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Mrs. LaFollette Dead
Washington. Aug. 19.—Mrs. Belle
Caste LaFollette, “the counselor" of
one of America’s foremost political
families, died here late yesterday as
she had lived, in the background of
he famous menfolks. The 72-year
old widow of “Fighting Bob” whose
eon and hers she saw take his sen
ate yat, failed to rally from an
operation for an intestiona! ali
ment. Until Monday, but few per
sons had known she was In the hos
pital, Both sons—the senator and
Gov, Philip LaFollette of Wiscon
sin—were at her bedside when the J
end came.
Farm Women To !
Entertain Clab .
Members County
Big Picnic Thursday
Eve Here
Four Civic Clubs To Be Guests Of
Home Demonstration
Clubs.
Members of four Cleveland coun
ty civic clubs, made up of the coun- 1
tys most representative citizens, will j
tomorrow, Thursday evening, learn
—if they already do not know—that
ta real feast is one prepared of Cleve
land county food by Cleveland coun
ty women.
At Cleveland Springs at 7 o'clock
Thursday evening the 16 home dem
onstration clubs of the county will
be hostesses to the members of the j
Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs of
Shelby and the Civitan club of
Kings Mountain at a real ‘ live-at
home" picnic dinner.
The preparations for the program
and menu are being made by Mrs.
Irma P. Wallace, home demonstra
tion agent, and officials of the sev
eral clubs.
Lever To Speak.
A. F. Lever, of Columbia. S. C.,
former congressman and now field
representative of the Federal farm
board, will be the guest speaker of
the evening.
The dinner is an annual affair
tendered by the club women of the
county, but this year the hostesses
have paramounted the live-at-home
idea and all food served will be
Cleveland county food.
Police Q»ef Gets
Foot Race Action
Prisoner Slips Out Court House Door
Is Caught After Five
Blocks.
Police Chief McBride Poston is
considerably heavier than he was
when he came home from the World
war, but frequently he encounters
enough action to keep in condition.
One of those unexpected work-outs
came this morning.
O. D. Davis, white, had been con
victed In county court on a worth
less check charge. He was being
held in custody until he could pay
the checks and costs. Chief Poston
started with him for the sheriff’s
office. In the main court lobby
Davis suddenly side-stepped out a
door and sped away. For five blocks
through alleys and along main
streets, the police chief pursued him
finally catching him in the fill along
the Jones place when other offi
cers headed off the fleeing man.
Bullet Bounces Off
Negro’s Forehead
Additional proof that some colored
people do have hard heads:
Late last night near Lawndale
George Howard (col.) shot another
negro in the head with a 33 special.
The bullet struck on the right side
of the forehead, but a slight flesh
wound, and then bounced off;
The injured negro was reported
to be all right today after “going
to see the doctor.” Howard is in
jail. A family row started the shoot
ing.
Mr. Lee To Manage
Insurance Office
Mr. J. H. Lee, formerly of Shelby,
has moved back from Lincolnton to
become manager of the Shelby of
fice of the Metropolitan Insurance
Company, office maintained in the
bank building. Mr. Lee succeeds
Mr. L. R. Comevin who recently
resigned his position with the Metro
politan. Mr. Lee has moved his
family to the Harris cottage at 308
West Marion Street. The Shelby
Metropolitan office is under the
direction of Mr. M. O. Culpepper,
head of the district office for this
*antpany at Gastonia.
Date Of County Farm
Tour Set For Aug. 25
I -
County Agent Plans
For Big Party
_ i
All Farmers Invited To Join Party
In Survey Of Some Leading
Farms In Cleveland.
—
Cleveland county's first farm
tour, in which a band of farmers
will visit about over their coun
ty and see what is going on, is
is set for Tuesday, August 25,
it was announced this week by
R. W. Shoffner, farm agent.
Mr. Shoffner says that every mao
who can do so should bring his own
automobile along and it is hoped
that several hundred farmers will!
join in the tour.
Educational, Neighborly.
Certain farming methods are be
ing used In some sections of the
county that are not in use in other
sections and it is believed the tour
will prove educational as well as
bringing the citizens of different
sections closer to each other in
common Interests and friendships.
At Court House.
The tour Is scheduled to start Rt
the court house Tuesday morning,
Aug. 25, at 9:30 o’clock. The first
visit, it is said, will be to the B.
Austell farm to look over his poul
try plant. The next lap will be to
B. P. Dixon’s to see his alfalfa,
lespedeza, and soy beans. From
Dixon's the party will move on to
Shuford Beam’s at Waco about 11:30
where more lespedeza and the value
of lime on soy beans will be seen.
Lunch will likely be eaten at the
Beam farm and about 1:30 the party
will set out for the Claude Falls'
place at Fallston for cotton-fertili
zer demonstrations. Leaving there
at 2:30 the party will go to R. W.
Wilson’s for cotton and soy bean
variety tests. At 3:30 the tour will
move to the R. G. Adams farm at
Lattlmore to see the lespedeza pas
ture and other things. The last stop
on the tour will be at the G. L.
Hamrick place to inspect his herd
of cattle.
The farm agent urges that all
farmers make plans to go—"and
bring along your lunch and your
wife.”
No. 3 Consolidated
Plans Fun Friday
A big time is being planned at
No. 3 Consolidated school on Fri
day of this week, the frolic to begin
at 3:15. An ice cream feed as well
as two ball games are on the pro
gram. The school team is planning
to play another school, perhaps
Mooresboro, then the truck drivers
and faculty of No. 3 will play the
school boys. The battery for the
faculty will be Prof. Lawton Blanton
pitcher and Dr. J. B. Davis, catcher
Watching the faculty and truck
drivers running should furnish an
eye full for everybody^
To Add Tax Penalty
To Unpaid City Tax
At the meeting of the city council
last night, it was ordered that a
penalty of five per cent be added
to all due and unpaid city taxes
Sept. 1st. After ■September, another
one per cent will be added as a
penalty of all unpaid 1930 taxes
and taxes due and unpaid for pre
vious years.
He Grow* Sunflower*
Size Of Shade Tree*
T. H. Brannon who lives on East
Sumter street grows sunflowers that
resemble shade trees in size. Tak
ing the measurements of the two
largest sunflowers on his lot, one
measures 13 feet high and the other
12 feet. One has 120 heads and the
other 105, although the heads are
not all open and deveftped.
Optometrist Here
With Dr. Morrison
Dr. W. S. Harrelson has come to
Shelby from Asheville to be associ
ated with Dr. D. M. Morrison, op
tometrist. Dr. Alexander is a grad
uate of Clemson college of the 1928
class and also a graduate of the
Northern Illinois College of Optom
etry, Chicago, in the class of last
June.
IN TODAYS STAR
Editorial Topics, Page 4—
“Can All Yon Can’t”
"Roosevelt and Tammany”
Real Food. A-l Cooks”
Heads Air Merger
P. G. Johnson (above), of Seattle,
Wash., hag been named president
of the newly organized United Air
Lines, formed by the merging of
the National Air Transport, Boeing
Air Transport, Pacific Air Trans
port and the Varney Air Lines.
The combined companies operate
about 120 planes, covering soma
12,000,000 miles of air travel an-:
nually and carrying about 60 per1
cent of the nation’s airmail.
Lions Club Will
Assemble School
Books This Year
Civic Club Seeks Second-Hand
Book S%r Poor Stadents.
Appeal Made.
The Shelby Lions club this week
inaugurated a movement to collect
second-hand school books to be
given children who will not be able
to purchase books next year.
In an appeal made to the general
public the club announcement says:
“With the opening of the city
schools within the next few weeks,
scores of children of school age will
enter without means of buying the
necessary text books. The Shelby
Lions club realizing the importance
of supplying these children with the
necessary textbooks is planning a
drive to collect second-hand school
books from the citizens of Shelby.
The Lions Club Is only asking for
second-hand books to be used in
this work.
"Do you really desire to do some
thing for the youngster who is
anxious for an education? If so
either get out those second-hand
school books used by your child or
mail the Lions Club a check for
whatever amount you care to con
tribute to this very commendable
project.
“Books or donations may be left
with the secretary of the Club, Dr.
Robt. L. Wilson in the Webb drug
store or upon calling him and books
will be called for.
jy in juu uu juui pai b I/O put
this matter over? Will you help
some youngster obtain the necessary
books for his years work in the
public schools of the city?”
The drive is given the endorse
ment of the school officials and of
the welfare department and the
books will be distributed by school
superintendents and principals
where most needed.
Last year the club gathered to
gether enough books for a circulat
ing library for rural schools. Other
books are now needed for the library
and anyone who may have novels
about their home are asked to con
tribute.
Canning At Peak
In Ellenboro Section
Ellenboro, Aug. 18.—Canning with
in the Ellenboro community was at
its peak last week when thousands
of cans of fruits and vegetables
were canned for home consumption
and for sale.
Most of the canning is still done
in glass but many Ellenboro people
are canning in tin which method
gives better flavor in the case of
many vegetables. More than 10.000
tin cans have been purchased for
the members of the Ellenboro can
ning association to date by the agri
cultural teacher for the school.
Now is the time to prepare for
winter and low priced cotton. Can
now and be ready for winter should
be the slogan for each community
and family
Would Reduce
Cotton Crops
Sarratt Would Tax
Excess Bales
Cleveland Connty Farmer Offers
Unique Plan For Aunrlni Slash
In Acreare •
Charlotte, Aug. 19.—W. C. Sarratt
of Karl, Cleveland county, prominent
farmer and cotton grower. In Char
lotte offers the suggestion that the
various cotton-producing states set
a uniform tax on cotton production
and thereby bring about the desired
reduction in acreage devoted to
cotton. This year he expects to pro
duce about 200 bales, he said.
Mr Sarratt’s plan, he believes,
would go a long way toward stabi
lizing the price of cotton by "can
ning” It, as he termed It. His plan
which he calls “A Recipe to 'Can'
Cotton,” follows:
"For all governors and lawmakers
of the cotton-producing states: In
stead of plowing up or allowing to
waste unpicked, as suggested by
some, it should be canned by im
mediate and strictly uniform legis
lation by all the several cotton-pro
ducing states arid should have the
hearty approval and co-operation of
President Hoover and the farm
board for various reasons.
Urges Uniform Laws.
"Make the law, or rather the laws,
strictly uniform and to apply only
to the crop raised in the year 1932,
ginned from June 1, 1932. to June
1, 1933, or any part ginned thereaft
er if grown in the year 1932; to be
collected by the ginners at the time
ginned and said funds to be paid
into the state treasury.
Kach cotton-producing state put
a minimum tax to five cents a
pound on (gross') (lint) cotton gin
ned, based on the first government
indicated yield for the United States
for 1932, up to 1,000,000 bales, with
one-fourth cent a pound to be add
ed for each one-fourth million or
fraction thereof as Indicated over a
million.
Kqultable Tax.
“An indicated yield of 1,000,001
bales, for Instance, would cost the
producer 5 1-4 cents a pound. A
5,000,000 indicated yield would cost
the producer a tax of nine cents a
pound. This would make those who
hogged the trough’ pay dearly and
to the advantage of these that play
ed fairly.
“This plan should first have the
approval of the governors of all cot
ton-producing states. Then each gov
emor should put the plan as unani
mously agreed upon by them and
give all legislators to understand
that nothing was to be taken from
or added to by any state; and if each
governor found there was a major
ity for the plan, then it would Justi
fy calling special sessions and on the
same day, otherwise it would be a
failure.
No Other Legislation.
“All legislators should be made to
understand that there would be no
other legislation or agitation under
any circumstances until at least
this was finished in all states, which
should be on the same day and same
hour
“I suggest Governor Sterling
(Texas) as the leader, with Gover
nor Gardner his assistant, as they
are both able and in almost the two
extreme sections of the cotton-pro
ducing area. This plan, if passed
would at least bring the price of
cotton to the cost of production and
would be a general stabilizer.
"The whole business* and financial
structure is now much like a tract
of land with a perfectly good title
but with all corners lost, with other
adjoining properties the same way.
Find the corner of one tract and all
the rest can be located or made.
"Stabilize cotton and business and
industry will find its bearing here
and throughout the world. It should
Clue to Nungesser's Fate
John Gaucher (left) and I* V. Allen are shown reading the note they
found In a Cognac bottle off Fire Island, near New York. The note,
reproduced below, la believed to be from C. M. Nungeoser and Maj.
Francois Coll, the Intrepid French fllen who took off from Pari* on
May 8, 1927, on a non-stop flight to New York. They were never
heard of again. Translated from the French the note reads: "Sink
ing at this moment In Labrador." It bears a signature believed to be
that of Coll.
Capt. Peyton McSwain Says He
Will Run For Attorney General
Sbriby Man Admits In SaMstoary
That He Is A Candidate
Now.
Salisbury, Aug. 19.—Payton Mc
Swain, of Shelby, expects to be a
candidate for attorney general of
North Carolina In 1932, The Poet
learned yesterday.
Mr. McSwain admitted that he
questioned by a Poet reporter bat
expected to be in the race when
said that he did not oare to make1
a formal announcement as the pri
maries were tqo far off to begin an
active campaign.
Although here to address the Ro
tary club Mr. McSwain spent most
of the day talking to former friends
whom he knew while a student at
the University of North Carolina
and as a soldier with the wildcat
division in Prance.
Mr. McSwain was one of the key
men in the senate during the fa
mous legislative battle over taxes
this year. He has been active in the
North Carolina general assembly for
the past ten years when he was
elected to the house from Cleveland
; county.
Mr. McSwain Is a brother of Pat
McSwain, assistant manager of the
Capitol theatre here.
He was born in Shelby in 189j
and admitted to the bar In 1916 and
has practiced law in Shelby since
that date with the exception of the
war years when he served with the
322nd Infantry of the 81st division.
He is a member of th4 Presbyte
rian church, a Shriner, member of
A. P. of A. M., Oasis Temple and
the American legion.
During his ten years of service <n
the legislature, he has acquired
many friends and is expected by
his friends here to make a success
ful campaign.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Allen left
Tuesday morning for their home In
Wilmington. Mr. Allen came up for
the week-end and was accompanied
home by Mrs. Allen who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. J. L. Grice
here.
be agreed that each legislator be
paid expenses and for time served
only, which should not exceed six
or eight days.”
First Boll Of
Cotton Opened
Here Yesterday
Aa open boll of cotton—the
first of the season In Cleveland
oownty—was being exhibited
In Shelby yesterday morning.
August 18, by M. H. Bermil
lion, who farms the Beatty
place for the Blanton brothers
jost west of Shelby.
It Is one of the earliest
open bolls In the history of
the eoanty. It will be some
time lytet, It is said, before
enough cotton will be open to
start picking, but the nnnsu
ally hot weather has caused
the crop to develop rapidly.
The variety of cotton grown
by Mr. Bermillion is the Coker
Farm Relief.
Another Boll Of
Open Cotton Here
Grown By J. P. Wood In Hopper
Park Section. Also Of Coker
Variety.
Another open boll of cotton was
reported in Shelby yesterday, being
brought in by J. P. Wood, who lives
in the Hopper park section just
north of the city.
The boll brought in by him, fully
open, came in just a short time
after one was brought in by Mr.
Bermilllon, as stated above.
The Wood cotton is of the Coker
884 variety.
Docket la Light.
The docket in the county court
session here today was light, only
four cases coming up for trial. The
sessions before the recorder have
been light all week but a large num
ber of jury cases are booked for
hearing on Friday which Is "jury
day."
Greater Unity Urged In Southern States
Necessary For Progress, Gardner Declares
Charlotte, Aug. 19.—Gov. O.
Max Gardner, In a statement
Issued here by the Southeastern
Economic Council called upon
the southeastern states to “de
velop their possibilities” for the
“benefit of the entire section.”
“Modern means of communi
cation and transportation have
undermined the very basis of
social, political and economic
isolation,” the governor said.
“Just as America is finding
herself irresistibly drawn into
the main currents of world
thought and politics by business,
so do the states and sections of
the United States find that an
cient barriers have disappeared
and their own economic self
preservation depends upon the
general business health and
prosperity of the whole country.
"North Carolina manufactures
textiles, furniture and tobacco
to supply not only a country
wide but a world-wide market.
The game is true of these and
other lines of commodities of
every state. If the farmers of
Georgia, Alabama, Florida or
any other American state are
not prosperous, it is of immed
iate and vital concern to vtr
finia, North Carolina and Che
rest of the country.
“The southeastern states are
subject not only to the laws and
forces which underlie and con
trol the business and industry
of a modern world but are pe
culiarly bound together by reas
on of the broad unity which pre
vades the various states and
fives direction to their own
fundamental material interests.
“Through united approach,
these states can develop their
possibilities to the highest ex
tent and do the entire section
much benefit.”
City Sets Tax Rate;
McMurry Is Manager
Sum Allotted For Managerial Work But Mc
Murry Not To Draw Additional Salary, He
Say*. Tax Division Shown.
At last night’s meeting of the city council, the city’s tax
rate of $1.15 was divided for the various purposes, after a 10
cent reduction had been authorized about two weeks ago
from a total rate of $1.25 last year to $1.15 this year.
Shelby Debt Is
$l,182,000Now,
Audit Reveals
Cash Disbursements For f'itv In
IS Months Over
$300,000.
The magnitude of the cay's busi
ness Is revealed In the annual audit
of the City of Shelby as prepared
by Oeo. O. Scott and Co., certified
accountants of Charlotte, who have
Just completed the audit of the ctty's
books which show that the cash
disbursements for the thirteen -
month period, ending June 30, to
be $324,210,80.
The audit covers a thirteen month
period rather than a year, because
the last Oeneral Assembly passed a
general act requiring all cities to
end their fiscal year with June 30th.
Shelby had been closing her year’s
books with May 30th.
Revenue for the general fund
amounts to $129,400. the largest
single amount of which is receipts
from property tax which amounts
to $9(5,825.54 of the foregoing amount
The largest single revenue which the
city has Is from electric service
which amounted during the 13
month period to $137,223. Other
sources of revenue to the light de
partment brought the total receipts
for this department during the 13
month period to $141,278.96. The
city paid the Duke Power Company
for current consumed $63,556.23 dur
ing the 13 month period.
It is revealed in the report that
the water department brought in a
revenue of $42,021.06.
Bonds Oatstanding.
According to the audit the bond
ed indebtedness of the city at the
end of the fiscal year June 30th
was $1,182,000. There had been re
tired during the past year $69,000
and paid on bonded interest the past
year $68,495. During the coming
year the city will have $59,000 in
bonds to retire and $62,285 interest
on bonded Indebtedness to pay,
making a total of $121,285 In bonded
debt obligations to meet during this
present fiscal year.
The audit is in file in the city hall
and is open for public inspection to
tax payers. Mayor McMurry says
a condensed summary of the audit
is being prepared by the auditors
for publication in a newspaper as
is required by law’.
York Kicks On N. C.
Link Of Highway
Wants Road Improved From South
Carolina Line To Kings
Mountain.
York, Aug. 18.—North Carolina
famed for the excellence of its
roads, is receiving much adverse
criticism because of the deplorable
condition of the North Carolina end
of the highway between York and j
Kings Mountain, which is a link of
the road leading from York, Chester
and other counties to Asheville via
Shelby and Chimney Rock.
York county has a good surfaced
treated road to the Cleveland coun
ty line—and there the trouble begins
From the Cleveland county line to
Kings Mountain, a distance of six
miles, the road is of the red clay
variety, without any top soiling. In
dry weather it is all right but in
rainy weather the cars skid and slide
stall and go into ditches. Motorists
dread to travel the road after a
single heavy rain.
Legion Broadcasts
On Fire Prevention
Radio fans in this section are
urged to tune in Saturday- night.
August 22, at 8:30 on the fire pre
vention program to be broadcast by
the American Legion. WBT at
Charlotte is one of the stations in
the hook-up.
Inspection On.
City Fire Chief J. R. Robinson
states that the annual fire inspec
tion of the buildings in the busi
ness section of the city is to get
underwav at once.
The rate inside the city limits
for thisyear is analyjsed as follows:
Corporate tax .20.8«
School tax _..._ 30c
School bonds and Int._27c
Bonds and Interest_...... 28.f>«r
Total city rate _ .. 1.18
Outside School District.
Outside Dtst. for schools 30c
Outside Dist. for bonds and mt. 27c
Total . 57c
Made City Manager.
At the regular monthly meeting
of the city council the first Tues
day night of this month. Mayor Mc
Murry was elected city manager, ant
the budget for the present year was
adopted. In the budget the sum of
$3,600 is set aside as combined
salary ol the mayor and city man
ager and this has given rise to the
rumor that the mayor’s salary has
been increased to $3,600 a year.
Only In Budgrt.
When Mayor McMurry was ap
proached about this matter, h*
stated: "My salary remains as here
tofore, $200 per month or $2,400 a
year. That amount for city manager
was put in the budget In order to
provide for any emergencies that
might arise, Just as other estimated
expenditures were set up higher
than we expect them to be. The
board has not discussed any increase
in salary In session and I have
asked for no salary increase, but
the appropriation has been made
In the budget and If the financial
condition of the city should justify.
1 could be paid an increase.”
Mayor McMurry reiterated that
he had not asked for a salary in
crease. that such a subject had not
been discussed in the meeting as
sembled and that his present salary
is as formerly, $200 per month.
Store In Entered
At Kings Mtn.
About *700 Worth Of Goods Taker
From Store. Most All
Clothing.
Kings Mountain, Aug. 19.—Rob
bers entered the store of the King;
Mountain Mercantile Co. Sundaj
night and stole merchandise v&luec
from *700 to *800. Entrance was
made through the back by breaking
a glass.
Among the goods stolen were IS
men's suits, 40 ladles’ silk dreses, SO
pairs of shoes, eight dozen men's
shirts and a quantity of small ac
cessories. No arrests have been made
and no clue as to who the robbers
were has been discovered yet. Ac
cording to the Manager John Anton,
the goods taken were the best qual
ity of good in the store.
Negroes Use Knife,
Bottle In Battle
Joe Good and Beaver Clinton,
both colored of Kings Mountain, are
in the county jail here waiting until
their injuries and wounds improve
to the extent that they may attend
a court hearing as defendants. They
engaged in a fight last night at
Kings Mountain, one using a knife,
officers say, while the other used a
soda-pop bottle. One was carved up
considerably while the other had a
leg badly bruised by a bottle
Condrey Child Dies
Of Whooping Cough
Betty Lou, fourteen months old
child of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Cond
rey who lives on N. Washington St.,
died at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning
of whooping caugh and pheumonia.
Funeral will take place this after
noon at 2 o'clock at Double Springs
Baptist church.
39-Pound Cantaloupe
Exhibited In Shelby
Mr, O. C. Dixon, well known coun
ty citizen, was in Shelby yesterday
exhibiting an unusually large can
taloupe-one that pushed the scales
up to 39 pounds.
Mr. Dixon also contributed a nice
watermelon “feed” to The Star foroe
as did Mr. D. P Byers.