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WEATHER North Carolina: Partly cloudy. Slightly wanner In northwest por tion and near coast tonight. Official Shelby temperatures: High 55, Low 29, Rainfall none. Tfhe Hlxelbxj Ænily Steu MARKETS Cut ton. spot_13 to 139%o Cotton, need, wagon ton_339.00 Cotton iwd, rar lot ton .....942.00 FORMERLY THE CLEVELAND STAR. ESTABLISHED 1896 VOL. XLii—inu.uz MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE SHELBY DAILY STAR SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, DEC. 23. 1936 AUDITED CIRCULATION SINGLE COPIES CONFERENCE DECLARED AID TO PEACE OF AMERICAS Cuban President Fights Ouster GOMEZ DEMANDS HE BE ALLOWED TO DEFEND SELF Cubans Believe His Chances About Gone BATISTA~ FORCE HAVANA, Dee. **.—</P>—Oon imiloiud champions of Miguel Mariano Gome* obtained pass ports today in an emergency prelude to Cnbofc army-sped impeachment of the seven months’ president. Representative Radio Cremata, who disclosed the legislators’ set)on while Gome* was plead ing for a chance to defend him self against ouster before the senate coart of justice, said all pro-Gome* congresrmen had of fered to resign when the presi dent was ushered oat of office. HAVANA, Dec. 23—President Mi guel Mariano Gomez, brilliant ora tor and lawyer, pleaded that he be permitted to defend himself against impeachment charges in the na tional senate today. The appeal, outside the law of Cuba in the unprecedented case of Impeachment, was regarded as a "forlorn hope” in his fight against action to oust him from the presi dency. Wants To Talk The law provides that the presi dent must submit his defense In VTitlng, leaving oral arguments to attorneys. Gomez declared that, as an attorney in good standing at the Cuban bar, he should be permitted to Bppoint himself his own coun sel. His plea was taken under con sideration by a committee of the senate which will sit as a court of justice in the case. The house of representatives, in! •impeaching the president, charged! him with attempting to use politi- j cal coercion to stifle opposition to. ms veio oi inc aruiy-spuasureu *1, 500.000 sugar tax bill. Although most official quarters expected the president’s ouster [ would be concurred In by the senate J which overrode his sugar tax veto! 38 to 6, the results of the court’s vote probably will not be known for lome ten hours after it Is taken. All indications were that the na 'Continued on page eight.) UNION PROPOSES ORGANIZATION OF M0T0RINDUSTRY Chrysler, Ford, Gen eral Motors And Others Involved DETROIT, Dec. 23.—Wl—T h c United Automobile Workers of America announced as Its goal to day the signing of colective bargain ing agreements with every unit In Ihe motor Industry from the small manufacturer of parts to the “big three”—Cshryaler, Ford and G*neral Motors. “We are going to have collective bargaining in all of the auto in dustry," said Homer Martin, inter national president of the union, and we won’t give up until we have *• Uy federal legislation, collective bargaining is the law of the land, *nd it substantiated by public •pinion. Right now we are trying to ar •aoge negotiations with the General Motors corporation. We are going “organise Ford, too. General Mot r* and Ford do not have collective °»rgaining. Chh relations with the Chrysler rporaticm have been very satis Martin said. “There has if feen 1 single case of union dis ration or discharge there. iJT*"*1, a1011* with many others, wwently is seeking to abide by the »w and play fairly.* inis announcement came as ex h,,(v*s °* automobile factories and h„rindustries watched appre ^ vely the effect of strikes in Prri' parts plants on car and lr>irlt A Arrange Mass Funeral Services For Mexican Miners Dead In Blast 34 Known Dead And Fear Is That Many Others Of 700 Working During Explosion May Have Perished EAGLE PA88, Tex., Dec. 23.—<JP) i —An explosion-torn mine which Fielded at least 34 bodies was search-! ed today by digging rescue crews 80 j miles to the south in Mexico for five miners believed entombed. Thirty-five injured miners were treated, several for severe bums which may prove fatal. This border town’s information from the mine at Nuevo Rosita, Coachuila, failed to confirm a re port from Torreon, Mexico, that the recovered bodies totalled 47. 700 In Mine About 700 miners were scattered throughout the underground shafts1 of the Rosita Coal Mine company’s number six operations when the blast occurred yesterday about a mile from the entrance and 400 j feet below the surface. Officials suggested sparks from an unknown source may have set off gas. Mass funeral services were ar ranged for the victims recovered from the number one shaft. Escaping gas and rocks and tim ber which blocked th« shafts ham pered rescue work. Reports received here said all of the victims were Mexicans. Rescue work began immediately after the explosion and physicians from five other towns were sum moned. News of the blast attracted large crowds to the shafthead from Roslta, city of 30,000. Manuel Reyes of Eagle Pass was advised by a brother who works for the company that the explosion rocked Rosita. The mines is owned by the Compania Carbonlfera de Sabinas, S. A., Mexican subsidiary of the American Smelting and Re fining company. Twelve mules in the mine escap ed death because, observers said, they remained at one place while frantic miners rushed into the dead ly gas. BUSINESS RUSH TODAYJHURSDAY Long Christmas Week End To Be Observed By Many Business activity is expected to reach a feverish climax in this area today and tomorrow. No formal agreement as to the closing period for Christmas was reached by local merchants, and come are expected to get Friday and ' Saturday as holidays, and others i only Friday. I Banks Close Banks and building and loan of fices will be closed only on Christ mas day, as will the post office and! a number of other businesses will take only Friday. The court house and the offices i of the county agent will remain1 closed from Thursday noon until ...onday noon. City offices close at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon until Monday morning. Few Licenses Carl06 Hopper, manager of auto license sales at the Carolina Motor club office, said there will be no sales either Friday or Saturday. To date 1,092 have been sold. By the first of the year there should be more than 5,500 he said. 1 There will be no postal service ex cept special delivery on Christmas day. There will be no delivery at all on rural routes. Rural schools will close this aft ernoon and open again on next Monday. Many Attend Rites For J. Mack Green Many persons from Shelby at tended the funeral of J. Mack Green at Double Shoals Baptist church this afternoon at 2:30. Mr. Green died suddenly about 2 o’clock yesterday at his home on North Washington street. He was 78 I years of age. Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor i here, was in charge of rites. Inter- i ment was at the Double Shoals i cemetery. i GOVERNOR HELPS GASTONNEGROES Death Sentences Are Changed To Life Imprisonment RALEIGH, Dec. 23.—(/P>—Dover- ' lor Ehringhaus commuted to life mprtsonment today the death sen- 1 .ences Imposed In Gaston county >n Frank and Grier Armstrong, ne froes convicted of first degree bur tlary. The men were charged with ehter ng the home of the Rev. W. Eari Armstrong at Gastonia In an at tempt to kidnap and criminally as iault his 11-year-old daughter. At the time of the conviction the xial jury recommended mercy but mder state law the verdict of first iegree burglary carried with It a nandatory death sentence. Judge *T. B. Finley, who presided it the trial, was quoted in the corn nutation statement as saying there vas no serious injury done. He rec immended a change of the sen ence to life or 30 years in prison. “the Jury evidently thought here was some little doubt about he defendants being guilty of first iegree burglary,” Finley wrote, "but lot sufficient doubt to amount to i reasonable doubt—therefore, de eded to return the verdict of bur ?lary in the first degree, coupled vith a recommendation for mercy vhich would mean, possibly, life mprtsonment.” Solicitor John G. Carpenter con curred in the judge’s recommenda ion and the Rev. Mr. Armstrong yrote the governor asking that nercy be shown by a commutation, he statement said. flELD FOR DEATH OF NEGRO IN COLLISION GASTONIA, Dec. 23.—(JP)—Omar Jtevenson of South Gastonia was it liberty under $1,000 bond today is officers investigated the death >f Will Roberts, 55, negro, in an luto-wagon collision. I All Records Appear Broken ■ By 1937 Christmas Mail 1 CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—OP)—Santa ] Claus’ chief helpers, the postmen, | staggered today under the heaviest; loads of Christmas mail since 1929.; In many parts of the country the stream of Yuletlde greetings estab- j llshed all-time records. There were millions more pack-! ages and letters In the mail this year than there were in 1935, car-1 rying the spirit of the season to all points of the compass. The govern ment's cash registers worked over- j time, jingling the tune of a boom business in stamps. FVv-t mastfr Ooldmun °l Nru York; hired 11,300 extra clerks and car riers to handle the biggest volume since ’38 and ’39. Both parcel post 1 md first class mall was 20 percent j greater than a year ago. Manhat tan and Bronx receipts for the first 1 21 days of December topped by 1 (500,000 the total for all of Decern-. 1 ber, 1935. ’ At Cincinnati 2,260,000 pieces of 1 mall had passed through cancell ing machines In 24 hours ending, * last night for an all-time high. 11 Assistant Postmaster Peter Wig-! <Con.t.inifptf on pus* right. > Waits For Santa SI 1= Charles Henry Benedict of Colum blavllle, N. Y., who first hung up his stocking on Christinas Eve 103 years ago, tests he mantel prepar atory to hanging It up again this year. Still a firm believer In Santa, he hopes for “about a ton of pipe tobacco’’ In his stocking. (Associ ated Press Photo) 38 Life Termers In State Prison IVill Have Party RALEIGH, Dec. 33.—(IP)—1Thirty ight men serving life terms at Cen ral prison here will have a Chrlst nas party all to themselves Friday. Warden H. H. Honeycutt said ar angements had been made to allow he men to barbecue a hog or two n the prison yard “their own way." [Yimmings, such as slaw and bread, fill be provided. Oscar Pitts, acting director of the lenal division, said a "special dln ler would be provided for all prl :oners consisting usually of vege ables and either fresh pork or hicken.” Each prisoner will get a Christmas card. A holiday will be given the pri oners, except those having camp luties. from noon tomorrow until donday morning, Pitts said. Simeon D. Fess Is Dead In Capitol WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—(/P>— '’ormer Senator Simeon D. Fess of Dhio died unexpectedly in a hotel lere today of a heart attack. He was '5. Hotel officials said Fess arrived wuj vuio uiuiiiuig iiuu i v/mu aiiu rent directly to his room. The end iame suddenly a few minutes after 0 o'clock. A son, Charles S. Pess who lives n the capital was summoned im nediately. Pess, who served 10 years in the louse and two terms in the senate, iras defeated for reeleetion in 1934. He served as chairman of the lepubllcan national committee and n 1928 delivered the keynote ad Iress at the convention which nom nated Herbert Hoover. Meredith Faculty Members Injured RALEIGH, Dec. 23.— (A*) —Miss ■fae P. Grimmer. Meredith College Jumnae secretary, and Miss Mary ftllery, art teacher at the school, rere still in "serious condition” at lex Hospital today, suffering from njuries received in an automobile reeck on the Raleigh-Rocky Mount tighway Saturday. Physicians attending them said he extent of their Injuries had not et been fully determined. Bunvan Whitley of Nashville. In ured in the samf accident, died •nstrrdav .»t Rocky Moim* THREE DAY HALT CALLED IN CHINA KIDNAP ACTIVITY Follows Request Of Wife Of Chiang; Many Rumors ARMED TRUCE NANKING. Dec. 23.—(A*)—A three day Armistice halted China's civil war today at the urgent request of Mme. Chiang Kat-Shrk and her brother. Dr. T. V. Soong, after their flight to Slanfu to rescue the national government's captive lead er. Shortly after Generalissimo Chlang's wife and her brother ar rived at Marshal Chang Hsueh Uang’s rebel stronghold. Dr. Soong telegraphed Nanking asking for a cessation of hostilities. Alter a hasty conference with oth er nationalist leaders. Dr. H. H. Kung, acting civil head of the gov ernment. granted an Armistice un til Dec. 26. The proposal to end hostilities came on the heels of a reported strategic victory for the Nanking troops of the punitive expedition pressing to rescue Chiang. Aid for the rebellion was seen In reports that Marshal Chang had effected an alliance with commun 1st leaders further to the northwest and was actively cooperating with them. The young marshal waa said to < have flown 200 miles to Fushln, 1m- ' portent city of northern Shensi province, for a conference with communist leaders, bringing one of them back with him to Slanfu to greet Mme. Chlang and Dr. Soong. The telegram from the "unoffl- ( clal” emissaries was the flrst word t since their plane nosed Into the fog over the Yangtse river valley yesterday for the flight to Slanfu. Officials refused to comment on the sudden development or on Dr. 8oong’s terse telegram which gave 1 no details of conditions at Mar shal Chang's headquarters. Civic Club Taking Children Into Homes Each member of the Lions club will take some underprivllege child into his home on Christmas day tc .share Christmas with him or her. The guest will be given a good Christmas meal and In addition some toys and candles, as well as more substantial gifts, if needed, says Robert H. Cooke, president Mr. Cooke suggests that other civic club members invite some child into his home on Christmas day, in line with each club’s objec tive to do something for the needy of the community. Small Blase A small blaze, Ignited by sparks from a flue, endangered the home of John Page this morning. Little damage was done. Final Christmas Appeal Is Made Pinal appeal to people of Shelby and Cleveland county for donations to Insure children at least same.hing special for Christmas was made today by Captain Ben Jones, of the Sal vation Army. Donations of toys, fruits, foodstuffs, clothes; all these can be used and used well. Noth ing will be wasted. There Is need for everything that will be donated, and then some. 1 r t dren will be held at the Amer ican Legion building Thursday f afternoon at 2:30 o’clock so in order that donations may be available for the party people are asked to make their contri butions In the morning. Children admitted to the par ty have all been investigated. Admission will be by ticket only. Children who have not yet received tickets must See Cap tain or Mrs. Jones for lnvestl- ! gatlcn before tickets will be Is- t sued. 1 Firemen have already repair- a ed many broken toys donated \ for the party. Members of the t fire department have been co operating with the Salvation l Army in preparing for the party a and will assist in giving out the 1 toys Thursday afternoon. Mayor 1 Wood.son will give nut the first 1 hn.'kel. r White House Hails Christmas Looking almost Ilka a Christmas card, this pleturo ahows tho Yuletldo troea lighted on tho "front porch” of tho Whits Houae. Inside, the Rooaavelt family hung wreaths and prepared for ar. "old fashioned” Christmas. (Associated Press Photo! Grim Christmas Is Faced By Defenders Of Madrid IEEKING PAY FOR TIME IN PRISON Starnes Is Out After Another Man Tells Of Crime RALEIGH, Dec. 2S.—</P)—Edison I. Collin* .attorney for Harrison I tames, paroled yesterday after ervlng three month* on a robbery entence when another man con essed he commuted the crime, said oday he would ask the legislature o pay Starnes for the time he spent n jail. Starnes, only 21, accompanied his iarents back to their Union county lome last night and was greeted V his bride of only a few months. ‘‘Boy, will this mean a happy Jhrlstmas for us? You know It will," houted his father. Collins said Reece Plyler was be ns held under »4,000 bond at Mon oe, and had confessed the robbery dth firearms for which Starnes was onvlcted and sentenced to five to lx years. The lawyer said Plyler lad Implicated another man and lad declared Starnes Innocent. Collins placed his Information be ore Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus and ’arole Commissioner Edwin Gill ste yesterday. Starnes knew no'h ag of the negotiations until guards ushcd him In from his prison work, iad him discard stripes and go be ore Gill. The entire proceedings re ulred lass than an hour. Starnes said he was convicted on he testimony of persons who lden Ifled him by freckles on his arms nd another on his head. He said he held “no hard feel lgs” against any one, but com lented he didn't “think much of he Jury, judge and solicitor” who onvlcted him. Gill said Starnes would get a full ardon after Plyler Is tried. Cigarettes, Cognac Yuletide Gift To Soldiers MADRID, Dec. 33. — (JP) — The crash of enemy shells In the trenches northwest of the Spanish capital today foreshadowed a grim Chrlstmasttde for the city’s so cialist defenders. Militiamen at the front wistfully expressed the hope some of them might be allowed to return to Mad rid for the day. but the ever-pres ent fear of Insurgent attack on the strategic communications with El Escorlal held them to their posts. Shell Building The government estimated 15 shells fell in the heart of the capital yes terday during a long range bomb ardment in which the insurgent ar tillery centered its fire on the mil lion dollar telephone building, tall est structure in the city. Although several persons in the streets were injured by the tum bling masonry, young girls busied themselves collecting gifts for the "militia's Christmas.” The presents obtained from Mad rid's already tried civilian popula tion consisted mostly of old clothes, books, and much needed shoes. Cigareta and cognac will be free ly distributed on "Buena Noche” to the soldiers in the trenches. Except for the Intermittent ar tillery duel there was little activity In the bitter cold of the front lines. Positions on both sides of the highway to El Escorlal, Madrid’s link with her outpost in the Guad arrama mountains, were fortified by the opposing armies. In Valencia, money from the In ternational relief fund made pos sible hundreds of thousands of pounds of cake for the socialist forces. The Christmas distribution will Include 50,000 pounds of pork, 10, 300 pounds of fruit, 100,000 boxes of cigareta and 100.000 cigars. New Lead Sends Searchers Into Another Utah Sector SALT LAKE OITV, Dec. 23.—(JP) -A new lead, considered one of the aost promising yet discovered, ent searchers for a wrecked alr ner and Its seven occupants into new region—the extreme south-’ restem tip of Utah—for the first Ime today A Los Angeles turkey buyer's de- i iyed story "that he saw a plane bout to crash In the lava wastes 2 miles northwest of St. George Itah, swung the hunt Into the: leretofnro unoonsidcrad »r*»a at a 5m, St. George by highway Is 316 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, 76 miles south of Milford where the transport last reported and far out of the territory over which 35 planes and several thousand men have been searching dally since Dec. 13. St. Oeorge, Is on the fringe of the semi-tropical climate of Arizona end southern Nevada. Searchers ijulckly pointed out that If any persons survived the crash they ‘Continued on right t DREAM OF F.D.R. IS NOW LIKELY TO BEAR FRUIT Shoulder To Shoulder Against Foreign Aggression is ovefTtoday By The Associated Pm* President Roosevelt’s dream of a western hemisphere of nations mov ing toward permanent peace, stand ing "shoulder to shoulder" against foreign aggression and pledged against a war of conquest, found realisation, at least, In part, in the Inter-American peane conference which ended today. The Buenos Aires parley, through 60 projects, laid the foundation for strengthening the American peace structure, providing for Joint con sultation if general American peace is threatened front within or with out, non-intervention by one Amer ican coimtry In another's affairs and removal of some of the horrors of warfare 21 Nations Agree The representatives of the 31 American republic put into con crete form the general proposals laid down by President Roosevelt in his notes to the other American re public last January and in his ad dress at the opening of the historic conference Dec. 1. Argentina's insistence on not com pletely severing her bottds with her mother continent, Europe, and the United States’ policy of remaining aloof from European entanglements proved only minor stumbling blocks and difficulties were Ironed out quickly. Major Projects Seven major projects for bolster ing the American peace set-up won unanimous approval and an eighth had the sanction of all but the Unit ed States, which refraiped from vot ing because the proposal was linked to the League of Nations. The seven peace measures are: 1. A United 8tates plan for joint consultation among the American ■ ini-u/Aio n ^r«v,c ui wic new worm is threatened from abroad or from within. 2. A United States resolution for ratification of five existing Ameri can peace treaties by nations whleh have not made them'effective. 3. A United States project to co (Conlinued on page eight) WINElEGAUTY PROBLEM TO LAW FORCES.DEALERS One Law Says Drink Can Contain But 5 Percent Large quantities of wine with al coholic content over five percent and ranging as high as 31 percent are flooding Cleveland and nearby counties, it was learned today. The legality of selling wine, which was or was not made In the state, is a problem, both to officers of the law and to dealers who would like to have the profits made from sell ing wine, but at the same time who are honest and conscientious and want to remain within the law. Famed for its “scramble” which left many laws unfinished, the 1935 legislature amended the 3.3 beer and wine law to allow 5 percent al cohol. Furthermore, it passed a "wine law” which allowed wine In any quantity with any alcoholic con tent to be drunk or sold, so long as the wine was made at home from home grown products. Then the attorney general ruled some time ago that Interstate com merce rules make It Illegal to dis criminate against outsides states, so Virginia. Maryland or even Califor nia. wine has as much right to be sold as that made locally from home grown goods, he says. A number of dealers are said to have contacted local officers on what to do. Judge Bynum Weathers la wrAlng Attorney General Sea well today for a clearer ruling. It was learned however, that wines much above 21 percent al cohol are not true wines and all 11 j quers or mixtures are illegal. It has been reported that there i Is on stile to the public some wines and mixtures carrying as high as 40 permit alrnJio)
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