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THE STATESVILLE RECORD, STATES VILLE, N. (X FRIDAY. DECEMBER 31, 10.37 RHODES (Whizzer) White, University of Colorado's All-America halfback, not only excelled in football but passed the Rhodes scholarship examinations and will go to Oxford, England, to study law for two years. The Whizzer's brother Sam is at Oxford now on a Rhodes scholarship. Whizzer will play against Rice in the Dallas Cotton Bowl, on New Year's Day, SWIM MARK Kiefer of Chicago, swimming marvel who set a new national 100-meter backstroke mark of 1:07.7 over a 20-yard course in the Miami Biltmore swim contest at Coral F'a.

He broke the record of 1:11.4 established by "Villiam H. Mackey, Yale, at New Haven, April 9, 1936. A FLYING START NCE a year (and this is an opportune time) every man and' every woman should review their resolutions about saving, Start a savings account now at this Bank if you wish to get away to a flying start for 1938. Then save regularly every Month during the year. START SAVING REGULARLY NOW We Welcome Your Banking Business PEOPLES LOAN SAVINGS BANK TRA I LIN THE SPORTS tvitk JUVYN MORRISON OFF SEASON IN SPORTS The curtain has just about rung down on 1937 sports activities.

The professionals are hibernating and the ama.teurs are all home for the Christmas holiday season. The fan who to read of the activities of the boys and men who can use Iheir mdinds muscles beftt'er than other people is compelled to turn the stories of the weather, politics) or the Internatdo-nial situation. Your reader of sports doesn't pay very much attention to these subjects unless he is forced to, and this is the season when he catches up with his reading of the world in general. Until the first of the new year there will be but little going on. A few of tho boys and men will spend a week in the fields and woods, looking for blrds( where there are pione) but they will be all the better for getting into the open air.

There will be a few bowling matches or a scattering basketball game; but sports are practically a dead issue until the "i'et of January. After that date the wheels Will start grinding again in earnest and we will be off to a new season of basketball, track, boxing, bowling, wrestling and foot, toall and all the category of athletics, all over again, It's all-ways a new subject with the beginning Of a new year, FA3IOUS BASEBALL FOLKS SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS IN OUR MIDST Mrs. Earle McGillicuddy and Earle of Philadelphia, Pa. are spending the Chirtsmas holiday season in Stateeville visiting Mrs. McGillicuddy's- sister and brother- in-law, Mr, and Mrs.

Elbert M. Shelton. Mr. McGillicuddy is better known especially to the baseball world, as Earle Mack, coach of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Baseball League and the son of Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known to the baseball world under the monicker of Connie Mack, famous manager of the Philadelphia Athletics for the past 37 years, and Who recently celebrated his 75th birthday. Mr.

Connie Mack has been a part of baseball for the past 55 yers and it has been through these many years of untiring baseball effort that Mr. Connie Mack has aided in placing 'baseball on the pinnacle it has attained at the present time. Mr, Earle Mack got his start in organized baseball in the old North Carolina State League, first playing at Raleigh, then Asheville and in 1917 becoming manager oC the Charlotte Hornets; of the same league. He was an outstanding player around the key-stone hassock during his playing days. For the past 13 or more years Mr.

Earle Mack has been the successful coach for the Philadelphia Athletics and during the later part of the past baseball season when his venerable and beloved father became ill, Coach Earle Mack took over the of the Athletics for the rest of the 1937 big league season and was very successful in handling the team and aiding in landing the team in seventh place, a notch higher than they finished the season, before. It is always- a pleasure to have Mr. and Mrs. Earle Mack and son in our midst, and the wish of the sports editor of the STATESVILLE RECORD is that they are enjoying their stay in Statesville and that they have had a happy Christmas season and that the New Year holds much happiness in store for them. coach of the Sharon Highs will be one of the leading players on the Sharon team.

Coach Clyde Alexander expects to put a fairly strong- team on the floor to represent Mitchell College In he loop, a.nd he expects? hie to win. the majority of their league games and earn a place i the final playoff of the league. This new independent cage loop is something new for Statesville and Iredell County and it is expected to create much interest and to furnish the basketball fans of this city and its environs much clean ribbed, court play during th coming cage season. A triple header will be played every Thursday night In the new year and running for nine weeks thereafter, or until each team has played ten games in the loop. The games will start each Thursdy night at 7:15 o'clock with the first and second games- being sandwiched in with each either, while the third and final giame of the triple-header attraction will begin at 8:45 o'clock.

All games will run for 15-minut halves, and there will be plenty of action for the best Part' of two hours each league night. CITY-COUNTY LOOP TEAMS TO BE STRONG The six managers of teams that have entered their teams in the newly formed Iredell City-County Independent Basketball League are busily engaged in lining up strong cage outfits to battle for top honors in the loop's initial race, which will get underway on Thursday night, January Gth, at Mitchell College gymnasium. The league is being sponsored by the sports department of THE STATESVILLE RECORD and i co-operation with the Mitchell College Athletic Association. Mr. Sam Barnett, manager of the Mooresville All-Stars, plans to enter a strong- team of former college and high school stars and he is busily engaged in lining up a strong- team to represent the South Iredell City in the loop.

Mr. Bob Bradford, who Is manager of the Scotts All-Stars, also expects to place a strong five on the floor. Among the players on his- team will toe Marvin Arey, Bill Sherrill, Troy Moose, Henry Feim- eter and Mr. Bradford himself. Manager Clyde "Slim" White, of the Smith's Dry Cleaners has lined up strong team and expects to have a team flg-hting for the top rung of the percentage ladder of the loop at all times.

Among the players who will be members of the Goforth Motors five are Bob Weaver, Erskine "Kit' 1 Carson, Bill Reavis, Ervin Nor. ton, Bristol Johnson, Frank Goforth and several other well-known cage artists. Roecoe Campbell former outstanding cage luminary of Sharon Highs is the manager of the Sharon All-Stars and ho is rapidly lining up a strong team to place in the loop. Paul Hockette, a former Guilford College cage star and now SCHEDULE OF CTTY.COUNTY INDEPENDENT BASKETBALL LEAGUE IS ANNOUNCED A schedule of ten games for each league member has been arranged for the teams composing the recently organized Iredell City-County Indopendet Basketball League, which is being sponsored by the sports department of THE STATESVILLE RECORD in co-operation with the Mitchell College Athletic Association. The four teams having the highest per centage at the end of the lO.game schedule will play in an elimination series for the championship of the loop.

All league otherwise notified, will be. played every Thursday night at Mitchell College gym. naeium, with a triple header' on tap and with the first game of thp evening starting promptly at 7:15 o'clock with the second game sandwiched in with the first tilt, and with the final game of the triple, header starting at 8:45 o'clock. The opening pame will played Thursday night', January Gth, jth the final games of th regular shedule being played on night, March 10th. The following is the schedule as arranged hy the s-ports editor of the RECORD un.deir w.h'O',s direction the league will function: JANUARY 6th Goforth's vs Mitchell Sharon vs Scotts- Mooresville Smith's JANUARY 13th Goforth's vs Scotts Sharon vs Smith's Mooresville Mitchell JANUARY 20 tli Goforth's vs Mooreeville Sharon Mitchell Scotts vs Smith's JANUARY 27th Ooforth's vs Sharon Mooresvllle vs Scotts Mitchell vs Smith's FEBRUARY 3rd Goforth's Smith's Sharon vs Mooresville Scotts vs Mitchell FEBRUARY 10th Mitchell Goforth's Scotts vs Sharon Smith's Vfi Mooresville FEBRUARY 17 til Scotts vs Goforth's Smith's vg Sharon Mitchell vs Mooresville FEBRUARY 24th Mooresville vs Goforth's Mitchell vs Sharon Smith's vs Scotts MARCH 3rd Sharon vs- Goforth's Scotts vs Mooresville Smith's Mitchell MARCH 10th Smith's vg Goforth's Mooresville vs Sharon Mitchell vs Scotts.

DEATHS OARFIELD COMTTON James Garfleld Compton, aged 56 and a resident of the Oetwn.lt section of this county, died suddenly Sunday afternoon at 5:20 o'clock at the home 'of F. It. Helms, on Boger street, Mooresvillc, whore he had called to pay a friendly visit to nn old nelghb'or. Mr. Compton was one of fourteen children and was a son of Aaron and Elizabeth Compton, who came to Iredell county many years ago from Cnswell county; Ho la survived by his wife and fourteen children, the- latter being James.

Howard, Banes and 11am Compton, of Washington, D. Mrs. H. T. Hethcox of Concord; Mrs.

W. L. Nixon and Mrs, Buford Nixon, and Miss Josephine Compton, of Statesvillo; Marvin, Rubv. Helen, Janie, Calvin and Glenn at the home. Two children are dead.

Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters: U. S. G. Mrs. R.

A. Boat, W. D. and C. Compton, of Troutman; Meade Compton, of Mount TJ.Ha; Mrs.

G. W. Bat-bee, of Stanfield; P. S. and William Compton, of Mooresvillc.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Pleasant Hill Baptist church a few miles west of Statesville, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Broadaway. Flowers were in charge of Miss Ada Compton. GRID ENEMIES MEET IN for the football contest in San Francisco, two great gridiron centers meet at a hospital.

At left is Louie Tsoutsouvas of Stanford University with Alex Wojciechowicz of Fordham, as they visited the Shrine hospital in San Francisco, for whose benefit the annual East- West football game on New Year's Day is staged. Between them Is a youngster recuperating from a leg injury. NEWS ABOUT OUR COLORED PEOPLE MR. GEORGE BLAKE GANT The funeral service for Mr. George Blake Gant, whoso death occurred Tuesday evening, Was held Thursday morning from the Beulah Baptist 'Church.

The service was conducted by Rev. J. B. Tabor. Rev.

Dr. J. H. Pressly and Rev. A.

C. McCall. The pallbearers were Messrs. R'alph Gilbert, Blake Deal, Lynn Brady, C. O.

Plyler, Oscar Gilbert, Curl Dagenhardt, Ralph McNeely, and Carl Stevenson, members of Stirling- Camp of the Woodmen of the World No. 647. served as honary pallbearers. The flowers were in charge ot' Mrs. Lynn Brady and Mrs.

Ralph Gilbert, and were by a group of nurses of the H. F. Long Hospital, classmates of Mr. Cant's daughter, Miss Dorothy Gant. The floral tribute Was numerous anl beautiful.

JAMES ATKINS James Atkins, 53, manager of the Methodist assembly grounds at Lake Junaluska, died Tuesday right at 11 o'clock at his home at the lake. Death resulted from a heart u-ttcck after very brief illness. Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the First Methodist church Wayr.e-Evi'.le. Mr. Atkins was a son of the late Bishop James Atkins, of Waynesville, and had resided in the Waynesville section practically all of his life.

His father Was of the chief in the of the assembly at Lake Junaluska. Mr. Atkins became receiver of the assembly grounds when the property was in financial straits a few years ago, and it in such manner that he and the Rev. W. A.

Lambeth, of High Point, succeeded in raising- funds to pay oft' the indebtedness and return the property 'to the Southern Methodist church. Mr. Atkins wae a brother of Halliard B. Atkins, receiver of the First National Bank of Statesville. By T.

ALLISON, JR. The Record's Correspondent and a Member of the Associated Negro Press. Services at the Washington Street C. M. E.

Temple day will consist of Sunday school at 10 a. Morn'ing Service at 11 o'clock, with sermon "by the pastor, Kiev. W. M. Braudors.

Special by the church choir. Epworth League at o'clock. Through the various organizations of the church, many interesting subjects will be discussed for the New Year. A New Year Service will be observed) at the Center Street A. M.

E. Xion Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Rev. J. W. Croom, pastor of the Firat Baptist Church choir and members of the congregation have been invited to worship with the members of the Center Street church at this time.

All invited. Bad Plight Of The Five Little Rich Girls According to Dr. Allan Dafoe, the Dionne quintuplets of Ontario now have an estate of $500,000, and they will need every cent of it, says the New oYrk World Telegram. Instead of going to public school and having a glorious rough-and-tumble time with the other kids they Will have to "buy their privacy." Their school will be a private institution, their classmates "selected" village chil- dred, their "contacts" guarded as closely as their health to keep them from becoming self-conscious. In summertime extra guards will be neceeeary to ward away the sifiht-seers.

Even now their costs some $1,800 a month. What a life for little Yvonne, Marie. Cecile, Annette, and Einile! To save them ifrom living 1 a goldfish bowl, they must spend their youth in the hothouse. What youngster lucky enough to be 'born singly will envy them all their wealth and glamour? At the age of 3 1-2 years the Dionnes are trailed about by doctor, a teacher, two nurses, guards, two maids, a house- and a janitor, not to a couple of parents. No wonder they have become eo eophie- that they are said to entertain, doubts about Santa Claus! BAPTISTS ELECT (Continued from Page One) Campbell, from the Sunday school; Mr.

R. D. Christopher, Mr. D. Waujjh and Mr.

M. S. Campbell from the Baptist' Training Unions; Miss Mattie Stroud, Mi.s« Mary Cashwcll and Mrs. G. E.

Harris, from the Woman's Missionary Society. The following treasurers were elected: Mr. G. E. Harris, treasurer of current church expense fund; Mr.

M. Anderson, treasurer of building fund, and Mrs. G. E. Harris, treasurer of Mission fund.

Mis.s Mary Cashwell, was re-elected church clerk. Miss Francis Stack was re-elected church organist, and Mr. W. M. Johnson Was re-elected director, and Mr.

E. Byors, chairman of ushers. The following smaller committees were elected: committee on W. O. Lamb, Mr.

D. R. Stewart, Mrs. D. Christopher and Mrs.

W. Evans-; committee on tho Lord's Supper, Mr. G. E. Harris and Mrs.

G. E. Harries; fe-1, lowship W. L. Williams, chairman, Mr.

R. W. Conner; Mrs. E. Brown, Mrs.

J. M. Milstead; house and grounds A. E. Byers, chair, man, Mr.

Sherman Mitchell; flower on church Mies Mary Cashwell, Miss Hortence Hux and Mrs. C. C. McElroy; church J. E.

Cloer, Mr. A. E. Byers and Mr. W.

L. Williams. Mr. G. E.

Harris, was elected to represent the church on the promotional committee of the South Yadkin. Baptist Association, Miss Helen Conger is the church secretary and pastor's help, er. TWO COLORED COUPLES WED Ed Alexander, and Pearline Tucker, 'Johnnie Daughters and Flossie Alexander, two colored from Elmwood, Cleveland section were married Tues day. 'Squire Toralin Was the officiating magistrate. Tho.ro will 'bo service at the Gray's Chapel Congregational j'hurch, Old Field, Southern Boulevard, Sunday, tho pastor, Rev II.

L. Truesdale, will deliver the message at morning and evening Bwvices. East Aurora, N. Doc. C.

Kent, 93 years old, and Widely known as "Abraham Lincoln's Messenger died Monday, December 20th, at his home here. As a boy of 1C Kent enlisted for service in the Civil War and several times carried messages from President Lin coin in Washington to generals at the battle front. Boston, Dec. Edwina Campbell, ninetc-en years' old, was recently chosen from a long lidt of applicants to bo one of the secretaries to Governor C. F.

Hurley. Miss Camp-bell is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. D.

Hall and she its a graduate of tho Girls' High School and Boston Clerical School. She a member of the Junior League Club and is very popular. New York, Dec. received hero from tho Paris Soil one- of the great dailies of the French capital, with than a million circulation, shows that a series of six articles on lynching and on Negro life in the Southern States was carried by) that paper beginning October 13. The stories Were written by Curt KJieas, of New York, the American correspondent of the Paris Soir.

In collecting data for series, Mr. Rless consulted the national office of the National Association for the Advancement of. Colored People, and Was aseistel by the N.A.A.C.P. in arranging his itenerary through the South for First-hand observations. Mm Carrie Williams, the of Mr.

J. D. Williams, has been ill at her home on Washington street. It is reported that she has almost lost tier eight. Mr.

Luther Spann, well known caretaker and custodian of the Center Street A.M.E. Zion -Church until he began to fail in health, its seriously ill at his ho.nie on Walker street. He is the father of Miss Zera Spann, registered nurse. Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 30.

the decision of tho Irish Free State to appoint a. minister to PJome, Italy, in return for that appointment last year of a minister to Dublin, it was learned the Dail Eircann (Irish Legislature), had given de facto recognition of the conquest of Ethiopia by Italy. At Tuesday's meeting two weeks ago, of the Dail President Edmon do Valera, of the Irish Free that the new Irish Minister to Ro-mei would be accredited to, tho King of Italy, as King, and Emperor of Ethiopia. Questioned, President de Valeria it necessary that if a Minister were sent to Rome that ho should address the King of Italy by the title he had so, we are now recognizing the "annexation of Abyssinia." New York, Dec. Elzy, New York soprano, guest artist Wednesda- Weeks ago, at the White House when Mrs.

Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the land, entertained for Wives of tho Supreme Court Justices. Mrs. Roosevelt heard Mies Elzy sing- some time ago in New York and after hearing her she was so well impressed that she offered her the engagement at the White House. The. Skyland Banner Lodge, No 315, of I.B.P.O.

Elks of the World is sponsoring a New Year's Eve dance at the Coca-Cola Hall tonight, (Friday), December 31st. The Harlem Broadcasters, Greensboro, will furnish the music for the dance. RECORDERS COURT Da id Lee Harkey for driving drunk, three months on the roads and a of $05 and costs. De- fendant'tf driver's license was revoked. J.

Hobbs, driving drunk, six months on the roads and a fine of $50 and costs. License suspended Tom Allison, colored, found ff-ullty of possessing untaxpald liquor, had prayer for Judgment continued for two years. Hub McLelland, colored, possessing- liquor, for sale, 15 months on the roads and a fine of $15 and the costs. In another count for possessing- and selling' liquor, McLelland drew IB months on the roads and flne of ant the costs. Hugh Simon, carrying a concealed weapon, four on the roada.

Hugh, Elwood Blackburn, of Lenolr, In a reckleiss driving (Count, was required to pay a fine of $15 and the costs, totaling $31.60. Hub Feiroster, possessing: liquor for sale, 18 months on the roads and a fine of $25 and the coste. Walter Coffer, abandonment and nonsup case left until January 8. Sentence was changed in the case of Robert Vandernack, found guilty of having 1 a nistol concealed on hb person while a prisoner in the connty jail and sentenced to nine months on the roads. Wednesday afternoon, the term was reduce-d to four months.

Vad- ernaok, 17, was one the three prisoners in a wreck near States- villa recently When Sheric Smoot, France Converts "40 and 8" Cars Into Art Salons "-10 and boxcars in which American soldiers "toured" France jn 1918-19 have highbrow, and today instead of transporting men and horses they have become 1 traveling art salons, wandering educational exhibits a.id even snow trains. The diminutive art galleries which travel from city to city in France give little evidence that 20 years ago they were "40 and 8" boxcars, for they have been improved, renovated and decorated for their current use. This winter the- Well-remembered boxcars will travel through France and Belgium to advertise the joys of enow and ice- and winter visitors to the snow resorts of the Pyrenees, Alpes. Vosges and Jura mountains. Painted white, the cane have toeen equipped with modern conven iences, and there are, uhotographs, even paintings, on the walls, loudspeakers from which come folk- songs of the mountain regions and tales of the joya of winter eports.

of Davie county, was on bis Way to Newton, Sheriff Snaoot and one of the prisoners toeing- injured, and one prisoner escaped. Wrong Breath did you go out for just now, John?" a breath of fresJU air," Ufa. I wish you had 'brought it in with you instead ot the one you've got.".