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make aboi
yield of last yea
cated by the gin report Jui
'issued by the Census Bureau throug
Thamer C. Beam, county cotto
statistician.
Prior to Dec. 13th of this yea
there had been ginned in the couri
ty 22,667 bales as compared wit
44,736 bales up to the same date
year ago from the 1935 crop.
Cleveland county which usuall
maintains top rank as a cotton pro
cticing county in North Carolina
will likely rank fifth place this yeai
due to unfavorable weather condi
uons. The weather has been mor
unfavorable for cotton in this coun
ty than in the past quarter centur
or longer and has seriously cut lnt
the cash income of farmers.
Some cotton, however, remain!
in the fields unpicked because o
bad weather. Many farmers havi
been gathering the bolts and tak
ing them Into the house for pick
lng.
Each Side Blames
Other For Delay
In Ending Strike
BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 33.—<#>
As each side blamed the other fa
blocking settlement, peace move
, practically were at a standstill toda;
m me coast maritime sirine, ai
fecting nearly 40,000 men and estl
mated by employers to have cos
$385,000,000 to date.
Assistant Labor Secretary Edwan
P. McGrady temporarily abandon
ed plans to return to Washington
for Christmas after announclni
ship-owners and licensed deck of
fleers would confer today on possi
billtles of renewing negotiations li
the 55-day deadlock.
A spokesman for the maritlm
riremen said they would not vot
on whether to accept a tentatlv
agreement until proposals wer
ready for other striking union*
Sailors left indefinite the date 01
which they will take a similar vot*
T. G. Plant, spokesman for t.h
offshore shippers, accused Harr
Bridges, West coast longshoremen’
president, of blocking settlemen
and attributed to him the remarl
that there can be no coast peac
until striking eastern seamen wi
their demands.
Bridges promptly denied an
such stand. He said "no smok
screen" can be "big enough to con
cr-al thoee realty responsible for pro
longing the strike.”
Dream Of F.D.R.
To Bear Frui
(Continued from page one.)
ordinate these treaties and provtd
for consultation to decide on
common neutrality policy If was oc
curs anywhere.
4. A protocol to the pact approv
ed by the 1935 Pan-American con
ference at Montevideo. Uruguaj
declaring intervention by one Amer
ican country in another’s affairs !
"inadmissible."
5. A Central American recoin
mendation for solidarity ainopgjtii
American republics. provides fo
consultation if the rights x»f an
American state arc damaged; pro
bibits.territorial conquest, interven
tion and collection of debts b
lorce; declares all disagreement
among American republics must b
submitted to arbitration, and ex
pressed the legal equality of all th
American republics.
6. A Chilean recommendation fo
negotiation of bilateral arms limi
tation agreements
7. A Uruguayan resolution de
nr-uncing use of poison gas, liquo
fire and bacteria in warfare.
The peace proposal to which th
United States declined to adhen
provided that non-members of th'
League of Nations which signed th(
Kellogg-Briand anti-war agreemen
and the Argentine anti-war pact o
1933 cooperate with the league it
its attempts to prevent and em
wars.
Textile Employees
Get Four Days Of!
Thousands of textile employe;
will get four days of leisure foi
Christmas shopping and holiday vis
iting.
A check-up this morning revealec
that most of the mills in the countj
are closing their plants tonight anc
will reopen next Monday morning.
Payrolls and bonuses are belnf
given today and the flood of monej
Is expected to enlarge the Christ
mas trade extensively.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS AT
HOME FOR HOLIDAY;
RALEIGH, Dec. 23.--{JV-Jogc
phus Daniels, ambassador to Mex
ico. has come home for the Christ
mas holidays.
Daniels, war-time secretary of th
navy and publi her of the Raleitl
News and Observer, c;me by Wash
ington where he was a guest of Pres
ldent Roosevelt at the White Hous<
President Roosevelt was Daniels’ as
slstant in the o"m' -^nartment 1
World war days
SI
r nt tr^NUSTMENt
LONDON. Dec. 23.—(-TV- Great
Britain asked 27 other member
nations in the non-intervention
committee today to halt foreign
enlistments In Spanish armies
by January 4.
The British proposal asked
specific pledfM from the inter
national delegates that their
governments would not allow
fresh volunteers to leave for
the Spanish frontiers.
f FAIR TRADE LAW
STATESVILLE. Dec. 23.—(/P)
’ —A fair trade law. similar to
California and Illinois statutes
i recently upheld by the supreme
court, may be sought for this
' state in the 1937 legislature,
Secretary J. Paul Leonard of
, the North Carolina Fair Tax
[ association said here today.
SPLIT ON RELIEF
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—W)
—A reported ultimatum from
Harry L. Hopkins that he will,
resign as Works Progress Ad
ministrator unless he gets $750,
000,000 to carry the relief pro
gram through next June threat
ened today to split the admin
istration forces in the new con
gress.
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One ponp was described as
lining up behind Hopkins, while
another Is counselling cuts In
relief spending to pave the way
for a balanced budget.
TALKING MAN DEAD
OCALA, Fla, Dec. 23.—^/Pv——
Death stilled the tired Ups of
Howard Stillman In a hospital
here today.
The 44-year-old fanner died
of a strange malady which
caused him to talk, sing or
mumble without stopping for 18
days.
His last words — he died In
the 418th hour of his uncon
trollable flow of speech- -were
mumblings about the Bible.
NAMED TO OFFICE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—(/P)
—Another step in the re-elec
tion of President Roosevelt and
Vice-President Garner was com
pleted today with the announce
ment that all 48 states had
complied with the law requir
ing them to report their elec
toral votes by the fourth Wed
nesday in December."
Japan, Russia Are
In Fishing Accord
MOSCOW,' Dec. 23.—(AV-Japan
won the right today to continue
fishing in Siberian waters for one
year after lengthy negotiations
which almost collapsed because of |
the Japanese-German accord against
communism.
Officials of the soviet foreign of
fice approved the one year exten
sion of the expiring agreement but
made no promises for future proce- ;
dure.
Details have still to be complet-1
ed. Japanese Ambassador Mamoru
Shlgemltsu and Russian Foreign
Commissar Maxim LitvinofT ar-1
ranged for another conference to
discuss the agreement.
(In Tokyo, Foreign Minister Ha
chiro Arita announced the one year
extension at a session of the privy j
council.)
Russia made it plain it considers
» upyiuvut umy » suup-gap ar
- rangement which will prevent—for
; the time being—trouble between the
two nations.
Parcel Post Hurt
By Railroad Fire
LEXINGTON, Dec. 23.—<JP)-Fire
did heavy damage to a solid carload
of parcel post, including thousands
of Christmas packages, on a South
ern Railway train here today.
Lexington firemen put out the'
i fire after the train sped here from
1 Linwood, six miles away, where
smoke was first noticed seeping from
the sealed car.
Postal officials who hurried here
, from Greensboro estimated a third
of the cargo was destroyed or bad
ly damaged by smoke and water.
They said the mail originated south
and west of Salisbury and was
destined for Greensboro and points
beyond.
Patterson Grove
Club Entertained
Mrs. A. P. Falls delightfully en
tertained the Paterson Grove club
in her home Tuesday afternoon.
The room was most attractively
decorated with pot flowers, Chriat
i mas evergreens and candles. The
decoration was arranged by the
hosr.ess, Mrs. Hunter Ware, who also
had charge of the program. Mrs.
• James Ware read scripture, after
which Christmas carols were sung.'
■ Mrs. C. 8. Falls gave a story. The i
i Star of Bethlehem. Mrs. Benton
• Putnam gave a po:m, and Mrs
- Hun er Ware a story of the Christ
!. mas Tree.
- The members of the club ex
rj changed gifts, after which the hast
es sserved a salad and .sweet course
kHODES scholarship winners
Here are the four successful candidates from the southeastern states for
Rhodes scholarships at Oxford university. They were selected from a
group of 12 who took the examination conducted in Atlanta, Ga. Seated,
left to right: Thomas L. Perry, Jr., of Asheville, N. C., a student at
Harvard, and Karl Price of Mlddlesboro, Ky., a Vanderbilt student.
Stsnding, James E. King, Jr. (left) of Leesburg, Fla-, a student at
Harvard, and William C. H. Prentice of Willlamsbi g, Va., a Swarth
more student. (Associated Press Photo)
Son Hurt, Fanner
Is Held In Jail
RALEIGH, Dec. 23.—(/P)—D. M
King, 49, a farmer of Wake Forcf.,
was held in jail today without privi
lege of bond pending outcome oi
gunshot wounds suffered by his son, I
Leonard, 24.
The son. in a critical condition
at a Raleigh hospital, was quoted by|
officers as saying he struck his
father when the farmer attacked
Mrs. King. Leonard was shot In the
thigh with birdshot.
Mother Of 5 Dies
In Kings Mountain
KINGS MOUNTAIN. Dec. 23. -
Mrs. Rufus Wood, 26, mother of
five small children, died this morn
ing at 2 o'clock at her home here
after being in ill health for a num
ber of years. She had been confin
ed to her bed, however, for only
four weeks.
She Is survived by her husband,'
five children, Clinton, 10, Richard,
8, Martha Sue, 6. Jack. 4, and Hub
ert, 1, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. King, five sisters, Mrs. John Hul
lander, Mrs. Charles Burton, Mrs.
Ivey Roper, Miss Reba, King, all of
Kings Mountain, and Mrs. Melton
Kiser of High Point, and three
brothers, Eulas, Ellis and Willis
King of Kings Mountain.
Funeral, services will be held to
morrow afternoon at 2:30 at the
Second Baptist church here with ]
the Rev. C. C. Parker in charge, i
The Rev. R. L. Chaney will assist'
with the service Burial will be In
Mountain Rest cemetery.
L^iyae rioey opeaks
In Charleston, S. C. j
Governor-elect Clyde Hoey Is In I
Charleston, S. C., where he spoke,
today to the annual meeting of the j
"New England Club,” well known |
organization in that. city.
Mr. Hoey will join his family here ’
tonight and will be in the city fo. '
Christmas holidays. They expect"toj
be occupied next week with plans'
for the Inaugural and for the open
ing session of the legislature.
Bind King Over
To Federal Court
Ray King, No. 10 township youth
was placed under a $300 bond this
morning after a hearing before Com
missioner John P. Mull and was
bound over to appear in March
term of federal court.
He was charged with removing
and concealing non-tax paid liquor,
the offenses having occurred last
September.
—
Reuben McSwain, 91,
Is Seriously 111
Reuben McSwain. 91-year-old
Confederate veteran of the Beaver j
Dam community was reported this
morning to be gravely ill.
As the oldest regular veteran in
the county, Mr. McSwain’s condi
tion has been watched for severali
weeks since he began losing his us
ual strength and vigor.
Cannon Dividend
RUINA^T *S. D - V UP -
Hannon Mills c:mpany paid stock
holders $2,000,000 in a final quar
terly dividend of $2 a share, bring
ing to approximately $4.00.000 total!
dividend* for i!>3fi
Pigford Is Held In
Death Of His Wife
WILMINGTON, Dec. 23.—
E. (Bud) Pigford, Wilmingtoi
painter, was held on a murdei
charge today In the fatal shootlm
of his estranged wife here Iasi
night.
Wilbur Brew, 29, Mrs. Pigford’i
son-in-law, was treated at a hospl
tal for a bullet wound In the shoul
der.
Police said Brew sought to in
tercede when the painter went t<
Mrs. Pigford's house and started t
fight, Pigford, they said, shot Brev
as he fled from the room, fired s
bullet into Mrs. Pigford’s head
then ran into the street and in
flirted a wound in his own head
Bloody Hat Found
By Asheboro Man
ASHEBORO. Dec. 23.—(JPh-Lewi
Campbell, a carpenter turned ove:
to police a blood-splotched greer
felt hat he said he found on a creel
bank near here and officers con
sidered the possibility it might havi
been worn by William A. White
mining executive missing from hli
home since December 1.
Child’s Death Due
To Christmas Fire
MEMPHIS, Tenn„ Dec. 23.—(/Pi
Baby Clara Marie Schmidt looker
with wondering eyes on her firs:
Christmas tree.
The two month old child lay ir
a large chair last night afld watch
ed her father—Ernest M. Schmidt
a cotton gin operator at Marion
Ark. -reach to place a jolly red anc
unite banta Claus in the top of th(
brilliant tree.
There was a spark from a win
of the lights and cotton at the tre<
base blazed up. Schmidt beat at th«
flames fultilely with his bare hand)
Then he turned to help his wife gel
their six children to safety.
In the smoke-filled room—no on<
noticed Clara Marie.
Firemen found her seared body in
the big chair before the charred
limbs of her first Christmas tree.
Santa Can Now See
Way In Shelby Home
Santa Claus can now see how tc
come to see Mrs. Mary Gantt, 102
oldest resident in the county.
City electricians this week turn
ed on electric lights in Mrs. Gantt’s
house. Until then she had used e
lamp, and in her youth made llghl
with tallow candles and torches.
Mrs. Gantt is delighted with th«
new lights and is “Just beginning tc
live."
WOMAN'S DEATH IS
DECLARED SUICIDE
NORTH W1LKESBORO, Dec. 23
—(Ah—Coroner M. Myers today list
ed as suicide the death of Mre
Hillary Billings. 42, whose body waj
found suspended by a rope from a
joist in her home yesterday.
Her father, Frank Cheek, whe
discovred the body, said she had
been in ill health.
Second Crop Apples
A second crop of June apples
-licit came to maturity almost on
Christmas day have been reported
by Sam Weaver of near Earl. The
apples are not large, but are of good
quality.
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Today’s
Markets
New York cotton at 2:30 today:
Jan. 12:00. Mar. 12:13, May 12:06,
July 12:98, Oct. 11:65, Dec. 11:62.
STOCKS UP
NEW YORK, Dec. 23—(VP)—Prices ’
again pointed upward In todays’
early stock market proceedings.
At an active opening gains of
fractions to a point or so were reg
istered for Bethlehem Steel, U. S.
Steel, American Telephone, Kenne
cott, Cerro De asco, Schenley, In
spiration, Calumet <fe Hecla, West
ern Union Chrysler and General
Electric An exception was du Pont
which v as off more than a point.
FUTURES STEADY
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—(A*)—Cot
ton futures opened steady, 3 to 9
points advance on higher Liverpool
cables and trade buying.
NEW ORLEANS GRAIN
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23.—UP) —
Net gains averaging 25 cents a bale
were shown by active options at
the opening of the New Orleans
cotton market today.
WHEAT HIGHER
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.— Vt) —Sur
prised right-about-face action of
the Liverpool market led to sharp
ly higher wheat prices here early
today.
Opening 1 cent up, wheat futures
held near these limits. Com start
ed at a gain and for the time be
ing altered little.
RICHMOND HOGS
RICHMOND, Va„ Dec. 23.—CSV
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Summary Of
The Market
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Furnished by E. A. Pierce A Co.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23—Dow-Jones
stock summary for today is as fol
, lows:
’ C & O 11 months ended Novem
ber 30 net income $39,008,259 equal
$5.09 a share vs. $28,230,597 or $3.68
like period 1935.
' London stocks firm, trading pre
holiday character, trans-Atlantics
strong featured by sharp rise in In
ternal Nickel, Paris Irregular.
Despite labor troubles and Christ
mas holiday, Iron Age says steel
output maintaining volume seldom
equalled at this time of year, with
five day week production rate at
about 78 percent which may even
be exceeded next week.
McCall Corporation declares reg
ular quarter dividend 50c Feb. 1 and
. Jan. 15.
J. B. Stetson Company declared
a dividend of 50c on common Jan.
! 15 and Jan. 1.
Associated Oil Company contracts
with ALCO Products, substitute of
Aerican Loco for additional $1,
500,000 cracking unit for Avon,
Calif., refinery.
Berlin dispatch says men between
18 and 45 years old may not leave
country henceforth without per
mission from military authorities.
Shipments pneumatic casings in
Oct. 4,081,023 units vs. 4,054,747 in
, Oct. 1935, production estimated at
5,123,467 casings in Oct.
Texas Corporation understood to
be considering plans tor issuance of
additional stock proceeds would be
used to retire about $25000,000 bank
and private loans, rites would be
offered stockholders if plan finally
determined upon, net income for
1936 likely approximately about $4
a share.
Preliminary consolidated state
ment of Associated Gas & Electric
for 12 months ended Nov. 30 before
interest and preferred dividends of
underlying companies $35,835,067 vs.
$33,184,802 in 1935.
For the first 11 months of 1936
industrial domestic lead shipments
461,169 tons vs. 391,123 like 1935 pe
riod.
Unless there is a hitch on details
Mexico is expected to obtain a 5
year loan of $5,500,000 from Amer
ican bankers within the next 30
days, negotiations have been under
way with Kuhn Loeb for several
days.
COTTON LETTER
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Prices de
dined 5 to 12 points, trading vol
j ume limited, selling in March, May
and July believed to be liquidation
with contracts passing into trade
hands Cotton yarn prices higher,
attribute to the higher basis pre
vailing for white cotton, indications
point to a oonturned heavy con
sumption by domestic mills not only
for next few months but through
balance of season and it is believed '
hat should government decide up
on early release of 12c loan cotton
this would add materially to ex
ports. We favor long side of the
market and purchases on a scale
down from present level.
Sew Lead Causes
Search To Spreac
(Continued from page one.)
might yet be alive.
The plane, lost while flying fror
Nos Angeles to Salt Lake carrie
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wolfe, new
lyweds, of Chicago; Henry W. Ed
wards, Minneapolis; Carl Christo
pher, Dwight, ifi.; Pilots S. «
Samson and William Bogen; an
Stewardess Gladys Witt.
Eight planes at the Milford bas
impatiently awaited daylight fo
the takeoff over the rough, volcanl
countryside.
Two army bombers Joined th
fleet of 12 searching planes—seve:
at Milford and five here—pursuin
the relentless, day by day aerif
search. The army, too, is ground
checking the region between Sa
Lake and Milford, almost mile b
mile.
WON’T ALLOW PREACHER
TO MARRY HIMSEL
RALEIGH, Dec. 23.—(IP)—A clergy
man asked the attorney general :
he could marry himself.
"This office is . of the opinio
that you could not legally officiat
at your own wedding,” was the rul
ing he got.
i Gomez Demands
11 To Defend Self
(Continued from page one.)
j tion's military "strong man," Col.
i1 Fulgencio Batista, sponsor of the
j bill to provide funds for army
taught rural schools, would emerge
‘ i victorious in the political battle.
‘ j Gomez throughout had declared
- his opposition to the bill was based
. on a belief its passage would create
i i a danger of educating Cuban young
| in the "fascist manner.”
e The president, who would be suc
r ceeded by the incumbent vice-presl
c I dent Dr. Federico Laredo Bru, held
{a series of conferences in the presi
e dential palace last night, but those
l emerging evidenced little hope that
l their chief could be spared the first
1 <■>-->^ential impeachment in Cuban
- history.
t bp.uftcally the president was
y charged with "interfering with the
free functioning of a legislative
power” an dthreatening with poli
tical reprisals all legislators who
F voted against him in the proceed
ings.
If convicted by the senate, Gomez
f could be removed from office with
in a few hours.
o One of the president's strongest
e supporters, Radio Cremata, said
- the Gomez partisans in office plan
ned to resign should the president
All Records For
M«il_Are Broken
< Continued from pa?, ^
glo said Monday and TuesdaThT''
ness at the Detroit post
the greatest In hlsto^ Vo Jm
29 per cent and receipt.. 22 ^***
ahead of 1935 for the first To ^
of December. 1 ,9 <Uys
Postal officials at Wa*hi
said “all Indications
Christmas mall this year
lng the volume of preceding Xc*®i*
National roundup figmj
available until the first of the Z'
The capital’s postofflce broket
fOT rCCeIpts M^dav wh‘U
$72,967 passed through the
dows, $10,000 more than ths Z'
vious one-day high, pr,‘
GOVERNOR’S CHRISTMAS
AT ELIZAIRKTR cjjj
RALEIGH, Dec. 23.—Gn»,
nor Ehringhaus will leave tomoZ.
for Bdenton to visit Mrs SZ
haus’ sister, Mrs. George Wood
wiU spend Christmas day with m
faZ?"’Efskine Ehrlnghaus, at m
abetn City.
be ousted, but thiToSSnSSf
urged them to retain their posts
Cabinet members, however oro
bably would resign In a body's^
the impeachment.
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