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# 12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI, No. 137 Hr Mall, par jur, (to advance) _ **.6ti Carrier, p»r year, (la advance) |*.«n SHELL V. N. C. FRIDAY, NOV. 14, 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. A Good Credit Is A Great Asset-Keep Your Credit Good For Future Use-Thisfs Pay-Up Week For Everybody LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb...10c to 11c Cotton Seed, per bu.30c Cloudy, Rain. Today’# North Carolina Weather Forecast: Cloudy and mild tempera ture tonight and Saturday. Occa sional rain In west portion tonight, and In west and central portions Saturday. Mrs. Hoover Coming. Washington, Nor. 13.—Mrs. Her bert Hoover, wife of the president, left tonight for Asheville, N. C., to visit her son, Herbert Hoover, jr„ who Is 111. The son of the president went to Asheville recently to spend the wtnter after remaining several weeks at the Hoover camp in Vir ginia. How long Mrs. Hoover plan ned to remain in Asheville was not announced. Lattimore Boy Gets Big Trip Is One Of Two N. C. Delegates To National Meeting Young Farmers. Another Cleveland county farm boy has received national honors. Herbert Grigg. son of Mr, B. H. Grlgg, of the Lattimore community, leaves today for Kansas City, Miss cur i, as one of the two delegates to the national meeting of the Future Farmers of America. Young Grigg and George Bland, of Ellenboro, were elected as dele gates to the national congress by the Young Tar Heel Farmers at tneir S', ate meeting this year. At the same meeting young Grigg was one of ten boys to receive the degree of 'Carolina Farmer.” It was only a few weeks ago that Elmer Withrow, a Polkvtile agricul tural student, was a member of North Carolina’s dairy judging team in the national event. Young Grigg has been a vocation al agricultural student at Lattimore under Prof. P. M. Coley, and has Ken outstanding in school work. He is head of the local chapter of Young Tar Heel Farmers, president of his literary society and has held other offices. He won the medal giv en to the best agricultural student and was high in hi# other studies. His vocational tests covered cotton and poultry, and in these two pro jects his savings and investments amounted to $507.10, Committee Visits Schools Of Shelby Representatives From Civic Clubs Visit Schools Darin? Education Week. A committee representing the va rious civic clubs cf Shelby visited the public schools of Shelby on Wed nesday of this week, inspecting the buildings, equipment and classs room work. Mr. J. R. Dover, one of the committee, when seen yesterday, ex pressed himself as well pleased with the work that is being done. He found close co-operation between teachers and pupils, all of whom are bent on the serious business of education. The property is being well cared for. out equipment is reeded and some repairs which would cost very little. In the main, the buildings are comfortable but crowded. J. D. Lineberger, Chas. Eskridge and Rush Thompson were among the other visitors on the inspection trip arid they were gratified with the re sults being obtained Official Figures Of Senate Contest McSwaln, McLean. Democrats. Win By Majority of Over 5,000 Votes. Peyton McSwain, of Cleveland county, and W. K. McLean, of Polk county, Democratic candidates, were elected state senators for this dis trict in the recent election by a ma jority of more than 5,000 votes, ac cording to official figures given The Star today. Judge John P. Mull, county elec tion board head, yesterday attend ed a meeting of the district election officials at Rutherfordton. The offi cial vote by counties, the Democrats carrying all five counties, was as follows: COUNTY McBWAIN <»i McLEAN <D> Rutherford - .... 5,291 5,209 McDowell __ 3,917 3907 Cleveland * ...... 5.260 5.084 Henderson . .... 4,007 3,996 Polk... 2,002 2,178 Total. 20,477 20,374 COUNTY MODE (K> JAMES (R> Rutherford __ 4,548 4.492 McDowell.. 2,764 2,000 Cleveland. 2,105 2,092 Henderson . —. 3,667 3,622 Polk . .. 1.690 1,684 Total. 14,774 14,790 Low Cost Of Education In State Upheld Kiwanians Hear Education Talk Sujit. YV. r. CTifr Says Average Teacher Pay Is $837 Against 51,201 for Factory Employes. i - In an ‘ educational week'* pro gram at the Kiwanis club's weekly luncheon at the Hotel Charles last night, W. P. Grier, superintendent of the city schools at Gastonia, de fended the cost of schools in North Carolina and pointed out many In teresting figures compiled by the National Educational association In Washington. He was introduced by City Superintendent Ben Smith of; whom Mr. Grier said “Shelby has never had a better school man.” Typical School Girl. Miss Sara Thompson was intro duced as a “typical'' Shelby school pupil, a product in refinement and modern education. She thanked the taxpayers for making such splen did educational advantages avail able. "Individual earnings in North Carolina amounted to a billion and a half dollars last year,” said Supt. Grier, “yet less than two per cent of this amount was spent for edu cation.” Continuing he gave these interesting figures: ncnool costs compared. ‘ For life insurance 45 billion dol lars was spent in North Carolina; for education 50 millions. Of the total bonded indebtedness for North Carolina 13 per cent goes for schools, 29 per cent for other pur poses and 58 per cent for counties, cities, towns and districts. North Carolina spent last year only $14 out of every $100 for the education of childhood. North Carolina paid 275 millions of dollars last year into the U. S. treasury in internal reve nue tax, yet she spent only $1 for education out of each $12 paid to the federal treasury. Average Teacher's Fay ' North. Carolina is the 43rd state in the union in education. The average pay for school teachers, white and colored in North Carolina last year was $837, yet the average salary for teachers in the United States is $1,304. Are not our chil dren as dear and near to us as the children of the folks who live north of the Mason and Dixon line? The average pay for employees in manu facturing plants in North Carolina last year was $1,204.” Consecrated Teachers. Supt. Grier is one of the outstand ing educators in North Carolina and a consecrated leader in educational and religious circles, so he made a vigorous and effective appeal for "consecrated teachers.'1 teachers whose souls are wrapped up in the childhood of North Carolina, rather than teachers who are colorless, passive and pecuniary. Because the schools are teaching agriculture to thousands of boys, and domestic science to thousands of girls he ex pressed himself as grateful for the advantages the Democratic leaders are providing the youth in prepara tion for life's work. Awaits Start of ‘Jersey Justice' Like a captured wild beast, ' Howard M. Swavely glares piteously from his impregnable iron-barred cage in the Jersey City jail, while the wheels of “Jersey justice*' start grinding to mete out retribution. Swmyely confessed to burning his wife to death Friday so that he could collect insurance. tlVt-ftriAtfrUAl; K »ir*ri*d) Baptists Condemn Lynchings; Say Politicals Cannot Make Football Of Prohibition Law Drive Of Officer* To Cut Supply Of Yule Booze Begins >till Captured Late Wednesday In Brooks Chapel Section Of Couchy. Cleveland county officers have opened up their drive to dec: ease the holiday whiskey trade by hit ting at the source of supply. Wednesday afernoon Deputies Bob Kendrick, Ed Dixon and Bert Cooper located and captured a 25 gallon distillery in the Brooks Chap el section of No. 3 township. No whiskey was found, but a -mall quantity of heer was dest'oy Cd before the still was brought to the court house storage room hetc for destruction later. Lincolnton Store Entered And Robbed Cigarettes Valued At Approximately *1,000 Taken: Tire Treads Furnish Only Clue. Lincolnton. Nov. 13.—Thieves en tered the Dixie Grocery company, wholesale jobbers, early this morn ing and escaped with approximately $1,000 worth of cigarettes, taking several cases of three leading brand.-. Entrance to the large brick building was gained by prying-open the front door. The Dixie company has offered a reward of $50 for arrest and convic tion. The only clues left were thp treads of the tires of the car. The two rear- wheels nad Goodyear and Diamond tires while the right front wheel had a Goodrich tire. The tracks from the Car were clearly vis ible this morning when the theft was discovered. Both Wets And Drys Ashing For A Showdown On Prohibition By Candidates For Office In 1932 G. O. P. Chairman Made Statement As Individual Not As Party Head. Washington, Nov. 14.—Wets and drys joined this week in a call for a showdown on prohibition in the 1932 presidential campaigns, as] the anxious leaders of the divided! parties looked hopefully to the busyj law enforcement commission for a; solution. 1 Representative Breedy, Republi can, Maine, a prohibition advocate, accepted the demand of JamesW. Wadsworth, former Republican sen ator from New York, a champion for repeal, that the prohibition is sue he thrashed out in 1932. Leaders Keep Silence. As the wet and dry enthusiasts warmed up to the prohibition issue, which already has become a threat to the unity of the Republican [party and Is regarded as a menace of the same kind to the Democrats, the leaders themselves took to sil ence. Senator Foss of Ohio, chairman of the Republican national commit tee and avowed prohibition advp cate, observed that he had spoken in an individual capacity rather than as party chairman when he re* cently espoused a mobilization of the drys. Fess Stands Ground. In thp face of the demands of Wadsworth and Representative Britten, Republicans, Illinois, that he resign as party chairman, Sena tor Fess stood his ground, but there is a belief among his intimates that Fess would quit the party post rath er than be silent in any wet and dry battle of national scope. Meanwhile, the law enforcement commission, upon whose report the Hoover administration is expected to base its stand on the prohibition question, resumed its conferences In an effort to reach an agreement acceptable to the 11 members. Commission Active. The word has come from some of the dry members on the commis sion that "astounding” things have been discovered, and there is a promise from these same members that "there will be no pussyfoot ing” in the forthcoming report, but the commission is still far from agreement. SCale Convention Adopts Pled** To Support Vigorous Measures Against Mob Violence. Raliegh, Nov. 14.—North Caro lina Baptists, in convention here, stood yesterday as condemners of lynching, upholders of prohibition, and extenders of ' Christian Fellow ship to all negro churches in the state," In reports adopted yesterday, the convention pledged itself to ' sup port vigorous measures to blot out forever the curse of lynching from our midsts," and offered tp negro churches "our sympathy and our h co-operation where it i* possible to extend it.” Terming prohibition s "great moral, social and economic prob lem,” the delegates expressed the conviction that "our people should support only those candidates for public office whose record shows them to be favorable to the pro hibition policy.'’ The report denied the "right of politicians to make a campaign .football” of prohibition | "If the politicians insist upon poaching upon our preserves." the report said, “we are sorry, for them. We do not propose to allow them to force this great question into the political arena and then sit in judg ment upon our right to preach tem perance, prohibition, law observ ance and good citizenship. ‘ We affirm our loyalty to the an ti-Saloon league as the interde nominational, non-partisan agency of our churches to lead us in the fight against the liquor traffic. ’ I The convention was told by Dr. W. J. McGlothin, president of Fur man university and the Southern Baptist convention, that the de nomination in the south had fallen | into “two great difficulties—devel opment of our work too rapidly arid on borrowed capital” and "the way in which we divide our funds.” Dr. McGlothlin said there was a “tendency of the states to trench upon the Southern Baptist conven tion.” During the last five years, he said, the amounts given the general convention have fallen from twelve per cent to less than one. “Five years more of the same ten dency,” he asserted, "and the South ern Baptist Convention will cease to I function as an agency for the pro gress of the Kindgom of God. The seriousness of this situation cannot be exaggerated.” Form Organization For Red Cross Roll An organization to direct the an nual Red Cross roll call in Shelby and Cleveland county is now being perfected by Henry B. Edwards, county chairman. The roll call witl be held on Oct, 19-21, and the officials who will have charge of the membership drive will be announced Monday, PROF. LEDFORD IS VOTED "UGLIEST" AT BOX SUPPER Prof. C. A. Ledford, head of tne Eelwood school, sponsored a box supper there Wednesday night for the benefit of the athletic fund and was honored in turn by being voted the ugliest man in a contest which caused considerable fun. The sup per was well attended and the pro (teds good considering the weather County Affairs Talked At Meet Held Yesterday New Legislators Asked To Meet be tni-Closed Gathering Discusses Count? Government With New Representative, Senator, At a semi-closed meeting heiu ;«sterday afternoon in the court house, and attended by the repre sentative-elect of this county and the district senator elect, a group ot a score or rnorr of Cleveland county cdisens discussed county affairs proposed governmental changes, and other matters. Attorney Henry B, Edwards, newt? elected representative^ and Cap’, Peyton McSwain, stew State sena tor, were invited to attend the meet ing. they stated, but were asked to make no pledges and promises, and merely discussed legislative matters, r.nd the alleged needs of govern mental ehanges, or suggestions to that effect. Just who called the meeting The ftar was not definitely informed. Neither of the new legislators knew r bout it. they declared, until they i ere invited. The meeting held for something like an hour and one !mif during which time, it is under stood. county affairs were generally talked. No definite proposals for changes were outlined, the under standing is, although several sug gested changes wore advanced for those present to think over. The na ture of all these suggestions were rot learned, but Mr. SfcSwain out l.ned the suggested changes he had placed before the Shelby Rotary club at its luncheon meeting last v eek. No action was taken upon the suggestion, some of those present, stating that the changes might prove worthwhile while others said they should be given more thought. The majority ot those in attend ance were farnim ; Junior College GetsFund Coin Slat* Baptist Convention Allows Boiling: Springs Unpaid Cen tennial Pledges. AI the closing session of the State Baptist convention in Raleigh yes terday. Boiling Snrlngs junior col lege was given *h» all uncollected centennial campaign pledges in the Kings Mountain end Sandy Run associations, an amount estimated at more than $50,000. The convention voted against any more direct connection with the Cleveland county junior college, but extended the uncollected $50,000 in centennial pledges to help the 'wo associations in this section main tain the school. At the same meeting a vote ear ned to discontinue direct connec tion with Wingate junior college. , but decided to pay a $9,000 debt of ! the college and make it a loan of $1(1.000. Both colleges. Boiling Springs and Win gate, will retain fraternal re , lations with the convention but their control will be vested in the trustees [ of the Baptist associations in their sections. Judge E. Y. Webb, of Shelby, was re-elected to the board of trustees of Wake Forest. The convention will meet next; at Winston-Salem, and Dr. Clyde Tur ner, of Greensboro, was re-elected, president. Shelby Man To Sail For China Very Soon Henry Kendall, son of Mrs. F F Kendall will sail in about a week for Shanghai, China, where he vill Tike up work with Dibrell Brothers, (exporters of leaf tobacco. Mr. Ken dall will be in the foreign office of this company and deal with the to bacco trade in that country. He lo j a graduate of State college and has been salesman for several years with Tlumer Wiseman and Co., steel en Eineers of Danville, Va. Sides To Manage Gas Station Here Beginning Saturday morning Mr. Arthur Sides will take over and manage the service station on the Cleveland Springs road, opposite the Newman station, known as the Bull station. Mr. Sides, formerly with the Cleveland Cloth mill, states that his station will be equip ped to render the most efficient service possible to the motorist. Officers Get Car Used In Robbery : Of Shelby Store; Get Goods Taken From Mauney Store, Trap Man ( aiawba School Boy firt* Number Of Bandit*' Aulo. found In (■Mlonil. Activity on the part, of the Shel by police force, and Sheriff Allen's deputies this week solved one Shel by store robbery and located the automobile used to haul away the loot In the biggest robbery of the year. After a round-about search of several days the automobile used to carry away 'the 11,000 haul made at the J. C. Penney store here a week ago last night was located at Gas-! tonta. but the fact that the car had been stolen again stumped the clutching hand of the law. Tuesday evening about ft o'clock city officers arrested “Dood'* May hew, young white man, and charg ed him with the robbery Monday night of the P. M. Mauney store at Eastslde. Mayhew was arrested by Policeman Marshall Moore and Dep uty Bob Kendrick when he. visited the spot in tne wooas sou in or me city where the stolen goods were hidden. On the day after the Mau ney robbery rabbit hunters inform ed Chief McBride Poston that they had found some goods hidden south of Shelby. Suspecting that the lot came from the Mauney store, the chief left the goods there and post - ed a watch that resulted In Mav hew's arrest. Mayhew. released un der a *300 bond for a hearing later, declared he knew nothing about the robbery and did not know the goods were there until he came upon them. Trace Penney Car. last, Friday morning, the morn ing alter the Penney robbery here, a Catawba school boy was en route to school between Hickory and New port pp highway JO. He noticed a car come out of a aide road from a tobacco barn. As It passed him a shoe fell out. He thought rapidly, secured the license number of the car. carried the shoe and number on to school and reported to his teacher. The teacher notified offi cers and officers finding the firm - name in the shoe called Chief Pos !ton here. Then the check-up began on the car. It had been sold in Charlotte, then in Gastonia, and then to a garage in Kings Moun tain. A Shelby man had purchased It there and traded it back again, Later it was sold to another Gas tonia man. No other transfer of the car could be located and local offi cers seemed to be closing down on their quarry. Visiting the last man who owned the car, however, they learned that it had been stolen from him early in the night of the rob bery here. The trail ended there, but was picked up later in the day when the automobile was found abandoned near the “old mill” In Gastonia. In it were one or two shot's left of the loot taken from the Shel by store. The remainder of the stolen goods could not be located, and officers as yet have failed to get any trace of the man or men who abandoned the automobile aft er using it for his night's banditry. Heads Kiwanis Paul Webb Heads Kiwanians In 1931 Forres! Eskridge I* Vice-President. New Officers Begin Duties In January. Paul Webb, sr, was unanimously elected president of the Kiwams club at the annual election of offi cers of this civic-body in its weekly, luncheon meeting last night. For-1 rest Eskridge Is the new vice-presi-i ■ dent, Rush Hamrick treasurer, J. 8. | Dorton district trustee. Directors are as follows: A. Pitt; Beam, A. E. Cline, Chas. L. Esk ridge. Chas. A. Hoey, R. T. I<Grand, O W. Royster and Max Washburn. The new officers will begin their duties with the first, of the year. Win, Linebergrr has been the popu lar president of the Club during the present year. Shelby Judge Gets On Booze Drinkers Asheville, Nov. 13.—Persons who take a drink of whiskey under the guise of personal liberty were given a severe criticism in U. S. district court here today by Judge E. Yates Webb. "I have no sympathy for such citizens,” Judge Webb said. ‘They violate the law as much as the pint flask bootlegger and it is the inten tion of this court to mete out pun ishment to them. “X hear citizens many of them prominent' declare they drink whisky whenever it is offered them. They place It upon a personal liberty basis, insisting they have the right to drink as they please. "These people do more to encour age prohibition law violations than the men who sell whisky. Many of these bootleggers are forced to sell whisky through necessity but there is no excuse for drinking it.” Better Demand Next Year Seen For Farm Products Of South; Credit Outlook Not So Bright j Economists Think Farm Prices Will Improve In 1932 By In creased Demand. Atlanta, Nov. 14.—The domestic demand for next year's farm pro ducts in the south is likely to show an improvement, economists of the United States department of agri culture and state extension forces said this week. They also said the credit outlook for southern farmers appears less favorable than a year ago. The economists, who also repre sent the federal farm board, are meeting in an outlook conference, the first of its kind ever held out ’ side Washington Concerning demand for southern agricultural products, the conference adopted a committee report which said the domestic demand would likely improve next year, and be better toward the close of the year than at the beginning. Improvement Forecast. An improvement during 1931 in foreign economic conditions and in the foreign demand for southern products also was forecast by the economists;' i The conference based Its predic tions on the fact that ‘'industrial activity already has fallen about as low as in former major depressions, and the period of decline has ap proximately the same duration as In [other major depressions.’1 As to the commodity price de cline the report said “the low levels |of raw-material pFices may be ex pected to stimulate activity among consumers of those raw materials.” Demand For Loans. The reduction in agricultural in come has increased the demand of j farmers for credit, the credit com mittee's report said. ! “The serious curtailment in the 1930 income received by most; south ern farmers will prevent many from repaying advances obtained during 1930," the report stated. "The supply of production credit from country banks and merchants will show the greatest reduction In those states seriously affected by the drought, principally Alabama, Arkansas,- Louisiana. Mississippi and Oklahoma. A relatively more favor able situation is indicated for most parts in North Carolina. South Car olina. Tennessee, Virginia and Tex Cleveland Still Leads N. C. In Cotton Ginning Robeson Is 13,109 Bales Behind Only F.lghl V. C, Counties Makr Over 20,000 Hale* To November 1, Thy ginning report covering the cotton crop to the West of thin month makes it certain that Cleveland county will again lead the state tn cotton production. With 30,068 bales ginned to November 1, Cleve land Is 13,100 bales ahead of Robeson, the second county, and it is impossible for that count? to overtake Cleveland with the end of the ginning season near. Robesons 37,849 bales place he: in second place, and Johnston coun - ty with 29,000. which is 21,933 be hind Cleveland takes third place. The five leading counties with their ginning? to Nov, l this year and last follow: County 19X0 IMS Cleveland . ...... 50.988 .10,81: Robeson . ..._ 37.849 27,681 Johnston . ........ 29,022 23,299 Harnett.. 24,885 23,046 Sampson . ........ 22,382 18,737 Up to November 1 the counties neighboring Cleveland had ginned the following number of bales: Cat awba 11,923, Gaston 102281, Lincoln 15.113, Rutherford 16,757. Joe Self, Civil War Veteran Dies Ei«hty Three Year Old Veteran, Di<-> At Home of Son-in-Law Jackson White. Joe SeU, 83 year old veteran of th Civil War, 4ia* -«*•*- Wed nesday afternoon—w* the Home of. hi* son-in-law Jackson White m Polkville community. Mr. Self had been in fairly good health for on~ of his age until Wednesday noon, a few hours before he passed away Mr. Self was married to Lint};. Bridges. Something over two years ago she died and since her passing, he had been making his home with his children. Mr. Self was a fine Christian gentleman and loved by host of friends. Surviving are the following children: James, Garfield and Marcus Self, Mrs. Jackson White, Mrs. Thomas Hoyle. Mrs. McClure Wortman of Cleveland county and Mrs. Killey of Ohio. The funeral was held this morn ing at 11 o'clock by Rev. J. M. Bar ber and interment was at Clover Hill Methodist church. Rutherford Boards Fill County Berths Fred Me Bray or Elected County Re corder And O. J. Mooneytiam 1* Made Solicitor. Rutherfordton. Nov. 14.—At a Joint meeting here this week of the coun ty board of education and county commissioners. Attorney Fred Mc Brayer was elected recorded of Rutherfordton county to succeed W. J. Mode, while Attorney Oscar J. Mooneyham, of Henrietta, wad elected solicitor to succeed R. R, Blanton. The new officials take of fice January 1. The salary of the recorder will be $2,400 per year while that of the solicitor will be $1,800. Heretofore both have been elected by the peo ple until the last legislature changed it. Mode is a Republican and was elected two years ago by eight votes while Blanton and the new official* are all Democrats. Mode’s salary has been $1,500 per year while the soli citor has been working on a fee basis making around $6,000 per year, McBrayer's father, the lata Matt McBrayer, served this county as recorder from 1917 to 1921. Founder Of Gaffney Gets Memorial Shaft Gaffney. 8, C, Nov. 14—A shaft of granite 10 feet high, erected, to the membory of Capt. Mlch’ae! Gaffney, founder of the town of Gaffney and the officials who have served the city since its incorpora tion about 1872, has been dedicated here. One panel of the memorial is de voted to Captain Gaffney, a native of Granard, Ireland, who settled here In 1804. The names of the in tendants and mayors, city clerks »»d wardens and aldermen who nave held office since occupy the other three panels.