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Waftcti Ubol on your Papor and tfon't lot your aubaorlption Expirol KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, THURS6aY, AUG, 5, 1937 PER COPY VOL. 32 NO. 31 State And National News Condensed In Brief Form —State News— Lumfoerton, Aug. 2.—The Jennings ) cotton mill resumed op Rations to day after having been closed by a strike since June 7. Kannapolis, Aug. 2.—A coroner’s jury this morning exonerated J. P. (Jack) McCurdy in connection with the fatal shooting last night of his father, B. T. McCurdy. 39, who died In the Cabarrus county hospital shorty after midnight last night of a bullet wound in the chest. Dunn, Aug. 2.—Walter Jones, man ager of the Dunn produce market, es timated today that the amount of produce sold on the market this year i will reach a total of $100,000. The! figure is now reaching this mark, he j said, and there is a possibility that - it may exceed the sum. The cucumber market has already closed with a record business. Ap proximately 20.Q00 bushels of cu cumbers were sold on the' 'market this season for a total.of.about $12, 000. The average price was 00c per j buahel. * I Burgaw, Aug. 2.—Three farmers whom the state charged with mur j dering a kinsman, Paul Krochmalny, and cremating his body, went back to their chores today, freed in two' hours by a jury which listened to two weeks of evidence and argu ment. The defendants — Pete Kroeh-! tnalny. his son, Paul, and a son-in law. Ervin Williams — their famiies and many of the feminine spectators in the jammed courtroom, broke in j to tears as the jury announced its , verdict in court here yesterday. Eexington, Aug. 2.—Charged with hit-and-run driving that officers said resulted in the death of Floyd Jor-, dan, 16, early Sunday morning, Ora-! dy Weaver, 20, remained in jail to-1 day as funeral services were held ! for the victim. Police said Weaver admitted driv ing the car that fatally injured young Jordan. He was caughth after flee ing the scene, they said. Jordan, son of Mrs. EJllen K. Jor dan, a widow, was buried in Mont gomery county. Statesville, Aug. 2.—A crowd of white men rode into Statesville in j 30 automobiles early today, surround ed the county Jail and demanded that Sheriff John White Moore turn over a negro prisoner. The crowd, however, soon disband ed after Sheriff Moore took three of the men inside the Jail and convinc ed them that the prisoner. Preach Caldwell. 35, charged with assaulting a white woman near Mooresvllle Saturday, was not there. i The negro was rushed from Moor- j esville after his arrest Saturday and [ taken to an undisclosed jail as a pre cautionary measure. Sheriff Moore estimated there were 125 men In the crowd which Surrounded the Jell. Stateevllle, Aug. 4.-—Bruce O'Kel ly, negro, began a seven to ten year I prison sentence today for second d« j gree burglary in the entering of S| woman’s bedroom. i J Evidence presented at his trial yes ter.day Indicated he broke Into Mrs. | Floyd Hollar’s bedroom while her husband was away. —National News— Washington, Aug. 2.—The house, despite the rush to clean up the ad ministration program and adjourn, probably will delay debating the sen atc-apiproved wage and hour bill un til next week. Its labor committee virtually has completed a new draft much broad er than the senate measurer but will meet again tomorrow for further con sideration. Chairman Norton, democrat, New Jersey, said the bill would be re ported to the house not later than Wednesday. Leaders have arranged however, to take up legislation for sugar production control on Thurs day. Wadi Haifa, Auglo-Egyptian Sud an, Aug. 2.—-Nine passengers and members of the crew of an Italian commercial plane were killed today when the plane crashed near the Wadi Haifa airdrome. The craft was southbound when the accident occurred. All aboard were killed. The crew of five and the four pas sengers were believed all to be Itali ans. Washington, Aug. 2.—Senate lead ers. confident most controversial problems were out of the way, fore cast today speedy passage of the Wagner housing bill. Heartened by the collapse of last week’s rebellion over wage and hour legislation, they called up the hous ing measure for debate which they said would probably not last for more than a day or two. The bill, one of the major points in the administration's legislative program, would authorize loans and outright contributions to public hou sing agencies for construction of low-rent dwelling units and the erad ication of slums. Fort Hoyle, Md., Aug. 2.—A visit to his son at the Citizens Military Training entnp at this army post er.1 ed in death in a blazing airriane for Major Guy Hart Moates, of Brecken ridge. Pa., flight surgeon at Langley Field, Va. Rome, Aug. 2.—Two divisions of the Italian army started practice maneuvers today in the mountains between Piave and Tagliamento riv ers in northern Italy. The maneuvers will be followed by large-scale war games beginning on the island ~f Sicily. Only German. Austrian, Hungarian and Swiss mili tary observers were invited to the "battlegrounds,” and all foreign cor eespondents were barred. Helper, Utah, Aug. —Sheriffs dep uties searched eastern Utah’s rugged hills today for a two-gum bandit blam ed for the fatal shooting of 12 year old Tony Zoumadakls. Tony was killed early Sunday while be was sleeping with his broth er, Nick, by a bullet fired at a band it who had just robbed the Golden Camel cafe of approximately $400. Savannah. Ga., Aug 4.—More than 3.000 copies of Wednesday’s Savan nah Morning News, printed on paper made on paper at the Savannah Pine Pulp laboratory, - were.-dlspotched to all parts of the country to show ad vancement in the 'pine pulp news print industry. Laughing Around the World W»h IRVIN S. COBB The Poor Aim of Father By IRVIN S. COBB 'T'O tb* full force of this one the reader is to picture a household in w i:cl. vhe husband is undersized and generally mild while the wife is neither of these. “Where's your father him around haven’t seen-— "Paw’s laid up,” said father, Bertie inquired a friend of the family. “I -- -oungster. “He’s been laid up for mighty "No,' not exactly nek. He "Hurt where ?” “All over, party near it." . "Well, that is too fchd—funny I didn’t hoar about it. WhakOmp tttned?” y, ^ “Well, it was an accident paw met with,” explained the youngster “You don’t tell mf ? What sort of an accident?” K le got hurt.” , 1UU UUH b vvii maaj • ■ * --- oasa dVUUUU l “Well, paw and flaw got in a row. And paw hit at maw—and missed her!” (American New, Futuna, lac.) Work Being Done On Woman’s Club Building Above id pictured the attractive dergoing extensive repairs. $1,C00 is Rocm. flooring the auditorium, and building, which is used by all Kings vrork is to be completed by August 1( President. Oman’s Club building which is un ling spent completing the Lounge feting both inside and out of tne .untain as a gathering center. Th Si according to Mre. E. W. Griffin, Band Association To Be Organized A small group of interested citi zens met Tuesday night for the pur pose of making plants for the organi za'.ioti of a School Band Association. This group hopes to aid the Kings Mountain Band, of which ail Kings Mountain is justly proud both, finan cially and morally. A meeting has been called for next Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the Band Room at the Hgh School for the purpose of organizing. It is hoped that all citizens who are inter ested in the band will be present, whether they have children in the band or not. Dr. L. P. Baker was elected tempo rary chairman to preside at the meet ing next Tuesday night. The follow ing were elected as a committee to work up interest in the meeting: Mebsrs B. S. Neill, Ladd Hamrick, and Byron Keeter. Kings Mountain has one of the finest bands in North Carolina con sidering the length of time It ha* been organized. Director Paul Heuf drix, who has made such wonderful progress with the band for the past two years will be back again this year. LOCAL MAN HAS EXTRA LONG NAME When It comes to lengthy names, a citizen of Kings Mountain has the right to become an entry for the world title. If he were to write it out in full (he seldom does it) it would read this way: Abraham Beatty Robinison Allen Hamilton Alexander Morrow. Since Mr. Morrow’s first name Is Abraham it should be noted that his initials also spell the name Abra ham: A-braham B-eatty Robinson Alien Hamilton A-lexander Meorrow.’ Mr. Morrow explained how he hap pened to have such a long name When he was born his father could r.ot decide what to name him when the doctor was ready to fill out the birth certificate. So Mr. Morrow’s fa ther instructed the doctor to put all the above mentioned' names- on the certificate and he would later pick out the name chosen. The doctor sent in the certificate and Mr. Mor row has been duly recorded the above mentioned seven-word name, with 49 letters in it. Mr. Morrow signs himself as “A. It. Morrow" and his friends call him "Beatty." Neither can be blamed for brevity. 1 Union Service At Methodist Church The Union Services for the sum mer began last Sunday night at the First Baptist church. A splendid con gregatlon representing the five up town church worshipped together. This Sunday night gt eight o’clock the union service will be at the Methodist church and Rev. A. O. Sac *geant will bring the message. The SOKistertal Union feelB that these union services should be a real bless ing to *the entire community and urges ervarybody to attend the ser vice Sunday evening. tiocal Stores Make Improvements. I U, ' ’- ! | :.JThree stores of Kings Mountain [have recently marie improvements.! [Tht« is in keeping with the policy! of local merchants to -keep abreast of the times and be better able to sdrvc- the citizens- of Kings Moun tag) As one merchant remarked re ceSitiv; "It is getting more aiTd more unnecessary for anyone to go out of ttfwn to buy anything.” t Belk’s Department Store has had the interior of the store freshened and made more brigther with a coat of white paint. The cooling system rf the store has been completely chauged which makes quite an im provement in every feature of the store. O. W. Myers, Manager, ex tends an invitation to the shoppers to Visit, bis re-newed store. 1 Keeter’.s Department Store has jjist completed the installation of 'he very latest word in burglary a larrn system- According to Mr. Byron Keeter. when the store is locked in the-evening after the close of the day's business if anyone should enter ‘the store from anyway, without first growing off the alarm switch. a siren is set ofT that woula notify die police that the store had been entered. Kings Mountain Drug Store has this week installed an automatic Coca Cola dispensing machine. With the use of this new machine every | Coca Cola is made uniform- Messrs Don Blanton and Johnnie McGill will be glad for the citizens of this community to stop in and see how . this machine operates. Men’s Club Meets At Patterson Grove The Men’s CJub will meet this evening at Patterson Grove for their semi-monthly out-door supper. ThS supper will be served promptly at 6:30. Chairman W. E. Blakely says the; Ladies of the community have been busy all week preparing for the sup per and he hopes a large number of membera. their wires and arweet hearts will attend so the ladles will not be disappointed. Ware Reunion The Ware reunion will be held at ’ the home of T. M. Ware, five miles weet of Kings Mountain, near Oak Grove Baptist church, on August 8th All relatives and friends are invited to attend. ■f i Will Rogers* Humorous Story By WILL ROGERS ' I 'HE first quarrel is good for • joke once in a while, just be cause it ain’t a bit funny. Did you ever aee a young couple Just laugh ing their headg off about their nra| quarrel? Nope, but you can aee a lot of other people laughing about it Anyway, they were mad, and he thought he’d insult her good. "Well, anyhow.” he flay*, I’m glad I put son That diamond glee*” sometiiing la your xn -I knowed it all the time," eho ■aye, "so that wasn’t putting any thing over on me. But you never knowed till right now that my right eye is made out of the same kind of glass, did you? Now, whos fooled?” (Amtrictn N«w» TMtnw. 1m.) Mrs. D. B. Hamrick Dies 66, died Sunday night at 11:10 in trie Shelby hospital and funeral services were conducted at Zoar Baptist ' church Monday afternoon at font o’clock by Rev. A. G. Sargeant of Kings Mountain, First church, assist ed by Rev. D G. Washburn and John W. Suttle. Mrs. Hamrick lived in Shelby n:i til two or three years ago when she and her husband moved to Kings Mountain to be with their only dau ghter. Mrs. C. G. White. Mr. Whit-» is 'an official in the Phenix Mill at Kings Mountain. Prior to that time he was connected with the Kastside Mill in Shelby. Mrs. Hamrick had been bedridden fcr a year or more. For he past few weeks her condition had been quit" serious and she entered the Shelby hospital. She was a devoted member of the First Baptist church of Kings Mountain-at. the time of her passing Surviving,., are her husband. cue daughter, ,Mr§. C. G. White, three grandchildren- Mrs. John }■'.<! Queen. Miss Ottie, i and Doris White and three brothers: Reuzo and-.,B.- V. -Mjalut'-re. of Shelby, M. F. McIntyre, Vancouver, 'SVash. , , . . HULLENDER REUNION The Hullenders are old pioneer family of the Revolutionary War days. They have never attempted to have a reunion before- and it is hop ed to see all of the Hullenders and connections gather in a reunion at the Christy Hullender old place, which is now owned by a grandson, John L. Foster. The reunion will be he'd on August 15. The Hullenders came from Hol land and settle in New Rork year before the Revolutionary War, and moved southward. They were In hearing distance of the Battle of Kings Mountain, and heard the first gun shot of that battle on October 7, 1730. The eld Christy Hullender home stead is located on the old Shelov and Pallas road about seven miles from Kings Mountain. Those attend ing are requested to bring well filled baskets. AUG. 15 U. S. Pays $10,000 To Ehringhaus Washington, Aug. 4.—A statement by Attorney General Cummings dis closed today former Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus of North Carolina re ceived $10,000 com peuoation from January 1 to June 30 as a special assistant attorney for the Justice Department. Ehringhaus handled government cases involving allege violations of a -934 act banning munitions ship ments to belligerents in South Amer .ca's Chaco war. Cummings' statement was insert ed in the Congressional Record by Chairman Glass (D-Va) of the Sen ate appropriations committee. It was made in compliance with the act appropriating funds to defray the expenses of special assistant at tomeys. Say Hailstones As Large As Hen Eggs Hickory, Aug. 4.—Crops in a sec tion of the Oxford Dam community estimated to be approximately two miles in length and a mile wide were virtualy ruined by a terrific hall storm between six and seven o'clock Monday evening. The storm, accompanied by 1.38 inches of rain and a hard wind that blew over corn £nd otner crops, was reported to have been Telt through out an area about six miles in leng th and a mile in width, but it struck with its full force around the Ox ford Dam power station on the farms of Shell Hollar and Ed Hollar, whose crops were almost destroyed, it was reported. The Hollar brothers’ corn and cot ton fileds were riddled by the large hailstones, some of which were “as big as hen eggs," according to re ports. Held For Murder .Ldllington, Aug. 4.—A 69 year old Erwin textile worker, Reuben D. Taylor, was held on a murder char* ge today in the fatal shooting of Lentlss Wicker. 54, also of Erwin. N. C. Pays $6,000,000 Raleigh, Aug. 4.—North Carolina employers paid 96495.106.44 into the unemployment compensation fund as of August 1. , The payments represent nine ten ths of one per cent of emplayes’ 1 936 pay and 1.8 per cent of the 1937 payrolls. Si S. Building Is Dedicated To C. E. Neisler One of the most impressive con gregational meetings ever held at the First Presbyterian Church was the recent meeting when the eongre gation voted unanimously to dedi cate the new Sunday School Building | to Mr. ('. K. Neisler. who joined the I Church in 1892, elected an elder in i 1895. Superintendent in 1899. I Front the early days of his mem bership he was a guilding spirit and light in tin* Church. He was loved by one and all. a man of affairs who always placed the Church and Its ; work first. Mr. J. 1!. Thontasson, Chairman of | the Building Committee and raem i her of the Session made the recom mendation from the Session that the Sunday School Building be a Memo rial Build to Mr. C. E. Neisler. who served as Superintendent faithfully and capably for over 35 years. Outlines AAA At Raleigh Meet Raleigh. Aug. 4.—J. B. Hutson, as sistant AAA administrator, outlined major provisions of the 1938 agricul turil program to a farm and home week audience at N C. State Col , lege today and urged North Carolina ! farmers to cooperate. Cattle fanciers heard former Gov ernor Cameron Morrison explain the net its and demerits of the various breeds of Jerseys. Congressman Harold D. Cooley yes terday told the delegates, represent lug virtually every county, that farm tenancy in the United States is in creasing at a rate of 40.000 famlles annuallv with 3.000.000 farms al ready tenanted. Rinys Mountain Again Proud _ Miss Maxine Watterson, daughter of Mrs. F. G. Watterson and grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J M Wil 1 liams, has had the distinct honor of singing over Station WCOC, Char lotte, on the Old Waysides program every Monday and Friday afternoon at 3:45 this summer. Miss Watterson has an exception ally good soprano and has never taken a vocal lesson. Miss Watter son is only seventeen years of age and is a young lady of promising possibilities. The Herald wishes for her a big success. 2 SCOUT TROOPS AT CAMP Two Kings Mountain Scout troops are this week at Tryon, N. for their annual stay at Camp. The Bap tist and Presbyterian troops left Monday morning and will stay throu gh the balance of this week. About 25 Scouts and Scoutera made the trip. McGILL REUNION The annual reunion of the McGills of Gaston will be held at take Mon tonla, August IS. at 11:00 a- m- All kindred and interested friends are cordially Invited to attend. STORM OFF FLORIDA Jacksonville. Fla.. Aug. 4.—A tropl cal storm which the weather bu reau termsd only a "slight disturb ance.” moved slowly northward thru the Atlantic about 200 to 250 miles east of Florida today. by James Preston (Opinions Expressed in This Column Are Not Necessarily the Views of This Newspaoer.) Prom all outward appearances, the fight over enlargement of the Su preme Court is over, and the hatch et buried. But the realistlcally-mind ed in Washington are inclined to think that once more appearances are deoalving. •' ’ • Even while the Senate Judiciary Committtee was writing the new bill leaving the Supreme Court member ship alone but making changes in procedure in lower courts, a lot of Senators and Representatives on both aides of the fence were wonder 1 ing just what the future will bring. ***» In Indiana, for example, Oovemor Townsend seeks to have the Demo ! crstic ■ organization deny nomination for re-election to Senator Van Nuys, one of the outstanding court bill opponents. If the nomination were , (Cont’d on back page)