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VOL. 34 NO. 36.
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1936.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY*
PATROLMAN enters
SUIT AGAINST
keeter
Officer Claude Allen of M'-klen
bu.rs eount-v «>••*» tau. ,1 a suit a.
?a:n'‘ n- J Keeter for *20,000 seek
“\K ,i!*mages for personal injury
when the Keeter car and the A,len
motorcycle crarhcd on the Wilkinson
boulevard about four weeks ago.
Officer Allen charges that Mr
Keeter ran up on him from behind
end smashed into h:s motorcycle in
nicting a fractured skull. At ’the
time ot the accident it was reported
*liaf Allen turned his motorcycle cli
rectly in front of the Keener ,,ar
without warning. Alien has had sev
eral injuries on the highway while
on duty.
. It will he recalled that Mr Keet
er and members of his ftmily we-d
motoring to the beach one morning
this summer when the accident oc
curred.
It is understood that Mr Keeters
car was insured. ‘
SCHOOL TO OPEN
ON SEPT. 9TH
A full roster of teachers for the
Kings Mountain public schools was
announced this week by B N Barn
«s, snnerfntendent. The schools will
open Wednesday, Sept. 9,
Football prtctice began Tuesday
under the direction of Paul “'Pete'
Moss, former Duke university star
Some .10 candidates reported.
Band practice was begun a week
ago under the leadership of paul
Hendricks of Mocksville. The teach
ors will hold a business session on
Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Superintendent Barnes said the
Hundreds of Kings Mountain pupils
v.Hl enter buildings this year which
have been extensively repaired,
pamted and refinished. A new roof
has been put on the East Kings
Mountain school, and other improve
...cn;s have been made on the sur
roundings of the units.
The teachers for the coming ye:.(;*
v,ill be: High school: F. M. Bis'gei
staff, principal; Mrs \V T Weir li
brarian; Mrs. W. .i. Ft person,
home ecoonomics: Miss Janet Scog
gins of Greenville, S C., French
Miss Mary Mitchell of Bennettsville,
S. C., English; Miss Bertie Paysour,
of Dallas, mathematics; Mis3 Helen
Crosland, of Bennettsville, S. C. corn
mercial; Paul Hendricks of Mocks
ville, band and science; Paul Moss
coach and history.
Special teachers: Miss Sara Ham
bright, expression: Miss Virginia
Parsons, piano; Miss Mary Roddey,
of Due West, S. C., public school
music.
Mrs. J. E Thomson will be princi
pal of the East iKngs M fintain ele
mentary unit and Mrs. Claude Rhyne
of the West Kings Mountain school.
Following will he the elementary
teachers:
Miss Hazel Settlvemyre, Miss:
Bessie Simonton, Miss Marjorie
Hord, Miss Katherine Peele. Mis »
Daisy Lovelace, first grades; Miss
Elizabeth McGill, Miss Oarlve Ware,
Mrs. P. T. Stokes, Mrs Mary X W1I
liams, Miss Sara Allison, second
grades; Miss Jettie Plonk, Miss O
zelle Kiser, Miss Fannie Ctrpenter,
Miss Willie McGill, third grades.
Miss Lucy Kiser, Mrs. W. .1. Ful
kerson, Miss Marie Lineberger, four
th grades; Mrs Edna Coon, Miss
Kaye Mauney, Mrs. B. N. Barnes,
Mrs T A Pollock, fifth grades; Miss
Fauleila Adair, six; Miss Mitchell
Williams, Miss Helen Logan, Miss
<lussie HufTstetler, seventh grades.
Will Rogers’
Humorous Story
....A
By WILL ROGERS
VOU got to be careful when you
give a new housekeeper direc
tions how to cook. You can’t leave
out any detail. Now, Lucile’s mother
■ ^ 111 -- -r—n
had told her a lot of details about
making cakes and measuring, just
before Lucile left on her honey
moon. She said, “Now, I’ve written
about cupfuls of flour and lard and
such things here, in these recipes
I'm giving you. Just you take any
one of my old cups without a han
dle to use for measuring. Stick it
into your trunk before you go.”
But she had a letter from Lucile
like this: “And I’ve had an awfu
time about measuring. 'Vou told
me to take one of your cups with
out a handle, and I forgot, but 1 ve
been trying to do the cooking ex
actly as you directed. In trying to
break the handles off my cups, so
as to use one for measuring, I broke
■ix. So I’ve about decided to go
ahead and use one with a handle
on. Do you think it will make very
much difference T”
lAaeileea Hews I'letere*. Iac.1
RECORDER’S COURT
TIip following cases were disposed
Ca **ere in Recorder’s Court yester
day afternoon:
Te-’tor was found not guilty
of public drunlt' nnes.
■ C. ioctet’ was also found not
guiit> Li violating the Hrotyibi,*,ion
Laws.
V.’.il Lai din charged with violat
ing the Prohibition laws was called
and failed. He was ordered arrested
immediately.
H. W. Mitchem was found not
guilty of violating Prohibition laws
Matt Thomas was found guilty of
violating the Prohibition laws and
sentenced to two months suspended
upon the payment of $10.oo fine and
cost.
John Hunt was found guilty of
I assault and sentenced to one month
suspended upon the payment of the
cost.
U H. Coon was found not rJiilAo
of violating the prohibition taws.
Roy Letterman charged with a
bandonmant, non support, fornica
tion and adultery, was found not
j guilty.
BELK’S LADIES’
SHOPPE OPENS
FRIDAY
Kings Mountain can soon boast of
an exclusive ladies shop, as Br|ik^
Ladies’ Shoppe opens for inspection
Friday evening from 7 to S P. M
No sales will be made Friday even
ing but the new store will be reef
for business Saturday morning.
Mr. O. W. Myers, manager of
Relk's extends a cordial invitation td
all the ladies (and the men too. as
they have to pay the hills), of Kings
Mountain and surrounding territory
to visit their new store where a com
pleto selection of everything the
ladies will be found. Mr. Myers and
Mrs. n. Goforth have just returned
from New York City where they
especially to buy the latest fall
styles for the new store.
The addition of this new store is
.iust another example that Kings'
Mountain is going forward anti is
The Best Town In The State.
C,ets “Kick” Out Of Being
Bicycle Theft Squad
Atlanta, Aug. 31 —The job may
not be as ex-citing as tracking down
murderers but Detective Harry F.
Williams gets a lot of satisfaction
out of being the ‘ bicycle theft squad’
on the Atlanta force.
Williams’ post was created by the
chief 10 months ago and since then
he has recovered 500 stolen “bikes"
and caught 100 thieves, most of
whom received jail sentences.
STERCHI HAS FULL
TIME MAN HERE
Mr. E. C. McClain, local represen
tative of the Sterchi Furniture Com
pany of Shelby has moved to Kings
Mountain and is now devoting all
of his time to his company’s busi
ness here. Mr. McClain has been1
working Kings Mountain for Ster
chi's for the past six years, but part
of his time was devoted to his com
pany's business in Cberryville.
Mr. McClain says that he has al-f
ways liked Kings Mountain and is
very glad that his work has been'
arranged so that he can make ' h'y>
home here. !
MARKER TO BE
ERECTED
One of the markers being erected
historical places in North Carolina
by the State Department of Conser
vation and Development has been re
ceived in Kings Mountain and wilf
shortly be put up at the corner of
Mountain Street and Railroad Ave.
Th" sign is about four feet square
and has the following wording on
both sides of it:
Kings Mountain Battleground
Scene of Decisive British Defeat
Oct. 7th, 1780
Seven Miles South in S. C. National
Park.
The raised lettering is black on a
silver background.
CHANGE RESIDENCES
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Riant on have
moved from the Mrs. Harry Moore
home on Gold street, to the Cooper
Apartment on King street. Mr. Camp
bell and family who have resided in
the Dr. P. B. Stokes home on Gold
street have moved into the home va
cated by Mr. and Mrs. Blanton. Mr.
and Mrs. Prod Plonk, formeily of
Louisville, Ky, will occupy the
Stokes home, it is understood.
MEN’S CLUB MEETS
TONIGHT
The Men’s Club will have their
next out-door supper this evening at
6:30 at Bethlehem Baptist church, a
hout four miles southwest of Kings
Mountain. A large number is ex
pected to attend as this is nearing
the end of the season for the out
door suppers.
State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
—Slate News—
Raleigh, Sept. 2,—"Alcohol and
habit-fcnni;;g drugs" l>.\ Dr. Grant
U Doan: Hy, University of North
Carolina professor, will be taught
in sixth grades of the public schools
this year.
it was adopted by the State Hoard
of Kdtuation, and will be published
soon rho course was ordered by
I the lull5 Legislature.
Raleigh, Sept. 2.-The electric
chair at State prison, in use for the
past 2d years, will probably be hist
ory Friday.
Three men were scheduled to die
in tlie chair Friday and their execu
tions will mark the last crime expi
ations by electrocutions in North
Carolina.
All other persons in “death row”
have been sentenced to die in the
new lethal gas chamber. The 1935
General Assembly provided that cap
ital crimes committed after June 1,
1933, would be punishable by death*
from gas.
New Rem, Sept. 2.—George Isaac
Hughes, 96 year old Confederate vet
eran who is the father of two young
children, was ill at his home here
today. ,
Hughes recently returned from a
visit to relatives in South Carolina.
High Point, Sept. 2.—Mrs. Eliza J.
W illiams, 75, widow of Dr. J. r
W illiams. was almost instantly kfli
J ed last night when she was struck
: by an automobile about three miles
i *1 °m Glenda in Randolph county.
! . ^late patrolmen who investigated
i the accident said she was struck by
'a car driven bv William E. Cressy of
- Arch dale as she was entering anoth
or car in front of her iiome. Randol- ■
! bb county officers said that as far
as thev knew the accident was una
voidable and no charges had been
; preferred.
Greensboro. Sept. 2.—Internal rev
onue collections in North Carolina
during the first two months of the
current fiscal year were $55,441 221
24—a gain of $6,134,942.76 over "the
same period a year ago.
Whitevilie. sent. 2—Grace and
Glenn Fowler, sisters in their teens
who were reported, victims of a
night-riding band some months ago,
pleaded guilty to charges of pros**-'
tution today and were sentenced to
indeterminate periods in the woJ
i men's farm colony near Kinston.
Waynesville, Sept. 2.—Donald Hen
derson, T6, was held today on a
charge of killing his father, William
K. Henderson. 55, in a remote section
of the county.
The boy told officers he shot hSs'
father in self-defense when the eld
er Henderson tried to regain a pistol
which had been taken from hint ear
Her after he had threatened to ,k.iJl!
his wife.
Laurinburg. Aug. 31.—A coroner's
jury exonerated Mark Buie, farmer
for the fatal shooting yesterday
morning of Isham Massey, negro
A verdict that the act was “in'
defense of Buie's home and family"
was returned.
The negro attempted to break into
the Buie home, it was shown in the
testimony.
—National News—
Holyoke, Mass., Sept 2.—William
Fail-Held Whiting, 72, former secre
tary of commerce, died at his home
here Tuesday after a long illness.
Washington, Sept. 2.—Uncle Sam's
reorganized border patrol will swing
into action along four fronts tomor
row in the first move of a new cam
paign to stamp out the narcoitics
traffic.
Islamorada, Fla., Sept. 2.—Resi
dents ot these coral-bedded Florida
keys have profited by the fair weath
er since wind and waves destroyed
i their houses and killed some 500
i persons on Sept. 2, 1935.
Debris has been cleared and mas
siv?e concrete “hurricane-proof"
dwellings, 29 of them, have been
built along the sparsely settled little
islands trailing between Key West i
and the Florida main land.
Chicago. Aug. 31.—Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Levitt pinned hopes for their
son's life today on the ability of
their own bodies to survive an inoc
ulation with deadly germs and pro
duce a serum which might cure him
of a streptococci infection.
T.iiey became “human test tubes" 1
after doctors treating the boy, Philip
7. decided his only chance to survive
would lie a blood transfusion from i
some one who had recovered from
the same disease—viridans type of i
streptococci infection. No such do- i
nor was found, alt,hough transfusion '
offers were received by the dozen.
Ebensburg, Pa.. Sept 2—Snow fell j
in this Cambria county seat Sunday
during a rain which swept most of
western Pennsylvania. The flakes
meited as quickly as they touched i
the ground. The Unofficial tempera
ture reading was 48.
Paris, Sept. 1.—Military leaders
of Germany's eastern and western i
neighbors — France and Poland — |
began conversations today directed
toward consolidating the military
and economic ties between their two
countries.
T-ondon, Aug. 31,—A new record—
this time for the fastest eastward
crossing of the North Atlantic—was
entered today in the log of the super
lined Queen Mary.
The huge Cunard-White Star ves
sel steamed past llishop's Rock off
the English coast last night three
days, 23 hours and 57 minutes after
she passed Ambrose light off New
York.
This time shortened the previous '
record held by the French liner Nor
mandie by more than throe hours.
Atlanta, Aug. 31.—Two weeks ago
13 year old Billy Mosher fell while
running with a pencil in his mouth.
He suffered no apparent injury
hut a few days ago developed a sore
throat. A tonsilectomy was ordered.
When the tonsils were removed
the eraser from the pencil was found
imbedded in one of them.
Washington, Aug. 31.—Formal pre
paration was underway today at the
state department to notify towering
Christian X, king of Denmark and
Iceland, that Mrs. Ruth Owen Rohde
had resigned her portfolia as Ameri
can minister at Copenhagen.
I
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
The Handiwork c5 the Amateur
By IRVIN S. COBB
/V LONG back about 1905, in the TIarV Ages of automobiling, a veterin
^ ary surgeon in my town, whom 1 shall call for convenience, Dr.
Wilkins, bought himself a second-hand car. It already was beginning
to shake itself to pieces before it came into his possession. When the
tires wore out the owner, who was by way of being a mechanical genius,
equipped it with ordinary buggy-wheels.
One day an automobile run to a nearby town was organized. Every
proud proprietor of a car joined in. As the procession headed out
past the corporate limits it was met by a farmer from the Massac
Creek section on his way in to the warehouse with a wagonload of
tobacco. His half-grown son rode with him.
As the head of the column loomed through the dust the farmer’s
two mules, unused to the sight of automobiles, showed signs of skittish
ness. The boy leaped from his seat and held the heads of the team,
the mules flinching and trembling as the cavalcade roared past.
Seemingly, the last car had gone by. The youth was in the act
of climbing back to his place alongside his father when in the distance
there arose a terrific clattering sound and over the crest of the hill
appeared Dr. Wilkins seated at the wheel of his machine and striving
valiantly to overtake the tail of the vanished parade.
The astounded agriculturist caught one good look at the approach
ing apparition. Then as he set the brakes harder than ever and
tightened his grasp on the lines he called out to the boy:
“Hold ’em, Wesley, for God’s sake, hold ’em. Here comes a home*
made one!”
(Aaericaa New* restore*- IacA_
I MARSHALL CROWDER
DIES
Marshall Crowder, age 40. died ah
his home in the Bonnie Mill \*i!^ag©
last Thursday, following a period or
ill health.
Funeral services were held at St.
Matthews Lutheran church. Kings
Mountain, at ten o'clock Saturday
morning, with the Rev. L. Boyd'
Hamm, pastor in charge. Interment
was made at St. Luke's cemetery,
north of town.
Mr. Crowder had been a faithful
member of St. Matthews Luthei-nyi
I Church, but was unable to attend
regularly recently on account of ill
health.
He is survived by his widow and
the following children: Elizabeth
Hunter. Bonnie, Helen and Mrs. Lon
nie Mae Randall, with of Theodore
Randall. He is also survived by a
brother, Thomas Crowder of Kings'
Mountain.
Mr. Crowder moved with his moth
er to Kings Mountain from Cherry
ville in early boyhood and most of
his mature life has been spent in the
Bonnie mill village. He was held in
high esteem by his friends and ac
quaintances.
HOME COMING AT
BETHLEHEM
Home-Coming day will lie ob&e**v
ed at Bethlehem Baptist church Sun
day. Sept. 6. The program follows:
Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
Preaching by Rev. W. G. Camp at
11 o'clock
Social hour and dinner at 12:00.
Song service begins at one o’clock'
conducted by Uncle Wade Humphri
es of Gaffney. S. C.
The famous Majestic Quartet of
Rock Hill. Pro Collins Quartet, Brick'
House Quartet of Gaffney, and many
others will be present.
All singers and quartets are invi
ted to come and help in this great
song service.
Bring well filled baskets.
WILDCAT VETERANS
STATE REUNION
Plans for the North Carolina State
Reunion of the 7,200 Veterans from
this state who served with the Wild
cats are progressing fine.
The Reunion will open on Sunday
Sept. fi. in Greensboro, with registra
tions at the O'Henry and King Cob
ton Hotels.
An impressive memorial Service
will be held at 3 p. m. and smoker
at 8 p. m. Reception to Jhe ladies
will be held at 6 p. m.
Monday. Sept. 7, (Labor Day) a
business session at 10 a. m.; lunch
eon at 1 p. m.; parade at <3 p m. and
dance at 8 p. m will fill in tlie day.
Every Veteran Is cordially invited.
HOME COMING AT
BEULAH CHURCH
Home-Coming day will be observed
at Heulah church on Sunday, Septem
her 6th. Rev. H. M. Robinson will
preach at 11 o'clock. Music for the
morning service will be furnished
by the Mncolnton choir. Mr Shelby
Roper of Lincolnton will give the
address at 2 o'clock. There v111 be
special music during the afternoon
Public cordially invited.
MECHANICAL COTTON PICKER
MENACES TO SOUTH,
EXPERTS SAY
Stoneville, Miss., Aug. 31.—Two
farm experts who came here today
to view a demonstration of a me
chanical cotton picker predated
that success of the machine would
threaten the south s agricultural bar
ance and “spell the end of the small
farmer.
Oscar Johnston, government cot
ton specialist, forecast the doom of
small-scale operations. A. F. Toler,
his business associate on a 43.000"
acre Mississippi plantation said
“southern agriculture would be in i
a turmoil” if mechanized picking |
supplanted hand labor.
Johnston came from Washington i
and joined State Agricultural lead
ers, planters and cotton Sinners to
examine the picker developed by
John and Mack Rust of Memphis, j
Tenn,
"If the machine is successful,* j
Johnson said, “the immediate re- |
suits on southern agriculture would
be too big a question to answer, for j
there would be no point to small
lime farming.
“The picker would be ideal 4 >'r
big planters but not for the small
farmer who grows only four or five
hales each season. He couldn't af
ford it for his acreage is too sma I
Johnston said it might be possi
ble to coordinate the machine and
hand labor on large-scale operations
He attended the demonstration as a
'plain farmer' and said he would not
report ofticailly on his inspection.
“I hope the machine won’t work,"
said Toler, “because it would upset
our present system and southern ag
riculture would be in a turmoil in
the future.
“It might be possible to coord
SPECIAL SERVICES XT
CENTRAL METHODIST
CHURCH
-Next Sunday will be observed at
Central Methodist church as Home
Coining day both at the Sunday
School hour and at II o'clock Every
member is urged to attend, all form
er members who cun do so are ex
pected to be present, and all friends
of the church and its membership
are cordially invited to come and en
joy the occasion.
At the T: .10 service Sunday night
Rev. H. K. Duncan, who is to preach
in the meeting beginning Sunday
and continue through the week, will
be present to preach. The pastor ur
ges all who can to be present Sun
day night, meet Rev, Mr Duncan,
pnd hear him preach his first ser
pion in the special meeting.
1 BOYCE MEMORIAL
Rev. \V. M. Boyce, Pastor
Bible School at 9:45. M. A. War#,
General Superintendent.
Morning Worship at 11:00. The
pastor will speak op: “The Estab
lished Church.”
Evening Service is at 8:00. The
sermon subject is: “The Star-Count
ing and Heart-Healing Jehovah.”
Y. P. C. U. meets at 7:00 o'clock.
Prayer Service each Wednesday
evening at 7:30
Anyone is cordially invited to a
vail themselves of the services of
this church. '
nate labor and the machine but
there’s one thing a machine can't do
and that is chop cotton in the spring
We've got to keep our labor to do
that work.’
E. C. Weslbroow. Georgia cotton’
specialist, was not alarmed over the
possible effect of the machine.
“Of course," he said, “it is impos
sible to predict the ultimate result,
of mechanical cotton picking. It
would be far reaching, but it might
not displace tenant labor as much as
some observers fear. 1 believe tho
two can be coordinated."
Whether the device is economical
ly superior to hand labor was to be
this fall. The cotton picking ability
of the machine, cost of operation
and speed, will be compared with
that of hand pickers over an entire
season.
The apparatus is powered b>' trao
tor and as it moves down the rows
of cotton. 1300 moistened spindles
rotate on a drum and the cotton i Us
stripped front its bolls when it ad
heres to the moist spindles. Tho
spindles revolve on the drum to a
trough on the other side of the ma
chine where the cotton is stripped
off and blown through a funnel-shap
ed pipe into a hamper.
({jjndtinqton
t^napihvU
ky James Preston
(Opinions Expressed in This Column
Are Not Necessarily the Views of
This Newspaper.)
The political campaign is on with
a vengeance. Both major parties’
presidential candidates are taking
advantage of opportunities to put
themselves and their views before
the country.
President ltopsevelt is making a
tour of the drought state l Alfred
M. Landon has made his initial
stump speeches in the Eastern
states, lie plans more.
As the campaign gets into high
a new issue is building itself up for
debate in Congress. It centers a
rutind the strike which has closed
down the Post-Intelligencer and de
prived Seattle, Washington, of its
famous morning paper for the first
time in 71 years.
The Seattle strike was called, theo
retically, because a photographer
and a dramatic critic were discharg
ed. The American Newspaper Guild
(Cont'd on back page)
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