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 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