NEW ALL-TIME
HIGH SEEN IN
TRAFFIC TOLL
Council Expects It To
Beat 37,000 In
1935
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—The na
tional safety council marked up its
1936 traffic death total to 29,850 to
day—for the first ten months—and
calculated that at the same rate
87.500 would die before January 1.
That would be a new all-time
high, exceeding the record of 37,000
of 1938, In the first ten months of
1935 the death count was 29,880.
Statistician R. L Forney an
nounced yesterday that pedestrian
fatalitie ^increased two per cent,
including a ten per cent advance in
the number killed between the' ages
of five and 14. Deaths in other
kinds of vehicle accidents declined
one per cent.
In October the safety council's
records showed 3,900 fatalities, com
pared with 3,850 in October, 1635.
It was the six consecutive month
in which the toll exceeded that of
the corresponding month of 1935.
Forney said that even if 500 more
died in 1936 than in 1936, the in
crease between yean would be
smaller than any since 1934. The
1935 tall exceeded that of 1934 by
900 and In 1934 deaths totaled 5,000
greater than in 1938.
Also favorable, he said, was a
comparison based on relatives gas
oline consumption In 1936 and 1935.
Figuring that ten per cent more i
gasoline was used in 1936, he com
puted the death rate per 10,000,000
gallons as nine per cent lower than
in im.
Brower To Duke
From State Job
DURHAM, Dec. l. — UP) — Ap
pointment of Alfred 8. Brower, di
rector of the state's division of pur- <
chase and contract, as executive
secretary of the Duke memorial
was announced by Duke authorities
Monday. 4
The announcement said one of
Brower's principal activities during
the next year would be In promot
ing the university's centennial
fund.
Brower's resignation, tt was stat
ed. has been given to Governor
Ehrlnghaus, and he is expected to
&Sl!B m duties about Jan
uary 1. He has been director of his
present agency since 1931
Three Girls Die
In Indiana Smash
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 1.— (JR —
The collision of a skidding automo
bile with a railroad elevation abut
ment here early Monday caused the
death of three young women and
4he, injury of two men.
The dead are Miss Helen Dugan,
35; Miss Mildred Tucker, 30, and
Miss Dorothy Lois Budaly, 16, all of
Indianapolis.
The Injured men are Patsy Rossi
and Jtexla laria.
Fear Vessel To
Be Total Loss
BEAUFORT, Dec. 1- OR Fish
ermen said today the North State,
35 foot ship of the Menhaden fleet,
which was whipped on Cape Look
out Shoals Saturday by a gale,
would probably be a total loss. The
crew of 25 was rescued by the
Coast Guard.
North State and the other
vessels In the Menhaden fleet op
erating In this section were making
far port after a day’s Ashing when
the heavy winds caught them.
Many of the ships were weather
bound over the week-end, but en
countered no danger.
Hurricanes Didn’t
Go Where Expected
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — (/P) —
Tropical hurricanes didn’t appear
where the weatherman thought
they would the past season so he’s
going to have to try again to learn
more of their secrets.
Willis R. Gregg, weather bureau
chief, said today special instru
ments installed at three southern
cities in cooperation with the Mas
sachuetts Institute of Technology
were not used this fall because
“fortunately or unfortunately" the
tropical storms didn't reach them.
They were at Jackson, Miss., Au
gusta, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala.
Prison Camp Guard
Shoots Frank Cox
TAR BORO. Dec. 1.— (JPI —Berle
Vick, 30 year old prison camp
guard, was held here today on a
charge of fatally shooting Frank
Cox, 52 year old textile worker.
Police quoted Vick, who surren
dered, aa saying he and Cox en
gaged in a fist fight after Cox ac
cused him of attentions to Mrs. Cox
and that Cox went and got a gun
later.
Vick was quoted as saying he did
not fire until Cox had leveled a gun
on him.
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BABY FOR SALE? LAW INTERVENES!
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Th* bIzarra atory that a two-month-old baby girl was offered for aala
at Baton Rouge. La., for $75 brought an Investigation by police who
took charge of tha Infant and arrested an aging mart and an 1S-year-old
girl who elalmt she Is the mother of tha ehtld. The girl, who gave her
name as Lillian Cornell, la ahown holding tna baby. The man (right)
listed his name aa Jim Cornell and claimed tha young mother Is his
daughter. (Associated Press Photos)
Machines Count,
Classify Coins
(Continued from page one.)
itatlons and small businesses. A
imail sackful may be poured in the
hopper with a total given while the
teller is writing the depositor's
lame..
A description of the machine is
tard except for the fact that siqall
dots In the revolving disc separate
the coins, place then upright on
two gooved, graduated rods which
turn and which at intervals drop
the coins in the poper channels. As
hey drop, each coin causes ah ap
paratus to register. /
Interesting Procedure
Aside from the money counting
features, there are many interest
ing things in either of the Shelby
tanks, or any bank.
The person who said, I would like
to work in a bank because there is
money in it” could have added that
there is work in it too. Although
banks are open .very short hours,
evey person has to work hard and
accurately and not leave |n the af
ternoon and at night until the cre
dits and debits balance accurately.
Money leaders of old lent their
money and depended on their me
mories to record the amounts and
the Interest, but now complete rec
ords of each transaction is kept.
A cross-section of the work of the
First National (and general proce
dure Is similar in all local banks)
shows in the first office as one en
ters the door, C, C. Blanton, dean
of Ankers and business men, al
ready ten years past the four score
ten mark. He Is president and with
the directors formulates the poll
lies. His brother, George Blanton is
in the next office and ia vice
president; Forreet Eskridge is cash*
ier and working with him as tellers
are Paxton Elliott, George Blanton
Jr, Forrest Brackett and Hobson
Austell.
These men took In on the day
previous to this visit more than
»108,000 of which $36,000 was in
currency. They handled $116,000 In
checks on the bank and a large sum
in checks on other banks.
Records of those transactions,
and number of others, must be kept
by 8. B. Wilson, Play Gardner,
Graham Greene and Lyman Martin
who as bookkeepers run posting
machines and keep the records of
some 3,600 checking accounts which
Include about $1,322,000.
Miss Katherine carpenter is in
charge of the proof department.
She totals all debits and credits
many times throughout the day,
makes "proofs” of a cashier’s work
for an hour, or two hours, then
gets all the totals and makes them
balance.
Roy Sisk who is assistant cash
ier does mo6t of his work on a big
book which records the business of
the bank with other banks, outside
Interests, and transactions other
than at the tellers window.
Walt Cabaniss, negro, has been
Janitor for many years and keeps
the bank imaeulately clean.
Inside the three burglar - proof
vaults are kept the money and
valuable records. Money, money,
everywhere but not a penny to
touch or move out of its {dace.
There Is no gold. The president
called it all in and has it stored
away at Washington or Ft. Knox.
Only silver and currency are there
—plenty.
Too, the safety boxes which must
have two keys, the bank's and
owner’s, to get in. There the val
uables are kept. Diamonds, rings,
keepsakes, bonds, deeds and wills or
love letters.
Not To Move
CHARLOTTE. Dec. l.—W—Cole
man W. Roberts, president of the
Carolina Motor club, denied reports
that club headquarters would be
moved to Columbia. S. C., or Ra
leigh with announcement of plans
for construction of a new building
here to house the headquarter- for
the Carolina*.
Drunks In Spokane
To Get Castor Oil
SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 1.—
VP)—It will be castor oil or the
"cooler" for inebriates who com#
before Spokane’s police court.
Irked by the number of “re
peaters" who appear before him
on drunkenness charges, Judge
Prank Yuse decreed today sec
ond offenders in any month will
have their choice between a dose
of the old-fashioned home rem
edy or a jail sentence.
Assistant corporation counsel
Louis W. Conyard said the plan
would be legal if the Judge pro
nounces a Jail sentence and
then gives the prisoner the op
tion of serving the sentence or
swallowing the oil under super
vision of a city physician.
Georgian Prince Is
Killed By His Wife
MBXICO CITY, Dec. 1. — VP) —
Princess Concetta Leone De Niger
atze, charged formally with killing
her titled husband, was held today
in “female killer* row” of the Mexi
co City central Jail.
Police said Leo B. Granroos,
Finnish vice-consul, told them he
witnessed the fatal shooting of the
Georgian Prince, Vladimir Niger
atse, Saturday night.
CELANESE STRIKE CAUSE
OP MILL CLOSING DOOR
NEW LONDON, Conn., Dec. 1. —
VP)—A strike at the Cumberland,
Md., plant of the Celanese corpora
tion of America caused the textile
plant of the New London Fabrics
corp., to temporarily lay off more
than 400 persons today, it was said
by factory officials.
The heads of the New London
firm announced the company’s
stock of celanese yam used in
weaving fabrics virtually had been
exhausted and efforts to replenish
it had been in vain due to the
Maryland strike.
Accidentally Killed
SOUTHJORT, Dec. 1.——'Wood
row Milliken, 21, of Charlotte, was
fatally wounded when his pistol
discharged as he removed it from
the waistband of his trousers at a
COC camp here.
WfA Workers Decrease
CHARLOTTE, Dec. l.-^PV-John
Orlce, district director, announced
that business expansion In this area
had resulted In a 37.5 per cent de
crease In WPA workers since
March.
NOTICE
North Carolina. Cleveland County.
In the Superior Court.
Patsy P. Gold by her next Jrlend, Mabel
Phil beck, PUlntUI.
va. t
8am W. Gold. Delendant.
To Sam W. Gold:
The defendant, Sam W, Gold, will take
notloe that an action entitled as above
has been commenced In the superior
court ol Cleveland county, North Carolina
oy the plaintiff for the purpose of ob
taining alimony for tha support of her
self and tha minor child ol tha defendant
and for allowancea tor future support,
and that a warrant of attachment has
oeen Issued against the property of the
defendant, and tha said delendant will
urther take notloe that he is required
to appeer In tha office of the clerk In
superior court of said county at the court
house In Shelby, N. C. on the »th day of
January. 1#37, when and where the said
summons and warrant of attachment U
returnable and anewer or demur to the
complaint In said action, or the plalntilf
will apply to the court for the relief de
manded in her complaint filed with the
clerk of superior court: and tha defendant
will further take notice that the plaintiff
will apply to the Honorable P. A. MeSlroy.
Judge of the superior court holding courts
In the lath judicial district at Shelby.
N. C. on the tth day of January. U37, at
1J o’clock M. or as soon thereafter aa
counsel cen be heard for alimony pend
ente lit# and for counsel lees to be paid
by tha defendant or secured Irons his
property.
This the let day of December, IMS.
*•»*■ HAWRJCK, Clerk Superior
Court. Cleveland County. North
Carolina. at dec lo
J. B. MEETZE
Phone 121, Shelby —
715-W, Gaffney.
“Better Be Safe Than Sorry"
NYA EMPLOYS
YOUNG PEOPLE
In Cleveland county there are em
ployed on the NYA work projects,
seven white boys, 22 white girls, four
negro boys and one negro girl. Each
of these assignments has been
made with the Idea in mind that
the youths may receive some prac
tical training which will fit them
for a regular job.
There have been assigned to the
Kings Mountain high school three
girls. One works In the office of
the principal and two In the cafe
teria. In the Shelby school one boy
works in the office of the principal
and, In addition, keps the grounds
in good order. Pour girls have been
placed with the WPA book mending
project. They are learning to clean,
repair and bind books in the librar
ies. The county superintendent of
education has three girls assigned to
him to assist in office work. Among
other things, they are learning to
use the mimeograph and to do other
work which shall fit them for cler
ical work later. Pour boys have been
assigned to the county garage. They
are working with the county me
chanic in greasing, repairing, paint
ing and general upkeep work on
the school buses.
One of the agencies which super
vises the work of some of the boys
and girls and of which much has
been made is the Salvation Army.
Six boys and six girls have been
assigned to the new community
building under the supervision of
Captain Ben Jones of the Salvation
Army.
The Chinese seaport of Pakhol
was opened to foreign trade in 1876.
Birthday Party
For Miss Blanton
ROCK SPRINGS, Dec. I.—Mrs.
Paul Camp and daughter, Louise,
of Charlotte, spent a few days last
week with her mother, Mrs. G. R.
Wylie and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Wylie.
Miss Ola Mae McSwain, student
nurse of Mercy hospital, Charlotte,
spent awhile Thursday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mc
Swain.
A number of young people enjoy
ed a birthday party given in honor
of Miss Lizzie Blanton at the home
of her brother, J. P. Blanton and
Mrs. Blanton last Thursday night.
After many interesting games were
played, delicious cake, coffee and
sandwiches were served and enjoyed
by all.
Ths following enjoyed the af
fair: Miss Ida Blanton, Miss Helen
Earl, Cletus Blanton, T. G. Sepaugh,
Miss Lizzie Blanton, Mr. and Mrs.
Sherman Blanton, Misses Inez and
Wilma McSwain, Gaither Blanton,
Mr. and Mrs. Lon Thomasson arid
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Moore. Miss
Blanton received many useful gift*.
Valdese Man’s 172
Hens Lay 28,810
Eggs During Year
MORGANTON, Dec. 1.—A flocls
of 1772 Ahode island Red hens,
owned by Fred Peyronel of Val
dese in Jurke county, has produced
28,810 eggs during the past year for
an average of 167 eggs per bird,
County Agent R. L. Sloan has re
ported.
A cash account, kept by Mr. Pey
ronel, shows that the Hock con
sumed (489.63 worth of feed and
that the eggs sold for a t0U|
M08.01. lkk fc . » ;*«.
* «» «”<*• or
«* * “« 'O' the entlrs JJV
Sloan declared. ’ ^
ADMINISTRATOR^ NOTtCi"^
Having thla dav quann.rt
trator ol the mate of X" «■*
Riviera, deceased, late of r-ifrt, w'»tb»
ty. N. C. this I. io notify ^
ing claims against the Mid.« S
sent them to me properlv nr1*** *° in
Iwlore the 1st day of d*L"£’'s on ,
this notice will be pleadM ,^?' ls«
recovery thereof. All oennn. ,b*r 01 I
the said estate win nip.™* lniM>tea
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AUTO repair^
On All Make Cars
- Roger* Motors
Here's The Biggest News Of The Season — For Women
WRAY’S LADIES’ SHOPPE
WILL BEGIN A COMPLETE
LOSING-OUT
Grade •
^■
Ju*t The Opportunity
YouVe Always Wanted
FINE SPORTS
and DRESS
COATS
WERE
$49.50
$25.00 &
$30 Coat*
$16.95 &
$19.95
$10.95 &
$16.95
COATS
ONE LOT
NOW
934.971
319.971
$10.97)
And
$12.97
$5.97
And
$9.97
suits. $5*97
Formal Wear!
EVENING DRESSES
For Holiday Functions
At Drastic
Reductions
i
Entire Stock
100
COATS
and
SUITS
To Be Sacrificed!
> EVERYTHING MUST BE SOLD
IN 30 DAYS FLAT.
Ladies . . . this is more than the proverbial “opportunity
of a lifetime”—it’s THE one and only chance to get the
clothes you need for the holiday season, at a mere fraction
of their worth. We are discontinuing our ready-to-wear
department and must move out all stocks before January
first. If prices will move fine clothes, then everything in
our dress shoppe will be swept away far in advance of the
deadline! Don’t fail to come! Values are irresistible.
ALL SILK DRESSES
TO BE SACRIFICED IMMEDIATELY
NOW
6*97 and 8-87
4-97 and 5-97
1.97
LOT $16.95
DRESSES
LOT $10.95
DRESSES
LOT $5.00
DRESSES
200 HATS
To Clear The Deck*
Value* SALE
$2 & $3 $1.97
$4 & $5 97c
ALL OTHERS—
Including am
DOBBS. VJifVJ
Blouses
Values
to $3
97c
ALL WOOL
DRESSES
HOUSE
FROCKS
77*
to $2.37
NO ALTERATIONS - NO APPROVALS - NO RETURNS