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MW *++*♦♦♦+♦♦+<•+*♦++*< TRADE WITH YOUR HOME MERCHANTS »♦****♦♦++*+***♦+*++*+' Kings Mountain Herald READ THE ADS IN THIS i’APER VOL 33 NO. 16 KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0. THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1935. $1.50 A YriAR IN ADVANCE LUDWIG H- KRISSLER ADDRESSES STUDENT BODY Ludwig H. Krissler, of Pough keepsie, New York, addressed the student body of the Kings Mountain High school at the regular morning assembly Monday. His topic was ‘Seven Reasons Why You Should Complete Your High School Course. Happiness, appreciation, social, character, rivalry, economic, and professional were the seven named, and he emphasized that the best op portunities still await those vTno are ready by training and natural quali fications, to meet the actual do mands of life. “Your high school di ploma is the 'Open Sesame’ to the world's storehouse of possibilities," he said. Tomorrow brings new and difficult problems which the youth of today will be called upon to solve, he continued. COTTON FASHION SHOW TO BE GIVEN A cotton fashion show is to be given at the High school auditorium during National Cotton Week, May 6 to May 12. The fashion show is to be staged by Circle Number Two of the Methodist church. Only cotton dresses that are bought from Kings Mountain merchants, or dresses made from cotton material bough* from local merchants are to be mod eled in this show. Both adult and children dresses are to be modeled. DOROTHY PLONK WINS MUSIC CONTEST The District Music contest was held at Gastonia Central school au ditc^ium Saturday April 13. Dorothy Plonk, a junior in Kings Mountain High School, was in the piano con tests with honor rating of I,^orothy won over Shelby, Lincolnton, Bel mont, Lattimore, and other schools around Gastonia. The judge was very complimentary in her comments a bout Miss Plonk. This means that she will go to Greensboro to the Woman’s college to take part in the State-wide music contest April 24-20. This is one of the outstanding e vents in the state. COURT OF HONOR MEETS TONIGHT A Court of Honor of the Boy Scouts will be held tonight, Thurs day, April 18th, at the Central school builaing. The meeting is called for 7:30. TWO ANNOUNCE IN DOMING CITY ELECTION Mayor. J. E. Herndon filed tYc week for reelection as Mayor of Kings Mountain. Mr. C. P. Go forth announced his candidacy for Commissioner of Kings Moun tain. MRS. S. E. COLLINS DIES Mrs. Linuie Cray Collins, age 56, widow of the late Somers B. Col lins, died at her home here last Sat urday afternoon. Mrs. Collins had been in failing health for a number of years but ..er condition was not cons .. Ted en tical until a few days before her death. Funeral services'were held Sunday afternoon at Central Methodist cliur eh, of which she had been a mem oer since coming to Kings Mountain icev. J. W. Williams, pastor of the deceased had charge of the service and was assisted by Rev. W. M. lloyce, pastor of Boyce Memorial church. Hymns, "Rock of Ages” and "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go" were sung by the choir. Interment was made at Chapel Lutheran cemetery, East Gastonia. The pallbearers were employees of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Compan's office located in Gastonia. Mr. Collins was representative of that company in t"his section, main taining an office in Kings Mountain until his recent death. Mrs. Collins, a native of Iredell county, was a daughter of the late W. S. and Nancy Hughes Rogers. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. R. H. Ferguson of Gastonia; Miss Helen Collins of the Lattimore School faculty; Miss Ola Collins of the Nursery school faculty of Shelby, Somers Collins, student at Boiling Springs Junioor College, Sa ra and Ernest Collins of Kings Mountain. The children have been bereft of both father and mother in less than four months and have the sympathy of the entire community. Mrs. Collins is also survived by three sisters and one brother, Miss Nannie Rogers, Mrs. Oscar Poteat, Mrs. John Poole and Lee H. Rogers, all of Rock Hill. Legion National Comman der Here Sunday The American Legion’s National Commander, Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., oi San Francisco, accompanied by North .Carolina’s State Commander, Hubert E. Olive of Lexington, and Department Adjutant James H. Caldwell, also other prominent Le gionaires will be in Kings Mountain for a short time Sunday morning. This party is expected to arrive here from Gastonia at 10:30 a. m. and will be met at the Woman's Club building on East Mountain street, by all members of Otis D, Green Post No. 155. Other World War Veterans of this community and the public is invited to be pres ent. Post Commander, W. vV. Souther and Mayor J. E. Herndon, who is al so a Legionaire, will welcome these distinguished Legionaries to our city. Commander Belgrano and par ty will make short stops at other towns along the route to Asheville where he will visit at Oteen. Let everyone who can do so turn out and give them a hearty welcome to our historic city. TWO SENIORS HONORED (By Juanita Putnam) Last week two of our seniors, Ruth McGill and Clyde McSwain were hon ored by being selected by the Senior class to represent our school at a ■"citizenship banquet” at Hotel Char les, Shelby, given by ^he K|iwanis club. They were accompanied by Supt. B. N. Barnes, who introduced' them to the members of the Kiwanis Club and its guests. \ JUNIOR LEGION BASE BALL PRACTICE TO START ■ Post Athletic officer, Charles Warlic, has announced that base ball practice will begin Monday April 22. All boys who are eligi ble and have signed up to play Junior Legion baseball are urged to be at the ball park on the a bove date ready to start playing at 4 p. m. Each player should bring all the equipment he has, such as gloves, bats, etc. Let’s get behind the Junior Legion team and help to make it a winner for Kings Mountain and Cleveland County. PATTERSON GROVE SCHOOL TO CLOSE NEXT WEEK The Patterson Grove school will close next week with exercises Fri day night, April 26. The following program will be rendered: Little Folks Welcome", and “When Jim Spoke His Piece — by Primary grades. Rose of The Rileys—Play in 2 acts Good Morning Teacher—Play. Black Face Skit and Song. Music—Margrace orchestra. A small admission fee will be charged. The teachers of the school are Mr. Charles Lackey, principal, Mrs. W. K. Crook and Mrs. W. W. Souther. MEET THE NATIONAL COMMANDER HERE Above is pictured the Woman’s Club Building on East Mountain street where the National Cormander of the American Legion will be met on his visit to Kings Mountain Sunday morning. April 21, at 10:30, Your are invited to be present. State And National News Condensed In Brief Form —State News— HERTFORD, N. C., April 18.— Six prisoners in the Pedquiman3 county jail went on a spree and got drunk Sunday afternoon about 1 or two o clock, it was revealed today by Sheriff Emmett Winslow, and one of the prisoners got a whipping with nis own belt. CHARLOTTE, April 17—The case of two young short-term negro con victs whose feet were amputated as the alleged result of punishment in a dark cell today came before the Mecklenburg county grand jury. The jury will determine whether Captain H. C. Little, superintendent of the prison camp: Dr. C. S. McLau ghlin, the camp physician, and three former convict guards must stand trial. BODY DISCOVERED ROCKY MOUNT, April 17.— The body of David Watkins, 38, electrical appliance salesman who disappeared from a shad boat in Tar River here on the night of April 1, was rfecovt ered from near where he was last seen early today. SENATE PASSES THE REV ENUE MEASURE ON SECOND BALLOT RALEIGH. April 17.—The senate today passed the biennial revenue bill on second reading without any discussion. The vote was 21 to 9. It appeared obvious that it was planned to try to bring the revenue act more in line with proposed ap propriations by changing it in refer ence committee instead or fighting further on tile senate floor. As the revenue act stands it con tains a three per cent sales tax with exemption of nine basis item* of food. The house passed it without the exemptions. The senate also struck out tax levies on chain filling R ations, dividends of domestic cor porations and investment certifica tes which the house voted. It is figured the tax measure falls more than $5,000,000 short of proo viding money called for in the $64, 800,44 appropriations bill passed by the house awaiting senate action. DEATH RATE FALLS RALEIGH, April 17.—State de partment ofh ealth records show ed today there were 3,102 deaths in North Carolina last month as com pared with 3,498 for March, 1934. The death rate decreased from 12.S to 11.1 per 1,000 population. JEALOUSY MURDER— SUICIDE NEW BERN, April 17 — Lester Broughton, 35, was shot to death a bout 7 o'clock this morning by Er nest Brite, 30, as Broughton was leaving the Brite home at Trent, | Pamlico county. Brite returned to his 'home and killed himself by firing a bullet from 1 a .45 calibre pistol into his head. —National News— FOUR KILLED IN WRECK OF TRAIN ANTIGOMSH, N. S.. April 17. At least tour persons were killed today when the Halifax-bound Canadian national railway a express from Sid ney left the rails at Heathertou, near here. A fifth was believed buried b 1 neath the wreckage, and sixth seri ously injured. Trainmen had little hope of find ing the firemain alive. He was b iieved caught beneatht the huge lo comotive, which lurched from me track, toppling over an embankment into a gully, dragging five cars off the rails. N~EfV YORK, April 17.—The offici al rate for call money was lowered today to 1-4 of 1 per cent, establish ing the lowest cost for such credit in the history of Wall Street’s money market. BATON ROUGE. La , April 17.— Its special session enlivened by i jection of a woman foe of Senator Huey P. Long from the state hou3e as sfcfc waved an American flag and a farmer-legislator's threat to punch the senator, the Louisiana legisla ture was ready today to rubber stamp more laws for Long. HONOLULU, April 17. — The big Clipper plane “Pioneer" alighted on Pearl Harbor here at 7:57 a. m. Hon olulu time (1:27) Eastern Standard Time) today after a 2,400 mile flight from Alameda, Califfornia. The plane roared over Honolulu at 7:03 a. m. Honolulu time, setting a new record for the east to west crossing of the Pacific. ! Gliding gracefully down in a wide j circle, the Clipper plit the water of ^■’earl Harbor exactly three minutes 1 -fore her scheduled landing time. The ship had spent 5:1 minutes cruising over the city and adjacent cane fields. Washington, April 17. — The tariff commission was ordered today by Presideut Roosevelt to make an im mediate investigation into com plaints against the importations cf bleached cotton cloth. I CHARLESTON, S. C.. April 17 - The Atlantic Cotton Association'was ordered today as vigorously opposing the cotton processing tax and urging the government* to discontinue a polic\ of “artificial fixed price loans.' GENEVA, April 17. — The League of Nations council today adopted the tri-power resolution condemning Germany for her repudiation of traety obligations with only Den mark abstaining from voting. PLEADS GUILTY TO BREMER KIDNAPING ST. PAUL, April 17.—Byron Bol ton, Chicago, charged as one of the kidnappers of Edward G. Bruner, St Paul banker, pleaded guilty today as he and eleven others were brou ght into Federal court for trial. RECORDER’S COURT HELD HERE In a jury trial at Recorder’s court held here yesterday, H. !>. Summit!, proprietor of Summitt's Nu-vvay, was round not guilty of operating a lot tery. Mr. Summitt was represented by Attorney E. A. Harrill. Neal Hail, colored, charged with transporting liquor had judgmen continued until the next term of court. C. I). Hardin, charged with driving ,i car while drunk, case continued. George J Jackson, colored, charg ed with disposing of mortgaged c rops, case . ontinued. YOUNG PEOPLE’S DEPARTMENT OF BAPTIST CHURCH TO HAVE HANQt ET About 100 are expected to attend the banquet of the Young People's Department of the First Baptist chur eh to be held Friday night, 7: > at the Woman's Club on East Moun tain street. Mr. \V. L, Angel and Mr. .1 W. Irwin of Shelby will be the main speakers. An interesting program has been arranged which induces several selections by the quartette composed of Crook, Neal, Harrill and Moss. Also readings by Jo Keeter and Mary Helen Hambright. SERVICES AT WAL DROP TENT MEETING Sunday service at 3 p. m for father and mothers, and especially old people. The subject will he the Shepherd Psalm (23rd Psalm). We will have special music. We will have a service for colored people Monday night at 8 p. m. The Vestibule choir will sing. The following subjects will be dis cussed during the tent meeting: How much is a man better than a sheep? A Wrestling Match. Five Mistakes of a Rich Fool. Christ's conception of a Christian life. How others may know that you are a Child of God. Those who can not Inherit thy Kingdom of God. Repentance. Hell, Sin and other subjects These subjects may not be dis cussed in the order namel. but we want you to attend every service. TWO MILLION SPENT ON ROADS IN COUNTY IN TEN YEARS A sum $1,974,248 has been spent in Cleveland county in the last ten years by the Sta'e Highway Com mission according to a report of the University of North Carolina This amount represents $28.00 per capita and places Cleveland County iu 92nd place of the 100 counties in N’ort'1 Carolina Macon leads the list with $212.00 per capita being spent, and Mecklenburg i- on the bottom with $28.00 per capita. The total expenditure for North Carolina for roads in the last ten years is alnrbst $197,000,000 or $62. Oo per capita. MAP SURVEY BEING MADE HERE A crew of .72 workers from tho Pepartment of Commerce, Wash ington, 1). c , are making a m.ip survey and may control points for this area. They are making Kings Mountain ttn-ir headquarters and are working from here to Anderson, S. C Part of the workers and their fam ilies are camping in the vacant lot hack of the J. S P Motors, and will be located here a*fPut one week or ten days. The survey is being made under the direction of Mr Sam Hand. WORK STARTED j ON SCOUT CADIN i| Work has been started on the Boy /■Sccut cabin of the First Baptist church Troop. The cabin is to bo made from stone ami will be located on the vacant lot next door to thei 'ghureh. Mr P. D. Herndon is Scout master of the troop NICK MOSS AT HOME •j Mr. Nick Moss, who has been seri ously ill in a hospital in Washing ton, N. C., was brought to his homo in Kings Mountain, yesterday, (Wed nesday) and his many friends will be glad to know that stood the trip \ine. | Mr. Moss, up to the time of his ill j ness, was English teacher in tho ! Windsor High School, at Windsor, |N. C. Three Fires Take Place In Five Days Here Through | STATE CAPITOL U KEYHOLES I ( By Bess Hinton Silver) J ANGER — Senator John T. Burrus of Guilford county, apparently stili can't forget his primary campaign and some folk believe he i? prepar ing to jump into the race for Gover nor along with Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham, Clyde K Hoey and all comers. Charging that the rev enue department and the highway department of the State tried to de feat him. Burrus predicted that the next Governor of this State will not be a sales taxer. Some political wise- j acres interpreted his speech in the State Senate as the opening gun m his campaign for Governor. MUD — Senator Carl Bailey of Washington county wants the world j to know that he is opposed to diver sion of highway funds under the plan of Senator Newman, Chairman of the Senate finance committee and others, to levy the three percent sales tax against gasoline and take the cash out of money collected un der the State's present six cent per gallon gasoline tax. '1 will be oppos ed to any diversion until my people are taken out of the mud," Senator Bailey told the Upper Branch of the General Assembly. His people are still in the mud and it will be still muddier in his home county of Wash ington if highway money is spent on ! all the things that have been ad ! vanced before this session of the Leg isiature. ) (Cont’d on page two) I The Kings Mountain Fire Depart ment had a busy week, answering three calls in five days. *• Tuesday morning about 9:30 fire which started from a defective flue, completely destroyed the house on the York Road which was owned by Mr, Wade Bennett and occupied by Mr. 0. A. Horne and family. The house and practically everything in it was a total loss. No insurance was carried on house or the furnishings. Mr Horne told the Herald, “1 had bought my little girl a new pair of shoes Saturday, and I did not even have time to save them.” The Her ald can think of no better way of displaying tbe charitable spirit that Kings Mountain is capable of giving, than to help the Hornes by donating to them the necessary furniture to resume housekeeping again. The firemen did mighty good work during the high wind of the fire to keep it from spreading to tbe house next door. Sunday morning about 11:15 fire started from a defective line in the kitchen of the home of Arthur Hay on Gaston street. Very little damage' was done. Fart of the roof was burn ed. Friday aiternoon about 4 o'clock fire destroyed the barn which hous ed a brooder with 75 baby chicks that belonged to Mr. C. R. Cash on Hast King street. The fire was start ed by the overheated brooder. At this fire a man from Georgia, whose name was not learned was arrested and fined $10.00 for driving over a fire house.
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