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Late News Fair Tuesday. Today’* North Carolina Weather Report: Centrally fair tonifht and Tnrsday. Quake In Texas. Dallas, Texas, Aug. 17.—Earth I tremors shook Central and West j Texas yesterday, the first in this section in more than a quarter of a rentury. Houses were reported shak en in scores of cities, but Valentine, tn far Southwest Texas in the. Southern Sierra Vleja mountains, seemed to bear the brunt of the; shock. Many abode residences therr! were wrecked. No loss of life was! reported. At Hondu, two distinct ] •hocks were felt, a rocking motion' appearing to run from the north west to the southeast along the rock nplift. Taylor was the far thest city to report the shock, to the' east, giving it a width of at least i sm miles in Texas. Premium Lists Of County Fair Are Ready Now Handsome Booklet Details Man? Exhibits And Prixes For All Winners. The premium list booklet*' of the Cleveland County Fair are now off The Star presses and are being dis tributed. The handsome 60-page booklet is one of the most comprehensive and complete premium lists yet issued by the fair association. The opening section of the book let gives the general rules and regu lations, admission prices, hours of events and other details. The next section covers the general attrac tions, fireworks, horse races, free acts, shows, etc. Then comes the list of the various exhibit depart-1 ments, a detailed list of entry clas-1 sifications and prizes for the win ning entries . The community and farm displays j are in charge of R. W. Shoffner, county agent, with Boyd Harrelson as director. This department covers the feature community and farm booths and the field crop exhibits, i O. Z. Morgan is director of the hor- ! ncultural department which is para- i mounting the live-at-home idea. James Ware is director of the poney department, and “Bass” Suttle and Dr. E. B. Lattimore are in charge of the horse department. Tom Corn- j well and Walter Davis are directors of the, cattle department and ex hibits. The swine department is di rected by Joe Blanton and E. B. Herndon, and Shuford Beam is su pervising the sheep department. Rev John W. Suttle, veteran poultryman, is again in charge of the poultry department and show, one of the major features of the fair. Mrs. Irma Wallace is general superin tendent of the ladies' depaitment. Mrs. A. P. Falls and Mrs. C.'C. Mc Swain are directors of the depart-, ment devoted to canned fruits and vegetables. Mrs. Reid Young and Mrs. Guy Roberts have charge of I the household arts department. Mrs. Ora Bowen directs the Old Ladies department and Mrs. W. L. Darner - on and Miss Mary Dameron are di rectors of the art department. Mrs. Holly Ledford is in charge of the crafts department and Mrs. E. W. Gibbs the flower department and show. The antique department 'will be handled by Mrs. W. H. Blanton and Mrs. Oscar Stutlc, while Mrs. Foy Putnam will direct the home demonstration club department, Mrs Huff Hamrick will have charge of the 4-H club girls department and P M. Coley and E. L. Dillingham wfll direct the 4-H club boys depart ment. Supt. J. H. Grigg will be in charge of the educational depart ment. Hundreds of dollars in cash prizes will be awarded the exhibit winners in addition to the customary ex hibits. Premium list booklets may be se cured from Secretary J S. Dorton. County Agent Sbcffner and Home Agent Mrs. Wallace. Revival Is Ended At Pleasant Grove A week of old-fashioned revival services was concluded Sunday at the Pleasant Grove church. The nreaching was done by the pastor, Rev. D. G. Washburn, and there were numerous conversions and re dedications. Twenty five people were baptized this morning as a result of the services. IN TODAY’S STAR_ Features in this issue of The Star: Editorials, Page 4—"Hard Time Candidates," “Change ol the Weather," “A ‘Silly’ Sug gestion,” “A Guilty Conscious ness,” "Drinking Sheriffs.” Also On Page 4—-” Just 10 Years Ago.” Around Our Town, time get* Goo-Goo” and other town talk on Page 5. ."Nobody's Business" by Gee life Gee on Page 2. 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV11, Eo. 98 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUG. 17, 1931 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Hr Mill. »«r f«u, MB Mtinec) '-'•mer. ner tear. (In a4*anMi County Club Women | Picnic On Thursday i Lever To Speak At Annual Picnic Given By County Club Women. Civic Club Member* To Be Guests. Food Served Will Be That Produced In County. The annual picnic of the 16 clubs of Cleveland county I women will be held Thursday evening at 7:00 at Oleveland j 1 Springs with members of four county civic clubs as special. jTuests, it was announced today by Mrs. Irma P. Wallace home demonstration agent, i At the big open-air picnic the members of the Kiwanis, Rotary, and Lions club of Shelby and the Civltan Club of Kings Mountain have been invited to attend as honor ; guests. Lfver To Speak. The principal speaker at tht meeting will be Ex-Congressman A. P. Lever,' of Columbia, S. C., now a field representative of the Federal Farm Board. "* Cleveland. It will be almost a 100 per cent Cleveland county meal that we plan to serve,” Mrs. Wallace states in representing the 16 clubs. “Every thing served will have been pro duced in this county except the flavoring and seasoning. More than anything else we hope to show our guests that Cleveland county this year prepared to live at home.” It is also hoped by the hostesses that Governor O. Max Gardner, who inspired the live-at-home program, can be present. Small Negro Girl Struck, Injured By Automobile Sunday Ran In Front Of Car Driven By Jesse Bridges Near Eskridge Grove Chnrcb. Lily May Paigen, six-year-old col ored girl, is in the Shelby hospital suffering with a broken left leg Mid lacerations as the result of being struck by an automobile near Esk ridge Orove church Sunday. The automobile was driven by Jesse E. Bridges, Shelby bank employe, and the accident took place about noon. The accident was said to have been unavoidable on the part of the driver as the little girl ran in front of the car. The driver swerved the car to the side in the church yard but could not manage to miss her. She was brought to the hospital here-by the driver of the car McKnight Teaches Spanish At College j Billy McKnight. son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. McKnight of Shelby, has been appointed as an assistant teacher of Spanish, at Davidson. Approximately 60 students are an nually chosen by the executive com mittee of the college, upon recom mendation of the different profes sions, and Mr. McKnight is the only student to be chosen to assist the Spanish teacher in grading papers] and notebooks. More Canning In ; County Now Than j Ever; Need Jars Thousands Of Cans And Jars Bring j Filled With Vegetables And Fruit. Cleveland county housewives are doing more canning this year than ever before. The greatly Increased sale of fruit jars and cans would indicate that two to three times as much vegetables and fruits are be ing put up now as ever has been in the past. Mrs. Irma Wallace, home demon stration agent, stated today that for two weeks she has had very little time to do anything other than give advice and help in the can ning work of the home demonstra tion clubs. The peach canning sfason Is now on and hundreds and hundreds of jars of peaches are being put up. In the vegetable line more field peas and English peas were canned this year than ever before and the same applied to practically all fruit and vegetables. “With pantries being filled with jars of fruits and vegetables there should be no hunger or want in the county this year,” Mrs. Wallace raid. “Nowhere have I ever seen as much canning. I cannot keep bul letins in my office on canning as scores call all through the week for bulletins giving information on can ning.” Need For Jars Housewives in Shelby could do much to help poorer families by contributing jars for canning, Mrs. Wallace stated. All Shelby house wives who have jars of any type about their homes which they do not plan to use could render a fine service, she says, by giving them to farm families and tenants who can not afford to purchase jars but who have an abundance of fruit and vegetables to put up if they could secure the jars. Regular-sized fruit jars, discarded jelly glasses, peanut butter jars, and jars of all sizes could be used. Those who will con tribute jars are asked to leave them at The Star office where they can be assembled by Mrs. Wallace and distributed where needed most Mrs. S. F Parker leaves tomorrow for Mayes-ville to visit relatives. She Is being called home on account of the fact that several members of her family are ill with typhoid fever. Job Guarantee And Five-Day Work Week Appear To Be Gaining Favor Industrial Leaders Studying New Plan To Aid Idle And Boost Industry. Washington, Aug. 17.—A move ment lor guaranteed employment and possibly the five day work week has gained favor and considerable momentum among some of America's largest industries. Under the guaranteed employ ment plan, industrial leaders would assure a stipulated number of their workmen of uninterrupted and prof itable employment for a specified long period. Reports to high government of ficials indicate that many indus tries are inclined toward adoption' of the five day week with five day s pay. Organized labor however is demanding the shorter week with six day’s pay. The movement for guaranteed em ployment apparently originated with public utility companies and or ganizations seeking to hold their workers in the depression. It has been adopted as part of the Ameri can Federation of Labor’s perma nent program. The guaranteed employment idea has spread to such an extent that the United States Chamber of Com merce. under the leadership of Julius Barnes, chairman of the board of directors, has become its sponsor and is pressing for adherence to it. Intensive study of the technical as pects of the problem is now occupy ing the attention of experts in the chamber. President Hoover has been kept informed of, and is deeply interested in the progress of the movement, which he regards of unusual impor tance. Industrial and labor leaders con sider the guaranteed employment idea as one of the most signifi cant developments in the relation ship between capital and labor in recent years. The idea is not re garded by them, or by President Hoover, as being a mere emergency measure for the relief existing un employment but is thought to be a primary step in elimination of un employment in the future. Government officials have ex pressed the opinion that its adop tion by the larger industries would lead gradually to favorable action by smaller business throughout the country. William Green, president, of the American Federation of Labor, in endorsing the movement said in his report on July labor condi tions, that the removal of the fear of unemployment would put money into circulation, which is now being stored in savings deposits and hoarded in stockings and trunks. Ehringhaus Gets In Campaign For Governor In ‘32 Oppose* Sales Tax For State Popular riuahfth City Orator To j J*«ok Hr moo ratio Nomination For Gorornor. Elisabeth City, Aug. 17.—J. C. B i Ehringhause, Elisabeth City alter-1 ney, Saturday formally announced, hia candidacy for the democratic ( gubernatorial nomination in 1032. j His announcement brings two candidates definitely into the field, and several more are regarded M likely entrants, Lieut. Governor R. T. Fountain recently issued his an nouncement from Charlotte. The field of prospects include* Attorney General D. G Brummitt, Commissioner A. J. Maxwell of th# state revenue department, and Gen. Albert L. Cox, of Raleigh. Flans Vigorous Campaign. Mr. Ehringhaus said he would make a vigorous campaign extend- j ing into every portion of North Caro-, lina, and promised to issue a full, statement of his platform in the immediate future At the outset, he announced four points on which he wished to make his position clear, in the following statment: "I shall stand upon and vigor ously defend the record of the dem ocratic party In this state, both leg islative and executive. “I shall oppose imposition of either the general or the so-called luxury tax, Such forms of taxation I consider economically unsound, politically unsafe, and ethioally de batable. Such taxes are paid by the consummer. With cotton selling at six cents a pound and in the midst of the most desperate economic sit uation faced by this generation, our aim should be to reduce and not to raise the cost of living. "With land at Its lowest income value In 40 years, it is cruel to con tinue to levy taxes upon the pres ent basis of valuation. I shall favor an Wimedlate return to our former policy of quadrennial assessment. "The cost of government must be further reduced in keeping with the present ability of the people to pay taxes. A strict but sane econ omy is imperative.” Couple Reunited After Court Row Over Their Child! Herbert And Roby Camp Patch I'p Difference* And Go Bark Together. Little Jacquelyn Camp, who was the center of a legal fight in Super ior court here August 8 and also of a sensational kidnapping episode is to have both a father and mother after all. Last month after a disagreement Herbert Camp, Cleveland county j native, left his wife. Ruby, at their Taylors, South Carolina home, and, returned to his father's home at Earl. Some time later his wifej came to this, county and brought ( their baby daughter along. Camp got hold of the little girl and kept j her. When Superior court was in j session here week before last the' wife employed Judge Maurice Wea thers as her attorney and instituted a habeas corpus proceeding to se cure custody of the child. Just about the time the trial was supposed to begin Mrs. Camp, her father and a friend managed to get the baby away from Camp’s mother and at tempted to leave town with it. They were caught, however, by officers After hearing the evidence the Su-j perior court placed the baby in the | custody of her father. That night Mrs. Camp visited the home of her husband's parents and another row followed and additional warrenfs were issued. She likewise appealed ! the Superior court decision about the baby. But love found a way. Last week Attorney Weathers was called to South Carolina and he found the young couple together peeling and canning peaches and to all appear ances embarked upon a second honeymoon period. They instruct ed him to withdraw all warrents and appeals and informed him ofj their intention to bring the child home from his fathers home Monday Morning Docket Is Light The docket In county court this morning was unusually light for an after week-end session. Only three cases were heard, but six cases were continued for jury trial on Friday. The cases disposed oi were for prohibition law violations Gloria Back, but Not Alone State Grows Largest Food Crop In History Sir Cupid and Dame Rumor, putting their wagging head* together, have created keen Interest in the affair of Gloria Swanson, film star, and Mirhael Farmer, millionaire sportsman, who followed the beautiful actress all over Europe and was a fellow passenger aboard the Aqui tania when It brought Gloria home, to the U, S. A. Here’s the atten tive Mr. Farmer keeping step with his romance while Gloria and the suitor she ts non-committal about stroll on deck. Her final decree from the Marquis de la Falaise is not effective until late September. Gardner Speaks On Sowing And Reaping Harvest Purr Mind And Clean Conscience More To Be Desired Than Bonds And t<and». ' A pure mind and a clean eon sciencie are more to be desired than material things," said Governor Oardner In teaching the Sunday School lesson before the men s Bible class at the First Baptist church Sunday. The International lesson was, on the subject "Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man aoweth, that shall he also reap." Back home on vacation. Governor Gardner taught his former class Sunday morning and many other classes came Into the large auditor ium to hear him. He restated his love for his home church and people and his longing to get back after his term of office as chief executive ex pires. Governor Gardner told of his ad Governor Gardner In Western N. C. Governor O, Max Gardner who Is spending hia vacation In Shelby, will visit Asheville and the Great Smoky Mountain* this week. He will join E. B. Jeffress. chair man of the State Highway Com mission. in Asheville for the Jaunt into the mountains Mrs. Gardner and possibly Mr*. Jeffress will make up the party. The Governor expects to go Into the Great Smoky Mountains from Bryson City. The trip will be en tirely informal. He does not. know how many days he will spend in the mountains. Shelby Boys Are Dismissed By Court At a preliminary hearing held Friday afternoon at Rutherfordton before Recorder Fred McBayer, J. P. Smith of Columbus, Ga. and his cousin Henry Lee Weathers of Shel by were dismissed as a result of the death of Janet Watts (colored) of Belmont. The Watts woman who was on a picnic party of colored people going to Hendersonville, was the first to get out of the negro car after she had asked that It be stopped on the highway just west of Ellenboro. She fan around be hind the parked car to go across the road and struck the right front fender of the Smith car going in the opposite direction which result ed in her death before she could be carried to Ellenboro, The white boys stopped their car, offered to take the injured woman to the hospital and did go for a doctor and an ambulance, carrying with them Wil lie Blackman, driver of the negro car. A preliminary hearing was held and the accident declared to be un avoidable, so the boys were excused from any criminal negligence in the matter. At the trial, the testimony of the white boys and the two negro men, one of whom was a son of the deceased, harmonized per fectly as to the manner in which the accident occurred. The dead woman was hurried at Belmont Sunday. County Farmer* To Talk Cotton Bagging Usage A meeting of Cleveland county farmrn to to be held at the court hour Friday August tl, for the purpoae ol rii*cua*ing the nae of rotton bagging In thta county with the hope of boosting the prior of cotton. The merlin* la called by no particular organisation o t group, other than several far mer* who think it should br Alacuased, and H will be open to all. The hour la *j*0 Hi the af ! ternoon Store Robbers Eat Then Leaver Light Burning In Store Loot Ernest Elliott Store Near Lawndale of Goods And Money, Enter By Window. Bravsen thieves broke In and rob bed the Ernest Elliott store near Lawndale Monday night of last week It was learned here over the week end. Before leaving the store file thiev es enjoyed a big meal of canned goods, drinks, etc., and then left the lamp used to eat by, burning. Their haul included about $.r>0 worth of goods and about »25 in money. Among the articles taken were shoes, overalls, hosiery, shirts, cig arettes, chewing and smoking tob acco. Misses Virginia and Kate Shellen, of Denver, are the attractive guests of Miss Mildred Cline this week. miration lor Paul, a red-blooded, courageous man who stood by his convictions. He recalled Pauls let ter to a new found church where there was division and strife and question as to whether the Chris tian religious was for the Jew only or for the Gentile. He recounted the period of reck less living and debt-malting that fol lowed the war and declared that was a sowing period, while the depression that Is now on, is the harvest. “It is best thing that ever happened that we did not continue to put material things before the spiritual life. It would have been the ruina tion of the young people of today, had w* gone on ten year* longer with our extravagant living. We should be thankful that we are get ting back to the simple life and clos er to Jesus.'’ The Governoi referred to the crime wave that came on as a re sult of the reckless period following the war when men laid all emphasis upon stocks, bonds, fields and fac tories. “The civilisation that was built by the men and women who came through the trying period following the Civil War Is the finest flower of our Southland. They were brave hearts who practised self-denial, thrift and economy and made up the raw material on which our civi lisation Is founded. Our softness will be helped in this depression. It will bring our young people through hardships that will make them nob ler and better citizens," said the gov ernor. Shelby Coach To Aid At University Hoy W i Casey) Morris, athletic director of the Shelby high school, left today for Chapel Hill where he will for 10 days be an instructor in the University school for coaches. Coach Morris will have charge of the instruction of baseball for hi^n school coaches Auto Trade In July Shows Gain Over Same Month Last Year; Year Is Off Attend Funeral Of Mr. Miller Gamble Among the out-of-town visitors for the funeral of Miller Gamble last Friday were Mrs. Wm. Hart ley, Mrs. Welch, Mrs. J. L. Gamble and Mrs. John Champion of Forest City. Mr. Gamble, a son of Mrs. Gene Gamble died in the Shelby hospital where he had been a pa tient for ten days. He was buried at the Big John Lattimore burying ground near Polkville. New Hope Meeting Has 35 Additions The revival meeting at New Hope Baptist church, Earl, closed on Sun day with 35 additions to the church. Preaching was done by Rev. J. L. Jenkins, the pastor who has con ducted four revivals at New'Hope each one of which has been very successful. The ordinance of Bap tism was administered yesterday to 24 and four or 5 will be Baptised next Sunday. The remainder joined by letter or otherwise Decline Over 1930 For First Seven Months. July Showing A Pick-Up. Special to The Star* Raleigh, Aug. 17.—While motor vehicles registered In North Caro lina to August 1 this year were 37, 561 short of the number at the same time last year, the July registration took an upward trend this year, showing an increase over that month last year of 8,067 vehicles, according to figures compiled by Sprague Sil ver, supervisor. Motor Vehicle Bu reau. Motor vehicles for the first seven months of this year reached a reg istration of 379,516, as compared with 425,114 registered in the same period of last year. However, for July this year the registration was 24, 853, as compared with 16,886 for July 1930. The first seven months of this year showed 331,634 automobiles and 47,882 commercial vehicles, while for the same period lost year 373,936 automobiles and 51.208 commercial vehicles were registered. Automo biles increased from 13,826 for Julv 1930, to 21, 332 the past months and trucks, busses, etc., Increased from 3,240 to 3,621 for the July months. Total receipts from license plate sales decreased $565,638.37, or from $8,379,955.37 for the first seven months of 1930 to $5,814,067.34 for the same period this year. However the last July showed an increase over July, 1930, of $58,266.16, or from $135,278.08 to $133,544.26 the past month. New cars registered the first seven months of this year numbered 22, 184, as compared with 25,777 for the same period last year, a decrease of 3,593. However, in increase in new cars registered showed an in crease 554. or from 4161 in July, 1930, to 4615 last July, A compilation shows that on July 31 of this year 5.48 per cent of the motor vehicles registered had been bought in the seven months since January 1. while at the same date in 1930, 5.83 per cent of the cam up to the same date were bought m the same period of that year. Slightly more than one-third of one per cent of the cars registered to August 1 list year were new than on the same date this year j 7 Million Bushels More Corn While V art out Plans About Cotton Get Talked, North Carolina Feeds Itself. (By M. M, l)nnn»|an. Star News Bureau.) Raleigh. Aug. 17.—While the fed eral farm board's proposal for the cotton farmers to plow up every third row has been receiving varied comments from southern governors, ranging from Governor Gardner’s suggestion that the board and all other holders of cotton destroy one third of it, to that of another that every third member of the board be •'■hot, North Carolina has been golpg about, raising the biggest, food and feed crop In history. This state, based on the August. I condition of the crops, as ascertain ed by the federal-state crop report ing service, will produce this year more than seven million bushels more of corn, nearly two million more of wheat, nearly two million more of white and two and a half million more of sweet potatoes, while each of the three main fruit crops apples, peaches and pears, are al most twice as large as last year. The application is that even if the mAin cash crops, tobacco, cotton and peanuts, bring little or nothing, the people of the state will have to spend much less for food and feed and can “live at home" much more comfortably this winter than they did last winter They will at least have food. The report shows the increase of food and feed products for import ant items, as compared with last summer, in bushels, in tons for hay and gallons for sorghum, as follows 1931 1932 Wheat -- 6,180,000 4,388,OOf Com - 59.198,000 51,863.000 Oats .......8,1814)00 6.521,000 Barley 1,352,000 924.000 Rye 1,443,000 1 068.00T Buckwheat _ 200,000 120,000 Potatoes, I _10,544,000 8,590,000 Potatoes, 8.-12,075,000 9,505,000 Apples. 5,329,000 2,565,000 Peaches - 2.988,000 1.800,000 Pears ......... 289,000 115,000 Sorg-um syrup _ 1,900.000 1 230,000 Tame hay 990.000 748,000 Wild hay 51,000 48,000 Alfalfa -.... 26,000 18,000 Tobacco acreage is off 7 per cent and the estimated production’is off 11 per cent. A poor stand with av erage production of peanuts if shown. Anyway, North Carolina didn't plant that third row in cotton this yew, having reduced the acreage 2* per cent In tw» years. Governoi Gardner told the Federal farm bo are In particular and the world in gen eral. The proposal is unjust and im practical, he warned, saying it is un fair to make the already depressed cotton growers bear all of the brunt, when holders of last year’s crop will benefit if one-third of the growing crop is destroyed. It might work if the board and all other holders would do as-they have asked the growers to do. Williams Plan. S. Clay Williams, president of the R- J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makes a suggestion which he admits is im practical, but as much so as the farm boards proposal. It is this That the farm board take over one half of the growing crop, store it, pay insurance, and hold it for a certain price, say 12 cents, or what ever figure it may decide upon; let the growlers dispose of the remainder of the crop as best they can, then refrain from growing cotton alto gether next year. By so doing, he thinks, the growers could sell the cotton next year at a good price and have a year’s vacation “with pay." Church Is Canning Fruit For Charity Work This Winter Second Baptist Puts Up 30 Bushel' Of Peaches. To Can Vegeta bles And Corn. The Second Baptist church a Shelby, of which Rev. L. L. Jeasuj is pastor, Is preparing for the char ity work of the coming winter in ai unusual but very commendable way, The congregation intends to an swer the appeal for food this winter with the abundance of fruit and vegetables produced this summer. Already the church congregation has canned 30 bushels of peaches to be put away for the winter. Latter it is planned to can quite a quantity of corn, vegetables and other fruit* to be stored away for more needy time*.