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WEATHER North Carolina: Cloudy and un settled, posstblly light rain and mist tonight and Thursday. Official Shelby temperatures: Hlgh 46, low 24, snow, rain .30. Tshk - Scheu-g Bang Hm FORMERLY THE CLEVELAND STAR, ESTABLISHED 1896 MARKETS Cotton, Rpot.MM to IWe Cotton m*4. wagon ton.MTJJi Cotton nrt, nr ton I40.M MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL- XLII—NO. 157 THE SHELBY DAILY STAR SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 1936 AUDITED CIRCULATION SINGLE COPIES 5c, TRAFFIC IS PARALYZED AS ICE COVERS HIGHWAYS SAYS EUROPE IS FACING GENERAL WAR RIGHT NOW Spanish Premier Says Loyalists Are Gaining SHIPS SEARCHED? By The Amoelaied Preas Reinforced government troops drove back a violent Fascist attack on Madrid today after Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, address ing the Spanish socialist parliament it Valencia, warned there was Im minent danger of a European war. "A European war Is now being fought on a small scale In Spanish terrain,'’ the premier declared, "and unless the League -of Nations takes steps to permit the legitimate gov ernment to purchase arms and sup plies, it will Inevitably spread over Europe." The premier declared the Span ish insurrection would have been! subdued within “a few Weeks” had the fascists not had "direct assist ance" by Germany and Italy from the beginning. He lamented the "tolerance and passiveness” of other nations to ward the civil war In Spain and declared their attitude was a source of "great danger.” Socialist officers In Madrid de clared the Insurgents’ "striking power” appeared weakened, possi bly broken, after the most bitterly fought battle In the nearly month long siege of the capital. Insurgent air raiders, however, again visited the heart of the be leaguered city, dropping at least 20 bombs into the central section near the Puerto del SoL Delayed reports from the fascists moreover, declared the front line bad advanced 500 yards from Casa del Cawpo park toward Madrid proper, Insurgent commanders said Moorish troops attacked the Toledo bridge south of the city and cap tured a government trench. Socialist commanders reported a 'Continued on page three.) Associational Body Will Meet Dr. George Burnett will be the Principal speaker at the December ®*eting of the King*' Mountain «Ptist Sunday School Association » be held on December 6 at the Grove church. Services will begin at 2:30 in the afternoon with song service to be M by Joe E. Blanton, scripture by jwrvin McSwain of Shelby Second »Ptist, remarks by Rev. C. V. Mar no and special music by the Zion "inday School. Following reports President Bur W11 make his address, pos oly on some phase of stewardship. _ W. Costner head of the work in association said today he is ex P'r'ing a large attendance. Opens Cage Seaton With Mooretboro Jj^tball for Shelby high school |1 begin at the local gymnasium "way night with a double header „ *een the two Shelby teams and * ™°°resboro lads and lassies. Coach Bill Goodson has been ““ling both teams this week. The will begin at 7:15 with the m Playing first. tSRlLV PRISONER GETS three tears added LAURINBURG, Dec. 3-<AV-Bu U ainpy. 21, sentenced to serv< months on conviction of forgery aH the windows on on* *he Jail, wrefked two stean & «»'“ and *** fl1^ to a mattress tk u. . cal!ed back Into court and lengthened to fom *tGRo children dies as HOUSE BURNS Dec. 1- W - Im o f mioeix Alien, Sfcii1** AUen’ 3- bumed ■ •heir ^ flames of their home whi mother was away gatherh Wavin rhree °tber children we . R at a neigbor's home wh« )m burned to the ground. Is Twelfth Down With 40 To Go Dan Cupid, hampered by un favorable circumstances all the year, today found it the twelfth down and 40 weddings to go to equal the mark set by his ac tivities last year. According to Registrar Andy Newton Little Dan has accountc ed for 163 license thus far in 1936 of which 25 were in Octo ber and 24 in November. Last year’s total weddings to talled 203. Mr. Newton said De cember is usually the biggest month of the year, June brides to the contrary, notwithstanding. John Ringling Is Dead, Last Of The 7 Circus Brothers NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—(IP)—John Ringling, whose name was synony-j mous with the “Big Top,” sawdust ring and circus spangles from coast to coast, died tooay. The circus magnate succiftnbed at the age of 70 to a brief illness of bronichial pneumonia, the last of seven brothers whose back-yard playtime show in Baraboo, Wis., grew to become perhaps the na tion’s largest entertainment com bine. t Florida Promoter At Ringling's bedside at his Park Avenue home when death came were Mrs. Ida Ringling North, his sister; John Ringling North, a nephew; Dr. Maurice Costello, his physician; Frank Hennessy, a life-long friend, and his servants. Funeral arrangements were be ing made today. Ringling's interest during his last years were not devoted entirely to the show business, for he owned extensive real estate in Florida, rail road stock, and was a collector of art masterpieces. Sarasota, Fla., be came the center of his interests. Ringling's first wife died in 1929, and in December, 1930, he was mar ried to Mrs. Emily Buck, from whom he was divorced. The son of a German-bom har (Continued on page three.). County Profits From Dog Taxes Dogs are making profit for Cleve land county. Aside from 50 cents each for all dogs vaccinated in the county last year, the additional tax gained from the canines amounted to more than $1,100 above last year. Taxes paid on the 4,385 dogs re ported this year totalled $3,723. Be fore the anti-rabies vaccinations were begun last year only 2,128 dogs were listed for taxation. Practically no rabies has been re ported since the majority of the dogs were vaccinated. GETS ALBINO BUCK AND OTHER GAME SEA ISLAND, Ga., Dec. 2.—(flV J. D. Dial, of Columbia, S. C., today has something different in hunting trophies. It is an Albino buck he brought down on the Sea Island hunting pre serve. In addition to the buck, Diel bagged his season’s limit of two wild turkeys, a large gobbler and a hen, all in the same day. Says Highways In S. C. Are Better Than Those In N. C. COLUMBIA, S. C.. Dec, a.-iAV A North Carolina professor of high way engineering compared the high ways of South Carolina with those of his own state here yesterday and found roads here superior. Testifying for the plaintiffs in the suit of truckers to invalidate South Carolina’s motor transporta tion regulatory laws, Dr. Harry Tucker, professor of highway engi neering at North Carolina State college, declared ‘"me South Car-| olina roads I have been over are the finest I have seen in years.” He testified that South Carolina Roosevelt’s Warning To Aggressive Nations Gets Enthusiastic Response South And Central American Officials Cheer Him; Conference Work Begins Thursday BUENOS AIRES, Dec. &—(A3) —President Roosevelt bade fare well to a rain-drenched Argen tina today and prepared for his journey homeward, ending a three-day visit during which he was hailed by all the Americas as an apostle of peace. Argen tines lined the route to the crul er Indianapolis, although a chill ing rain poured from leaden skies. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 2.— (*> — The Inter-American Peace Confer ence, spurred by President Roose elt’s plea to consolidate western world Democracies against aggres sion for "our mutual safety and mutual good,” launched into in formal organization today. Delegates from many of the 21 American nations represented at the conference enthusiastically praised the opening address of the United States’ Chief Executive last night. Definite Warning They predicted Mr. Roosevelt and President Agustin Justo of Argen tina had "set the assembly firmly HOEYINAUGURAL TO BE JANUARY 7 Plans Entirely In His Hands, Says Gov. Ehringhaus RALEIGH, Dec. 2.—(JPh-Clyde Roark Hoey of Shelby will become governor of North Carolina on Jan uary 7. The date for the traditional in auguration ceremony was revealed today when the chamber of com merce directors were called for a special session tomorrow to discuss the plans with Adj. Gen. J. Van B. Metts. The legislature will convene on January 6. "That’s a matter entirely in Mr. Hoey’s hands,” Governor Ehring haus replied when asked about plans for the inaugural. "I have told Mr. Hoey it is immaterial to me as to when the inaugural cere monies are held. The sooner the better will suit me.” There has been much recent spec ulation that Governor Ehringhaus will enter the practice of law here with Kenneth Royall of Raleigh and Goldsboro when he retires from office. Mrs. Stallings Is Granted Divorce RENO, Dec. 2.—(JP)—Mrs. Helen Poteat Stallings prepared today to leave for her North Carolina farm with the Reno divorce which ended her 17 year marriage to Laurence Stallihgs, playwright and newspap erman. She charged cruelty. Mrs. Etallings is the daughter of William Louis Poteat, president emeritus of Wake Forest College, N. C., on whose campus her romance with Stallings began. roads were In much better condi tion than those in North Carolina, because of a better sub-grade con dition of the soil and use of dif fer construction methods in this state, The sub-grade conditions In South Carolina are excellent, whereas in North Carolina, he said, the fact that the frost goes deeper into the ground brings about a poorer situa tion. Tucker was one of 14 witnesses presented by the truckers to show that heavy loads which the state >rohibits would not Injure South Carolina highways. , \ on the path to success.” "The opening was magnificent and I am optimistic of the confer* ence’s results,” declared Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine F'or elgn Minister and presiding officer of the meeting. Of prime importance, the dele gates said, was President Roose velt’s combined warning to the Old World and appeal to the new. “We stand shoulder to shoulder in our final determination that oth ers, who, driven by war madness or ladn hunger, might seek to commit an act of aggression against us, will find this hemisphere wholly pre pared to consult together for our | mutual safety . and our mutual good.” Mr. Roosevelt planned to leave the Argentine capital this afternoon after attending funeral services in the United States embassy for his bodyguard, August Gennerich, and being host to President Jus to at a luncheon. Gennerich died yesterday of a heart attack in a Buenos Aires re (Continued on page three.) CBrDflBIE HURT BADLYIN WRECK Famed Coach and His Aid Smash Into Bridge BOSTON, Dec. 2.~ (ff) —Gilmour (Gloomy Oil) Dobie, Boston College football coach and former Cornell coach, and his assistant, Frank Murdock, were seriously injured when their automobile crashed into a bridge abutment early today. City hospital officials said both suffered probable concussions of the brain, serious lacerations about the head, and Murdock probable in* ternal injuries. Both were placed on the danger list. Police said they found Murdock standing dazed outside the car and Dobie- Inside. The left side of the car was crushed. A cruising car sped the injured men to the hos pital where Dr. Lewis Reilse, night supervisor, treated them. Rev. Lawrence Dugan, who iden tified the mat the hospital, noti fied Boston College officials. Do bie’s daughter, Joan, of Ithaca, N. Y. was summoned. Police said the men were appar ently enroute from Boston to New ton, where Dobie resides, when the crash occurred. The abutment the machine struck is one of three in the highway at the bridge ap proach. Dobie came to Boston College from Cornell University this fall, and concluded his first football sea son at B. C. successfully last Sat urday. The former Cornell coach, known to thousands of football fans as “Gloomy Oil,” brought Murdock with him from the New York State College as an assistant. Pitts Under Bond In Justice Death MORGANTON, Dec. 2.—</P>—Roy Pitts, Glen Alpine policeman, was free on $1,000 bond today pending his trial December 14 on a charge of shooting to death Charlie Justice, 41. His bond was reduced from $3,000 to $1,000 at a preliminary hearing yesterday. Pitts claimed he shot Justice in self-defense. Roy Justice, 16-year-old son of the slain man, testified at the hear ing that "Pitts had to shoot father.” Pitts did not take the stand nor did the defense offer any witnesses. Award Monograms CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 2.— UP) — Varsity and freshman monograms for fall sports vfill be awarded to University of North Carolina ath letes at a banquet tonight. Moving huge barriers of ever-shifting sand, these powerful draglines, operated in 24-hour shifts, are excavating for the All-American canal across the southern California desert country. The canal eventually will carry water from Boulder Dam into the Imperial Valley. Say Gamer Takes Part h The Floor LeadersUp Fight WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-W— A charge that Vice President Gamer is “Interfering” in House of Rep* resentative affairs lent warmth to day to a fight for the Democratic floor leadership of the house. Gamer’s public pledge of “200 per cent support” for the candidacy of his, feUow-Twam, Rep. Bairn Ray » Jt. . _ ,, j -«-« — —few "TfOBBJTwWp - tjmauy CRHiivnfCu Uj friends of Hep. John J. O'Connor of New York, another candidate. They said it was a "gratuitous intrusion into the affairs” of the house. A few hours after he arrived in the capital from his Texas home Gamer told reporters yesterday he would support Rayburn “in every way possible” because he consider ed him “the best man for the place.” INSTALL OFFICERS ON NEXT MONDAY County and Township Officers To Be Sworn In Formal installation of all county officers named in the last election! will be held on next Monday, De cember 7 at the court house. A. M. Hamrick, clerk of superior court will be in charge of the ceremony and all county and town ship officers with the exception of the sheriff and the Judge and soli citor of recorder’s court, will pre sent themselves. The judge and solicitor will take office on January 1 and the sheriff will be Inducted on April 1. Each officer, with the exception of the deputies appointed by the sheriff, are expected to have their bonds approved by the county com missioners before being sworn in. Driver Narrowly Escapes Injury J. T. Vickers, driver for Barnwell Brothers Motor Lines narrowly es caped death or Berlous injury last night as his big truck left the road, slid down an embankment and stopped in the basement of a house. Vickers slipped out of the truck just in time to dodge the sliding vehicle. The accident occurred a few miles out of Hickory on the Brookford hill. No other serious accidents to the Barnwell trucks were reported this morning, although two which start ed north last night were unable to get out of the city. Regular sched ules were being resume*} today. Officials at the Horton Motor Lines said their only difficulty was with a machine an the Buffalo Creek hill last night. Their sched ules were resumed today. Connec tions to Greensboro and farther north were said to be badly ham pered by Ice. Hanning Board Meets RALEIGH, Dec. 3. — (A) — The State Planning Board met here to day to discuss plans for the coming year. Edwards’ Bn Be King, Hi JUDGE ORDERS BEAVER LODGE TO BE CLOSED Protest O f Citizens Ends Disturbances Jess Ferguson, operator of the Beaver Lodge six miles west of Shelby, was under $500 bond today after his conviction In recorder's court yesterday on charges of op erating a public nuisance and al lowing prostitution in the lodge buildings. A protest by citizens of the com munity and work of Officers Bob Kendrick and J. R. Hord brought Ferguson into court yesterday where a Jury convicted him on the two counts. Neighbors Testify On the public nuisance charge he was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and on the second charge he was sentenced to six months on the roads, suspended on the condition that he not operate a filling sta tion or place of business in Cleve land county for 13 months and that he be of good behavior during that time. Evidence presented by John Jones, D. R. McSwain, A. C. Doty, C. A. Jones, P. C. Blanton, Winston Mum ford, K. O. Blanton, O. W. Lucka doo, O. O. McSwain, J. W. Wilson, (Continued on page three.) DR. CHASE TO TALK AT GEORGIA SCHOOL MOUNT BERRY, Dec. 3.—OP)— Dr. Martha Berry, founder and di rector of the Berry schools here announced today that Dr. Harry Wood bum Chase, president of New York University and former presi dent of the University of North Carolina will speak at the 35th an niversary of the schools on January 13. The ceremonies will mark the 35th anniversary of the Berry schools and the tenth anniversady of Berry college. >ther Might nts The Times In Thinly Veiled Al lusion To King And Wallis LONDON, Dm. L—(ff)—Pttan® MIti trier RUnh; Baldwin call ed upon King Edward at Buck ingham Palace tonight for what onfoeje Si m m — a Wmm irponffl SO Pf> m SflOWOOWIt In UkD eonaliiutloiuU oridi omm ed by the monarch’* friendship for Mrs. Wall!* Stmpoon. LONDON, Dec, 1r- <JP) —Possible breakup of the British realm with the Duke and Duchess of York as King and Queen of Scotland was hinted today In an editorial In the London Times. The article, which did not men tion King Edward’s friendship with Mrs. Wallis Simpson, was inter preted by some readers as the strongest veiled reference to "the 1 affair Simpson” which has yet ap peared in England. The editorial was pegged to t'he • visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Edinburgh for the St. An drew’s Day Masonic banquet and concluded : Welcome King’s Brother "This visit of the heir presump tive (to the British throhe) en- 1 courages speculation as to whether the time may not some day come i when historic honors may be used again in the crowning of a King of i (Continued on Page Three) , AP All-American Picks On Friday i Selections for the All-American football teams of the nation will be released Friday afternoon by the Associated Press. The Sports Department of the Star will have the selections and their pictures for Its readers sev eral hours ahead of any other newspaper in this area. The Associated Press, because of Its news gathering facilities is the logical organisation to pick an all American team. Alan Gould, for 13 years general sports editor for the AP, and his many cooperating ed itors will pick the winners on per formance alone. School Children Shelters May Be Built In Cleveland A WPA project to erect 40,000 school bus stations throughout North Carolina to protect school children from raw weather is being studied by the state school officials, the Associated Press reports. Lloyd E. Griffin, executive secre tary of the commission, said the proposed project would cost ap proximately $800,000, of which the WPA would be asked to furnish $480,000. Counties would furnish the 1 remainder. School funds, he said, would not be available for the work. It is understood here that the i county would have to pay approxi- i mately three-eights of the cost of Shelters, since the WPA would be asked for almost five-eights oi the total. , i How many shelters would be con sidered necessary in the county Is i problem that has not been dis cussed. It is supposed that plans would provide for erection of shel ters at Intervals where several chil dren gather, such as cross or side 'oads, and that not so many would ae required on each route. School officials here, deeply In terested In the project, want to enow more details before they take my action for this county. The proposed stations would be >pen sheds, measuring 6 by 8 feet, md facing the south. They would :oet approximately $30 each. The state highway and public works commission has agreed to fur ll&h* gravel bases along the road- i ides lor all stations Orilfin said i BUS AND TRUCK SCHEDULES ARE ALL CALLED OFF Thaw Today Opens Most Roads, School Busses Run ROADS OPEN NOW Weather gripped Cleveland coun ty yesterday and last night and held this section nearly helpless. Roads were coated with thin Ice before dark Tuesday, the Intermit tent snow, sleet and rain which tael during thG day having turned te Ice In mid-afternoon. Traffic Paralysed Traffic was paralysed last night as trucks, busses and cars slid Into ditches but their man Job was la off during the night and early this morning. It was believed that sche dules toward Charlotte would be resumed during the day but there was considerable question about those toward Asheville. Moat state highways were passable this morn ing. Highway department employes worked all night. They ware able in some cases to assist can out of dttche shut their main job was In netting flares to want other motor lets of tie-ups. Two truoka atm a bus blocked highway No. 74 near Cleveland Springs, making neces lary a detour. No one was hurt. The two trucks were going east and in front of the old hotel out Of th( other skidded, the trailer going over a bank. The other truck atop ped aa It touched the wrecked ma chine. In front of the golf club a west bound bus, due at Shelby at t p. m.. did into a ditch.d three ears slid into IK Nl’Hrfou* damage was done to any of the cars. * Reports are that 13 or more trucks uid cars were off the road on the letour bring used from Sotting Springs to Oaffney. Traffic on the ilghway from drover to Blacksburg was blocked for soma time whan a :ouple of trucks went off n fill. Road Closed The highway between Asheville md Bat Cave was closed to traffic >y the highway department yester iay afternoon, cars being routed rla Hendersonville. The Asheville 3at Cave highway, it was reported, was a solid Sheet of thin lei.; Absence of Injury reported here was due to the extreme careful drlv ng. Can barely crept along and when a skid occurred It was a grad ial and slow slipping Into a aide Utoh. *-■;* Some difficult was experienced n getting all school children home n busses yesterday afternoon but he efforts were successful without lerlous mishap. There was some lelay in schedule* this morning but hey all go through. The thaw, plus halns on all busses, made It pos able for them to move, although •arcful driving caused seme of them » be late. The Associated Press reports the 'reeze extended from (ha moun tains to the sea. South Carolina highways are open, although the freeze extended far Into the kw matey. J. L Jenkins, Jr. Accidentally Shot J. L. Jenklna Jr., 17 year old son of Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Jenklna at Bolling Springs was recovering nicely in the Shelby hospital to day after he was shot through the body, the bullet almost piercing the heart. The youth was shot by Jamea Oliver Hamrick, son of Dr. and Mrs. Yates Hamrlok of Bolling Springs when the two were out hunting late Monday afternoon with some other boys. A rabbit jumped up In front of the hunting party and Instead of !| butting the rabbit the bullet of Hamrick's gun entered J. L. Jr’s shoulder and was removed at the hospital a short distanoe from the heart. The near-tragedy was said to be purely accidental. PAIXSTON WOMAN’S CLUB MEETS DEC. 1TH The Frilstau Woman’s club wiU meet Monday afternoon Dec. 7th st S o’clock at the home of Mrs. S. 3. Royster. Joint hostesses will be !Jrs. Slough Beam and Mrs. C. D Stroup. Miss France* MacGregor, •ounty home agent, will have charge »r the program on Christmas White
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