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SHELBY DAILY STAR .... Published By Star Publishing Company, Inc. No. 1 East Marion St. Shelby, N. C. Lee B. -Weathers. Pres.-Trea*. S. E. Hoey, Secy. Published Afternoons Except Saturdays and -J Sundays Business Telephone No. 11. News Telephone No. 4-J Entered as second class matter January 1, 1806, at the postoffice in Shelby, N. C., under an Act of Congress. March 8, 1887. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Bryant, Griffith and Brunson. 9 East 41st St. New York City MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRE8S The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches in this paper and also the local news published herein All rights ot re-publlcatlon of special dispatches published herein are also reserved. SFBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE By Mall Ilf Carolinas Ow Year_$4-50 Six Months.2.25 Three Months _ 1.25 By Malt Outside The Carolina s One Year _15.50 Six Months.. 2.75 Three Months_1 50 Delivery By Carrier At Your Door In Cities, Suburban And Rural Districts One Year __$5.00 Six Months_2.50 Three Months __1.35 Pour Week* _ .45 Weekly Rate .12 TUESDAY, NOY. 3, 1936 HONOR TO COUNTY Cleveland county today honors itself in honoring Clyde R. Hoey with what is confi lently predicted the largest vote in the coun ty’s history. It is a matter of deep pride to a grout people such as are Cleveland residents to able to support so whole-heartedly sue! man for North Carolina’s governor. Polit i consideration often causes support for a loca. man but Cleveland’s support goes far beyond that. Today it honors a man for his sterling worth, his reeognized ability, his knowledge of statecraft, with complete confidence that he will be one of North Carolina’s great gov ernors. GRAND MARCH The science of medicine goes forward with breath taking strides. Scarcely have we finished doffing our caps in homage to the development, of a successful vcacination against influenza and the new “nailing to gether” treatment for broken bones, and now we bow again to the dentists who, right here in North Carolina, are successfully treating pyorrhea, which has exacted a staggering toll in sound human teeth year in and year out, while dentists stood by helpless, admit ting that their treatments were a matter, of experimentation. Now, as simple as one could hope for anything to be, proponents of the treatment say electro-coagulation is being used to de stroy the diseased gum tissues and after it sloughs away, new and sound tissue grows. And so we look to a future when, per haps, cancer and leprosy will be curable dis eases, when a titeatment will l>e perfected to halt slow death by ossification, when, in short, the human race will have a fighting chance against the “incurable” maladies, since the possibilities of medical science seem to be unlimited. THE COUZENS’ ESTATE United States Senator James Couzens died the other day, leaving an estate valued at thirty millions. Revenue collectors of state and nation estimate that the inheri tance taxes will claim over twenty millions before the heirs come into their inheritance. This looks like confiscation and shows the limit to which our government has gone in taxing the wealthy. It is no wonder, therefore that men of wealth are opposing the New Deal, seeking a return of Republi can rule which has always favored and pro tected the rich. Senator Couzens was an exoeption ha Iws way of thinking. His wealth came to him from an early financing of Henry Ford in the motor industry. It never spoiled Senator Couzens and if the records were searched we believe they would reveal that he supported the very tax measure that (lips so heav&y into his estate. News items appearing about the time he died last week told the story of his sympathy for the poor and needy and his sympathy for them in their circumstances. Twenty millions he gave away for the chil dren of this nation and other millions went • for worthy humanitarian causes. SALUTE TO COURAGE All the world loves heroism, whether It he the heroism of those who stick bravely to a lost cause or a lost post in battle, the hero ism of the individual who risks his life to save that of another, or the heroism of one who meets and masters some unthinkable hardship. And so, the story of Lloyd Raw son, Utah youth who had both legs broken when he fell over a cliff m a lonely mountain region and yet managed to get himself found and rescued, mjkes absorbing reading wher ever the story is published. } oung Rawson, knocked over the edge of a cliff by-a dislodged rock, landed, unconT scious, on an almost inacessible- ledge, with two broken legs, prowling wild cats in the brush about him, and near zero weather for company. He met the situation with an al most unbelievable grit, kindled a fire and whistled a signal for the hoped-for searchers. Even after he was found the matter of being rescued was an ordeal not to be taken light ly, and yet he lives to tell the story. It has all the elements of the stories we l*>red over and thrill to read in teen-age story hooks, vet we still thrill at it and say with Wordsworth, “so may it t*> until thp end.” May we never cease to pay our tribute of admiration to the quality of hurrian cour age and resourcefulness. ANOTHER “FIRST’ The low per patient cost of operatin' the Cleveland County Home brings anothei turel to Cleveland county. Keeping a pa ent for a whole year for less than $9 looks ke a shame rather than a boast. It is so ’ieap that one would surmise that the pa rents are not given ttye treatment to which i hey are entitled. But it must be remem bered that the county owns large acreage at the county home and this is productive of table foods under splendid management of Keeper John Tucker. At each term of court, a committee from j the grand jury visits and inspects the coun-! ty home. Their reports are always favor able and we take it that they examine con ditions there with a discriminating eye. Hence, it is another record of achievement in the administration of county affairs to com fortably maintain the patients there at a cost to the tax payers of around $9 a year, while the cost exceeds $500 a year for the main tenance of a county home in one eastern Carolnia county. What Other Papers Say FREE ADVICE (Monroe Enquirer) Over in Shelby the folk* are debating whether or j to issue $146,000 in bonds to match a federal grant | $132,000 for the erection of an electric power gen ting plant. The company which Intends to sell ■ generating equipment tells the good people of ielby that they will save enough through lower rater 10 pay for the equipment in short order. ’ Although we do not have the generating equip ment here in Monroe we do have a municipally own ed light and power system and have gained quite i bit of experience thereby. In fact we have gain«< enough experience to know that we would have don well in the beginning to have granted an electric pow er company a franchise in Monroe. But we didn't and now we're paying taxes to pay off the Indebted ness on the system plus much higher rates for elec tricity than are charged by privately owned com panies. So our advice to the city of Shelby is to forget the brightly-painted picture and buy from a private com pany, else the taxpayers will be paying through their noses for years to come. DEMOCRACY’S FRAMEWORK (Two Rivers, Wis., Reporter) An adherence to the principles of Christianity Is an absolute essence of success In the American form of government. Without Its Influence down through the years, we verily believe It would have been Im possible to rise to our present national greatness. Christianity teaches unselfishness; democracy de mands it. Christianity teaches cooperation; democ racy demands ft. Christianity teaches honor and honesty; democracy demands them. Christianity teaches and glorifies toil; democracy demands it. Christianity teaches and glorifies the sanctity of fam ily life and home; democracy demands it. . . . The moral code and way of life embraced and promoted by Christianity is the framework upon which a representative democracy can be budded— the only one. we mlgh add as our studied. Nobody’s Business __ By GEE McGEE SOME SERIOUS DISORDERS ARE RECORDED IN FLAT ROCK ..a terrific fight was fought last Sunday night in west flat rock amongst our coliored popper-lation just after the benny-diction had berm said in their church by the pasture, some holey-rotting had gone on inside enduring the serinont and a refry fine spar rit seemed to pervade everthlng tHl they got outside. some hot words passed betwixt ohck Johnson and runt atkinson about sallie sue. and faefo&r anyboddy realised what had happened the latter caressed the former on the head with a brlck-at. and as soon as the former come to. he tickled the latter in the ribs with his pocket knife: 2 others jtned In and massag ed sevveral skulls in the melee. . .after a few shots had benn fired, they aE then com menced to fight, the poleesman was'foamed for. but he went in the wrong direction towards the other end of town, when dr. hubbert green finnished sewing up everboddy, it was daylight monday morning. the only thing that quieted matters down was they all i got hurt so bad they could not disturb one another. they will be tried for disorderly conducts, fighting loud cussing, disturbing publlck worship and a breach of the pease. Our mayer will possibly deal with them verry heavy, and It wouldn't supprise yore corry spon dent, hon. mike Clark, rfd. If ever one of them had to pay betwixt c(S0 and e75 or be locked up nearly every night in the cally-boose. the pasture of the church got dressed down bg a razor in the hands of parties unknown and unsaw while trying to act as a good sam marritan and stop ! the scrimmage, he passed out a few upper cuts to the) .iaw and put a silence on at least 4 different antago-! nists. he hated to be drawed into the battle, but when I duty called him. he sneered with his 3 big fists. there is no other news of anny eorisequents. Jake smethers, the rich man of our little town, looks like he is going to recovver and get well from his long spell of newmong, much to the disappointment of cer tain members of his family who had alieddy started to divide up his earthly possessions, they hoped for the best but it turned out for the worst to them. • yores t.rulie. mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent 1 THAT’S THAT! ^ WSL 4.- N M'S FINALLY LEFT/ mzMm\ <> Washington ||Davhook By PRESTON GROVER (Associated Press SU(t Writer) WASHINGTON—You get the idea in banking circles that the federal reserve board is expected toon to begin pressing banks to jo further into farm and other real estate mort gage lending. And many of them are adverse to it. Bankers tradi tionally are train ed to the belief chat the best bank is a “liquid” bank with a note pouch ull of good #0 d a y commercial NUSTON L OtOVIT and industrial loans. In ordinary pre-depression years that consti tuted a nice chunk of bank busi ness, bringing in five and six per cent with no great trouble about collections. But during the depression that business dwindled to a small pro portion of its original size. In its place bankers have either idle money or perhaps government bonds, which pay three per cent or less. No ripe profits in that. Shrinkage Explained Three explanations are given for the shrinkage In commercial loans. First and foremost is the heavy in crease of government spending dur ing the depression. Smaller indus tries, business houses and the like found that the steady flow of fed eral money reduced their need of going to the bank for short time credit. A second reason advanced is that many retail stores and small industrial plants are squeezing along on smaller inventories. They are re-stocking from day to day rather than two or three times a year. That takes less credit. A third reason given, and dispul-1 ed in some quarters, is that cer- { tain industries, grown to nation- j wide proportions, are large enough to finance themselves without go- i mg to the banks. » • • • How Reserve Board Figures On the basis of those three fac tors, arguments are advanced that the short-term loan business may never reach its old-time level and banken must go into other fields. Such a view is attributed to the federal reserve board in some quar ters. Opposing it is the view held by many bankers that ultimately the federal spending will taper off and short term bank loans will come in to replace it. What persuasion can the federal reserve board employed to change that view? It takes a little explana tion. When a bank lends money on a note, it can turn that note over to the federal reserve bank and re ceive its face value in currency which cau be lent to somebody else. It used to be that the federal re serve banks could not advance member hanks much on real es tate mortgages Under new regu lations they can lend full face THE CAT’S GOT HER TONGUE’ For reason's unknown to anybody, tha aat’a got Minnie Wall's tongue whan it cornea to speaking to her father. In all of her 45 yeara aha haa never been able to apeak a word to him. She talka to everybody elae In a normal way but when aha trlea to converae with Papa, aha juat ehokea up and can’t aay a word. The father, Charles Wall, 81, thlnka It’s because aha was “birth-marked* by aomethlng that happened to her mother before Minnie waa born. Thfey are shown together at their home in College Springs. Iowa. fAasoeiated Press Photnl value on sound ones. To encourage such lending the' federal reserve board now can name i executive officers of the 14 federal reserve banks who favor such a course. The board has power also to name three of the nine directors of each federal reserve bank, who may preach the doctrine. It can point out that deposit insurance re duces the danger of bank "runs” and so ..diminishes the chance that long term loans will become "froz en assets.” Some observers say there is good j evidence that persuasion is going! on in that direction, and will con tinue. Identify Victim Of-1935 Murder BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 3.— ! (<4*)—A youth tortured to death in Kansas City was listed tentatively as Artemus Ogletree, 17, o< Bir mingham—but the 1935 "Love For ever" slaying remained a mys tery. Identification was made by the parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ogle | tree of Birmingham through photo graphs. Kansas City detective agree with them, and today the mother revealed she had sought assistance of the department of Justice in "catching the killer." The youth's body, slashed and battered, lay unidentified in Kan sas City last year li weeks, but when undertakers planned a Pot I ter's field burial a man telephoned to specify a certain cemetery and later sent the expense money by special delivery letter. Still later 13 red roses, bearing I a card: “Love forever, Louise,” ar rived. Those, until yesterday, were the only clues and the Kansas City po lice records read: "Victim unknown; case unsolved.” The identification furnished au thorities with the first tangible thread of evidence in the puzzling mystery, and Detective Chief Thomas J. Higgins, of Kansas City disclosed his men were seeking a companion who lived with young Ogletree here several weeks prior to the slaying. The youth, when discovered, was sitting slumped on a bathtub, semi conscious. a cord knotted about his throat, his wrists slashed, a stab wound over his heart and his skull fractured by a blow. He died with out making a statement. Swift To Build CHARLOTTE, -Nov. 3*.—UP)—The Swift & Co., branch here will launch a *40,000 expansion program this week. MENTHO-MULSION MUST STOP YOUR COUGH BUI TO COLDS OR THIS STORE WILL REFUNOYOUR MONEY ._NOW ONLY 75 < Sold By CLEVELAND DRUG CO hmUMBHMHMMI LET - Rogers Motors - REFINANCE YOUR CAR — CASH WAITING — Await Death In Darkness As Franco’s Legions March | By RICHARD G. MAS SOCK AVILA, Spain. — UP) — Spanish ! nights are black and awful as General Francisco Franco's legions march on Madrid. Cities and villages have been without street lights for weeks as a precaution against air raids. Chills creep up and down the stran ger’s spine as he gropes through unfamiliar streets to find his ho tel. It is not the danger of 'planes suddenly throbbing overhead and dropping a cargo of bombs, but just the inky darkness. It provides the same shudders as those experienced in childhood, when sent into a moonless night to run an errand for | mother. Natives Tread Noiselessly The fashion of sandals among Spaniards, especially among soldiers who mostly are shod with sneakers or footwear soled with rope, makes it all the worse. Stumbling over rough cobblestone pavements, one is startled at unexpected moments by shadowy forms silently appear ing an arm’s length in front of him, or lightly grazing his elbow as they pass. The stranger ‘ soon acquires a flashlight—if he can find one. The supply is completely exhausted in many parts of the war zone. Until he does, he learns to feel his way along the walls, careful not to stray to the edge of the narrow sidewalk, where the soapy slime of the gut ter awaits those who miss their | footing. Window* Shuttered Pamplona, Burgos, Caceres. Tal- j avera de la Reina, Valladolid and Avila, all cities and towns of any size in the nationalist zone have been blotted out of sight since the hostilities became a deadly serious matter. Correspondents driving long distances at night to get from one front or one military headquar ters, to another, race through vil lages where not a light gleams. Spanish windows are covered at nightfall with thick wooden shut ters, so that nothing is changed for the householder who stays home of nights. His house, pre sumably, is brightly lighted inside for his late dinner and there is no feeling of somber terror. No Air Raid* Madrid’s inhabitants, however, must have felt the fright of dark ened homes when Franco’s troops captured the big power plants on the Alberche river near El Tiem blo. The soldiers shut off four fifths of the capital’s electric light ing current, they said, when they stopped the dynamos. As for night air raids, the writer has heard of none that was car ried out. He expected one at Avila, when the city was prematurely plunged into darkness one night and the church bells rang. "That is the signal* that enemy planes have been sighted flying in I this direction,” said a Spanish » I cort. But the planes never arm. ed. CORN HUSKING CHAMPIONSHIP SET FOR NOV. 10 NEWARK, O. — m - The 193, "world series" of the outstanding farm sports contest, the national com husking championship, comes j to the 487 acre farm of Alva oyler on the old National road, 13 mi,M southwest of here, November 10 Nature decreed a change of ve. nue for this year’s bang-board con test. Originally it was planned for Missouri, but the drought caused such poor com there that the sponsors were afraid the small unfilled ears would not ban* loud enough to keep the spectators in. terested. Hence, the decision (or Ohio. , . Drought Brings Repeated There will be 18 contestants-tw I from each of the com belt states-. j Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri i Kansas, Nebraska Minnesota South Dakota and Ohio. They represent the best in corn-husking — some places they call It eorn-pirking-in their respective states. Usually they are chosen in county and state ell j mination contests but it is regarded ! likely this year’s contestants from | Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and ' possibuy South Dakota, will be the isame as last year, since no atate | contests are planned because of the I drought. L*8t year's national, held in Fountain County, Indiana, vu won by Elmer Carlson, of Iowa, He m tablished an all time record of 41.53 bushels, picking it within the allot ted time of 80 minutes. The Ohio farmer, one of the sponsors, predicts that 125,000 peo ple will attend thsi year. Thirty five acres of Oyler’s 100 acre corn field, which he expects will 8,000 bushels this fall, win be left standing for the contest. How It’s Done The contestants move between two rows, picking from both and tossing the ears into wagons which keep pace alongside them. The bang-bloards are nothing more than sideboards on one side of the wagon, placed there to keep the corn from being thrown beyond the wagon box. No coaching from the sidelines is allowed and penalties are charg ed against contestants leaving more than five ounces of husk on one hundred pounds, and for ears over looked on stalks. Oyier will not be a contestant. "Ill just be the most and a spec tator,” he said. 6% INTEREST FOR MONEY ON TIME CERTIFICATE 1* MONTHS NOTICE PRIOR TO WITHDRAWAL 5% 6 MONTHS NOTICE PRIOR TO WITHDRAWAL 4% 30-DAYS NOTICE PRIOR TO WITHDRAWAL M. & J. FINANCE CORPORATION ASSETS OVER $500,000.00 215 EAST WARREN ST. SHELBY, N. C ADVANTAGES of a CHECKING ACCOUNT at our BANK When you have a CHECKING ACCOUNT at any of our banks you receive a Monthly Statement, show ing your deposits made during the month, and the checks paid out. This enables you to see at a glance how much you have been spending; and you can easily regulate the amount you wish to spend in the future. With this Statement are sent cancelled checks, showing that they were endorsed and paid, and become your legal receipt. UNION TRUST CO. SHELBY, N. C. FalLslon, Lawndale, Forest City, Rutherfordton BLACK CATS and WILDCATS Black cats do not bring bad luck, not even on Halloween. That’s mere superstition. But years and years of bad luck, poverty. misery, may follow if a “wildcat” salesman crosses your path. Money that it took you half your life to save, m*? be gone overnight in exchange for worthless in vestments.” Don’t worry about black cats, but be superstitious all your life about “wildcats.” Never invest a cent with a stranger without first making a thorough investigation. Your banker will be glad to lielp you get unbiased information on any proposed in vestment. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SHELBY, N. C.