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—WEATHER North Carolina, South Carolina: fair and colder tonight and Thun official Shelby temperature yes terday: High 62, Low 45, Rainfall: none. Tslxe Hhelhy Baily thr FORMERLY THE CLEVELAND STAR, ESTABLISHED 1896 MARKETS Cotton, spot ..1.2)6 to 13 Me Cotton M«>d, wagon, ton .... 931.M Cotton seed, car, ton _ ^uTxUI-NO. 152 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SHELBY, rJ. C. WEDNESD’Y, NOV725~ 1936 THE SHELBY DAILY STAR AUDITED CIRCULATION SINGLE COPIES Sc FORMAL AGREEMENT REACHED BY WARLIKE POWERS 23 Die In Ship, Train Disasters 14 DEAD, MISSING IN ACCIDENTS TO SHIPS IN 2 PORTS Nine Burn In New Orleans, Five Suffo cate In N. Y. TWO ACCIDENTS HEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25.—(/P)— flater was pumped from a fire tcarred hatch of the S. S. Scantic ef the Mooremack Line today to determine if flames killed nine miss ing men. The lire started late yesterday while about 75 men were busy In calling refrigerating apparatus. The rvift. spread of the blaze forced men below decks to scramble swiftly up flame-licked 20-foot ladders. At least four men were injured. Warren Johnson, president of the Dry Docks company making the in stallations. said his check revealed Bine others missing. The fire burned for several hours before the ship was towed down river and the sealed hatch filled with steam. CHEMIC AL ICE FUMES KILL NEW YORK MEN NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—{/TO—Fumes released by chemical Ice were blamed today for the death of five men who suffocated in the hold of a ship at the Brooklyn terminus of the New York state barge canal. Thre others were overcome, but were rescued by policemen who don ned gas masks. NEGRO IS HELD UNDER BOND IN PENNY STEALING Huge Jars Of Coins Stolen From Merchant The tinkling sound of pennies, nickels and all denominations of diver money appeals to two Shel by negroes. . •John Hoyle, 35 year old store keeper, spent several weeks and months gathering the sum of $111 to small change and hording it into k*° large glass jars. John Timmons, 40 year old labor ,r in some way found out where it *as kept. Officers allege he took it. He is now in jail by default of •1.000 bond. He will be tried in next ttperior court. Detectives Work Storekeeper Hoyle reported his to city officers who began a lit tie detective work of their own. Timmons, who also has a federal Wirt record, is charged with break tog and entering and with larceny. William Fresh was fined $25 and ™e costs in court today on con Jtotion for reckless driving. Duce wis paid $60 for possession of ®ght pints of liquor. Tom Yarboro was arrested during toe week end on two counts for wsession of illegal liquor, first for toree pints, then for 12 pints. He 1 be tried by jury next Tuesday. Waco officers alrested Andrew fders and Rodney Roberts, color men for the alleged stealing of pounds of cotton from a neigh :r' posted $100 bonds for a e*nriS on Saturday. Nelson Green, also of Waco Is sT.ln fail on default of a $250 . ■ Hc ls charged with breaking , ° ®nler>ng Miller’s Store which being watched by officers. The Pect ran. Green was taken In his s ,a sh°rt time later and was esed by Officers Hord and Bar is ir'v!lavf been Perspiring heavily ‘be had been running. mdbergh Safe In island, Is Report ** Wfih Free State, Nov. the p- Ttle defense department of todav ,!e State Government said CturL 1 had been informed Col. w.-®* A; Undber8h had landed In tl(6te lJ Dut it had not learned ^•Vixitty for Lindbergh’s safety >her,TUnted throu8hout the night W r'aR 'lm'pPorted on n three m*h'. t" England. Boss Killed A rain of shotgun slugs fired by Four mysterious men ended the long reign of Michael J. Galvin (above) as a Republican ward boss and labor union leader in Chicago. He was shot down and killed Instantly in ! leaving his office near the Loop. (Associated Press Photo) NINE DIE WHEN TRAIN OF STEEL HITS WOOD CAR Train Smashes Into Elevated Car In Chicago CHICAGO. Nov. 25.—OF)—A steel electric train which plowed into a wooden elevated railroad car left human wreckage in its wake today —nine in the morgue, at least 65 in hospitals. The steel train struck from the rear last night near a North Side station where the eight car ele vated train, loaded with home-bound workers, waited for a signal from a dispatcher’s tower. The three car steel train drove almost the length of the last elev ated car, littering the tracks with dead and injured passengers. Eight police stations dispatched 500 patrolmen, 30 squad cars, 20 1 police ambulances and a dozen pri- i ('ate ambulances to gather up the dead and dying. Six persons either died at the 1 scene or soon after in hospitals. Crushing injuries added three more to the death list early today. Many : jthers were in critical condition. ! Remember The Orphans Thursday i - i All religious denominations and fraternal orders which sup- ( port orphan ago; take a special Thanksgiving offering for the children on Thursday of this week. Those in charge of the funds urge you to flake your contrib ution as generous as possible and if you plan to be away from home, make your offering before you leave through your church and your fraternal or der. Variety Of Activities Are To Mark Thanksgiving In Shelby Thanksgiving Day in Shelby will be observed with a wide variety of activities ranging from services at nearly all the churches to attend ance at football game®, family din ners, a dance and a full holiday for stores, shops, public offices, banks building and loans and postal em ployees For the most part peace and quiet are expected toflnark the day. Officers said today there have been no Indications of any unneeded celebrations. Several thousand school children in Shelby and Kings Mountain with their teachers will enjoy a longer week-end, beginning this af ternoon. The rural schools will not close, but will lisvr special Thanks giving programs in chapel Game warden H. C. Long Issued i special warning to holiday hunt ers who will swarm over the Helds ind woods in this county. “Extreme carefulness will keep someone from getting killed,’* he said. A warning was also issued from the Carolina Motor Club asking all drivers to be careful and observe ill traffic rules an the crowded highways. SERVICES TONIGHT AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Thanksgiving services will be held tonight at the First Baptist church in charge of Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor and Horace Easom, educa (Continued on pdg< eight.) Simplicio Godina Lives On After Siamese-Twin Brother Dies By His Side Operation To Unjoin Twins Is Successful; Think Simplicio In No Immediate Danger; Appeared Here NEW YORK. Nov. 25.—(IP}—Sim plicio Godina lived on today, part ed by death and a surgeon's knife from the Siamese twin to whom he had been joined for 28 years. His brother, Lucio, 111 with pneu monia for 10 days, died last night In York hospital while Simpllclo, in good health, lay beside him. Within an hour, an operation had severed the bodies, linked by mus cular tissue at the base of the spine. Physicians said the living twin was in no immediate danger. They explained there had been no com MORE DIVIDENDS ARE DECLARED IN YEAR-END PARADE Federal Law Causes More Companies To Pay NEW YORK, NOV. *5.—(<P>— Headed by a $5,000,000 disbursement on common stock by Wcotinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., the year-end dividend parade continued today under spur of the federal tax upon undistributed earnings. Westinghouse directors authorized a dividend of $2 a share on the common and a similar amount on preferred stock, both payable Dec. 21 to holders of record Dec. 7. A bonus for employees amounting to U for each year of service plus $5 also was announced. The payment sent total dividends declared since late October by more than 340 companies above $750, 000,000 in a record-breaking Novem ber rush. Search For Plane With 14 Aboard JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 25.—— One certain and one feared tragedy gripped this nothem land today. Search is being made over the ice laden Gulf of Alaska for a missing air liner with 14 persons aboard. The ship was lost on a 500-mile flight from Cordova to Juneau. Fliers who are combing the gulf report recurring storms add perils. Three-year-old Lorraine Vanali, entombed two days in debris from an avalanche which overwhelmed apartment houses here, died soon after her rescue. Her death brought the list to seven with fears that nine others missing may have also per ished. HOME ROOM MEMBERS GIVE SPECIAL PROGRAM Members of Mrs. Robert Dog get t’s home room were in charge this mgming of a special Thanks giving program at the high school. Students also brought gifts of food and money to be given to the needy and to charity cases. mon blood stream uniting the brothers and that the operation had been in the nature of a “rou tine” amputation. During the operation the twins’ wives remained in a room in the hospital shaken with grief and anx iety. They are sisters, the former Vatividad and Victorina Matos, and were married to the twins in Man ila in 1929. Simplicio was said to have taken his brother's death bravely. Lucia was stricken with pneu (Continued on page eight.) MRS. GODWIN TO TELL HER STORY OF DEATH TODAY Attractive Widow, Held For Murder, To Testify LILLINGTON, Nov. 35.—(JP>—De fense attorneys Intimated ttffjay they would send attractive, 36-year-old Mrs. Slna Pope Godwin to the witness stand to tell her version of the fatal shooting of her third hus band. Mrs. Godwin claims that she shot her husband, 40-year-old prosper ous farmer, in self-defense while they dueled with pistols. The state contends she deliberately wounded herself superficially after she shot her husband. biu Lunuy While witness after witness went to the stand, the widow, clad in a trim blue sports outfit, calmly sat with her counsel, took notes o nthe testimony, and conferred with her lawyers in hushed tones frequently. The state rested its case yesterday and Judge E. H. Crammer denied a defense motion lor non-suit. A long list of state’s witnesses testified they heard a second vol ley of shots from within the God win home July 7 a few minutes aft er the farmer had stumbled from the house and fallen mortally wounded In the back yard. A principal witness for the de fense was Mrs. Albert Pope, first cousin and sister-in-law of the de fendant. She testified she saw God win walk from a field to his home on the fateful day, open the door and fire two shots from a .32 cali bre revolver, then, the witness tes tified, Godwin entered the house and the couple, standing a few paces apart, emtied their pistols at each other. The pistols, submitted into evi dence, are of identical calibre. Mrs. Godwin is free under $3,500 bond, and after court sessions, slips out a side door of the courtroom to evade the curious. She covered her head with a cloak when she was approached by photographers. Hamilton In N. C. I* Still Talking RALEIGH, Nov. 24*—(/p)—John D. M. Hamilton, national Republican chairman, said here today that it looks as though Gov. Alf M. Lan don of Kansas, defeated presiden tial candidate, is not through In politics and the Raleigh Times says he gave the impression Landon “Is quite likely to run for the senate 1$ 1938." Stopping overnight here en route to Florida for a rest, Hamilton was asked: “Will Governor Landon run •for the senate from Kansas in 1938 and what are his Intention so far as 1940 Is concerned?” “I don’t know what Alf plans to do, but I think he will find it dif ficult to disassociate himself from politics In view of the fact tils pop ular vote was around 17 million In the recent election,” Hamilton re plied “I saw Alf the other day and he told me he is getting between 1,500 and 2.000 letters a day That does not look as though he is through.” . ! i One Dead, The Other Lives Lucio Godina, one of the Siamese Twins here at night-in aNaw—York hospital. SimpUcto, tjifyoor r wives are shown with them. Tjjd County Fair, died las vefollowing operation. Theli Dilling Accepts Offer Of Phoenii Stockholders of the Dilling Mills company yesterday accepted the bid of the Phoenix Mill company of Kings Mountain, which offered $125,000' for the Dilling property and the Phoenix management is expected to take the entire Dilling property immediately. While no definite announcement has been made it is understood that E. A. Hamrick will be in charge of Dilling operations. It is under stood that arrangements are being made to begin work in the spinning mill at an early date. The rayon weaving mill, which is in a separate building, will probably not be start ed for some time. Both the spinning and weaving plants have been idle for some months. Normally the mill employs about 250 to 300 people. Voluntary liquidation was decided upon by stockholders some months ago. A. G. Myers, Gastonia, is president of the company and J. B. Reeves, also of Gastonia, is secretary. COUNTY FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE Taxpayers of Cleveland county can be thankful for public officials and a system of finance that keep the annual budget balanced the first five months of the year to present a large cash balance. Thanksgiving day for Cleveland’s treasury, In charge of Mrs. Lillian Newton, will be a balance of $129, 181.47. Of this amount $60,266.60 was paid In on current taxes and $13,914.41 was paid in last year’s taxes. Of the total budget of $228,064.48 for the year expenditures are well within bounds, a check with the auditor reveals. The treasury is expected to be deprived of about $32,000 very soon. A $7,000 payment on bonds and in-; terest is due December 1 and a $25, 000 payment to the state in taxes collected by the county is due on December 15. Of the $53,650 alloted to the gen eral fund the sum of $16,165.16 has been spent and of the budgeted $28,170 poor fund $10,116 68 has been spent. Officials fear that a short cotton crop may result in a heavier char ity load for the county and relief I agencies this year. Attacks Futile To Rescue Marooned Facist Troops DRAWING PLANS FOR KINGS MTN. PUBLICBUILDING KINGS MOUNTAIN, Nov. 25.— Plans and specifications will be ready by Saturday of this week for a $103,000 public improvement pro gram here which will include a $30, 000 city hall and $73,000 worth of streets, sewers and sidewalks, it was learned today from City At torney J. R. Davis, An architect is completing plans for the city hall to be erected on Piedmont street on the site of the present building. It will be a one story brick structure with three wings and space provided for of fices for the mayor and clerk, fire and police departments, public li brary, assembly room for police court and public gatherings. Specifications are also expected to be furnished by the engineer for the street, sewer and sidwalk im provemepjt program by Saturday of this week. Upon completion of plans by the architect for the city hall and specifications for the street work by the engineer, bids will be asked from contractors. The city of Kings Mountain sold $60,000 worth of bonds a short time ago, part of which bear an inter est rate of four per cent and part three and a half per cent. The balance of the money need ed for these improvements comes from a federal grant amounting to $40,000 already approved. Signaling Apparatui In German Embassy Is Charge By JAMES C. OLDFIELD MADRID, Nov. 25.—(/F)—Ease isl shock troops fought a futile, all morning battle today to rescue 2, 000 comrades, marooned by govern ment troops in the huge hospital clinic in University City. An international brigade sur rounding what once was one of Eu rope’s finest hospitals held 1U ground, although a flank attack bj the Insurgents seemed for a Unit to be menacing the first houses ol interior Madrid. Thirty fascist bombers and pur suit planes bombarded the Univer sity City defenders and long rangt guns dropped shells in the centoi or Madrid. Conditions Awful Within the capital, the govern ment ordered families refuged it subway stations to avacuate be cause of the "awful" sanitary con ditions. At Cartagena, police semi-offl cially reported the discovery of i wide nazi espionage and propagandi organization. It was at this por that the government cruiser Mlgue de Cervantes was disabled Sun da; by explosions which the govern ment has laid, by pointed infer ence, to German submarines. Reports said "interesting docu ments” had been discovered at thi German consulate at Cartagena am (Continued on page eight.) 100,000 North Carolinians Have Not Secured Licenses There are still 100,000 drivers In North Carolina who have not pur chased drivers' licenses Arthur Fulk, head of the Motor Vehicle Bureau at Raleigh said here yes terday. Mr. Fulk and Capt. Charles Far mer, state highway patrol director were in Shelby a short time yester day afternoon attending some de tails of a driver's license case. They discussed some recommendations to be made to the legislature. "There are approximately 540,000 vehicles in the state and we figure there should be about one and a halt drivers per car. “Approximately 700,000 licensei have already been issued. License are still coming in at the rate o about 500 per day. about one sev enth of them being for drivers wh< are becoming of age. "Most of the persons who havi no licenses, are those living in ru ral sections, who have no car, o; those who are indifferent to thi law.” Among the things to be reoom mended to the .legislature will be t request for a safety inspection o all automobiles periodically, pro. (Continued on page eight.) GERMANY, JAPAN SIGN COMPACT, WORLDWATCHES Ostensibly T o Halt The Spread Of Communism AID IS PLEDGED BERLIN, Nov. 25—l/'fV-Qermany and Japan signed today an agree ment directed against the Commun ist, Internationale. The alliance waa signed at the foreign office after the government had announced It would publleh an "official declaration” this after* noon. Joachin von Ribbentrop, German ambassador to Great Britain who It considered Adolf Hitler'a personal adviser on foreign affaln, affixed! his signature on behalf of the Oer* man government. Japan was represented by Jap anese Ambassador Xlntomo Muthfj nkoje. ' I Far Reaching The agreement consists of a pro-' amble, three article and a supple* 1 mentary protocol under which balk, nations to the alUanoe agree to l«s*1 form each other of all measure* considered effective to halt the spread of communism. "The German government and the Japanese government,” the pre amble stated, recognising that the aim of the Communist Interna tionale known at the Komlntem It directed at disrupting and violating existing states with all means at Its command and convinced that to tolerate the Communist Interna tionale's interference with the in ternal ftff»*r of aiiasM at, onto,. endangers their internal peaoe and social well-being but threaten* world peace at large, animated by a desire to work in common against communist disruptive influences, have arrived at the following agree ment. Text Of Treaty ”1. The high contracting parties agree to mutually inform each other concerning the activities of the com munist Internationale, to consult (Continued on page eighU EUROPE WATCHES JAPAN, GERMANY, SPAIN FORGOTTEN Italy Alto Suspected Of Being Their Ally My The Associated Press The diplomatic maneuver by. Ja pan and Germany today far over shadowed localized military devel opments In Spain where observers consider the World-Wide struggle-be tween fascism and communism la being waged in miniature between iasclst insurgents and the sociallst communlst government. Fascist Italy’s recognition of the Insurgent command as the actual government of Spain was complstsd when the Italian charge de'affaires at ssiamanca presented his cred , entials to Gen. Francisco Franco. , Italy and Germany, outstanding exponents of the system of govern I ment which General Franco seeks for Spain, joined In recognizing Ills , control of the country shortly after . It became apparent his campaign against Madrid would be a long af . fair. i England Neutral I Great Britain, foreign office of ficials announced, would not take sides for or against fascism or com munism, directing their energies to negotiating a sound basis for Eu ropean peace. England’s submarines were steam ing toward Spanish waters deter mined to protect British shipping from attack by either government or insurgent warships; curtly word i ed Instructions from the Paris min ( Istry of navy directed French war r ships to afford any necessary pro ‘ teetton to French shipping. , While the German-Japanese ac cord was receiving the close at ten - , tion of Europe's foreign offices, no , reports came from Novosibirsk of . the fate of E. I. Stickling, German , engineer condemned to die In west ern Siberia for a sabotage conspir acy against the Soviet. Strong Oerman representation* to Moscow government were believed to have halted the execution pend ing consideration of a German if i pear for clemency.
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