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Watch label on your Paper and don’t let your subscription Expire! ilW, The date on the label i* the date your paper will Expire l* *!* *h %*+ v *t’ v *{**!*‘1* ‘i*v4i *t* v*V*i**t‘* VOL. 35 NO. 25 KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 2\, 1937 FIVE CENTS PER COPY" State And National News Condensed In Brief Form —National News— Lando. S. C., June 22.—Fishing Creek claimed two victims yesterday when Cora Bryant. 33, and Mary Lutz, 19, waded into a hole over their heads. They drowned before assistance could l>e given. Tiie young women were attempt ing to cool off after several hours spent at berry picking. *1 Anderson. S. C., June 22.—Tele plicne company linemen found a dvn amite cap ready and wired for firing in ‘he loft above the South Carolina National Bank here. investigating officers expressed the belief an attempt was planned to drill through to the bank vault. Bristow, Okla., June 22.—It cost Ray Miller 39 cents to send a letter to a, girl living In the same town and then he had to deliver it himself. Milter, a rural mail carrier, said he wrote asking the girl for a date. He paid one cent for a stamp, 16 cents for registry, 10 cents for spec lal delivery, 10 cents for an addresse only designation and three cents for a return receipt. When-time-came for delivery, the city mall carrier waB ill. Miller was called on to substitute and dellverel the letter. Athens, Ohio, June 22.—High wa ters, born of torrential rains, plagu ed several points In Ohio today after storms which took at least six lives and injured more than a score of per sons. Heaviest death toll came at the village of Stewart, in Athens county where three unidentified negroes were killed by a windstorm which demolished their homes. Seventee persons were hurt and 60 homes damaged at Chancey, north of here when the wind struck there. Three houses were toppled from hills. Lightning at various points in the state killed three men. Pickens, S. C., June 'i'i.—rrancis Mills wag free today following a cor oners jury verdict that termed "un avoidable a recent truck accident in which former Coroner William T. Beasley and Henry Gilstrap were fatally injured. Mils was the driver. Washington. June 22.—Advance calculations of the time of the total solar eclipse June 8 were four and one half seconds off. a naval observa tory astronomer said today. Knoxville. Tenn., Four young per sons rode to death early today when their automobile ran from the high way and catapulted over a cliff into the Tennessee river 80 feet below. Philadelphia, June 22—An incoher ent story by an injured, ten year old girl led a searching party today to the body of a man identified tenta tively ag James Vanelli, 54, of Phila delphia. In a thicket along the Schuylkill river nearby the girl's sister, Ramo na Rossetti, 7, and mother. Mrs. Zo elt Rosetti. 46. were found suffering from shock. Buffalo, N. Y., June 22.—Idle for a week, as the result of a sit-down strike, 1,600 employees of the Chev rolet Motor company and Fisher Body company returned to work to day. —State News— High Point, June 22.—Pictures ami fingerprints mailed by Chief of Po lice \V. G. Kiddle to Los Angeles to day are expected to determine whe ther a prisoner listed here as Frank Travers, 26. of New York, will face four murder charges instead of one. Travers drunkenly boasted to a patrolman that he had slain four men and a check of fingerprints by the federal bureau of investigation dis • dosed that he really was wanted in Oregon. 111., in connection with the death of one Angelo Terralo In 19112. He told the officer the other three were his father and two Los Angel ea Italians. Raleigh. June 22.—Hotter business conditions were given today as the reason for dropping 3,780 persons from relief rolls in North Carolina. Fred J. Cohn, publicity director said cutting of the rolls had no con nection with economy legislation pending In congress, and George W\ Coan, Jr., state- administrator, said those dropped either had transfer red to other federal agencies or had found employment In "seasonal occu pations or recovering private Indus try.’ i Asheville. June 22.—Solicitor Zen V. Nettles said today that Herman Burton, 50, indicted for murder in connection with the Sunday night slaying of his brother and two nep hews. likely would be tried at the current term of superior court. Coroner George F. Baier, Jr., intro duced at the inquest yesterday a statement he said the prisoner had signed asserting that he shot his nephews, Charlie Burton. 34, and Earl Burton. 28, in self-defense, but that he accidentally killed his broth er. Sam Burton, 60. The lone eye-witness at the in quest, Mrs. Charlie Burton, said the killing climaxed a family quarrel. Shelby. June 22.—R. B. Kendrick, number six township officer here has in hi3 possesion 47 cases of bottleu iu-bo’id liquor consigned from a Sou th Carolina dealer to a Morganton business man. The 141 gallons of contraband was taken here Saturday. Jack Ramsey, alleged driver of the pickup truck on which the li quor was loaded, is in jail by refault of $1„000 bond. i I .umber trill, June 22.—Riecordem Leslie J. Huntley today continued iudgmen uutil June 30 in the case of Myles Horton. Textile Workers Or ganizing Committee leader, and sev -'u others arrested as the result of disputes growing out of a strike in th0 Mansfield mill here. Horton was charged with aiding and abetting in an assaut and with inciting to riot. His bond of $100 was continued. Carthage, June 22.—Farm agents In this section estimated today the peach crop this year would be 20 per cent greater than last year, when production averaged 50 per cent of a full crop. Statesville. June 22.—U. S. Senator Robert R. Reynolds and Rep. Robt. L Doughton of the ninth cougresslon al district will gpeak at the annual independence day celebration here I July 3rd. Laughing Around the World With IRVIN s. COBB The Woes of a Prospective Bridegroom By IRVIN S. COBB A HUSKY young Irishman strolled into the Civil Service room where they were holding physical examination for candidates for places on the police force. , ) pHW*TS , b THE i >Ocft C --- / / "Strip.” ordered the police surgeon. ‘‘Which 6or?” "Get your clothes off, end be quick about it,” said the examiner. The Irishman undressed. The doctor measured his chest and pounded his back. . . “Hop over this rod, was the next command. The man did his best, leading op his back. „ “Double up your knees and touch the floor with your hands. He lost his balance and sprawled upon the floor. He arose, indignant but silent. “Now jump under this cold shower. "Sure an’ that’s funny,” muttered the applicant, but be obeyed. “Now run around the room ten times. I want to test your heart '*nd #not,” the candidate declared defiantly. "HI stay single first." "You’ll stay single?” repeated the pussled physician. “Say, what tlid you come here for?" “For a marriage license, of course, said the stranger. (Anerieaa N«wi Pwtarw. Uw.) KINGS MOUNTAIN JUNIOR LEGION BASEBALL TEAM rrtejo 9y a as 'ft—s. r-.ib j. ti. Pictured from left to right are player* and officials of Kings Mountain Junior Legion Baseball team which has won one and lost one game so far this season: Or. W. L. Ramseur, Athletic Officer; James Gibson, Out fielder; Red Ellis, Catcher; Joe Cook, Left Field; Robert Brooks, Short Stop; Hugh Yates, Center Field; Guy Gold, Pitcher; Albert Crisp, Infield; Slim Gantt, Third Base; J. O. Jones, Right Field; Howard Edens, Mascot; Andy Huffsitetler, Pitcher; James Bennett, Infiolder; Robert Hughes, Pitcher; Robert Morrison. Second Base; Wesley' Kiser, First Base, Mickey Kendrick, Catcher; C. C. Edens, Coach, and Willie Grice, Assistant Coach. (Photo by Hord*s Studio.) ” Constitution Committee Appointed - / Mayor J. E. Herndon, at the fe quest of Sol. Bloom, Director Gener al of the United States Sesqut-cea nial Commission appointed the fol lowing local citizens to serve on the committee for Kings Mountain: Messrs E. A. Harrill, W. K. Mauney. Haywood E. Lynch and Rev. L. B Hamm, and Mesdames W. T. Weir, P. M. Neisier and W. M. Boyce. Plans are now being made by the Constitution Commission for the na tion-wide celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States Government. The Constitution Commission or the State of North Carolina was ap pointed by a Resolution of the Stats Legislature, June 9, 1937. to cooper ate with the National United States Constitutional Sesquicentennial com mission on plans for observing thv 150th Anniversary of the Formation of the United States Constitution, is as follows: Gov. Clyde R. Hoey, Hon. W. V Stacy, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Hon. Henry M. London, Sec retary of the N. C. Historical Com mission, Hon. Walter Murphy, Salis bury, Hon. Thomas J. Gold. High Point, Judge John J. Parker, Char lotte, Judge E. Y. Webb, Shelby, Hon A. D. MacLean. Raleigh, Hon. Isaac C. Wright, Wilmington. Hon. J. G. Merrimon, Asheville. 102 Piedmont Boy Scouts To Attend Jamboree Tryon, N. C., June 21—One hun dred and two Boy Scouts and lead ers representing the eleven counties of tht Piedmont Council, Boy Scouts of America, will go to the National Jamboree at Washington and four will go to the World Jamboree in Holland. Rev. W. J. Roach of Lowell veteran Scoutmaster of the Pied mont Council will serve as the head of the Piedmont contingent to the National Jamboree and will be as sisted by nine other adult leaders. The Piedmont Jamboree conting ent will assemble at the headquar ters of the Piedmont Council at Gas tonia on Saturday afternoon, June 26, at 5:00 o’clock at which time they will check in and be assigned to their Patrols and Troops after which they will be entertained at dinner by the Gastonia District Com niittee of the Piedmont Council. A. fitting farewell will take place at the Gastonia station of the Southern Railroad on Saturday night at 8:40 o'clock. The group will arrive at Washington on Sunday morning June 27, and leave Washington on July 9. Among the Scouts making the trip are the following from Kings Moun tain: Scouts George H. Mauney, Wtn. Ruddock, James Nickels and Wil bur Jones. MEN’S CLUB SUPPER AT BETHANY Members of the Men’s Club, their wives and sweethearts will motor to South Carolina for the second out door supper this evening. Ladles of Bethany Church over in the adjoin ing state will be host at 6:30 this evening. The last supper held two weeks ago at Plsgah was well attended. Messrs Glee Bridges and W. K. Blakely are In charge of the arrange ments of the out-door suppers for the summer months. Two Fires la ! Town This Week _ i i Firemen were called out to ans wer two fires thi4 w eek. The first one took place at the uew Tcwn Hah last Friday morning at 6 a. m. Fire was caused by defective wiring in the basement. Damage was estimat ed at S300. The second took place Sunday morning at 3 a. m. at the Imperial Theatre in the projection room. Cause of the fire was not determined About 2,000 feet of film was destroy ed. Chief Grady King and his fire eat ers had to get up early for both the fires but made quick work of it and extinguished the blaseg before seri ous damage was done. HAL OLIVE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT Hal Olive. 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Olive is recovering from a rifle wound be received Mon day night when be and several other boys were on a frog gigging hunt in the Flat Rock section. Other boys with Hal on the trip I were Bobby Allran, Jones Fortune, Don Olive. Fred Wright, Jr., and Dan Finger wore nearby at the camp The boys were gigging for frog when they spied two snakes, and dur ing the excitement Hal was shot through his left side, but the wound is not considered serious. He was treated by Dr. J- E Anthony. ASHEVILLE EMPLOYEE IS UNDER ARREST Asheville, June 22.—J. Dwight Morgan, city bookkeeper, who was released May 22 by City Manager Pat Burdette, was under Indictment today on a charge of embezzlement. The grand Jury which indicted him yesterday said $3,319.49 in city funds had not been accounted for. The city has made demand for that amount upon the firm which bonded Morgan. -— Will Rogers’ Humorous Story ---— By WILL ROGERS COMET1MES 1 wonder why Iddi ^ hate to go to Sunday_School Or maybe they don’t hate it. I ?e always heard they did, anyway. Looks like Sunday School ought to be a right interesting kind of amusement of a helpful sort, for the kids. But they tell me kids have to be fought to keep ’em go ing every Sunday. Maybe that i ain’t so with all Sunday Schools, but only where they don’t give away candy or anything like that. | Anyhow, there was a kid that moved into a new neighborhood, and he was just at the age where he wanted to show folks that he didn’t much approve of the way things was being done. He surely didn’t want to go to Sunday School, but his folks made him go. Very first day, the teacher asked him, “Herbert, who created all these trees and flowers and all this grass that we see when we look out this big window?” “T dunno.” says the kid. I Jail moved here this week.” KINGS MOUNTAIN JUNIORS LOSE FIRST GAME 4 TO 0 Gold Struck Out Seventeen And Walks Nine. (By Mickey Mode) Kings Mountain lo3t its first game in the State Race to Lincolnton here Tuesday by the score of 4-0. Both clubs proved they were capable of playing fine ball Lincolnton scored first in the second inning when Rhinehardt walked, then stole sec ond. and came home on Tokey's hit to center. They scored again in the fourth when four walks a wild throw by Gold produced two more runs. Then with the bases loaded Gold set tled down and struck out the next three hitters. Although Klng3 Moun tain had the bases loaded twice they failed to produce a run. This was by the failure to hit. Kings Mountain was without the services of its ace center fielder and pitcher. The club hopes they will return soon. Guy Gold. Kings Mountain ace pitcher, who pitched Tuesday, was a bit wild. At other times hud had perfect control to pnablo him to strike out seventeen of Lincolntons men. He also gave up seven hits, while Halmau gave up six for Lin colnton. Kings Mountain played Belmont in Belmont Wednesday, and will piuy Cherryville In Cherryville Saturday. The Kings Mountain School Band under the direction of Mr. Paul Hen drix. furnished music for the game. Battavie*: Lincolnton — Halnian and Autin; Kings Mountain — Gold and Kendrix. R H E Lincolnton Kings Mountain 4 7 0 0 8 0 LEGION BOYS WIN SECOND GAME Kings Mountain Junior Legion Ball team staged a sensational come-back yesterday after their defeat here Tuesday to win the second game from Belmont to the tune of 11 to 5 Guy Gold, pitching his second game in two days walked only four men, allowed only 6 hits and fanned five Belmont players. Gold also got two hits out of four time3 at bat. Kings Mountain scored earl>' in the game and was never in danger always keeping a lead on the oppon ents. Jones, right fielder, hit a home run in the fifth inning with no run ners on base. The thriller of the en tire game was the sensational run ning catch of Gibson in center field with two men on base for the third put-out. The batted ball came very near being a clean hit which would have scored two men. The entire team played first class base ball throughout the game. The local boy3 play their nest game at C'herryville Saturday. Three home games are in store for local fans here next week. Wednesday they will play Belmont, Friday they will play Gastonia, and Saturday they will play Cherryvllle I Goes To Pastorate In West Virginia Rev. B. F. Ormand, Jr., left Mon day for Lost City. West Virginia, where he has accepted a call to the pastorate of two Presbyterian chur ches and he goes to bis new field with the good wishes of a host of friends for his success. Rev. Mr. Ormand filled the pulpit at the Presbyterian Church. Kings Mountain, his home church. Sunday night and baB on other occasions during his visit home. Luther Mitchem Killed By Train Early Wednesday Lutlier R Mitchem, aged 63, was instantly killed about 1 o'clock Wert nesday meriting when he was struck b} a southbound Southern passenger train near the Ronnie mill. There were no eyewitnesses to tile accident, and no explanation as ;o how it happened. It was presumed however, that M Mitchem walked onto the main line of the Southern from a spur track from the Ronnie mlU on which he wag walking, ap parently on his way home. The train stopped and notified local authori ties of the accident. Mr. Mitchem, a native and lifelong resident of Kings Mountain, is sur vived zy six sons: Rufus, June, Ral ph. John, and Lee Mitchem, all of Kings Mountain, and Lloyd of Cram or ton; two daughters: Mrs. Robert Morrison and Mrs. Dewey Falls of Kings Mountain; seventeen grand children, and one great-grand child. Funeral services will be held at. 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, with Rev. L. B. Hamm, pastor of the Lu theran church here. In charge, later ment will be In a local cemetery. Mr. Mitchem made hig hom° with on,, of his sons, June Mitchem. MRS. HARMON DIES Mrs. Robert S. Harmon, age 67„ died at her home June IS, after ten days of illness. Mrs. Harmon was a devited Christian. Funeral services were held at Bethlehem church Thursday after noon by her pastor, Rev. J. N. Wis®. assisted by Rev. C. J. Black of Besse mer City. She was well known In the Beth!® hem community and loved by all who knew her. She took an activs part in religious and educational af fairs of the community. Surviving Mrs. Harmon in addit ion to her husband are four children, by a previous marriage. Mrs. Gradv Dixon and Wm. T. Howell of Kings Mountain; George Howell of Gas tonia and Mrs. Booth White of New. ton; 20 grandchildren,; a brother, brother, Wright Harmon of Kings Mountain: a 3ister, Mrs. Sallie Turn er. preceded her to the grave five weeks ago after a prolonged illness. IT. D. C. TO SPONSOR PLAY Miss Margaret Merle, the director of "Skv High." which is to be sport sored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, arrived in town Monday. "Sky High', the thrilling comedy drama, using local talent as mem bers of it? cast, is to be presented at thP High School auditorium on Fri day and Saturday, July 2 and 3. The members of the casting com mittee. Mrs. J. G. Hord, Mrs. W. A. Ridenhour, Mrs C E Neisler, Mrs J. E. Aderholdt and Mrs. J. R. Olive, an nounce the following will take part in the play: Missea Jean Ware. Mar garet Cooper, Polly Ledford. Carolyn Hord, Mrs Jes3 Stewart, Jack Al man, Kenneth Crook and Rev. W. M. Boyce. A baby popularity contest will ba staged in connection with “Sky High to raise funds for the bed sponsored by the U. D. C. at Sanatorium, N. C by James Preston (Opinions Expressed in This Column Are Not Necessarily the Views of This Newspaper.) Coincidences sometimes are .hist coincidences — but in Washington they very frequently are something more. Take, for example. Vice President Garner's departure for Texas. rest and fishing. Many times before, he has stayed in Washington while Con gress sat through hot summers. He did that last year. And he is in bet 1 ter health now than he has been for ‘several years. So it can’t be either the beat or his heaUh. Other things are different. Even though he say8 little about it many ! persons know he doesn’t like the i idea of enlarging the Supreme Court He Is what is known as a “conserva ' tive Texan." If he were to stay in Washington, it is hard to believe 1 that he would work for the plan. He might even make uncomplimentary . remarks about It. • *»* Instead, he goes home. But not before he has time to appoint two new, special investigating commit tees _ one to study tax evasions and (Cont'd on back page)
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