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VOL. 32 NO. 29
KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937
Five C-NTS PER COPY1
State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
—State News—
Plttsboro, July 20.—A Chatham
county grand jury convened here to
day to receive a bill of indictment a
gainst William Perry, 18 year old ne
gro, charged with slaying of Mrs.
W. T. Hamlett, a farmer's wife, shot
at her heme near last month.
Shefiff George H. Andrews said
he had requested the presence of six
state highway patrolmen here to
take care of any possible emergency
He declined to amplify his request
for the patrolman, although he said
he expected no trouble. Perry is held
in the state prison at Raleigh.
Raleigh, July 20.—Sunstroke and
heat exhaustion are decidedly dif
ferent, but each can be prevented by
taking the necessary precautions, ac
cording to Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
state Health officer, who expressed
the belief that the public should be
properly advised of the dangers that
come wttb’extreme heat wares.
“It Is Important to bear in mind
that all cases, whether of sunstroke
or' hekt prostration, should be class
ed as emergenciec and that a doctor
should be called immediately.” Dr.
Reynolds said. “In the meatime, and
exercise of first aid knowledge is sec
essary. The person giving first aid
should bear in mind the very impor
tant fact that response to the call
must be rendered promptly but not
hurriedly."
Dr. Reynolds said that heat ex
haustion and sunstroke many result
from the same causes and have the
same preventions, but are marked
by different symptoms.
Burgaw, July 20.—Three St. Hel
ena farmers, Pete Krochmalny, his
sn. Paul, and a relative by marriage,
Ervin Williams, will ge on trial hero
tomorrow charged with the alleged
“cremation” murder of Pete's elder
brother, also named Paul.
District Solicitor John J. Burney,
of Wilmington, said he would ask
for a special venire to appear Tues
day, and that testimony in the trial
should start the following day. T he
defendants were hound over at a
hearing here June 23.
The state charged the three men
alow their kinsman to cover up the
theft of $1,160 in money orders thej*
had taken from him and then cre
mated his body to hide any trace of
their crime.
Goldsboro. July 20.—City officers
said today that William Wallington,
negro, was being held in connection
with the accidental death yesterday
of Jack Lemons, young son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Lemons.
Officers quoted WalUngton as say
Ing the nine year old boy and a com
panion were riding bicycles on op
posite sides of the Plnecroft road
and that he was unable to miss both
with his automobile. The Lemons
youth was almost instantly killed.
Wilmington, July 20.—-Ralph Ben.
don, 74 year old retired Portsmouth
Va., policeman was killed in an auto
mobile collision near here yesterday.
Mrs. Bendon was injured, not seri
ously.
—National News—
Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 20.—One man
was killed and 18 wounded ealry to
j day in a clash between extremists
during a parade of the fascist organ
ization Accion Integralista. A police
man and a calvary privaate were
among those wounded.
The one man killed was said to
be a Lithuanian extremist.
Moscow, July 20.—A communist
party newspaper Pravda took prov
incial communist leaders to tasu
today for lax propogauda efforts be
cause thousands of Russians still
were unaware of the two Soviet
flights from Moscow to the United
States.
The newspaper declared that
“lack of adequate propoganda a
moug the people tends to weaken the
party’s influence over them-"
Anderson. S. C.. July 20.—Sheriffs
deputies reported today they had
been unable to learn the Identities
of 18 black robed, white.hooded men
who warned 20 odd roadhouse oper
ators near here to “clean up or close i
up."
The men visited the operators of
the roadhouses late Friday night
and delivered type-written notea
of warning. Ail the hot spots howev
er, operated as usual over the week
and there was no perceptible effort |
to curb entertainment.
Los Angeles, July 20.—The Rus- j
sian Moscow o California fliers In-1
spected airplane factories today.
They expect to go to San Francisco j
tomorrow, returning here Thursday j
to board a transport plane for New |
York.
I !
Kansas City, July 20.—Jimmie.Mat!
tern left his plane at a commercial j
airline (TWA) shop here today to be
checked in preparation for his pro |
posed non-stop North Pole flight to
I Russia.
He flew in last night from Los
Angeles. He said Reg Robbins, who
once set an eudurance flight record
at St. Louis, would pilot the plane
from which he plants to take fuel
over Alaska.
Baltimore, July 20.—G. B. Fenwick
Jr., who landed his plane in crowded
Patterson Park after the motor went
dead, dismantled the craft today.
Fenwick was half a mile up over
i the city hall yesterday when his e»
ffine stalled A policeman who saw
him gliding to the field cleared
crowds from a spot large enough for
I a landing.
In 1019 an army plane, landing In
| the park as part of a recruiting
drive, plunged into a crowd and kill
( ed three children.
Matecumbe, Fla., July 20.—A mon
ument to the 600 World war veter
ans and civilians who died on Labor
day in 1035 when a hurricane swebr
the Florida keyes is being erected
here.
Made of coral marked limestone,
it will be placed near a concrete hur
rieane Shelter, that hts been built
| here against another heavy wind.
Laugliing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
A Fitting Retcrt
By IRVIN S. COBB
Y0U remember the ancient story which begins: “It seems there were
* two brothers—a good brother and a bad brother,” etc. etc. etc.
Well, this smalt offering might well begin in the same way, for
likewise it relates to two brothers, only here they were colored.
The good brother got a job on an ice wagon. He was staggering
along the sidewalk of the Southern town where he lived, with a hundred
pound cake of ice balanced upon his shoulder when the bad brother who
waa discharging an obligation to the municipality hailed him.
“Hello, Willie,” he called out from where he stood ankle-deep in
the mucky gutter, at the same time cheerfully rattling the shackles
which adorned his legs.
The good brother faced about indignantly:
“Don’t speak to me,” he proclaimed virtuously. “You ain’t no kin
folks of mine—gettin* ’rested fur stealin’ and bein' sent to the chain
f ang fur ninety days and bringin’ shame upon the whole fambly. Me,
’m through wid you forever!”
He started on his way again. For a moment or two the repudiated
one stood silent under the rebuke. Then a fitting retort came to him.
He raised his voice, sending it After the retreating form of the good
brother.
"That’s light, ice,” he whooped! “Mar down on him. Bear down
«n him heavy!"
(American Nna Aatim, lac.)
To Indict 61 In
Memorial Riots
Chicago. July 21.—A verdict of
justifiable homicide returned by a
coroner's jury at an inquest into the
deaths of 10 men siain in the Memo
rial Day steel strike riot speeded
prosecution today of 64 participants
in the labor clash.
Six unemployed American Lesion
members who comprised the jury ai)
solved the polise of responsibility
lor the slayings after hearing testi
mony for a week and deliberating it
for 5u minutes yesterday.
M tl Coghlan, assistant state's at
attorney. said he would push pro
ceedings against the 64 strikers ahd
sympathizers on the basis of evi
: dmice developed at the inquest. They
i were charged with conspiracy to
riot, an offense which carries a pen
altv of one to five years iu prison
upon conviction.
Each of the riot victims, the jury
decided, was slain “by a bullet fired
from a gun held in the hand of an
unknown police officer.”
The jury’s report said the riot
started "when a large body of strik
ers and strike sympathizers number
ing 1.500 2,000 persons, many of
whome were armed, with clubs and
missies, attempted to force they way
thro' gh a police line, apparently In
tending to enter the plant of the R»
I .jivhiic Steel Corporation.”
[ “From testimony presented we,
the jury believe this occurrence to
be lustifiabte homicide."
The verdict drew fire from union
leaders and attorneys. Thorlow Lew
is, counsel for the Iilnois district of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca and CIO representative at the
inquest said:
“ \pnar°ntlv the Republic Steel
i Corporation has a lot of influence—
more than the LaFollette senatorial
committee. Apparently Chicago
looks at the massacre with different
eves than the rest of the world.’
The LaFollette committee which
investigated the riot has not yet
reported its findings to the Senate.
Believe Woman Victim
Of Gang
New York, July 21.—An attractive
young woman was shot and killed
oarly today and left by the roadside
of the old Harlem River speedway
where the town's gay blades raced
their trotters id the nineties.
Hours later she was identified as
Irma Louise Pradier, 35 year old
French domestic, by a Catholic nun
who had known her through religi
ous work. Police were unable to
learn immediately, uowever, where
she lived or worked, or to discover
an'- motive for the slaying.
No one could be found who had
heard any shots, but the police con
cluded from the rumpled condition
of the woman’s clothing and a dirty
abrasion on her face that she had
been thrown from an automobile as
It moved down the speedway, a lone
ly and deserted road at that hour.
The victim, apparently taken for a
ride in gangster fashion, had been
shot in the abdomen and over the
heart. When the first police arrived
on the scene turned her body over a
.38 calibre bullet dropped from her
clothing.
REV. L. BOYD HAMM
GOES TO CAMP
Rev. L. Boyd Hamm left Wednes
day morning for Camp Beauregard,
Louisiana. Rev. Mr. Hamm is Chap
lain in the Reserve Corps of the
Army and received orders by tele
graph on Tuesday of this week to
report for two weeks active duty.
Mrs. Hamm and the two girls are
spending tre time at her home in Sa
luda, S. C. The Pulpit of the Luther
an Church will be supplied by a vis
iting minister.
Seaman Is R^ovoring
After Hectic Voyage
Charleston. S. C., July 21.— Naval
hospital attaches said today the con
■1!Mon of L. J. Waganer, coxswain
for whom the coast guard sacrificed
a $100,000 ambulance plane, contin
ued to show improvement.
Though delayed about two hours
in reaching the operating table for
an emergency appendectomy by the
wreck that cost the plane In which
he was being transiported, Waggon
er showed almost immediate im
provement. He had survived thres
transfers at sea.
AGED EX-MAYOR DIES
Lucama, N. C.. Julv 21—William
R. Davis, 80. several times mayor
of Lucama and long time resident,
ivas burled late this afternoon. Davis
a Wilson county native, died at home
yesterday.
Commissioners
Are Appointed
At a recent meeting of the Town
Council the following Councilman
were named as the respective Com
misaioner for the next two years.
Citizens should contract the Com
missioner at the head of each depart
merit to transact business pertaining
to department.
Water and L ghts, C. E. Neisler,
Jr.
Sanitary and Health, W. W. Par
rish.
Cemetery and Town Property,
John Mauney.
Streets, Jim Willis.
Finance, W. K. Mauney.
Police and Fire, Mayor J. E. Hern
don.
I
Drastic Change In
Court Bill Hinted
I Washington, July 21.—Reports of
possible drastic modification of the
administration's court bill spread
1 among senators simultaneously with
■ the election of Alben W. Barkley of
j Kentucky, to be Democratic leader
I In the Senate.
| ‘‘Harmony’’ was the word spoken
| most frequently by those coming out
j of the closed party caucus which
i elected Barkley to describe the pro
ceedings there.
| What sort of settlement of the
court issue would produce lasting
unity in Democratic ranks, however,
remained to be worked out by the
| new leader and his associates.
There were reports — emanating
i from opponents of the court bill —
that the administration might scrap
those portions of the measure whicn
provided for adding new justices to
the Supreme Court.
There were other rumors, equally
I unconfirmed in administration quar
ters, that the President had given
Vice President Garner broad discre
tion to settle the court dispute in
the best way he can.
A shift of voting strength lent
credence to the reports that a modi
fication of the court bill was im
minent. Just before a conference yes
terdav between the president and
Senate leaders. including Garner
and Barkley, seven Democratic sen a
tom. all but one hitherto uncommit
ted on the bill, were reported to
have advised Garner they would
' vote to recommit the measure unless
tue Issue was settled speedily.
Barkley refused to comment on
the court bill situation. He was ex
i pected to begin immediate confer
ences with colleagues and probably
President Roosevelt in an effort to
| unite the two factious of the party
in the Senate again and settle t%e
court issue. "It’ll
In addition to reports circulating
rn Capitol Hill and to the action of
the seven senators in demanding an
early cessation of the court fight,
another hint of compromise was
j seen In the delayi of Senator Wagner
! (D-NY) in replying to the appeal
| from Governman of New York that
' he com® out against the bill.
ACCIDENT FATAL
Raleigh, July 21. Dempsey Hin
ton, 21, negro lumber camp employe
-was killed in au^omo(bUeltruc!i
accident in a side road off the Ral
eigh-Wendell highway yesterday.
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Will Rogers*
Humorous Story
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By WILL ROGERS
'I 'HE Worst Joke I heard today
was a Scotch Story. England
couldn’t get along without telling
)>tKSHT ^tp)
I -
I its daily Scotch story. A Scot from
I Aberdeen was head over heels in
love with a Girl he had left be
hind. He could stand it no longer,
so he decided to telegraph a pro
posal of marriage to her. In case
she refused and with true Scotch
caution, he did not prepay the re
ply, but kept calling at the Tele
graph office all day to see If she
had answered. Night arrived and
at last a message arrived and he
feverishly opened it to find that
she had accepted him. Overjoyed
at his good fortune, he told the
Girl at the Telegraph office all
about it “Yes,” said the Girl, "she
kept you waiting here all day for
an answer. I would think twice be
fore I would marry a person that
would do that”
“That’s whaur ye’re wrung, Las
sie,” replied the Scotchman, “She’s
been waiting for the reduced night
> rate—she’s the lass for me.”
I (flirtns Nan VWtarn, lao.lt
Local Volunteer Firemen
Are Paid Only $426
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POSTAL RECEIPTS
INCREASE
Postal Receipts for the lota! Post
Office showed a gain of $758.25 over
last year according to Postmaster W
E. Blakely. Receipts for the fisc.;!
>earing ending June 30ht, 13:56. were
$16.05J8.81 compared with $16,857.06
for the year ending June 30, 1937.
This represents an increase of ap
proxiniately 5 percent.
Postmaster Blakely is now work
ing on a survey for the Post Office
Department at Washington to better
the mail service to Kings Mountain
citireus. If the report meets with
the approval of Postal Officials more
carrier time and extended city de
livery service will be added. Kings
Mountain now- has about one and one
half city routes. Postmaster Blakely
hopes to increase the city delivery
service to two full routes.
Many to Attend Farm
And Home Week
Farm and Home Week at State
College, August 2-6 will be an educa
cational vacation for thousands of
North Carolina farmers and farm
women.
Along with the lectures and demon
strations will be plenty of entertain
ment to provide a good time for all
said John W. Goodman, assistant di
rector of the State College extension
service.
j On the more serious side of the
proggram, special attention will be
given the soil conservation program,
dairying and livestock, farm forestry
problems, farm tenancy, farm organ
izations and cooperatives, farm fi
nance, poultry production, and other
timely subjects.
The short course for women will
cover numerous phases of homemak
ing on the farm. and certificates
j will be awarded to those who will j
; have compuleted their fourth consec
! utive short course.
Rural ministers of the State have
I been invited to meet at the college
during the weeek Special programs
have been arranged for them. ana
j they will also be invited to attend
general meetings for the farm menn
I and women.
1 Among the speaker sfor Farm
and Home Week, are; Harry 1*
Broovn, assistant secretary of Agri
culture: Conngressman Harold D.
Cooley; Gov. Clyde R. Hoey; J. B.
Hutson, assistant director of the soil
conservation program: Perkins Cov
wille, U. S. Forest Serivce.
I Bookmobile To Be In
In Kings Mountain
Announcement has been made that
the Bookmobile which has recently
been equipped and put into service
will be in Kings Mountain by next
Wednesday.
Stops will be made at the Mar
grace Store and Cora Store and
those desiring to take advantage of
this traveling library' are asked to
make inquiriee concerning the hours
of arrival, etc.
The county commissioners are
bearing the expense of operation
and the books are furnished by the
State Library Commission. The i
busses were equipped by the spon-!
sors of Adult Education.
The Bookmobile will make stops •
every 2Vi or 3 miles apart in order I
to better serve patrons in various j
sections and a complete schedule
I w ith names of sponsors will be pub
i lished later.
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[ Men’s Club Supper At
Lake Montonia
Members of the Men’s Club, their
wives and sweethearts, will gather
at I>ake Montonia this evening at
6:30 for their semi monthly out
door supper. The supper will be ser
ved by members of the U. D. C.
In case of rain the supper will not
be called off. but will take place in
the Woman’s Club Building instead.
Using Arrangement Chairman. W.
E. Blakely’s own wordB: “Put this in ]
the paper in a good place, so every
one will see it. as it is going to be
a good feed."
Rev. W. M. Boyce In
Tenn. For Two Weeks
Rev. W. M. Boyce will leave Mon
‘dav morning for Fayetteville, Tenn.,
lor two weeks of special preaching.
The latter week will be with Dr. M
f. Bills, the present moderator of
(the General Synod. Supplies for the
pulpit, during Mr. Boyce’s absence
will he announced later.
To the spectator. fire-fighting i?i
one of the romantic and thrilling
pasttimes. Hut a glance behind the
scenes shows more than a group of
romance-seekers. it shows a well
formed. compact organization, op
erated on a business-like basis.
For instance, there were -1 calls
answered b> the local department
during the 12 months period ending
June 30, 1037. The number of men
who answered the calls totaled 234,
oi an average of 11.1 men per call.
The damage to property In Kings
Mountain was only $4,156. which fig
tires about 80 cents per capita, while
the loss over the nation at large
was about $2.60 per capita.
The total cost to the city for the
calls was only $426.
One-half of one per cent of all
money paid in fire premiums by lo
cal residents is refunded to the fire
department each year and put into a
firemen's relief fund. This fund to
tals $1,700 at present, and Is depos
ited in the two Building and Loan
Associations.
I A compilation of the figures for
1 the year shows the following re
sults:
Calls
July .
August.
} September
! October . .1
, November . . 2
| December .
I January.
, February . . . ♦
• March ... 7
April ... 2
May ... 2
June ... 3
Total ... 21
It might be of interest to the read
ers of the Herald to know that Kings
Mountain is one of the few cities in
i' North Carolina where within its
^classification according to its popu
I lation to have both senior officers
| chief and, assistant chief) graduates
| of the North Carolina Fire College.
The Fire Department is now loca
ted in their permanent home in the
new Town Hall. Chief King extends
a cordial invitation to everyone to
' come by and inspect the new quar
I ters. The new phone number of the
Fire Department is 169, or in caso
anyone should t'o'get the number
they are requested to Just call,
"Fire Department."
Members of the Kings Mountala
Fire Department are as follows:
Chief. Grady King; Assistant
Chief, Otts Falls; Captain, Carl Dav
idson; Lieutenant, Charles Dilling:
Driver, P. D. Fulton; Fhrmen. Hun
ter Allen. J. M. McGinnis. Pat Tignor
Klma Bridges. Glenn Grigg, M. C.
Wingate, Harold Honeycutt and Ted
Gamble.
Loss
700
35
2700
3
718
4156
.Opinions Expressed In This Column
Are Not Neeessarlly the Views of
This Newsoaoer.'
Rumors of a split between Presi
dent Roosevelt and John L. Lewi3
are causing more talk in National
Capital corridors these days than
even the torrid weather.
The discussion started when the
President, at a press conference be
fore the teel stalemate was ended by
the return-to work movement, quot
erl Shakespeare and said: “A plague
on both your houses."
That remark immdiately was selz
ed upon by the listening reporters
as a slap at labor, for the President,
already had criticized steel compani
es for their refusal to sign agree
ments, and they had replied that
they would not sign agreements with
any irresponsible groups.
Washington gosslpers now find an
other crock at Lewis in the Presi
dent's assertion that the Federal
government cannot sign contracts
with labor groups claiming to repre
sent its employees. Lewis is right in
the middle of a big drive to get Fed
eral employees into a C. I. O. affili
ate. He even took Joseph Baker, an
assistant administrator, away from
the WPA to head the drive.
A strong talking point of C. t. O.
organizers always has been that
they eventually would win contracts
from employers granting them ex
clusive right to negotiate on wages
and hours for the employees. After
that, of course, would come higher
wages and shorter hours,
i But now the President says that
the C. I. O. cannot have the contract
in the first place.
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Louis Stark, one of America’s best
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