Big Tri-Motored
Plane* In Ford Tour
(Continued from page one.)
the field. She smashed •a wheel in
her sudden turn on the runway
Greenville. Oct. 10.—'Twenty-live
contesting planes hi the 19111 Ford
reliability tour cam" to rest on the
Grecnv.llc municipal airport mid
r tie: neon today to stop ovor-ntht.
Ti e .Tigis flew fr^m ’.Vinstoa-Se.lem
\’ c
C' e:: e! I >■ a crow 1 cf 10.000
er> c l:: a Cessna mcr.oplrnc, pi
lot d b- F,,;1 Ro-lerct, ■lathed
re;the fi ll'i 1;.’ shortly.after
3 V>'\i ’.{ to lead t ie twrade of In
' s' .s o." c" e •’ sire ■ nd type.
1 'v fell-- r 1 clerelv hv Arthur
.T. r ■. . fl> in • a fim IVa :o fc’
P' • ' . by C o'V Ha’de.T.tjiii, i t
a ? y neu ?; uv >»1 • i:e,
'■ itliin n hrur a’l o' 're co.n
r r pi l-i e ih-re had been
<' ’ r l in ' ivy d 'own uo io res'
fn f'- rt.h.t; Tie ii.nl contesting
si .p f]~ in at 4:50 a. in.
Mrs. Ramsey Raises
JVirtc Pound Potato
Tin fair <s ever but Mrs. J T.
Iiarvcy, living in West Shelby, has
no debt grown the prize winning
potato for the year in Cleveland
county. This week she unearthed
from her patch a yam weighing
nire pounds and two ounces, a rec
ord weight in the memory of many
who have seen it. The potato is i
t.t'1 formed and without blemi h :
ard has been left at The Star cf- |
ficc for exhibition.
Card Of Thanks.
We wish to thank those friends j
aril neighbors who were so tend.o!
arc! sweet in their administrations j
di ving the illness and death of our j
deir husband and father. May God's i
richest blessings rest cn each ard j
evtry one.
Mrs. D. S. Bridges and chilircn.,
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EARN $2 00 AN
HOUR IN YOUR
SPARE TIME
Responsible persons are of
fered an opportunity to do
spare time work in their
own community. Income
should average about $2.00
in hour.
Persons accented will rep
resent the Carolina Motor
Club in pleasant and digni
fied work. Every neighbor
hood in North Carolina of
fers a fertile field. Work
at any time you wish. No
limit to the amount you
t may earn per week or per
month. A beautifully bound
180-page book is furnished
representatives and quali
fies them to start earning
from the first day.
Write today for complete
information Address: State
Headquarters, Carolina Mo
tor Club, Greensboro, N. C.,
or District Manager, Box
425, Marion, N. C. Send
three references—one must
be a relative. m
CASH
BASIS
During our Closing Out
Sale we’ll sell for CASH
only. We must hold ex
penses down, and not allow
our accounts receivable to
grow, therefore we’ll make
no more charges.
We must close our books
as goon as possible—and
will thank those who owe
us accounts to please settle.
Your cooperation in this
matter will be appreciated.
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OCTOBER 17TH
Wets In America Now Making
Their Own Home Brew And Gin
Prohibition Department Says Moon
shine Liqnor Is Pure But
Raw As Made.
i By Rodney Butcher. NEA Service
Writer. I
Washington.—'The drinking wet*
of proiiibition America are getting
onto a home brew-moonshine basis
nearly everywhere.
The average drinker, if he is nr.*,
consuming home-brewed bet c <v
domestic wine. is nearly always
drinking whisky or gin or be ■ i.i
which the kick is produced by al
cohol from an illicit still.
For some time his chances of
getting the "lea' stuff hav-j be*n
down to what seems to be \ r.iinl
tjfnm.
1 hee facts one gathers from au
thorities ui the prohibition buw-au.
At one time a tremendous amount
of industrial alcohol was diverted
into the bootlegging business. A
great deal of this alcohol still finch
its way into the national drink sup
ply. but not nearly so much. The
government has tightened up r, its
supervision over industrial alcohol
and it has become harder to get.
The ‘ttills Are Busy.
But the mialler the flow of in
dustrial alcohol into bootleg chan
nels the greater the product on of
alcohol from moonshine stilL. Aral
the moon;h’pe alcohol i-. as pro-'
liibition ealcrcers admit. pure groin
alcohol.Tt does not contain the hor- |
riblc and more or less poisonous
concceatioho which govemmen . has i
been pitting into industrial alcohol
in order ;o keep it out of cocktail;
and highball glasses. And the eon- \
sumer does not have to worry about
the bool1 agger's expertness in the
process of recookintr. „
• The s nt proper lion *o£)jxpzf
seized in the cuntrv as" a wii >.e, .ac
cording to government chem'.rte, s
moonshine liquor made in stills
from corn, sujar, mo’asscs avd
grains.
Only about, five per cent of the
seized liquor is found 'to contain
what' was once diverted industrial
alcohol. In some locations, of
course, rspecially in large as e-n
states where industrial alcohol is
more readily available, the percent
age is considerably higher.
Throughout the south, the middle
west and the mountain states vir
tually a’l^ the whisky and ail the
alcohol found appears to have come
straight from the still. Th* hesi
market for straight alcohol is touhii
in the states where the law is moot
nearly enfo-ced, owing to the greet
er convenience of carrying a'cohol.
In comparative'?’ dry sgri udur*'
states ruch i-s Iowa and Kan-as.
cohol Is ured by th- ultima! e con
sumer to ' pike” nss.r fcesr.
The ch"miet3 are not surprised to
observe w'hat appears to or 'tf*»
generally mete seed popular.: t o'
gin, for they explain that gin v
much easier to niske than whi*!:y if
the maker on’? he: t lie alcohol.
“As the Supervision of shn’to;
becomes more effective and as ov
treatment of it becomes more dif
ficult to overoome.” a prohibit'd
officir! told your correspondent, “the
illicit alcohol rnd whisky, stdis w-i 1
do a correspondingly large:' ousi
ness. Qf course, thess are much
harder to control. When we y..t
down to a moonshine proposition it
is up to the ’cel authorities to iielp
suppress the traffic. The federal
force simply can't be expea :ed ” to
locate all the concealed stills.
‘‘We^hacf to admit that uibst of
the moonshine liquor now 'rein;
made is pure, but I don’t think anv
of it Is as good as if it had oeert
distilled and aged four or five ysars.
The most injurious thing about the
kind of liquor we re seizing today is
that it’s raw.'’
Cotton Market
Cotton was quoted at noon todav
on New York Exchange: December
18.54; yesterday's close 18.6-1
Forecast Carolmas and Georgia
fair. Mississippi showers on coast.
Alabama. Arkansas Arkansas, Okla
homa and Texas scattered showers.
Dallas News report not in. Large
sales broadcloths in Worth street.
Print clotn sales light prices firm.
Look for steady market, prices still
depend mostly on hedge selling
which was lighter yesterday.—Slev
enburg.
W. F. McGinnis And
Miss Whitaker Wed
At the home of Rev. D. F. Putnam
on West Warren street this morning
at 10 o’clock, Mr. W. F. McGinnis
and Miss Vera Whitakeg were hap
pily married. Both are teachers in
the school at Beaver Dam. Mr. Mc
Ginnis is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. McGinnis of the Beaver Dam
community and the bride Is the at
tractive daughter of Mr. V. O Whit
akep of Bllenboro.
Take Rene’s "Cure."
Reno.—A Buffalo mother and
daughter have taken the “cure’ to
gether here. Mrs. Ella W. Sill ob
tained a divorce from Seyniau- E
Sill. Her daughter divorced Ricii
ardy Henry Means and forthwith
married Geoge F. Dcpy.
Miss Annie Lackey
Weds Mr. E. E. Cline
Fa'.lston, Oct. 11.—Of social pron- i
inence will be the announcement of
the marriage of Miss Annie Mac
Lackey, daughter of Mr. and Mr
R. A, Lackey of Fallston, .and Ml • j
E. E. Elkins of Charlotte which whs j
solemnized Thi”- ay evening Oct
10. at 8 o’clock » the home of the
bride's parents.
Only intimate friends and tire
two families were present at the
impressive ceremony, which was
performed by Rev. J. D. Morris oi
Fallston. an uncle of the bride. Th.s
beautiful home was characterized by
elegant simplicity. An improvised
altar was made of ferns entwined
with ivy. Floor baskets filled with
white dahlias were placed on both
sides. The approach to the aUar
was marked by pedestals holdtns:
tali white cathedral tapers tieo with
ribbon. White riblyxn festooned be
tween the pedestals formed the
aisle.
The delightful musical program
was rendered by Miss Mozelle Elkin -
of Charlotte, neice of the groom
The wedding march from Lohen
grin was used for the procession'd,
and Mendlessohns for the reces
sional. "To r. Wild Rose" was play- |
ed softly during the ceremony The '
bride and grocm entered together j
proceeded by Rev. Morris.
The bride was radiantly be*u*nti: j
in an ensemble independent 3 fihir j
transparent velvet with brown an- I
sessories. She carried a shower
bouquet of white roses and liliec o!
the valley.
The bride graduated at Elen ro'~
lege in the class of ‘25, since the
time she'has been a valued tearhc
of the Be!wood high school.
The groom Is a prominent travel- |
ing salesman out of Charlorte
Immediately after the ceremony
ice cream and cake were served. |
carrying out the color scheme or ’
white and green, by Cerelda Lackey
B. P. Peeler, jr.. and F. H. Incite;
jr. Mr. and Mrs. Elkins left im
mediately for a motor trip to
southern point3.
Epidemic Of Rabies.
An epidemic of rabies has threa
tened the residents of Concord and
that section of the state. Twenty
persons in Cabarrus and adjoining
counties are known to have heer
taking the Pasteur treat men . UK
ward off the dreaded disease, heso
persons all came in contact
Chgrles Furr, a midland farmer.5
who died at Concord a few uays
ago with hydrophobia.
T
Police Investigate !\Jill Heads Death
\ I
Police cf Eiizabvthton, Tenn., are not entirely satisfied that Consul W. C.
Rummer, acting president of the American Bemberg Corporation, who ]
was found dead in his bed with both wrists slashed, was a suicide. They
are conducting a thorough investigation due to recent strike disorders in
a. tci.-Uorf, as there is acv®* »**eil:hti that the mil', executive mar havt j
Unknown Regions
Made Famous By
Use Of Airplane
Little Known Until Airmen Put
Them On The Map And Front
Pages Of Newspapers.
Seven relatively unknown places
in the Old World have flawed u>
fame as a result of the unsched
uled landings of transocean air
planes from America, according *1
a compilation made by the Na
tional Geographic Society, The
places the flyers and the dates of
landing are as follows:
Horta. Azores Islands. Comman
der A. C. Read, U S. N,. piloting
the U p. Navy seaplane < biplane1
N-C 4. from Trepassey, Newfound
land, landed May 17,. 1913. (After a
delay the plane flew on to Lisbon
Portugal.)
CUfdcn, .Ireland. Captain John
Alcock, British Army, arid Lieuten
ant Arthur W Brown, U. S. A,
1 flying a biplane from St. Johns.
Newfrjuodiand, landed June 15.
■'■ wWffgur-Mer:.__north coast of
F'ratwe.Etfta;:
RichartlStfli
Commander
Noville. Acos
ta and Balchen, flying from New
York in the monoplane "America’1
landed July 1. 1927.
Elsleben; central Germany 'Prus
sian Saxony). Clarence D. Cham
berlin and Charles A. Levine, flying j
the* monoplane "Columbia" from ’
New York landed June 6. 1927.
Dead Man's Island. Spitsbergen,
Captain George H. Wilkins and;
Lieutenant Carl Ben Elelson, flying
from Point Barrow, Alaska, landed
April 16, 1928.
Burry Port and Llanelly; south
coast of Wales near Swansea. Ame
lia Earhart with Milmer Stultz and
Louis E Gordon, flying from Tre
passey, New Foundland in the
monoplane "Friendship'’ (seaplane/,
landed June 18, 1928
Comillas; north coast of Spain
near Santander Jean Asaolant,
1 Rene Lefevre, Armendo Lottl and
j Arthur Schreiber, flying from O/d
| Orchard. Maine, in the monoplane
; “Yellow Bird,” landed June 14, 1929.
In addition to these transocean
i flights to out-of-the-way places,
! two flights from North America to
! Eprope have gone directly to their
original objectives: Lindbergh when
he flew from New York to Parts,
landing his "Spirit of St. Louis" on
May 21. 1927, at Le Bourget flying ;
field: and William S. Brock and j
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Edward F. Schlee when they flew
rrom Harbor Grace, Newfoundland,
Lo London, landing their "Pride of
Detroit” Rt Croydon Airdrome, Aug
ust 28. 1927,
Fame ha* fallen from the sky
upon New World communities much
less frequently. Port Natal. Braatl,
has had the news spotlight played
upon it twice as the result of tann
ings of transatlantic lights. On Oc
tober 15, 1927, the French flyerr.
Coates and Le Brix, landed there
on a non-stop flight from St. Louis,
Senegal, Africa. On July 5, 1928, the
Italian flyers. Ferrarin and Del
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ifter a non-stop flight from Rome, i
Oreenly Island, between Labra
dor and Newfoundland, is the spot
in North America made famous by
the flight over the north Atlanta
ft was the landing place of “Th",
Bremen," April 13. 1928, The ship!
carrying Captain Herman Koehl,
Commandant James Fitr.mruirtce,
and Baron von Huenefeld, *flew
trom Dublin,
Defunct Bank To Re-Open.
This week sees a reopening of 'he
matter of the Bank of Wilkes Coun
ty. at WUkesboro. which Inst'tut Ion
tailed in 1927. with the hearng of
charges against several defendants
whose signatures were oald to have
been on notes that were fo ir.d in
the vaults of the bank. The failure
of this bank resulted In the loaa of
thousands of dollars to WUkos coun
ty citizens. Investigations by tlx
North Carolina Corporation com
mission have resulted in the hear
ings in progress this week. Clem
Wrenn. former president of the
bank, is now serving a sentence of
from nine to twelve yaars in the
state prison at Raleigh for alleged
mla-dcallngs in the affairs of thq,
Bank.
Some Machine, This.
Washington —A machine has just
completed 20 years of service In
calculating tides for the Cost and
Geodetic Survey. Two years in ad
vance it figures out high and low
water at principal seaports to the
minute and the tenth of a foot.
Eskridge News
VOL. 1.
OCT. 4. 1929.
NO. 37.
a iaay mena oi nunc m |
forms me that every time she
plays a game of bridge she feels
like the teacher who was told by
a fond parent to pound 'nohirtge
into her boy's head, if she had
to uae a club to do it. Which
leads me to say there are some
players to whom knowledge of
bridge-playing *, will forever bo
unknown. 8he sea to play a gams
of bridge always makes her mad,
for while It Is played by four
people, two on a side, there ere
always about si* or eight specta
tors who constitute themselves
just so many roving umpires.
When not acting aa umpires they
are known as a convention. These
conventions Inform your partrer
Just what you hold in your hand
The game starts by the dealer
bidding the strength of his hand.
The strength of the hand should,
go straight from the tips of thi
fingers to the brain, but with
most bidders It stops at the waUt
line. Having bid one club, the
bidder looks at his partner nice
a mouse In a vinegar barrel.
The convention then informs you
that he wants to be taken out.
His partner takes him out by
bidding three spades. This takes
his partner out but puts them
both in deeper—they glare ven
omously at each other. The deal
er then bids five diamonds and
is doubled by his partner who
has seemingly Joined his op
ponents. This is meant to prove
that every bridge player is play
ing against three people—his op
ponents and his partner, *
Bridge Is the only game m the
world in which every player is a
teacher—and nobody a pupil. We
never met a bad bridge player in
our life—for everybody plays a
good game over the bidder's
shoulder. There are fifty-two i
cards in the deck. Thirteen cards
are dealt to each player, but aft
er playing with some people you
begin to realize that thi.lern i
cards are not enough. When you j
contract one spade this mcp.ia jt
you must take seven trlck3. The fj
first six tricks are known as 'he j*
book. But that seventh trick is ’j
the whole Richmond library ar.d ;;
the other fellow has that. *;
It makes no difference how you '
play the hand. The real playing (
is reserved for the poet mortem ?
after the last card is played. {
Then all four players paw around j
the cards, call each other names? I
and act like perfect strangers in
a gentleman's club till the next
game. There are no "aefety first"
laws in bridge.
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