The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

1 a Vvi7' A Hi i iiii- A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMI'LILS AND DEVOTED TO THE ISEST INTEREST OK THE PEOPLE OF CIIEKOK EE COUNTY. GAFFNEY, S. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1935 $3.00 PES YEAR IN ADVANCE ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 NEW SHERIFF AND PROBATE JUDGE TO TAKE OVER DUTIES OF OFFICES TODAY; DEPUTIES AND RURAL OFFICERS NAMED CONFEDERATE VET PASSES SATURDAY Rush Scrum-to Save "Stone" Boys 'FORMER UNIONIST STATE EXECUTIVE PLOT ALLEGED TO KIDNAP PRESIDENT ATTACKS GORMAN DEFENDS PARDONS J. M. LEA (J ON DIES CHEROKEE.

AT I SAYS NO AID EXTENDED I.LACKWOOI) SAYS PLANS 1 "fp STRIKERS. INDEFINITE. EVIDENCE HEARD ABOUT DICTATORSHIP. Allison and Wright Will lie! One Witness Asserts Communists Plan to Create Civil War During General Strike. Washington, Dec.

29. A re- of (ireenvood Union Charges Leaders I-! nored (ialfney Resolution. Covcrnor Asserts Sympathy foi- Sull'erino- and Desire to Save State Money Cause. Spartanburg, Dec. Governor lbra C.

lilackwood, a visitor in the city yesterday for a few hours, in an interview defended his use of executive clemency by which almost 2H0 prisoners in the South Carolina penitentiary have been released recently. I Funeral Held Vesler-I day for One of Few Surviv-1 ing Confederates in County. J. M. Loagon, one of Cherokee county's last lew surviving Confederate veterans, died about o'clock Saturday morn nix at the home of his daughter, Says Move 'Mi K24ftr Greenwood, S.

Dec. Miss 1 Carrie Nash, former financial secretary of Local Textile Union No. 1 2171, composed of workers in the Greenwood and Grendei mills in a communication received yesterday by the Index-Journal declares: do not care for any more union experience and prefer to be dictated i to, from now on, bv someone I know personally and noil Gorman." Miss Nash also charges that Toole, Brookshiro and Rogers want the locals to stick together, for that's where their salary comes from." Under the heading, "My Kxper-iences in the Textile Union," Miss Nash's communication follows in full: I "When the union was first organized I was under the impression it.hat such an organization had the financial backing of the U. T. W.

A. in close co-operation with the A. which I large treasury. understood has a rJ 7 r.7 Jit 'A, mi-. wit HA TEXTILE MEETING I At the time the union was or-! thousands ot dollars are ganized I was making a good liv-' saved to South Carolina by re-lirg wage, and was aware of it.

butllieving the state of the burden of A scum was being rushed to Muncie, in an effort to save the lives of Charles Wagner, and his brother, William, 0, who are afflicted with what has been regarded as human ossification. The elder boy is unable to move as his body is hardened to the waist, while the younger boy is able to move by dragging one leg, which has started to turn to stone. Deputies, Byars, Hamrickj and Phillips Rural Police. NEW SHERIFF ASKS FOR CO-OPERATION OF PUBLIC WhoYhcl Undecided on Future Plans While Judge Stroup Plans to Move to Midway. Sheriff Zeb V.

Whelchel and: Probate Judge Lake SI roup! yesterday were making prcparu-, lions to turn their offices oyer this morning to their respective, successors, li i t' Jesse Wright and Probate Judge Ivoy C. Cobb The in-coming ollicers had arranged the required bonds and will be ready to assume their duties. Sheriff Wright yesterday announced his selection of men to serve as deputies and rural policemen. Lee Allison, a former county oflicer who has been a member of the city police force for the past several years, and Deputy Sheriff Julian Wright will be the deputies. The rural office's fill be Charles Byars, a former county officer' who has Ko nnliu hlof lit I 111 j'wuv.

vinvi 'IVi- unma timo Snil 1 11 1 11 11 1 liailtl 1CI, 1UI llliri mnwiwiivv. and D. B. Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Phillips, who has been working as a chaingang guard. In preparing to assume his office, Sheriff" Wright issued an appeal to the citizens of Cherokee county to co-operate with the county officers in enforcement of the laws. "All of the members of my department will appreciate the tinln iind cn-oneraHnn of the public in the maintenance of law enforcement," the sheriff said. "We know a few men can not render the kind of service we want to give without assistance from the citizens generally in furnishing us with information and reports on law violations. V'e intend to pay strict attention and discharge our duties fearlessly and impartially, but with ill-feeling towards none." Retiring Snjiin' Whelchel pressed his appreciation of co-operation received by his ex-the deem' partment during the past TO BE HELD SOONiW? years, lie was engaged yesicr- ureenvuie, was picKed up sun-day in moving from the county day moining near the establish-jail to his home on Lipscomb meuL operated by Eb Moseley off Street, lie said he not made I Cherokee avenue.

Officers said Will Take Place Unlc: Conditions are Corrected. Lexington, Prediction industry wil gest strike N. Dee. 20. that the textile see "the big-we have ever had" in the spring unless i he said precipitated the September strike are corrected was mad'1 here today by Francis J.

Gorman of Washington, first viie president of the United Textile Workers of America. The generalissimo of the strike which prevailed in the textile iivlustry last fall, who is on -x trip to confer with union leaders in this part of the country, said: "We will have the biggest strike we have ever had unless discriminations against labor are eliminated." Gorman spoke here this afternoon to Lexington textile workers, after conferring with labor leaders in Charlotte during the day. "We are going to find out more about the textile industry as the result these studies than we ever knew before," he said, referring to investigations made by government agencies following the general textile strike last September. "If we know the situation, it is simple to know what to do about it," he continued. SICK WOMAN IN JAIL IS SENTTO HOSPITAL Sheriff Says Senator Parris Authorized Transfer Yesterday.

A woman lodged jail here Sunday transferred to the yesterday morning in the county morning was City Hospital for treatment and possibly an operation. The woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Marie lirant, of she had been drinking. After being placed in jail she complained of being ill. Sheriff Zeb V.

Whelchel called Dr. E. P. White, director of the Cherokee County Health Department, who visited her several times. Early yesterday morning another physician was called into consultation.

Both doctors agreed the woman ouuht to be in the hospital. Before making the transfer from the jail to the hospital. Sheriff Whelchel communicated with State Senator Jeff D. Parris. The sheriff said the senator authorized the transfer.

At the hospital at noon yesterday it was said physicians were making every effort to avoid the necessity for an operation. If treatment being administered had not proved effective by 4 p. it was thought the operation would have to be performed. Several weeks ago a woman who was found lying by the side of the highway died in the county jail. There was some criticism of county officials because she had not been sent home or to the hospital for treatment.

Officers of the sheriff's department explained they had been forbidden by the county authorities to send anyone to the hospital except at their own personal expense. Seek Death For Dillinger Aide Chicago, Dec. 30. The government will demand death on the gallows for John Paul Chase. District Attorney Dwight H.

Green tonight recalled the Federal grand jury from holiday recess to hear evidence tomorrow that the young outlaw, trapped Thursday when he ventured back to his old California neighborhood, was "Baby Face" Nelson's partner-in-arms in the highway gunbattle at Barrington, 111., that cost the lives of Nelson and two justice department agents. Convicts Sought In Savannah Area Savannah, Dec. 30. Search for the escaped convicts who abducted Dr. T.

M. White, Cochran, veterinarian, and continued in his automobile after releasing him near Augusta, today was concentrated in this section following discovery of the abandoned car 14 in ilea north of Savan nah on the Coastal Highway. i puted Communist plot to kidnap the president and an alleged Fas-i cist scheme to sr1; up a dictator ship were made public today by the House committee which has been investigating un-American activities. Walter Teele of Washington, I). appearing for the American coalition of patriotic, civil and paternal societies, said a red plan was being widely circulated in Communist circles to create civil war during a general strike; invade the White House; kidnap the president, his cabinet too; take over the government and supersede it with a Soviet staff.

An army captain, Samuel of Baltimore, in charge of civilian conservation camp at Eld-ridge, gave the committee the testimony concerning the dictatorship plan. Glazier said that Jackson Mar-tindell, New York attorney, had discussed with him information of the "American vigilantes," half a million strong, and backed with $700,000,000 to turn out the administration and set up Martin-dell as dictator. Glazier testified in New York recently. Martindell, Glazier said, told him "he knew with the present policies of the president, eventually the country was coming to a revolution and when that time came he wanted to be ready with his organization to take over the reins of the government. "He said that there ought to be one man who would run the country; and he would be the head of the organization." A police raid on a Communist strike school during the Minneapolis truck strike last August, Steele said, yielded the first documents disclosing the plans.

The hearing concluded committee's protracted inquiry that took it through a maze of testimony on Communism, Nazism and Fascism in the United States. The committee questioned Albert G. Christmas, New York attorney, about approximately $154,000 said by other committee witnesses to have been made available by Robert Sterling Clark, New York capitalist, to combat inflation and to promote sound money sentiment. Christmas said about $33,000 went to the committee on sound money and sound currency, headed by Gerald C. MacGuire, New York bond and stock salesman, and the rest to MacGuire directly.

The witness testified that MacGuire never gave an accounting of how the money was spent and none was asked, He, said MacGuire had $64,000 in cash at the time of the American Legion convention in Chicago in 1933. The convention, adopted a resolution, backed by MacGuire, which approved resumption of the gold standard. 5 jV.1 RESTRAINS STATE FROM HALTING HEAVY TRUCKS Injunction Against Limitation Law Secured by Miller Express, Columbia, Dec. 38. A test of the constitutionality of a legislative act prohibiting- heavy trucks and trailers from operating on South Carolina highways after January loomed tonight as the result of a temporary restraining order served upon highway department officials today.

The order, issued to W. W. Miller, trading as Miller Motor Express of Charlotte, restraining officers from enforcing the act against the equipment and employes of the Miller Express while the action is pending. Issued by Judge G. B.

Greene in Colleton county circuit court, the order said the defendants 1, A A I' couia upon ten aays nonce 10 the plaintiff move to dismiss it. nar -j i urn i wt'nhinif nnnvoriAn upon state highways ot all trailers and trucks and semi-trailers having a gross weight, with the load, in excess of 20,000 pounds and exceeding others specifications as to height, width and length. The petition for the order alleged enforcement of the act would affect a considerable quantity of the plaintiff's equipment and cause "irreparable damage" to his business. It also claimed operation of the equipment would not "in an unreasonable way" damage the highways and challenged the constitutionality of the act. Era Supplies Cops Everett, Dec.

fund recipients were pc here to patrol main tb nf this C'ty hpfuif1 Charles Kiser, at Cherokee Falls, after an illness of several weeks, lie was 95 years, one month and 20 days old. I Mr. Leagon had lived in Cher- jokeo township for many years (and was widely-known and highly; jesteemed citizen. Funeral services were conduct-i led at II o'clock yesterday morn-' ing at the Hopewell i fist church by ilu liev. Ftagaii.

In-; torment was in the churchyard with .1. L. Coodsoii, BLickshurg mortician, in charge. i The pall bearers, 'all were Crady, Brady, Jesse, Fred, and Evoretle Leaeon. and Wil-1 Mr.

Lvagon is survived by live i daughters and two sons, as foi- lows: Mrs Carolina and Mrs. kee Fall: Montana; Columbia: Aniamla Revis, North' Mrs. Harriet Broom I Charles Kiser, Chero-i Mrs. Nora Mrs. Rachel McSwain, and Henry and Wil- liam Leagon brothers and Blacksburg.

Two! a halt sister also Dallas, N. Guerney Leagon Kings Mountain, N. C. and Mrs, Bythia Byars, Charlotte 45 PER CENT IN YEAR Local Store Reports Gratify ing- Increase, in Trade for 1934. J.

M. Smith this city have cellent business of J. M. Company of reported an ex-during the year Smith, manager of the store states that the linn's business increased 45 per cent during 1934 over the preceding year. Mr.

Smith, who is a native of Laurens county, came to Gaffney a little more than four years ago. He managed the Cohen store in the same building in which he is now in business, for about two years. When the Cohen chain went into bankruptcy, Mr. Smith and his associates-purchased the Cohen stock from the bankrupt courts at auction sale in August, 1932 and a short time later the firm of J. M.

Smith Company was formed. "It was indeed gratifying," said Mr. Smith, "when an accurate check-up of the year's business revealed an increase of 45 per cent Over Uie business. We feel very optimistic about the future and expect to show a good increase again in 1935 just as we have done each year during the short period which we have been in business realizing, of course, that our fate rests in the hands of the buying public." MRS. JIM HODGE IS VICTIM OF ILLNESS Dies at Columbia Sunday Funeral to lie Held This Morning.

Mrs. Verdie Martin Hodge, 39, wife of Jim Hodge, of Limestone Mill, died Sunday at State Park Sanatorium in Columbia after an illness several months. Mrs. Hodge had lived in and around Gaffney all of her life and was well known. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 1:30 at the residence at Limestone Mill.

The Rev. E. C. Hord will officiate with interment in the Williams cemetery, near the Cowpens Battleground. The Gaffney Funeral II morticians, will be in charge.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Hodge is survived by her father, R. Martin of Cowpens, and the following children: Davis, J. and Louis, of Gaffney, and James, and Evenly Hodge, of McCormick. The following brothers and sister survive also: Tinch, John and Frank Martin and Miss Ada Martin.

Memorial to Caterpillar. Brisbane, Dec, 30. A memorial hall is to be erected at Chinchilla, Queensland, in honor of a caterpillar. The building will be known as the Cactoblastis Memorial Hall, after the cactoblastis, a little caterpillar which, by eating its way through vast areas of prickly pear in Queensland, has made it possible to turn acres of waste ground into rich agricultural land. Out of gratitude to the caterpillar, residents of Eooiiaiua have under- taken to build the hall.

I At the same lime, he added that his plans for the future leaving the governor's ollice after January 1 ire indefinite. lie said he did not know wheth er he would return to Spartanburg or not. As (o Clemency. Regarding his us(. of the pardoning powers granted In the stale executive, Gov.

lilackwood said "We have extended executive clemency to a great many people for a number of good reasons, the foremost sympathy for being a general suffering humanity and another that it is in the interest of economy. caring tor those incarcerated who have grown old and helpless while in prison. Prison Crowded. "Another reason is that the penitentiary is crowded to the point of discomforture, and the chain gangs in the counties have been abandoned and many prisoners have been turned over to the state penitentiary. Notwithstanding the fact that several hundred prisoners have been paroled and pardoned there are still more prisoners in the state penitentiary than a year ago.

"I think I am about to acquire the reputation of being soft, but a glance at my record as solicitor of the seventh judicial circuit would indicate I tried as" many cases and convicted as many as any other solicitor in the state for 12 years." Gov. Blackwood declared that conditions in this state and in many other states are greatly The Unemployed. One big problem, he said, is to get the unemployed people to work and take the G5.000 relief participants in the state off the rolls. Gov. Blackwood stopped at the Franklin Hotel while here, greet-1 ing and conversing with many of his friends and acquaintances, He returned to the capital last night.

PRODUCTION CREDIT GROUP MEETING SET Hambright Announces January 2S as Day for Annual Reunion. Spartanburg, Dec. 29. The Spartanburg Production Credit Association, crop loan agency serving Spartanburg, Union and Cherokee counties, will hold its annual meeting January 28 at 11 a. according to Ernest Graham, president of the state association.

W. A. Hambright is secretary-treasurer of the Spartanburg association, which has offices in the Harris Building. A complete report of the year's operations will be submitted at the meeting, and a board of directors elected for the ensuing year. Each borrower of an association is a holder of Class stock and is expected to attend and assist in the election of directors, hear detailed reports of his association and help in the plans for the forthcoming season.

All farmers, whether members or not, are invited. promInentcTtiten passesat cowpens W. Tanner, Confederate Veteran, Goes to Reward Yesterday. W. R.

Tanner, Confederate veteran and prominent citizen of Cowpens, died at his home at Cowpens yesterday morning, ac cording to word received here. He was the father of Mrs. Richard Ligon, of the staff of Limestone College, and W. R. Tanner, formerly secretary of the Gaffney Manufacturing-Company for a number of years.

Funeral arrangements not known here yesterday yesterday afternoon. Saved by Book. Wichita, Oec. 29. Although a crazed man fired point blank at his heart, John M.

Carter is alive today. Carter was carrying a heavy book in a pocket over his hfarr in which bullet lmbprinen itself. je.L uie same unit leit that it my i joining the union and helping to support the organization would at some future time be the means of i increasing my own or other people's salaries, I was willing to do so. i "After joining I was elected to position to know a few things that might be enlightening to others. "Before the strike was called I liadi sent to James Starr, secretary to Francis J.

Gorman, approximately $1,100. During the strike we received weekly bulletins from headquarters issued by Gorman, jte'Iimr us to hold fast, stick togeth- ed, that they were behind us land wide awake, which led us to i believe that when we reached a crisis wo would receive help from headquarters Says Aid Withheld. "After our local treasury was depleted our secretary was authorized by the president to send Mr. Gorman a special delivery, stating our circumstances. Ins being done, we waited a week and, receiving no reply, a telegram was then sent to Air.

Gorman telling him it would be impossible to carry on any longer without help. We received no reply from this. "At the convention in Gaffney a resolution was drawn up and telegraphed to Mr. Gorman asking that a commissary be set up at Greenwood for ihe relief of the two locals, and to my knowledge Gorman hasn't been heard from yet. "When Peele, Brookshire and Rogers come down and cry, 'Stick together, you've got the backing' well, that's a huge joke.

They want the locals to stick together, sure, for that's where their salary comes from. The only help we ever got was from other locals and if one local in Carolina has to help another, why is it necessary to send Gorman the money? "Each month that I mailed Gorman's secretary $150, there wasn't a minute lost in the time it took for it get there and a receipt to get back here, thanking us and wishing us all kinds of success and hoping we would continue to grow. Of course that was natural, for as we cont-ued to grow it meant more dollars in his pocket. "Before the union was organized I don't know of a single needy family in our community, and now I could name a dozen needy families. What has the union profited any of us? It has bred enmity among a few and brought hardships to many and now Mr.

Gorman doesn't even recall that there ever was a local 2171 in Greenwood, S. C-, if he does, there is no evidence of the fact. "I sincerely hope that if anyone reading this happens to be a 100 per cent union member, or is still inclined to belong to a union, he or she will not be offended, for I have merely stated the true facts. "I do not care for any more union experience and prefer to be dictated to, from now on, by someone I know personally and not Mr. Gorman, "Carrie Nash, "329 Grove St.

"Greenwood, S. MRS. G0UDEL0CK LOSES FATHER ATF0RT MILL E. C. Armstrong Dic at Home Friday After Long Illness E.

C. Armstrong, 75, father of Mrs. Adam S. Goudelock, Jr. of Gaffney, died Friday at his home in Fort Mill in York county after a long illness.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cora Eleanor Armstrong, and the following children: Bernard Armstrong, Charlotte; John Armstrong and Mrs. Shade Moss, Fort Mill; Ed Yarborotigh, Garonin; nnd Mrs. Goudelock, Gaffney. MRS.

MOORE IS TAKEN BY DEATH an CLAIMED. IS Succumbs Early Saturday to; Illness of Three Months; Funeral Services Held Sunday. Mrs. Voile Jones Moore, 42. wife i of J.

Yates Moore, died at her home on Railroad avenue here Saturday I morning about 8 o'clock after an I illness of three months. I'uneial services Were conducted Sunday afier.ioon at 3:30 o'clock at the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church by the pastor, the Piev. C. A. Kirhy, assisted by Dr.

I). A. Howard and Rev. E. G.

Boss. Interment was in Oakland cemetery' with the Shul'ord-Hatcher Company, morticians, in charge. Pallbearers were J. W. Godfrey, O.

A. Sullivan, T. E. Burgess, I'). l'arris, P.

W. Lewis and E. E. Jones. I 1 1 1 niooie is survived oy ner 'husband.

.1. V. Monro: threw sons. I A (V lYTnnro IHnm-n nnrl Wil- liam Moore; four daughters, Mrs. Kul'us Spencer and Misses Idell, TrU Wnm all of Gafl'nev: her mother.

Mrs. J. R. Jones, of Gaffney; four brothers, J. Conrad Jones, clerk of court of HiVkson Jones and' all of Gaffney; five sisters, Mrs.

A. C. Parker, Gaffney; Mrs. Victor Mc-Craw, of Spartanburg; Miss Kathleen Jones, superintendent of the City Hospital, Gaffney; Miss Edna Jones, member of the faculty of Southern Shops School in Spartanburg, and Miss Mary Sue Jones, of Gaffney. WANT PUPILS TAUGHT HOW TO DRIVE SAFELY State Board of Education Considers Course for High Schools.

Columbia, Dec. 28. The state board of education today considered instruction on the harmful effects of alcohol, in automobile driving and in music. Upon motion of Mrs. Florence A.

Minis, of Edgefield, the board placed a syllabus on the effect of alcohol and tobacco on its supplementary list of approved text books for South Carolina schools. It directed John G. Kelly, state high school supervisor, to prepare a syllabus on the proper teaching of music in high schools to increase the attention given music in the boards. Dr. S.

A. Edmunds of Sumter, a member of the board, suggested that action be taken for classroom instruction of pupils in careful automobile driving 'and observance of safety laws. While no conclusive action was taken on, the matter, Dr. Edmunds said he was taking it up with the state highway department, which was empowered by a 1934 legislative act to give schoolroom instruction in road safety. Woman Kills Self.

Concord, N. Dec. 29. Mrs. Riddie Bell Tusman shot herself to death here yesterday after attempting the life of It.

II. Memanus" for whom she had been working. Police said the followed, a dispute over $850. i i i I CONVENTION TO MEET FRIDAY State Federation Plans for 2- Day Mooting; Godfrey Says at Parting of Highways. Spartanburg, Dec.

29. The state convention of the South Carolina Federation of Textile Workers, of which Representative II. C. Godfrey, of the Snartanburir county lelcgation is president, will be held at Aewoerry nday and. January i and uooirey an-nounci'd Saturday.

I'l-iriav vill be an open meeting to which the general public will be invited, while Saturday's meeting-will be closed, at which time a prominent labor leader will make the principal address, and other matters of importance will be tak- en up. Discussing the significance of the (convention, Mr. Godfrey said: "U'i slnn.l now at. the nlaee where the two roads part; one leads bad. to the old order of things low- wages, more stretch-out, longer hours and industrial slavery and I he other leads to better wages, abolition of the stretch-out, shorter hours and independent freedom.

"Our honored president has opened ui) to us an avenue to success land happiness, provided we choose to walk therein. That avenue is the right to organize ami bargain collectively. We have now walked in this way for some 111 or 18 months." U. S. DECLINES TO AGREE TO EQUALITY Japanese Naval Demands Refused with Regret by Hull.

Washington, Dec, 29. A quiet but definite refusal of Japanese demands for naval equality was the United States' answer tonight to Japan's formal denunciation of the Washington naval limitations treaty. Secretary Hull, accepting from Hirosi Saito, suave ambassador from Japan, the official signal of the death of the 5-5-3 pact on December 31, 193G, declared he did so with "genuine regret." Pledging, simultaneously, continued efforts to "promote peace through disarmament" by co-operating toward new naval limitation, Hull nevertheless declared that experience had shown that "quality of armaments" was not the path to peace. While a ferment of naval talk was stirred around the world, leaving a question mark placed after the possibility of an ensuing arms race, Saito scouted talk of such a building contest. In handing in his country's denunciation of the Washington pact of 1922, he expressed hope for a new treaty that would provide equality for Chester Youth Is Injured In Wreck Chester, Dec.

30 tuart Abell, 10-year-old Loris youth, suffered a fractured leg and bruises in an automobile accident 18 miles north or here tonight, and two of his companions, Edward, his brother and Bobby of Chcrtcr, and bruised. definite business plans for the luvure, out i-Apueiuu iu ioi pfci week or two before accepting 'ny of several propositions he has under consideration. I ,..1 Judge Stroup said he is plan-, ring- to move with his family to his farm in the Midway community, opposite the county prison camp, formerly known as the Austell place, in the early future. He will remain here a short time and will spend a few days, as many as necessary, in the probate judge's office assisting Mr. Cobb in becoming familiar with the records.

Before his. first election a dozen years ago Mr. Stroup lived in the Pondlield community. While Sheriff Wright will assume office today, he will not be "new" to the duties of the position since he served as sheriff for eight years, from 1922 to 1930. TEXTILE UNION RAISES JOININGJ-EE TO $2.50 'jf'o.

180-i -Installs Officers for Year and Listen to Gorman. 2j A resolution increasing the ini-f tiation fee from $1 to $2.50 effec tive January 19 was adopted at the weekly meeting of Local No. 1804, United Textile Workers, Saturday night. Officers elected early in December for the year 1935 were installed. T.

E. Best is the president, having been re-elected, as were all other-officers with the exception of the financial secretary, E. W. Estes, chosen in the regular election, was installed in this post to succeed Gerard Guthrie, who declined to accept re-election after having served satisfactorily the past year. A vote of thanks was extended the Cooper Furniture Company for the use of a radio receiving set installed in the hall so the members could hear the address delivered Saturday evening by Francis J.

Gorman, national vice president of the United Textile Workers. jt Concord Man Killed. Concord, N. Dec. 29.

Paul Gillon, 30, office employe of the Cannon Mills Company at Kannap. olis, died in a hospital here last night of injuries suffered when his automobile overturned Saturday night near here as a tire blew out. His widow and three children sur- vive. traffic congestion..