Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - August 28, 1936, Gastonia, North Carolina THE WEATHER scattered showers and slightly South Partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled tonight and possibly showers GASTONIA THE FINE COMBED YARN CENTER OF GAZETTE TEMPERATURE Low Last 51 2 p. m. Today Low Thursday ij 9S August rainfall to 5.21 over August quota of 5.01 VOL. NO. 207 NEA SERVICE N. FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 1936. PRESS LEASED WIRE SINGLE COPIES TOWN TALK PEOPLE AND EVENTS 11KADS TODD Mr. Floyd C. of was elected president of the Todd clan at the annual reunion held Thursday at Oakdale school in Mecklenburg Several from this county were OPEN SEPTEMBER 1ST. The Chapel Grove and Baker's Hill elementary schools will open Sept. 1st. it is announced Grounds and buildings are being prepared for the opening Busses will start running RUMMAGE The Junior Sunday school de- of Bradley Methodist church will hold a Saturday morning August 29th, beginning at nine in the store building be- tween Blanton Grocery and BREAKS A whose identity could not be immediately a broken leg this morning when he fell from the scaffold on which he was working at the ish it WHS reported Details of the accident were NAMED D. B. who was nominated as a justice of the peace in the Democratic primary in an- today that he had ed an appointment as justice of the peace from Governor J. C. B. ringhaus and will maintain offices over Kennedy's drug REGULAR SERVICE Regular preaching service will held at Crowders Reformed Presbyterian church nex Sabbath afternoon at with the sermon to be delivered Rev. W. H. of S. C. who acting during thi summer season as assistant to thi Rev. DR. AT SHARON C. o Reformed Presby terlan Thursday afternoon from wher he had been preaching for the pas week assisting Rev. Leonard R He began a meeting tha S. for Rev. E of the Sharon A. P TO PLAN TRYON Plans for the Tryon Communit this fall will be discussed a a mass meeting to be held at o'clock Tuesday 1, at Tryon high New of for the fair association wi be elected at this Immediate ly after the mass meeting the on Bureau unit will Its regular All in the fair are urged to SATURDAY The high school under the direction of Mack Hoi land and Miss Janie Lee as a part of the municipal recreation al program this will b open for the last time It was announced The which was not openc Thursday night on account of th bad will be open from to o'clock FETE AT The children of the North Caro lina Orthopaedic Hospital her were treated to their annual water melon feast Thursday afternoon b the Lions Wit 100 Ice cold watermelons on hand all the children had all the meloi could and enjoyed presented in each war due to the rainy by 01 Wayside Brown and the a string of Char THOUSANDS ARE MADRID Tell State Board Condi tions Bettered By Liquor Stores MORE CONTROL Want To Be Left Out Of Any New State Law Aug. Carolina's 17 legally wet counties told the state liquor commission today they desired to be strictly in the adoption of eny new control hold that we have bettered our counties and we think we should be permitted to control our counties according to the ions of the and New Hanover said a resolution read by Thomas H. chairman of the county association of the legal liquor Woodard said the resolution had been adopted by the advisory com- of the association at a meeting last Woodard also presented a lengthy brief prepared by B. J. on Page Highest Honors Of Army Will Be Paid Secretary Of War PlaiT Military In- At Salt Lake City Aug. As saluting guns boomed a ing note from every port flying the American the army prepared today to render Its highest honors at the funeral of George Henry secretary of While Mrs. Dern and the three sons and two daughters made final plans for the last the cabinet official's body lay in a coffin nt Walter Reed Hospital in the outskirts of the A guard of honor from the 16th Brigade stood outside the door of where the 64-year-old secretary died yesterday of cardiac and kidney complications after an attack of At President Roosevelt's order flags over the capital and other buildings in the District of bia were at half staff while the on Page SHOT IN SKYSCRAPER FOREST Wet Counties Want To Be Alone Hookup Charge Brings Speedy Reaction From P. SAY LEGAL SALE OF BEEN A Gastonia Women Face Immorality County Whiteville Indicted After Being Taken To Whiteville From tonia For Questioning in Flogging Aug. Columbus county grand jury ed immorality Indictments today against two more reported to haye been flogged by a masked whose activities It was ed by Judge Barnhill to in- Named in today's which charged were Mrs. and her Earlier this similar ments were returned against Grace and Glenn daughters of hue The two families are not Grace and both in their are held in jail here in had cautioned Landon talking too fault of Evidence he said was given The four women are reported to I court last July by George P. have testified before a previous j Republican national grand jury that n robed Iman for was used by Ickes band had cut their beaten them Bussing what he called relationship existing between ernor Landon and Mr. Harding was quick to respond j Speech Intimating Republican Nominee By Publisher Brings From Op- But No Outright Denial SA YS LANDON HAS BEEN Aug. 28. Secretary campaign speech in which he linked the names of Gov: M. Landon and William Randolph brought quick reaction today from Republican The cabinet in a broadcast address last described Hearst as the Republican and them out of the com- munity because they were JOHNSON IN COMA Aug. 28. U. S. Senator nus critically ill in a spent a bad his physicians reported and has lapsed Inio a In addition to the Lihue Fowler and John were listed by officers as alleged victims of the The grand jury had been ed to begin Its Inquiry into the night-riding terrorism but Solicitor John Burney said other work had He indicated it might be next week before the investigation gets Officers returned Mrs. Bertha Fowler and Inez from Gastonia to In the trial of Pink King on immorality charges ing King was acquitted of a more serious charge involving the girl at the last session of At this trial the first information concerning the floggings was brought to Ordered to remove her hat in the Mrs. a showed a head shorn of She said the did it after beating her with leather straps and warning her to leave the when informed of the Ickes He was with Landon as the Republican presidential On Page Richman Ready To Start Today On Flight To London To Eat Saturday In day Breakfast In N. Y. Sheriff Clyde Robinson said day the Fowlers have been living here for some time at 1428 East Airline He said Columbus county officers came here day and took Mrs. Bertha Fowler and back to viile lor the Julius husband of Bertha and father of was not taken back by the officers and is presumedly still Sheriff Robinson HIT BY Aug. C. W. 14, recovering today from shock suffered from lightning Tuesday as he stood in the door of a camp cabin at Cedar S. C. He was knocked unconscious by the bolt but suffered no Other of the cabin were not Egyptian Independence Won By Strange Treaty Merrill and Harry Richman made a 5 in al check of their monoplane today and planned to off from Floyd Bennett this afternoon on an at- round-trip to The fliers said they expected to In London begin their return flight shortly after- and arrive in New York for late breakfast a veteran line pronounced the horsepower plane fit and ready for the hop after a test flight 110 miles up the New England coast and return is said night club entertainer and amateur pilot who will handle radio contacts on Arrangements for the flight which Richman is financing at an estimated cost of were com- several weeks Merrill is taking a sort of is on vacation Irom his airline but he is due to re- turn to work there Wings of ihe ship were stuffed with approximately table tennis balls to give It buoyancy If they should bo forced down on the Aug. The navy formally placed in sion the 1850-ton de- al Ihc navy yard here PLAN Would Amend Protocol To Provide iate Sanctions STRONG ACTION Any try Making War Aug. Russia tonight proposed a bold scheme of League of Nations re- form which would force almost immediate military sanctions any nation making in making the opposed amendment of the League covenant as but mended by the assembly of a special protocol by in the event of war the League council would be summoned within three Within another three the by three-quarters would decide whether circumstances existed calling for the application of punitive The salient feature of the sian scheme was a provision under which military sanctions could be automatically and by states having a mutual assistance if the League council failed to agree on who was responsible for the League members would agree that such sanctions against a warring state would not be deemed acts of Should the council decree eco- nomic and financial un- der the Soviet all League members would be bound to con- Russian newspapers today charged Germany was pre- paring a surprise move which would bring Europe closer to The League assembly meets third week in to discus proposals for League re- GOVERNMENT IS REPORTED IN Report ing Hundreds On The Streets AERIAL FIGHT Rebels Win Air Battle On French Border 100 French press tonight quoted refugees from Spain u saying 100 some of them former leaders of the had been executed in Madrid in reprisal tempt by Fascist prisoners te burn the model jail ish Wall Street can rest easily only bear loose in New York City lias been safely brought down in bear hunt since scrapers sprouted where the forest once Sprawled on the ground is the 220-pound Himalayan bruno who escaped from his pen to run amok in Bronx Park and become the quarry in a frantic hunt that engaged 130 zoo keepers and workmen for Webb Each Given 2 Year Terms To Argue Jackpot Case Here In City Court Tomorrow CASES Cases of drunkenness against Hugh 28-year-old Lowell man who allegedly shot City man J. Ed Armstrong in a scuffle on Main street and sauH with a deadly weapon against Harry alleged of Jim colored city are scheduled for the Saturday morning session of the municipal McCarter remains m the county jail pending the out- come of Armstrong's and Miller is held in the city Jail In default of GOOD Hasten Textile Centre of the Li the sub- ject of a section of State magazine for August uut The leading UM- W. O. executive secretary ul the Chamber of Com- Tiie section is profusely Illustrated with cuts showing scenes in Gaiton county The Carl weekly his a wide circulation outside the county and this Is a splendid piece of for the town There is 2 liberal sprinkling of ad- from Giston county Britain And Egypt Bound To Mutual Assistance In Liberating Manager Carolina Arrested For Violating Fights New Judge A. C. Jones In municipal court today left open until row morning ruling in the case of William T. 47, manager of the Carolina Theatre In for allegedly violating the ordinance passed recently by the city council prohibiting the holding of or nights in Gray pleaded not guilty through his L. B. in city and following tion of State's counsel for defense ashed for a dismissal of the on the grounds that the city ordinance conflicted with the State lottery and that the city law was void by a ruling of the State Supreme Court holding that where city and Slate laws the city law is Miss Josie V. of on direct testified that she went to the Carolina tre Wednesday purchased an admission and registered Jacobs To Serve Time In County JaiL Others To State Prison ADJOURN COURT Sentence To Be- gin October 1st Joe 31, prominent drew a two-year Gaston county jail sentence in Gastonia Superior Court today for the death of 16-year-old Albert Harrison of fatally injured by automobile as he pedaled his bicycle along the dirt shoulder of son boulevard near crossroads between 9 and 10 o'clock the morning of July 16. Special Judge T. B. in the judgment sentencing Jacobs provision that Mrs. Jacobs be allowed to sulin Injections to counteract from which several cians testified Jacobs was and to prepare a special diet for Until sentence does not become effective until October 1. Defense Attorney R. Gregg Cherry told the court the defendant had which needed to be settled up before lie began his Jail He was ordered released on a new French Aug. 28 radio broadcasts Spain today declared the of the government wai becoming precarious and that ex- were killing of persons in the The radio Jerez near Madrid riow in Spanish in two nights the Marxists persons in Sugar supplies of the capital are The rebel station at Seville situation of Madrid is truly severe refuse to work only according to their v own good Spanish rebels won an aerial He above the Franco-Spanish disclosed the former Bourbon dynasty figures in their plans for Spain and claimed Madrid's ers were With machine gun tering French a scouting plane routed two bombers in the battle area near Iran and San on the of In the same forces claimed a man loaded with for besieged cities had slipped past a naval U. S. AFFECTED Other Nations To Lose Former Rights Aug. Britain and after 50 years of are bound to friendly mutual assistance under the new Anglo-Egyptian text of which was made public The treaty was signed day nnd lias yet to be acted upon by the British Under its British liuy occupation of Egypt would lie Each country would be resented in the capital of the other by an ambassador anil Egypt would for membership League of Nations under The effective for 20 years would come into force upon It was believed here that British parliamentary action abaly would be effective In No- parties to the pact would conclude no other sistent alliance On New Arid is Point Plan Offered Killed By Lightning Near Cherryville Program Would Whole Economic In Drought Change Scheme N. Aug. President Roosevelt set out day on another train and motor inspection of sun-scorched farms In North and South Dakota after studying a voluminous report of his special drought committee mending n program to transform whole economic scheme in the great arid His Lo take him tu N. then tu S. lur uf Tile chief executive had closeup view of the havoc late yesterday on a 50-mllc motor Concluded On Page NEW BAR PRESIDENT Aug. The American Bar Association elected Harold 54, of Minn president today William of NEW Fanner And Seeking Refuse Storm Of Thursday In Kin's Instantly Killed As Members Of Family Look On MONROE DAUGHTER VICTIMS to The Aug. an effort to find a safe retreat from the fury of the elements in the electrical storm of late Thursday Monroe Cleveland county and ins Mrs. Marshal 20, met the fate from which by Mr. Willis suil Ills daughter were killed about when a bolt of lightning the home of the elder In the Hay of Cleveland where Mr. and Mrs. Willis and Mrs. sensing clanger from lightning In the fact that their oun home sat openly exposed on a had gone for Mrs. widowed come time 5go by an automobile accident in IJAR Aug. ie Bar Association u dispute today over a report criticizing jhe Roosevelt administration for the The committee split four to three ofer the report while the convention still was stirred by Us 2j3 to 109 vote to centime an- other year special committee to oppose ef the child labor for the She said I bond by P. H. Spurrier until she was informed over the telephone The order provided Jacobs the morning that she was perform ns a trusty such light the and that she as. hls health the theatre and wan pre- check for by Manager And John A. 19. Bee of were Attorney on cross ex- buying a ticket and Policeman James H. Smith fied that he was present for the drawing and explained the drawing to the He stated there was no or fraud in selection of the City Solicitor argued that and city lottery statutes were not and that the municipal ordinance not by Judge as important lur the Uglily of the law u- I de court if replied that lit. could not rule and permission could be granted only by the prosecuting attorney and the chief of Management of the theatre said afternoon the Jackpot event would not be operated some court ruling In the Manager Gray morning withdrew their former pleas and admitted their the defendants want lo go to the roads or the Judge asked Ernest R. ren and O. A. their give them their he The boys decided they would go to the The special August term ot rior Court drew to a here at noon a short while after the and Blackwood cases were Of. HIGHWAY AUK ON Insurgent radio hides of most of the Spanish Fascist news and propaganda in tha six weeks of pictured Madrid as the scene of a perpetual walpurgis night red with hundreds of persons being shot down and food supplies running n the government acknowledged a new raid on the but they were little contradiction of rebel The Catalan autonomous ment at Barcelona prepared to start trials of rebel Fascists ers by Previous executions have been the result of military The rebel chieftains who would rule Spain disclosed today they planned a military and if the people want restoration of the Entrenching themselves about their Burgos stronghold against a sudden thrust by forces of the Fascist leaders let it bo known their In- tended military dictatorship would be followed by a plebiscite Ihe return of the Bourbon Former King who quit the country In 1931, has been re- ported toying with the Idea of flying back to Spain from on Page Palely Die high in 1935 br surpassed if the current II reported 3.180 persons lost their Jives in motor vehicle dents In per cent more than In 1935. and Ihe third month in which ia free on j of I Drunk Driver Given Five Years In Soviet NEW In said Mrs. S. 011 Hit sub- ject of you nuy In JiJI fur Ing Ihg Mrs. member of Ihe New Slate liquor as re- turned on the ter a European man an accident he mar off a light If ht he may jel lira
