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. Workers Leaving Today For Huge S. S. Conference Clou M R«ynanfi«tlvN From The Canty Churches Go To Ra leigh Meet. A group of some 80 persona from tbe Kings Mountain Association are leaving today and tomorrow for Raleigh to attend the fifth south wide southern Baptist Sunday school conference to be held in that city January 1-4. Some 90 teachers, department leaders and workers are expected to go from the First Baptist church and others of the party will repre sent the churches of the county. All pastors and superintendents are expected to go or plan for someone to represent their church. Transportation. Transportation chairman for this association to J. W. Coetner, and persons wishing to go to the con ference are asked to get ip touch with him at Double Shoals for fur ther details of transportation. Dr. Zeno Wall, the Rev. H. C. See feldt, and Mr. Coetner will appear on the program. More than 4500 Sunday school workers from 15 southern states are expected to at tend. SAM Persons. The conference held the most largely attended Sunday school meeting In history when It met In Greenville, s. C„ In 1938. That meet ing was attended by more than 5,000 people. 'Preparations for the midwinter assembly have been made by the Sunday school department of the Southern Baptist convention, of which Dr.’ll J. Van Ness, of Nash ville, Term., has been executive sec retary for 18 years, and by the North Carolina Baptist state con vention, of which M. A. Huggins and Perry Morgan both of Raleigh, are general secretary and Sunday school secretary, respectively. Speakers. Speakers at the local meeting will include experts In Sunday school work from the Northern Baptist convention as well as those from the southern group. Among the scheduled speakers are President Pat M. Neff of Baylor uni versity; Dr. Prince E. Burroughs, secretary of the educational depart ment of the Sunday school board, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Homer L. once, of the board's department of religious education, and Dr. Leon M. Latimer, Greenville, S. C., min ister and religious educator. Fallston Woman ! Leaves Hospital (Special to The Star.) i FALLSTON, Dec. 27.—Mrs. Wi'-l Hamrick returned from the hospital Monday. She U getting along nicely Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Autry of Gar land are spending this week with Mira. Autry’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Lem Williams. Misses Nanry p---*- w-fhf' ■ ' Mary Bell Jones, Kathleen Boggs spent Wednesday night with ~ and Ruth Boggs. Miss Thelma Hoyle of Pittsboro is spending this week with her par ents Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hoyle. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hamrick spent Tuesday with Mrs. W. r Hamrick of Beams Mill. Miss Mary Sue Fortenbury of Belwood is spending this week with her grandmother Mrs. J. H. Forten bury. Mr. and Mrs. James Harris and Miss Virginia Harris of near She'- j by, visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dlx- i on Tuesday. Mrs. Claude Falls Is sick with flu at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sweezy wrr the dinner guest Tuesday of Mr and Mrs. W. A. Royster. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Horn oi the Zion community visited Mrs J H. Fortenbury Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jenks Fortenbury and son Amos, were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Hoyle j Tuerd&y. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cline and daughters, Dorcas and Dorothv spent Tuesday with Mr and Mrs G. R. Lattlmore of Polkville. st-, and granddaugh- i ters, Genols and Loree were '■’he ! dinner guests Wednesday ot Mr and Mrs. Max Boggs. St ’ -r C No STATESVILLE. Dec. 31—Morris * Kinder, 20. of Harmony, is ronf'ned In the leedell county Jail, charged with takipg part in breaking a safe belonging to a Harmony hardware store a few nights ago. The store was entered during the night and the safe was hauled off a half mile and broken open with a hammer. There was no money in the sefe and the robbers left the valuable papers inside without1 damage. Officers got busy on clues and1 obtained sufficient evidence to ap prehend the youth. He remains in confinement in default of a $1,000 bond CHRONOLOGY OF 1934 RECALLING: Quintuplets Birth — Toledo Strike — Drought Tufvcrson Mystery — Slaying of Dillinger — Labatt Abduction and Other Headline News. I—«.'■ MAY—Quintuplets bom to Mr. and Mr«. Oliva Dionne at Corbeil, Ont.; rare chapter in medical history. MAY—Drought becomes serious in middle west, ruining crops and starving cattle. JUNE!—-President Roosevelt starts lengthy vacation trip to Hawaii MAY — Clyde** Harrow, north- . .. western outlaw, and sweetheart gunwoman, Bon- """ nie Parker, killed __ by peace officers. — JUNE —Ma rie Dressier, beloved movie actress, dies in Hollywood. MAY—Troops advance on rioters in Toledo strike; several killed and wounded. apt. Ivan P o d e r jay sought by U. S. in c o n n e c tion with disappear ance of Agnes Tuf verson. Hindenburg, aged president of Ger many, dies fol lowing long ilL AUGUST—Textile strikes nation, linger, No. 1 pub lic enemy, alain in Chicago by federal agents JUNE—-John J. Astor III and El len Tuck French wed in brilliant eastern society ceremon; purge" ot Nazi rank* by Reichsfurhrer Hitler. JULY— Chancel lor E n g e 1 b ert Dollfuss of Aus tria assassinated . _ in Vienna chan ' cellory. AUGUST— Henry T. Rainey, speaker house of rep resentatives, dies. AUGUST — John LaBatt, Canadian brewer, kidnaped and held for ran som ; later re leased. AUGUST— Rob ert Edwards con- ton Sinclair Wins victed of “Amer- primary as Dem i c a n Tragedy ocratic candidate murder of Mary for governor of McKechnie; sen- California; d e tenced to death, feated in election. RECALLING: Morro Castle Disaster - Hauptmann Arrest — Stoll Kidnaping — King’s Assassination - Babes in Woods Mystery - Other Highspots I SEPTEMBER—Mono Castle burns off coast of New Jersey, 134 perishing in SEPTEMBER — General Hugh S. Johnson resigns as NRA adminis: trator after stormy tenure. SEPTEMBER — Custody of Gloria Vanderbilt awarded to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, after court fight. c stream* train break* coasHo-coast speed record.__ tin* SEPTEMBER— Bruno Hauptmann ar rested In New York for alleged murder and k i d n si ping of Lindbergh baby. (Pretty Boy) Floyd slain by officers in Ohio. Alice Stoll, Louis ville society wom an kidnaped; later released. OCTOBER—l^ing Alexander of Yugoslavia assaa* ainated in Marseilles, France. NOVEMBER—President Roosevelt tours projects of Tennessee Valley authority. NOVEMBER—Bodies of three young girls found mysteriously slain in Pennsylvania JKflflds. -—I DECEMBER NOVEMBER-^Philip Kennam PuWTc Enemy Bon of Tuls -—--George (Baljyokla, fede NOVEMBER—England’s Duke of KcntFace) N e 1 son judge, confess weds Princess Marina of Greece ill bril ' ‘ “ ‘ .Uftnt London ceremony.. vm DECEMBER — Albert Fish, New York painter, confesses murder of Grace Budd, , . . "v n Judge, confesses of Grace Budd, •Uin in Chicago p,urder of friend, DECEMBER—Fire destroys Hotel Kerns m i s s i n g since gubuibr John Gorxell. at LansinK» Mich., taking heavy toll of life, J9J8. Textiles and Crops I*adl9?'F 78 (Continued Froij. Page One) portant when they happened, Out the stories that top everything else are stories that developed In no single Issue, that attracted more than state-wide attention, that af fected every resident of Cleveland, and some of them are still in the making. The General Strike Story No 1 is obviously outstand ing. The national textile strike re vealed for the first time the unusual strength of the union In Shelby and Cleveland county. It threw 3,000 workers out of jobs, created untold hardship nnd business lasses, and as It developed spun a remarkable series of -dramatic events. Shelby’s mills closed first in the state, and Shelby’s unionites forthwith sped off to join other strikers in the famed Flying Squadrons. Roaring through the counties at night, swooping down on mill villages r daylight, these squadrons had every, potentiality ot dancer vet not a soul was injured. Then the troop ers—for the first time in her his tory. the county was iir.der martial law. Mill yard:- were arm 1 camps In the meantuv." .ncgo".-vtions for peace lagged at Washington, until President F? evelt acted t> end the dispute Speed, A lion, Color This story had every element of economic ' importance, speed, action, color and human intcre-! to make It, one of the e t exett.ng new nance story that, ever ranis out of ; Cleveland. Easily second on anybody’s list is the running story of cotton 11 - elf. The rising price, which swung to 13 cents. the vast parity and rental payments, and the great in crease over previous year In value to C-vetand growers muc veer's cron Is estimated at $3 MO 7(ia. ln cludtvg covernm“nt na"ments. ton -mrr ioa2 bv $2.04?.936, and 1933 by $800 0C0. No story which so greatlv enriches so many pocketbocks on the heels of a depression can fail to stand near the top. Cloth Mill Strike Almost forgotten now, but highly Important for months sod keenly interesting not onlv to the oounty but to the entire state was the 'Cleveland Cloth mill strike In Frb jruary. Five hundred emnlovees were out. pickets sang In the rain, there was fear that oth»r mills might close, and a sett'“ment was reached onlv when Dr. Robert [Bruere, chairman of the National Cotton Textile Labor Relations Board (since abolished) convened his authorities In a Shelby hotel room. The story had added human interest because the mill la owned by former governor O. Max Gard ner and former chairman of the State Democratic Committee Odus M. Mull. Hatcher Webb’s Gift Story No. 4 was reported so re cently that It Is still on everybody’s lips. Hatcher Webb crashed through! Hatcher Webb, who never gave things away, suddenlly donat ed $10,000 to the 8hclby hospital— and may give morel And In choos ing the hospital as the recipient of his gift. Mr. Webb affected the lives of thousands of persons, lightened the burden of future mothers, and touched the heart of his entire county. The story has the making of a No. 1 yarn, if it wrvren i overshadowed by greater vents. Will Mr. Hoey Run No. 5 started in 1933 and will continue through 1935. It is the story of Clyde R. Hoey's possible candidacy for governor of North Carolina. Known and beloved by everybody, the foremast orator of lie state, one of the greatest, re ;vjus i mlers of the south—and withal a simple, kindly man. The p .• ability of his taking the first office In the gift of the state Is so niieresi-itiH-to Cleveland county. which has already produced a gov ernor. ihat it is hard to reconcile listing this -lory less than second or third. Th«- Bankhead Bill Win CS' V’iitnd county upheld the Bankhead bill, the news startled po one. Yet. In voting for crop con rol 9 io 1, Cleveland was playing a part in a drama so large and so significant that no historian can ignore it. It wa* news of the first class because it showed, for the first time In the annals of agricul ture, the farmer himself dictating his own future. The Big County Fair Story No. 7 reported the great doings at the Cleveland county fair. Like the weather, which hap pens every day, but Is reported in every paper, the fair Is always with us, but It Is news. One hundred and fifty thousand persons attend ed it, had a glorious, colorful, In structive and humanly good time. And they saw for the first time the magnificent new grandstand. The story cannot be ignored In the first ten. The FERA Story In No. 8 we have a story which ran for virtually six months In every i.?sue of The Star. It told of the $10,000 weekly payroll spent here by CWA, of the 800 families on relief, of the fairground project, of the new gymnasia in all parts of the county. It ended with the loss by Shelby of her FERA office due to consolidation. For color, the yarn couldn’t touch a good sob story. or an account of a dramatic shooting, but it was one that re ported things affecting the exist ence of thousands. And it vyas vit ally human. Passion And Pity In No. 0 we see a grade A story in anybody’s newspaper. It told how Louis Sentell, the disappointed lov er, fired a shot gun at four scream ing, fleeing girls, killing his former sweetheart. Florence Jones. As she lay dying, Florence was revealed as a married woman, Mrs. William Drake. It was a wretched story of poverty, tragedy and madness—the kind of thing that, in the hands of a Balzac or an Edgar Allen Poe, becomes great literature. Of all the stories of the year, this was the most pitiful and the most passionate. Automobile Tragedies Tenth on this list is published in The Star today. Tt is a sad recapi tulation of the numbers of persons killed here this year by automobile accidents. It rates in the first ten because automobile tragedies were particularly appalling this year, and because it reveals a situation dangerous to ever yonr of us,' and to which there Is apparently no present workable solution. It is hoped that, presented as it is to day. it may emphasize the danger of our reeklfissne.- on the roads and possibly show the way to some protective or pi wnlauve mea ires. Below the big first ten. hundreds of other stories clamor for atten tion, They are listed In a day-by day summary In an article compil ed by Wyan Washburn. Star staff wilier, w'uich will appear either to day or Wednesday. Besides the reports of accident and death, which are elsewhere re ported, the following items were of great general Interest dining the year: The Big Jim Kramer revival at the Baptist church, attended by thousands; the $1,500 fire in the Quality Dry Cleaning establish ment; the plans to enlarge the postoffice and the announcement that a separate federal building would be erected here; the million dollar county property increase; the schools closed by measles last Jan uary; the promise of the Grover road and the promise to complete the Gaffney road; the population figure for Shelby—12,970; and the resignation of popular Horace Easom as choir leader at the First Baptist. And a few more at random: on Happy Reunion Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and hea daughter, Gloria, leave New York church durinv first reunior i between “Gold Child" and hei ■ mother since custody fight began j March J i and 3-4 inches of rain inches of rain fell in Cleveland; Louis Sentell's trial was thrice postponed; four prisoners cracked j i trusty over the head with a bot tle and escaped from the Shelby (all; W. E. Moore, former athlete, scratched his finger on a rusty nail—and died as the result of a serum injected to Immunize him; on March 11. the Cleveland club house was almost destroyed by fire; Robert Jones was killed by light ning while working in a field, and terrific storms lashed the county, while cotton burned; and a mill worker named Oates killed him self, leaving a note declaring he rad had six wives—but was never really married td anv of them. _ FOITR STILLS RAIDED IN BURKE VICINITY Four stills were destroyed in Burke county during the Christmas season in raids conducted by county officers, with one illicit out fit being captured within the town limit by local police. No arrets wfre reported, and all stills were standing idle when dis covered. IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS Chicago Did Its Christmas Shopping Early . . . The Lot of the Coach Wilh a Poor Season Is An Unhappy One BY PHILIP MARTIN rpHE baseball mart held recent "*■ ly at Louisville furnishes hot stove leaguers with plenty of ma terial to muse over during the winter months. Heading all others is the deal whereby the Chicago Cubs ob tained Freddy Llndstrom aud Larry French from Pittsburgh In exchange for Guy Bush, Babe Herman, and Jim Weaver. Inci dentally. it is rumored that Babe Herman, once the pride and glory of Brooklyn's Dizzy Dodgers, will never don a Pirate uniform, but will be shunted to the Boston Braves in return for Hal Lee, a right-handed slugger. The Cubs are very fortunate In obtaining the services of Lind strom. Freddy is a seasoned vet eran of 11 years of National leaguing, although only 29 years old. He'll probably play third ba: e, his natural position, for the Cubs, although the outfield has been his spot during the last four years with the Pirates and Giants. Larry French, a southpaw workhorse of a pitcher, is expect ed to Inject a great deal of ag gressiveness'into the Cubs, a qual ity sadly lacking during the last campaign. Another deal which should have an effect on next year's standings is the one that sent Bruce Campbell to the Cleveland Indians In return for Lefty Wet land, Johnny Burnett, and a wad of cash. Burnett and Welland possess a good deal of latent abil ity. and Rogers Hornsby is the guy to uncover hidden talent if anyone can. Campbell, a youngster with a high slugging average. Is expect ed to fill the Indians* crying need for someone to play their shoit right field in major league fash ion. An Important minor league deal sends young Joe DIMaggio. erst while flychaser of the San Fran cisco Seals, to the New York Yankees. DIMaggio will not. how ever, report to the Yanks until next falL • • • ALL Is not so well among the * football coaching fraternity. The coach-firing season has ar rived, with the alumni, etudent publication, and undergrads play ing the anvil chorus with more X Figuring prominently in the recent Louisville trades, Urnre Campbell, top left, topnotch slugger and fielder, goes to the Cleve land Indians, while Freddy Ltndstrom, right, and Larry French, bottom left, will perform next year for the Chicago Cubs. than their accustomed vigor. Already, Bill Ingram has hand ed In his notice at the University ot California, to enter the busi ness world. Eddie Casey of Har rard is said to be contemplating the same action. Gloomy Gil Do ble. long a fixture at Cornell, is slated to lose his head shortly. Dr. Eddie Anderson of Holy Cross, falling to make good with a wealth of material this year, will soon be on the outside look tng In. Frank Carideo of Notre Dame is definitely on his way out at Missouri, as is Dick Hanley at Northwestern. These are only a few of the many changes which will come before the 1935 grid season opens but it should give a rough idea of the way the wind blows.
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