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i ;_ r vul 10 PAGES TODAY wxvi. No. iar> SHFLUY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 10, 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. M*lL lw ,Mr- ‘‘n - «•*« _____- <:»rr;,r. wf ?w. (in adr»ue«> _ |aM This Is “Pay Up Week' ’ In Cleveland County For Everybody—Pay Now And Boost Business Activity LA TE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. 10 to lie Cotton Sedc, per bn. Site Rain Tuesday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy tonight and Tues day. Rain Tuesday and in west por tion tonight. Slightly warmer in northwest tonight. Bishop Crows Weaker. .Washington, Nov. 9.—The condi tion of Bishop James Cannon, Jr . today was reported by Dr. R. Lyman Sexton to be “weaker due to con tinued pain from arthritis.’’ "There is no change in the infection in the totals.” Dr. Sexton said. “His gen eral condition ts weaker and ire' ap pears more exhausted due to ’-he prolonged pain in the joints.” Dr. Sexton said there was no Indication of improvement, and at the same time there was nothing to indicate that Bishop Cannon’s condition would become more grave. Woman Driver Under Bond To Superior Court Hearing In Fatal Auto Crash Driver of Other Car To Be Given Hearing Here on Next Saturday. Ethel Alley, young white woman who was driving one of the two au* tomobiles In the collision Saturday we»k ago which resulted in the fatal injury of W. H. Hoopaugh, was hound over to Superior court under a $500 bond by Recorder Horace Kennedy after a hearing Saturday in county court. Ed Hembree, who was driving the oiha car, the oir: in w'hich Hoo pai gh was riding, will be gievn a hearing next Saturday, according to Judge Kennedy. The collision took place on this side of Mooresboro wThere the hat ■ timoie-Boiling Springs road inter sects Highway 20. Hembree and Hoo paugh were coming into the highway and the automobile driven by tire woman was coming east toward She’by. She was driving D, C, Mar tin’s automobile and in the car witn heir were Martin, ner half sister, and two young boys. Hoopaugh died in the hospital here a week ago ioday from inter nat injuries. Veterans Meet Tuesday Night World War, Confederate and Span ish - American Vets to Att end Barbecue. Veterans of the World war, the Civil war and the Spanish-Amcri cm war will be guests at a barbe cue Tuesday night at 6 o'clock in the Hoey building tc the rear of the postoffice on East Warren street. ' The barbecue is being contributed bv Shelby and Cleveland county people and is to be served by the ladies of the Legion auxiliary. The event Is sponsored by the local post of the American legion as an Armistice day occasion, but legion officials urge that all veterans of the three wars attend, whether or j not they belong to an organization. ! The barbecue wa- first planned to j be held In the Company K, armory j but the place was changed to the I room, formerly occupied by the Way-; side restaurant. Shower For Hospital During Thanksgiving! Donations of Every Description i Will Be Asked For Shelby Hospital. During the Thanksgiving season, donations of all kinds of things will be asked for the Shelby public hos pital. The Thanksgiving “shower" j will be sponsored by the Woman’s! club. Money will be acceptable, but those who do not wish to make a; cash donation will be asked to give canned goods, linen, cloth, potatoes, flour, meal, apples or anything else, of an editable nature, During the year, the Shelby hospital does a great amount of charity work, car ing for sick and injured who are, unable to pay anything toward their hospital keep. Donations, therefore, j will be used to feed patients who: are on this charity list. It is well to! note that anything used in a home will be acceptable. In a short while the Woman’s j club will designate days and places at which those gifts will be receiv ed and it is hoped to haw a gener ous response. , Pay-Up Campaign Starts Today In Cleveland To Speed Wheels Of Business And Restore Credit Election Hearing j On Next Saturday, I Hamrick To Appear — (Hearing For Two Registrars Post poned A Week, Charges Filed Bv G. O. P. The hearing of the charges j against two%elcrtlon registrars which was scheduled to be held last Saturday wrill not be held until Saturday of this week. ■ The hearing will be in county court. The charges filed by Republicans allege that E. B Olive, Kings Mountain registrar, and Tom Webb, Shelby registrar, did not properly register one or more voters. A report here today had it that Attorney Fred D Hamrick, of Buth r.rfordton, defeated Republican can didate for the legislature, would aid in the prosecution. The election of ficials will be represented by O. M. Mull, Peyton MeSwain. and J. R. Davis --— Sister Shelby Woman Is Dead Miss Lula Springs Follows Her Brother To Grave After Two Weeks. Charlotte, Nov. .10.—Miss Luia Vir ginia Springs, member of one of Charlotte's oldest md most promi nent families, died last night at 3 o'clock in a hosp.tai here, after an Illness of four years' duration. Mjss Springs, daughter of the tate Mr. and Mrs. John March Springs, was 73 years of aceFor many year? she had made he.* home with Col. and Mrs. Wade H. Harris. Mrs. Har lis is her sister. Miss Springs was a charter mem ber of the Second Presbyterian i church, where in former years she' had a large Sunday school class, ana was one of th - founders of the Alexander Rescue Home. During her active years. Miss Springs was prom inent in the activities of practically all of the city's < ivic organizations and was generally regarded as one of Charlotte's outstanding and ho le ltd women. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Wade H. Harris 01 Charlotte and Mrs T. W. Ebeltoft of Shelby. A brother, John Springs of Hickory, died two weeks ago Hie funeral service will be con ducted this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the residence of Colonel Harris at 510 North church street by Dr. Aioert Sidney Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, and Dr. James F. Hardie, pastor of the sec ond Presbyterian church. Interment will be made in Elmwood cemetery. Everybody Asked To Pay Past I)uf Bills, If Not All, Then As Much As Possible. This is pay-up week in Cleve land county for everybody. It j was so designated by credit men at a meeting; held In the court house Friday night at which i about fifteen were in attend ance. looking Ahead. Beginning today, everybody is being asked to pay old accounts, ii not all, as much as possible, In or der to stimulate business, decrease unemployment and clear the ledger for credit to be extended during the coming year. With business at Its peak for this year, it is felt that n county-wide pay-up campaign will loosen the credit situation material ly for the opening of a new year when credit will no doubt be need ed as never before, not only by cus tomers ,but by merchants, manufac turers and business men. Part Payments Help. It is admitted that many people cannot settle all of their accounts in full. It has been a bad business year with low prices, short profits unemployments, etc. As a conse quent, many mdh and firms who operate a credit business are finan cially cramped. Many concerns have been forced to close. Those remain ing. however, expect to continue In business and in order to keep their credit good for future use, they in sist on collections of past due ac counts. When it Is impossible to pay all. a small payment or ar rangements to carry the account longer, will help the situation im mensely. Statements To All. Attention is being called to pay up week in a series of three page advertisements appearing in the is sues of The ^tar this week, by win dow cards in the stores of credit concerns and toy enclosures In state ments being mailed out this week. Personal calls will be made by cred itors or debtors, so if the plan is carried out to the fullest, there will be much moving about, for who does not owe some money and have money owing to him. Will Help Business. The bulk of business is conduct ed on credit so the slogan for the week is “keep your credit good: you’ll need it in the years to come.” Says one large credit man, "The at titude one assumes toward the man he owes and the effort he makes to pay, although he might fall short of his goal, largely determines whether he Is entitled to credit or not.” Similar "pay up campaigns ’ are being waged in Gaston and Burke counties, as well as many other sections of the nation, with won derful results. Wherever they have been put across, business has been invigorated, confidence restored, unemployment decreased and credit firms re-enforced so credit can be extended next year when it will be needed again. Thieves Who Looted Store Here Last Week Got Enough Goods To Start A Store Of Their Own Penney Company Cheek-Up Shows That Value of Loot Totalled $1,000. The thieves who broke in and looted the J. C. Penney store here last Thursday night secur ed enough goods to open a store of their own with more stock than some merchants have when they first go in business. Police Chief McBride Poston, how cr, has officers all over the country helping him in the attempt to find out where they go in business, or where they may be. Big Variety Goods. The loot covered a variety of thirigs, nearly everything to be found In a department store. When officials of the store completed their check of the missing goods It was learned that the goods taken totalled $1,011. The haul included slippers, shoes, caps, hats, sweaters, overalls by the dozen, ties, travelling bags, socks, lumber jackets, knit bloomers, ladies coats and dresses, men’s suits, and blankets. It is presumed that the ether articles were wrapped In the /ankers and carried from the store. Nervy Act. The thieves were daring in theii acts. Entrance to the store was made by the side door on the rear, right on East Warren street, one of Shel by’s main business streets, where they could have been seen by any j passerby. ■ Dycus Car, Stolen Election Night, Is Found At Gastonia The Chevrolet sedan of Mr. Jim | Dycus, stolen in Shelby election j nighu. was recovered last week in ! Gastonia. j The Dycus car was one of four stolen or "borrowed” in Shelby within a period of a few hours whilj the election returns were coining .n. All four have bee.r recovered, three be ng located In Shelby where they j had been parked presumably by the ■ borrowers." Banks Close Here On Armistice Day All the banks of Shelby and Cleve- j ’and county will be closed tomorrow. | Tresflay, in observance ol' ArmisUc ■ day. His Vote Rates High In 72ml Congress As a result of the close division Of strength in the Seventy-second Congress, this Farmer-Labor mem ber of the House, Paul Kvale. of 1 Minnesota, will hold a unique power. There is a difference of ; but two votes in the numerical strength of the Republican and ' Democratic parties in the Lower House, while but one Vote—Sen ator Henrik Shipstead, also of ■ Minnesota — separates the two ! major parties in the Senate. {International Newrrtftf} Covington Has Skull Fracture J _ i Farmer Struck By Cotton Truck As He Crossed Road At Mauney Store. Joe Covington, prominent young farmer, is In the hospital with a fractured skull and has been un conscious practically all the time since he was struck Friday evening by a cotton truck driven by George Ward, at the Mauney store in the Union community. Mr. Covington, It is learned was working with other friends shred ding corn In that vicinity. He nan acros? the road to get-a can of oil and as he returned, his attention was engaged in screwing the spout, back into the can as he hurried back across to the road toward the shredder. A cotton truck driven by George Ward was upon him before he realized it and Mr. Covington was struck in the forehead above the eye. It was thought for awhile he was killed instantly, but he was picked up by friends and rushed to the Shelby hospital where he is un der treatment. This morning he was reported to be “slightly improved” but he has been unconscious practically all the time since the injury. George W'ard was driving a truck for Kent Har ris, well known farmer of the Dou ble Shoals community. Ward was placed under arrest to await the out come of Mr. Covington’s; condition. Coltrane To Speak In City This Eve Shelby Schools Observe American Education Week. Have Week's ~~ Program. Supt, E. J. Coltranr, president of Uie North Carolina Educational As sociation, will be the principal speaker at a city-wide meeting of the Parent-Teachers Association to be held this evening, Monday, at 7.30 at the high school. The program and Coltrane ad dress opens the observation of Am erican Education Week. A patriot ic program in charge of Miss Ro stra Pearl will be given Tuesday, and on Mday Miss Alice Brun son's room will present a comparison of public school in 1900 and 1930. Parents and school parents are uned to visit the city schools dur ing this week. Representatives of Shelby civic clubs will visit the schools Wednes day Or. Thursday night education w eek will be observed at the Kiwanis club with Supt. W. P. Grier of Gastonia i Webb, and Judge Web here this Will Receive Bids On Star Mail Route Beginmg today, a new mail route! legins operation between Shelby! and Rutherfordton. but the carrier' of this route only has the job tem- j perarily. Bids for carrying this route will be received up to Nov. 25th by! Postmaster J. H. Quinn, the one! who is awarded this contract to oe~ gin his duties De~. 1st and carry! this mail route untl' June 3f)th ' 1932. Conditions oh carrying this route have been p'VtCrt in the loer'' ;• > toffice lobby, , Court Session Ends; Criminal Docket Cleared Putnam And Rices Given Fines Judge Shaw Clear* l'p Big Docket With exception Of Sixty i Case*. The fall term n# Superior court adjourned here shortly after man Saturday,. Judge T. J. Shaw, of Greensboro, clear ing up all but sixty ease* of the largest criminal docket in the history of Cleveland county. Two hundred criminal rases were on the docket When court opened two week* ago today. Sev eral rases, including three killing eases, were continued by consent •until the next term, but three kill ing cases and more than 100 other cases were disposed of during the steady grind of near eight days. Attracts Interest, Much interest centered about the trial Friday and Saturday of the charges In a free-for-all fight stag ed some weeks ago Just south of Shelby between the Putnain and Rice families. Two or three of the five who engaged in the melee were severely hurt. W c. Putnam was fined $100, David and Clarence Rice were fined $50 each, and the costs of the case were evenly divided be tween alt five defendants. Judge Shaw and Solicitor Spur geon Spurting left for their homes Saturday afternoon. McSwain Suggestion On County Changes i&nator-Eleci Talking To notary Clnb Suggests Few Changes Here. Taxation was discussed by Capt. Peyton McSwain, State senator Nfteet/81 iSe lietary club luncheon lay w-re^aTwhich he was the guest f.jreaker. A description and outline of the system of taxation in North Caro lina were given along with several county government changes which he suggested. ‘‘Our state government,” he said, ‘‘including all departments, institu-. tiotis, and systems of highways, is being operated and maintained by income, inheritance, franchise, and privilege taxes, without the levy of ary property tax, And in addition i thereto the state sends back each year to the counties more than six million dollars to help run the pub lic schools and more than a million dollars to help maintain county | roads. While the average tax payer I does not contribute anything direct j ly to support the state government: I yet we are Interested in knowing tnai it is being operated as economi-j | t ally as possible in order that the ; state may have more money to send ! hack to the counties to maintain our local government. ‘‘The only way 1 know to reduce ‘taxes is to reduce expenses. If it is possible to reduce the cost of cur stale government without crippling the service now rendered the people it ought to be done. Under our 1 piesent system the Budget Commis sion is supposed to investigate the work done by each department and j institution of the state and recom ment to the legislature the amount of money required by each depart ment or institution for operating expenses. ‘"Taxation in North Carolina is a local question, since all property tax levied and collected Is spent in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.i Societies Debate Saturday, Nov. 15 The Kallegathlnn and Kallier gnnlan Literary societies of Boiling Springs Junior college will observe the annlvarsary '! their founding on Saturday evening, Nov. 15th. Teams will debate the query “Re solved that Compulsory Automooile Compensation Insurance Legislation Should Be Enacted ” Broughton Strickland and Howard Cole uphold the affirmative, Frcnk Hamrick and : Duxwood Whisttant the negative. Can Latham will deliver an oration ‘ The Need of Faith in Modern Times,” a trio composed of Lillian Whifnant, Nannie Pearl Allen and Selma Davis will sing ‘Love’s Old Sweet Song." puth Waldrop will give a reading, “Papa and the Boy." Lillian Wills-f mint will sing a solo All former ! Members of these two societies rrc nv'ted to attend. j Gay Spender Comes to Grief Georye W. Griffin (left), vict - ’ treasurer of the Smith-Corona Typewriting; Company, who, »c* I cording to Federal officer-', spent in Broadway’s nicht clubs I: $200,000 he atole from hie cm* ployrr*. Hr is held on charges ot tiring- the mail to defraud and for attempted swindling. Ilia wife, Bessie Griffin (right), was' also held on charges of violating the Sullivan Haw. (J>t2i«rA*Mon»l New*t«*l, Hoodoo Number 13, OfG. 0. P. In N. C. Senate And House Reduced By Election; State News Republican* To Have Six Represen tatives and Two Senators There. I K. W NNAUAN, Star Nnn'llamt.)’ Raleigh, Nov. 10.—The •'lrreduc able minimum'’ of 13 Republican* in the North Carolina legislature. 10 representatives and three senators, achieved In 1923 through the charg ed gerrymandering of senatorial dis tricts by the late Col. A D. Wales, was still further reduced - to eight RepubWape, i-i% representatives and two senators,..as' a result of the elec tion last week. which proved a landslide for the Democrat of greater proportions than the I.T2B Republican deluge While the Democrats wTro win ning more than 100 representatives and a dozen senators for an almost exact even number with the Repub lican in the national congress, and: carrying many hitherto rock-ribbed Republican states with the election of Democratic governors and other: officers. North Carolina Democrats made Inroads that surprised even the most sanguine of the {tarty lead ers by electing a full Democratic delegation to congress, electing 141 of the 150. representatives and 48 of the 50 senators in the state gen eral assembly, and reclaimed coun ty governments in more than 20 counties. The only two Republican senators are A. T. Grant, Mocksville, veteran representative from the 24th dis trict, composed of the heretofore Republican counties of Davie. Wilkes, and Yadkin. Davie going (CONTINUED ON eACili TEN » Four Dogs, Four Trails And Four ’Possums Caught This is Ml opossum storv— and it happcnrd in Cleveland county, not down around Kin ston, One night last week Gradv Maunry, H. <f. Metcalf, and I'll tlrirg went 'possum hunt - tog In th» Union section. They had four ’possum dogs with them. Within a few minutes each of the dogs set off on a trail, in a ft w minutes more raeh of the four tlogs treed. IOach dog treed at the foot of -t different tree. And—this is the end of the story and the story itself—in each of the four trees was a grinning ’possum. B. And L. Matured Trade channels and business geh erfliiy will feel the effects of matur ity on Saturday of this week of $60, C00 worth of building and loan stock In the Cleveland B, and L. associa te c*: Mr. J, L. Sut'lc, the secretary 1 rcasurer announced today that se nes No. 11 matures with the pay ment of dues on Saturday at w him time checks will be mailed and inot! gages cancelled on approxi mately $60,000 worth of stock In this series. Franklin Roosevelt Says He Is Not Considering Presidential Race In 1932; Sticks To Work Increasing Moves Over Country for Making Him Nominee Causes Only (silence. _ Albany, N. Y., Nov. 10—Any presi dential candidacy boom launched oy . admirers of Gov. Franklin D. Roose velt will lack the approval oV co-op eration of that official, Prcmptcd by a statement of James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic state committee, that a concerted move vo nominate the governor for the presidency in Iy3_’ woulo have its inception within the next year, Governor Roosevelt ie clered he was giving no thought to anything other thai his duty as gov ernor. Gives His Views. The Parley statement. made in New York was the latest of a series m similar views expressed by per-' sora prominent, in the organization rf this and several other states. Newspapermen jailing on the gov ernor found him writing longhand on a pad, silent. After a few mo ments he looked up and said: ‘ Now ask me anything about Isis'! and—here's the answer/’ If* tossed across his desk , so) •.licets of paper 'ohta in ihg the Tol Owing statement , "On several occasions during the [.as1, two years I have stated un equivocally that I am giving no con sideration or thourht or time to any thing except the duties of the gover norship. IVants Understanding *'I repeat that now, and to be per fectly clearly understood. you can add that this app’its to any candi dacy, national or otherwise in 1932 ‘ Experience show:, me that I was right two years agt 'n believing that T should give all my energies ana thoughts to the uovernorship of! New York and nothing else." His Big riihality. Talk of the governor’s candidacy 1 tor resident began almost simul taneously with his election two years ago to the/governorship. The gov ernor ignored the enofflelal remarks for some time until when pressed by newspapers he declared himself in a manner similar to that of today. The 725.000 plurality rolled up for the governor on Tuesday revived the presidential discussion. Connection of the governor's name with a presidential ticket • is not without precedent Ir 1920 he was he vice presidential candidate of tin* p..'i.v. chosen to ran with James U. Cox', the then governor of Ohio. , County Cotton Passes 50,000 Bale Mark Now Is 20,000 Bales Up On 1929 Near 10,000 Bale* Ginned Since Oi l, IT. Crop Approarhinjr <10,000 Bale?. I i> to November 1. this jeaj. hO.flSS balm of rotton had been tinned In Cleveland county, ac cording to the report issued to The Star today by Miles H. W are, ginning agent. t nls is 20,347 ba'ct. snore than th» W.8U bales ginned In the county f > ; the same date last year. Steady Ginning. Comity gins, the figures issued ! Jay show, have net been as active in the .last fortnight as they were from Oct. 1 to o-'i. 17 when Ap proximately 24.000 bales were ginned jin Uo weeks Today's figures re 1 vef.: that 9.668 ba'Ca had been gin j ned Iroin Oct. 17 to November 1. The next ginning report will br •seued on November 21 and will cov jw cotton ginned up to Novambc. 13. Observers here believe the gin 1 :unr; will hardly go beyond SS.OOj bales by that time. ’1 he decrease in the last gintnr,„ per.od Indicates that the total crop wlil not be much over 60.000 bale if Jt reaches that figure. State Baptists Meet Tuesday Raleigh, Nov. 9.—Baptists of North Oarohna are expected here Tues day in large numbers for the one hundredth annual session of their state convention, the opening ses sion of which is to be held at the Fust Baptist church at 2;30 o'clock ou that date t»r. J. Clyde Turner, Greensboro, President of the convention, and will be in charge of the first gath ering. Local committees have been at work for some time completing details for the meeting, and it ap pears now that everything is in readiness for a successful convention. Thursday sessions will be held at Wake Forest college. 17 miles north of here, and the convention will ad journ from Wake Forest college, 17 mi.es north of here, and the con vention will adjourn from Wake Forest that afternoon. The sermon by Dr. J. R. Jester. Winston-Salem on Tuesday evening addresses by Dr. W. J. McQlothlin president of the Southern Baptist convention on Wednesday; and the address of President Thurman p. Kitchln, at Wake Forest on Thurs day are some of the high lights of the meeting. Multiple problems, most or which irove developed through decreased fmancigl support, face the conven tion this year. The bonded indeb iteuness of the convention is very j large, and a numoef of details are | needing immediate attention. There ! ere, though, manv Items of peculiar ; interest concerning the work of the j year that is closing that are mark ed with a note of optimism. Because of its central availability Raleigh will .prove, attractive to large numbers of the denomination's constituency and a large attendance if expected. Conference Changes Not Ready At 2:30 At 2:30 this afternoon The Star was unable to secure the list of ap pointments read out today at the Western North Carolina Methodist conference at Greensboro. The list had been prepared at that time —but was not on press wires in time for The Star to get It before press time for this Issue. It Is not thought that there will be many changes in ministers in this county. 3 Virginia Youths Die As Plane Falls Staunton. Va.. Nov. 8.—A barn storming airplane crashed from a height of 500 feet at Verona, six miles north of here, late this after noon and carried to their deaths the pilot and two passengers and prob sbiy fatally injured a third, passen ger. The dead are: Greenlee Bauser man. 32. and Sam Driver, 22, both of Mount Sidney, Va., passengers, Jairus Collins, Jr.. 25. lawyer aviator of Bluefie.d, W Va.. Ttirnel 24. of Romans. V» , mav dir.