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- .. l,BB 8 PAGES TODAY . —— m mi Hf Hill am m>, (la rniwM) _ lUt tiarwat, a« rmr. irn miumi _ IU» Late News Fair Tuesday. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Some cooler tonight but warmer Tuesday. Bad Norfolk Fire. Norfolk. Va., June 8.—A fire which was expected to cost nearly *10.000,000 destroyed a portion of the river-front and down-town business section here late yesterday. Ten city blocks between East Malic street and the waterfront of Elisa beth River were loot completely by • p. m. Firemen said the flames could not be controlled for several hours yet. Explolsion of an oil soaked dock owned by the Buxton steamship company at 4:30 p. m. started the flames which were borne by winds approximating gale force directly against the city’s business section. Police Officer At Forest City Shot To Death Cut and Then Sot With Own Gan By Fred Smart, Native Of EUen boro Section. Forest City. June 8.—Funeral ser vices for Austin A. Price, Forest City's chief of police who was killed by Fred Smart about 11:30 Satur day night after he had been arrest ed by Price on a charge of drunk enness, will be hel dtoday from the First Methodist church of Forest City and the First Methodist church of Stony Point. The body lay in state at the funer al parlor of Padgett and King here throughout the entire day Sunday where about eight thousand people came to pay their last respects to one of the bravest, most courteous! and most honored police official'’ this city has ever had and one whn! fell in the line oKdjity. Following the killing of Chief\ Price excitement ran riot, and as the crowd grew bigger*around the city hall the feeling against Smart mounted until it was finally decided to move him to the county jail at Rutherfordton. Had Befriended Smart. The killing took place after Chief Price had told Smart to go home, that he was drunk and had no busi ness in town. Meeting Smart on the street later, Chief Price arrested rnn and started toward the city jail with him. For over a year Chief Price and Smart had lived next door to each other, dnd since Smart's wife died, several months ago. Mrs. Price had been making clothes for his little children, and in other ways she and Mr. Price both had helped him. Chief tCONTINPTD OR PA OK 8IX.) Banking Conditions Are Improving Now New Commission Finds Condition Better In State Than Expected. Raleigh, June 8.—“We found the condition of state banks much bet ter than we anticipated," reported Gurney P. Hood, state commissioner of banks, Saturday following the first meeting of the new state bank commission at which the survey of banks now being undertaken was discussed. Commissioner Hood’s statement was based upon statistics gathered up the last call date. The complete survey, now being conducted by three examiners, four Junior exam iners, and four office assistants, in connection with their other duties, may take a year, Commissioner Hood said. All the members of the new com mission were present except A. M. Bahnson, of Winston-Salem, who is traveling abroad. CoL John F. Bru ton, Wilson, and Word H. Hood, Charlotte, took the oath of office. Ex-off Ida members, State Treasurer Nathan O’Berry and Attorney Gen eral Dennis G. Brummitt, were present The commission tentatively adopt ed a new plan for trust company i regulation, which will Involve the! services of an examiner for these departments. Trust department ex aminations in the past have been cursory. Hours A t Library Changed For Sum met Open hours at the Shelby public library have been changed for the summer months, it is announced. Heretofore the library has been open from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. Hereafter it will be open on Tues day, Thursday and Saturday after noons from 4 until 3:30. Best Move# Store Across The Street Mr- John B. Best, veteran Shelby furniture dealer, has moved his store across South LaFayette street from his former stand to the building or storeroom adjoining Efird's. Mr. Best has been In the furniture business here for almost a score of years. School Heads Facing Problem In budgets Cannot Tell How Many Teachers Can Be Employed Until State Board Adjusts En tire System To New School Plan. County To Lose Seven Teachers, Shelby Five. J. H. Grigg, Cleveland county superintendent of schools and B. L. Smith, Shelby city superintendent, are faced with a puzzle they can do very little about until the State equali zation board, which now governs all North Carolina schools, can adjust the school machinery of the State to the new school plan adopted by the recent legislature. It will take a month or more for, the school machinery of the state to be reorganized under the new j plan and that means that the long | term rural schools of Cleveland j county, which'open July 27. will open before it Is known exactly Just how many teachers they may have. Supt. Grigg, just back from ,Ra-1 leigh where he attended a confer-. ence of school officials, says that I he can prepare the budget for; Cleveland county within short time I but this budget cannot be accepted; by the state until it is seen if the budget of this and 99 other coun- j ties cone within the sixteen and j one half million dollar school ap- j propriation. School officials all over the state will send their applica tion budgets in based upon the ten percent sales cut for teachers and the increased taxheading load. The equalizing board will then total the entire amount and if it exceeds the total appropriation, which it will likely do, the board will point: WWW "WV4 o •uuiuuimi IUU) ftiC bu be made and send the budget baclc for revlsal downward. It la not like ly that the revised budget will be completed long before September, or until after the long term rural school open In this county. To Lose Seven "I will work out my preliminary budget on the basis of seven lens teachers in the county schools than we had last year,” Supt. Qrigg says. "But if the total budgets for all counties exceed the appropriations it may be that this county will lose 10 more teachers. It Is not like that the total State budget for six months schools will hold within 19 millions for the school cost for the State V»st year was 20 millions and the 10 percent cut in salaries will not reduce the 20 million total to 16 million.” Hit High School Supt B. L. Smith, of the city schools, figures that four elementary teachers will have to be dropped here and one or possibly two high school teachers. The heaviest blow in this cut is that all the elementary schools oft the ctoy will likely lose their places on! the accredited list and the high i school will lose Its, membership In j the Southern Association of High; Schools. Heretofore the elementary schools have been allowed four teachers for 'CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.' Mrs. Benton Freed In Husband’s Death Morganton, June 8.—Mrs. Flnr ence Benton, young Burke county, j widow Saturday stood acquitted of I a charge that last year she killed j her husband. John Benton. The woman entered a plea of no', guilty and met the state's testimony with the contention that her hus band committed suicide. Conflicting testimony which con-; firmed both versions was introduced j during the trial. The Jury rendered its verdict aft er only a few hours of deliberation, i Reelect Newton City Attorney Attorney D. Z. Newton has b«n re-elected city attorney of Shelby, it Is announced by Mayor S. A. McMurry. The re-election of Mr. Newton an Item In the first formal busi ness transacted by the new board when It entered office. A mayor pro tern from the board of aldermen has not been named yet, but will llkcr ly be announced after the nest session of the board. No other change in city em- • ployes has been made. Receivership For N. C. Credit Group Credit Corporation Declared Insol Tent Upon Request Of Cleveland Farmers. At a special hearing held In Mor ganton Friday Judge J. H. Clement declared the N. ■ C. Agricultural Credit Corporation to be insolvent and placed the corporation in the hands of permanent receivers. The hearing was held at the re quest of a group of Cleveland coun ty farmers, organised as the Fair view credit group.' Tire Cleveland farmers were represented by Attor ney Peyton McSwain. The credit corporation, which has headquarters in Raleigh, was represented by At torneys Burgess ana Baker of Ra leigh. Mr. McSwain and C. H. Rehberg. of Raleigh, were named receivers and ordered to liquidate the inter ests of the corporation. ■ The action was brought by the Cleveland farmers for the purpose of recovering a sum of money plac ed with the corporation in anticipa tion of certain loans. Mother Of Shelby Woman Is Dead News has beeiTreceived here of the death of Mrs. Annie Claxon, mother of Mrs. Howard Camnitz, at ner home in Louisville, Ky., on Satur day. She was burled in Louisville yesterday. Mrs. Claxon had been in ill health for some time but became worse last week and Mrs. Camnitz was called to her bedside on Thurs day. Mrs, Camnitz will return to Shelby this week. Early Cucumbers. Forrest Ellis, the photographer, was today exhibiting large cucum bers taken from his garden this year. He had cucumbers large enough to eat last week. Mr. Ellis is one. of the city's earliest gardeners and al ready has tomatoes as large as ten- j nis balls. “Bottled-In-Bond” Plant Captured Near Gaffney; Three Men Are Held Reported To Be Headquarters *'or Whiskey Distribution In This Section. Gaffney, June 8.—Sheriff Zeb V. Wlielchel and his men captured three men, a $1,800 automobile and a complete outfit for making “bot tled in bond" liquors with grain al cohol last week. The seizure includ ed 17 gallons of alcohol, quantities of flavoring and coloring extracts, labels, caps and bottles. The three men, whose names were not announced by the sheriff, were being held in Jail. Two of them sent messages to relatives or friends in other places asking for help in get ting their freedom, it was said. The capture was made in the woods at a point shout 10 miles south of Gaffney on the old Union road near the Brick House place The trio was alleged to have been engaged In converting the alcohol into whlskev when the officers ap peared. The three men ran, leaving the automobile. The officers gave chase afoot through dense under brush, and in a short time had the three men rounded up. The automobile, wliich had been driven slightly more than 9.500 mil es, had whai appeared tr be a bul let hole through the rear of the top. The car displayed a South Car olina license plate. North Carolina and Virginia license tags were found in the automobile. Sheriff Whelct el said it was be lieved there are at least two more i men connected with the business^ and officers have been attempting j to locate the suspects. He gave this] as the reason for preferr'ng not to1 ; disclose the identities of the three j arrested. The trio had been operating here j about three weeks, acyrding to the| sheriff, who said he understood! largq quantities cf their product1 iCONI'lNtlKU OK PAOt SIX ! < Prospective Rivals Both prominently mentioned for the AVhite House, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York. Democrat (left), and Governor Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania. Republican (right), are shown at the annual Governors’ convention held at French Lick. Ind., as they chatted about issues of the day. The two executive have been widely heralded as possible standard bearers for their parties in 1932 presidential race. Best Way To Get Killed Is By Car Sunday On Straight, Rural Road Raleigh. June 8.—The beat ! place to get killed or Injured In an automobile accident is on a straight, paved state highway I when it Is perfectly dry and driving conditions are ideal. The best time to get killed or injured In an automobile acci • dent ia In broad daylight be tween the hours of 3 and 4 p. m. The best day Is Sunday. The best way is in a collision of two automobiles. The accident is more likely to happen in the country than in a oitv. The moat likely cause of death /rom a motor crush is a frac tured skull. Believe them or not, these facts are based on statistics com piled by the state automobile bu reau from accident reports for the month of April when 46 per sons were killed in traffic acci dents and 373 were Injured. The first four months of this year saw a total of 190 persons killed and 1,545 injured. Leading County ManFoundDead “Bad” Neal Died Suddenly Friday. Funeral Held Sunday At Sulphur Spring*.— Mr. R. J. i Bud) Neal, one of Cleveland county's best known citi zens, died suddenly late Friday aft ernoon at his home near Patterson Springs. Mr. Neal had gone to the field where his sons were and had start ed back. His body was found a short time later and it was thought that he died suddenly of a heart at tack while returning to the house. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 4 o'clock at Sul phur Springs Methodist church. The sendees were conducted by Rev. Mr. Williamson, of Charlotte, Rev. R. L. Porbis, and Rev. Mr. Davis. Mr. Neal, who was 74 years of age, was a large landowner, an upstand ing citizen and one of the most sub stantial, upright citizens of the iounty. He was a member of the Sulphur Springs church and inter ested in community activities and the general progress of the county. His sudden death was a shock to the community in which he lived and to his many friends all over the county. He is survived by three sons and two daughters as follows: Messrs. Hugh, Jesse J., and Lee Neal and Mrs. John Biggers and Mrs. L. M. Latham. Shelby Boxer Has Arm Broken On Head Of Champ In A Bout A champion's head was too tough for a lightweight’s arm and as a re sult Babe Carr, Shelby lightweight, will not appear in the boxing pro gram at Charlotte tonight Babe was sparring last week in Charlotte with Add Warren, heavy weight champion, to help Warren build up his speed fDr his bout to night with Jack Renault. Carr slip ped in and socked the big fellow on the back of the head. The blow broke a small b<>ne in his left elbow; end tore loose a ligament. Crowds Attend Church Service Go-To-Church Day In South And West Shelby Brought Out - 1.600 People. Yesterday was “Go-To-Church Sunday” in south and west Shelby and record congregations attended the four services at the Second Bap tist church and the LaPayette St. church which cooperated in the day. It was said this morning that ap proximately 1,600 people attended the various services of the day at the two churches. Among those at tending were many visitors and others from the textile villages of the city who were not regular at tendants. Both pastors. Rev. W. R. Jenkins and Rev. L. L. Jessup, think that the day will bring very beneficial re sults to the two churches. Prison Evangelist On Visit In Shelby Capt. Don McDonald, widely known prison evangelist, spent Sun day and a portion of the day today in Shelby. He preached at the Pres byterian church last night and will speak at 8 tonight at the Roberts (colored* tabernacle. While here ha visited the prisoners at the jail and chain gang as is Ills custom. He spoke highly of the reception given him in the city and the interest shown in prisoners. His object is to seek crime preven tion, co-operation of the prisoner with the officials, thereby leading to constructive prison reform, the mor al and physical uplift of the prison er; the restoration of the offender to good citizenship. To Attend Eastern Star State Meeting Mrs. Irma Wallace, district dep uty grand matron, and Mrs. B.. C. Houser, worthy matron of the local Erstern Star chapter, left Shelby vesterday to attend a session of the •grand chapter at Elizabeth City. They were accompanied by Mrs. George Hickson. Mrs. Wallace ana Mrs. Houser plan to invite the grand chapter to meet in Shelby next year i Curb Market A Success First Day In Shelby Tuesday Is Another Market Day Could Hare Sold Four Time* a* Much *n Was Brought In J>y Pram Women Shelby'* first curb market trial Saturday proved a success and even more. At noon Saturday Mrs. Irma Wallace, demonstration agent, stated 1 that at least four times as much j could have been sold had It been brought in The market, operated on North Morgan street, was rushed with Shelby shoppers early Saturday morning and was practically sold out within a few hours. It being the first trial, of course, there wer some articles which sold rapidly \ while others did not. The biggest demand of the day bv' Shelby housewives was for frying j size chickens. The season for fryers Is a bit early yet and by another week or so the sale of fryers should lead all other items on the market Again On Tuesday. As a result of the success Satur day the demonstration club mem bers of the county decided to have two market days each week—Tues day and Saturday. The market will be open two hours Tuesday morning from 8 until 10 o'clock and for the same hours again Saturday. It was learned that the market opened t-oo early Saturday and that | the main rush Is between 8 and 10. j During those two hours Saturday ; there were more buyers than sellers at the market. | Ranking next to fryers in sales were home-made cakes, home-made i salt-rising bread, strawberries and green beans. All strawberries and i beans brought in were sold and the j demand for cakes and bread was ! heavy. Wltlj more interest being shown In the market by Shelby housewives j than by farm women who are pros pective sellers it Is expected that the market will be more than twice as large Tuesday morning and even iarger Saturday. The women in charge of the mar ket kept a list of names of all buy ers and were surprised at the dis tance some of them came. One sale of farm products was made to a Charlotte party. The first event of the day brought a good luck tooken to the new mar ket test In that It was assured of future buyers because the first buy ■ er of the day, and one of the larg est. was a Byers—B. B. . “I think the market will continue to be a success," Mrs. Wallace said in speaking for the home demon stration clubs which are sponsoring ! the market. "Of course on the first 1 day we could not tell Just what i things would be hi demand, but now we have a pretty good Idea what will sell and what will not. More vegetables and fruits will be coming In later and we expect sales to in crease. As it is now a major per centage of the customers were look ing for dressed chickens, but it is surprising how many different things were called for during the day. Some of them we did not have. This week we will have more and as we gradually get the supply ad justed to the demand the market promises to fill a long-felt need in Shelby." Miss Alma Belle, R. N.. of Win ston-Salem, is spending the month of June with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Belle. Eskridge Rites At Home Tuesday Mom Burial Tuesday Funeral wrvicf* for Charles l» Eskridge (above l, who was one of Cleveland county's most prominent and most popular citizens, will be conducted here tomorrow morning. Mr. Eskridge was found dead in hb office shortly after noon Sunday. Thursday Closing Talked In Shelby For Summer Period Will Shelby merchants and busi ness houses close on Thursday aft ernoons during the summer months? This query Is being generally de bated about the city now among business men. For several years the local stores observed the Thursday afternoon closing so that employes and employers might have a hall day vacation each week. Just what will be done this year is not known yet, but talk today indicated that a closing petition might be circulated among business men during the week. B. Y. P. U. Gathering Is Held On Sunday A meeting of the B. Y. P. U. or ganizations of the Kings Mountain association was held Sunday at Sandy Plains church. Twenty odd churches were represented at the meeting which was also attended by Rev. Mr. Ivey." of Raleigh. State sec retary. Rev. Mr. Ivey preached last night at the Shelby First Baptist church. An Interesting pageant was given by the Beaver Dam B. Y. P. U. members. Mr. Doggett Out Again After Shock Mr. Coleman Doggett, who was severely shocked last week when he came In contact with a high voltage wire at the Southern Cotton Oil plant, is up and able to be out his many friends will be pleased to hear. He will not run to work for several days, however. Mr. Doggett was found lying on the floor In a rflom of the plant In a stupor after having come in contact with the wire which carried 2,300 volts. He later regained consciousness but can remember very little about how he •panoops ns More Industrial Cases Come Up In West; Cleveland Has Had 32 Trials Commission Would Save Money By Moving To Piedmont In dustrial Area. Raleigh. June 8.—Anent the re cent discussion of the possibility of moving the offices of the N. C. In dustrial commission from Raleigh or at least establishing a branch office in the industrial area of the pied mont it is interesting to note that of the 1725 compensation cases heard by the commission since it began operation nearly two years ago and up to this week, only 461 of them were in 45 eastern counties In 1264 were in the 55 counties of | the west. For a proper division. Wake coun ty is classed in the east, with its large number of cases, many'of them of slates employees, and the line runs southward, but bearing toward the west, so that Harnett, Cumber land, Hoke and Robeson counties, although we.'t oi Raleigh, are in eluded In the eastern area—and those five counties. Wake, Cumber land, Hoke and Robeson, furnished 142 cases, or almost one-third of those given the eastern area. The peldmont area of 21 counties, several of them small and Included for boundary purposes, provided 788 cases In which hearings were held, or more than 46 per cent of the total hearings in the State. Even the mountain area of 25 counties furnished 413 cases, or almost one fourth of the total number In the State and more than 40 counties east of Raleigh. Discussion of the movement of the commission or establishing a branch in the peidmont section, nearer the center of the commission’s activi ties. was precipetated by the amend ment to the act by the last General Assembly which would permit such moving or branch. Charlotte has been most prominently mentioned, but still other cities. High Point, iCOMTINintD OK PAG* SIX ) Found Dead Sunday In Office Shelbr Shock'd By Death of U»d> In* Cltlaen. Had Been In III Health. Funeral servl-es for Mr. Char les L. Eskridge, prominent 48 rear-old ritlcen who wan found shot to death in hh office hero yesterday, will be held tomor row, Tuesday, morning at 10:30 o’clock at the residence on West Marlon street. Dr. Zeno Wall, First Baptist pastor, will be In charge of the service and Inter ment will be at Sunset ceme tery. The unexpected death of Mr. Esfc* ridge. one of this section’s mast pop* ular leaders, came as a shock to th# city and the stunning news was thd sole topic of conversation for thd remainder of the day. Dead An Hour. It Is believed that he had been dead around an hour when found by his wife and eldest son. Char leu R. Eskridge. no naa D«?n m ill health fog. months and returned only a short time ago from Hot Springs where t be had been receiving apparently ! beneficial treatment for a partial : physical and nervous breakdown. His declining health, brought about by a life of strenuous activity la which he developed into one of the leading business men of the section, together with worry over a series of misfortunes which has visited his family were presumed to be the cause for his action. Only last sum mer his youngest son, Gene, was drowned at a lake near the city, and the youngster's death was a heavy blow to his father. Shortly after nine o'clock Sunday morning Mr. Eskridge came uptown. He was not in the best of spirits but was planning to make a trip to Charlotte In the afternoon with sev eral of his elose friends, including Messrs. R. T. LeOrsnd and 2. J. Thompson. Mr, LeOrand called the residence near noon to make ar rangements about the trip and termed that Mr. Eskridge has not returned from uptown. A few min utes later Mrs. Eskridge and her son came uptown to look for him and found his body. Physicians said he had been dead for some time and he was last seen at a local drug store shortly before 11 o'clock. Survivors. He is survived by his widow, who before marriage was Miss Lela Por ter, of Blacksburg, and four children as follows: Chas. K„ Martha, Alfred, and James. Surviving also are four brothers, Ladd Eskridge, of New Derry, S. C.; Lecter Eskridge, of New York; Guy W. Eskridge, of Ridgeway, New Jersey, and Herman Eskridge, of Shelby, who was en gaged In business- with his brother. The brothers who live elsewhere ar rived here today. Of Pioneer Family. Mr. Eskridge was the son of the late Webb Eskridge, one of this sec tion’s pioneer citizens, and the late Mrs. Eskridge who made her home with him for years. He was endowed with a natural genius for mechanics and even later in life after he was a business leader found much pleas ure In working on mechanical prob lems. Progressive in his ideas he was nearly always first to introduce modern conveniences in 8helby. He owned the city's first automobile and of recent years was deeply in terested in aviation. In addition to the Ford automobile agency, which he operated for years with hb brother, C. Herman, he was con nected with numerous other Shelby enterprises and was one of the city’3 (CONTINUED ON PAOK SIX l Bee Specialist Here This Week Will Give Two Demonstrations Wednesday At Me Swain's And * Bowen’s. Mr. C. L. Sams, state extension bee specialist of Raleigh, will be In Cleveland county Wednesday of this week for the purpose of giving dem onstrations as to the^je of bees it was announced today by5 Farm Agent R. W. Shoffner. At 10 o'clock Wednesday morn ing Mr. Sams will give a demon stration at the Luther R. McSwain home near Bethware school Mr. McSwain has more than 20 hives of bees. At 2:30 In the afternoon Mr. Sams will give a demonstration at the home of J. C. Bowen, between Shel by and Patterson Springs. Mr. Bow man has 40 odd hives of bees and grows sweet clover for them. Farmers of the county an Invit ed to attend the demonstrations.
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