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North Carolina: Mostly cloudy night and Friday, scattered light ' pst in west portion tonight. Official Shelby temperatures: HlRti 80. low 64. rainfall .07. Ehe Hhelhy Baily Stett MARKETS Cotton, »p->t . _ lttt to 1SH« Cotton wood, wagon, ton .... 9933.00 Cotton wood, oar, ton ...... 999.00 FORMERLY THE CLEVELAND STAR, ESTABLISHED 1896 II gTxUl-NOTl'38 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE SHELBY DAILY STAR SHELBY, N. C. S! THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1936 AUDITED CIRCULATION SINGLE COPIES 5c Mir Fighting Marks Advance fascist planes fall IN MADRID AFTER DOGFIGHT Advance On Capital Is Reported From Rebel Leaders PALL OVER CITY MADRID, Nov. 5.—VP)—Two In surgent combat planes were shot down today in a stirring "dog fight" directly over Madrid while thousands of militiamen streamed out of the city to push a counter offensive from the capital’s gates. Two other Fascist pursuit planes, seemingly crippled in the aerial battle, fled backlo their own lines. The struggle in the sky began at 10:15 a. m„ after a sreies of visits to the capital by Insurgent squadrons. Thousands of marrilenos, comba tants and householders, watched four government planes engage the enemy craft, diving and maneuver ing in spectacular fashion at an altitude of 4.000 feet. Madrid's anti-aircraft batteries withheld their fire during the en gagement, which lasted just three minutes. Pilots Jump Suddenly the pilots of two Fas cist single-seaters shot from their planes, their parachutes balloon ing. The planes crashed, one near the Puente Vallecas and the other near a cemetery. (The fate of the pilots was not immediately clear). Two other planes of the Fascist iquadron of six were seen to wab ble uncertainly. They headed for Getafe, the Insurgent-held air drome eight miles south of the center of the city. The remaining two raiders gain ed altitude and vanished. A few minutes later two giant Insurgent bombers, escorted by five pursuit planes, crossed the city to ward Alcala de Henares, to the northeast. The planes escaped 'Continued on page eight) NINTH AND TENTH ECLIPSE SENIORS First Month List Is Given By Heads Of Schools Usurping the leadership of the *nior class which has an old cus tom of leading on high school honor folk, the ninth and tenth grades forged ahead for the first month of grades and placed 15 percent of their members on the special list. Names of students released for the high school by Principal C. E. Rankin. Eighth grade: Elizabeth Blanton, Elaine Davis, Clara Lee Pitch, Fran ces Jones, Margaret Jones, Virginia Wanness, Helen Mauney, Beth Mc Svain, Virginia McMurry, Mozell rocle, Daisy Sanders, Roy Sue Tur ner. Marie Towery, Jane Wilson, Herman Crooke, Bobby Frazier, "arren Graham, Ben Gold, G. P. snnth. Christine Crawford, Bettie j ^ Virginia Falls, Marjorie Lail, Jee-'ic Lou Collins, Euia Mae Hicks, • His McWhirter. Ninth grade: Russell Craig, Gene w Sand' Billy Richbourg, Billy f Lois Bland, Ina Louis Forney, ara Newton, Betsy Hall Roberts, s, * *"lnc Thompson, Phyllis Yates, ' Donan‘ Mildred Bates, Thelma ^ ^ BUl0C’ Cooper- M3rth» Eskridge, w -1 srrari** nioHne **«tan<* o Potatoes And Hay Are Abundant In County This Year Census Indicates Farms Increasing As AAA Cuts Cotton Crops Yams for people and hay for animals in larger quantities than Cleveland county has ever known are in prospect, according to a re port today from the bureau of cen sus, department of commerce at Washington. Last year's sweet potato crop from 1,608 acres was 192,563 bush els as compared to a mere 69,822 bushels in 1929. Indications are that the crop this year will be even larger. Plenty of Hay Whether caused by the AAA or not, the hay crop in this county jumped from 4,700 tons in 1930 to 15,194 tons last year. There will be no lack of bread with many farmers as there were 177,760 bushels of wheat harvested last year, with the new crop ex pected to hit close to the 200,000 mark. County agents here say that more small grain is being planted this year than ever before. Oats, rye and barley jumped over 30 per cent from the 1995 crops. The report also indicates that farms are on the increase and that tenancy is going down. The aver age value of the farm decreased but the average size increased from 46.9 to 50.3 acres. There are now 5,268 farms in the county. The trend with animals ig to wards dairy cows, and away from mules, showing an increase in use of power machinery. Gardner Speaks To Cotton Men PINEHURS'l, Nov. 5.—OP)—The North Carolina Cotton Manufac turers association opened its annual two-day convention here today with textile manufacturers from all parts of the state present. A business luncheon was follow ed by committee meetings in the afternoon. A banquet will be held tonight with David Owens, of Char lotte, a former president of the Na tional Retail Dry Goods association making the main address. A. J. Maxwell, state commission er of revenue and former Governor O. Max Gardner, will speak at a business session tomorrow morning. H. W. Culbreth will discuss credit unions. Reports of committee and elec tion of officers and other business will be taken up at the concluding session tomorrow in time for ad journment around midday. Other parts of the program in clude a golf tournament and a bridge party for the women. Methodist Young People Will Meet The Methodist young people of the county will hold their month ly meeting on Friday night, Nov ember 6 at 7:30 o’clock. The meet ing will be at Kadesh church at Bel wood. All members of Methodist young peoples organization are invited to attend. An interesting program has been arranged. Amendments Are Believed All Carried Slow returns indicate all of the constitutional chances voted on* in North Carolina were ear ned although a shift in later returns could upset the present lead. In many cases, it is believed, precinct officails, tired after counting national, state, county and township tickets, locked up their constitutional ballot braces and went home. Thus the re turns are coming in slowly. LAWS ARE BASED ON NATURE SAYS JUDGE F^E. ALLEY November Term To Begin Today; List Grand Jury Declaring that all law is funda mentally based on natural law, Judge Felix E. Alley of Waynes vtlle charged the grand Jury this morning as the November term at criminal and civil court opened. The session was to have begun on Monday of this week, but due to the shortness of the calendar and the pressing Interest in the national and state elections, offi cials agreed to postpone It until today. Based On Fact In the charge to the grand Jury which Judge Alley purposely made very brief he said, “The law of nature is the law of right and wrong. There are some things that are basically right and others basi cally wrong. Or civilisation, laws and customs have been built on these things. "Murder, rape, arson, stealing, and many other crimes are wrong because they are prohibited by na ture. Laws concerning these things are given in nature and from a di vine source. That is why they ap pear in our N. C. statutes." Kiser Is Foreman v A. S. Kiser of Waco was named grand Jury foreman and the follow ing are working with him to ob tain true bills this afternoon from a calendar of some 55 cases Alva P. Jones, D. F. Hord, W. D. Johnson, Roy Propst, George Cans ler, J. R. Bridges H. B. Covington Posey Hamrick, M. C. Ivester, Paul Whisnant, Clifton Bridges, F. D. Warlick, John Humphries D. Reu ben McSwain Rex Ledbetter, Cttff Towery and J. L. Callahan. Tax Payer# Who Have Paid ‘35 Taxes The following names of property owners whose names appear In the official tax list In today’s Star have paid their 1936 taxes and their names should not appear. These names will be removed before the second publication of the list next Thursday: Mrs. Grace Vickery, Chas. H. Wells, Paul Webb, sr., Paul Webb, jr„ Paul Webb and Son, Mrs. Paul Webb, sr., Paul Webb and O. M. Mull, Miss Selma and Alma Webb, Boiling Springs Potato House, P. C. Lavendar estate, J. K. Wells heirs. All-Risk Crop Insurance Plan Again Comes To The Forefront — WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—(JP)—A system of AllRisk Crop Insurance, advocated by spokesmen for both major parties in the pre-election drive, canle to the fore agftin to day. Secretary Wallace and other members of a special committee named by the president to formu late a crop insurance program for congressional action began a three day conference. More than a score of insurance experts were called together today to discuss technical angles of the vast plan to minimize hazards that threaten millions of farmers annually. Tomorrow as many experts in the warehouse field Will meet the committee. The haul session will Include 80 to 80 farm organization l leaders and spokesmen. Secretary Walalce has said that a report to the president on the program will be ready in Decem ber. About the same time definite details for the 1937 soil conserva tion program of the agricultural adjustment administration are ex pected to be ready. A tie-in of the AAA and crop in surance plans was seen as a pos sibility. The president, in naming the in surance group, suggested that in surance benefit he “available only to fanners cooperating in farm and -oil conservation programs.” Mr. Roosevelt said the insurance plan should guarantee farmers some income both in time of price collapse and in time of crop fail ure.” WINTER BEGINS SNOW BLANKETS UPSTATE N. T. Two Deaths Due To Weather Accidents; Traffic Tied Up RIVERS”RISING By The Associated Press ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 5.—A blan ket ot heavy, wet snow stretched auras upstate New York today, making driving hazardous and dis rupting wire communications. Two deaths were attributed to the storm. The snow was general In western, central and northern New York while in the eastern and southern tier areas heavy rainfall was re ported. Herman Preyler, 34, Utica truck driver, was killed when his ma chine skidded and crashed into a tree at Canadaigua where the snow was piled four Inches deep on the highway. At Boonville, John Youngs, 74, was struck and killed by an auto mobile as he walked along the high way in the blinding snowfall. The snow slowed up traffic in Buffalo and Jamestown. I» the Sy racuse area utility company repair crews were busy restoring power and communication lines broken by the heavy fall. Deep slush covered the streets and in the surrounding area trees and wires snapped under the weight of the white mantle. The Syracuse firm alarm system was crippled for a time. Snow fell at Utica while farther east a heavy rain fell. Heavy rain also fell at Bing hampton and the Chenango and Susqquehanna rivers were reported rising. Officers Seek N. Y. Murderer NEW YORK, Nov. 5.— (/P) —Two men faced a battle-fire of police questions today, as detectives strove to solve the hotel room garrotlng of R. Waited Ford, 36 year old In terior decorator formerly of Roa noke, Va. Police freed eight other suspects rounded up within a few hours af ter Ford’s body, trussed with lamp cord, radio wire, and a belt in the found on his rumpled bed in the fashionable hotel Sutton yesterday. Two neckties were tightly wound about his throat, a deep gash cut across his forehead, bed and floor were Mood-spattered. Police sur geons said strangulation caused death. Investigators discounted robbery as a motive for the killing, although two men, intercepted by the hotel clerk as they attempted to leave the building about the time offi cers theorized the killing occurred, carried two suitcases packed with Ford's clothing and personal be longings. Salesman Shot As He Resists Bandit ELIZABETH CITY, Nov. 5.—{/P\ —Officers sought today to establish the identity of a masked bandit who shot J. P. Munden, of Weaks ville, a salesman, and robbed him of $1,600 near Chapanoke yester day. Munden, a salesman for the Nor man Packing company of Ports mouth, Va., told officers he was held up by a bandit in an old coupe which had a door missing. Munden was shot in the left arm when he resisted. The salesman, wounded, drove on j toward Elizabeth City until he met; Clarence Long, a truck driver, who took him to a hospital here. John Wells, a stove mender, was taken into custody at Chapanoke a few hours after the hold-up, but Munden could not Identify him as, the bandit. Wells was detained how- j ever, Sheriff Charles Carmine said,; pending further investigation. STABS BROTHER IN POLITICAL SCRAP LOMBJERTON, Nov. 5—opt—Dep uties searched today for Shelton Dewur, churned with fatally stab bing his brother, Fred, 27. Tuesday night In political argument. I Hear News of Landslide President Roosevelt, with Mrs. Roosevelt, his mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, and three of his children acknowledge cheers of neighbors as news of the landslide reached Hyde Park. RED CROSS ROLL CALL MEET HELD Plan Annual Drive November 12 At Meeting An enthusiastic beginning of the ahhual roll call and drive for the Red Cross was made by leaders of the Cleveland county work this morning as 24 key workers outlined plans at a breakfast at the Hotel Charles. A full corps of workers will launch the annual drive on November 12 to raise at least $1,500. Directed by Dr. S. F. Parker, county chairman, the gathering heard short talks by a number of workers who have aided in the or ganization. Spangler Chairman M. A. Spangler was named gen eral financial chairman and will supervise the work In the mills, business district and all general con tributions. Mrs. E. Y. Webb leads the house to house canvass which will be in charge of women workers. J. H. Grigg and Rush Hamrick will direct the roll call In the schools and rural part of the county and Walter E. Abemethy will aid in the schools of the city. A goal of $1,500 has been set, and Dr. Parker said the county must raise that amount before It can be gin the year’s program which calls for a nurse—as was employed last year with such good results—and will also give an educational pro gram of health in the schools, pro vide milk for under-privileged chil (Continued on page eight.) Indian Preacher To Address Body An Indian preacher, Rev. A. A. Lockee who is a pastor In South Fork and South Mountain associa tions, will be the principal speaker at the November Kings Mountain Baptist associational Sunday school to be held at Mulls Chapel cm Sun day afternoon at 2:30. Rev. Mr. Lockee has been edu cated In his own tongue and In English and is preaching to a num ber of progressive churches. He is well known in the mountain sec tions. J. W. Costner, Sunday school leader is expecting several hun dred to hear him. Song services will be led by Wood row Bowen, devotional will be by ! Rev. Marlow Stroup and special music will be by New Prospect sing ers. TAR HEEL ARTIST IS DEAD IN MASS BOSTON, Nov. 5.—{JP)—John Al j bert Sea ford, nationally known ar j list who died Tuesday, will be bur j led Saturday after funeral services to be held at North Wilmington, v here he maintained a summer re sidence. He waa 77 years old. Seaford was bom at Salisbury, N. C., but spent iiis boyhood in Richmond, Ind. He came here in 1880. ■ “You Don’t Mess Around” Is Prize Farley Message Wise-crackers got busy over the nation yesterday and some rare ones and. soon not so .race were heard as the tremendous Roosevelt victory was realized. A telegram from a western farm er to James A. Parley: “Boy, when you elect a president you don’t mess around," was one of the national chairman's moat prized election trophies. Parley’s paraphrasing of the fa mous “As Marne goes" to “As Maine goes, so goes Vermont,’’ bids fair to become a classic. “Sunflower ploughed under by Tri ple A,” was suggested to approxi mately 18,346 newspaper headline writers by volunteer neipers. The punsters had not been heard from in great numbers but it is confid ently predicted they will break forth by next week. Grover Post Is To Hear Pickens Wiley M. Pickens, state ''Com mander of American Legion, will be the chief speaker at a banquet to be given Friday night by the Grover legion post as a pre-Arm istice day observance. The program begins at 7 o'clock. Members of the legion and aux iliary of the whole county are in vited to attend and visitors from other counties are expected. Mrs. W. E. Andrews, state auxiliary president, is to speak for auxiliary members. The program, which is to be held in the basement of the Presbyter ian church is: Song, America; invocation, Dr. J. T. Dendy; music; recognition of guests and visitors; supper; read ing, to be announced. Address, Wiley M. Pickens; read ing; address, Mrs. Andrews. UNIFICATION IS MEETING TOPIC Methodist Protestants Turn To Mass Of Business Detail ALBEMARUE, Nov. 5.- (A'j —IU work of organization over, the North Carolina conference of the Methodist Protestant church turn ed today to a mass of business, In cluding committee and pastors’ re ports. A missionary rally under the di rection of Mrs. W C. Hammer of ANheboro, will bring the day's ac tivities to a close. Routine busi ness, was to be taken up at an aft ernoon business session. Expected to come before the conference, probably Saturday, Is the artiflcatlon of the plan of uni fication of the three major branch es of the Methodist church, adopt ed by the general conference at High Point last year. Sixteen of the twenty six con ferences of the Methodist Protes tant church have already voted, with those favoring the union In the majority. The Rev. R. M, Andrews, D.D., of High Point, president of the North Carolina conference, has been ad vised by the Rev. James H. Straughn, D.D., of Baltimore, Md„ president of the general confer ence: "There are still one or two un certain spots as to the union, but It looks to me from reports coming In from the field, as If the church (Continued on page eight.) Court Declines Moore’s Appeal RALEIGH, Nov. 5.—(A1)—The state supreme court declined to hear oral appeal arguments to day In the case of Martin Moore, Asheville negro sentenced to die by gas for the murder of Helen Clevenger of Staten Island, N. Y., on the grounds the appeal had not been properly perfect ed. Personalities Made Victory For Democracy Says Chairman By J. C. BASKERVILL RALEIGH, Nov. S.—The tremen dous Democratic victory both In North Carolina and In the nation as a whole was due primarily to the superior personalities of the Democratic candidates and to their superior programs. Chairman J. Walalce Winborne of State Dem ocratic Executive Committee, said here today. In analyzing the re sults of the election. Still another big factor is the greater intelli gence of the masses and the fact that the people are doing their own thinking and arriving at their own conclusions as never before, Win borne said. “I am convinced that the two 'if biggest factors In the overwhelm ing Democratic victory In the na tion as a whole were the confi dence-inspiring personality of Pres ident Roosevelt, what he and his administration had accomplished during the past four years and the fact that he had a real and def inite program for the future,” Win borne said. “It was a case of the ' New Deal under Roosevelt and of , No Deal under Landon—a contest between action and reaction. The j people of the country realised that | the Republican campaign was i nothing more than a duPont pro duct—a cellophane campaign — so (Continued on page eight.) 25 MILLION IS NEARED AS FDR VOTE COMES IN Majority 10 Million Indicated In Final Returns 523 ELECTORAL By Tlir Associated Press With President Roosevelt's popu lar majority snowballing toward tha smashing figure of 10,000,000 u lata election returns rolled in, eager New Dealers busied themselves to day with drafting suggestions for a broad program in tile overwhelm ingly Democratic 75th congress. A vast low-cost housing plan, an “ever normal granary” for the farm lands, crop Insurance, a drive to convert farm tenants into farm owners, an A. F. of L. effort to ob tain new regulation of wages and working hours—all these bulked large In the thoughts of irawerful groups among the president's fol lowers. Mr. Roosevelt himself," however, gave no Intimation of how he fell as to details of the various pro posals, though he has declared that "There are a thousand and one things to do." What he would choose to recommend to the new congress convening January 5 remained for the future to disclose. New Legislation There has been much speculation that congress might set Itself to revising the corporation tax act passed at the last session, and to revamping the social security act. Though millions of votes had not yet been tabulated, the president’s popular plurality shot well past the 3,000,000 mark today. It already had set a new American record and was still climbing with indications it would pass 10,000,000. Total votes cast also had set an all-time record, reaching 40,897,173, with 17,531 voting districts still to be heard from. Of the total Roose (Continued on Page Bight) FOOD SHORTAGE IS NEW WORRY Other Workers Join Maritime Strike On. West Coast • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. B.—</P)— The throttling of America’s mari time trade Increased throughout tha nation’s ports today but an Imme diate threat to San Francisco's food supply was averted. Union ware housemen agreed to move perish able fruits and vegetables. Even as representatives of both the warehousemen’s union and the wholesale grocery Industry voiced hope the warehousemen’s strike here would be settled before the week end, the threat of a general strike of east coast seamen was heard In New York. Alaskan ports faced an Imminent food shortage. Authorities at Hono lulu rushed preparations to cope with any violence that might arise. The warehousemen’s strike here is separate from the maritime strike that started on this coast and spread to ports rimming the United States and to territorial porta. The ware housemen’s union is an affiliate of the International Longshoremen’s association, one of seven major un ions Involved In the maritime walk out. The warehousemen agreed, after a conference with wholesale groc ers and municipal authorities yes terday, to begin moving fruits and vegetables from the warehouses to retail stores. A joint statement an nounced another conference for 6 p. m. (9 p. m., E. 8. T.>, and said "substantial progress was made to ward settlement” of the strike. In New York, as in other eastern and gulf ports, some "rank and file” seamen conducted a “sit down” strike lh sympathy with the west coast walkout. A large meeting of left-wing members of the Interna tional Seamen’s union resolved to call a meeting of representatives of seamen of the north and south at lantlo and gulf coast to consider the general walkout, proposal i --—up.-IZ C. g, Stanley Dead • OOI DEBORO, NOV. OPi—Cal* E. Stanley. 50. undertaken tor 40 years and proiniueul hi the stats Funeral Directors association, died today.
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