Auto Struck By Train
At Forest City Sunday
Two Belipvrt. To Have Frarturcd
Skulls Ubr Forest < Uy
Wreck.
Forest Gt|ty. Jon. IP Three South
Carolina negroes we injured, two
seriously, when their ear a Ford
rordster, was hit by Sou then pas
senger train No. He running from
Marion to Hock Hill. S. C at the
city limits here about 5:30 this nit
ernoon.
A Forest City nepro, Broad Payne
seen" the train coming jmui>o\!
from til car and tva not hurt, The
track in tiic direct mo from which
the train was coming can be seen
for s bout 400 yards. The three in
jured negroes, an from Che nee, s.
C., were Fhildon Pay lie < ut on
thumb, slight abrasion on hts buck.
T. Burton Gaffney. t crimed thiwh.
extensive laceration:. on scalp and
lace, probably fractured skull: llo
i hel Houser, cut. about the tree ami
head, probata’y ttv.elured skull.
Dr. A. c. lmncar., untieing tin
train stoppih , v.a the lot to tin
wreck and carried the negroes to
his office where they were given
first, aid. later two v !v.» v ::it in
,iured seriously, were sent to tin
Rutherford hr: pita!
Ur. W, G Bostic, .southern Rad •
road surgeon, and Dr. Bostic, Jr
i i ed Dr. Duncan. The negroe
had been drinking, according to the
doctors. Gaffney, who was driving
the Ford, was thought to have been
highly intoxicated before the wreck
which sobered him a little.
Cotton Market
Colton iv:s-. looted at noon too tv
‘i n Nes* York exchange: Jim. 17.)f>
March n.iltl, Saturday':, close Jon
17.17. March 17 31.
Worth Street. quiet Saturday
Hunter commission company report
their sales for week IOC in excev
of full production while as a..matter
of fact mills arc still curtailing,
liondon cable reports tone in Lan
. rsshire colion (roods market some
what better, there is a noticeable in
crease in inquiries. India busf-.ie.
better. Probably enrier today on
weakues,'. inLiverpool, 'which l:;
probably due to straddle selluw
Tirade demand will probably cm
end material decline Clevenbiiig
They Make 'Km look t.il.c Sill.
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Lynchburg News.
They say statistics don't lie nut
when we are informed that 111,000 -
000 pair ol cotton hose were man
ufactured last year we are forced
to the--.conclusion that something t
wrong somewhere, it the figure.
are correct our eyesight is all wrong
Henry Cabal of Chicago left Iris
bride-lo-tie “waiting at the church"
with a note saying he was "afraid to
get married.”
IF YOU AUK AT SEA
ns to whether Friend Hub
by could net in case of em
ergencies, pass on this one:
One of our bub- acquaint
ances in the north end of
town excitedly told her
husband that the neigh
bors poodle had run off
with their box of matches
and wanted to know what
to do? “Here' use mv cig
arette lighter." he told her
smilingly.
\ If you', e at sea as to the
real m'rit of our gas and
oil, we’ll say that these
| products have universally
proven their superiority.
I Unparalleled performance
I and certified purity make
I Sinclair gas and Mobiline
i oil the most economical to
use.
i Cleveland
CdCe.
Distributors
*
I
Cleveland Cot y’s Resources
Shown In Report Of State D.pt.
(Continued from page one )
i«y power to practically all sections. Rural ctlons of the county are
i -rclallx well served with low voltage lines. Rural power" 1 an ar
eompll.slM’d fact in (his comity. Rough estimates place tht tideveloped
water power at 10,000 horsepower; >■
Agricultural Product; -In plain view of the Blue Ridge mountains
j* e.i is a county that has advanced uni'Wn't'y in the past few years.
; i the most important cotton county in the Piedmont belt, with over half
i it:, cultivated area devoted to tin crop. W;:h the exception oi Sen id i
ml Hoke counties Cleveland has a larger percentage of cotton Jar ’ in I
i.eportion (o tire crop land area, than anv county in the state. It also'
: > a considerable Interest In wheat and livestock production. While!
'hr soil vanes in it natural fertility, a large tonnage of commercet ter- |
; i •izei-s is used, which roc:. primarily under cotton. It ginned 48.03!) bales,
. cotton in 1927, which amounts we§ exceeded only by one other county j
• the state In 1928 and 1929 ttie county led the state. The figures iw |
i/e on the, baais of the 1927 crop.
('minty Products 123,802 Yield Production Value Value'
Acreage Pei Acre or Number Total Per Acre!
Colton . . OS 376 283 38700 $3,020,276 $55.47
yr, i ..... 38.182 181 801,822 777,767 20.38
' v neat - ,. ---9.457 11 104,027 151.879 16.06
O.d: . .... . 4,748 19 90,212 68,561 14t4
pry i Including Meadow > 3.246 1,0 -3.138 78.450 . 25.00 .
Horses and.Mules ... ,. .. .5,048 092,960
( . !ili ... . 7.143 337.150
. . 6.104 71.417
A Paraguay Town 400 Years
Old Looks Like Other Towns
No (il.imour Of \nliqulty I omul
By Visitor. Irt Viltetii. Out Of
America's OUl Towns,
VUlefa Paraguay -This little il-1
! •r:e*!Kt.i miles hit the Paraguay river
from Buenos Aiiires and twenty-six
miles below Asuncion, is the -.i»xt !
In the oldest permanent settlement ;
south of the equator. In n few years ■
it can celebrate it . 400th miniver- i
arv, for it \vst., first founded by j
Juan de Ayolas in 1530. Bahia,j
. Blaneu in Brawl la sixteen yen*
older, , j
When the young settlement at !
fit!'.*1 a ■ Aire wu*, destroyed, Ayou . ;
l. aught the reunmnts of Mend.nmV'
csueithion up the river, looking in
• .’owd and a route to Peru. Sebastian \
, C iboi bad started in 1526, but ilu- j
: chit not get farther than tlv* Berne-!
hi river. Ayeiax left a force to buy '
i*>(>■■ isiuns at V.lleta and several
, weeks later, wher. lie had got. as far-i
as Olitupo. sent more men s.nek,
"• who built a fort at, Asuncion, which '
; had a hill and could be defended
: against the Indians. As the jam's!
went- on. other settlements were
founded which prospered stone
churches and storehouses lived Tor
| centuries, were abandoned and for
I gotten ynd other hazy memories of
| their names survive.
Boasts Pause tVithovt Anchor!*
Villeta has none of the glamor if
antiquity today, not eveji an old
stone which van be pointed to ns
squared by the rough instruments of
those old conquistdors. It looks like
a hundred villages along the viv-er
little scattered one-story houses, a
couple of stores with their own* '
names painted in big letters on the
side and the square steeple of a
church. Few ot the villages along
the river have piers, and the steam
ers which furnish a service twice o
week between Buenos Aires end
Asuncion cannot tie up at their
banks.
iiic prooirm pas oeen sravcci ar
mofrt- et -them by -a-bigt septate port -
toon with a covered clack, moored
: out where the stream is navigable,
Usually a runway connects it with
the shore but many can be reached
ony by rowboats; Cargo and pas
engers are on the pontoon when
the steamer ties to its side. In
others, as ViJleta, the steamer only
pauses sometimes without anchor
ing, and the travelers and their bag
cage and the sparse freight come ou:
in barges anti are pulled and pushed
over the sides. Other tumble into
'he boats with much shouting, tar
he shore, and the steamer is on its
way. It locks like the Yangtze in
j China, only there the boats are more !
crowded and almost always some- {
body Is shoved overboard in ‘he
serable, usually a woman or a
child, who flcats screaming down the
river without attracting any atten
tion until she disappears permaneiu
iy under the water.
Orchestral And Other J>in.
The river trip is more comfortable
than that by train between the ten
capitals though it is a day or ‘v.o
longer, depending whether it is with
or against the current. The boa.5
are crowded but clean and the lead
served at the long tables in the din
tig room, to the accompaniment of
i baring phonograph and the dat
um of sword swallowers and tooth
pick gladiators, is abundant and va
ried. Only a few weeks ago the
pid Russian who founded this, as
well as the line to Montevideo and
several others radiating from Buenos
| Aires, died. He came as an itnini- |
■ grant and started carrying people
j to shore in a row beat. Though
; the big company operates under nis
; name and the glamor ot the toiUng
young inunigrant survives, it is
actually owned and operated by
one of the largest British shipping
companies
As the steamer descends the river,
crates cf oranges and umgerknst
are loaded at nearly every btop. All
space below Is filled and a brea , -
high ramaprt is around the upper
promenade decks. Though it is mid
winter, the days axe sunny and
warm mu. an overcoat is not need
ed on deck. ,
“Now if you will only close your
eyes and make a wish it will ’or.:r
true," a i;i nial Ar; ntinan was ex
plaining to » group of young men
and women. He had carefully taken
two silvers ot weather-stained wood
in the form < i n cross on the ram
part of onuffjo crates.
These are from an old cross .In'
Paraguay, hundreds of years old,''
lie affirmed
rthe vandal owner of the precious
relies closed his eyes ns an exahipic
He made a wish every time he .-;d
an audience. He owned several
apartment houses In Buencs Aires
and was purchasing farming land
m Paraguay. showing a trend o'f
Argentine capital. Others closed
their eye, nud wished intently, nil
a,\i epf one rascal who deftly .snip
ped two shivers off a fruit crate with
u penknife and set them in the
form of u eyo-x. Eyes opened on two
cresses where one had been before
The Argentine side of the river
channel Is lit with flashes of red
and white buoys at night and below
Correntes, where the Parana joins
the Paraguay—and It is entirely in
Argentina- both sides are marked.
The Paraguay river is much like the
Mississippi, with its soft earth bonks
In places it is narrow; again it will
be several miles wide, or a narrow
channel between dozens of islands.
Islands of a tangled water weed,
•'eamalctes,” break loose and iloat
down for hundreds of miles, in flood
time, frequently with big snakes or
dazed wild animals aboard, ground
on the bottom and form new Islands
oi mud and sand. Constant dredg
ing Is needed to make the channel
permanent. For nearly 400 years it
has been Paraguay's main artery of
commerce and communication with
the outside world.
Ocean steamers come up as far as
Rosario, the “Chicago of South
America,” 260 miles above Buncos
Aires, while those of shallower draft
go to Santa-Fe. thirty-miles far'le
er up. It is surprising how everybody
aboard tells the traveler what a
sinful city Chicago is, and still
so many cities are proud to liken
themselves to Chicago. Chicago or
Paris, the latter for pleasure, are
the models Rosario had one of
its usual strikes., steamers were
coming up the river in a steady
stream, hut few gong down, and
fifty-four were anchored iff the big
grain elevators, waiting to have car
go handled.
N w Insurance
Idea This Is
Council Bluffs, Iowa.—A new
reason for taking out life in
surance—one of which the most
gifted insurance salesman had
not yet thought—has been found
by George S. Wright, president
of a local traction company.
One thousand dollars for an old
fashioned pre-Volsteadian Irish
wake, or a feasf to celebrate the de
feat o! death, will be provided by
a 10-year endowment policy whi,'h
Mr. Wright has taken out. If Mr
Wright dies before the 10 years have
expired, one group of friends,
"jokers," will collect and hold the
pre-Volstendifln wake.
But if he lives, another grouu
will collect the $1000 and hold a
feast of merriment to celebrate the
fact that Mr. Wright has lived 10 i
years longer and to laugh at the j
expense of the policy.
The novel policy -contains a trusi
agreement. At first the insurance
company, officials of which read the
proposed policy, refused to accept
it with the strange trust agreement
as it obviously provided, in case of
Mr, Wright's death, for a very "wet’'
wake. 1
So the agreement was modified
and only cne clause, containing the j
words, to the fullest extent,’ is;
taken to indicate the nature of the
wake.
Washington - -The power war,
featuring the big electricity com
panies constantly on the offe.rtve
. they expand and entrerch their
industry and constantly on the de
fensive against a determined band
of sharpshooters lri congress add
outside, goes on regardless of tariff
bills, tax cuts and navtu com'cr
<'nces.
Some heavy firing Is anticipat'd
during the senate interstate am
merce committee’s investigation of
power find communications under
the chairmanship of Senator ''ou
tsells of Michigan. Iai its early stages
this investigation has concerned
itself with radio and Owen D. Young
and General Hnrbord of the Rad.o
Corporation have appeared to urge
a monopoly In oi International
communications. Eventually the com
mittee will turn its attention to
power and it has the opportunity to
take up all phases of that Issue It
has the desire for a sweeping inves
tigation. Whether It is ^equipped by
knowledge and personnel for any
effective work probably will be in
dicated by the way it deals with the
"Radio Trust."
Warns Of Muscle Shoals.
Meanwhile, the National Popular
Government League, the most ac
tive and intelligent cf the shv.a
shooting groups opposed to the
"Power Trust," is out with a sum
mary of the situation with regr.i
to “the more pressing phases of the
[lower war,"
Concerning Muscle Shoals it
warns that the "Trust" no lonacr
lias opposition from any eompe'vrg
company seeking Muscle 8h ,a!s,
whereas heretofore it lias had t<;
fight such interests as Henry Ford
and the American Cyanamid 'o.
The power lobbyists and propa
gandists are now working for the
cyanamid bill and charges are cited
that a secret deal has been made on
Muscle Shoals involving the Ala
bama Power company and Cyar>a
mid.
To meet the claim of companies
that they want a Muscle Slioals
lease solely to give the farmers
i henp fertilizer, Senator Black of
Alabama has introduced amend
ments to the Norris bill which would
lease the Shoals nitrate plants to
ionic private compaity for a dollar
a year for fertilizer manufacture rt
a profit limited to eight per cent
and provides that the federal oper
ating corporation shall sell any
amount of [tower for that purpose to
the company at low rates.
The league predicts that the fed
I
j Pay Of Short
Skirt Is Past
New York,—The short skirt is
strictly de trop in the Spring
wardrobe, Judging from the 140
models exhibited before the
garment retailers of America.
The creations of 43 leading
fashion arbiters paraded before
representatives of the trade in
the annual spring promenade
last night displayed long skirt
ed evening gowns and frocks for
afternoon, street and sport wear
with hem tines from four to six
inches below the knee.
Not Backward I 'ere
In Polit’cal Wa/s
Charlotte Observer.
Commissioner of Labor U"ist
showed up in the political hot-ted
of Shelby a few days ago. and, ac
cording to The Star, several of hi
strong supporters there made ft
plain to him that it would not be
good for his political health To
"show too much activity lor Sim
mWs.” In the historic environs of
Cleveland cruiltv they are seldom
backward in get tiling a campaign
started.
| eral operating corporation snail sell
any amount of power for that pur
pose to the company at low rates.
The league predicts that the fed
eral trade commission, about 'c
investigate power company finance,
will disclose startling financial
juggling and blue sky operations, IS
refers to President Hoover's dec
laration against public owners!* vp
in his message to congress and to
lii.s “cautious and vague" »cferences
to the desirability cf some kind v,
federal control.
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur
it is pointed out, has tentatively
allocated 25 per rent of the Boulder
Dam power of the Southern GUi
fornia Kdiscn company, in spite oi
the demand for it from state* and
municipalities' of California which
have a preferential right inde* the
federal power act. The league do
mands observance of the law.
The Flathead power site in; ufun•
tana, with a capacity of 200,0C<
primary horsepower, ‘s anothei
“pressing phase” cf the power v.ar
The Rocky Mountain Power com
pany. subsidiary of Montana Pbwei
company and Electric Bond A
Share, is fighting for the Flath. at
against Walter H Wheeler, a Min
neapolis capitalist.
Democracy Ha» Best !
Year In Off Years
(Continued from page one )
wpuld be mighty bad business for
‘.he White House.
The most hopeful Republicans
eeognlze the pract'cal certainty of
Democratic gains In the house ot
representatives. That too will not:
amount to a White House catas-1
trcphe if they are not immoderately
large gains. To be sure. th“ Demo
crats pretend to believe they will
ret control of the house, wh'ch
certainly would make President
Hoover look like a one termer; only I
it is highly Improbable. Reduction
of the G. O. P’s majority of aoout
100 to a mere handful would j
threaten him.
All in all, the Democrats’ 1930 j
prospects are pretty gc-od- -as a j
, party.
i Senator Daniel P. Steck’s Iowa j
i seat is the only one of importance j
' that they seem inevitably doomed j
! to lose. Of course Stock was a oure ;
•Accident. His re-election would be a
first-class miracle.
•However, a few other individu 1
Democrats have fights on Their
hands. Their seats are safe for
Aunty Democracy, but maybe not
for those Democrats.
New Mexico must be recognize!
as a state which is not a lead pipe !
cinch fer any Democratic candidate; |
still, an off year is not the time
one would expect to see it slip out;
from under Senator Sam G. Brat- (
ton.
Neither is it a likely time for the !
-lightly doubtful state of Tenrtes- \
see to escape Aunty Democracy's
clutches It is not such safe betting i
that it will elect Senator William
E. Borah, who holds his seat only
by appointment; some rival Demo
crat may take it away l'rcm him.
Senator Bleasc of South Carolina
Harrison of Mississippi, Ransdell ot •
Louisiana and Robinson of Arkan- j
sas appear as good as renominated j
and re-elected*
j Senator Walsh is a dry from a wet
fish state; nevertheless all indioa-,
j 'ions are that he has it securely in
his hip pocket.
One would say that a statement
never was surer of renomination
than Senator William J. Harris of
Georgia, and the Democratic nom
ination is all there is to a cam-1
oaign in that neck of the weods - j
the G. O. P. seldom has sufficient!
, -ep to put up any candidates.
Yet Senator Harris evidently is a '
! rifle worried.
At any rate, such is the interpre
ion which po'iticicns place on his
-. 'cent startling display of prohi
bition pyrotechnics in Washington.
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When You Want
APPLE PIE
Doughnuts Won’t Do
WHEN YOUNG TIMERS
WANT STYLE,
s STAPLES WON’T DO.
We are fully awake to the fact that the style
conscious young fellows must be satisfied.
A part of our Spring Suits have arrived and
and are now on display. Come in to see them.
Here’s a chance to have your pie and eat it
too.
A. V. Wray & 6 Sons
WHEN YOU THINK OF STYLE, THINK OF WRAY’S
The assumption Is that he Is afraid
le hurt himself among 'ultra-dry's
>y Indorsing A1 Smith In 1928.
Senators Glass of Virginia and
Sheppard of Texas are in the same
ix as Hrrris. They supported A1
and are in Dutch with some of their
states’ votrrs for do ng it.
Senator Heflin of Alabama and
:immons of North Carolina are in
.he opposite fix—in Dutch with
ome of their voters for not sup
-orting Al.
Many a democratic representative
loubtless is similarly afflicted, one
,vay or the other. They can win in
,'ovember—if renominated. But how
tout their nominations?
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J.C. PENNEY CO.
SHELBY, N. C.
MASONIC BUILDING.
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SILK
HOSE
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Two sp'endid qualities millions of
women know and ask for by number
now presented in the new shades
for Spring.
No, 444
bcmi-sheer — pure silk - full fashioned hose - , mat
favorite with the younger set because they are so good
looking and because they enable limited budgets to yield
»o many pairs! They wear well, too, because they have mer
cerized tops ^nd soles.
98c
No. 447
A splendid service weight 1' full 1. sh. -ueoi cou”se,
silk all the wry to the t:p, w ;ch a-.:ur:s cs.h.'ac ory w ar.
This weight is .usually pre'er.'ed by most women, and by
those who seel: a good looking stocking that Is really ser
viceable. Outstanding at—
$1.4?
An Important Group of
New
Spring Dresses
.At An Important
Low Price
$4-98
These amazing dress values represent the low
cost of smartness in a J. C. Penney Store. Every
atyle is new . . . the colors are fresh and
gay, with a generous sprinkling of the ever
smart black . . . prints and plain colors.
One of these dresses will do wonders to an
end-of-the-season wardrobe . . . and will make
practically no impression on your dress budget.
Women u Misses :: Juniors