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| LINCOLNTON IS THE J 5 TRADE CENTER J t i J For More Thar. 35,000 People. » I It Is Located in the Heart of Pied- ) t mont North Carolina the Most \ } Prosperous Industrial and Agricul- * J tural Section of the Entire South. J $1.50 PER YEAR Senator Norris, Who Supported Roosevelt, Raps Farley’s Tactics Hedges On New Deal jmm l SENATOR NORRIS Senator Norris of Nebraska, who supported President Roose velt in 1932, is undecided whether he will renew that support next year. (See accompanying story.) »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦• j NEWS::::::::: | 1 No Poison Gas Addis Ababa, Oct. 22.—Emperior Haile Selassie declared today that, oespite reports to the contrary cbroad, the Italian army in its ad vance into Ethiopia had not, up to this date, used either poison pas or dumdum bullets. $20.50 Buys 13 Autos Boston, Oct. 22.—Thirteen auto mobiles sei/.ed by the Boston paliee went on the auction block and added a grand total of $20.50 to the city coffers. Two of them went in a bar gain package for sl. Kills Self After Theft Los Angeles, Oct. 22.—Rather than face her brother after she had been arrested for stealing a $1 pair of gloves, Miss Helen Magarian, thirty six, slashed her throat in jail and died. 12 Leading Crops Pay Raleigh, Oct. 22.—North Carolina’s 12 leading money crops netted far mers in the State a total of $.153,- 445,682 in 1934, a gain of almost 100 per cent over 1933, and indications pased on price trends of early 1935 are for a further increase this year. Peaches Bring More Washington, Oct. 22.—The crop reporting board said today prices of peaches advanced this year to an average of 85 cents a bushel from 80 cents during the 1935 season, despite that production was higher in the season just closing. Forsees Bloody War Listowel, County Kerry, Irish Free State, Oct. 22.—General Eoin O’Duf fy, leader of the banned Government epposition Blue-Shirts, predicted to day that the “bloodless war between Italy and Ethiopia shortly will re solve itself into a bloody war between Italy and Great Britain.” Soil Erosion Work to Begin Shortly in Lincoln County Engineers from the soil conserva tion service office at High Point will come to Lincolnton Monday to begin a survey preparatory to the inaug uration of the soil erosion work in the county. , Following the meeting of the Ro * tary Club last Tuesday at which representatives from the High Point office and others were present and ■poke on the subject, a conference THE LINCOLN TIMES ) Nebraska’s Independent Lead er Gives Spotted 1 Endorse ment to New Deal Washington, Oct. 22. —Nebraska’s independent Senator Norris gave a spotted endorsement to' the New Deal today but said he didn't like politics in the postoffice depart ment and that there was too much spending. The republican independent who supported Franklin I). Roosevelt for president in 1932 did not say wheth er he would renew that support in 1936. He said in an interview that his criticisms were not in the nature of an attack and added: “I’m going to support whatever 1 think is right and which I want to see succeed.” Hits Boston Displacement His criticism of the postoffice department was aimed at the recent displacement of a postmaster in Bos ton whom, he said, had a career of S7 years’ satisfactory service, by a “purely partisan, political appoint ment.” He said he thought the Boston appointment was “a very serious mistake by Mr. Farley and one that will be injurious to the administra tion.” “That has happened in a general way all over the country,” he add ed. “The evil that has existed for years in the postoffice department ought to be eliminated. It ought to be a great business institution as free from politics as a store on the public streets of any city.” 200 PERSONS IN LINCOLN COUNTY WANT WPA JOBS District Director Gives Infor mation For Those Desir ing to Apply Lincoln county has 200 unassign ed relief workers who have made ap plication for WPA, according to the announcement made Saturday at dis trict headquarters in Charlotte. The Charlotte district of the North Carolina Employment service, af filiated with the United States Em ployment service, has, it is pointed out, 4527 unassigned applicants for work on Works Progress administra tion projects, taken from relief rolls. The placement office for Lincoln county is located in Gastonia with E. W. Brockman in charge. Many who have been instructed to report to the placement offices for assignment have failed to do so for various reasons, it is pointed out. Ernest Grady, district director, said that in all probability many have obtained employment in private industry or for other reasons are nc longer in need of relief employ ment. Others who have failed to re port have probably changed their ad dress and notification failed to reach them, he said. He.urged that all who receive cards directing them to re port to the placement office do so at cnee. Otherwise there is danger they will not be placed and will find them selves without either relief work or direct relief. was held in the office of the county agent and plans for the work map ped out. It is understood that labor from the CCC camps at Newton and Gastonia will be available for the pioject in this county. All work done in Catawba Springs, Ironton and Lincolnton townships will be handled through the Newton camp and all in Howards Creek and North Brook townships through the Gastonia camp. Published On Monday and Thursday LINCOLNTON, N. C. THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1935 WOMAN TELLS OF MURDERING MAN FOUR YEARS AGO Mrs. May Adams Claims She Slew Watchman In Char lotte Warehouse Danville, Va., Oct. 22.—An odd and grotesque murder which for the past four years has intrigued the police department of Charlotte, N. C., ap peared tonight to have been solved by the voluntary confession of a 31- year-old Kentucky woman, who to night was on her way back :o Char lotte, eager to face the reckoning with the law in order, she said, to absolve her conscience. She is Mrs. May Adams, who told Chief of Police Martin this morning that she is the person who in 1931 slew Albert Rudisill, night watchman ts a Charlotte storage warehouse by hitting him on the head with a brick- I bat and latef suspending the corpse to a joint after clothing the dead i body with a black dress. Two detectives of Charlotte did not waste time here. Hearing she was ready to go back without requisition they returned after a brief stay dur ing which time they vouchsafed no information. The murder, however, was so strange as to create much speculation. Mrs. Adams, whose first husband, J. R. Adams, is now serving a term in the South Carolina penitentiary for stealing an automobile and whose second husbr.nd, Jake Garland, lives at Carter, Tenn., made two efforts to interest the police in her confes sion. Failing to secure the attention of a policeman at her hotel she walked into the police chief’s office today and said that she wished to be sworn and to tell the truth because her conscience plagued her. Parts of the confession she made under oath are unprintable. Police here were of the belief after interro gating her closely that she is shield ing someone else and they claim to have nearly trapped her. They do not tec how a woman unaided after kill ing the man swung his corpse to a joist, in its strange garb and some what mutilated without aid. “I, May Adams;” her deposition lead, “killed a white man in Char lotte, N. C., in a warehouse, in a room. I put a black dress on him and ear bobs. After doing that I hung him up to a joist, I thought. I went to Magnolia Inn and got the dress and other things. I struck him with a brickbat that killed him. Chief Detective Littlejohn arrested me and tried to get me to tell who killed this man, but I did not tell him and have never told anyone until this morn ing. I just cannot live any longer under this strain. I have told the truth about it and I have done all I can to get this off my chest. I killed this fellow because he smacked me and I knocked him in the head with a brick.” The woman was well composed, witnesses said, during the recital and then slept soundly in a detention loom until the officers came. Third Set of Twins Born to New York Woman; All Living Washingtonville, N. Y., Oct. 23. Mrs. Mary Tolosky, 38, today gave tirth to her third set of identical twins. Dr. W. W. Davis, who delivered the twin boys at Goshen hospital, said that he believed Mrs. Tolosky’s rec ord was “most unusual.” She is the mother also of twin boys now 14 years old and twin girls five years old. Mrs. Tolosky also has three other children, one 17, one 12, and another seven years old. Her husband, Michaeal Tolosky, is a farmer. U. S. REVENUE COLLECTIONS UP Washington, Oct; 22. lnternal revenue collections for the first quar ter of this fiscal year are up five per cent over the same period of last year. The treasury’s monthly statement shows that from July 1 through Sep tember 30 a total of $845,481,253 had teen collected as compared with $804,878,165 last year. Collections for September, how ever, dropped $867,000 below Sep tember,, 1934, figures the total for this September being $378,870,399. Hurt in Plane Crash RUTH NICHOLS Miss Nichols, noted society fly er, was seriously injured Monday when her 20-passenger plane crash ed in New York state. Her pilot died of injuries and several other passengers were dangerously hurt. $2,900 IS TAKEN FROM MAIL MAN ON ELKIN ROUTE Three Bandits Stage Holdup On Densely Wooded Curve, Mail Not Touched Elkin, Oet. 22.—Held up at the point of two guns on the mountain near Cherry Lane, Dewey T. Mathis, mail eanier on the Elkin-Spar a star route, was robbed this morning about 9 o'clock of the contents of his own purse and a packet containing $2,900, the property of McDaniels Department store, of this city, which was being conveyed to the of ffparta for deposit. One of three men occupying a car equipped with Virginia license tags, remained in the driver's seat while the other two held up the earlier (Continued on back page) NEW GIN RATE MADE AS LINT PRICE IS SET Considerable Unhappiness Is Reported Among Growers In North Carolina Washington, Oct. 22.—Are agricul tural adjustment administration an nounced, today that 10.90 cents per pound had been determined as the average price of lint cotton on the 10 designated spot cotton markets for a representative period, as the base for determining the rate of the tax on the ginning of cotton under the Bankhead act. This determina tion by the secretary of agriculture, rnder the act, automatically fixes the new tax rate at 5.45 cents per pound of lint cotton. The new rate is ef fective as of October 21. The Bankhead act, which was con tinued in operation for the present crop year following a vote for con tinuance by 89.5 per cent of the cot ton producers who participated in the referendum last December, has beeh in operation since April 21, 1934. Cotton produced in excess of the allotments under the act is subject to the ginning tax, which is 50 per cent of the average central market price of 7-8 inch middling spot cot ton on the 10 spot cotton markets (Continued on back page) Halifax Man Has U. S. Check For lc Weldon, Oct. 22. —Carl Gibson, of Halifax couny, who resides near here, has in his possession a United States postoffiee check for 1 cent which was issued to his father, S. L. Gib son, August 17, 1893. At the time the check was issued Mr. Gibson’s father was postmaster «-t Romela, a small village near here. The postoffiee department abolished this office and after the checkup, 1 cent, which was due Mr. Gibson, was returned to him by check. Recently Carl Gibson has learned that there "as only one other check of this na ture issued that year in the United States. The checks are believed to he of large monetary value. New Lincolnton Post Office May Be Located On Homesite Os Childs’ On East Main Street BRITAIN REFUSES SHELTER FOR ALL ITALY’S WARSHIPS England Uses Another Neu trality Rule to Empede Ethiopian Campaign London, Oct. 22.—Increased Brit ish pressure against Italy resulted today in the application of neutrality rules forbidding Italian warships and I war supply ships the ordinary peace time privileges in Britain’s African ! colonial ports. This action was taken under lules laid down by The Hague convention of 1907. No Italian ves sels of war or supply ships will be permitted to remain in British ports longer than 24 hours, and they may take on only enough fuel and sup plies to carry them to the next Ital ian port. Vague talks of tentative progress toward a peaceful settlement of the Italio-Ethiopian war cropped up in official quarters on the eve of the reassembling of parliament tomor row for a three-day debate on inter national affairs. A feeling that peace might be at was dampened, however, l by the disclosure by high sources that Britain is not talking peace with Italy, that Britain does not anticipate any actual developments for many weeks, and that she has not ruled out the possibility of application of mili tary sanctions against Italy. The exact situation seemed to be that Mussolini has made no new (Continued on back page) N. C. SENATORS AGAIN AT ODDS Washington, Oct. 22. —North Caro lina’s two senators, who have divided a number of times over patronage, today apparently were at odds over appointment of a state director for the Federal housing administration. Senator Robert R. Reynolds, it was learned, has recommended W. H. Spradlin of Winston - Salem, while Josiah W. Bailey was under stood to favor Joseph L. Suter of Rocky Mount, for the post. Suter has been acting director since the resignation of T. B. Sum ner of Asheville, a Reynolds appoin tee, who quit the job when Washing- j ton headquarters of the housing ad ministration complained business of| the North Carolina office was prog lessing too slowly. Sumner, in his letter of resigna tion, contended he did not have a fiee hand in running the North Caro lina office, located at Greensboro. Naming of a successor to Sumner is expected to be held in abeyance until the return to Washington of W. D. Flanders, housing field direc tor, who r.ow is in the west. He is not scheduled to return here until the end of this month. Meanwhile, Senator Reynolds is oi. his way to the Philippines to at tend the inauguration of the new is land government and is not to return until some time in December. Contract Blanks Ready For Wheat Growers of Lincoln Wheat growers in Lincoln county While Lincoln is not a large wheat will be given an opportunity during growing county there were 80 con the next ten days to sign the 1935- tracts signed last year. It is expect -36 government wheat contracts, ed that practically all of these will Blanks have already been received be renewed and that there will be at the office of J. G. Morrison, coun- several new signers, since farmers ty agent and wheat growers are be- who did not sign last year and desire ing notified by card to come in and to do so now will be given the op sign the contracts. port unity. Will Speak Here ■ft. I RAYMOND J. KNOEPPEL Mr. Knoeppel will be principal speaker at the Rotary inter-city meeting here Tuesday night. (See story below.) ROTARIANS WILL COME HERE FOR INTER-CITY MEET Raymond J. Knoeppel, of New York. Will Be Principal Speaker Extensive plans are being maj-Je for the inter-city meeting at which the local Rotary club will be host next Tuesday night. The principal speaker will be Raymond J. Knoep pel, of New York, a leading figure in the affairs of Rotary for a num ber of years. The meeting will be held at the Woman’s Club house and will be at tended by a large number of Ro tarians and their wives from Shelby, Salisbury, Hickory and other neigh boring cities. The committee on arrangements is composed of Dr. J. R. Gamble. M. H. Kuhn and Prof. Wiley M. Pickens. Mr. Knoeppel is one of the most popular speakers before Rotary audiences in the country, because of his long experience in Rotary affairs, his familiarity with Rotary in other countries and his personal interest in many varied Rotary activities. The following brief sketch of Mr. Knoeppel will be of interest: “Raymond J. Knoeppel, of New York City, a lawyer and director in .many business enterprises, has been a leading figure in the affairs of Rotary for many years. The present constitution and by-laws for Rotary International was framed in 1921 by a committee of which he was chair man. Twice he served as president of the Rotary Club of New York City. He was governor of the 29th district of Rotary International in 1923-24 end director of Rotary International in 1927-28. “His jovial manner and his broad (Continued on back page) White Rat Defeats 5 Snakes in Battle Provo, Utah, Oet. 22.—Southern Utah may soon be as free of rep tiles as St .Patrick made Ireland. Dr. Eldron Beck’s white rat, known as Pete, disposed of two l attlesnakes, a red racer snake, blow snake, king snake and five liz ards, two of which were chuckwallas. j LOCAL MARKET j j COTTON 11 He pound j ixT $1.05 bushel J CORN 75c bushei j j EGGS 30 and 33c dozen j PRICE: FIVE CBINTS ORDER OF COURT INDICATES THIS PLACE FAVORED I No Official Announcement Has Been Made But Is Ex pected in Short Time Lincolnton’s new post office build ing today seemed destined to be lo cated on the homesite of the late C. E Childs, at the southeast corner of East Main and Poplar streets. Selec tion of this site by postal authorities was indicated after receivers for the Childs’ estate had secured a favor able court order allowing them to re duce the amount of their original bid. The Times was informed that Stahle Linn, attorney for the Wach ovia Bank and Trust Company which is receiver for the Childs’ estate, re ceived a telephone call from authori ties in Washington this week regard ing the lowering of the bid and the subsequent court order. Although the postal officials did not commit themselves in the telephone conversa tion, they wanted to know if the property would be sold for $10,090 and cleared of present buildings by a certain time, and a court order per mitting this transaction obtained. The hearing was held before Judge J Will Pless, Jr., who was presiding over superior court here, t s.l.u . Judge Pless signed the ordci pci • mitting the receivers to k el no government’s request, lot* of the Childs’ heirs agreed to the petition while one, Sherwood Ch.lds, protest ed that the price was not commen surate with the value of the property. The Times was informed that the postal officials in Washington were eager to know at once whether the original bid would be lowered, and that Mr. Stahle agreed to inform them of the decision and court order not later than today. The original bid on this property, which was submitted to the govern ment along with 19 others, was for $14,000. Below is the court order signed by Judge Pless: “This cause coming on to be heard before J. Will Pless, Jr., judge pre (Continued on page two) mrs. Memo, DIES IN GASTONIA (Special to The Times) Mrs. Addie Ballard Fisher, 80, widow of J. Stanroke Fisher, died Saturday evening at the home of her son, F. T. Fisher, in Gastonia, after an illness of some weeks. She had made her home with her children for several years. The following children survive: F. T. Fisher and Mrs. M. I. Jones, of Gastonia; Mrs. J. M. Broome, of Lin colnton; Mrs. S. W r . Broome, of Mt. Holly; Mrs. Pender Mauney, Stan ley; Mrs. Arthur Smith, of Rock Hill; E. R. Fisher, of Greensboro and J. A. Fisher, of Kings Mountain. Brothers and sisters surviving are B. E. Ballard, Lincoln county; Mrs. M. H. Carter and W. D. Ballard, of Gastonia. Mrs. Fisher was a consistent and life long member of the Methodist church. mason There is nothing so in expensive as beauty, says a poet. But ask the man who married one.
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