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VOL. 34 NO. 1
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1936
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
—Mate JNews—
TRENTON, N. C„ Jan. 1.—Her
bert Stanley, 55 year old scion of a
prominent Jones county family, and
his graying step mother began the
New Year today facing the prospects
of long prison sentences for the slay
Ing of his 80 year old father, Ed
Stanley last November 18.
Stolidly the pair, both of about
the same age, appeared in superior
court here late yesterday and plead
ed guilty to second degree murder
charges.
Judge> C. Vernon Cowper set Stan
ley’s sentence at 12 to 20 years Im
prisonment and that of Mrs. Stanley
nt 10 to 18 years, stipulating howev
ier that upon their arrival at State
prison in Raleigh both should be giv
en sanity tests.
CHARtOTTfc, Jan. 1.—Woodrow
Shropshire, negro whose feet were
amputated while he was a short
tentr prisoner; yesterday was tender
ed the first of monthly cheeks that
the State Highway Department pro
poses 'to give him, but he refused it.
t-SIt. H. Beatty, district highway eh
giaeer who sought to deliver the
check, said Shropshire old him his
wife “won’t let me take it’
Beatty said Shropshire apparent
ly was under the belief that accept
ance of the check would affect his
legal status in quest of a more sub
stantial settlement from the State.
ROCKINGHAM, Jan, 1.—Paul Me
Queen, 19 year old high school grad
uate probably will go on trial for his
life before Judge Don Phillips here
next week at the criminal term ot
superior court charged with the mur
der of Robert Jernigan, farmer of
the McQueen community near Derby
CHARLOTTE, Jan. 1.—A Rock
Hill-Charlotte Greyhound bus carry
ing 12 persons overturned on an icy
highway near the Catawba riiver 2
miles south of Fort Mill, S. C., early
today but no one was injured, po
lice reported.
Fort Mill is about 14 miles from
Charlotte.
Bus company officials were invest)
gating the accident and withheld in
formation pending an official report.
The bus merely law over on its
side, police here reported. .
Rural Policeman G. W. Potts who
Investigated said the bus ran into a
ditch and lay over on its side. He
•aid the 12 passengers were trans
ferred to another bus and that they
continued on their northward journ
RALEIGH, Jan. 2—All State em
ployes got a holiday yesterday ex
cept those in the motor vehicle di
vision of the Highway Department
which remained open to sell license
plates.
The department reported a land
slide business through Monday 108,
422 pairs of plates had been sold.
Sales ran about 18 per cent ahead
of those on the same date last year.
HIGH POINT, Jan. 1.—Wayne
Hedgecock, 26, operator of a filling
station just north of here on the Win
Bton Salem highway, was being
widely sought by city and county
officers today In connection with the
ftifal shooting Sunday night of Earl
Sexton, 25.
Sexton was shot in the back dur
ing the course of what officers said
was a quarrel at Hedgecock’s servi
ce station about nine o’clock Sunday
night. He died in a local hospital at
1:4$ o’clock this morning,
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LENOIR, Jan. 1—Walter Carlton,
21, died at ten o’clock last night of
knife wounds in the abdomen alledg
edly sustained in a knife fight with
Grayson Bryant at a local filling sta
tion Saturday night. He is survived
by his mother and one sister. Bry
ant escaped immediately after the
cutting but was arrested by officers
at the home of a relative in Hick
ory Tuesday night. He was jailed in
Lenoir on a murder charge.
WINSTON-SALEM, Jan. 1.—A new '
Interest rate of 3 Mi per cent will be
put into effect tomorrow by the Fed
e-ai Home Loan Bank of Winston
Salem officials said /today. The pres
on* rate is four percent.
Almost $8,000,000 in outstanding
loans to 413 buHdiiniig and loan as
sociations in the South Atlantic
States wlU be affected.
RALEIGH, Jan, l.r—In sixteen
more years North Cajtolina.’ji high
way indebtedness, once regarded Ijy
man* a? of otaggeg*?*
will he wiped out *the Yate .qf^eg-.
tirement in effect Jfcr the-first
years is. lpaUataliwsdP:?-. ifca**;/*-*.**’
Capua M Wsvnick. chairman of
-dsbt was approximately $87,296,600,
as compared with an original debt
.of $116,606,000.
—^National iNews—
WItiMINGTON, Del., Jan. 1.—
Three men lost their lives in a fire
that wrecked tneir shack on a marsh
dump in South Wiimington Iasi
night.
Stanley Druz, 45, and an unidenti
fied man were burned to death and
Constantine Sobosinski, -45 died in a
hospital from burns.
Sobosinsko said they were warm
ing themselves before a fire in a tin
can in the shack when the can upset
Straw on the floor was ignited. In
trying to escape they caused the
frail structure, composed largely ot
corrugated iron and tin, to collapse,
Sobosinski, badly burned, was the
only one able to escape.
LIVERPOOL* Jan. 1.—Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh left the Unit
ed States, his official spokesman said
today, b“ecause he' wants quiet and
peaceful, restful time.'
The flying Colonel’s representa
tive. W. H- Gregory, of Morgan, Gren
fell and CO., made this statement in
a meeting with the press, but declin
ed to ansrwer a direct question as to
whether the Lindberghs quit Ameri
ca because their second son, Jou,
was threatened with kidnaping. Or
because of the Bruno Richard
Haptmann case.
“You will have to read between
the lines regarding that,’’ Gregory
asserted.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 1.—The Na
tion wide hunt for Alvin Karpis was
centered here today on the basis
of reports the nation's No. 1 public
enemy had paid the city a visit.
New impetus was given the sear
ch when a cabin camp proprietor
said a picture of Karpis “strongly
resembled’’ the companion of Homer
(Slim) Fanning, 27, who told officers
when arrested here yesterday that
he had been traveling with the no
torious outlaw.
Ollie Smith, proprietor of the
camp, said the two men had occupi
ed a cabin there Monday night.
TRENTON, N. J. ,Jan. 1.— Bruno
Richard Hauptman entered 1936 to
day with the knowledge that for
him the New Year may last less
than a manth if the state court oi
pardons rejects his plea for mercy
The convicted slayer of the Lind
bergh baby has been sentenced to
die the week of January 13.
The court of pardons will consider
his appeal for mercy next week.
Hauptmann’s spiritual advisor, the
Rev. John Matthlesen, a firm believ
er in his innocense, visited the pris
oner yesterday.
Reports of a partial confession
were again denied by Hauptmann in
a talk with his wife, Anna.
LONDON, Jan. 1.—Nine passeng
ers of the airliner City of Khartoum
including an American whose name
was given as C Luke, and three
members of the crew were feared
dead today after the Imperial Air
ways plane crashed in the Mediter
ranean.
Searchers abandoned virtually all
hope that any occupants of the fly
ing boat would survive, except the
pilot who was picked up last night
after the wreckage of the airship
was found four miles southwest of
Alexandria, Egypt.
BOSTON, Jan. 1.—Gangster guns
cracked twice, killing one man and
wounding another, in what police
feared today might be the beginning
of a“ number pool war.”
The slain man, James E. Buckley,
26, Police Captain James Shehan
said, had a long police record, his
most recent arrest being November
17, on an automobile theft charge.
Prank T. Sundberg, the wounded
man, had been Identified with the j
numbers racket.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 1— Open
competitive examinations for work
men to be engaged in the construct
ion of Chtckamauga and Gunters
vllle dams on the Tennessee river
and Hlwaasee river dam near Mur
phy. N. C., will be given In 82 cities
la February and March, the Tennes
see Valley Authority announced to
day. _y
CHICAGO, Jan. l.-rOwnershlp of
the car used by the assassins who
Sunday night'slew Hep. Albert J.
Prtgnino, today bacape wfcat th*
police termed/f^k^^h**'
the
the
of
three
with
the police In’ suburban Wicker
would result la the’arrests
JacKson Dinners Need
Support Governor Says
RALEIGH, Jan. 1.—Governor Eh
ringkaus today directed} a message
to democrats of the state to “rally to
the cause’’ of Jackson day dinners
January 8 which will launch the
party’s 1936 campaign.
The scores of dinners being staged
by the young democrats will aid in
raising funds for the democratic na
tional committee.
The celebration "presents an op
poriunity to pay tribute to a great
democratic leader of the past,” the
governor said, "for the consideration
of democratic achievements in the
state and nation in tie present era,
and for re-consecration to the cause
of democracy and arhiistance in the
approaching campaign.”
FredHambright Is
Winner kOfjkAuto
Mr. Fred Hambright won the Chev
rolet automobile which was given a‘
way by Keeter’s Department Store.
Ten other valuable prizes were giv
en away. The crowd that attended
the giving away of the car was csti-,
mated to be between 2,500 and 3,00^-'
It was thought by some that if the
weather had been pretty that at
least 5,000 people would have been
in Kings Mountain for the drawing.
One citizen of Kings Mountain said
that the crowd was the biggest that
had been in Kings Mountain since
President Hoover visited here in
1930.
Mayor J. E. Herndon presided at
the drawing, and the numbers were
pulled from the box by Bobby Stew
art, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Stew
art.
After the drawing Mr. Hambright
gave Bobby )10.00 in appreciation of
him drawing his number from the
box.
lEuzelia Fails Dies
| In Gaston Hospital
Tuesday Morning
Euzelkt Falls, eldest ch id of Mr.
f i|d Mrs. Roland Falls, died in the
Gastonia Hospital Tuesday morning
at ten o’clock. She had been sick for
some time hut her death came as a
shock to nor many young friends.
She was twleve years old and was j
in the sixth grade of the Central j
School. *
She is survived by her parents,
two sisters and one brother. She
was a regular attendant at the First
Baptist Sunday School. She was a
lovely child and was very smart In
her school work.
The funeral was held at the First
Baptist church Wednesday at 2:30
o’clock with Rev. A. G. Sargeant in
charge. The burial was ip Mountain
Rest cemetery.
The bereaved family has the
heartfelt sympathy of the entire com
munity in tbeir sadness.
G. T. WRIGHT CUTS ARM
Mr. G. T. Wright, of the Margrace
MH1 section, cut his arm very badly
Tuesday morning while at work. He
was cutting open a bale of waste
Jfhen the pocket knife slipped and a
evere gash was cut In hils left am
A large vein was severed. and he
lost a considerable amount of blood
before he was treated at the office
of a local physician. It was neces
sary for a few stitches to bo taken
before the flow of blood was stopped
A. E. CLINE BUILDING
GARAGE
Mr. A. E. Cline has under constru
tion a garage on North Railroad av
enue opposite the Southern Depot.
THe building is to be of brick con
structicn, and it is understood tha
Mr. C. A. Hullender will start opera
tlon of a general repair garage at
scon as the building is completed.
12 Inches Of Snow Ties
Up Traffic Badly Here
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Kings Mountain Practically Snow
bound All Day Sunday—Was Larg
est Snow Sines March 2, 1927.
Another snow, the second of the
season, began falling Saturday night
and Sunday morning, Dec. 29, Kings
Mountain was buried under the deep
est snow this locality has had in 7
years.
The dry flakes tell rapidly during
the early part of the day, with the
mercury around 12 degrees above
zero, and when there was a let up
before noon it was found that a total
of twelve inches had fallen. There
were various measurements of eight
to fifteen inches.
it was Unusually cold all day Sun
day, the maximum temperature for
the day being 20 degrees, which is
just 12 degrees below the point
where ice will form.
The city scraper started scraping
the snow off the streets Sunday aft
ernoon. The state highway plows got
busy in an effort to clear the high
way^ of the impediment to traffic.
Conditions in Kings Mountain Suu
day reminded one of Whittier's im
mortal "Snowbound.’ Most of the in
habitats re>nainetf around their owi.
firesides. The majority of the chur
ches called off their services for the
day, many calling off both Sunday
school and church services. The
churches that held services had very
small attendance except for the Lu
theran, which had about 60 to attend
Kings Mountain stayed indoors
Sunday, enjoying the beauty of the
snow through windows.
Coal dealers did a rushing busi
ness all this week, and garages were
busy getting cars started.
Many a Kings Mountain house
wife had to cook their own dinners
because their servants could not get
through the snow.
The plumbers of Kings Mountain
had more jobs than they eBuld take
care of. They would answer one call
and get water started In one spigot
and leave for another, hoping to re
turn later and finish up the "original
job.
The traffic was very tight, bus
schedule^ running late on account of
the dangerous condition of the high
ways. ■ •
‘Some local weather observers
found, ' Ay; looking jtp the records,
that this Was the biggest Strife sfnet
Mareif_*§».' **e*-;Sj»«s'i lfotm
taln,>4. W^ wjtK a bh^^
white 14 inches fiT;
, 'Today (be lowest temperature was
14 degrees, Set cheft the bright sun
broken at last. . ' . • /j
PREACHES AT HOME
CHURCHES
Mr. B .F. Ormand, Jr., ministerial
student at the Presbyterian Theolo
gical Seminary, at Richmond, Va„
filled the pulpit of the Xhgs Moun
tain Presbyterian church Sunday
rh'ornlng and £h the Sunday before,
preached at lx>ng Creek church, the
former chureh of his father.
Mr. Ormand as been spending the
holidays with his parents and re
turned to Richmond, Tuesday.
PRESIDING ELDER AT
CENTRAL METHODIIST
Rev. Claude Moser, Presiding Eld
er, Gastonia District, will preach at
Central Methodist Church next Sun
day morning at 11 o’clock.
Rev. Mr. Moser was pastor of the
Hendersonville Methodist church be
fore receiving his appointment as
presiding elder, and iis one of the
outstanding preachers of bis denomt
nation. A large congregation is ex
pected at this, his first service, In
Kings Mountain.
American Legion
Meeting Tuesday
The regular monthly meeting of
:he Otis D. Green Post 155 will be
held Tuesday evening, Jan. 7th in
ihe Woman’s Club building at 7:30
p. m.
At the conclusion -of a short busi
ness session, the program committee
composed of the following members,
Glee Bridges, L. L. Alexander, Luth
er M>cSwaiin, W. F. Stone and W E
Ellakely, will bring us a delightful
nut entertaining program. Following
the program, light refreshments will
Be served.
We want to urge each Legion
naire, Specially oiir new members
to be present. All veterans of the
World War are cordially Invited.
P. G. Ratterree, AdJ.
J.E. Garvin, Post Commander.
FEW DRUNKS THIS
CHRISTMAS
[The Herald man met Mayor 3. B.
Herndon, on the atreet and asked
him for some hewh abd he replied
that Mwbr drunks were arrested and
trhsli before him tote Chriatttgs than
had beep da several year*.
The ale* *e#o*tef that this
hid been owi ot the ordeirUeat Christ
nases in yeara, that only a few rou
ine arrests were made.
REP. BULW1NKLE
1U W AtfiiliN Ij 1 UiN
Tentn Qistr.ci ...... -senlative Lea
v&s For Capitol—ininks Congress
Vvill Adjourn June 1st—Looks For
Routine Business Session.
(Gastcnia Gazette)
Major A. L. tsulwuuue, represen
ting in Congress from the Tenth
Congressional district, left Gastonia
Monday night for Washington to be
present at me opening of the second
session of the 7»th congress which
convenes Friday. Mr3, Bulwinkie and
daugrter, M:ss Frances, left for
Washington Tuesday morning, mo
toring through.
Before leaving for Washington Ma
jor Bulwinkie said he thought this
session would adjourn about the first
of June. Its principal business, he
believes, will be passing the appro
priation bills and enacting further
national security legislation. In
his opinion it Is not likely that any
long drawn out legislative fight will
develop.
Legion Now Has
80 New Members
Santa Claus brings Commander
Garvin of the American Legion four
new members swelling the member
ship of Otis D. Green list Iffj \%
eighty members. This is the largest
membership the Post has ever had.
In recognition of the splendid
membership record, the following let
ter from National Commander llay
Murphy has been received:
Indianapolis, Ind.
Dec. 19, 1935.
Mr. J. E. Garvin, Commander,
American I^egion Post No. 155,
Kings Mountain N. C.
Dear Commander:—
uiHier your leauersnip your pool
lias won a “Special Certificate l'or
Most Distinguished Service," award
e'd because of your fine membership
record. 1 am fully conscious of the
tireless efforts that have brought
about this result, and know that in
its accomplishment you have had
the cooperation and support of th e
’ndividual members of your post.
,'othing is more Important to The
Vmerican Legion than membership,
treat membership and great ac
complishment go hand in hand.
To you and to each member of
your post I extend my congratula
tions any my appreciation £cr your
splendid service to The American
Legion.
May 1 ask that you express to
them my own gratitude fer work
well done.
Sincerely yours,
RAY MURPHY.
National Commander.
Mrs. Quinn Wells
Dies Sunday Night
Funeral services for Mr3. Quinn
Wells, 35, were held at Anticcli Bap
list church, Tuesday afternoon at
two o’clock and interment made in
Antioch cemetery.
Mrs. Wells died at her home near
Kings Mountain Sunday night, fol
lowing an illness of only a few days’
of pneumonia. ‘
Mrs. Wells was before marriage
Miss Made Byers and among other
relatives surviving are her husband,
and three children, Harold, Vera and
Aaron Lee.
MIOTHER OF W. D.
BANKHEAD DIES
Mrs. Mary J. Bankhead, pother
of our local fliSuran^w W. D.
Bankhead, died in Asheville during
the holidays where she was living
with her daughter.
Mrs. Bankhead was 71 years old.
She was originally of the Sharon sec
tipp of South Carolina. She was bur
led at Bullock dreek church in Sou
th Carolina.
FORMER G-MAN IN
NARROW ESCAPE
ATLANTA, Jaii. 1.—Melvin Purvk
former G-man and nemkis of of
outlaw John DUlinger, closed out
1935 by escaping death In an auto
crash and expects to avoid Leap
Year’s matrimonial hazards although
he is one of the nation’s highly eli
gible bachelors.
The slender resigned chief of the
department of Justice Chicago bu
reau was drifting through hem ‘ tm
route to Birmingham late laid night,
when his car collided with one driv
en by B. W. James, of suburban Bast
1.1 didn’t want to kowtow ,how
to the President - for th« eake of
helping loot the NatlowUTmMury
and bring money to my home‘State,.
—Gov. Eugene Tslmsdge, Georgia.
George H. Logan
Formerly OF Kings
Mountain Is Dead
Mr. George Herndon Hogan, age
GO, of Dallas, N. C., died at his home
Wednesday afternoon at 12:30, De
cember 26th.
He died after a sudden stroke of
paralysis after being ill only a few
hours. The funeral services were
held at the Dallas Baptist church
Thursday Dec. 2Gth, at 2 o'clock. The
body was brought to Bethlehem Bap
tist church for burial.
He is survived by his wife, Alma
Westbrook. Hogan, and five child
ren: Mrs. Glenn F. Nixon of Char
lotte; Miss Elizabeth Hogan of Cher
okee Falls, S. C., Miss Betty Jane
Hogan, Mr. Robert M. Hogan and Mr
Harold G. Hogan of Dallas. He is al
so survived by one sister, Mrs. S.- H.
Carter of Mars Hill, N. C.; and three
brothers, W. F., H. M, and J. J. Ho
gan, all of Kings Mountain
Ht was born at Kings Mountain
June 10, 1875. He was the non of the
late H. M. Hogan and Elizabeth Ho*
agn of Kings Mountain.
He taught ini the public schools of
North and South Carolina for 25
years. Mr. Hogan spent most of his
life in Cleveland county and was
very active in church and communi
ty affairs. He served as captain of
the North Carolina State Guard from
1900-1902.
He was very fond of music which
he taught and studied during his ac
tive days. He directed. music and
was superintendent of the Sunday
school of Bethlehem Baptist church
in Cleveland county for 20 years.
For the past year Mr. Hogan had
been at home recuperating from a
fall which he had while working with
the Gastonia Gazette.
Preston Goforth Of
Bethany Passes Sat.
Preston Goforth died Saturday, De
cember 2Sth, at 92 years of age, at
his home in Bethany, S. C., after a
short illness with pneumonia. He
was buried at El Bethel in this cdtVh- '
ty, Tuesday m.rning, Deo-. Slst.
Mr. Goforth was a former resi
dent of Cleveland County ar.d had
many friends near Kings Mountain
Mr. Goforth was an honest, and up
right citizen. He was a member of
the Bethany A. U. P. church. Mr
Goforth is survived by a number of
sons and daughters and grandchild
ren.
Picture Written About
Family Of Local Lady
The book, “So Red The Rose”,
written by Stark Y.oung, a cousin of
Mrs. W. M. Boyse, and recently a
dapted for the screen. Is showing at
the Imperial Theatre, Thursday and
Friday of this week.
The story deals with the Civil
War, aiiid the setting for the story
is the Delta of t>he Mississippi. The
characters, the McGehees and the -
Bedfords were taken from real fttsr'
are relatives of ;Mrs. Boyce- ^
book was one of the best- suiters.for
last year. .
WASHINGTON
f ' '
SNAPSHOTS fv, t: J
Sane analyses of the Townsend
pension plan showing, exactly why it
couldn't be made to work are eb
ginning to force its backers into the
field of political strategy. Washing
ton generally believes that the poll
tics are just as amateurish as the
economic fallacies on.which the plan
is based.
Tine first overt move of the Towns
edites was to say theywould put a
third party ticket" into the fiell. Re
publicans and Democrats welcomed
the idea, many of them saying.,-they-,
would like to run against candidates'
wihose only plank was the Townsend
plan.
When that attitude became knoyn
Dr. P. El. Townsend made a change
of front. He remarked the third par
ty idea was a little ore mature. In
other words, ihe threatened to set
up a third- party, unless the old Ha*,
candidates embrgMd his idea. They,
won’t. The gOdd' Wcter wUl. find out
that even politicians think a little
before promising.
*'**• . •
Borne stHttstita which worried the
Townsendttes to to their how endear
vOr thduddd these:
The doctor and his economists a
on transactions. They quote She
«r*l raahrke WSNI - *t
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