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VOL. 33 NO. 27
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, HUHSDAY, JULY 11, 1935
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
—State News—
RALEIGH, July 10.—Dr. Carl V.
Reynolds, state health olBcer, said
this afternoon that only 109 cases of
infantile paralysis in North Carolina
are still in the contagious stage
though 338 have been reported this
year. •
‘‘Poiiomye'itis is no longer infec
tious three weeks after the date
of its onset,” Doctor Reynolds said.
"'Therefore, many of the cases we
have heard of since the first of th<*
year are no longer dangerous to the
public. This, 1 believe, should ma
terially reduce the fear of the out
break in the state.”
CHARLOTTE, July 10.—A rece3s
of Superior Court until two o’clock
this afternoon found the two neces
sary jurors still absent from the jury
box in the case of the five former
prison camp officials charged witn
mistreatment of two short-term n;
gro convicts.
It was expected, however, the Jury
would be completed later in the af
ternoon with the prospect of testi
mony getting under way shortly aft
erward.
RALEIGH. July 10—The last of
♦he eighteen counties the 1935 legis
lature authorized to hold liquor
etore referendums had voted today
and the result was: Sixteen counties
tor qliuor control, one against, and
one restrained from voting.
LEXINGTON, Jply 10.—The wife
of a negro farmer of near South
mont, sugerlng a malignant disease
fell into a coma and examination by
relatives indicoted she was dead.
Friends promptly gathered about
the bier to mourn.
As an undertaker was called and
the n.ourners stood about, the wo
man suddenly sat up.
"I want some cantaloupe," she
said.
The mourners seddadled.
CHILD ELECTROCUTED
CHARLOTTE, July 10—After a
heavy rainstorm yesterday, Mary
Hazel Black, 4, walked outdoors to
play. She picked up a live wire and
was electrocuted.
TEN INJURED WHEN
BUS. TRUCK COLLIDE
NEW BERN, July 10.—Engineer
Nat Russell, of'the Norfolk South
ern rail bus, and ten other persons
were injured about 10 o’clock this
morning when the rail bus collided
with a truck loaded with brick at a I
crossing three miles west of here. I
Russell's injuries were chiefly burns
from acid from wet cell batteries.
No cue else was seriously Injured
but both conveyances were badly
wrecked.
WILMINGTON. July 10.—A thrill
tng -tory of how he and Fretl F.
Singleton, both ol' Wilmington, spent
24 hours off Wrightsville Beach a
waiting abatement of a sea with
"waves as high as houses” was told i
today by Sant Woolvln, aviator, aft
er he brought his 30-foot cruiser,
Bobby, through Masonboro Inlet
here at 5 a. m.
RALEIGH. July 10.—Edwin M.,
Gill, parole commissioner, said to
day there might be an announce
ment by night as to how many, if
any, of the four men slated to be
electrocuted Friday nt state’s prison
will be executed this week.
The men facing death this week
are: George Whitfield, convicted in
October 1933 of crimiual assault in
Guilford who lost appeals to the
state and United States supreme
courts: Dortch Waller, convicted In
Granville county of murder, and
Taft Williams, convicted In Colum
bus of the same crime, both of
whom lost appeals to the state su
preme court last month; and Louis
Sentell sentenced to die for murder
in Brunswick county, who also lost
a court appeal.
0 Two pure bred Guernsey sires
w-'-e purchased by Burke County
dairymen front the breeding herd
at Quail Roost Farm last month.
—National News—
BATAVIA, Java, July 10.—The vol
cano Krakatoa, which exploded in
1883 killing 36,000 persons with a
roar which was heard for thousands
of miles began a series of eruptions
today. The eruptions are octuriug at
two minute intervals, and lava was
spumed to a height o!' about 2,500
feet.
WASHINGTON, July 10.—By an
abrupt change of tactics, the senato
today sent the hotly disputed public
utility hill to conference and in
structed its conferees to insist on
lie provision desired by President
■ toosevelt to outlaw “unnecessary'’
holding companies in seven years.
There was an advance understand
mg, however, that a disagreement
with the house on this section would
result in a request to the senate for.
“further instructions” with confer
:es.
NEWARK, N. J„ July 10. —Twenty
policemen battled an alleged holdup
gang of five men and a woman at
the Hudson taxi station today, shoot
mg one man and capturing the six
o frustrate a *75,000 holdup.
The gang, said by police to be
wanted in various citiies in the east
for numerous robberies and holdups,
had been watched by police for two
days.
ADDIS AUARA, July 10.—The for
elgn ministry announced today that
Ethopla, “persisting in a peaceful
solution" of the dispute with Italy,
demands the immediate convocation
of the council of the League ef Na
tions.
Failure to agree on the Italo
Ethlopian conciliation commission
meeting at Scheveningen, The
Netherlands, “following the refusal
of the Italian arbitrators to examine
the question of Ualula" did not sur
prise Ethiopian government circles
the announcement said.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 10.
—Writing that he was ‘no longer
able to work,” Richard Earl Walker.
59 year old associate editor of The
Chattanooga Times, typed out data
for his obituary and shot himself to
death yesterday in the newspaper
office.
Walker’s body was found slumped
at his desk, a bullet wound in the
right temple. In his typewriter was
the obituary note addressed to
whom it may concern.”
TACOMA, Wash., July 10.—Wlieth
er little George Weyerhaeuser shall
testify or “forget” his eight days
and nights In the hands of kidnap
ers was at issue today as the govern
ment prepared to question him '• In
the Lindbergh law trial of 19 year
old Margaret Thulin W'aley.
U. S. Attorney J. Charles Den
sis said the boy ‘undoubtedly” will
be called and defense attorneys im
mediately prepared protests.
NEW ORLEANS, July 10.— The
“surrender” of New Orleans to Sena
tor Huey P. Long appeared immi
nent today.
The city commissioners, who have
fought side by side with Mayor T.
Semmes Walmsley against the Lou*
isiana "dictator" annaunced ear
ly today they did not intend to ®p*
pose the senator any longer.
‘The affairs of the city demand
peace. Finance Commissioner A.
Miles Pratt and Property Commis
doner Joseph P. Skelly said in a
dgned statement.
ROME, July 10.—Italy advanced
o 120,000 today its roster of troops
leslgned to drive for an Inexorable
victory over, the empire of Ethopta.
Authoritative sources said Pre
mier Benito Mussollnts first com
uand, with the break-up of the
Italo-Ethiopian conciliation com
mission, will create two uew troop
divisions for action in East Africa.
WASHINGTON. July 10.—Morrl
■'on-Falls Company of Shelby, N. C ,
‘nda.v submitted supplementary low
'dd for construction for a new post
'iflce at Albemarle N. C. The Shelby
ontractors low bid for limestone
■ inish was $36 585 and his low bid
'■•ir sandsone $37,086
Editorial
From time to time the Herald rep rime ed-i-nals from other papers. Some
time we agree with the opinions expressed; sometimes they are exa.Uy ou
posite from our views. We reprint one below from Carl Goerch’s weekly
magazine. THE STATE, which we agree with one hundred percent. We had
planned for sometime to write an editorial along these lines, hut M-.
Goerch has beat us to it, so we reprint his ,tditorial:
PUTTING A CHECK ON FRANKLIN D.
“We’ve got a great President in Washington. Wnen he assumed the du
ties of his office, this country of ours was i{i might/ dad shape from an
jconomic viewpoint. He shed his coat, rolled up his sleeves and yelled to
Congiess: ‘Come on boys, and let's get to work!’
“His personal enthusiasm, initiative and Resourcefulness were responsible
for a goodly share of the success which followed h.s egorts. Business con
ditiona began to improve almost immediately. He and his advisers origina
ted various pians and schemes for bringing about re-employment of the
nillions who were idle. Innumerable bureaus and commissions were estab- I
ished, each of which had some special, detdil of work to took after. Citi
zens in all parts of the country said: ‘By George, at last we've got a Presi
dent who knows how to get things started!'
“And they were correct in that statement. But now it's beginning to look
as though we needed a President who. knowu how to get things stopped! In
other words, it’s time that Congress 33 d to Mr. Roosevelt: ‘Now wait a
minute, Franklin, old boy; if you don’t slow dawn, you're going to turn our I
government-wagon over on some of these curves which you are taking in
nigh gear!' , "■
“The first thing that’s got to be done is to put a halt to the orgy of
spending which has become more frenzied with the passing of each month.
In one of the New York papers not long ago appeared this interesting com
;arison:
EXPENDITURES OF GOVERNMENT FROM THE TIME OF
WASHINGTON TO WILSON, 1739-1913. TOTAL OF 124 YEARS
—$24,521,845,000.
“EXPENDITURES OF ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION AS
ESTIMATED BY THE PRESIDENT; ACTUAL 1934, AND ES
TIMATED 1935-1936, TOTAL OF 3 YEARS—$24 206,533,000.
“If you hadn’t already seen those figures, we believe you will find them
rather startling. Our expenditures of government in three years will amount
o almost identically what they were in 124 years!
“The next thing to be done is to tell the President to get back to run
Ining the federal government again aid let private business alone. If busi
! ness needs any special regulation, let\the individual states attend to it. Foi
ithe past several months there has bem a most noticeable trend toward cen
Jtralization of all government at Washiffgton^ And you mignt include cen
tratization of business as well. Unless a halt.is made, our various state reg
ulatory commissions and agencies will become mere figure-heads and might
just as welt be abolished entirely. Not only thaL but we'll have federal
control over practically every llhe of business in the ^tountry.
“This is a dangerous route to follow. Drastic steps were necessary two oi
three years ago, but have passed that crisis and we should change our tac
tics accordingly.
“We don’t want a dictatorship type of government; it has no place in the
clans of the American people. But unless some constructive action is taken
we’re heading for a dictatorship just as sure as shooting—if we haven't al
i eady reached that stag6.
“The third thing to be done is to get rid of about a million people who
ire on federal pay-rolls and who have no business being there. They are
imployed in various departments which aren’t doing a bit of good. Our
opinion is that the government could be run with equal efficiency if at
.east one-fourth of the folks on the pay-rolls were told to go back home
and try to produce something. The attitude that the government owa?,
everybody a living is becoming altogether too prevalent.
“The fourth thing to be done is to devise ways and means of paying
uack all of this money which has been and which is being spent. A goodly
portion of it has been absolutely wasted, but that doesn’t make any differ
ence: it’ll have to be paid.back—every penny of it.
“And so. in view of aU these things, we believe that it's time to put a
stop-signal in front of Mr. Roosevelt so that we, who are riding as passen
jers, can catch our breath again. The pace has been altogether too dizzy
Not only that, but the old government-wagon Is going to need gas directly,
and it would be rather embarrassing to run out while far away from a
"In other words, instead of continuing our reckless pace, it’s time to stop
and gas up.”
filling station.
BULWINKLE ENDORS
ES KINGS MOUNTAIN
POSTOFFICti
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Four
new post office buildings t'or the
tenth congressional district — at
Lincolnton, Lincoln county; New
ton, Catawba county; Belmont, Gas
ton county, and Kings Mountain.
Cleveland county, were urged todav
by Representative Bulwinkle in a
statement to the secretary of the
treasury, under whose direction new
postoffice structures will be built.
The second deficiency appropriation
bill soon to become a law makes ten
tative provision for ~ew buildings at
the four places, and Major Bulwink
le asked that they be given favora
ble consideration. The post offices
are now in rented quarters but gov
ernment activities are expanding in
each of the four counties and addi
tional space is constantly desired.
SCHULMAN’S DEPT.
STORE OPENS
Schulman's Department Store o
pened this week as is announced by
an advertisement in this issue of
the Herald. Mr. I. S. Schulman ex
tends a cordial invitation to all his
friends and former customers to vis
it his store. Mr. Schulman said,
“We bought our stock very reasona
ble and we are going to pass this
saving on to our customers.”
We honor the rich sinner more
* than we do the poor saint.
ARRESTED IN
! CUTTING SCRAPE
i
i Deputy Sheriff t'harlie Sheppard
arrested Howard Fulton, colored,
for cutting Theodore Patterson col
ored. Sunday night about 10:30.
Fulton was lodged in the Shelby
jail. Patterson had a severe cut at
the lower part of his stomach. The
affray took place near Nimmons
! Service Station ou the Grover Road.
AUTHOR AND PLAY
WRIGHT IS SUICIDE
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July lo
I —Kay Long, once one of the uatiotis
j leading editors, was dead today, up
i parently a suicide victim under cir
cumstances he must have scanned in
many a short story plot.
He was believed to have been dis
courage over the waning of the lit
erary success that was his for more
than a score of years.
Jackson county bean growers are
securing control of the Mexican
bean beetle through the use of mag
nesium arsenate spray.
Approximately 1200 pounds of wool
was pooled and sold by Macon coun
ty sheep growers in late June.
A farm tour to study demonstra
tions in forestry, trench silos, bull
pens, yard improvement, remodeled
furniture and the like will be held
on August 21 in Stanly county.
Union Services In
Down-Town Churches
AGED KINGS MTN.
WOMAN BURIED
Mrs. Zula Rosaline Proctor, ug
died Saturday afternoon at l:0n
/clock, at her home on King street,
following a three-weeks serious ill
ness and a lung period of infirmity.
Funeral services were held at
Faini Tree Methodist church near
Lawndale, Sunlay afternoon and in
Lerment made in the church ceme
ery where her husband and other
members of the family were buried.
Her pastor. Rev. A. G. Sargeant,
ml charge of the service and was
issisted by Rev. W. L. Scott, pastor
if Palm Tree church.
Rev. Air. Sargeant used as a basis
»f his talk a notation, "He did it for
tie,’ found in Mrs. Procter's Bible
opposite the scripture giving an ao
ount of the Master's suffering in
flethsemane. The choir sang several
>f her favorite hymns and h -r body
was then laid to rest beneath a
nound of beautiful flowers.
The pallbearers were O. Cl. Myers
,)dell McGinnis, Stnyre Williams, P.
II. Herndon, Wray Williams and Ed
[lord.
Mrs. Proctor was the mother of
en children, six of whom survive as 1
'ollows: Mrs. Marshal Ramsey of
Bostic, George Baylis, June, Laura
<nd Eula. all of Kings Mountain,
she is also survived by one sister
Mrs Mary Deitz, of Double Shoals
Her kindly disposition had wot.
or her many friends during her res .
dence in Kings Mountain.
The sympathy of the friends of
he family goes out to them in their
lereavement.
DAVIDSON H. S. ON
ACCREDITED LIST
Professor B. N. Barnes. Supt. 01
he Kilims Mountain Schools, is in
eceipt of the following letter stat
ng that Davidson High School lias
teen placed on the accredited list:
Raleigh, N. C„ July S, 11*35.
3upi. B. N. Barnes,
Kings Mountain. N. C.
Bear Mr. Barnes:
! take pleasure in informing you
hat the Kings Mountain High
School. (Colored) lias been placed
ipon the accredited list for the »es
■.ion 1934-35. 1 congratulate you, the
principal, the teachers aud the pa
trons who have made this achieve
ment possible. 1 trust that the rat
ing which has been given will servo
as a stimulus to increased ett'ori
tml effectiveness.
With all good wishes, 1 aui
Cordially yours,
J. Henry Highstnith.
Director, Division of Instructional
Service.
4 CASES TRIED IN
RECORDER’S COURT
Four cases were disposed of in Kt
corders Court iieid here Wednesday
afternoon.
George Dixon charged with viola
ting the prohibition laws was found
guilty, and sentenced to one mouth
in jail, suspended upon the payment
of $5.00 fine and cost.
Fred Robinson charged witr vio
lation of the prohibition laws, was
found guilty and sentenced to on
month, suspended upon the payment
of $5.00 fine and cost. An appeal
was taken in this case.
Deon Ware was found not guilty
of assault with a deadly weapon.
W. G. Yarboro was found guilty oi
assault with a deadly weapon. am.
was sentenced to one month in jail,
suspended upon the payment o'.
51.00 fine and cost.
MEN’S CLUB TO
ENTERTAIN LADIES
The Business Me 's lub will en
tertain their wives and sweethear
at their regular meeting tonigl
The entertainment will be held s
Bisque Church and an outdoor su>
per will be served. Messrs Hayn
Blacktner and Paul Mauney wi1
have charge of this program as wel
s the other programs for the sum
ujer mouths.
At a called meeting of the Minis
ters' Association, tour of our five
down-town churches agreed to enter
otto a schedule for union services be
ginning July 21st. These services in
volve only th- evening hour. There
will be a rotation of place and prea
sher.
I' is the desire on the part of
:hese churches to promote a com
munal religious life which will but
ress the cause of Christ in the city.
Friends and neighbors will be offer
id the opportunity of worshipping
ogether in these meetings. Out o i
his initial effort, it is hoped a larg
-■r service will grow. The inspiring
picture of 1,500 worshippers at a un
on service is already envisioned by
tome. The city’s response to this ef
ort will measure thi strides to th-»
'ealizatIon of the larger service.
The following schedule is an
nounced.
July 21 at Central Methodist chur
it, Kev. W. M. Boyce, preaching.
July 2$ at A. H. Presbyterian
hurch, Rev. P. D. Patrick, preach
ng.
August 4 at First Presbyterian,
dev. J. L. Mayer, preaching.
August 11 at St. Matthew’s Buth
jran, Kev. J. W. Williams, preaching
August 18, at Central Methodist
dev. P. D. Patrick, preaching.
August 25 at A. R. Presbyterian,
dev. J. W. Williams, preaching.
Further announcement for Sept,
tst and 8th will be made after the
trrival of the permanent pastor of
it. Matthew's Butheran Church.
LUTHERAN PASTOR
ACCEPTS CALL
Rev. L. Boyd Hamm of Macon, Ga.
accepted the call tenlered to him
oy the local St. Matthew's Lutheran
Church. Mr. ifamm resigned from
:he Lutheran Church of the Redeem
•r, of Macon, Ga.. his resignation to
Become effective the latter part o
text inontn.
The Macon Telegraph had the fol
lowing to say about Mr. Hamm
eaving:
"Expressing 'deep and sincere re
gret over leaving such a good city
and my fine congregation,’ Rev. Mr.
Hamm said he had accepted the
Kings Mountain church in the Unit
ed Synod 01 North Carolina ‘because
its larger congregation offers wider
opportunities for servise, I believe."
Church Preparing Resolutions
“It was reported the congregation
is preparing resolutions of regret to
be read at services next Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Hamm wiLl continue to
preach until the latter part of Au
gust when he and Mrs. Hamm, the
former Miss Mildred Wheeler of
Macon, and their little" daughtei.
Ruth, will move to their new home.
“Rev. Mr. Hamm received his
bachelor of arts degree at Newberry
college. S. 0., and his bachelor or
divinity degree from *he Southern
Lutheran ’rheological Seminary at
Columbia. S. C„ in 1927. beginning
his first pastoral duties here Janu
ary 1, 1928. just out of school.
Social Work Outstanding.
"A member of the board of direc
tors of the Macon Red Cross chap
ter, the Salvation Army and the
Community Chest, Rev. Mr. Hamm
was chairman of the civic commit
tee of 15 which last year revived the
consolidation of eight charity and
character-building groups in the
city.
"He has been secretary of the
Georgia-Alabama Lutheran Synod
since he came to Macon. He is a di
rector in the Macon Kiwa'nls club,
former executive secretary for the
Society for Organized Service, form
er president of the Macon Minister!
<1 Association and immediate past
(resident of the Macon Social Wort
rs’ club."
lELK’S HAVING
3IG SALE
Mr. O. W. Myers, manager of
■Ik's Department Store annotmcea
this issue of the Herald in a dou
s page advertisement that their
tntial July Sale starts tomorrow
•orning at nine o'clock Mr. Myers
ays that they are offering bargains
tat will please the mest economi
st buyer.