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VOL. 32 NO. 38
KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1937
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State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
—State News—
Raleigh, Sept. 22.—The motor ve
hide bureau lias released figures
ah wing that August traffic deaths
in North Carolina totalled 101, a
new record for the month and a new
high for the year.
Durham. Sept. 22.—Approximate!..
500 members of the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics are ex
peeled to attend an adjourned meet
ing here tomorrow to settle a dis
pute over funeral benefits which
threatened a split the State conven
tion in August.
Raleigh. Sept. 22. 27 books by Nor
the Carolianians are being consider
ed in competition for the Mayflower
cup, Dr. C. C. Crittenden, secretary
of the State Historical Commissou,
said today.
JAMES LEE HOPE
DIES
Funeral services for James Lee
Hope, 78, Kliiiigsi Mountain textile
worker, were held from his home
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. Mr. Hope
died early Monday morning after an
illness of about a year.
Rev. A. F. Connor was in charge
of services and interment was at
Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Hope
was for many years a member of
the Wesleyan Methodist church.
Mr. Hope is survived by his wife
and 15 children, all living in Kings
Mountain. The six sons are Isaac,
Will, George, Lewis, Calvin and
Clayton Hope; the daughters are
Mis® Eulalie Hcpe, Miss Ella Hope,
Mis. A. B. Morrow, Mrs. R. H. Laugh
ridge, Mrs G C Henderson, Mrs G.
C. Bridges; the three stepchildren
are Mrs. G. W. Stutts, Mrs. P. XV
Stringfellow and Tracy Stewart.
There are also 37 grandchildren
and 10 great grandchildren.
Entertain Board of
Stewards
Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Fox entertain
ed the stewards of Central Methodist
church at dinner, Monday evening at
the parsonage.
The table was covered with snowy
liinen and decorated with bowls of
lovely flowers.
Covers were laid for sixteen and a
bountiful dinner was served.
After dinner the regular business
meeting of the stewards was held
with the chairman. I. B. Goforth,
presiding.
SCHOOL DAYS
CALL FOR THE HERALD
SPECIAL RATE OF
$1.00
for nine months by mail to stu
dents and teachers away in col
lege.
Cheaper than a “letter from
home.”
This rate is for cash in ad
vance for the full school term.
—National News—
Greenville, Ala., Sept. 22.—Policj
Chief Gus Murphy will back Willie
Gee Began against the field in any
drowsiness derby.
Chief Murphy said the young ne
gro, flashlight in one hand and iron
bar in the other, was found asleep
oeside a theater safe long after day
light yesterday.
The chief said Willie admitted
that he broke into the theatre bn:
just wasn’t able to carry out his
designs against the safe before the
sandman sandbagged him.
Washington, Sept. 22.—Depleted
municipa finances in many cities
threatened today to stall the admin
istration's new slum clearance and
low cost housing program.
Housing experts from New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland
i told Secretary lekes’ federal housing
conference yesterday that their mun
icipalities would find it difficult to
contribute to the development of
local housing projects.
Rapid City, S. D., Sept. 22.—Dr.
Paul D. Emerson, 50 senior soil scion
tist of the soil conservation service,
died in a lonely canyon eight miles
from here while attempting to stem
the poison of a rattlesnake bite.
I Fellow officials found the body
slumped against his machine late
yesterday. Around the left leg be
low the knee was a tourniquet Dr..
Emerson had applied in an effort to
keep the poison from spreading from
rhe bite from his ankle.
Orangeburg, S. C., Sept. 22.—The
slate neared the end of its evidence
today in the trial of Mike Doyle Bol
tin, 25-year-old bakery worker, charg
ed with murdering his young wit?
last May 24.
Sheriff George L. Reed testified
yesterday tihat Boltin told him that
Mrs. Boltin grabbed a pistol during a
tamily fight and was shot with tne
weapon. The sheriff said this story
was told him in jail a week after
Boltin's arrest.
York. S. C., Sept. 22.—It’s Just
one chalngang after another with
Woodrow Wilson Shropshire, Meek
I lenburg county negro, who won no.
| toriety some time ago during investl
gation of chaingang conditions in
North Carolina, where he lost both
feet while serving as a convict, at
legedly thorn freezing. He is now ser
viug 60 days on the York county
chaingang for going on a drunken
tear in Fort Mill, where he walked
the streets with a beer bottle in his
hand, breathing profane defiance ta
every body he met.
- Washington, Seipt. 22.—The Nation
al zoo closed its doors for the first
time in 47 years, a dozen men work
all day. a big game hunter walked a
iong with his rifle, a keeper stood by
with a whip—and J-umbina, a 9.000
pound elephant, moved into a new
pachyderm house.
The 26-year-old elephant traveled
in an 11,000 pound oaken box. Calm
in the face of it all. she lumbered
j over a wooden bridge and entered
| her cage peacefully.
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| Shelbyville. Ky.. Sept. 22.—Brig.
Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, due to go
on trial again today on charges of
murdering his fiancee, was shot to
death here last night.
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Tunis, Tunisia, Sept. 22—The
French government opened an in
quiry today into a raid by Italian
sailors and cadets on an antifascist
headquarters in this French protec
torate bordering on Italy’s north Af
rican colony of Libya.
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
The Sitting-Down Championship
By IRVIN S. COBB
William Travers Jerome was District Attorney of New York
W j,e macie a trip to Augusta to speak at the annual meeting of the
•Georgia Bar Association. General Peter Meldrim, a prominent Savannah
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attorney, was acting as his host. He was pointing out to the visitor the
assembled notables.
General Meldrim indicated a v—y important-looking person in a
front seat of the audience.
“Mr. Jerome,” he said, “I desire to call your attention to that
gentleman yonder.”
“Who is he ?" asked Jerome. - •
“That, sir, is a man in whom the whole state takes pride. He is the
only man in Georgia who can strut sitting down.”
(American Newe Features, Inc.)
; Audit Of Kings
Mtn. B.&L. Assn.
Reveals Shortage
Shortage Covered By Bond
A alienage in the funds of the
King* Mountain Building At Loan As
soeiation of several thousand dollars
has been found by the auditors who
have during the past two weeks been
at work on their records. The exact
| a on". iu has not been announced btu
i .. understood that the amount has
! cumulated over a period of year*.
| it i- unofficially reported the amount
( i-hort is about S8.200.00.
The Kings Mountain is the oldest
i uilding and loan association in our
cc mmunity. Mr. Wiley H McGinnis
is Secretary-Treasurer, and his son,
.1. M.. Assistant. Under their manage
ment and the co-operation of a se
lected group of business men as di
rectors this building and loan asso
tiation has enjoyed a splendid grow
tli and contributed much to the
building of Kings Mountain.
Tile Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
is bonded for several times1 the e
mount of the rqported shortage and
according to our information noth
ing has happened which puts any
■stockholder in any position to be
concerned.
| The responsibility for the shortage
found has been admitted by Mr. .1. M.
McGinnis. Mr. McGinnis lias faithful
iy worked with the auditors ill check
ing the records and has shown no
inclination to hide anything. As soon
as the shortage was revealed lie vol
untarily gave himself up to Sherir.
Raymond Cline in Shelby. Arrest was
not made until Saturday and Mr. Mo*
j Ginn is is now under bond pending
[trial at the October term of Superior
Court in Shelby.
: \ McGinnis is recognized in the
I community as one of the leading
young business men. He is a Notary
Public and a leader in civic and
church affairs. Mr. McGinnis hat
been a loyal member of the local
Volunteer Fire Department since its
organization.
The community can not but ad
mire and commend Mr. McGinnis
tor his courage and straightforward
manner in which he has faced the
charges. He is to be commended es
pecially for assuming the shortage
lather than denying and endeavoring
to destroy records. He admitted the
shortage as soon as the auditor ar
rived is Kings Mountain to make a
routine check.
The Herald has known of the
shortage for some time but has pur
posely neglected to publish the in
formation in the best interest of the
stoc kholders.
The last financial statement pub
lished by the Kings Mountain Build
ing & Loan Association showed as
sets and liabilities of $291,146.73
This statement was at the close of
the business December, 31, 1936.
| The directors of the organization
have issued the following statement:
“For the information of the public
iu general we wish to state that a
shortage has been discovered in thb
account of J. M. McGinnis, Assistant
Secretary and Treasurer of the
Kings Mountain Building and Ix>an
Association, the amount of which
has not been fully determined. Tht>
hooks are now being audited and a
complete statement of the condition
of the Building and Loan will be pub
[ished later. All of the stockholders
and friends of the Institution can be
assured that the Building and Loan
is well protected with a surety bond
and that no one will lose by the
shortage.
“The Kings Mountain Building &
LLoan Association is one of the old
est institutions here of its kind and
lias served thousands of people and
will continue to serve in the future
ns in the past. We hope that none
will feel that their money in the As
sociation is not safe or that they
will lose anything by investing iu it.
‘■Respectfully,
A. E. Cline
J. C. Keller
Mack Connor
W. D. Weaver
M. L. Harmon
R. L. Mauney
Wiley H. McGinnis
J. C. Lackey
W. D. MJeDaniel.”
ATTEND FAMILY
REUNION
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McGill and
Jimmy McGill attended the Holcomb
reunion at Senter Methodist Episco
pal church, near Yadkinville, Sunday
August 12th.
The family organization was effec
ted through the efforts of Mrs. Mc
Gill thirteen years ago. Mrs. McGill
was before marriage Miss Minnie
Ruth Holcomb, of Mt. Airy.
Senter church where the reunion
was held this year is 162 years old
end was the place of worship of sev
eral generations of the Holcomb
family.
Veteran Railroad Man
Retires After 57 Years
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| Fourth District of State
Federation Woman’s Clubs
To Meet In Shelby
The Fourth District Meeting of
Die State Federate n cf Woman’s
Clu.b& will be hold in Shelby, Mon
day, October 11th at 10:00 A M. in1
the Presbyterian church. The Club
luncheon will be served in the Wo I
man’s Club House across the street j
from the church. All local club mem
bers are urged to attend this meet
ing. and help make it the best Dis
trict meeting held in the State this
year.
The Fourth District is making ev
ery effort to win the Silver Loving
Cup given for the best attendance at
District meetings. Make your plans
to attend and help win this Cup.
(Signed) Mrs. C. E. Alcock,
Fourth District Reporter.
Mrs. E. W. Griffin,
President Kings Mountain Woman’s
Club.
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Captain H. N. Moss Mow Watches
The Trains Instead of Running
Them.
It is a long time from the lreeziii'
cold da; of December 22. 187H, to tlie
warm summer day of June 22. 1937 J
Vo be exact, it is 57 years, C months |
and one day. This is a long span of
time in anyone’s life, but that is ex
actly the length of time, Capttain H.
N. Moss lias served in a capable and
efficient manner his chosen vocation
—that of a railrcad man.
Captain Meta lacked one month |
being seventeen years of age when
he began his railroad career as a
• rack laborer at Flowery Branch,
Da. Shortly after this he was pro
moted to Section foreman. As Cap
tain Moss would stand by the tracks
to let the trains pass he thought
“Some day I'll be running one of
those trains." And sure enough
this dream came true, as Captain
Moss later became Conductor, in
complete charge of the fastest crack
passenger train on the main line of
the double track Southern Railroad.
During Captain Moss’ time of rail
roading he has seen the industry
progress from the slow, wood burn
ing type engines, single truck, to tht
fast, double track, giant locomotives.
In May. 138H, Captain Moss was
promoted to a passenger train con
ductor. the position he held until he
tetired in June of this year, a period
of almost -fifty years. For about
twenty years of this time he was in
charge of trains between Charlotte
N. C., and Washington, D. C., and the
balance, he was conductor from
Salisbury. N. c.. to Atlanta, Ga.
With a twinkle in his eye Captain
Moss remarked: “I can run a trait
all the way from Atlanta to Wash
ington. just us good as anyone.”
When Captain Moss retired he was
second in line in point of service ot
the actice conductors on the Char
lotte Division of the Southern Rail
road.
In April 1905 Captain Moss moved
to Kings Mountain and since tha
time has made his home here.
Pricr to the veteran Conductor’s
retirement he was was Conductor on
Trains Nos. 33 and 38, two of the
fastest crack trains on the entire
Southern System. Train No. 38 is
an all-pullman train, and was form
erly called the Crescent Limited.
Captain Moss’ schedule called for
yen round trips a month which made
a total of 6.0SO miles traveled.
A man who lias lived with trains
for over fifty-seven years naturally
learns to love them, and Captain
Moss is no exception to the rule.
Mrs. Moss laughingly “told on" the
Captain. She said if Captain Moss
was in the rear of the house and
heard a train whistle blow, he would
run to the front door to watch the
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train pass.
Captain Moss has one of the best
records of any conductor on the en- >
tire Suthera Railway System. He
has never had one cf his trains in a
serious wreck and has never had a
passenger injured. When you take
into consideration the thousands of
miles Captain Moss has been in
charge of trains, this is a record any
one could be justly proud of. Captain
Moss said he had run for years at a
time without having a cross word or
any hard feelings with anyone. His
creed has always been, “if you treat
the other fellow all right he will be
all right to you.”
Caiptain Mess has an unusual.
memory. Most Conductors that
handle lots of passengers have to re
sort to hat checks to keep the passen
gers and their destination straight,
but Captain Moss did not bother
with them. He knew his passengers
and where they were going after ho
had “taken up" their tickets.
When asked to relate a few of his
funny experiences Captain Moss said.
“I’ll tell you what I told the man on
my train in Salisbury.” “That morn
ing when l reported for work, the
dispatcher informed me a derailment
had taken place down the road and
it would be some time before my
train could leave. I went through my
train to check up. and one passenger
was irritated about the train having
to wait. He asked me when the train
was going to leave. 1 told him about
the derailment, but I did not know
how long it would be before it would
be cleared up. The passenger in a
very loud manner answered, ‘Huimm.
you certainly do not know jour bus
iness.' I told the fellow he had
found1 out more about me in two
minutes than the Southern Railr-"'
bad in thirty-five years, that the
thought I was a pretty good con-d
tor, so please do net let them knew
what you know, as 1 am making a
good living out of this work, and 1
would not have them to find out I
do not know my business for any
thing in the world, so please do no:
(Cont'd on Editorial page)
MEN S CLUB MEETS
TONIGHT
The first Men’s Club Supper of
the Foil season will be held tills
evening at the Woman's Club build
ing at 6:30. This is the first supper
to be held since the outdoor supper
of the summer.
A very interesting program has
been arranged by the program com
mittee, composed of Mr. B. S. Neill
and Or. C. \V. Harper. An open forum
will be conducted with important
topics pertaining to Kings Mountain
being discussed. Rev. L. Boyd Hamm
has been secured to act as chairman.
PLANS UNDERWAY
FOR FLORAL FAIR
Plans are being made for the Flor
al Fair which is noonsored annuallv
by the Woman’s Club.
A list of prizes will be published
soon and exact date of fair given.
Members and others interested are
asked to watch for further announce i
ments.
Sponsor Brunswick Stew
The Men's Bible class of the Gro
ver Presbyterian church will sponsor
a Brunswick stew at Grover on Fri
day night. Sept. 24. irom 6:00 to 0:00.
o'clock. It will be served in the chur
ch basement for 60c a supper.
Mrs. Frances L. McCarter
Dies Sunday Morning
Mrs. Frances L. McCarter, age 34,
formerly of Kings Mountain, died
Sunday morning at 7:30 in Gaston
General Hospital, after a serious op
eration. The body was taken to
Bowling Green, S. C., where she has
lived for the past few years. Funeral
services were held at Bethany chur
ch on York and Kings Mountain
Highway at a 3:00 o’clock Monday
afternoon.
Surviving are her husband. C. M.
McCarter, four children, Henry, 12,
Juanita 9, Glenn 7, and Sarah Mc
Carter 4. and the following brothers
and sister, Miss Carrie Guinn, Wil
liarn and Isaac Guinn, of Kings
Mountain, and Ms. Jessie Gibsou of
Bowling Green, S. C.
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Will Rogers’
Humorous Story
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By WILL ROGERS
'T’HERE was a kid looking for a
job, and he went around to the
neighborhood butcher shop where
his family bought meat and asked
j for one. So the butcher talked to
| him for a while and said he could
use a boy to run errands and such
| stuff. Then he asked the kid a lot
! of questions.
“Are you in the habit of telling
lies?” the butcher says.
*Well, no, I ain’t,” says the kid.
"But I been talking to Mom about
that. She said that anybody that
worked for you would have to be an
awful liar to keep up with you.
I Maybe I can’t ever keep up, but I’m
• not dumb, and I’ll learn fa3t if you
give me the fob.”
I (America!) Newe Feature*, Inc.l
Preperations Tor
Cleveland County
Fair Nears End
Shelby, Sept. 22.—Feverish activity
on tae grounds of tile Cleveland coun
ty tair during the past tew weeks
iias resulted in near-completion of an
ambitious building program which
will iiirkt. the 1‘ith annual Fair even
larger than in the past.
Clevelands exposition. famous
throughout the state and south as
‘the largest county fair,” will get
underway on Tuesday, Spet. 28, on
which day approximately 10,000 Cle
veland school kids will go through
the entrance gates on complimcn
.ary tickets.
The new building program, under
ialceji in an effort to relieve the
crowded conditions of years past,
will result in the following: new
bleachers on the east end of the
grandstand, seating 600 persons; a
new and unique industrial and hist
orical exhibit in the space under the
bleachers: an entirely new lighting
arrangement all over the grounds
which will furnish modernistic and
indirect lighting; a new stage for the
free acts, twice as large as the for
mer one; new roads and enlarged
parking facilities; a new exhibit
space for the swine department,
three times as large as the former
line; a greatly enlarged mod way; and
emodeling of the stock barn and
poutlry house.
The Jonny J. Jonas Exposition will
spread its 19 rides and 22 siiows ov
er tlie big midway in what will be
he most elaborate exposition ever
shown at a Cleveland County Fair.
Free attractions, given on the stage
in front of the grandstand each even
ng will be furnished by the George
A. Hamid Company, and yill include
such features as The Winter Garden
Revue; ‘ Jinx” Hooglan’s Hippo
lrome Sensations; The Six Decardos
.addie Lament, the funny Seitchmau
he Five Albanis; and Waldorf'S Box
ing Bear.
Special features will be tlie horse
racing on the afternoons of Tuess
day, Thursday and Friday; “Lucky”
. enter and his Hell Drivers on Wed
esday afternoon; and Professional
Automobile Races, sanctioned by the
A. A. A. under the direction of Ralph
A, Haukinson on Saturday afternoon.
These races will bring together somp
of the foremost dirt track drivers of
America.
Dr. .1. S. Dorton, who is secretary
of both the Cleveland County Expos!
tion, and the State Fair in Raleigh,
said tcdr.y "that practicality all the
.‘100-foot, two-floor exhibit hall had
been taken. Individual, agricultural,
school, community, and commercial
booths are being arranged.
Officers cf the fair include; A. E.
Cline, president: George Blanton and
J. I-. Herndon, vice presidents, and
Dr. Dorton, secretary and treasurer.
^outers To Meet Friday
Friday Evening
The first meeting in a series of si?C
in a Scoutmasters Training Class
will be held Friday evening at 6:30,
at the Like Mentouia Cabin of W>
K. Mauney.
At that time the leaders in Boy
Scouting in the community will eat
a chicken noodle supper being pre
pared for them by Mr. Mauney. The
supper is a dutch treat arranged by
the Scouters Club of which Aubrey
Mauney is President.
All Scouters and leaders are invit
ed. Those on the program for this
meeting are H. C. Wilson, Scout
master of Phenix Troop, L. C. Dett
mar. Scoutmaster of Lutheran Troop
Carl Davidson, Scoutmaster of Pres
byterian Troop, and Rev. L. Bo\ d
Hamm.
Cwtiikmgicm
wQnajibhoU
by James Preston
Opinions Expressed in This Column
Are Not Necessarily the Views of
This Newspaper.)
An old, failiar friend of days gone
by has returned to Washington. He
is making a lot of folks run lo cover
and whimper: “I didn’t do it; I did
not do it.’’ He is our old friend ’H.
C. L.\ less familiarly known as the
High Cost of Irving.
It wasn't so many years ago that
he was a real political issue. But, so
Wsahington's experts said, he went
too far away. They tried to bring
him back, and boy, have they suc
ceeded!
It ail started, of course, because
the experts thought everybody’s in
come was too low. So they raised
the incomes of as many as they
could, even though it meant paying
them for staying idle and even
(Cout'd on Editorial page)