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WEATHER North Carolina—Cloudy, occasion al mist and rain tonight and Wed nesday; alightly colder tonight. Official Shelby Temperature#: High 60. Low 51, Rainfall .054. The Hhelhg Baily » Stett FORMERLY THE CLEVELAND STAR, ESTABLISHED 1898 MARKETS Cotton, npnt ........._lln to Uo Cotton »fd, wagon ton ...'.. $42.00 Cotton writ, car lot ton.I4S.M VOL. XL11—JNU. 1/4 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE SHELBY DAILY STAR " SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 1936 AUDITED CIRCULATION SINGLE COPIES 5c GERMANY REPORTED STALLING FOR TIME IN CRISIS No Kidnapping Developments FEDERAL MEN IN SEARCH FOR MAN KIDNAPPING BOY Sudden Stopping Of Activities Is Not Explained NO STATEMENTS TACOMA, Wash., Dec. Department of Justice agents, tak ing full charge of the wide search for 10-year-old Charles Mattson and his bearded gunman kidnaper, brought all apparent activity to a halt today. They directed Dr. W. W. Matt son, wealthy physician, whose son was snatched from his home Sun day night tm $28,000 ransom, to make no effort today to contact the kidnaper until told to do so. They halted a foot-by-foot search of police in a nearby ravine, pro lesting the kidnaper might kill his raptive if he had the boy hidden (.here and heard his pursuers ap proaching. Withdraw Guards City policemen guarding the Mattson mansion were withdrawn. Most of the cars, foot police and private boats which had been searching the Tacoma area for signs of the kidnaper also ceased activities. The justice agents, under C. C. Sears of Portland, with customary usual taciturnity, offered no ex planation of the sudden cessation of activities. , Dr. Mattson told newspapermen: 1 haven’t made any contacts. Things are just as they were when the man left. There is an absolute stalemate. I just feel helpless.’’ Dr. Mattson granted an interview after returning from an unexplain ed night automobile trip. He left and returned alone, while other members of the family remained in the home. No Advertisement He said he had not inserted any advertisements in Seattle newspa pers. A Tacoma police official dis closed such an advertisement was ordered by the kidnaper in the ransom note he left as he fled from the Mattson living room with Charles in his arms. The notice in 'Continued on page eight.) MAY NOT SAVE GREEK STEAMER Fog Hampers Rescue Work On Shoals Off N. C. Coast WILMINGTON, Dec. 29.—VP)— Doubt of the possibility pf saving the Greek steamer Mount Dirfys, which went aground on Prying Pan 'hoals Saturday morning, grew this morning as a dense fog hampered the salvage tug Reliace, of Norfolk, m her efforts to remove the ship from the shoals. Coast guardsmen at Southport 'flid a light northeast wind was blowing there at noon. Increased intensity of the wind would proably seal the doom of the 'cirken ship, they said, which has been pounding on the shoal for more than three days. Last night a heavy sea was pound inf? the helpless steamer, constant 'll damaging her tortured hull and preventing the Reliance from com it g alongside to begin salvage op erations. The cutter Modoc, at last reports oday, was still standing by to ren er aid should the Reliance require * lf the weather remains moderate r'day and the fog lifts, the Modoc r ported, the Greek ship may be wved. The Mount Dirfys is reported Uronnd approximately 15 seaward tk® Cape Pear coast guard nation. She is reported to have a ^ e# 38 men. thieves get guns AT NORTH WILKESBORO "-ORTH WILKESBORO, Dec. 29. +■ -Thieves entered two stores rIe and took .shotguns, cigarettes r other merchandi.se valued at *lo'r 'bap *300. Man Who Stopped Flier For Chew Of Tobacco Dies LEXINGTON, Dec. 29.—0P>—Jim Brooks, 80, widely publicized years ago when he flagged the famous mail train “No. 97” to ask the en gineer for a chew of tobacco, died yesterday in the Davidson county home. Jim's wanderings afoot for more than half a century, his plaintive “Mister, gimme a nickel,” and his “God bless you,” to his benefactors, made him a familiar figure to resi dents of half a dozen counties in this section. The picturesque character came to the county home after an auto crippled him in Rowan county. Jim dug into his horde of nickels to pay his hospital bill, bought a bell for a country church near here, purchased a monument for hi.s : grave, and left enough to pay for his burial today. Negro Is Held On Charges Of Theft George Nance, No. 3 Township negro, was placed under $500 bond today after a hearing in which pro bable cause was shown and found on a charge of stealing $175 from his employer D. Reuben McSwain. Mr. McSwain is a farmer and hauls fruit in spare time. The negro is alleged to have tak en the money from at least three different pocketbooks. Val Huskey and J. D. Huskey^ also colored, were released after the trial with no charges placed against them. Nance did not go on the sthnd. The money was not reedt’ered. No Bond For Man Who Killed Wife KENANSVILLE, Dec. 29.—</P)— Magistrate C. B. Sitterson ordered Jiolia section farmer, held without ‘A. James Wilson, 22 year old Mag bond for the term of Duplin Sup erior court convening Jan. 25 on charges of lulling his wife Decem ber 19. Officers testified at a preliminary hearing yesterday Wilson admitted he shot his wife, 20-year-old moth er of three children, but said it was V* accident. Shull’s Mill Man Held For Murder < BOONE, Dec. 29.— </P) —Dollard Coffey, 23, of Shulls Mill, was held here today in connection with the death of Raymond Dellinger, 41. Sheriff Edmundson of Watauga county, to whom Coffey surrender ed yesterday, said he confessed he shot Dellinger Sunday night. NASH MAN HELD FOR COUNTERFEITING WILSON, Dec. 29.—(JP)—Commis- I sioner G. L. Parker bound over Tab Dunn, Nash county man, to federal 1 court on a charge of counterfeit ing and passing nickels. His bond was put at $1,000. LAURINBURG, Dec. 29 — (/P) — < Not a single arrest was made here i over the Christmas holidays. Rose Queen Sel from some 3000 co-eds, Miss icy Bumpus, 19, above, student at Pasadena junior col lege, was named Queen of Hearts to reign over the 1937 Tournament of Roses at Pasa dena, Calif., on New Year’s Day. A queen’s court of six runner up beauties was named to at «——tend Miss Burnous.__ — POPE STEADILY LOSING GROUND Can't Relieve Pain Because Of Effect On Heart < VATICAN CITY, Dec. 29 — (/P>— Physicians attending Pope Pius, ser iously ill with paralysis and old age complications, searched today for mild sedatives to relieve the pon tiff’s pain. The condition of the 79-year-old Holy Father was described as “un changed,” a report which inspired nope in prelates simply because no new crisis has arisen. Officials declared the excruciating sain the pope has been suffering In his paralyzed left leg cannot be relieved with ordinary opiates be cause of possible depressing effects cn the patient’s heart. Spartanburg Girl Can’t Stop Talk SPARTANBURG, S. C„ Dec. 29.— /Pi—Margaret Davis, 17, today be ?an her fourth day of incessant talking and laughing, and was re sorted to be growing steadily weak er. Her mother, Mrs.' Belle Davis, said the girl continued to laugh and alk constantly while not under the nfluence of sedatives. She reported her daughter began •epeating “chocolate cherries" over ind over, but when given one from i Christmas box, she refused to eat t. The girl became afflicted with he nervous disorder Saturday night. lOLD CAR OWNED BY MISSING MAN LAURINBURG, Dec. 29.-*-(/P)—Po ice held today a car they believed lelonged to R. R. Gardner, 31-year ild Wayne county farmer, reported nlssing from home since December Kings Mountain Is Setting Up Own Red Cross Service Residents ol Kings Mountain are baking social service into their own hands and are in the process of set ting up a complete unit of Red Cross pome and community service. The sum of $1,500 has been col lected and a small amount more promised and Mrs Pete Gamble is working on a half-time basis as a jertified Red Cross case worker. Miss Helen Colwell, assistant di •ector of civic relief from the na tional headquarters in Washington, 3. C.. was in the city a few days igo and gave instruction for the work of the unit. A special instructor for case work vill be in the city for a week cr i more beginning January 14, accord ing to Mrs. C. E. Neisler, chairman of Kings Mountain township Red Cross activities. "We have needed this social work for a long time,” Mrs. Neisler said this morning. We are happy we can do something to help our people.”' The case worker will investigate the ( homes and make recommendations as to types of relief they need. , Classes will be held In home hy giene, general health, sanitation and other subjects relating to pub lic health. If the success of the work this year justifies, Kings Mountain may have a full time paid worker on the field next year. FACE GRIM TASK BRINGING BODIES FROM BIG PLANE Find Wreckage In A Narrow Canyon; 12 Dead TWISTED" METAL BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 29 — (/P)—Twelve hones, each carry* Inc a blanket-wrapped body, plodded over eight miles of mud* dy, twisting trails today, bring ing from the mountains the victims of a transport plane crash Sunday night. BURBANK, Calif.. Dec. 29.—(JP) —The grim task of bringing 12 bodies from a crashed airliner was I tackled today in rain-soaked, al most inaccessible mountain country j as the we^t totalled at 27 dead or missing the result of four such De cember tragedies. The work of removing the vic tims from the tangled wreckage of the United Airlines’ Sen Francisco Los Angeles plane in steep Rice Canyon to the nearest inoad re quired hours of toil. Loot Sunday Night The plane which became lost in stormy weather while nearing Los Angeles, creashed Sunday night and was located yesterday 20 miles north of here, first from the air and later by ground crews. The wreckage was strewn over 1,000 yards. All of the dead were Cali fornians. Department of commerce inspec tors studied the smashed instru ments of the Airliner. The fuselage of the ship lay in a narrow canyon and the wings on top of a ridge, causing officials to theorize that Pilot Blom suddenly lost his bearings and was attempt ing to turn back to the emergency field at Saugus. Bits of twisted metal led in a northeasterly direc tion toward Saugus. „ CONTINUE HUNT CAUSE OF FIRE Say Men Said ‘That’* One Way Of Get ting Even” ASHEVILLE, Dec. 29.—(A5)—Sep arate investigations continued today into the cause of an explosion which a fireworks store here Christ mas eve night, killing two persons and injuring eleven. J. C. Twitty, of Greensboro, a special agent of the national board or underwriters, said he accepted the theory of Fire Chief A. L. Duck ett and Acting Police Chief Fred Jones that a gasoline pressure heat er caused the blast. Jones and Fred M. Jordan, of Asheville, state deputy fire commis sioner, said they questioned several witnesses who said they saw the stove catch Are. They said they were convinced the heater leaked ind that escaping fumes were ex ploded by an open charcoal heater in the building. j Meanwhile Sheriff Laurence E. Brown, after questioning several! persons who sell dynamite, said he , vas not ready to express an opin on on the cause of the explosion, rhe owner of the store asked the iheriff to investigate the possibility >f dynamite having caused the ] jJast. His request followed the testi nony of M. L. Miller at the cor mer’s inquest that he saw four roung men near the store and leard one of them remark! "Well, hat's one way of getting even—we i lust blowed it up." LICENSE TAG SALE SHOWS BIG INCREASE RALEIGH, Dec. 29.—UP)—A total >f 87,909 pairs of auto license tags ; vere sold through December 24 < !ompared to only 58,901 at the same ; late last year. Chamber of Commerce Head RALEIGH, Dec. 29—<A>)—Karl G Hudson, manager of a Raleigh Ue jartment store, has been named ^resident of the chamber of rom nerce. ,* ■ - Newest Mechanical Cotton Picker Development of a new mechanical cotton picker by the International Harveater Company, on the heels of the Rust brothers’ picker, stirred new interest south of the Mason and Dixon line. The new picker, shown above on display in the Museum of Science and Industry In Chicago, employs rows of heavy pins or spindles whose burrs strip the cotton. A set of rotating disks next takes the cotton trom these pins. The arrow Indicates the point at which the cotton enters the picker's stripping device. KINGS MOUNTAIN READY TO BEGIN NEW CITY HALL Only Good Weather Needed; Announce Awards Workmen were only awaiting the favors of the weather man to begin tearing down the Kings Moun tain old city hall which will be re placed by a new one as part of the public improvement program which will get under way soon. The present town office will be moved this week to a temporary lo cation while the new building is being erected. Contracts for the various parts of the improvements program have been let and were announced as follows. Town Hall: J. A. Jones Contract ing Co., Charlotte, $31,000. Plumbing and heating: Waldrop numbing Heating Co., of Rock Hill, $3,396. Sewer Extension: John M. Porter Co., Charlotte, $9,500. Water Extensions: Elliott Build ing Co., Hickory, $1£,000. Streets: R. B. Taylor Co. of Bir mingham, Ala., $23,000. The bids let amounted to about $96,000, with part of this amount to be a grant from the Federal Gov ernment. The Town of Kings Mountain recently sold $60,000 worth yl bonds to take up the diffence. Greenville Taxi Driver, Beat, Shot By 2 Passengers GREENVILLE, N. C.. Dec. 29.— fl’i—G. L. (Lem) Pleasant, operator >f a store and taxi service here, la n Pitt general hospital in a criti cal condition from being beat and shot late last night by two uniden tified men he said hired him for a rip. Pleasants said the young men had ilm turn off the Bethel-Greenvllle lighway when about four miles rom town. After they had gone iround two miles on the side road, Peasant siad one of his passengers tim him in the head with a ham ner and in a semi-conscious con lition he was dragged from his car, obbed, shot through the eye and eft lying on the ground as the two nen drove off in the taxi. The injured man walked to the nghway. ha. said, and a passerby Mcked him up and rushed him here. Seeping remarkable control of him self, Pleasants gave officers a de scription of his passengers and •elated details of the attack. No race of his car or attackers had leen found this morning. Pleasants is a son-in-law of Po-1 ice Chief George Clark and is about !f> years old. His store is located i lrar East Carolina Teachers col-! egc. British Will Ask U. S. To Ban Arms To Spain BULLETINS raiNOH seize plane RABAT, French Morocco, Deo, ZS.-riiP)—French officials seised a Spanish insurgent plane to* day after the pilot had made a forced landing within the French cone near the frontier. FIND BODY CHARLOTTE, Dec. 29.—</P>— The node body of an unidenti fied young negro waa found near here today on the South ern railway tracks. Police raid the man had been slain. A short distance away waa foun da bun dle of clothing, in which waa a slip of paper bearing an in scription deciphered by the of ficers aa “1200 Ruaaig St., S. E., Waahington, D. C." HAILS CONFERENCE SANTOS, Brasil., Dec. 29 ——United St a tea Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared bis determination to “press for ward in the all-important work of consolidating the peace of the Americas,” upon his arrival here today enroute to home from the inter-conference. He hailed realisation at Buenos Aires of “political arrangements to safeguard peace on this hemi sphere.” BROTHERLY RESCUE NORFOLK. Va.. Dec. Z9.—UP) —Brother came to the aid of brother when the little trawler Grace F broke down off the Virginia capes today. Captain Leo Pavarola, of the Birg trawler Boston College, picked up the call from his brother Frank Pavarola, went to his assistance and took the Grace F In town for Hampton Roads after notifying the coasv guard by wireless. Proposals To Slate Department Are Expected LONDON, Dec. Great Britain and other members of the international neutrality committee to isolate the Spanish civil war may urge the United States to ban arms shipments to both Fascists and So cialists, Informed sources predicted today. The proposals was expected to be advanced, reliable persons declared, after Whitehall showed concern over the granting in Washington of a li cense for shipment of air planes to Spain. j Sale Now Legal (The United States state depart ment yesterday approved, the sale of planes and parts to the Valencia Socialist government by a New Jer sey firm.) British officials declined to com ment on the situation pending re ceipt of a report from the British embassy In Washington. They point ed out, however, it would be "use less” for the non-intervention com mittee to ban arms shipments for Its 28 member nations if other coun tries supplied war equipment. These authoritative sources de clared they realized the United States had no legal provisions at (Continued on page eight.) HUNTS CANDY, FIRES GUN AND IS KILLED CONCORD, Dec. 29.—(IP)—Thir teen year old Fred Kestler, Jr„ fumbled in a bureau for Christmas candy, found a revolver and acci dentally shot himself. Two Killed MIAMI. Fla., Dec. 29.—<AV-Kath erine E. Harper, 19, was killed and her father, Mayor Charles T. Har per of Homestead, critically injured yesterday in the collision of their motor car and an ambulance. CCC Driver Is Killed When Trucks Collide On Bridge Augustine Grady, 23 year old ne- i gro enrollee of the local CCC Camp i was killed late yesterday In a crash i of two trucks at a bridge on High way No. 74 near Cleveland Springs. Grady was driving an army truck < coming west with a load of sup- i plies from Fort Bragg which were i to have been delivered at Camp McMurry. i Another truck owned by the At- i lantlc Beer and Ale Company of i Charlotte wtti going east. The two vehicles crashed on the bridge. Willie Caster, also a CCC en rollee. was with Grady but was un hurt. D. C. Durden of Charlotte, driver j of the beer trurk. was placed’under' bond, after Coroner Roscoe Lutr 1 nade an Investigation. He said to lay an inquest will be held, pos ilbly tomorrow. There were no eye-witnesses to (he accident except the occupants rf the truck, but Coroner Lutz said is the facts now appear the beer ruck will not be held at fault. The negro who was killed Is a na ive of Pinehurst and officials at he local camp said he had an ex ceptionally good two-year record in he camp. A considerable quantity of beer vas thrown from the truck and nany of the bottles were not brok ;n. The crowd which went to the scene of the wreck gathered and 1rnnk much of the beer Some look settles home with them RELEASE GERMAN SHIP AS CRUISER j REACHES BILBAO Basques Retain Part Of Cargo And Passengers HAD WAR~CARGO? PARIS, Dec. X.—4/P)—'The Basque radio station at Bilbao today an nounced the release of the German freighter Palos, alleged Spanish contraband war prize, a short time after the 6.000 ton German cruiser Koentgsberg had steamed into the The station, however, said the Palos was released under “Basque* conditions. The Basques, who cap tured the little ship last Thursday and announced she was carrying war material to the Fascists In Spain, refused to surrender a part of the cargo and an unidentified Spanish passenger. Hold Spaniard (A Berlin announcement said the Palos was liberated and proceeded on its trip, but that SpaaiardC aboard the freighter and part of the cargo were held. A Berlin for eign office spokesman aaid Oerman efforts now were being concentrated cm release of the passengers and the remainder of the cargo). The Koenigs berg, said reports from Basque representatives here, steamed into the Bilbao port on the Bay of Biscay today and de manded unconditional release of the Palos and her cargo. • Negotiations were begun at ones by the Basque authorities who, al though holding an autonomous status, are staunch supporters of the Socialist government of Spain. At the same time the Basque in formation bureau here explained the Palos capture was effected by Biscayne marine patrols because It carried war material, would not ac cord the right of visit within Span ish territorial waters, and had aboard one Spaniard “who destroy ed his Identity papers." The Basques declined to describe that part of the cargo which they refused to release, but said it was “small." MADRID HAILS SHIPMENT OF PLANES FROM V. S. MADRID. Dec. 29.—(A*)—The war ministry was Informed today Social ist troops had captured a cemetery at Teruel and Mount Mansueto, giv ing the Madrid forcas complete ' domination of the Saragossa valley. Despite a thick fog and piereiwy cold, the reports said, the militia men took their objectives in the salient northeast of Madrid after (Continued on page eight.) BOTH SIDES SAY OTHER TO BLAME No Ground Gained In Settling 61-Day Old Marine Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Dm. —</P)— Opposing forces In the Pacific‘coast maritime strike exchanged charges of responsibility today for what Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed ward F. McGrady termed "the first real crisis” in the 61-day shipping tie-up. McGrady said the new break in peace negotiations was over the vital issue of control of hiring, as it would affect licensed ships’ offi cers. Both sides admitted this was the deadlocked issue but the shipown ers' committee declared In a state ment by T. O. Plant, chairman, “the bombshell that Masted hopes of an early peace” was a demand for settlement with striking machin ists at San Francisco bay shipyards. New City Licenses Are Now On Sale New city auto licenses are now on sale at the clerk's office at the city hall. The licenses, which advertise Shelby as well as bring in revenue, will last throughout the year 1937. Old Gold and Black are the col ors of the plates and the colors match those of the state licenses. The cost is 50 cents and the clerk said purchas* by car owners in the city is required.
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