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WEATHER Norlh Carolina. Generally fair gnd mild tonight and Tuesday, fol f"% bv rain and colder In west. Official Shelby temperatures: , l « low 41. rainfall, none. The Hhelby Baily Stett t The Markets Cotton, spot . ........ ItH to lJWe Cotton tierd. w*|pn, ton_SS1.M Cotton Rood, oor, ton ...... IS4.M FORMERLY THE CLEVELAND STAR, ESTABLISHED 1896 pfxLlI—NO-135 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE SHELBY DAILY STAR SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 2, 1936 AUDITED CIRCULATION SINGLE COPIES Be wjarbors Closed Tight Iacific strike SPREADS, SHIPS AT STANDSTILL [ailroads Reject All Freight Through Closed Port* 140 SHIPS IDLE gAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.—fa lderal intervention in the Pacific B maritime strike appeared in jfpect from three sources today | seamen spread a “sympathy” jckade to eastern and gulf ports, f official1' of the United States labor department and maritime Miminrr indicated prompt ac ». Employers were reported con ning a request for navy “safety f»s' on tied-up merchant ships. [ Admiral H. G. Hamlet, repres iimg the maritime commission, jimoned both sides to a hearing ich twice previously was post Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed F. McGrady declared the ivemment must challenge” what i said was the position taken by Involved in the dispute. West Coast Frozen Every coast port remained “froz 1 tight by the walkout called Jiursday midnight by leaders of MOO ship and lock workers. Ves i arriving since the strike started under the blockade. The Ma Exchange here reported more 140 vessels idle at west coast and Honolulu. I The seamen's defense committee l Mew York, acting in defiance of ►strike orders from officials of ! International Seamen’s union, med 57 vessels tied-up at east i gulf ports in the sympathy “sit The committee claimed 2, 1 men affected. At Philadelphia, John F. Egan, retary of the maritime exchange, "everything tied up.” Oth r ports in which the seamen’s corn claimed one or more ships 1 up were: ^Baltimore, Newark, Poughkeepsie, “irieston, Norfolk, Albany, . New Providence, Port Arthur, City, Mobile and Galveston. The strike paralysis continued to •ore inland, with railroads reject Wl freight destined for re-shipment trough Pacific ports lumber and Iher industries shutting down and Kehouses closed in San Francisco Iky cities. tULLETIN COLUMBUS, Miss., Nov. "r-G. V. Reed, a traveling from Shelby, N. C., of injuries he suf w*d Saturday when his auto I*™* Ponged a 20-foot em wkment. emergency operation was Wormed in an effort to save life. Mr Reed was employed by ^ Llfr Mill and Power Com hfre a™l was at the time Z “ dpath 'n charge of sales , Mississippi territory. Of /Ja,s at the milt said this aft °°n that he has been with f company about six months is one of the roost valuable "i" °>> the force. lnriJfnerai arran£e*nente were but were tentative. • tor Tuesday at Columbia, k,. ■* NIr Meed’s home, where Us,® a "lfe and one child. Ho M year* of age . Da>ly Star To Have Election Party Tuesday Sh^by na»y Star will Biftt efction P»rty Tuesday tkr J™*.wil' *•* received over m Press teletypes, dtesdij* irrsnSp<J, and those bf ^rty will re t»S* „ M -* at the saage ** Urf" aS°™‘ r^**"**” will be ar Ua> M .. ‘n,,«>u»ice the bulle PHMk k . *“* ‘^rtved. The u,'* *?**• *®rdIaMy ln tev £ a‘ "Md “><■ Party and "* mums. ! Panhandler I... — hirf The approach of winter and the close of the tourist season in Glacier National Park, Montana, finds old Bruin losing out on the easy handouts he has been get ting all summer. He’s shown here getting about the last one this season before he goes into hibernation. Panhandling is an old art for Glacier Park bears. BRITISH HAVE TROUBLE WITH NIPPON POLICE Torture Incident I s Causing Concern Over Relations SHANGHAI, Nov. 2.— (A>) —De tails of the alleged “Fingernail Torture” of three British sailors by Japanese police were disclosed to day by officials of the British Asiatic Naval headquarters here. The officials said a fountain pen was jammed under the fingernails of one saildr and then ink forced into the wounds to make him sign a “confession” sought by the Jap anese. The Incident, ifrhich caused vice admiral Sir Charles Little, com manding the British Far East Na val forces, to postpone a visit to Japan, occurred at Keelung, For mosa, Oct. 7. According to British Naval offi cers, three seamen from British Naval craft then stationed at Kee lung were arrested by Japanese po lic for alleged non-payment of taxicab fare. Causes Tension Upon protesting, British officers here said, the three sailors were pinned down by four Japanese po lice and beaten in the face by ad ditional Japanese plain clothesmen to “persuade” them to sign a con fession of their refusal to pay the taxicab fare and also of resisting the police. At the height of the assault, Bri tish offcial said, Lieut. T. C. Pack ersford of H. M. S. Bruce arrived (Continued on page two) FARLEY CLAIMS ROOSEVELT TO SWEEP NATION Tumult Of Campaign Subsides As Voters HEAVY VOTING By The Associated Press ASK EARLY VOTE On account of heavy voting expected throughout the coun ty Tuesday election officials to day urged all people who can possibly do so to vote early. Un less this is done, It was pointed out, there will be considerable congestion around the polls late In the afternoon. Around 15,000 votes are predicted for Cleveland county in the election. Across the vast expanse of Amer ica, the tumult over gigantic issues died away today as • the nation's only sovereign—the voter—prepar ed to wield the sceptre and decide tomorrow who shall head his gov ernment. Prom both major parties, as al most always, came strong expres sions of confidence, while all hands, from presidential candidates down to lowliest ward worker, concen trated on, one eleventh-hour task: ‘Get out the vote,” was the in junction heard on all sides. The herculean efforts of th* party workers, comined with the more than-usual natural interest in the issues, still indicated a record smashing vote, possibly 46,000)000 despite ominous word from the weather bureau that a cold rain or snow might blanket much of the United States on Election Day. Farley Sees Victory James A. Parley, national chair man, headed the Democratic vic tory-prognosticators, with a decla ration that it would be a "sweep” giving President Roosevelt a bigger (Continued on page two.) Mrs. Sara McSwain Passes At Age 90 After Illness Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 o’clock at New Hope Baptist church for Mrs. Sara E. McSwain, 90-year-old native of the county who for the past several years has b^erf rilaking her home with her daughter, Mrs. Will Grif fin on South Washington street. Death came at the Shelby hos pital Sunday at 4 o’clock after Mrs. McSwain had been ill two months. Until the fina lbreakdown she had been ill only a few days in her life. Services at New Hope will be in charge of Rev. L. W. Swope. For merly Miss Sara Rippy of No. 3 township she had been a member of the church since her youth. In young womanhood she was married to H. K. McSwain, but her husband preceded her to the grave nearly half a century ago. Survivors are three children, Mrs. Will Griffin, Hugh and Hicks Mc Swain, the later of No. 3 township, also 12 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren. A step-son, L. M. McSwain, lives near Earl, also a number of close relatives. In all her : long life she was known as a de voted mother and grandmother and : set an example with hard work and < faithfulness. ] Court Gets 3 Drivers Licenses And Gives Silk Thief Sentences; Revocations of licenses of three drunken drivers and a stiff sen tence for a negress who had a lik ing for silks took the major part of the time of the recorder’s court to | day. Woodward Branch was fined 1*0 and the costs and his license was revoked for 12 months after he was ! charged with running Into and; wrecking a car parked on the side • ! of a street. He was asked to pay $17 | toward repairing the auto. Judg ! meat was suspended until JJccein | her 2. „ Pat Hampton, IB year old Moores boro youth was charge'. with drunken driving and was alleged to have hit. two cars. He was al leged to have been up for the same charge four other times in Ruther ford county. His license was re voked and he was fined $100 but toe* a six months road sentence instead. 1 Dan Tay-ior, ot York county, S. C. j was arrested in South Carolina but j was said by officers to be so drunk he thought he was in Belmont He paid $60 and the costs and had a license revoked. Hattie Mae Lewis, IV year old uegress was convicted of stealing ' silks from Penny’s and Belk’s ’ stores, and drew a total of eight : iContinued on page two.} Cheering Thousands Hear Roosevelt End Campaign I, The nation can expect from four more years of the New Deal “a fight on behalf of labor, the farmer, the unemployed, and the htfthaownera and for social security and better banking,” President Roosevelt told a cheering crowd packed Into Madison Square Garden, Nev^^ork, in hie last major speech of his campaign for re-election. A general view of the crowd Is shown with the President on the speaker's stand (circle) in the background. (Associated Press Photo) CERTIFIED SEED ADDS $11,000 TO COTTON INCOME Inspection Completed Allowing Growers to Sell The sum of $11,000 or more will be credited to bank accounts of about 45 Cleveland farmers, it was learned today following a summary of work in certified cotton seed growing just completed by the ex tension department. A total of 905 acres were planted to certified seed and were this week approved by the department through A. D. Stuart, former assis tant agent here, but now with the Raleigh office. He said this county leads the state in acres, amounts, and quality. Get Premiums Seed estimated to be harvested within the next few weeks are 22, 625 bushels, all of which will com mand a premium price of $1 per bushel or more. To be certified seed must test uniform staple in at least 80 per cent and must show an 80 percent germination test, along with other qualifications. Sold Last Year Thousands of bushels of the same (Continued on page two.) Hold Lawndale Man For Murder Lee Morrison is held in McDow ell county jail at Marion for mtlr der of his mother, and will be given preliminary hearing Nov. 10, Mar ion officers told the Shelby Daily Star this morning. Morrison, who lives at Lawndale, is charged by McDowell officers with driving the car in which his mother was riding into Lake Ta homa October 2. They charge it was intentional and not accidental as Morrison reported. The motive, they charge, was to collect insurance on bis mother’* life. The amount for which she was insured is not known. The body of his mother, Mrs. Minnie Morrison, also of Lawndale, w*S recovered from 4 the lake. Offi cers say the first story told aboiit the alleged accident by Morrison wa* changed several times. Rain Is Predicted For Election Day WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. (A’) — ' Galoshes and rubbers will be in or- 1 tier Sjr voters in mifny parte of thr United States tomorrow-, it the ; weather bureau s predictions ar® j correct. Wet weather is expected over : much of the nation east of the i Kocfclet’, with min from the north-! era New England bordei- down to1 parts of the South, and inland to such states ns Ohio anil Kentucky. Further vest snow is expected in several states. . County Teachers Given Honors At Charlotte Meet Educators from Cleveland coun ty moved into the limelight at the close of the 14th annual conven tion of teachers in the South Pied mont district which closed its meet ing at Charlotte this week-end. Claude Origg, a native of the county, former superintendent at Kings Mountain and now at Albe marle was named president of the convention for the coming year and B. N. Barnes, present superintend ent at Kings Mountain was named vice-president. 2.000 Attend The South Piedmont district covers 14 counties and is one of six districts in the state. There were more than 2,000 teachers in at tendance at the Charlotte meeting. The new' president is the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Origg of Lawn dale and is a younger brother of J. H. Origg, superintendent of Cleveland county schools. He is a graduate of and has a master’s de gree from puke university. He also attended Piedmont high school. After five years with the schools at Kings Mountain, he went two years ago to become head of the Albemarle city schools. At Kings Mountain Superintendent Barnes, new vice president, took Mr. Grigg’s place at Kings Mountain after having been high school principal for a number of years. Other Shelby teachers who were named to positions of importance for the coming year are: Walter E. Abernethy, secretary to city super intendents; Mrs. Robert Doggett, chairman of the Latin teachers and vice-chairman of the classroom teachers; Miss Laura Cornwell, vice chairman of the elementary principals. Resolutions passed by the Char lotte meeting places the teachers on record as favoring: 1. Restoration of teachers’ pay to the 1929 level. 2. Tenure and retirement systems' (Continued on Page Two) Accidents Kill 27, 45 Injured By The Associated Press Week-end highway accidents in the two Carollnas, according to a .survey completed early today, took a toll of 27 lives and left 45 injur ed. Of the dead. 16 were accounted for in South Carolina and 11 in North Carolina. South Carolina had 20 injured, North Carolina 25. Dover School Fall Term Will Begin The fall and winter term of the Dover public schools will begin Thursday at 8 o'clock according to an announcement Uxlay by the j principal, Prof. Wilbur Wilson. Mr. Wilson said the regular schedule will be resumed Just as it was before the pupils stopped to ! pick cotton. . SUPERIOR COURT FACES 55 CASES WITH 1 MURDER Only Few Cases Will Be Carried Up To January Fifty-five cases In which one Is for murder another for manslaugh ter and eleven foF assault are hatr ed on the calendar of the Superior court term which begins here Thursday morning with Judge Fe lix E. Alley of Waynesville presid ing. The November term will And one of the smallest calendars of the year, and opinion was expressed in the office of the clerk today that the court could go into the Janu ary term with almost a clean slate. Carry Over Fewer cases have been carried over and less brought up from the Recorder’s court than for any other month of the year. Milton Roberts will be tried for his life for the admitted killing of Charlie Wilson two weeks ago. The charge of manslaughter has been brought against Azelea Holland, negro charged with running down R. H. Biggerstaff, Lattlmore farmer on Marion street two months ago. The court was scheduled to have begun on Monday, but due to the election and the short calendar it was postponed. The civil term, which is also short, will follow im mediately. Following is a breakdown of the types of cases to be tried: Larceny, 4; hit-and-run, 1; non-support, 2; assault, 6; VRA, 1; VPL, 6; VMVL, 2; drunk, 8; assault with deadly weapon, 11; affray, bigamy, per jury, bastardy, 1 each; breaking and entering, 7; vagrancy, 1; forg ery, 4; concealed weapon, murder and manslaughter, one each. GASTONIA NEGRO BURNED TO DEATH GASTONIA, Nov. 2.—(A*)—Henry Roberts, 52 year old negro, died as flames destroyed his rooming house. Madrid Suburbs Heavily Bombed By Rebel Ships By The Associated Press Insurgent warplanes today un leased a hall of bombs over Sub urban Vallecas about two and one half miles from Madrid, as the Civil War neared the capital from three sides. Three children were killed; eight adults wounded. Government commanders eva cuated the civil population from Getafe, another Madrid suburb, and hurled fresh reinforcements in to the defense lines. Gen, Jose Varela's Insurgent forces captured Brunette, 17 miles west of Madrid, after taking three other towns— Villa Mantilla, Se villa La Neuva and Neuva De Pe rales—in bitter lighting. The Insurgent command report ed at least 500 government troops were killed in the capture of the four villages and in a futile coun ter attack at Paria, south of the capital. The government said fighting was continuing on both sides of the Guadalajara Highroad, about 15 miles nprtheast of Madrid in the Slguenza sector. At Fuenlabrada, the government militiamen were entrenched only nine miles from the Madrid city limits after a furious Fascist surge, rebounding against a sudden so cialist charge, forced the Madrid defense line back there, near Val demoro, 13 miles south of the capi tal, and near Paria, 10 miles south on the Toiedo-Madrid road. Capture of the four villages west of Madrid gave the Fascists uninterrupted communications be tween Chapinerla and Naval-Carn ero, bases for the eastward thrust. FIRMS WITHDRAWING LABOR CASE APPEALS GREENSBORO. Nov. 2.—(/P)—'The Cannon mills of Concord ancP the Golden Belt company of Durham , have withdrawn appeals to the circuit court from a rulying by Judge Johnson J, Hayes declining to grant them injunctions against labor hearings ordered by the Na tional Labor Relations board. Proposal Made For Huge Celebration Here Nov. 11 Proposal for a great celebration In Shelby Armistice day Is being given serious attention by several local organizations. Tentative plans are for the American Legion and Democratic officials to Join hands wtth the Shelby riding club and make of the day a combination of celebra tion in honor of Clyde F Hoey, a patriotic demonstration in observ ance of the end of the world war anil tiie southeast's gicutest horse show. * Committees have been named by 1 each of the organizations and def- j initc plans will probably be com- | i>icted within the next few days.] i Arrangements discussed include the presence of drum and bugle corps, army bands and national guards men, both infantry and mounted. The parade would likely be held in the morning, this parade to be both in celebration of the ending of the war and In honor of Mr. Hoey, who, together with state no tables who are expected to be present, being in the reviewing stand. In the afternoon the horse show would be held and hi tile evening after the final horse show contests a dance would be held at tl»e legion building with possibility of a street dance somewhere in the city at the same time. MOTORCADE IS TO CHEER HOEY IN CHARLOTTE Leave Shelby At 4:30 For Final Campaign Speech ELECTION SURE !MI PERCENT FOR IIOKV The greatest vote for Clyde R< Ilorv and President Roosevelt In the county's history is predicted by Peyton MeKwatn, county chairman. "Tomorrow." he says, Cleveland county will cast the largest Democratic vote In It) history. Hundreds of lifelong Republican* are going to vote for President Roosevelt because he Is the only president who has ever done anything for the farmers and the working class of people. “In the governor's race party lines will be forgotten and Clyde Hoey will receive the largest vote ever given any candidate In Cleveland county. I expect not less than IS,000 votes to be egat. and Mr. Hoey will get at least 90 percent of Utcra.” Cleveland county politics center in Charlotte this afternoon and to night. Ending a tour throughout North Carolina Cleveland’s own Clyde R. Hoey closes his campaign in Char lotte tonight and Cleveland people plan to turn out In force to hear him. A motorcade will form In Shelby about 4:30 o'clock and go to Charlotte, where a parade in Mr. Hoey's honor is planned and In which the Shelby motorcade will take part. At 13:30 today an important lo cal contribution to the parade left Shelby. This Included a Hoover cart, drawn by Craig Hartgrove's mule and driven by Craig, and a shiny new Bulck automobile, loan ed by J. Lawrence Lackey, to show the difference a little more than tContlnued on page two.) Board Decides To Sell Lands For *35 Taxes Decision to advertise and sell lands for which the 1935 county taxes have not been paid v^as reached this morning by the beard of county commissioners as the board transacted a large volume of routine business. Delinquent lists fire now being prepared In the ty* office and the first advertising Notice wtll be on Thursday of this week. They will follow on four consecutive Thurs days and sale of the lands will be the first Thursday in December. Lack $21,000 Some $21,000 In 1935 taxes are still due out of an original levy of nearly $200,000. According to law, this sale could have been forced two months ago. but due to the lateness of the sea son and the fact that cotton checks came In late, the commissioners de layed the action. About $1,500 of the overdue tax money came In during the past 30 days. Residents of the Casar commu nity for about 40 persons who want the county and state to provide about a jnhe of roadway beginning at the Mrs. Vina Brackett place and running to Highway No. 83. The petition states the road is bad ly needed for a school bus route. The board also decided to trim the trees on the court square and workmen are taking dead limbs out and performing other tree surgery acts. The cost will be $75. Radio Speeches TONIGHT Democratic, 11 p. m. Presi dent Roosevelt and James A. Farley, CBS and NBC; WEAF NBC, 9 p. m., Hugh S. John son. Republican. CBS, 7 p. m. Wil liam Hard; CBS and NBC, t« p. m. Governor l.andoe, Wank Knev and others. Projreastve, WABC, CBS, 1:M p. m., Robert M. LsFoUette, Communist. WJZ. NBC UiU y m, Karl Browder. TUESDAY Tuesday afternoon 2;35 p. m., CBS. Jama; A. Farley; 3:15, speaker to be announced. CBS. X p. m., John n. M, HamlHaa.
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