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1 H UK LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN IREDELL COUNTY AND THE NEWS LEADER SINGLE COPY 5 Cents. M22SSi2S' N. CyTOURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937 VOL.15. No. 15 2 win Community Chaff If you have not met Mr. O. O. Boles, the great Cascade trapper, you have missed meeting a guy that can really trap 'em. While friend Boles can trap the best of them, lions, bears or anything in season, here of late he has gone out mostly for rabbits. At present he is engaged in making a man-trap to trap the guy who stole one of his rabbit traps. The trap was found under the house of Mr. G. H. Tillotson, but Mr. Til lotson, not being a trapper, has been absolved of all blame by Mr. Boles. It seems that Mr. Boles does not wish to call any names, but he confided to us for publica tion that he suspects Mr. E. P. Pleasant of the nefarious deed. He has offered a nice reward to anyone who can get Mr. Pleasant to confess to the crime. Mayor Claude Mayhew was showing -ui several stalks of corn that had been brought Into his store by Mr. O. W. Nail, of Barber Junction. These stalks had four and five huge ears to the stalk. It is a special crop grown by Mr. Nail for a fertili zer company. By treating this crop with special fertilizing pro cesses, Mr. Nail made 79 bushels to the acre, or 3 times the normal yield. The crop was planted in upland soil, it was stated. If you're interested in corn (the grain, hot the fluid), drop in and have a look. Here & There: Mrs. Sam Pharr's dog drinks coffee but it must have just the proper a mount of milk and sugar. i Guy Shook has sold his "Guy's I Grill" to Mr. G. U. Love, of Cor nelius. . . A gal by the name of Lil says to ask Johnny Morrow if he still sells tangerines two for a nickel. We don't know what it's all about, Johnny, but we're asking you. Does you?. . . And there are a lot of folks here and about who wonder what ever be came of Mose Ozmont. Well, Mose has been an employee at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit for the past 22 years. He sent Mr. J. A. B. Goodman a nice Xmas gift. Mr. and Mrs. Ozmont write that the world is doing okey by them. . . . Gertrude Kelly U wearing a diamond ring on that finger which is very much which .... Elizabeth Laney, who does the sports coverage for this sheet, has pasted the name cf "Blue Beauties" on the gals' basket ball team over at the high school. Nice going, Miss Laney. We once hung a label on an Alabama all-American fullback that still sticks. His name was Johnny Cain, and we gave him the mo nicker, "Hurry" Cain get it? Hurricane! Nice going, McKnight .... In the year or more that Bob Giles has been here he has obtained some 15 or 20 divorces for clients in the Statesville su perior court. Just another home wrecker! We are suggesting he go to Reno and take a post-graduate course and specialize in that field. . . . The Legion Hut is throwing a dance Xmas night ($5.00 for advertising, please and a couple of tickets for me and another guy's gal). . . School is out and the school marms have went. . . Now that he is married, Dr. Frank Wilson says he will get places. There are many places, Frank, that a married man can get, two of them being behind the eight ball and in front of the sheriff. . Hugh Sloop has moved into his new home on Eastern Heights. . Charlie Sherrill is building a nice brick house about 2 miles up the Statesville highway Holmes Poston, the town's youngest copper, has purchased the house and lot belonging to Ralph Brawley, on Maple street, and has moved into it. . . . He len Pharr is In from U. N. C, loo king quite clever in collegiate garb. . . . And thanks a lot, mates, for the Xmas cards, es pecially youse guys and gals from afar oft, such as Dr. Wilson Moore of N. Y., Brunner Ray Fox, of Los Angeles, Ted Husing, of N. Y., Hugh Freeze, of New Orleans, etc. J. F. Bowles Dies In Statesville BURIED LAST SUNDAY Succumbs After Brief Iilness of Heart Trouble; Was Head of Department Store Statesville, Dec. 17 John F. Bowles, 72, widely known mer chant and traveling salesman, president of the Ramsey-Bowles Department store, died this after noon at the H. F. Long hospital where he had been a patient since the first of the month after suffering of heart trouble. Mr. Bowles, a native of Olin, this county, had been living in Statesville since he was a boy. He was a clerk for various local mer cantile establishments for a num ber of years before he became a traveling salesman, representing various business houses. He trav eled for John E. Hurst and com pany of Baltimore for 27 years, leaving the road in 1926 in order to devote his entire time to his store here. He had been connected with the Ramsy-Bowles Department store since its organization 40 years ago, and served as president for a number of years before his death. He was a member of the States-' V,1 I I t tl ! -.1 .c uuaiu uic ume ui j utabu. iic was a ui. cv L ui in the First National bank and for a number of years was a director V North Carolina Railway. nC uu urn. a iucioiiB ujtinoer .if Hip Mpthnrtlst fhnrrt tnr V; many years was a member of the uvaiuuiowaiuaviuou,., church. In November 1393, Mr. Bowles was married to Miss Mabel Grant of Goldsboro. Surviving are Mrs. Bowles: three sons, J. F. Bowles, Jr., of New York City; Louis G. Bowles of Lexington, and William C. Bowles of Statesville; a daugh ter, Mrs. Stanford Webb of Ashe- ville. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Broad Street Methodist church. Interment was followed in the family plot in Oakwocd cemetery. Miss Mary Christmas Likes Her Name But Not The Wisecracks Evansvilie, Ir.d., Dec. 17. Mary Christmas, cf Poseyville, pretty 18-year-old business college stu dent, likes her name but not the wisecracks it brings. With a smile she explained to- "People say, 'glad to know you, Miss Merry Christmas. My name is Happy New Year.' They say it as they'd say, 'so's your old man. "It's very inconsiderate." For ten centuries, sim said, parents of every other generation of the Christmas family have named one girl Mary after the mother of the child of Bethlehem. 550 Alabama Convicts Are Given Two Weeks Paroles for a Merry Christmas Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 17. To- ward the east. west, north and! " ' soutn toaay went ssu nappy men term men, a white and a negro, and women all of them Alabama at Kilby prison, the state's Un convicts intent upon a "merry gest. , Christmas" while their two weeks "it'd be better here," they "gift paroles" last. Large and small, negro and white, the convicts marched through claging doors to free- .... " ; kk o y conduct by Governor B:bb Graves in a custom of 10 years standing, took along medicine to keep di- letters the skit was "profane, They're pledged "word of ho- sease from cutting short his indecent and insulting to the nor" to return when their leave leave. Captain Jack Lindsey, de- American people." is up. in the past, 20 of the esti- puty warden, handed him a sup- The commission said it had not mated 4.000 parolees have brok- ply of insulin and a hypodermic prejudged the matter but would en their word. needle as he left. reserve Judgement until it had Seven failed to report on time "He'll come back all right, Just the facts, a year ago and that set a record, like he did last year," said Lins-' Chairman Frank Ft. McNlnch Once a negro fell below a sey. "He's been here since he was transmitted the demand to of freight train and lost a Jeg en 17, got sent up for killing a flcfals of the National Broad route back. From a Tuscaloosa sheriff." casting company. He told them hospital bed he beggtd doctors Hobbling out, "looking for my that the commission had no right to tell authorities he'd teen "de- folks," was Jim Oermany, a ne- to censor broadcast but pointed layed." Two others, at different gro cripple whose legs are off at out a clause prohibiting obscene I times, lost their lives while "rid- the knees. j language over the radio. HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS PAGEANT "Christmas Night," a pageant, was presented by the seventh grade and high school on Tues day afternoon at 2 o'clock, under the supervision of Miss Selma Johnston, Miss Welch and Miss Thompson. The program opened with Rev. L. E. Elackwelder, of the St, Mark's Lutheran Church, reading scripture and offering prayer. The High School Band, under the direction of Mr. Babcock, of Davidson College, played "Silent Night, Holy Night." This was their first public appearance. Miss Bertha Kennedy took the part of Mary, and DeWitt Trivet te was Joseph in depicting the manger scene. Harmony School Has An Unusually Long Honor Roll The Perfect Attendance and Honor Rollers of the Harmony School have been announced. All grades are represented by a gra tifying number of students who have thus demonstrated their in terest and ability in achieving this high honor. These Vminff nonnlo am In ' congratulated on attaining thi recoenition plause that comes to them Th paper sincerely r ts that will not pemit listin them ns well ns similnr Pnllns in ntuor .. . ? w cicy ana county schools, but there are tlmes when tnl3 ls next to' lmp0Ssible, and this Is one of them. L. Lof tin Pinned Under Horse Which Fell Into A Ditch Mr. A. L. Loftin, Statesville, Route 2, narrowly escaoed seri- ous injury late Monday afternoon wnen the horse which he was riding fen in a ditch and Mr Loftin was Dinned beneath the horse. Except for bruises, Mr.; Loftin apparently is uninjured. He will remain at Davis Hospi tal a few days for observation. Judge Gets Annual Card From Prisoner Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 20. Su preme Court Justice Alonzo G. Hinkley, who nine years ago uuyiwcu a manual, me ben- tPiir-A nn WaltPr 5,mnmtH qc . day his ninth Christmas card a fourth onenaer. received ves- from prisoner No. 43,274 at Au- burn penitentiary. This time, however, the card came with an inlaid wooden box, bearing an intricate series of designs worked in match sticks, "The jewel box," said a nota- tion on Prisoner Sarnowski's Christmas card, Hinkley. Season's greetings ing the rods" as they returned, Knt anlnor fnHav noro ivm lifo ww O O WVAWJ T V- A N HIU JliV- told Warden Frank Boswell, "We don't have much of anywhere to go." But Jumping at a chance of . . . .. . m WaS DanlCl (PUddm Foot) Clennv. a life termer who k ' J VK " P A4 " .hpiP ' V n, N vr4,l til "IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?' 0lc: un oepiemoer ao. me eauor or ue ew xorKiside Vedenack's clothing Tues Evening Sun received a letter from an eight-year-old child, asking dav afterno0n th nrlsnnpr nH. if there was a Santa Claus. The ,,uu..m.c ic Kir, cava viinsimas iui ine pasi a 'dropped in the wrecked automo years this letter has been reprinted on the front page of The Sun. !blle by one of tne deputy sheriffs ft 1G rnnt, irl rtfPrl AHA nf lAiirnoliumV li crista a! nil 4!ma TVn 5 c nnmaM ' ..... . ,,. pi intert it rast Chrirtnias, and we seiatru.iine.eucriromvneeniiu., "We take pleasure in answer- I ,n oi. , . .v f, . 1 "B w""c "u luuo I"""'""""? the commun'cation biw, pressing at the e time on- great gratification that its faith- ful author is numbered amon; j the friends of the sun: "Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends 1 say there is no Santa Claus Papa says -If you see t i : The Sun it's so.' Please tell me the tr.:th is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon 115 West 95th Street" I Virginia, your little friends are , wrong. They have been affected ,by the skepticism of a skeptical 'age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehen- sible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they bj mens or emiuren s are little, m ,Wc ..., " &'-v "" '"3- man i j a mere Insect, an ant. in his ' .? ..'T h th measured by the intelligence ca- f bt!e Whole f nuw. .iU.LUSc. Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly ai love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they " "is fnr Mr, abound and 8've to your life lts s greetingsThbr!taAd Ala?! Uf. H -rnrt rti .n..U i a i " u,cttlJ KUU1U De me worm ii incic wc.c iiu ounta uiaus! it would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would ,be no childlike faith then, no ! Mae's Radio Talk Criticized Washington, The Federal D. C, Dec. 17 Communications commission ordered the National Broacasting company to submit ' . t. l TV V Eve broadcast nf lost EnnHn; rieht assertin, k V 7 a n'ent- assertin3 it had received next day the editor of the Sun .vc . ....c. p-i-c. are reprinting it this year, to-j poetry, no romance to make to lerable this existence. We should have no enoJyment, except in -so ana sigiu. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. ! Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the Chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus 'coining down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there ls class ot '38 chose thelr superla- when we may change the name no Santa Claus. The most real tives last Thursday. The outcome of the paper without damages to things in the world are those was tne following: Best all us or inconvenience to our pat that neither children nor men'round- Lois Howard, Jess Har-'rons. can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can con- ceive all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil cover- ,, UiS ine uusei-n woria wnicn not Hip strniiwst man nr pvon no " " U"Ued Stre.ngth f a" the Str0ng- est men mat ever uvea, couia tear apart. Only faith, fancy, r?I"ance' Can pusll asiue uiui curiam ana view ana picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it real? Ah, Vir- ginia, in all this world there 1.) nothing else real and abiding. i No Santa claus! Thank d a".d he lives 'orever' A . . . . mousana years irom now, virgi- nia. nay, ten times ten tnousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of child- hood." SALVATION ARMY CHRISTMAS DINNER The Salvation Army Christmas given for the benefit of th. underprivileged in this com - munity will be held Saturday at 12 o'clock noon in the basement of the First Presbyterian Sunday uay School building. Editorials Today Athletic Situation at Davidson An Entirely Wrong Attitude Mr. Miller, Please! - He Borrowed Seven Cents And This IS South Carolina! News Leader Will Be Name Adopted Robert' Vedernack Had Gun In Jail Picked Up Officer's Pistol Following Wreck j Robert Vedernack, 17-year-old convict, one of the trio of pri soners which Sheriff Smoot of Davie county was conveying to Newton Monday night when his car was wrecked on the Mocks ville road at Crouch's Tavern, east of Statesville, is being con fined Thursday in a cell in the Iredell county Jail. Vedernack, who claims Pennsylvania as his native state, was landed in jail there following the wreck when Sheriff Smoot and one prisoner were taken to the Davis hospi tal and one prisoner escaped. It was revealed Thursday that a 32-caliber Smith and Wesson Distol was fnnnrt rnncpnlpH In. mitted that he picked up a pistol It ls understood that he was planning t0 make his escape ,from jail by means of tne deadly weapon which he had. Albert Hager, the prisoner who escaped at the time of the wreck 'on the Mocksville road Monday night, had not been taken today. Sheriff Smoot and the other prisoner, Jim Coker, who were injured in the wreck remain at the hospital. MOORESV1LLE HIGH SENIORS CHOOSE SUPERLATIVES The Mooresville High School weu wooing, -oi nowaia, Howard. Miller; most athletic, Lois Howard, Jess Harwell; most courteous, Lucy Lowrance, Ho - ward Mmer: most popular, Lois Howard, Grace Alexander (a tie), Jess Harwell; laziest, Grace Ale- zander, David Atwell; cutest 6lrl Carolyn Troutman; ladies ma"- ,L:i' na1'. wuuesi, i.u - r MnNpplv Wr.H Rnrtror- ""'o- " - - intellectual, Sarah Taylor. Ho- ..,.. . . T"?. fjT 'T""uTi.Tr.,. ' ' W. D. Branch (a tie); class flirt, nJJt LJ0 " .6.., neatest. EYances Howard. Howard Mlller- Karl Brager a tie); sil- liest- Martha Nesbit, David Cres- ,weU: most bashful, Ruth Star- Rankin McNeely; most stu- Sk lit lZ. Hronh' vri?f H itnlflnfl T niivn u.B".u, u.a -al uaiBci. Services on Christmas Eve at the Troutman Methodist Church Troutman, Dec. 20 Special services will be conducted at Troutman Methodist church. Christmas eve. at B an o'clock. At ' this time, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Vomor will riroanVi onH a nrn. ; gram of Chrlstina' muslc wU1 be rendered. Gifts and treats for ! every member of the Sunday lBpu, ., Ka utrihtA School will be distributed. Every member of the Sunday school, young and old alike, are urged to be present and have a part in this service Firady even ing In the church auditorium. Bank Takes Holidays Mr. C. P. McNeely, cashier of the First National Bank, states that the Bank will be closed all day Saturday, Christmas day. It will als close one week front ( Saturday, New Tear's Day. . To Be Effective On January 6th Many Reasons Given For Dropping The Name "The Rounder" (BY THOMAS McKNIGHT) When the writer purchased a half interest in this publication two years ago he was cognizant of the fact that its name, The Rounder, was hardly the proper one for a journal that hoped to become a dignified newspaper. At that time we discussed with dozens of people the advisability of changing the name. The bulk of opinion gleaned from these discussions was to the effect it was not the opportune moment. There were several reasons for this" opinion. In t- irs place, we were not yet a newspaper, but a small four-column hand bill distributed free, and having no postal recognition. In the se cond place, another such publi cation, the Free Press, had been spawned in our miast. it was a well known fact that both publi cations could not survive. Since The Rounder had a two-year start on the new publication, it was deemed wise to make use of its familiar name at that time. The situation is quite different , today. Within two years we have become a bona fide newspaper with legal recognition, have con solidated with another weekly, and have the largest circulation of any newspaper in any field published in Iredell county. After 17 issues the Free Press gave up the struggle. We can see no rea- son why the time has not arrived i The questi0n may be asked, ,What's wrong with the name, Tne Rounder?" There are many ! answerS( one 0f the best being found in Webster's unabridged diCtiCionary .Says the dictionary 'concerning the definition of ..rounder: (1) -a .tool used to an object rouild ln snape." i(2) -one who makes the rounds .of criminal or disreputable re- ii..i. , h-u..., a loush' disso,ute idler" " may , e just "One Man's Opinion," but the writer feels that the defini- ! t,ons d "0t fit this ewsPaPer- Thg name has 0ften been a t Qf much embarrassment ? tQ UJ Frequently we get letters j addrPssed t0 ..Tne Roundup or Eounder whether thev fee ho' er ' no way of knowing. errors, we have " o t" embarrassing moment came last year at the Duke-Colgate game. We were riding with Jake Wade, Alan Gould, and Ted Hus ing from the hotel to the Duke stadium. Just back of the stadium and behind the press and radio boxes is a space reserved for the press cars. At the entrance to the lane leading to this space' a policeman Is statdoned. When Jake stopped for identification the policeman recognized him but glanced questionably at Ted, Alan and me. Said Jake, nodding at each of us in turn: "Mr. Gould of the Associated Press, Mr. Husing of the Columbia Broadcasting Company, and Mr. McKnight of the uh, uh, of the Observer." When we had passed out of hearing range of the cop Jake turned to us and said, "Tom, why ln the hell don't you change; the name of that paper of yours! Jake certainly had something there! Not only is the name a source of frequent social embarrassment but it has worked against us in the matter of soliciting national (Continued, on Page Eight)
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