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A Ait.4iiiAilAAAA4iAAAi.AAAA •tttTTTTTTtTTTtTTTTTtt Watch label on your Paper and don’t let your subscription Expirel **+*❖*❖•>*❖***❖*****❖*<»• Kings Mountain Herald The date on the label is th« date your paper will Expire |s *J» «J» »*» »J* •*« *J» **« •+« *J» »*• *J* *J* »J» *J» *J» *J» *J« *J»e VOL. 35 NO. 11 KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937 FIVE CENTS PER COPYI State And National News Condensed In Brief Form —National News— York. S. C. March 16.—About $20 in money and a small quantity of ci garettes were secured by thieves who broke into the Shieder drug store. Entrance was effected throu gh a rear window. Washington, March 16.—A blunt suggestion by Chairman Mariner B. lOocles of the Federal Reserve board that the government increase taxes on incomes and profits if necessary to balance the budget met a cool re ception today on Capitol Hill. Wall street bankers and severeal -economists indorsed his goal but ■expressed less enthusiasm about his suggested method. Columbia, S. C., March 16,— The .Santee-Cooper hearing continued to day with the refusal of District Jud j:e J. Lyles Glenn to dismiss a suit of three power companies for an injunction against the $37,000,000 hy <lroelectric and navigation project. Detroit, March 16.—Five thousand sit-down strikers, confronted by Gov. Frank Murphy's statement that "the courts must be respected," gave no indication today of obeying an injunc lion ordering them to evacuate eight ■Chrysler automotive plants here. Richmond, Va„ March 16.—A pro fessor and five members of the stu dents Rollins (Fla.) college fencing team were recovering today from in juries suffered in an automobile acci dent which claimed the lives of two of their class mates. Wasltington. March 16.—Congress men have replaced movie stars as the postman’s best customers in the 39 days since President Roosevelt submitted ills court reorganization program. Gray-haired senators are getting mail at a Shirley Temple tempo. Ro tund representatives are deluged at .a Robert Taylor rate. Washington, March 16.—Social se curity board officials said enrollment •of the 25,000,000th name card in the old age benefits program would be completed today. A quarter million more cards are ■“in the mill" at the Baltimore offices, they said. They exipect the enroll ment of about 26,000,000 salaried and w.tge-earuing persons to be finished soon. Birmingham, Ala.. March 16.—Pay increases for steel workers, effective today for approximately 25,000 in Aabama, found steel and iron pro ductionin the south at the highest levels since 1929. Klbarton, Ga., March 16.—9 one man overflow baffled bailffs when a jury was seated fo hear a case in the Elbert county superior court. A roll call disclosed two J. B. Adamses trying to occupy a seat in the 12-man box intended for only •one J. B. Adams. Counsel solved the Adams surplus by excusing one and ■the trial went on. —State News— Raleigh, March 16.—The lions', committee on electiin laws unfavora bly reported today a senate-passed measure to change primary days from Saturdays to Tuesdays and make other changes in election laws. Such action usually kills a bill. Raleigh. March 16.—North Caroli no payrolls in 1936 went considerably above the $300,000,000 mark, a fig ure much higher than was estimated on the basis of payrolls of recent years, it is disclosed by the figures compiled in the office of the North Carolina unemployment compensa tion commission. Hillsboro, March 16.—Solicitor Leo Carr said today that the case against William J. Anderson, Eliza beth City salesman charged by his brother-in-law's wife with kidnaping her, might not be tried at the cur rent term of court. Dunn, March 16.—-A specially built casket had to be obtained today to bury Luby Silos, 400 pound farmer who died at his home in western Harnett county Sunday night. Death was due to a heart attack. He was 33 years old. Raleigh, March 16.—North Caroli na department of revenue officials estimated today that 1936 income tax collections would total more than $8,600,000, to set a new state record. Last year’s total was $7,690,000. Revenue Commissioner A. J. Max well said a single check for $1,978. 702 from one concern was in the mails. He did not divulge the name of the concern. “It will be the second largest in come tax check we have ever re ceived," he said. “Three or four years ago we got one for $2,138,000.’’ Gastonia, March 16.—Henry R. Da vis, employee of Ernest R. Morgan, Gaston contractor, broke both heels in a forced jump from a nine foot scaffold yesterday afternoon. Davis, one of a force at work on constructing a large addition to Gro cers’ Baking company here, said he was aiding in removing a heavy roll ing door at the bakery when a spring in the door broke accidentally. He had to jump quickly in order to avoid j having his head and shoulders crush ed by the door, he said. He landed squarely on his feet, breaking both heelbones, it was reported. Greensboro, March 16.—Judges for the 18th annual state high school music contest and festival whic will be held at the Woman's college of the University of North Carolina April 21-23, have been announced by Dr. Wade R. Brown, of the music faculty of the college, who is the director of the contest. Laughing Around the World With T COBB The Fc >aloon By •ns TN THE last months of tl colored troops from the G where the* British held, to help mopped up very effectively, too. One morning three of my f 1 '/-correspondents borrowed a staff ■car and rode up to an abandoned village where there had been sharp in 1928, a draft regiment of s went in near the Flanders line, ■ii the retreating Germans. They fighting, seeking for a forward dressing-station with an intent to get 'tories from wounded men. • At an entrance to an improvised hospital in a dugout one of the group came upon a coal-black infantryman, who, while not seriously injured, bore unmistakable signs of having come into abrupt contact with some form of high and violent explosixe. The correspondent said to him: "Soldier, how did you get hurt?" "Well, suh, at daylight this mawnin'. we fell into one of these yere 111’ towns up yere jest ’bout the time dem Bush Germans wuz failin’ out of it. But even ef we did have de scoundrels on the run ' v didn’t fergit to shell us ez dey went away. Dem old shells wuz wh.-lli’ past over my haid, talkin’ to deyselves, an’ ever* now an’ then one of ’em would come by w’ich, it seemed lak, twuz spoakin’ to me pussoanlly. 1 could hear it say in’ jest es plain: rxon ain’t never gwine see t e w-e yore home in Ala-BAB.’ . .... "So I sez to myse’f, I sez: ‘Seem’ ez dess Germane is all daid an’ scattered an’ evr’thing ’twon’t by any real harm ef I gets under eever myse’f.” So I looks ’round fur a place to git at I sees a lil’ place called a ‘Taverne’. Dat’s what a Frenchman say, boss, w*en he means 'saloon’. So I walks up and I teks hold of de doorknob an’ I’s jest fixin’ to turn de knob an’ shove open de do’ an’ step in w’en BAM! right alongside of me one of dem German shells went off — sa’ tuk dat saloon right out ef my hand!” (American Km lUtuw. bc.1 FIRST CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR Mr. Charles S. Williams, Textile Machinery Salesman, is the first to announce for Mayor of Kings Mountain in the election to be held May 4th. Men’s Club Ladies’ Night Is Set For April 15 th Ladies’ Night of the Men's Club, generally conceded to be the biggest social event of the year, is set for April 15th. Plans for the gala event are being formulated by the program committee, composed of Messrs Joe Thomson, P. D. Herndon and Byron Keeter. All wives, sweethearts and lady friends, are reminded to get their best, “evening frock’’ ready fot the big night. More detail plans of the program will be announced later. The program committee for the next regular meeting to be held March 25th will be Dr. L. P. Baker and Arthur Hay. They were suppos ed to be in charge oi the program but were not notified in time, so they will be in charge of the next meeting. Two new members were an nounced at the last meeting, making eight new members received in the last few weeks. The new members welcomed last Thursday were Haroll Hunnicutt and Harry Page. GLEE CLUB AT CENTRAL METHODIST The Greensboro College Glee club under the direction of Walter Vas sal' appeared before a large and ap preciative audience at Central Meth odist church Monday evening. Miss Elizabeth Mendenhall of Winston Salem was accompanist. The music was of high order and has occasioned much favorable com ment. The program was as follows: Salutation — Gaines. Gracious Lord of All Our Being— Bach. Come To Me — Beethoven-Harris. Omnipotence — Schubert-Harrls. I Think That God Is Proud—Noll Crowell. And They Followed Him—Noll Crowell. After Three Days—Noll Crowell. Break Forth, O Beauteous Heaven ly Light—Bach. Lift Thine Eyes To The Mountains —Mendelssohn. Legende — Tschaikowsky-Ferrari. The Great Awakening — Kramer. Ave Marla—Schubert. Spring Bursts Today — Thompson. O Morn of Beauty — Arr. Mat thems. Were You There?—Arr. Burlegh. God So Loved The World—Stainer •Treharne. Psalm 158—Franck. Central High Girl Wins County Medal Giving a one-act play. “Smoke Screen”, Mary Helen Hambright of the ninth grade won out in the conn ty-wide reading contest at Shelbv last Friday evening. She receives tin medal offered each year by the coun ty schoolmasters’ club, in addition to having already won the Poarl Ful ton medal in the local reading con test. The school is to be congratulate! upon its success in this event. It is most fortunate in having Miss Sarah Hambright, whoBe expression pupils have won both the boys’ and the girl’s county contests for each' of the three years that she has taught in the city schools. Operetta At West School The operetta, “Molly Be .Tolly'' will be presented at West End s'-hoo' Friday night, March 19. at R p. m. / small admission will be charged. COUNCIL MET LAST NIGHT The Town Council in a special called meeting last night discussed ways and means of improving the sanitation and cleanliness of the Town. A more systematic way of collection garbage will be started. Other routine business was dis cussed including the WPA proj ects going on here. The meeting lasted about two hours. LEGION AUXILIARY MET LAST NIGHT At a meeting of the Legion Auxili ary, held last night at the home of Mrs. T. G. Hudspeth, a beautiful plaque was presented to Mr. Byron Xeeter. Commander of Otis D. Green r’ost of the American Legion in com memoration of the 18th anniversary A he American Legion. Mrs. Paul Mauney, Vice President, presided at the meeting in the absence of Mrs. J. N. Gamble, President. Officers of the local Post of the American Legion were invited, as guests for the meeting. Mrs. C. P. Andrew, Department President, of Charlotte, was also present for the meeting. The American Legion at their last National Convention endorsed the pregram of the Civilian Conservation 'Trip, as a token of their appreciation the boys in the CCC camps through out the United States, made plaques which they gave to Legion Auxiliary posts to be presented to Legion Posts, in celebration of the 18th an niversary of the Legion. Mrs. T. G. Hudspeth, Mrs. Blanche Poplin and Miss Marie Whitesides, pere join hostesses. Delicious re freshments were served. An Arbor Day program was also presented, with the following taking part: Sue Ruddock, Geneva Huds peth, Alice Betty Mauney and Jauni ta Hudapeth. SENIORS ELECT MASCOTS The Senior Class of Central High School held their annual mascot e lection Friday morning. Out of many lovely contestants of small children the voting was a big job. The two chosen were Peggy Ann Mauney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, and "Bud” Neisler, oldest sou of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Neisler, Will Rogers’ Humorous Storv By WILL ROGERS 'X'HERE was a Scotchman by the * name of MacAndrew that was a catcher on the Aberdeen baseball etc te n. He wms going to get married, he uys to all of his friends, aye, we’re going to have a b edding. I hope you come to the st ,un to see us off — and it’s a p old custom to throw shoes at t> loppy pair, ye ken. Not necee s old shoes, though." isked the bride to tell all her i is to come and throw shoes at t too. So when the shower of , come, at the station, it was t > ^srest ever. And Catcher Mac hw caught every one on the 'if used up the first day of tha or journey trying them on. (AaiMricaa New, Featuna, Im-1 Charles S. Williams Announces For Mayor TOWN WIDE SUNRISE SERVICE EASTER MORNING Kings Mountain people will wel come the news of a Sunrise Service on Easter morning with all of the Churches taking part. Last year tin* Lutheran Church conducted this Ser vice, with Rev. W. M. Boyce and the A R. P. Church cooperating. The colored people are being invited a gain this year. Rev. p. D. Patrick, chairman of the Ministerial Associa tion will have charge. Rev. W. M Boyce has been selected as the speaker. The place selelctcd is High School steps, same as last year. Service will begin at 6:00. Rev. Patrick plans to to arrange with the School authori ties for use of the auditorium in case the weather is bad. It is thought that with all Churches exerting the proper effort we will have 1500 peo ple present. Printed programs with the hymns will be furnished for all. The choirs of all of the Churches are asked to take part in leading the music. A committee consisting of Mrs. J. E. Herndon, chairman, Mr. I. B. Goforth and Miss Virginia Par sons has been asked to arrange for the music. It is hoped that the High School Glee Club will also take part. Plans are being made to get all of the choirs and the Glee club together for one rehearsal. The com mittee will work this out. A cordial invitation is extended to every person in town regardless of race, color or creed. The entire ser vice will be about 30 minutes. You are asked to watch next week's is sue of the Herald for further in formation and announcements. MEETS TRAGIC DEATH Mrs. McCrae, who before her mar riage was a Miss Gamble of the Pis gah section died Tuesday night from burns received when her clothing ig nited, around four o’clock in the aft ernoon. The accident occurred at the home of Miss Betty Gamble on the Gas tonia-Kings Mountain highway, where Mrs. MeCrae, whose home was in Georgia, had been visiting. Mrs. McCrae had been an invalid for some time. (surviving are her husband and a three year old child; two brothers John and Pete Gamble, one sister, Mrs. Bright Ratterree, all of Kings Mountain. Two half brothers who live in the Pisgah section, survive. Funeral and burial took place at Pisgah Wednesday afternoon. Rev. P. I). Patrick, pastor of First Presbyterian church, and Rev. W. M. Boyce, pastor of the Associate Re formed Presbyterian church, conduc ted the funeral service. CHARLOTTE PAPER WRITES ABOUT LABOR AGITATION WHO INVITED HIM? President Gorman of the United Textile Workers has announced that he is headed South with the John L Lewis union organization in order to consummate among the cotton mill employes the same coup that the same organization pulled off with General Motors. And that was to organize the work ers into the union known as the Com mittee on Industrial Organization, which is trying to ruin the American Federation of Labor, and then go to the management of industry with the demand that this union be recogniz ed as sole authority for all the work ers in collective bargaining with the management. In the General Motors disastrous strike, the only success Lewis at tained was to secure the conces sion that his union would be rec ognized in bargaining collectively only for themselves. The same concessions were given to fellow-employes in the American Federation of Labor, and the same • concessions to to hours of employ (Cont’d on back page) Methodist And Baptist Classes Meet Jointly The three Men’s Bible Classes of the First Baptist Chnrch and the two Classes from Central Methodist Church met in joint services at the First Baptist Church Sunday morn ing. Over 300 were present from the two churches at the goodwill and fellowship services. Messrs Joe I<ee Woodward, B. N. Barnes, and Will Ledford, are the teachers of the Baptist Classes, and Messrs H. B. Bumgardner and J. R. Davis are the Methodist teachers. Charles S Williams, Textile Ma chinery Salesman, is the first to announce his candidacy for Mayor of Kings Mountain in the election to be held Tuesday May 4th. Mr. Williams says that he is out to win,, and if elected is going to give the citizens a new deal in the way Kings Mountain lias been run. Mr. Williams slated further that the meeting will be open to the public, so that everyone may see exactly how the business affairs are handled. He also staled that he was under no tn om-nne. and therefore would be in position to give all citi .... miipuiiiui administration. Mr. Williams is a member of Central Methodist Church. His com plete platform will be announced la ter. HOLY WEEK SERVICES AT LUTHERAN CHURCH Beginning with the Evening Ser vice Sunday, March 21st, Saint Matthews Lutheran Church will con duct Service each Evening during the week through Thursday evening. The pastor. Kev. L. Boyd Hadm, will preach a series of sermons on “The Cross and Christian Living.” Thurs day Evening the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered and there will be no sermon. On Good Friday afternoon at 3:15 the A. K. P. Church will join with the Lutheran Church in a Good Friday Service. The Pastors of these two churches will make short talks on the Words from the Cross. The Pastor announces the topics and texts for these Services: Sunday, March 21s»—“In the Field of the Cross." John 3:14-15. 12:32. Monday, March 22nd—“Under the Power of ihe Cross.” I Cor. 1:23-24. Tuesdaf. March 23rd—"Guided by the Light of the Cross.' John 8:12. Wednesday. March 24th — “Fellow ship with Cross-Bearers.” Matt. 10: 38, 16r24. Thursday 25th -—The Lord's Sup per. Good Friday at 3:15 in Afternoon— “His Word's From the Cross.’ Luke 23:34, 23:43. 23:46, Mark 15:34, John 19:26-28. 19:30. Lenten Services have been attend ed well and the members and Pastor are well pleased with the splendid increase each week. A cordial invi tation is extended to al of Hie peo ple of the town, and to members of other churches that are not having Services during that week. LEGION CIRCUS ENJOYABLE AFFAIR The Circus sponsored by the local post of the American Legion to raise funds for the Junior Legion baseball program was most enjoyable. Those taking part in the show placed their parts exceptionally well. The show staged two evenings, did not draw the crowds expected, but those who saw the performances were well paid for their time. ' Those deserving special mention for the excellent way they played their parts are: John Floyd, Paul McGinnis, Jack Ormand, Curtis Falls Red McClain. Will Rhodes, Smyre Williams, and Mrs. Jess Stewart. And little Mr. “Sonny” Peeler, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. S.‘ Peeler, who played the part of Mapor Tweedley Dum. The school band under the direc tion of Paul Hendrix, furnished the music. by James Preston (Opinions Expressed in This Column Are Not Necessarily the Views of This Newspaoer.) Regardless of whether it was in tendedto do so, the Supreme Court battle is taking essential public and Congressional attention away from an equally important issue—reorga nization of the federal government. Peculiarly, the same basis prob lem is involved in both the Supreme Court and the reorganization pro posals. The Supreme Court plan is intended — everybody admits it now —to make judges return verdicts ac ceptable to the executive branch of the government. - The government reorganization plan Is similar in that it would put under the jurisdiction of politically c©pointed cabinet members the many independent agencies which hereto fore have acted in a quasi-judicial ca pactty. Among these are the Inter state Commerce Commission and (Cont'd on back page)
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