Cloth Mill To Meet
Mooresville Outfit;
Whiskers Win 12 To 6
Jim Poole'* Fast Mooresville Team Comes
To City Saturday Afternoon; Six Homers
Feature Exhibition Tilt
Hoping- to get in the winning column the Cleveland Cloth
Mill will take on the powerful Mooresville sluggers here Sat
urday afternoon in a game beginning at 3 o’clock.
The third game and the third
loss was registered in the local
park here yesterday afternoon
when the Cee Cees were smothered
by whiskers, literally and actually.
The House of David club of be
whiskered bell players were good
for li hits and 12 runs. Shelby
players connected for 15 hits but
couldn’t make the runs come in.
Mach Interest
A tremendous amount of interest
was taken in the game as the visit
ors from Benton Harbor, Mich,
showed that having a good time
was not all they knew how to do.
They had a good pitcher, a good
shortstop and every other player
knew his game. In addition a num
ber of the players put on Juggling
exhibitions known as “pepper
games" which bewildered and en
tertained the fans.
Six home runs featured the game
with Mel Friday, first sacker tak
ing twp and Weathers and Suddeth
one each for the Cloth Mill. Pann
and Dumin got the homers for the
Samson players. Rutherford, a
pitcher was hired before and re
leased after the game.
m the game Saturday officials
said the Mooresville outfit has not
lost a game this year and is one of
the best in the Piedmont region.
They are managed and led by Jim
Poole formerly with the Athletics at
Fhllly and an old head at baseball.
His team has already licked Kan
napolis twice, and Kannapolis is
one of the members of the Carolina
league.
Score by innings:
H. of D. .— 120 206 100—12 11 0
Cloth Mill . 010 202 010— 6 15 2
• Fwaney and Prentbert; Ruther
ford, Hbme. Stalling and Murray.
Hoey Takes Praise
Of Foe With Salt
(Continued from page one.)
democratic principles in every elec
tton. They also know what I have
been actively identified with farm
ers and laboring people all my life
and that as a lawyer I have rep
resented the average man 60 times
to every time I have appeard for a
corporation or a person of wealth.
“It might be of Interest to Pro
fessor McDonald to know that 35
years ago. before ha was born, I
introduced a bill in the legislature
to create the office of commission
er of labor and printing and to as
sign it to the task of investigating
labor conditions and improving the
lot of the working man. When I
was elected to congress in 1919 I was
put on the committee on labor be
cause of my work in labor's behalf.
Throughout my entire political ca
reer I have championed the cause
of the average man. And that I will
continue to do throughout my term
as governor,*’ Hoey concluded.
Two City Schools
To Graduate 121
(Continued from page one.)
graduating exercises will be in the
hands of the senior class and six
seniors will give the six winning es
says on the theme selected for the
year, open to competition from all
the class. The subject is "One Hun
dred Years of Education in North
Carolina."
Mrs. Ben HeoriHpfcs is sponsor
and advisor of the senior class thi
year.
Superintendent B. L. Smith said
the colored high school of the city
will graduate 37 pupils at the same
time and Dr. N. C. Newbold of the
state department is expected to
address the body.
Superintendent B. N. Barnes of
the Kings Mountain high school
said his closing exercises will not be
until May 31 and June 1. Kings
Mountain is the only school in the
county to have 175 teaching days,
provided by a supplemental tax.
There are 40 members of the sen
ior class.
McDonald To Speak
Here On May 8th
Paul Christopher, textile organis
es, who lives in Shelby, is making
arrangements for Dr. Ralph W.
McDonald, candidate for governor,
to speak here in the court house on
May 9th at t o’clock. The date for
Ms coming was first set for Friday
Mtemoon, May 8th. but the court
house had been previously engaged
by George Grant who has beer
working for weeks on his maiden
’ speech, hence the date was changed
to the night of May 9th.
“Suicide” Track I
Meet Of Devils
And UNC Looms
CHAPEL HILL, April 24—While
the Tar Heel netmen and golfers
open tournament play and the
baseball team takes things easy
prior to a Big Five engagement with
Wake Forest Friday, North Caro
lina’s trackmen aimed to complete
their hard work today In prepara
tion for a tough assignment In the
form of a duel meet with the pow
erful Duke cinder team.
This Carollna-Duke affair, al
ways one of the most colorful of
the season, wil lbe held.In Duke
Stadium Saturday afternoon. The
meet this year wil lmark the first
time that the Blue Devils will be
entering the melee as top-heavy
favorites since the two colleges be
gan track Delations In 1920. Caro
lina’s most Inexperienced and weak
est aggregation in history will be
up against Duke’s post formidable
track collection.
Carolina’s netmen began com
petition In the state singles and
doubles tournament this morning.
All Big Five college were repres
ented. The Tar Heel golf team en
tered the Southern Intercollegiate
Open tourney In Athens, Oa. Last
year the Carolina entries team won
the team title.
Coach Bunn Hearn will take the
Tar Heel baseball tedm to Wake
Forest Friday afternoon. It will be
the second Big Five game of the
season for Carolina. Johnnie Hum
phries Is slated to take the mound.
Duke’s 1936 Indoor Southern con
ference track champions are ex
pected to be at their best Saturday.
Six Individual champions are among
the Blue Devils forces, while Caro
lina ha* only one.
Carolina's most consistent sprin
ter, Jim Finley, will face a pair of
speedy Dukesters, Shehan and
Woodward. This pair tied at 9.7
seconds In a recent meet. Finley has
never broken 10 seconds.
Lattimore Beats
Mooresboro Nine
Hampered by a cold wind Latti
more and Mooresboro locked horns
Wednesday afternoon and played a
slow ball game to the finish with
Lattimore winning by a 10 to 6
score.
Wall and Hamrick were batteries
for the losers and Cabaniss and
McSwaln for Lattimore.
4 Local Students
Enter Music Meet
(Continued from page (me.)
accompanying the students were
young Hamrick's father, Rush
Hamrick, sr., Mrs. B. T. Palls and
Mrs. Roland Elam, mothers of Miss
Palls and Miss Elam, and Buford
Cline who made the trip with Mike
Borders, Jr.
Other Schools
Among other schools in the
county which placed first in the
oistrict contest and were schedul
ed to enter the state contest are:
Kings Mountain, class B, girls
glee club; Lattimore, class C, mixed
chorus, girls chorus, alto solo by
Miss Mary Sue Walker, and bari
one solo by John Blanton, Jr.; and
Fallston. cli/vs c. soprano solo by
Miss Elizabeth Lee.
The grand finale, a concert by
The best bands and orchestras en
tered in the contest, will close the
three-day competition this evening
at which time the winners in all
classes and events will be announc
ed
I ___
detail Trade Rises
Reports Bradstreet
NEW YORK. April 24.—(M--A
rising volume o» retail trade to a
peak higher han at Easter was
'forecast .oday by Dunn and Brad
streets weekly Trade Review.
1 “Shunting the expected recession
in the weight of the Easter sales
period the encouraging recovery of
consumer demand during the week
provided evidence that the spring
volume has yet to reach its peak,
‘ it was stated.
All cities reported retail sales
’ larger than for the week preceding
• it was found. The report showed
1 'When compared with the corres
1 ponding period of 1935 which was
i post-Easter week the estimated gain
1 ,ior the country as a whole ranged
'from 8 percent to 15 percent."
Whiskered Man
Becomes Hurler
For The CC’s
The Cleveland Cloth mill won
something, If not the game in the
contest yesterday against the uni
que baseball club. They now have
another pitcher.
His last name Is Stratton and he
is a former Rochester double A
ball player and trained last winter
with the Reds In Florida. He licked
Asheville Pledmonters last Sunday
and Is rated as a keen right-hand
er.
Whiskers and all, he was hired
by the Cloth Mill and managers
were this morning engaging the
services of several barbers to re
lieve him of his bushy mask. Until
he is shaved he will be called
"Moses,but fans will find another
nickname for him when he appears
as a bonaftde player of the Cee
Cees, In the blue and gray uniform
and behind no disguise.
Hospital Savings
Manning’s Subject
"The Hospital Savings Plan” was
the subject of the talk made here
Wednesday evening by Dr. I. H.
Manning when he spoke before
members of the County Medical so
ciety, the Shelby hospital board,
and superintendents of the various
mills In Shelby, at the April meet
ing of the Medical society.
The savings plan la a system of
group Insurance for hospitalization
for low salaried workers, which is
in process of being organized and
promoted In North Carolina. ' Dr.
Manning’s purpose In speaking on ,
this subject was to make its work
ing clear to the local group and
appeal for its adoption by hospitals
and employers working ten or more ■
persons.
Prior to Dr. Manning’s address
the hospital board and the super
intendent, Miss Ella MacNlchols 1
were hosts to the assembled group
at a dinner In the private dining :
room of the Charles hotel. The
banquet table was decorated with ,
spirea, lilacs and Iris, and covers
were laid for 33 guests.
Lattimore Faculty
Chosen For 1937
Notifications have Just been sent
out to Lattimore school ’ teachers
who have been elected to return
next year. The present faculty was
maintained with the exception of
two.
• Prof. R. D. Arrowood was re*
named principal and on the school
board’s recommendation he will
have the following high school
teachera: Miss Christine Mauney,
math and French; Miss Mildred
McKinney, English; Miss Irene
Hamrick, home economics; H. E.
Moseley, history; Felix Gee, math
and English; Durand Stetler, science
and coach; P. M, Coley, vocational
agriculture.
Teachers in the grades will be:
E. E. Davis, seventh; Miss Lillian
Logan, fifth; Miss Margaret Ham
rick, sixth; Miss Inez Beam, fifth
and sixth; Miss Ruth Whisnant;
fifth; Miss Madge Sperling, fourth;
Miss Helen Collins. third and
fourth; Miss Mary Robinson, first
A; Miss Pauline Dedmon, first B.
Miss Frances Graham will con
tinue as public school music teach
er and Mrs. Jack Hartigan will con
tinue in piano instruction.
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Racy Congressman
Has Speed Checked
WASHINGTON, April 24.—Mar
lon Zloncheck, debonair young i
Washington congressman with a
penchant for gleaming, speedy
roadsters, yesterday came off a dis
tinct second best in a tumultuous
and extended skirmish over the
capital’s traffic laws. Involving a
dozen policemen backed by one
stern police court Judge.
Zioncheck spent parts of the day ;
in two guard rooms, emerged the 1
underdog in as many scuffles with
the officers, and finally was free to
go home to his four pet diamond
back terrapins, only after Repre
sentative O’Connor of New York
had paid for him fines totaling *4ri.
This included $25 for driving his
roadster at a rate of 70 miles an j
! hour early last Saturday momlnc, ;
| and an extra $20 for creating n ‘
| disturbance in court. To the latter.!
i Judge Walter J. Casey added no
! Option of 48 hours in Jail, of which
'ioncheck chose not to avail him
colf.
i Moslems, Hindus
Repcv*t«d In Riot
BOMBAY, April ‘M.—(ff*i Tele
phone messages from Toona today
aid mops had been called out fol
lowing rioting betw en Hindus and;
:Moslems in which eighty-five per-'
sons were reported injured.
; The r ports said that attempts!
;were made to burr temples and'
mosques. j
The trouble started it was said lnj
a dispute over music being played
in front of a Hindu temple.
Butcher Boy Hears Mercy Plea
Alfred E. Volckman, in gray suit, leaves jafl at Catskill, N. Y-, m the
custody of guards for his trial for the brutal murder of Helen Glenn,
nine-year-old daughter of his church pastor. As the trial opened Voick
man heard the girl’s father make a plea for mercy.
Keen Interest In
Letter Writing On
W omenRegistering
Already a number have indicated
that they are entering the contest
on writing letters of not exceeding
260 words on “Why Every Woman
Should Register and Vote In the
June Primary” for which three
prises are offered: $16, $10 and $6.
The campaign slogan In Cleve-1
land county Is “10,000 Votes Forj
Hoey.” This tribute can be paid to
Mr. Hoey If every voter will regis
ter. The male citizens are more ac
customed to registering and voting,
but several thousand woman dis
franchise themselves by not reg
istering. Requirements for registra
tion will be published In Monday’s
Issue of The Star for the guidance
of those eligible to vote or the In
formation may be secured earlier
from John P. Mull, chairman of
the county board of elections.
Those who enter the contest are
asked to submit their leters as soon
as possible. All must be in not later
than midnight May 15th. All per
sons 16 years or qver who are resi
dents of Cleveland county may en
ter the contest. Letters should be
written on only one side of the pa
per, typed If possible, and the name,
address and age of the contestant
written on a small piece of paper
and pinned to the letter. Numbers
will be assigned after they are re
ceived at The Star office so that the
judges will not know the contest
ants.
Simply write the "best reasons”
why all women should register and
vote. Papers will be judged on the
reasons most forcefully expressed,
rather than on grammar and punc
tuation.
District W. O. W.
Convention Here
Woodmen of the World of the
western district of North Carolina
convened in aU-day meeting here
yesterday at the lodge hall. Ses
sions were held morning and aft
ernoon with picnic dinner served
between. About one hundred dele*
gates from Cleveland and counties
west to the Tennessee line were Id
the city for the convention.
Attorney A. A. Powell gave the
welcome address yesterday morn
ing and other speakers were T. E.
Newton, of Kinston, state manager;
Judge Barrington T. Hill of Wades
boro, past head counsel, and A. H. j
Smith of Shelby whose contribu-1
tion to the program was an exhibi
tion of vent riloquism and memory
work.
The meeting represented the semi
annual gathering of members In the
district and Waynesville was select- J
ed as the next meeting place.
‘ armon Murderers
Are Given 25 Years
GASTONIA. April 24.—(iP)—James
one Kenneth Bailey, Gastonia
youths convicted of second degree
murder in the death of Zeb Har- j
Uion, 62, barber, were sentenced to*
25 years each in state’s prison yes
terday by Judge W. H. Harding.
"The jury could well have ren-;
dercd a first degree verdlot in this
car,?, but I suppose they didn’t on
accoun: of the youth of the de
fendants," the judge said in pass-|
ing sentence.
The maximum penalty was 30
years for second degree murder.
The state sought a first degree!
verdict, attempting to prove Ken-|
neth killed Harmon on a deserted
highway and that James was a plot
ter in 'he crime a’-d accepted half
the $34 taken from the dead man's
pockets
North Is Waiting
For County Berries
Raspberries and cream will be
the order of the day for New York
ers and New Englanders this spring
and it looks now as if they will be
eating berries from Cleveland
fields.
County Agent John S. Wilkins
said today that an inspection tour
of the county indicates that the
canes on more than 30 acres of the
berries are showing signs of life
and will soon be running and soon
| thereafter blooming and setting
| fruit. •
j Snow, sleet and extreme cold in
jthe north has delayed and in some
places killed the 1936 crop of ber
ries, and Mr. Wilkins is optimistic
about top prices for Cleveland prod
ucts.
Hundreds of dollars extra income
was added from the crop last year,
which is expected to be doubled
this year.
Advocate Passage
To Tydings Measure
WASHINGTON, April 34.—(IP)—
Passage of the Tydings bill to ex
tend an opportunity for Independ
ence to Porto Rico was advocated
today by Dr. Ernest Greuning, head
of the Interior department bureau
of territorial affairs.
He joined Chairman Tydings,
Democrat, Maryland, of the senate
territories committee, in saying the
measure had administration sup
port
Coincidentally, however, Greuning
said the administration did not in
tend to offer further outlying pos
sessions the option of independ
ence.
Examine Collegian
For Poetic Writing
COLUMBIA, S. C., April 24.—(/P)
—A report was being prepared at
the state hospital today on Peter
i Moody, Wofford college junior in
response to a resolution of the
House of Representatives asking
that he be examined mentally be
cause he wrote a sketch describing
textile workers unfavorably.
Dr. C. P. Williams, superintend
ent of the hospital, said a psychi
atrist called on Moody yesterday
and that a report was being drafted
for presentation next week. He
would not disclose details.
McSwain’s Tulips
At Best On Sunday
| LifSier McSwain said today that
his tulip garden at Beth-Ware will
likely be at its very best Sunday,
April 26, being fully a week later
ithan the Price gardens at Lattimore.
[Both growers have about the same
[varieties, although the 40,000 grown
i by Mr. McSwain are mulched and
open later.
He will begin after Sunday to cut
the blooms and give them to pa
tients at the county hospital, the
county home and others who are ill.
Those which are not given away
will be burned or otherwise destroy
ed.
Conspired Kidnaping
BROOKLYN, N. Y.. April 84.—OP)
—L. S. H. Parker, jr„ son of the
Burlington, N. J. chief of detectives
was characterised by District At
torney W. F. X. Geogoan today as
the real conspirator in the kidnap
ing arM torture of Paul H. Wendell
Parker, indicted with four others
yesterday remained at large today
although there were rumors he was
on his way here to surrender.
Among those who attended the,
meeting of the State P.-T. A. in 1
Charlotte last night were Superin
tendent B. L. Smith. Mrs. H. G
Bailey and Mrs. Harry Woodson. I
Odd But
TRUE
By O. MAX GARDNER, JR.
The skin of a shark is so tough
that you have to sharpen your
knife after cutting about three
feet of it.
Nobody has ever heard of a to
tally bald Indian, so far as I know.
In one cigar store on Times
Square, New York city,, a telephone
book is worn out every 72 hours by
people looking for numbers.
In the United States today
there are about four million twins.
Have you ever heard of sweet
potato candy? The Japanese
make candy out of sweet potatoes
now.
In 1793 in Toucoing, Prance, a
child was bom to the family of
the Clements. This child had but
one eye, and it was located in the
middle of her head She live to the
age of 15, and it has been said
that she could see as good as a
person with two eyes.
An average hen produces about
150 eggs a year. The- hen that laid
the most eggs in a year, owned by
a Missouri farmer, produced
around three hundred and ten
eggs.
Pink snow has fallen twice on
the Australian Alps this year At
St. Bernards hospital it fell first
tme and one half Inches thick,
two or three minutes later a white
snow feU to the depth of six inches.
A little later another pink snow
fell, one inch thick. Then it froze.
The attendants at the hospital
cut blocks of the snow, and they
are preserving it in an electric re
frigerator.
Here Is a peculiar list of, odd
names that some of our towns of
today have: Cold Roast Hamlet.
Make.’Em,Rich, Come to Good,
Fryup, Wide Open, Pity Me, Ugley,
New Invention, Lord Help Us,
Truro, Hometowne, One Pence.
In Ixs Angeles, Calif., a new
school has been started where all
the pupils are paid for each day
they come to school. If they miss
a day they are docked that days
salary.
You can produce more notes on
a violin, which has only four
strings, than you can on a piano
with Its 53 keys.
Soldiers Hacks To
Death His Wife;
Wounds Another
FAYETTEVILLE, April 24.—(IP)—
Mrs. Grover Pritchett, wife of a
Fort Bragg soldier, was hacked to
death with an ax at her home near
the reservation early today, anoth
er woman critically wounded
Pritchett himself slightly hurt in
whfct officers said was a suicide at
tempt after a quarrel between the
man and his wife. .
Sheriff M. H. McOeachy said
Pritchett, a native of Alamance
county, had given him a signed
confesion saying he had attacked
his wife and Miss Ruth Johnson
with an ax, then attempted suicide
by cutting his throat with a razor
blade because “My wife had not
been treating me right.”
The sheriff said Pritchett’s con
dition was not serious and he ex
pected to be moved from the hos
pital to the Jail here this after
noon. No reason was given imme
diately for Pritchett’s attack on
Mi^r Johnson.
Second Half PWA
Begins Next Week
(Continued from page one)
sitions for labor must be made at
the local employment office, as the
work is being done with federal
funds.
Work was started this week, using
about 30 men, on the two overhead
bridges at Dover Mill, the jobs to
cost approximately $23,000.
Names New Business
For Eight Year Old
D. Huss Cline, local Chevrolet
dealer, has purchased the Chevro
let agency in Lincoln county from
Guy E. Cline'and is applying for a
charter for the Marshall Chevro
let Co. under which name the com
pany .will operate in Lincolnton.
Marshall is the eight year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. Huss Cline. The
sale of the business was consum
mated this week and the Shelby
Cline is taking charge.
Penny Column
F(JR SALE: SOY BEANS. HAYNE
Patterson, Patterson Springs.
tf 24c
WANTED: TO RENT OlT BUY
" list top desk. Must be reasonably
priced. George D. Dedxnon. ltp
Judge Pless Talks i
On Prison Reform
At County Meet
RUTHERFORDTON, April 24 —
The Rutherford County club held
a well attended and profitable meet
ing here Friday at 1 p. m. in the
dining room of the First Baptist
church. President D. C. Whitaker
presided and appointed the follow
ing committee to investigate the
mineral resources of the county: O.
J Holler, Dr. L. B. Morse and Clar
ence Griffin.
The May meeting will be held at
the Spindale house, Friday, May 22,
7 p. m. at which time State Treas
urer, Chas. M. Johnson will discuss
state government.
Judge J. Will Pless, jr„ who was
holding court there was introduced
by R. E. Price and spoke in part as
follows:
"There are 9,000 prisoners in
North Carolina now. Many are boys
under 21 years of age. There is no
place for them to be sent except
the state prison camps, or roads or
to the penitentiary. Crime is cost
ing this state $9,000 daily. Punish
ment should be swift and certain.
A judge can impose a fine, suspend
ed sentence or send them to the
roads or pen. There are 80 prison
camps in this state. They are mod
em and well equipped. If 15 to 20
camps could be designated for boys
16 to 21 and first offender camps
and get excellent guards and super
intendents who are interested in
boys, it would mean much for the
future manhood of the state. It
would mean no extra cost, no new
laws and would help to reform
many youths. It is wrong to put a
young boy in a cell with a harden
ed criminal.”
FINAL RITES ARE HELD
FOR MRS. HAMMETT, 87
GAFFNEY, S. C., April 24.—Final
rites were held Thursday at Chero
kee church for Mrs. Julia Hammett,
87, widow of A. D. Hammett, who
died Wednesday after an illness of!
two weeks. Mrs. Hammett leaves a j
son, Lawrence Hammett, and the
following daughters: Mrs. J. A.
Ellis, Mrs. J. L. Huskey, Mrs. Eve
lina Martin, Mrs. T. C. Scruggs
and Mrs. R. H. Harris of route 2,
and Mrs. Clay Wall of Henrietta,
N. C.
South Charleston, O., is said to
be the smallest town in the United
States operSting under a city man
ager.
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