people with
rifles. He sa.w the dead woman.
Spencer said the people in the
truck told him they had been halt
ed in Gastonia after coming from
Bessemer City arid were returning
to Bessemer City after men in au
tomobiles had ordered them 16
leave He said that tire people told
him that as the crash occurred a
shot was heard Mrs Wiggins
screamed "On Lord. I'm shot!''
Charlie Shope end Roy Carpenter
carried Mrs. Wiggins to a house but
she was dead.
As ihe men from the truek ran.
; the armed men ordered all thev
. could reach to hold up their hands,
i Hobart White testified that when he
j jumped off the truck lie was struck
: with a black jack, and his arm
| broken He ran away.
Outstanding.
What is Hie most outstanding con
tribution that chemistry has given
I to the world?
I Blondes.
County Club Idea
Likely In Cleveland!
I he state, in Robeson county. This!
spring there was formed at Wash- (
ington, I). C, the National County
Clubs association, the purpose of •
which is to sponsor county dubs in i
every .county in tiie 48 states oi the !
union. Clubs are under formation j
in Buncombe, Henderson, Gaston, j
Catawba, Lincoln, Cleveland and !
other counties in this state. Coun- ;
ty clubs have recently been formed ]
in Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union j
and other counties of South Caro
lina Colonel T. B Butler, of Gaff
ney, S C . is president of the Chero
kee County duu. J. W. Gaston,
master farmer, of Spartanburg)
county. S. C, is president of that ]
club, and Bon F. Adams, prominent
citizen oi Adam.sburg, S. C. is pres
ident of the new Union club.
By i hr first of the year, clubs i
will be formed in. some counties in I
all the .slate- east of the Mississippi
river it the present plans of tlv>|
national organization go through. :
The county club is merely a com.- :
tv-wide civic club There is nothing
like— if in tiie country, ft is non-I
political and non-sectarian Any I
man oi good moral character who
is interested in llic betterment of j
his county can become a member |
upon application to tlie board of rii- '
rectors The membership is selec
tive, with only the best citizens. I*
takes ihe cream and furnishes a
melting pot of ideas and plans, out
of which comes much good.
When tiie leading citizens of anv
county come together, think and
plan for their common good. ex
change ideas discuss tlieir many and
varied problems much good is sure
to be accomplished.
One major objective of tiie new
! county club is to help the farmer
[so that be can come together and
discuss ms prooicms ana excnaiiy ,
Ideas as tlie people now do in |
the towns and cities in their civic j
clubs such as Rotary, Lions, Kiwan- ;
is, Ci\ itans. Monarchs. etc , and let 1
the farmer have the advantage of
Hie thought, and leadership of the
leading business and professional
men of the town and city The civic
clubs have become a tremendous
(actor for good in Hie towns and
cities but it is generally conceded
Hint they have not included the
farmers in their membership, to any
extent The county club docs for
the entire county, what the civic
club docs for the town or cit.i.
The purpose of a county club
is to foster the active interest of
every member in tlie civic, commer
j rial, agricultural and moral welfare
of his county It seeks to bring
about a reduction in taxes and to
make a special study of taxation,
especially the county. It is estl
i mated that the average loss per
; year in each county of the country
1 is $50,000 which is due (o careless
ness. inefficiency, neglect and dis
I honesty.
The county club encourages more
interest in government affairs
The county club encourages re
spect for law and order.
The county club is anxious fo
cooperate with every other agency
in any county for good. In South
Carolina it is working with the nat
ural resources commission and is
aiding it materially. In North Caro
lina it will gladly cooperate with
ttie grange and all civic organiza
tions. A man may belong to a
civic club and also be a member
! of a county club. He can be a
member of the grange and be a
member of a county club.
The county club meets monthly,
usually at different places in the
i county It usually meets in ♦h'1
form of a meal, or luncheon. The
officers of a county club arc simi
lar to those of any civic club, presi
dent. vice president, secretary treas
urer and five or more directors, no
two being from the same township,
unless it is a large and thickly pop
ulated township, in which case th°
directors arc divided according *o
population Every club has a char
ter presented it from headquarters
j in Washington. The cost is smaller
than that of any civic club This
is done m order to be within the
; reach of all who may wish to af
lilinte with the county club.
The National County Clubs asso
ciation plans to publish a magazine,
which will be sent free to all mem
bers of any club, beginning about
January 1, 1930 This monthly mag
azine will deal with county prob
lems and county affairs and whl
contain articles by experts of the
nation on taxation, county govern
ment, agriculture, schools, roads eh
The United States Department of
Agriculture has offered all its fa
cilities (or information and bett-r
farming to the County Clubs asso
ciation. Diversified farming, more
purebred livestock, better seed, bet
ter rural schools and county roads
will be discussed and stressed
through the clubs.
BIRTHDAY DINNER .AT
ROCKDALE SEPTEMBER '!„>
The relatives and friends of Mrs
Jane London are invited to a birth
day dinner at her home at Rock
dale nai September 22, Bring well
filled baskets ana enjoy the day
Forsyth county dairy cattle
breeders will exhibit a county herd
at the North Carolina State fat--.
October 14 to 19
'■TTail Nothing On Her.
He: If you don't marry me I'll |
plunge into the sea
She Wait till 1 get my bathing
costume. I'll come with you.
1
New York World.
The old-belief that smoking keeps ,
a person thin, and other arguments j
against tobacco are attacked in a |
clinical .studv of tobacco smoking’
just compiled by Dr. Wingate M. i
Johnson of Winston-Salem, N. G„
who makes his report in a current
issue of the Journal of the Amen- i
can Medical association.
Dr. Johnson knocks many other
anti-tobacco notions into a. cocked I
hat. The survey, which covered a! - [
most three years, also demonstrated j
that:
Tobacco smoking apparently has i
no permanent, effect on the blood j
pressure; that there is no foimda-|
tton for the popular belief that
smoking decreases the weight of an ]
individual; that it is doubtful
whether tobacco plays a major par;
in the history of heart disease; that
the art of smoking, if it affects the ;
blood pressure at all, reduces it j
temporarily and that the effect of j
smoking is ehiefly local, exerted
principally on the pharynx.
Writing under the caption of "To
bacco Smoking.'’ Dr. Johnson says
he became interested in the effect
of tobacco on the blood pressure. I
while preparing a paper on low
blood pressure, mainly because of
the different opinions expressed by
competent authorities
“About tobacco, as well as alco- ;
hoi," says Df. Johnson, "it seems;
hard for the most level headed j
scientist to think without bias." Hei
then cites a recent system of medi
cine which holds that a continued j
use of tobacco produces indigestion, j
anorexia, cardiac, irregularity and ]
palpitation, deafness, giddiness,
tremors and other nervous symp
toms. It. also holds that, tobacco
users in time erase to have the
power to become parents. "If this
last sentence were true," says Dr.
Johnson, "the majority of itievr
would be sterile."
Dr. Johnson in declaring he never
has smoked himself and that lie
lives in a city built primarily on
the tobacco industry says that he
.lias at least some claims to im
partiality. In making up his groups
for tlie study he says he endeavored
to be absolutely fair to both sides
as far as possible Those who chew
ed and did not, smoke were not in- !
eluded.
"The only men I took tor earn .
group were above twenty and, so.j
far as I could judge. free from anv :
acute dtsca.se After more than two
i years effort I have 150 in each
; group, with at least twenty in each ;
I decade from twenty to sixty and I
above sixty."
Dr Johnson then presents a table
in which the croup is sub-divided
into age groups of twenty to twen
1 tv-nine years, thirty to thirty-nine.
1 forty to forty-nine, fifty to fifty
| nine and sixty plus, for his blood
pressure demonstration. “Prom this
table," he says, "it, is hard to es
cape the conclusion that the effect
of tobacco smoking on the blood
pressure is practically negligible, ex
cept possibly in the group of men
past sixty.
“Another result of my observa
tions is to contradict the popular'
idea that smoking will keep one's
weight down, and that smokers, as
I a class, are thinner than non-smok
j ers In my series the average weight
1 of the smokers is slightly greater
! in every group hut two. and the
1 average weight of all the smokers is >
' 184 4 against 16t 08 for the non
! smokers."
He then shows that in order to de
termine if possible, just, what pro
portion of heart disease victims are
smokers that he collected records of
all possible fatal cases of this dis
ease among males and. dividing
them according to each patient s
tobacco habits. Of the sixty pa
tients, forty-two. or 70 per rear.
were smokers who died at tlie aver
age age of til 31 years; eighteen, or
30 per cent were non-smokers, whose
average age was 62 5 “As sever
tenths of these patients were smok
ers. at first glance it would appear
that tobacco does play a part, in
the etiology of the disease" But. in
order to get a control group for \
comparison. Dr. Johnson listed 1 -
000 men in his own and surround- |
ing cities and of these 818. or 813
per cent, smoked. "When the pro
portion of smokers among the an- j
gina victims. 70 per cent." says Dr. ;
Johnson, ‘is compared with the
male population of the state in j
usual health. 81 8 per cent - it would |
seem that smoking confers a slight 1
immunity against angina "
Upsetting the belief that blood
pressure rises immediately afh
smoking. Dr Johnson saws that "in
a scries of twenty individuals test- j. j
ed. I found that five showed no ,
change and all the others a fall in !
systolic pressure of from 4 to 14 ;
mm “ and in diastolic pressure of
from 2 to 12 mm. The average fall j
for the whole group was 4 9 sys
tolic and 3 4 diastolic."
Dr Johnson also points out that, j
he. from his observations, has ..at j
found that tobacco has had any de
leterious effect on motherhood He
finds that tobacco is not a laxative, |
and in regards to its effect on he i
nervous system, says T am inclin
ed to think that the average highly
nervous individual smokes to excess
because he is nervous, rather than
that lie is nervous because ne
smokes to excess. In the average
individual the el feet of a smoke
seems to be more soothing than!
stimulating."
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