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CbloirN Job* M.?flonw women
ao pUce for male patrons.
.Two at Uwa now n man having
fata finger nafla mamteored In a Went
8Me salon. They hurled a atone thru
thai wM?r after calling the cuato
mar a Many.
Myrtle Batch, 8. C.. June St.?The
tuihiaa part at their convention or
er. 4M?|tte? to too annual Summer
meeting of the Theatre Owners Aa.
eociaUon < the Csrotlnas turned to
pleasure and entertainment today.
At a eeaslon yesterday the theatre
men declared themselves unanimous
ly opposed to the Neely Theatre Bill.
Cct loo id, N. H., June 28.?Mr* Elba
K. Chase, 46 year old Washington
village farm wife, today announced
her candidacy for Governor on the
OcmmUDBt ticket.
Mother c< five children, Mrs.
Cbane said her campaign slogan
would be "Jobs, security, democracy
and peace." She previously J>a? been
a candidate for Governor and. Congress.
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Orangeburg, S. C., June 28.? Miss
Martha Ann Abnery,, 18 year old Columbia
girl, "came to heT death by
- an automobile accident at her owe
hands," a coroner's Jury found here
last night.
Mfes Abney was killed in a wreck
a de(w mouths ago when her automobile
collided with a truck near here.
Officers testified that tire marks
showed the truck was on the right
aide cf| the road.
Mexico Ckv. June 28.?A dispatch
from TUcyptoo today ?dd unionised
oil workers had begun a boycott agrain
at the Mexican Quit Oil Co., because
ft had refused to reoognlse the
union.
a rrbe Mexican Outf, employing several
hundred persens, was the largest
foreign oil company to eecape ea
jxropriation March 18 .when the prop
ertiee of 17 other American and Brit
tah companies were Ukts over.
iKabkakee, ill., June 28.?The slay
tug of an Indiana State policeman
iwas added today to a long list of
y crimes attributed to two brother
whoenl careers ais outlaws ended in
capture for one and death for the
other.
The policeman, Ray Dixon 28, died
yeetetrday ait La Porte, tad.,, a few
. hours after Orelle O. Easter, 25, and
his brother, Clarence, 27 were traped
on a farm new De Selm. The
latter was slain by officers.
Northampton, Mass., June 28.?As?J
?w AttAMiAn CMillmon
VIOIVUIH) i\A. nMVi uo; itvimhihu
Ilttchcock 11U that J. Paul Bathelt
of New York, son of a Hoiyoke man
ufaotuie, mnould be arraigned today
on a murder charge In connection
wftr the finding of a wire-trussed
body In tbe Connecticut river iaat
week.
The victim, a till not deflnitey Men
titled, wan believed by detectives to
have been Charles Morris, 60, race
track follower last seen ?t Agawam
a year ago.
State Police Lieutenant Maurice P
NeUigaa previously bad said a man
was being bold oo suspicion of a
felony. He did not disclose tbe man
In custom was Batfcett, however.
Laughing Aroi
With IRV
| No Tune for '
By IRVE
I 'I'HERE, once upon a time, was a
Ha may not have bean a pen
knew how to control his constituer
' prime essential for leadership in
I
variably were hand-picked and the
did they rote until be had told thai
He took hie troupe of trained
wHen jsno time. Bus faction ori
I to put through its program A <k
yrally^had failed to poet his el
iw I?POTiiy auarnsii pox
"AH ki favor of the resofutio
fcSLi" ** wer* *
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Kings
lational News
n Brief Form
?SUtc New.?
Launbertoo. June St.?Farm Vgent
day afitmooa hat tea* considerable
damage to Robeaoo County tobacco
enrpe Several farmers reported their
crops a complete loss.
Manganton, June 28.?Hln Beatrice
Cobb. publisher of the News
Herafld. said today In a prepared
statement that ahe will accept the
nomination for the State Senate II
It ia the wtah of the Democratic con
vention here July 9.
Raleigh. June 28.?George \V. Coan
Jr., State WPA Administrator, said
today raises in the pay of Southern
WPA workers would result, in an in
crease of $250,000 monthly in WPA
funds spent in this state.
Ashevlllo, June 28j?Dr. Carl V
Reynolds, State Health Officer, In
an addrets aere last night asked Nor
vth Carolina pharmacists to coopesate
in the fight to stamp out syphlllls In
the state.
Reynolds, who spoke before the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical As
sociaiion's convention, told the phar
maetata they could refuse , to furnish
any remedy or appliance designed
for self-treatment of venereal dls
eaaes except upon order of a physician.
Wilmington, June 28.?The RooseveK
administration was criticized in
an address here last night by Thomas
W. Davis, of Wilmington, general
eodtcitor of the Atlantic Cosust Line
Railroad, In an address before the
North Carolina T raff ice League.
Davis pictured the President as
a dogmatic -person "who holds that
he Is idght in all things and bis opponents
-wrong in all things."
'The time has come,' be said when
we should carefully consider what
iwe Should do and we should not
blindly folWw In line with a policy
which to destroying the country.
Ridge*rest, June 28.?Mrs. George
Mc Will lams of liberty, Mo., chair
man of the Woman' Missionary Union
Golden Jubilee celebration,
speaking before the Young Woman's
Auxiliary encampment here -last
night, described the 50 years cf history
of the Baptist organization.
She said the special jubilee project
would be raising $60,000 this
ye?T, of which $50,000 would be used
to ereot a building at Louisville, Ky?
for a Baptist Young Women's Training
School. She said $10,000 would! be
a
. UBtXA tut XVUUVttllViJ.
Washington, June 28.?Coast guard
officials said today construction of a
new air baee at Elizabeth City, N. C.
would be carried out as speedily a?
possible. Funds lor the new base, e
renbually to oost more than $1,000,'
000,000 were contained in the final
' deficiency bill signed yesterday by
1 President Roosevelt.
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Hemp, June 28.?More than 10.00C
' pounds of fresh fish was destroyed
when a truck belonging to the Char
lotte Fish and Oyster Co.. caught
fire on the detour between Blscoe
and TYoy Sunday night
ind the World
IN S. COBB
raking Chances
M S. COBB
a *r? a frl t 1 _
pouncai dom Qown in wen Virginia,
ion of deep culture but he certainly
icy which, I take it. Is, after all, the
matters political. His delegates in,
JSL I
Jig
y voted the way he told them to, nor
a.
performing dominies to a state eonsaalned
the eonretiou and proceeded
legate from the mooatslns presented
imj^f^OTa ^another ^artefms stats^
maty group as to what position they
the qusotieai
s wlh say, 'Aye*."
Mitant chorus of "Ayes". It was plain
the han had net boon esachsd beforoxyacted
to take. The boss' delegates
ig that ha weald not bars thus to pass
1 laiiii aUU UmasJ tki Aalpman
oewniw s^r^e^ss^o sesu vss^ses SU^NSA
I the top of his votes:
I Dont pot the negative! I dens tin*
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. 1
Garfield Royster
, Champion Fisher
This is no fUh tale, but a true happening
thut tcsA place laat Friday
evening at lydkr Montonla. OarfMd
RoyaUc accompanied by Phillip
Baker and DivM t'aah decided to
try their luck at raking in tha "Mg
iimmJWfM ire infir m h-'irr|
me. (larfield lived up 4o the repota'
tioa of the man toe was named for as
' being the "head Man " Royster landed
one of the biggest base erer
caught at (too lake. The ftato welshed
pounds and two ounces and mean
tired 27 Inches fat length. The base
' waa c .ught with live-boK across
l from Dr. ?ranford'? plsr at the upper
end uf the lake. All tosether the
three fishermen caught a total of 12
that weighed about 25 pounds. When
Royaler caught the big baas he was
using a cane pole.
Summary^
Local Soft Ball
(By Martiu Hannon)
Charlie Moss' Margrtice a till 1 club
' romped <ca both the Baullne and Oro
ver, tied for the lead last week, to
make the race a throe way tie, completely
overshadowing Red Kulkerson's
amazing no-hit, <Jie run pitca
log perform a noe against the Stags
cm Monday afternoon.
A <wiaivH?IV 4>a' form #Ko flew* **?*!#
nvwi v*ii5 w *viuii iiiu ?-n oi umi
race should end in a tie between two
of the three leaders. However, even
the' Post Office won a gam? on Mceiday,
and it will probably .be the fihal
. day's games that decide the race.
The Margr&ce 10-3 <w4n over Orover
waa upheld alter the Orover team
l bad been awarded the game by forfeit,
when Oommieakmer Lynch raii
ed in favor of the MargraC? protest.
Jiles Cornwell scored the only Stag
: run against the Pauline on Skeeter
Barrett's two errors for the only mar
against Fulkensoo's hUlees game.
Charlie Moss limited the Pauifbe to
five hits yesterday, and Fulkeraon
was Just another twirler aa the Mar
grace trounced them easily. 7-3. The
hltless Stags finally came to life to
garner twenty three hits m licking
the hapless Post Office 26-0, and
Mauney Mill lost a thriller to Grover
1 13-12, The Bonnie came back to take
the Cild Mill 14-6.
Bach club plays ithree games next
1 week, including the July 4th double
headers, though Borne teams are
playing the Monday games this
week.
This week's results, Monday:
R H E
i Stars 000 000 0 1 0 2
Pauline 301 030 0 7 11 2i
Margrace 221 400 1 10 10 3
Grover 111 000 0 3 6 0
Mauney 050 200 0 7 9 1
Bonnie 003 000 0 3 6 2
(Post OIHce 7; Old Mill 4, Dot reported).
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Wednesday's games:
Pauline 100 200 0 3 9 2
Margraoe 040 003 x 7 5 3
Bonnie 000 690 0 14 15 0
> Old Mill 200 002 1 6'? 4
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. Stags 240 2,10,7 01 26 23 1
t Post Office 000 000 0 0 3 15
1 Grower 161 213 0 13 17 0
Manner 442 011 0 12 13 2
STANPIN GS
Team W L Pet.
Margrace. r 7 2 .778
Grover 7 2 .778
Pauline 7 2 .778
Ul a era ft A F??fi
Bonnie 6 4 .556
Mauney 3 6 .111
Poet Office 1 8 .111
Old Mill 1 8 .111
Next week's games:
MONDAY, JULY 4
(Double Header)
?First DamsPost
Oflloe st Paulino
Old Mill st Margraee
Stag* at Mauney
Qrover at Donate
Second Game?
OM Mill at Stags
Paulina at Bonnie
Margraoa at Mauney
Post Oflloe at Graver
WEDNESDAY, JULY S
anal* at Peat Office
Paulina at Mauney
Graver at OM Mill
Stage at Margrace
ICE CltEAM SUPPER
[There ?M be en loe cream rapper
at Bethel Club house Saturday
might. The pPblta la cordially invited.
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lerald
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HERALD TO MOVE
THIE "WEEK "
Thi Herald Publishing Houh, pub ''
morrow morning moving into ito now *'
homo located on Piedmont Avenue at
the rear of the Firet Baptist Church. '(
Carpenters, brisk masons, electric!- a
* ana, plumbers, roofers, plasters, paint 0:
5 ere, all under the supervision of T
' Clyde Bennett, .general .contractor, T
1 have been busy for the past month >
1 completing the new structure. The (<
* building was designed and built for p
newspaper plant, with eolld concrete 0
1 flooring for the heavy machinery. .. ^
1 When the moving la oompleted, It ^
V , 4 '
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JUNE 30. 1938
COUNCIL APP
Lion Authorities
Take Part In
Charter Program
(Martin Harmon)
Cidwi H. Hastings, Winston-Sal
em lawyer, sometimes called th<
"Daddy" of North Carolina Lioniain
*111 address the Kings Mountali
chapter of Lions International in ce
ebratton of charter night at the Wo
man's Club house this evening.
Carbie A. Walker, also ot Wlnstoi
Sabtm, district governor of distrlc
31N, will present the charter to th<
local club.
Tonight Kings Mountain joins its
neighbors, Shelby, GastonU. ati<
Beosemer City, in owning a nationa
Civic club. Each Lion's unit is fount
ed to promote the theory and prae
tlce K<t good government and goot
citizenship and to take interest it
the civic, soclaJ, and coanmunity in
teresit.
Officers of the club are: Piesldem
Howard Jackson; 1st vice-president
E. A. Harrill; 2nd vice-president, P
E. Hendricks* 3rd vice-president
George Mauuey; Lkn Tamer, R. L
Lovell; Hall {Twister, Otis Falls; ami
Secretary. J. P. Thompson. Directori
are C. D. Blarvton, W. F. Logan ant
Dr. A., L. Hill.
Hastings was at one time a mem
ber of the Lions International Bo&rt
of Directors, as well as a former dli
trlct governor of North Carolina.
Lion Walker, heettes being the 9tt
man to hold the highly coveted
Grand Master's Key for bringing K
men into Don lam, holds 88 award!
iW aluiouu auiui/, auu m a tviuivi
member of the Olmpic swimming
team.
CLAS8 OF '36 HA8 2ND
ANNUAL REUNION IN PAGELANC
The K*lngs Mountain High School
graduating class at 1936 met foi
their second reunion at the home ol
Mrs H. H. Houston in Pageland, S
C., last Friday evening, June 17.
The senior teacher, Mrs. W. T
\\'eh\ ani eighto i { class iniimberf
were present at the buffet-banquet
given by Mrs. Houston, the class
gradeem other.
"Mrs. Houston served a lovel)
spread, carrying out the class colors
lavender and gold," said class pro
phet, Miss Eva Ma? Sul>er..
The first reunion banquet was helt
on June 4, i?>w, at uie v>u<
house here, and- members of the class
expect to icontlnue the fete each yeas
Ajooorc'lr.'g to reports, the class c
1936 Is the cnly one In the history o
the school to have more than on<
reunion.
Barn. Destroyed
By lightning
A barn containing 400 bales of ha:
and scat straw on the f<rrm of Mr. S
A. Mauney east of Kings Mountain
near Crowders Mountain was com
pletejy destroyed! Monday nigb
when it was struck by lightning dh
lng the electrical storm. The fire 11
lumlaated the sky for miles around
No stock was kept near the barn.
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Will Rogers'
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i By WILL ROGERS
"PBACHERS that try to tMck tha
klda manners hare an awful
hard tima of it. Some of the kids
have got some manner* already,
and the* get terrible bored while
the teacher la trying to get some of
tha other kids to act kind a halt
civilised.
Wall, one teacher eras talking
about manners, and she aays to
Joe, *Now, look hero, Joe. You got
to aqt decent when yon got soma*
thing good to eat and yours with a
y*u?breek iftn twe and after half
to tha other tdd that* s with yon,
yen might te tell him to^taka tha
Thilr ' seye JoT "Ho, that
win mark the first time In the histo- 61
ry of The Herald that it has been ?
1 housed in its Q|pn building. n
The editor of The Herald, Hay. *
' wood E. Lynch, extends a most oord
lal invitation to everyone to visit the n
" new location. 11
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Home Loan Foreclosures 11
By Bureau Take Over 8.
' 80,000 Dwellings n
h
Washington June 28.?(IPS).? w
' Rounding out five years as a home |r
.' mortgage lender, the federal Govern- tl
meret now owns nearly 80,000 dwell- w
j ings, About half of which were ac-lquired
through foreclosure la the p
past year. ,1
1 The Home Owners' Loan Corpora- b
) tion, which jumped into the real es? *
tate business In 1933 to save homes
, threatened with foreclosure in the de
I presslon, was five years old recently,
i it loaned more than 13,000,000,000 to
, about 1,000,000 home owners from ^
. June, 1933, through June, 1936.
le
> HOLC attaches said fewer fore- 11
closures have occurred recently, in
April 3,253 foreclosures were tns'.i- F
tuted. This is 491 less than March tt
, and far down from the peak around pi
8,000 a month in the fall of 1936.
1 About 30.000 borrowers have re- ?j
paid loans in full; about 750,000 are ?
' making satisfactory payments; 115,
' 000 are still making payment "thai
cause up to have ljope"; while about
33,000 have repayment records 11
. indicating a doubtful outcome. c'
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State To Build Laboratory .0
' Of Hygiene |ei
Raleigh, June 28?The ways was ^
opened for fan mediate construction;"
of lite State'Beard of Health's ne.\v| g(
Laboratory of Hygiene in Raleigh to | u
? be ereoted on the corner of Jcnes l;
i and McDowll streets, with the an- a
r nouncement. received from Washing'
ton by Dr. Carl V. Reynolds. State
f ?.?- /vm .1 a _ ntir k ^, .. t . I ?
' tieeun umcer, mai a. i <? /\ biohv. iv. |
! $130,909 had been approved. Added R
to this Is $160,000 reali7/ed from a
bond Issue authorized by the 1937
General Assembly, making the total ^
amount for thie new building and e- 11
quipment of the farm, located west r
of the CMy of Raleigh, $290,909. 0
J (The new building, which will oc- "
i cupy space on Caswell Square, adja- 11
i. cent to the quarters now oocupled by E
the State Board of Health, will coat *
1 approximately $190,000, including e- c
r quipment. while the total outlay for
1- the farm and the equipment there
! will represent about $100,000.
North Carolina materials will be
used throughout wherever possible,
Dr. Reynolds said, emphasizing the
fact that the servioes performed by
the laboratory saves the taxpayers
of the State approximately $2,600,000
a year, at a coat of around $126,000. (
ATTEND CONFERENCE
AT BON CLARKEN
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The following young people from ii
Boyce Memorial A. R. P. Church are o
attending the conference of the t!
Young People's Christian Union at
Bon darken, tb? A. R. P. church a?- fi
aembly: Misses Norma Crook, Ruth i
Carveny, Phyllis Patterson and Oe- v
neva Hudspeth; Marrtott Phlfer, Ned I
MoOm, Paul Stewart and James Rat- *
terree. Mrs. John MoOUl and Miss e
Av* Ware are chaperoning the party, t
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4* COUNTIES TO HAVE *
RUN-OFF VOTING C
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Raleigh, June 28.?Two years ago t
all hundred counties at North Caro- f
Una were interested in the primary I
election ot July 4, with three state- |
wide races, as well aa many local
ckiee, to be decided. This year voter# i
in 82 of the hundred will not even <
go to the polls for any purpose what 1
ewer. 3
Aa a result most ctf the Firecracker
day pyrotechnics this year will be <
provided by *qtribe, cannon crackers i
Roman candles and skyrockets?not t
by political goings on. i
Only tour ballots have been pre
pared and sent em by the State
Board of Elections ? two> Congress- i
lehal and two soUottortal.
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY*
ILK PROJECT
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The Town Council In a breakfast
tooting Tuesday morning. approved
Mld< \v:-lk and street paving project
mi tr!U represent an expenditure of
ie Town pa> In* $16,075.40. and part
f this, amount will |>e an allowance
>r the use of the Town dump truck . \
t the rate of )l 40 per hour, which
mounts to $.3,456. leaving for the
own to pay in cash only 111,423.40.
his amount will be added in next
ear's budget without selling bonds
> raise the mcuey.
This project called for the paving
f six miles of sidewalks, paving
oth sides of the parking space on
lailroad Avenue between Mountain
ircei ana uoiu street, and onfc mile
f curbing and guttering. The Railed
Avenue paving project calls tor
,505 yards of concrete. , : f
T. P. Richardson, area chief engieer
of the Charlotte W. P. A. office
let with the board in a special meet
lg Friday night and discussed the
roject. George Allen-made the estllate
and has taken an active part in
acuring tlie project that will aid in
te development of Kings Mountain.
was brought out that workers who
ave been hauled to nearby towns
ill now have an opportunity to work
i their home town. It was thought
le project would get underway
Ithin the next three or four weeks.
Property owners will be asked to
ay 15c a lineal yard to help defray
le coat to the Town. Owners will I
e given two years to pay their coat
1th 5c per yard when sidewalk Is
tld and 6c a.t the end of the first I
ear and the last 5c at the end of
te second year.
Thoee present for the meeting
uesday morning were: Mayor J. E.
erndon, and Councilmen C. E. Nets
r, Jr., \V. K. Mauney and J. K. Wili.
Councilmen John Mauney- and W. I
L Parrish had been present at the J
riday night meeting and expressed
lemselres as being In favcr of the I
pojest. ' : .
a. m- ni i
nore iu oc lyiusea
londay The Fourth
M<*h stores and business establish
tents of Kings Mountain will be -I
losed all day Monday in observance
r the 4th of July, a national holiday
he financial Institutions as well as
te Post Ofllee will take a holiday.
It is understood that the drug stor3
will be open and a few of the pro;ry
stores will be open a few hours
i the morning.
Most of the citizens plan to obt-rvo
the fourth quietly at home,
itilo stme are planning to go to the
each while others will viaat friends
nd relatives In nearby towns;
ELK'S LADIES SHOPPE
EPAIRED
Carpenters were busy last week re
airing Belk's Ladies' Shoppe. The
tain work that had to be done was
^flooring the main floor. Manager , ;
i. W. Myers extends an Invitation to
ie ladles to visit his Shoppw. since
lie Improvements have been made.
Everything baa now been ccnvpleted,
nd the store interior is now to first
lose condition again.
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Opinion* Expressed In This Column
Are Not Necessarily the Views of
This Newspaper.)
The specter of a special session
talks the Capitol lVullding fn Washtigton
? a Capitol deserted by mem
era who have gone home to test
heir popularity with the voters.
Even the Joy which came as bangng
gavels announced sine die adournment
of the House and Senate
ras marred by the special session
roe poets. None of the members
rant to be called back, but observes
see strong possibility for an exraordinary
session soon after the
V %_ A1 T1?A AAASllklHiV
IVVOlBUwr oiwuuue, a ux? in/opmuiv/ -n
s based on: (1) threatened col laps a
it the $20,000,000,000 railroad J lnduary;
(2) bumper crops bogging down
he "planned economy" scheme and
arm structure; and (3) continuing fl
tuslness decline and mounting tin em
>loynvent. I
In reality ? but not technically ?
i special session would fall lq the
category of a "lame duck" session.
The Norris Bill, passed only a: tern
rears ago, forbids "lame dock" seedons,
but, of course, any I seal on
jailed between November and' next
Fanuary 2 arouid be ofllclaly referred
0 as an "emergency session and not
1 lame duck.
Congressional tempera are fspectilly
sharp In the cioalng days -of a
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