REFRIGERATORS
IN BIG DEMAND
Win Race On Volume But
Autos And Planes Vie
For Attention
Electric refrigerators, a harbin
tlon, reached Shelby ' quan
tity this week to win the race
for lnitia port-war vclume it
found one new automobile on the
ground and a post-war airptane in
tht air a senterprising dea.ers vied
for markets in their respective
fields, ,
More than a score of people got
new Frigidaires as the two local
d ilers. Maxwell, Moi is and Ken
nedy and Sterchi’s did a land of
• fice business to sell out their first
shipments and take orders for a
flock more. Paul J. Kennedy said
that his firm sold the 13 received
there and could use many times
as many more, while Fred Baird
of Sterchi’s said his store had been
swamped by would-be purchasers
of the machines that have been
of* the market for nearly four
years.
The C & S Furniture company
got a Leonard refrigerator, while
A. Dick Dudley, General Electric
dealer, announced he would show
Monday a new model General Elec
tric. Other dealers in various lines
were frantically awaiting word
that they would shortly see the
'‘freeze” lifted on electric refriger
ators, appliances and gadgets gen
erally.
Chevrolet pre
new Chevrolet
Youree-Crawley
pared to show
next week, while more than a
thousand persons passed through
the Hoyt Keeter show rooms Fri
day to see the new *Ford on dis
play there.
W. Paul Bridges, Piper dealer
here, announced that a new post
war model demonstrator cruiser
plane would be shown by him at
Byers airport Monday afternoon.
Junior High
Party Will
Have Magician
The Junior High school Hallo
we’en party to be held in the Sen
ior high school auditorium tonight
at 7:30 o’clock will be featured by
the appearance of Arthur Thomp
son, of Charlotte, magician, who
appeared recently before the Shel
by Lions club. He is appearing un
der the auspices of the Junior High
performance is exclusively for the
Junior High students and their
parents.
Final Rites For
H. Dixon Smith
—
Pinal rites for H. Dixon Smith,
native of Cleveland county, who
died Wednesday night a Colum
bus, Ga., were held at the grave
side in Sunset cemetery this
morning with Dr. Zeno Wall,
pastor of the First Baptist church
In charge. The quartet from the
First Baptist church of Shelby
sang one hymn. The main fu
neral sendee was held yesterday
at the First Baptist church in Co
lumbus, Ga.
Accompanying the family here
for the graveside rites were Mrs.
Frank David, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Colbert, T. G. Reeves, Ed Swin
aon, T. M. Teel and G. C. Bar
field, all of Columbus, Ga., and |
Mr. and Mrs. Heath Lee, of Roa
noke Rapids.
There was a particularly large
and beautiful floral tribute.
Funeral Held For
Howard Clegg
Funeral for Howard Clegg, 42,
well known business man of
Greenwood, S. C., and former
boarding student at Piedmont
high school, this county, was held
this morning from a funeral home
at Callison, S. C. He had many
friends in this county where he
was popularly known about 25
years ago.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. W, H- Clegg, his wife; a
daughter, Miss Anne Taylor Clegg;
two brothers, Frank Clegg and
Carroll Clegg, both cf Kirksey, 3.
C
He operated an automobile bus
iness In Callison and was at one
time in business in Greensboro
Schoolmasters
Meet Monday
The Cleveland County 8chool- I
masters club will meet Monday
evening at 6 o’clock at the Charles
Hotel. C. V. Harrill, president of
the club will preside. A number of
matters of importance are to be
considered and a full attendance is j
desired.
Gaffney Soldier \
At Moore General
—— ■
Bgt. Odis E. Vinesett of Gaff
Bey, S. C., recently released from
a Japanese prisoner of war ;amp
has arrived at Moore General hos
pital at Swannanoah to recuper
ate from hie experience.
; Local Home And
Farm Agents To
Attend Conference
Local home and farm agents wil
attend the N. C. Agricultural ex
, tension service conference to bi
j held at N. C. State college in Ral
eigh Monday through Friday o:
next week.
The meeting wil lbe attended bj
extension workers from all over th<
state. Ben Jenkins and H. W. Dam
eron, Cleveland county farm ag
ents, and Miss LaUna Brashean
and Elsie Alley, home agents, wil
attend the meeting.
U.S.
Starts On Page On*
at about the same time. This revo
lution, he explained, was marked
by the inventing of the steam en
gine, new methods of making steel,
and great improvements which
completely changed the textile In
dustry.
BRITAIN GREW RAPIDLY
As a consequence of the indus
trial revolution, the speaker said
that Great Britain grew rapidly in
wealth and population and com
merce, with the result that the
British empire was expanded and
developed and Britain became the
leading nation of the world.
Following the War Between the
States, he showed that America
began its real industrial expansion,
and by 1890 equaled Great Britain.
In the years that followed, he said
the United States soon surpassed
Great Britain in industrial output.
However, Mr. Daniel pointed out,
Germany began to industrialize
soon after 1871, following the
Franco-Prussian war, and by 1914,
when the First World War started,
was the leading Industrial nation.
Germany’s defeat in the first
World war enabled the United
States to become the economic cen
ter of the world, he asserted. The
opportunity for world leadership
was ours at that time, Daniel stat
ed, but our people would not ac
cept moral and political leader
ship, and as a result we attempted
to isolate ourselves, while refus
ing to accept the responsibilities
which would have had to be as
sumed had we chosen to take our
proper position.
DON’T TEACH GEOGRAPHY
The speaker blamed American
schools for the fact that we don’t
teach geography except superfi
cially, and hence our people have
failed to get a world concept.
Oceans, he said, do not divide
the world as we have erroneously
come to believe. Continents, he ex
plained, really divide the world —
and to prove the point he cited
the fact that outside the United
States the only trans-continental
railroad is in Russia and Siberia.
He made it plain that oceans
instead of separating nations pro
vide highways for world trade
which can be used to bind coun
tries together.
The fact that the British em
pire comprises about one-fourth of
the area of the world ard has ap
proximately one-fourth the popu
lation, was emphasized by Mr.
Daniel, who made the further
point that actually most of the
British empire borders on the Pa
cific and the Indian ocean.
He noted that in Great Britain
the population peak has been
reached and passed, and conse
quently the wealth there will be
gin to show a decrease. However,
he declared that the British em
pire as a whole is still gaining in
population and in wealth.
Canada, the speaker showed, with
eleven and one-half million peo
ple, is near the top in per capita
industrial production. He predict
ed that in time Canada will be
able to develop industrial wealth j
second only to that of the United j
States.
He said that in his opinion maia
has too many domestic problems
to solve to become industrialized j
within the next century. Australia,
he thinks has too many cock-eyed
economic and political notions to j
take advantage of her potentials
with respect to industrial and com- j
mercial development.
NOT AFRAID OF RUSSIA
China, however, according to Mr.
Daniel, has great possibilities for
development, and likewise Russia,!
although he does not view with
any degree of alarm the develop- i
ment which he foresees in the So
viet Union.
Mr. Daniel is definitely of the
opinion that the secret of the
atomic bomb should be shared with
our allies, because if we don’t
share it the scientists of Russia
and perhaps other countries will
find the answer for themselves.
He urges universal training be
cause the nation of the future that
is not prepared will be in no po
sition to keep the peace of the
world or even prevent its own de
struction.
Last night’s speaker was pre
sented by Phil Elliot, president of
the Club.
J. W. Osborne, secretary, said the
next meeting will bring Dr. Vernon
Nash, celebrated lecturer, to the
club November 16. Directors of the
club met following last night’s din
ner and approved acceptance from
the club’s membership waiting list
of a limited group of additional
members for next year, extending
privilege of the final two meetings
this year to those who affiliate
meanwhile. The club roll of 150 has
been full since organization, but
the desire of a number of other
Clevelanders to affiliate now caused
directors to extend the membership
privilege further.
FRED VAN WAGEN1NGEN
Announces The Opening Of An Office In
The LINEBERGER BUILDING,
SHELBY, NC.
FOR THE PRACI ICE OF ARCHITECTURE
, BERLINERS SEARCH DUMP FOR FOOD AND FUEL—Residents of Berlin hunt through a dumping ground
I near the Templehof Airport in search of food and fuel. Both are scarce In the wrecked German capital, and
! cold weather is close at hand.—(AP Wirephoto).
VALUE OF HYBRID CORN SEED BEING
TESTED ON CLEVELAND FARMS
It is corn shucking time in]
Cleveland county.
To a great many folks this is a
! festival to be marked by moon- J
light nights, red ears, big suppers
and hilarity in general. But to
Dr. R. P. Moore, associate agron
omist with the extension depart
ment of State college and L. S.
Bennett, secretary of the North
Carolina Crop Improvement as
sociation, and the farmers who
are cooperating with them in the
development of hybrid seed corn
and the testing of hybrid corn
| production this period is really
I marked by serious business.
These two experts have just
completed a survey on the Lloyd
Wilson farm near Falls ton where
seed is produced and crops test
ed. There are about 400 of these
farm cooperators in North Caro
lina being scattered over the
coastal plain, the Piedmont area
and the western section of North
Carolina. Each hybrid variety
has to be tested in its own region
so that it will not be sold out of
the range of its adaptation.'
HYBRID SEED
Lloyd Wilson will produce nearly
300 bushels of hybrid seed corn
this year. This will be marketed
through Morgan and company, b7
FCX, and by Mr. Wilson himself.
Cleveland farmers planted a total
of about 600 bushels of hybrid
seed last year. Each year the far
mers of Cleveland county are:
SPEAKS
Start* On Past One
Truman through Ambassador W.
Averell Harriman.
Mr. Truman said differences
which exist among the allies “are i
not hopeless or irreconcilable." |
With a possible view to condi
tions in the Balkans, however, he
stated emphatically that the Unit
ed States would “refuse to recog
nize any government imposed up
on any nation by the force of any
foreign power.”
He set forth four purposes for
which this nation must remain „
powerfully armed; to enforce the
peace on defeated enemies, to
support the United Nations, to
defend the western hemisphere and ]
to defend the United States.
The atomic bomb makes the 1
solution of international problems j
“more urgent than we could have
dreamed six months ago,” Mr. Tru
man said, but it “does not alter
the basic foreign policy of the
United States."
That policy he described as one
of "friendly partnership with all
peaceful nations and of full sup- ;
port for the United Nations or
ganization.” He defined it in these 1
12 principles:
1. No territorial expansion, no
plans for aggression, no objective
“which need clash with the peace
ful alms of any other nation.”
2. Eventual return of sovereign
rights and self-government “to all
peoples who have been deprived
of them by force.”
3. No territorial changes in
volving friendly peoples except
with their “freely expressed wish
es.”
4. Self government for all peo
ples prepared for it "without in- !
terference from any foreign I
source.” |
5. Cooperation with the allies i
to help defeated enemy states ;
"establish peaceful democratic !
governments of their own free
choice” and a world “in which
Nazism, fascism and military ag
gression cannot exist.”
6. No recognition for any gov
ernment Imposed upon a nation
by a foreign power and preven
tion where possible of “forceful im
position of such a government.”
7. Freedom of the seas for all
nations and “equal rights to the
navigation of boundary rivers and
waterways and of rivers and wa
terways which pass through more
than one country.”
8. Access of nations "on equal
terms to the trade and the raw
materials of the world.”
9. The right of “the sovereign
states of the western hemisphere,
to "work together as good neigh
bors in the solution of their com
mon problems.”
10. Economic collaboration among
all nations for Improved living con
ditions and, “establishment of free
planting more and more hybrid
seed and they cannot get nearly
all of their supply locally grown.
It requires patience and skill to
produce hybrid seed corn. The
male parent corn and the female
parent corn obtained from recog
nized foundation stock must be
planted in the same field. As
each stalk in the female rows pro
duces a tassel, this tassel must be
pulled off. And the seed must
come from only the female rows.
CAREFUL HARVEST
When harvest time comes the
corn must be gathered from the
female rows, shelled by hand and
all faulty grains eliminated.
The testing of the yields from
hybrid seed com, also carried out
on the Wilson farm is done in a
scarcely less painstaking manner
On the Wilson farm the tefl
tract was planted in short 25-foot
rows with 49 varieties being grown
on this one field. At harvest
the com is shucked from the
stalk and taken to the end of the
row. There the ears are counted
weighed and examined with sam
ples being taken for testing for
moisture content and weevil in
festation. The results are care
fully tabulated for each hybrid
variety.
Yes sirree, It’s com shucking
time in Cleveland. And accord
ing to Mr. Bennett and Dr. Moore
there is a lot more com to shuca
where hybrid seed has been plant
NATION’S
Starts On Pace One
to press demands for a 30 per cent i
wage hike for the industry’s half
million workers, workers at Ford
Motor company will ballot on the
same issue on Nov. 7.
As the number of workers idle
across the country because of l'|
bor disputes Increased 16,000 in
the last 24 hours to a total of
239,000 the federal conciliation ser
vice in Washington said that in
the week ended Oct. 24 the num
ber of strikes settled exceeded the
number of new ones which start
ed. The agency concluded that
“near normal” conditions may pre
vail by mid-November.
Murray announced the strike
ballot plan after a meeting in
Pittsburgh of the union’s wage
policy committee authorising
"whatever action is deemed X:
essary” in efforts to secure the ;
wage increase.
He asserted the wage demands
were "necessary to sustain pur
chasing power and prevent another
depression.” Spokesmen for the U.
S. steel said the demands were re
jected because of the "existing
ceiling prices for steel products, i
together with the government’s
wage stabilisation program.”
In Detroit, Walter P. Reuther,
CIGjrUAW vice president said he
was still hopeful of settling the
wage issue with General Motors
but he asserted the union would
stand firm on its demand unless
General Motors proves its claim
of inability to meet the demand
with “cost factors and other kinds
of figures.”
In the vote by 22,304 of more
than 98,000 eligible Chrysler em
ployes, 19,870 favored a strike, 2,
359 opposed and 75 votes were
voided. General Motors results
showed 70,853 favoring a stoppage
to 12,438 against. About 200,000
eligible employes did not vote.
Prospects were brighter today in
the long strike of movie workers
in Hollywood as producers and
union leaders agreed over the
strike settlement terms which
were announced earlier this week
in Cincinnati by the AFL execu
tive committee.
—
dom from fear and freedom from
want.”
11. Freedom of expression and
freedom of religion “throughout
the peace-loving areas of the
world.”
12. Preservation of peace through
the United Nations “composed of
all the peace-loving nations of the
world who are willing jointly to
use force if necessary to insure
peace.”
| "That is the foreign policy which
I guides the United States now,”
Mr. Truman said. “That Is the
foreign policy with which It con
fidently facet the future.”
LITTLE JACK
WILL MAKE
LOCAL TOUR
"Little Jack." a touring puppet
show presented under the auspic
es of the North Carolina depart
ment of health by Misses Nan and
Mary Davis, of Winston-Salem,
will make a tour of Shelby and
Kings Mountain schools next week,
it was announced this morning by
Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, Cleveland health
officer.
On Monday the show will be
given at Graham school at 9 a.m.;
at LaFayette school at 11 a.m. and
at South Shelby school at 1:30 p.m.
On Tuesday it will be presented
at Marion school at 9 a.m.; at
Washington school at 11 a.m.:
and at Jefferson school at 1:30
p.m.
On Wednesday the show will be
presented at West school. Kings
Mountain at 9 a.m.; at East Cen
tral school, Kings Mountain at 11
a.m., and at the Davidson colored
school in Kings Mountain at 1:30
p.m.
On Thursday it will be present
ed at the Park Grace school at 9
a.m.; at the Central school, Kings
Mountain at 11 a.m. and at the
Cleveland Training school at 1:30
pm.
Rumors Persist
Of Threatened
Revolt In Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 27—VP)—
Published rumors of an impending
revolution in Brazil brought re
peated demands today from sup
porters of President Getuilo Var
gas that he remain at the head
of the Brazilian government.
Vargas has announced that he
would not be a candidate in elec
tions Dec. 2 for president and con
gress.
His followers, the Queremisters.
broadcast repeatedly over the ra
dio that ‘we want a constituent
assembly and Getulio Vargas.”
They added that the labor min
ister would speak on this subject
tomorrow night.
Communists, who favor a con
stituent assembly but not neces
sarily with Vargas at the head of
government, will meet tonignt.
CHINA
Start* On Pace One
reputable witnesses was accepted
here as fact.
NOT FULFILLED
Although the Sino-Soviet pact
provided that Russian material
aid to China be made through the
central government, different quar
ters here claimed this clause was
not being fulfilled, and they com
plained that Moscow had not sev
ered all links with Chinese com
munists.
Foreign business men were per
turbed over the confused .wsitlon
of China’s future in international
$SjfaMpMallktib\
Furnished By J. Robert Lindsay
and Company
Webb Building Shelby, N. O.
•CHICAGO, Oct. 27—(/P)—(USDA)
— Salable h >gs 200 (estimated);
total unavailable; compared week
ago, all classes steady.
Salable cattle 500 (estimated);
total unavailable; compared Friday
last week: steers and yearlings, in
cluding yearling heifers, grading
average-choice and better usually
active all week, firm; approximate
ly 225 loads brought 18.000, the ceil
ing, ranging from 828 lb. heifers
to 1440 lb. matur steers; numer
ous loads mixed steers and heifers
also brought the price, but good
to low-choice cattle confusingly
uneven, closing steady to 50 lower,
mostly 25 down; common and
medium grades scarce, steady, but
likewise uneven at 14.00 down;
stock cattle strong to 25 higher,
mainly 12.25-14.50 on medium to
choice grades; fat heifers mainly
steady; top fed heifers 18.00, good
grassers up to 14.50; bulk fed of
ferings la.00-17,50, but bulk fed
steers 16.25-18.00; medium to good
1217 lb. range steers reached 16.10;
cows closed steady, with most beef
cows 9.25-12-25, choice Wyomings
to 14.25; bulls 25, instances 50
higher, with weighty sausage of
ferings to 13.00 and choice weighty
beef bulls to 14.00; vealers contin
ued scarce, firm, at 15.50 down,
and al lgrades weighty slaughter
calves 25-50 higher, reaching 13.50;
unseasonally small supply western
grass cattle approximately 2500
VOLUNTARY
ENLISTMENTS
REACH 44,799
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 — t/P)—
, The War department announced
I today that voluntary enlistments
In the new peacetime army reach
ed 44,799 on Oct. 19.
i Of this number, 48.92 percent are
| former regular army soldiers; 43
1 15 percent are men who are now
j serving or who have served as a
! result of selective service and 7.93
1 percent are men with no previous
service.
I A breakdown shows that 97.37
percent of enlistments are for a
! three-year period; 1.36 percent
for 18 months; 1.02 percent for one
i year and 0.25 percent for two
years.
The department also . released
figures showing that through Oct
21, more than 2.000.000 soldiers
have been discharged from the
army since V-E day, with an ad
I ditional 250,000 expected to be re
turned to civilian life by Nov. 1.
j The lowering of the discharge
score for enlisted men to 60 points
i on Nov. 1 w'ill make eligible for
release another 900.000 soldiers
j Of this number, 205,000 are serv
! ing in this country, while the re
! mainlng 695.000 are overseas as
; follows—335,000 in the European
and Mediterranean theatre, 280,
000 In the Pacific and 80,000 in
scattered small areas or enroute
home.
Chinese Nationalists,
Communists Reach
Deadlock In Talks
CHUNGKING, Oct. 27 —'<P>—
Discussions between the govern
ment and the communists, design
: ed to unify China and avert civil
war, have deteriorated to an ex
1 tent which both sides admitted
! today amounted to a deadlock.
The stalemate came after weeks
of conference during which vir
tually no advance was made from
j the situation which obtained early
this month when communist lead
ed Mao Tse-Tung departed for
Yenan.
Government quarters said the
communists had no desire for a
settlement and had pursued de
laying tactics to gain time. The
communists accused the govern
ment of stalling and said clashes
in various parts of the coutnry had
, been provoked by government
troops who planned to subjugate
' and eliminate the communists.
trade arising partly from the cen
eral government’s failure to es
tablish an excahnge rate other
than the present purely artificial,
impractical quotation of 20 Chi
nese national dollars to one Unit
ed States dollar.
Main concern, however, center
ed on two points:
Firstr Russia's China attitude.
Second, the danger of civil war.
SEAMSTRESS DURANT E—Gov. Maurice J. Tobin
(center) of Massachusetts watches Jimmy Durante sew USO
insignia on the shoulder of Capt. Garland D. Shell at a Boston
bond rally. Capt. Shell, mustered out of the Army as recreational
ofllcer, is bound for USO-Camp 8how service in the Pacific.
C OLINIAN NAMED — Brig.
G^... Kenneth C. Hoyall (above) of
Goldsboro, N. C.„ was nominated
Oct. 23 by President Truman to
be undersecretary of war. He was
chosen to succeed Robert P. Pat
terson, now secretary of. war. (AP
Wirephoto).
Local Units Will
Go To Statesville
The local unit of the North Car
olina State guard, the Shelby wing
of the Civil air patrol and several
troops of Shelby and Cleveland
county Boy Scouts will go to
Statesville next Friday for the vis
it of the President of the United
States.
Scouts and members of the civil
air patrol will have to miss a day
in school but school officials indi
cated they though the trip would
have an educational value.
LOCAL NEWS OF
COLORED PEOPLE
Mt. Calvary Raises
$1,000 In Rally
Nearly $1,000 was raised in the
pledge rally of the Mt. Calvary
Baptist church which was con
ducted last Sunday, it was reveal
ed this morning by Rev. J. A.
White, pastor. Rev. Mr. White
said that he was gratified at the
results, wished to thank all who
cooperated in the undertaking.
HEALTH BOARD
MEETS TUESDAY
Temporary Arrangement*
Will Be Made For
Health Service
With Dr. Z. P. Mitchell, Cleve
landhealth officer scheduled to
leave her next Wednesday morning
for Statesville where he will begia
his work as health officer for Ire
del lcounty, a special meeting of
the Cleveland board of health has
been called for Tuesday afternoon
at 5 o’clock in the office of Char
le- G. Dilling, county auditor and
tax supervisor. The meeting will
be presided over by Glee A Bridges,
of Kings Mountain, chairman of
the board of health and also chair,
man of the board of county com
missioners.
Indication was given this morn
ing that this special session is for
the purpose of making temporary
arrangements until a successor for
Dr. Mitchell can be selected.
The local health office will be
without supervision after
Wednesday unless someone takes
charge for the time being.
Hauss To Address
Mens Class Sunday
Rev. R. M. Hauss, educational
director for the Allied Church
league of North Carolina, will ad
dress the men’s Bible class of
Hcyle Memorial Methodist church
at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Freedom from want Is yours for
the purchase of Victory Loan
Bonds.
WANT ADS
WANTED TO RENT: TWO OR
three unfurnished rooms. Mrs.
A. V. Lanier. Call 312. 3t 27c
FOR SALE: HOME RAISED
pigs Irvin M. Spake. Route 2,
Shelby. N. C. It 27p
‘!a» mi to UNCORK
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NOTICE OF SALE
The City of Shelby owns five separate residences, barns
and other buildings which are located on its airport site five
miles southwest of Shelby, on the Shelby-Boiling Springs
Road. In order to clear the ground for use as an airport these
buildings will be sold as separate units by public auction for
removal from the premises; sale to begin at 2 p.m. November
20, 1945, at Residence No. 1 and will continue until all of said
buildings have been sold, with the right to adjourn the sale
until the same hour the succeeding day if additional time is
required to dispose of the property. The separate buildings
have been numbered for identification and are as follows:
€
1. One Six Room House
One Barn Near Same.
3. One Five Room House
One Barn Near Same.
4. One Five Room House
5. One Six Room House
One Smoke House
Two Barns Near Same.
6. One Four Room House
One Car Shed Near Same.
That the auction sale thus made will be final and for
cash. The purchasers will be given possession of the houses
! purchased on January 5, 1946 and will have until February
i 15, 1946 to remove same from the airport site. Any houses
or parts of same left on the city premises after February 15,
1946 will become the property of the City of Shelby.
CITY OF SHELBY
By H. S. Woodson, Mayor.
4Sats Oct 20c
1
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SHELBY, N: C.