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BUY AT HOME Kings Mountai READ THE HERALD VOL. 32 NO. 47 KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1937 FIVE CENTS PER COPY State And National News Condensed In Brief Form —NationaJ News— FayeteevflU.), Nov. 23.-nMiajjor S. MicGehee of the 13th Pit M artillery died today in New Orleans from in juries suffered in an automobile ac cident. He was1 61 years old. High Point. Nov. 23.—Mrs. George Allen of this city was fatally injur ed and three other persons were hurt when the car in which they w-ere riding turned over on highway No. 10 just west of High Point early this miming. Those injured were: Juanita Al len, 16. daughter of Mrs. George Allen; George Estes, 17 and Walter Hancock, all of this city. Police preferred a charge of man slaughter against Hancock, who. -they said, was driver of the car. Raleigh, Nov. 23.—.1. li. Marshall, city manager of Charlotte, conferred here today with W. Vance liaise, chief highway engineer, regarding a proposed underpass on North Try -on street in Charlotte under the Sea board Air Line railway tracks. Raleigh, Nov. 23.—John D. Chalk, ■c-omlmissioner of game ami inland fishing announced today that 17 per sons had been convicted recently on charges c-f hunting out o-f season *>;• illegal possession of game. "We are cracking down harder than ever on game law violators and cn game bootleggers,” said Chalk. Fifteen of the persons' convicted were charged with hunting quail hr lore the season opened, one was charged with killing otter, and the other had quail in possession in a -cafe for sale. Greensboro, Nov. 23.—Search was under way today for an unidentified bandit who William Love, a grocery chain salesman told police, held him up, robbed him of $20 and fled in his automobile last night. Beaufort, Nov. 23.—iCh <ri”,f 151 bert M. Chadwick said today a war rant charging manslaughter would ho served upon Larose Mann. , 16 who told a coroner’s jury yesterday "he accidentally shot and killed his father. Romi-c- Mann, 40, while pro tecting his mother. Lillington, Nov. 23.— A venire ot 100 Wayne county men reported In Harnett superior court today for the second trial of Mrs. Sina Pope God win, 37 year old widow, on a charge that she murdered her third hus band, Furman E. Godwin, prosper ous farmer and World war veteran. Mrs. Godwin was convicted at her first trial a year ago and was given a long prison sentence, but the su preme court granted her a new trial. Fayetteeville, Nov. 23.—Bill Cross of Asheboro is scheduled to go on trial in Cumberland superior couit this week on a charge of murdering Sengeant J. S. Mott. Ft. Bragg rang er, whose body was found Oct. 16. Three others, Hal Rush. Jesse Crotts, and Walter Routh, are charg ed with being accessories before and after the fact. Raleigh. Nov. 2;L—Sevetyifour per sons have been placed under proba tion since the new system became effective November 1, Director J. Harry Sample said today. Washington, Nov. 23.—Congress farm- leaders disclosed today both the house and senate committees had approved provisions exempting sea island cotton from crop control sections of the farm bills. I —State News— IMzer, S. C., Nov 23.—Sarah Fer guson. 13 year old daughter of Rev. A 15. Ferguson, pastor cf the Pelzer Methodist church, owed her life tc today to the valor of ('. C. McDonald v. ho carried her from the Ferguson s burning home early Sunday. Sun Diego, Calif., Nov 23.—Thirty persons were reported injured ami burned, 10 critically. when tu .> street cars coliidtd in the fog m suburban Ocean Beach today. Police, navy and private ambulan ces were called to the scene. Washington, Nov. 23.—Congress was ready — almost —- to get down to work today on crop control leg islation. Both senate and house continued i the same sort of wordy debate that produced no action during the first week of the special congressional sessiun, but the senate had a farm bill to start on tomorrow. | Pontiac, Mich., Nov. 23.—Strikers who iiad held the General Motors [ Fisher body plant here since Wed ! nesdav eveniny marched out at I ll:3o A. M. today led by Homer Mar | tin, international president of the l - liited Automcbrle Workers of Amer ica. New Orleans, Nop. 23.—A dozen actors arrived here today, ready to step into their parts in “Tobacco Road" or into police patrol wagons. City fathers have frowned on Jack Kirkland’s dramatization of Ers kine Caldwell’s novel dealing with ‘■poor whites’ in Georgia. Manilla Nov. 23.—Brief telegraph messages received here today round ed out the picture of devastation wrought by a typhoon which tore through 30 Phillippiue provinces Wedneslay, leaving scores dead and more than 170,000 persons homeless. Nassau, Bahamas, Nov. 23.—A black flag hoisted atep the jail sig nalled to hundreds of curious by standers outside thp gates today that Geinge and Willis Duvalier out laws of Great Inagua island were hanged for murder. Willis went to the trap first and his brother followed 33 minutes la ter. Two hours afterward they were buried in Potter’s field. Philadelphia, Nov. 23.—Detective! Captain John Murphy announced early today he had obtained a sign ed statement from Mary K. O Cor.-. nor. It* year old Philadelphia girl, admitting the slaying of five year old Nancy Glenn in a cornfield last Gabor day. Brussells, Nov, 23.—King Leopold called in socialist, liberal and Cath olic leaders today in an effort to solve Belgium's monthdong cabinet crisis. The king sought a coalition gov ernment to succeed that of Premier Paul Van Zeeland who resigned. New Orleans, Nov. 23.—Four wit nesses faced questioning today be fore a Federal grand jury investiga ting charges of an alleged plot to smuggle ammunitiin into Honduras from New Orleans. Fairfax. Va., Nov. 23.-—Exam Cox. negro prisoner charged with killing a policeman at Goldsboro. N. was captured near here today. Laughing Around the World With IRVIN S. COBB An Easy Job for a Colored Boy By iRVIN S. COBB "J^fOST of us are familiar with the story of the colored brother it: a Southern town who was approached by a labor agent seeking recruits for a construction contract in a nearby state. "Look here, boy,” said the white man. “Would you like to have a nice steady job of work?” The darky stirred uneasily, where he reclined against the sunny side of a cotton bale. “Not if 1 kin get anything else to do,” he stated, truthfully. A somewhat newer variant of the same general theme has to do with n large black female who spoke pridcfully of her favorite son’s present position. “Henery, he’s got a mighty nice job now,” she said. “He gits plenty of money ana don’t eben have to soil his hands. He’s travelin' wid a circus. All he has to do is to git into a cage twice a day and put his head in de lion’s mouth. De rest of de time he has to hisse’f.” (American New* Featnrea. Inc.) BOY SCOUT COURT OF HONOR Scouts Hambrick and Nickels Pre sented Eagle Badges. A regular meeting of the Kings Mountain District Court of Honor was held at the High School audi torium on Tuesday night, Nov. 23. More than one hundred hoys were present and good number of leading men interested in Scouting. The fol lowing awards were made at the Court: Colored Troop. No. 10, Tenuerfot . Hank: Lucio Wilson. Richard Thump son, Earl Kirkman, Theodore Byers. Se,c;id Class Rank: Maxell .Tones. • :i>H-1 tc c-t Rank: Ed H. Smith, 1: X. .1. Kurdrick, 2; Bib Cash 2; Do ris Burnett, 2; \Vr. H. Putnam, 3; \Ym. Ptice, 5; Vernon Thompson, 5 James Heoly. 6; J. \V. Hawkins, 7; John Henry Caldwell, 7; Wray Pear sen. 4 Arnold Falls, 2. Second CalES Rank: James Davis, 5; Ben Goforth, Jr.. G; Wilson Grif fin, 6; Geo. Baltimore, 3; Bill Rhodes, 3; Tern Martin, 1. First Class Rank: Eugene Gault, 0; Donald McGinnis, 2; Marion White, 2; Herbert Humphrey, 2; G. Davis, 5; Hairy Wilson, 5; Dan Payne. 5 Lloyd Early, 0; Meek Car penter 3; Ben Goforth, Jr., 3. MERIT BADGES Billy Ruddock. 1; Geo. Thomson. 1. Bird Study: Jones Amos, 5; Law rerce Patrick. 1. Bookbinding: Rcbt. Dettmar, 2; Cltas Goforth, G; Eugene Eskew, 6; Pride Ratterree, Jr., 6; Chas. Moss. 1 .Chemistry: Chas. Thomassou, 1; Geo. Mauney, 2; Paul Stewart, 2. Cooking: Paul Cole, 5; Jack Hul lender, 5; Claude Gantt, 5; Meek Carpenter, 3; Leon Wolfe, 3; Ben Goforth, Jr.. 3; Gee. Thomasson, 1: (Cont'd on back page) RED CROSS REPORT ENCOURAGING Incomplete reports from a partial list of canvassers in the Annual Red Cross Roll Drive indicate the top will be reached when the final re turns are added. About $2,000 is al ready in sight according to Haywood E. Lynch, General Chairman. Can vassers are requested to turn in their reports as quickly as possible. Missionary Program At First Baptist Sunday night at the evening hour the congregations of Macedonia Bap tist church, and the Second Baptist, will meet with the First Baptist con gregation for a Missionary Program. Special music by Macedonia will be a feature of the evening The program to be rendered is as fol lows: Hymn: Throw Out The Life Line —Congregation. Prayer—C. C. Parker. Jesus Hold My Hand—Macedonia Choir. Quartette: Persuasive Voice — Boiling Springs College. Scripture—J. V. Frederick. Quartette: You Have Never Men tioned Him To Me—Macedonia. Send The Light — Second Baptist Church Choir. Quartette: Shine On Me — Boil ing Springs College. Address — Miss Emma Leaehmaii Hymn: Stand Up. Stand Up, For Jesus—Congregation. Benediction. W. H. McGinnis Resigns From B. And L. Assn. Mr. W. H. McGinnis, who has serv ed as Secretary and Treasurer of the Kings Mountain Building and Loan Association for the past 25 years resigned at a meeting of the Beard of Directors held Monday night. Mr. McGinnis' resignation «• came effective at the close of busi ness yesterday. It is understood Mr. McGinnis will be paid for the bal ance of the fiscal year which ends sometime in February. Mrs. Arthur Crouse, who has been assisting Mr. McGinnis for the past several weeks will remain tempor arily in charge until a permanent Secretary-Treasurer can be secured. it is understood the audit of the books is almost completed and wm be finished by December 2nd. Mr. A. E. Cline, President of the Association, was unable to attend the meeting of the Directors held Monday night. To Attend Army—Navy Game Misses Sara Finger, Pauline Neis ler. Mary Mitchell and Margare Smith left Wednesday for Washing ton, D. C. where they will vist friends before going to Philadelphr for the Army-Navy game Saturday They will be joined in Washlngtot by Miss Jane Smith who will aceon pany them to Philadelphia. AMERICAN LEGION MEETS The local Post of the American Legion held an interesting meeting at the Woman's Club Friday even ing. During the business session it was agreed to change the date o' tegular meetings to the first Tues daj night ct each month. The en tertainment features included: Trumpet solos by Jackie Gamble, darn- numbers by Miss Gloria Kawls, anti vocal selections by a bo; ' quartet composed of Charles Gofer'll, Janus Throneburg, J. P. Mciv ly. and Lewis Falls. Piano s-ocomoaniment for all numbers play ed by Miss ItachaU McClain. Return To King., Mountain Fiiends of Dr. J. S. Norman and family will be glad to know that they mov 'd back to Kings Mountain from , Hickory, last week and are now liv ing in their home on King street. Dr. Norman was for several years, a practicing physician in Kings Mountain. He has been in Hickory lor a number of years and recently bohght the business of the late Dr. J. ids. Hood, in Gastonia. Glee Bridges Is Named President Of Men’s Club NEW PRESIDENT Glee A. Bridges, newly elected Pres ident of the Business Men's Cluo. City Delivery Service To Be Enlarged Soon Thanksgiving Day Is To Be Quiet Occasion Here Thanksgiving will be celebrated in1 a quiet manner this year in Kings Mountain, according to a ciieck-up made on plans for the day by The Herald. The Bank, and Building and Loan Associations, and the r.ings Moun tain Public Library will be closed for the day. Large numbers of hunters are planning to take to the woods and nelds early Thursday morning. Witu the hunting season less titan a wet k old, the numbers of quail and rabbit are expected to sharply reduced by Thursday afternoon. Already a number of local citizens , have left Kings Mountain ou visits \ to friends and relatives in other sec tions of the country during the , Thanksgiving season, and many oth ers are planning some visits the lat ter part of the week. Two football games are likely to attract a number of local fans —the Wake Forest-Davidson game in Char lotte, and the annual Carolina-Vip. ginia tilt in Chapel Hill. Other fans are planning to take Saturday off To witness Duke-Pittsbi rgli game in Durham. By far the majority of citizens plan to spend the day at Tioinp, with perhaps a "Sunday” dinner at the middle of the day. FIREMEN STILL NEED TOYS The Herald has been asked by the local Volunteer Fire Department to repeat the request for used toys to be brought to the City Hall so they can be repaired and repainted to make some little boy or girl happy on Christmas morning. There is only one month left for the Firemen to do all the “fixing,” so please bring your toys in right away. Rust aud corrosion cause an an nua! direct loss exceeding that caus ed by fire and flood combined. By WILL ROGERS SPHERE was a fellow at a law yer's office complaining that ha felt awful low. He was one of •>* lawyer’s customers, so the law;, er listened to him. Will Rogers* Humorous Story “Why, Mr. Wise, that ain’t no thing but depression,” says the lawyer. “I was that way last week. 1 got the best little old remedy in the world for it. I went right homo and pretended I was sick and got my wife all excited about my health, and she petted me and kiss ed me and put an ice bag on my head and fussed over me. and I felt fine. Just the best kind of treat ment for us babies that think we’re grown up.’’ "By golly, you’re right. I think.” savs the customer. “I’ll try it. Where can I find your wife this afternoon ?" (Amricsii Ntwt Fuliini Ino.) As thg results of months of hard work on the part of Postmaster \Y. H. Blakely. Kings Mountain's city delivery service will soon be enlarg ed. This will be the first major addi tion to the city delivery service since house-<o-house delivery began i:t 1928. The service in ihe new sec tions will begin just as soon as the citizens comply with the request of the Post Office Department. All that is needed for the service to begin according to Postmaster Blakely, is for the houses to be numbered and mail receptacles installed and the streets marked. A committee from the Men's Club has been appointed to aid in this work. Two deliveries will be made daily to thhe 11 residents and 10 business houses to be serviced by tiie new deliveries. The new territory will cover about .2 miles, and will bring the total miles of dtp delivery ser vice in Kings Mountain up to 10 miles, which will make two com plete routes for city carriers. Only about one and one-half routes were covered before. Sections to be included in the new delivery will be as follows: Mauiiey Mill Village. About two blocks extension on South Railroad Avenue. Extension on West Gold street. Extension West King street. About three block extension on Watterscn frt m West King street. Ridge street from City street to North Railroad avenue. Extension on North Cansler. Two block extension on Waco Road. Short extension on North City street. Cherry Road from Lackey street to Stowe street about five blocks. East King front Slop Light to Ar nold Kiser resident. Bessemer Avenue from Stop Light to Haywood E. Lynch resident. Postmaster Blakely- also had some more good news for residents of the Best Town in the State. Parcel Post delivery service' will be installed here just as soon as vehicle can be secured. Two deliveries will be made daily, and according to a let ter from the Post Office Department the service will start at an early date. Heretofire all packages larger than a shoe box had to be called for ■tt the Post Office, but as soon a? this service begins packages will tie delivered right to the homes. Postmaster Blakt )y should be con gratulnted for bis untiring efforts in making these two extra, services pos sible. Charity Party Sponsored By Junior Woman’s Club The charity Bridge, Rook and Bin go party sponsored by the Junior Woman’s Club Tuesday night in the j Woman’s Club Building was a very enjoyable ati'di giT/ffying occasion, being well attended by the people in Kings Mountain who are interested m this worthy cause. Games were enjoyed for awhile after which ice cream and cake were served. High score prizes were presented at each table of bridge and prizes were giv en to each Bingo winner. Rock play ers were each presented with a small favor. Tickets for the turkey were plac-j ed in a container and little Missj Phyllis Ware drew out the ticket bearing the lucky number which was (Cont'd ou back page) Olo0 A. Bridges, priminent Kings Mountain merchant, was elected president of tlie Business Men’s Club succeeding Paul Mauney. at tlieir meeting lit id 'Tuesday evening at the Woman’’- club building. Arnold Kiser was elected first Vice Presi dent ini" (■ i-;. Neisler, Jr.. was elec ted -:<1 Vice President. Mr. W. K Maun who lias served for the Past f* vi ;•••;: re. was renominated Sri re .-,i y-Tiv. surer, but on account of other piv.--T.g- business declined to accept and nominated Aubrey Mauney. who was elected. The nominating committee who in 'do their report was composed :»f Jor Thomson, W. ,1. Fulkerson and O VV. Myers. At the request of Postmaster W. E. Blakely, the following committee was appointed to confer with the Town Council relative to getting the streets marked and the houses num bered so that city delivery service may be increased. VV. K Blakeiy, Mayne Blackmer and Haywood K. I.ynch, Mr. Aubrey Mauney requested this same committee to investigate the possibility of changing the name of the Fast Side of Railroad Avenue to Battleground Avenue. At the request of O. VV. Myers, President Bridges appointed Aubrey Mauney, o. VV. Myers and VV. VV. Souther to contact local merchants for contributions lo decorate the business section for tlie Christmas Holiday s. It was also voted by the club to donate two Slu.00 prizes one for the best decorated resident, and one for the best decorated business. The home must be located within the city limits of Kings Mountain. Mr. Byron Keeler made several re marks relative to local citizens trad ing out of Town, also about the mini erous times local merchants are called on for donations and prizes. He expressed his disapproval of ask ing merchants to donate for the Christmas decorations. The program committee composed of Harold Coggins and Harry Page did not have an opportunity of pre senting their program as the busi ness session took all the time allot ted to the meeting. Mr. J. P. Thompson and Lester Hoke will have charce of the next program, December 9th. A delicious turkey dinner was ser ved by the Senior Woman’s Club. Spend Holidays At Lake Waceamaw Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Neisler. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Neisler and guest, Air. Preston Miller, of Chester, Ya.. Mr. and Mi- Harold Hunnicutt. Mr. and Mrs. 11.11T} Page Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Miller, and others from Kings Mountain are enjoying j deer hunt and house party al Lake IVaocamaw this week. Thanksgiving Service At Lutheran Church Thanksgiving Service in Lutheran Church Thursday Morning at 9:00. Every one cordially invited to at tend NO SCHOOL UNTIL MONDAY School children of Kings Moun tain will not have to pay any at tention to bells until next Monday as Thanksgiving Holidays last until then. The children are in a very thankful mood for this short vaca tion. and at the same time they are remindful of the fact that month from tiday will be Christmas, and another holiday vacation will be at hand. by James Preston (Opinions Expressed in This Column Are Not Necessarily the Views of This Newspaper.> Washington, if it really tried, ought to be able to give the kiddies some worthwhile lessons in how “ring around the rosy” should be played. But one influential “inner circle” economist — claims to be the only one svho a year ago fore saw the present business recession —sees flaws in it. Listen to his sum mory: “We set out to do something for those who live in shacks and don't have enough to eat asd wear. So we put them on relief. Then to get the money we levy new taxes. And naturolly we get an increase in (Coat’d on back page)
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