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VOL. 34 NO. 34
State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
-—State News—
Wilmington, Aug. 13—The coast
guard came to the rescue, and now
J. R. Berry is back on board his
ship.
The S. S. Sundance discharged a
cargo of fertilizer here and sailed
for Savannah Ga.
Berry, an oiler, arrived late a th;
dock and missed the craft.
A motorboat from the coast guard
cutter, Modoc, took the seainon to
the Sundance, as it steamed down
the Cape Fear river.
Lenoir, Aug. 19.—Formal announ
cement of the appointment of Mark
Goforth, City Commissioner, E. S.
Harris, F. L. Townsend, Mrs. Eliza
beth Randolph-Harper, Laurance Un
derhill, all of Lenoir, and Clarence
Moore, of Granite Falls, as members
of the new library commission was
announced yesterday bv Folger L.
Townsend, chairman of the old li
brary board which this commission
replaces.
Mr. Goforth, as chairman of the
county commission, will represent
that group, with Mr. Harris repre
senting the city government under
the statute requiring the setting up
of a public commission to adminis
ter the expenditures of funds jointly
appropriated by city and county gov
ernments.
A meeting will be held later in
the week for the election of officers.
Raleigh, Aug. 19.—Dr. J. C. Knox
director of the division of epidemiol
«gy ot the state board of health, said
today seven new cases of infantile
paralysis had been reported by city
and county health units in the last
week.
T:wo cases were diagnosed in the
city of Durham, he said, and Guil
ford, Haywood, Mecklenburg, Oran
ge and Wilson counties each report
ed one. The total was an increase of
five over the number of cases re
ported the preceding week, but a
decrease of ten from the correspond
ing week one year ago.
Raleigh, Aug. 19.—The proposed
bridge across Albemarle sound was
set today for consideration by t! P
state highway and public works com
mission here Friday.
Capus N. Waynick, chairman Of
the commission, said he had been
notified citizens of Plymouth had
withdrawn their objections to locat
ing the proposed bridge from a point
near Bdenton to Mackey’s in Wash
ington county. He stated delegations
from counties that would be served
by the bridge would apu:ar before
the commission and present their
attitudes.
The tentative site selected would
cauaa the cost of the bridge Waynick
said, to exceed by about $600,000 the
sum allocated by the commission for
the structure.
Wilmington, Aug. 19.—The North
Carolina Sheriffs association will
open its 13th annual conventio here
tomorrow. Approximately 50 sheriffs
deputies and their friends are ex
pected attend the three day meeting.
Raleigh, Aug. 19.—The state vet
eran’s placement service reported to
day only 3,830 former soldiers were
listed as unemployed with the state
employment service. The figure rep
resents 3.5 per cent ot the state’s
total registered jobless.
—National News—
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. lit.—A
group of 19 private power companies
which recently challenged the con
stitutionality of the Tennesse Valley
authority act asked federal district
court today to halt all power activi
ties of the TVA pending a settle
ment of the suit. The request was
made in a motion filed in connection
with the constitutionality suit.
Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 19.—Danger
of the Artie ice pack shutting out
the food-laden motorship North
Star before it arrives here aroused
apprehension among white residents
today that many Eskimoes may per
ish of starvation. Approximately 500
Eskimoes are short of food. Barter
island, 275 miles east of Barrow,
Herschei and Demarcation islands
were the most affected.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Aug. 19.—
Charles Donato, seamon aboard the
S. S. Vacuum, was on his way to
Beaumont, Texas, today after having
been picked up swimming at sea
miles southeast of Miami by the S.
S. Chester Sun. Donata had fallen
from the Vacuum several hours be
fofre. He was exhausted but un
hurt.
Albuquerque, N. M„ Aug, 19.—Ac
tion of New Mexico republicans in
favoring “old age pension princi
ples’’ in their party platform drew
from one prominent member the
statement today that the party was
“committed to the underlying prin
ciples of the Townsend plan.”
Los Angeles, Aug. 19.—Folsom pris
on doors clanged shut today behind
Charles H. Hope, sentenced to life
imprisonment for his part in the
snake-bathtub slaying of Mary Jam
es.. At his own request, Hope was
ordered sent to Folsom, for hexplain
ed he feared vengeance by Robt. S
James, as a result of his testimony
that James plotted the murder of
his wife.
Washington, Aug. 19.—Bids for the
construction of six new destroyers
and three submarines to be built
in private shipyards were opened to’
day by the navy department.
Opening of the bids marked the
first step in launching the navy's
building program for the 1937 fiscal
year. Six other destroyers and three
additional submarines are to be
built in navy yards.
Chicago, Aug, 19.—Turning swiftly
from Rufo Swain’s confession that
he killed Mrs. Mary Louise Tramm
ell, investigators questioned the
scarred and sinewy negro today con
cerning the slaying of two other wo
men.
Captain Daniel Gilbert said Swain,
27, admitted lost night he bludgeon
ed and choked Mrs. Trammel, 24, to
death last Saturday night.
Winston-Salem, Aug. 19.—The
Twin City Sentinel said today that
Mrs. Reynold Babcock, daughter of
the late R. J. Reynolds, had! ‘parsed
her 28th birthday and come into
full control of her estimated $30,000,
000 share of his tobacco fortune.
The will of the founder of the Rey
nolds Tobacco company provided
that his children should not gain
control of their shares of his great
wealth until they reached 29.
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN s. COBB
Always A Business Man
By IRVIN S. COBB
' | ’HERE used to be a man in New York’s East Side who had a friend
■*’ who, back in the early part of 1916, arrived from Russia with a tale
of having served as color-bearer in a Russian regiment in the campaign
ITT J Mr
against the Germans in Eastern Prussia.
When the newcomer reached the congenial atmosphere of a Yiddish
cafe on Allen Street he wore a large medal on his breast, which he
explained had been given to him by the express command of the Czar.
Shortly after receiving the decoration he had been disabled by illness
and was mustered out of service; hence his appearance in America.
“What did you do to win the medal?” inquired one of his audience.
“I brought in a German battle flag,” said the ex-soldier with be
coming honesty.
-*-— *■ a medal!” said a resident East Sider. “How
“No wonder you got a me
did you get the flag?”
"Well,” said the hero, “I
_„___ was in the Russian trenches with my
regiment, and in the trendies just in front of us was a German regi
ment; and I saw the man who was carrying their battle flag, and he
looked like a good business man. So I waited that evening until every
thing was quiet and then I went over, all by myself, when nobody was
looking—and we traded flags.”
(Aacrleaa New* TWam, lac.)
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N, C.
THUFfSDAY, AUG. 20, 1936
•- h~—
The First 500 MilesAre the Sanest
JOHN. WHY
Are you
DRIVING
So
SLO*O.V'>
I GdlYA take care
OF TmSCAR. I'M Nor
SUPPOSED Vo DRIVE MOPE
THAN 30 MILES PER
HOUR, THE FIRST
500 MILES
ITS funny- how careful most drivers are about
BREAKING their: CARS IN , WE FIRST 500 MILES
MO*/, WHV ARE
YOU 601 NS j
$QFAST9/>
VVEVE PAST 500 MILES.
NOW I CAN STEP
ON IT.1 --
- AND HOW CARELESS A LOT OF THEM SET,
WeOM THEN ON ABOUT jggjgga THEIR OWN NECKg
SEEMS TO ME YOU WERE
A LOT MORE INTERESTED IN
ORE Of THE CAR THE FIRST
50oMM.ES THAN YbU VVERS
IM TAMIN6 CARE Of US,THE
SECOND SOO MESS' ^
RISING PRICES FOR
FOOD ARE CITED BY
ARMY
Meanwhile Agriculture Officials Seek
Way.* Of Aiding Drought Stricken
Sections. >
Washington, Aug. 17.—Predictionfe
of rising flood prices were made tt
day in the kitchens of the army as
agriculture officials studied ways oN
helping farmers in the drought areas
through the fall and winter.
While Secretary Wallace and his
aides considered a $10,000,000 seed
purchase program to assure ample
supplies for next year's planttn^
army quartermasters figured ordi
nary basic foods would advance a3
much as 20 per cent by springtime.
They were making estimates for
the purchase of millions of dollars
in foodstuffs for the civilian conser
vations corps, whose diet is the
same as the army's.
Improved business conditions as -
well as the drought, they said, would
advance the prices of the 3ft kinds
of food which the army considers/ a
balanced diet.
A third development in the drau
ght situation was a report received
at the agriculture department frofiq
Dr. C. W. Thornthwaite, former cll-'s
matologist of the University of Ok
lahoma, who proposed that 5ft,000
families be mved from the western
plains, $n a study of the whole strip
of prairie land from the Canadian
border to the Texas panhandle, Dr.
Thornthwaite recommended that mil
lions of acres in the wrhate country
be returned to sod. His plan, hold
ing as a thesis that 65 percent of the
plains had bee damaged by wind e
rosion, was published by the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania.
The proposed $10,000,000 seed pur
chase program, the fate of which is
expected to be settled soon by Sec
reary Wallace, would be signed to
assure supplies of wheat, oats, rye,
barley and other grains. A loan pro
gram on seed corn was being con
sidered separately.
Judges Chosen For
Esso Contest
Five persons prominent in their
own fields have been chosen to a
ward the four college tuition schol
arships in the picture title contest
now being conducted through the
uew-spapers by the Esso Marketeers
Mr. Grady Patterson, of the Stand
ard Oil Co. of New Jersey announced
here today.
Those judges, who will also award
the 124 cash prizes, are H. T. Web
ster, cartoonist and creator of the
comic strip character, “Caspar Mil
quetoast,” Bill Terry, manager of
the New York Giants, Dorothy Dun
bar, women’s page editor of the New
York World-Telegram, Harold F.
Blanchard, technical editor of the
magazine Motor, and Otto W. Fuhr
mann, director of the division of
graphic arts of New York Universi
ty.
“The judges wil have $15,500 to
distribute to winners," Mr. Patterson
said, “and will reach their decision
as promptly as possible after the
close of the contest Sept. 30. A11 mo
torists in this area are eligible to
enter and entry blanks may be ob
tained from local service stations
handling our products."
Tennis Finals
This Afternoon
^Kings
tennis''
Mountains first
tournament is about all over. Only
the semi finals and the finals are
yet to be played. All of the players
have been eliminated but Bus Oates,
L. -M Logan, Jr„ Slim Rhyne, Lutlil
,er Cansler and Jim Littlejohn. .
There have been some very oe
matches in the first and second
rounds. And the finals promise to be
unusually good.
Next week the complete results
of the entire tournament will be pub
lished. The winners and a brief ac
count of each match.
HORD’S TO GIVE
AWAY RADIO
x The D. F. Hord Furniture Com
>any will give away a R. C. A. Radio
tt. the Imperial Theatre next Wednes
lay night, August 26th. In connec
ion with the giving away of the ra
lio a stage show is to be presented
eaturing 5Jiss Billy Walker and her/
rexas Longhorns from the R. C. Ay
’ictor radio program, WBT, Chaw
otte. / \
MORE BOOKS DONATED
Mr. Oliver Ramseur. of Allentown,
Pa., who is on a visit to relatives
here, donated seven books to the
Public Library of Kings Mountain
which is to be started. Mr. Ramseur,
who is a native of Kings Mountain
was very much interested in the
movement to start a Library here,
saying, “There is no way to esti
mate just how much a Library is
worth to a town.”
One expert predicts that apart
ment blocks may one day be built
without stairs. Gentle slopes would
replace the familiar stair case.
*. , ■ ■■■■■———
Will Rogers*
Humorous Story
By WILL ROGERS
TT used to be that if a girl didn't
learn to play the piano and sing
for company she couldn’t hardly ex
pect to get a husband. She gener
ally didn’t play or sing very well,
and she hardly ever used the piano
after she got married. It’s so much
simpler now, when all you got to do
is turn the radio on.
Well, there was company at the
Robbinses one night, and Mrs. Rob
bins was asked to play and sing,
because the company was people
they’d known when they was all
■ingle.
“No,’* she says, “I Just naturally
got out of practice. Since the babies
come, I almost quit playing and
singing.”
"Well," says Henry, her husband,
"children are a great comfort to a
man, ain’t they, George T”
(iwitoi Mm Pa**'-** laej
FIVE CENTS PER COPY’
Cherryville Road To Be
Paved Two More Miles
_
IDENTIFY LOCAL
MAN IN CHARLOTTE
The body of a white man found
dead Saturday night on the South
ern railway's right-of-way in Char
lotte, was indentified as that 01
Charles Revels, 38, a resident of
Kings Mountain,
Identification of the body, viewed
by hundreds on Sunday and Monday
at the mortuary of Z. A, Hovis and
Son. was completed by David Mc
Daniel and W. M (lantt. of Kings
Mountain Press descriptions of un
usual tatooing upon the arms of the
dead man brought the Kings Moun
tain acquaintances to the city.
Revels bore upon his left forearm a
horseshoe design, enclosing the
word: "Luck." On other portions of
his arms he had tattooing depicting
a butterfly and a combination de
sign of moon and stars.
Revels was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Revels and was said to
have, been a textile worker at vari
ous times here.
Revels was apparently killed while
attempting to board a southbound"
passenger train near the viaduct oii*
West First street, in Charlotte.
GIRL WITH TWO
FAMILIES LIKING HER
UNUSUAL ROLE
Macon. Oa., Aug. 17.—Mary Louise
Garner Pittman has found to her lik
ing the role of "girl with two famili
es.' she said today.
The attractive 17 year old girl has
spent ten days with her “new par
ents', Mr. and Mrs John Garner
She planned a visit this week end to
{he D. L. Pittmans, Atlanta couple
Who reared her.
1 The Garners said today they were
/enjoying having with them the girl'
they have elaimed as their own,
blaming an exchange of babies in an
Atlanta hospital nearly 18 years ago.
In Atlanta the Pittmans, lonely
for Mary Louise, were trying to re
concile themselves to the arrange
ment whereby she is to live with the
Garners and make frequent visits to
Atlanta.
Pittman, an unemployed meat cut
ter now on relief, attributed two
recurrences of an old heart trouble
to anxiety and excitement over the
■rase.
BARNETT BROS.
CIRCUS HERE FRIDAY
f Kings Mountain will play host to
its first circus of tho season tomor
row, Friday, when Barnett Bros, big
three ring aggregation will be hery
Jor a one-day engagement. /
^^he huge circus caravan will ar
rive in Kings Mountain early Friday
morning, coining from Charlotte
where it is exhibiting today.
The city and surrounding country
side have been decked out in typical
| circus colors by the advertising crew
of the show which has “plastered'
billboards, buildings, store windows
etc., with gaudy colored posters an
nouncing the coming of the circus.
Advance notices indicate that the
performance being presented by Bar
nett Bros, three ring circus thi3 sea
son is the most elaborate that this
show has attempted in the number
of years that it has been on tour in
the United States.
Clowns, acrobats, tumblers, tra
peze artists, bare back riders, aeri
alists, equestriennes, gymnasts,
cowboys and cow'girls, besides the
many trained animals, will perform
in the three rings under the circus
tent in an almost unending process
ion of thrills and feats of daring.
Miss Vivian White, daring aerial
ist, tops the list of headliners Barn
ett Bros, will bring to Kings Moun
tain. This young lady completes
from 75 to 100 one-armed planges at
each performance of the circus and
it is this daring feat of endurance
which is fast heading her toward
stardom as one of the leading areia
lists of her sex now on tour in the
United States.
Two performances will be present
ed in Kings Mountain. Tho matiness
will start at 2 o'clock and the night
show at 8 o'clock. Doors will be open
ed an hour previous to showing time
to allow the public an opportunity to
view the animal display before be
ing seated in the big top.
UNION SERVICE AT
PRESBYTERIAN
The Union Services being held
during the month of August at the
different churches of Kings Moun
tain will be conducted this Sunday
evening at 8 o’clock at the First
Presbyterian Church with Rev. B.
| W. Fox, pastor of the Central Meth
I odist church, in charge.
Announcement has been receive.!*
>y Mayor J E. Herndon from the
ttate Highway Department that two
nore miles of the Cherryville Koad
will hardsurfaced. This will make
the road hardsurfaced to Mr. Clar
ence Plonk's farm which is four
niles from Kings Mountain.
It was originally announced that
'he road would be paved to the Gasv
ton County line which is about six
miles, then word was received that
the road was only going to be paved
two miles, and now the report is
four miles. It is now hoped that may
be another announcement will come
through saying the road is going to
be hardsurfaced all the way.
MEN’S CLUB MEETS
THIS EVENING
I The Men's Club will have theft"
next out-door supper this evening at
6:1!0 at Bethany church, across the
[ South Carolina line on the York
Road. Those who attended this sup
per last year still remember the
buntiful supply of delicious foods
and are planning to be back there
this evening for another "stomach
full.”
Over 75 were present at the last'
supper held two weeks ago at Pat
terson Grove and it is hoped at
least this many will attend this
evening.
Edward C. Perry
Funeral services for Edward C?
Perry, who died at his home in the
Pbeuix Mill section Sunday morning
was held at the Second Baptist
church Monday afternoon at 3:30.
Mr. Perry was 43 years old and had
been in declining health for two
years and had been seriously ill
for about two weeks before his
death. Mr. Perry had made hiB home
in Kings Mountain for several years
and had many friends.
The funeral services were itf
charge of Rev. R. L. Chaney, pastor
of the Second Baptist church, who
was assisted by Revs. C. C. Parked
and W. H. Redmond. Interment was
in Mountain Rest Cemetery'.
Mr. Perry is survived by his wid
ow, Mrs. Anne Mae Perry, two sons,
and three daughters; also two broth
ers and five sisters.
ty James Preston
(Opinion* Expressed in This Column
Are Not Necessarily the Views of
This Newspaper.)
Washington observers believe that
the real inside on the current front
page labor fight is that John L. Lew
is wants to run for President in 1940
Every step he has taken in the last
three or four years has been calcula
ted to move him toward that objec
tive.
Several years back, Lewis joined
those who sought an increase in the
size of the council that decides basic
policy for the Aemrican Federation
of Labor. If his friends had been
named to six new places added in
19H4, it might have been possible for
him to obtain control of A. F. of L.
But few of his friends w'ere nam
ed to the new places as indicated by
the recent 13 to 1 Council vote to
suspend Lewis and his United Mine
Workers.
Lewis was far from disappointed
by that vote. It had already become
clear to him that the A. F. of L. had
no intention of changing its age old
policy and entering its own candt
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