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10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVli, No. 131 SHELBY, N. 0. MONDAY, NOV. 2, 1931 Published Monday, Wednseday and Friday Afternoons. By Mull, per yaar, <tn Advance) — $3.69 Carrier, per year, (in advance\ tiiwi I Late News THE MARKET Cotton, spots .... 6|i to 7c Cotton seed, per ton .. $12.00 • Ten ton lots $13.50i !• air And Cooler. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and continued cool, light frost tonight. Tuesday fair with rising temperature. Cannon To Court. Washington. Nov. 2.—Three years after the last Presidential election. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., faces an explanation in court of his anti Smith political activities. Charged with wilfully violating the Federal corrupt practices law, the Southern Methodist churchman was called for his answer today before the Dis trict of Columbia Supreme court. Beside the thin gray figure of the t»2-year-old cleric at the bar of Justice James Proctor’s criminal court will stand Miss Ada L. Bur roughs, of Richmond. Va., treasurer of his anti-Smith Democratic com mittee, who was indicted with him on 10 counts alleging failure to re port campaign fund contributions. McSwain Thinks Special Session Will Do No Good Thinks Relief 'For Cotton Farmers Beyond Jurisdiction Of Assembly. Senator Peyton McSwain joins with Representative Henry B. Ed wards and a big majority of the other lawmakers in North Caroline in the opinion that a special ses sion of the state legislature could do little to boost the price of cot ton and tobacco. The Shelby senator, who is a candidate for attorney general In 1932, tells Governor Gardner in a letter that he Is perfectly willing to attend a special session if the gov ernor considers it wise. He is, like wise, ready to do his part in any movement that would help the farmer and others recover from the depression. He expresses the belief, however, that a cure of economic conditions is beyond the jurisdiction of a special state session. A portion of his letter to the governor is quoted as follows: “Personally, I do not want to have to go back for an extra ses sion. However, if you thing that It will help us get out of this depres sion and increase the price of cot ton and tobacco, I am perfectly willing to come back to Raleigh and do my part. “in my opinion our present econ omic condition is due to causes over which our state legislature would have no jurisdiction. The farmers of the west are confronted with the same problem of low prices for their grain crops as we are with our cotton and tobacco. Labor n confronted with the problem of find a job and with low wages In dustry is confronted with the prob lem of finding a market. The de pression has hit every class and industry, bur nation is badly ir need of some statesmanship ana leadership at Washington.” Club Members Will Gather On Saturday Home Demonstration Officials To Hold Important Session In Shelby. Leaders from the sixteen demons at ration clubs in the county will meet in the office of the home demonstration agent on Saturday. November 7 at 2:30 p. in., it is an nounced by Mrs. Fov Putnam, fed ♦ ration president, and Mrs. Irma P Wallace, agent. At this meeting plans for Achieve ment Day and the weak for the en suing year will be discussed and de cided upon. General plans for the • early club reports, and many other items of business that pertain to the ending and beginning of the year's work. Every leader is urged to be pres ent. and all presidents that can at tend. If every one is on time, it wilt add greatly to the dispatch of busi ness, and insure a more interesting meeting. County Court Will Have Night Trials While Superior court is in session here this week, and possibly next, ell sessions of.the Cleveland county recorder’s court will be held at 7:30 each night. This announcement was made this morning by Recorder Maurice R. Weathers. Mill Workers Given Hallowe’en Barbecue Employes of the Ora and East side textile plants were’ given a barbecue at Cleveland Springs Sat urday’ pvening. The feed was in the nature of a prize at the conclusion of a production contest at the plants Talk About Special Session Covers State Governor Receiving j Many Messages Sentiment ('hanging Tobacco Fro- j ducts Lead. Other Raleigh News. (Star News Bureau.) Raleigh. Nov. 2.—"Special >es sions” talk continues to be one of ] the main considerations in Raleigh and over the state, but the trend has been changed as a result of the ac tion of Governor Gardner toward a conference of the governors of four j principal bright tobacco states, I along with three or four agricul tural figures, to see if uniform ac tion can be taken toward relief for the tobacco growers from low prices and restriction of acreage to; prevent further overproduction next year again. The plans under way call for a meeting of Governor Pollard. Vir- j ginia; Governor Blackwood, South j Carolina, and Governor Russell, j Georgia, with Governor Gardner, probably in Charlotte on Friday of this week, to consider joint action on the tobacco situation. Three or j four others Interested in tobacco1 and agriculture generally, to be named by the governors, would be asked to the conferenced While leg islation might result, it is not thought this method would be agree able. Just what form the action would take is problematical. Not Tabulated. Fully 500 messages, letters, tele- j grams and calls, had come to Gov-! ernor Gardner's office during the last few days and up to Saturday, Secretary Edwin Gill reported, sav ing these messages had not been tabulated and it is impossible to say how many are for and how many against the special session of the . general assembly. Belief was ex pressed that the majority were against the governor's calling the legislature together for cotton and tobaeco acreage reduction. The messages are being tabulated and ! classified. Governor Gardner's message ear ner in the week that no power or influence could force him to call a session and that no power or in fluence could force him to refrain from calling one. depending upon i his own convictions as to whether it would be desirable from the point of view of the people of the state, j has brought forth many forms of [Comment. Approval of the senti ; ment was given in an editorial by : Josephus Daniels, who brought out | that Governor Gardner should not i be influenced by the opposition to ! the special session, as expressed by j Norman A. Cocke, head of an in j dustrial group. Mr. Daniels Is given j credit for being the greatest pro | ponent of the special session move ! ment. and of promoting the move ; ments seeking to influence Gover (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.! Wall Stars In Wake Fresh Football Game Zeno Wall, son of Dr. and Mrs. Zeno Wall of Shelby and former | slat at Shelby High and Boiling Springs, was again the star for the | Wake Forest football team as it de feated the Duke fresh Saturday 19 i to 0. Starring along with the Im pound field general was Boney, an other former Boiling Springs play ; er. In Friday’s game between the | fresh elevens of Carolina and State Ralph Gardner, son of Governor and Mrs. Gardner, played center . for Carolina. Reno Divorce Unloosens 3,234 Knots In Six Months Of Easy Divorce July Biggest Month for Nevada’s Six-Weeks Divorce rian. Beno, Nev., Nov. 2 —Ties that fet tered more than 3.000 married couples were severed by the Reno courts during the first half-year of Nevada's new six-week divorce law. During the same six months it is estimated that Reno divorce law yers were enriched by nearly $500, 000 and approximately $128,000 was paid out in court and filing fees. Enacted by the last legislature as a "boon to humanity” and to meet threatened competition by Arkan sas and other states, the six-week law more than fulfilled the fond est expectations, of its authors and definitely resulted in the gradua tion of divorce into the big business 1 class. Tire 3,234 divorce complaints filed jin Reno during the last six months alone exceeded by more than 1,000 the high total for any preceding 12 months in the history of Washoe county. A corresponding increase was noted in several of the 16 oth er counties in Nevada. Marital misfits from every state in the union, the District of Colum bia, Philippine Islands, Hawaii and 13 foreign countries were in the grist ground out by the six-week mill since the wheels began turn ing on May 1 effective ^iate of the new law. Sons of the wealthy, bar ons and baronesses, the wife of an opera singer, artists, directors of talking pictures, a former heavy weight boxing champion of the world, business leaders and just plain every day people were includ ed in the heterogeneous collection. The mill whirred at its greatest speed during July when 700 com plaints were filed with the Washoe county clerk Record Month In Cleveland Court October was the heaviest month on record for the Cleveland county recorder’s court, according to the monthly report of ('has. Woodson, deputy clerk. A total of 222 cases were disposed of by the court dur ing the month. The efficiency of the court was demonstrated by the fart that in the 222 cases there were approximately 195 con victions. Around two-thirds of the cases, or 150, were charges de veloping from some violation of the prohlbitio nlaw. Plan For South Wide Campaign List Of Teachers Who Conduct Schools In Preparation For Every-Member Canvass At thirty-two Baptist churches of the county this week, there will be a series of classes held each even ing, beginning tonight and continu ing through Friday night In the in terest of the every-member canvass which will be conducted through out the south. Mr, Henry Edwards is director or chairman of the com mittee which has charge of the campaign in the Kings Mountain association. The every-member can vass will be held November 23 through December 6. * The teachers for the classes to be held each evening in thirty-two of the 41 churches of the Kings Moun tain association are announced as follows: Beaver Dam church, Rev O. P Abernethy; Bethlehem church, Dr. C. J. Black; Bolling Springs church, Rev. J. L. Jenkins; Carpenters Grove church, Mrs. C. C. Falls; Cacar church, Rev. W G Camp: Double Shoals church, J. W. Cost ner; Double Springs chiirch, A. I Calton; Dover church, Rev. Wal drop; Eastside church, Rev. W. A Elam; Elizabeth church, J. O, Sum merline; Fallston church, Mrs. W F. Hamrick; Grover church, Mr. Bumgardner; Kings Mountain First church, T. L. Justice; Kings Moun tain Second church, R. L. Channey; Lawndale church. G. T. Cabaniss or John Cornwell; Macedonia church, Paul Horn; Mount Sinai church, O P. Hamrick; Mulls Chapel church C, A, Ledford; New Bethel church J. V. Devenny; New Hope church B. F. Bird; New Prospect, WE Lowe; Norman Grove church, Mrs J. P. Boggs; Patterson Grove church. Ret. J. W. Suttle; Patterson Spring. church, C. F. McSwain; Pleasant Grove church, V. A. Gardner; Pleasant Ridge church, Miss Ola Glascoe; Poplar Springs church Rev. W. C. Lynch; Union church, Mrs Harris; Waco church, Dr. J B. Davis; Zion church, Rev, D. G. Washburn; Zoar church. John P. Mull. Buys Out Branton. John W, Dorsey has purchased the Modern Cleaners pressing club oit South LaFayette street from Worth Branton, Mr. Dorsey took charge, Saturday and will operate under the same name. Starts Navy ‘‘War” William Howard Gardiner (above), j president of the ■ Navy League, ; Washington, D. C., whose biting critlelsm of President Hoover’s plan for economy In the IT. S. Navy has brought two rebukes from the White House and the statement that the president expects an apology from Gardiner. The Navy League head declared Mr. Hoover showed “abys mal ignorance” in naval affairs. Boiling Springs Gets Encouraging Response To Plea | __ . j Supporters Of Baptist School Rally To Call Made By | College. '_ j A plea for cooperation made last week by Boiling Springs college is having encouraging results. A statement issued today by of ficials of the Baptist college says: "The response of the churches of the Kings Mountain and Sandy Run associations to the recent ap peal for cooperation from the chairman of the board of trustees shows clearly that our people are going to see to it that Boiling Springs college is going to live and be adequately supported. “Race Path church in the Sandy Run association sent a truck load of provisions a few days ago worth about $32.00. Mount Pleasant church in the same association has sent word that an equal amount will be donated from that church in the next few days. Concord, in Sandy Run, lias sent one load of wheat j corn, potatoes, cotton seed and can ned goods, and expects to send more soon. Macedonia church in the Kings Mountain association sent $11 in cash and also the information that the school has been placed in their budget for one hundred dol j lars. Mount Beulah church In the I Gaston association sent a load of provisions, and the pastor. Rev. W, j G. Camp, feels confident that all : of his churches will place the school i in their budgets. . “The following churches have al ready placed the school in their | budgets and are sending money reg I ularlv by the month: First Baptist | church. Shelby; Second Baptist .church, Shelby; Boiling Springs I Alexander, Eastside. Elizabeth. High Shoals and New Hope. Money is al so beginning to come in from the sale of cotton planted for the school. “While all of tills is encouraging and is helping to give temporary relief, we want to urge the neces sity oi every church doing two things: send some provision or money now to temporarily tide over the present crisis, and see to it that the college Is placed in your budget for an amount sufficient to permanently assure Its existence and growth.” Officer* Capture Big Whiskey Plant ; Nab 80-Gallon Still Along Hickory Creeks 3 Miles From | City. A big 80-gallon liquor plant was | lound and seized on Hickory creek, three miles south of Shelby, Satur i day morning. j Officers making the capture were ! j Deputies Bob Kendrick, Buren Ded ! mon and Ben Cooper No whiskey or beer was found at j j the distillery, but the plant was ! j full of beer at the time of the raid.1 Cleveland 13th In Ownership Of Autos In State Has More Cars Than Average County 5,090 Cars And Trucks Here. Gull ford I,rad* In Stale. Onl.r It of the 100 countie* In North Carolina hare more au - tomobllr* and trucks than Cleveland county, according to a report of the state motor ve hicle bureau. Cleveland ha* 6,325 automobile and 765 trucks. Guilford Ahead. Guilford county, with a total of 27.680 motor vehicles, leads the state, Mecklenburg Is third and Porsvth second. Other counties leading Cleveland In number of automobiles are Ala mance, Buncombe, Davidson. Dur ham, Gaston, Rockingham, Rowan «nd Wake. The total number of automobiles and trucks in counties neighboring Cleveland are as follows: Burke, 3.040; Catawba. 6,475; Lincoln, 3, 150: Rutherford, 5.110. The Btate has a total of 411.215 automobiles and trucks, the aver age for the county on the 100 county basis, being 4,112, or nearly 3,000 less than the autos and trucks in Cleveland, Property On Block For Delinquent Tax City And County Selling Property Today For $46,000 Unpaid 1930 Taxes. The City of Bhelby and the Coun ty of Cleveland were today selling at auction city and county property on which 1930 taxes have not been paid. The amount of unpaid city taxes was $18,476.52 and the total unpaid county tax was $28,155.82, a grand total of $46,632.34. These taxes re present the assessed levy on a little more than four hundred thousand dollars worth of real estate. The unpaid sum Is not unusually large and If the Seaboard railroad tax of $13,000 were paid the unpaid county taxes would be less than usual. The city sale was held at 10 o’clock this morning and the county sale began at noon. Due to conditions the sale was postponed from Spring until Fall. Dr. Kendall Returns To Practice Medicine Native Of The City And Son Of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Kendall Locates Here. Dr. Benjamin H. Kendall has rt> turned to Shelby, his native home, to practice medicine. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bloom H. Kendall, and has decided to locate here aft er years of ;' booling and practice, having opened offices today in the Lineberger building. After graduating from the 8helby High school, Dr. Kendall spent four years at the University of North Carolina where he was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. La ter he studied medicine at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and completed his course of study for the M. D. de gree at the University of Maryland After his graduating there he was resident physician at the Univers ity hospital which position he fill ed with great credit. A short time ago he was appointed head surgeon to equip a fleet of ships for the In ternational Merchant Marine, oper ating passenger and freight steam ers between Baltimore and Ham burg. This position he resigned, having decided to locate in his na tive home to do a general prac tice. Tax-Paying Rush On In Shelby Saturday The busiest place in Shelby Sat urday was the office of Sheriff Irvin M. Allen, more taxes being collected there during the day than on any day this year. Among the many paying Satur day were some paying their delin quent 1930 taxes before the sale oi property today and others who were paying their 1931 taxes to get the benefit of the discount offered in October. Sherrill (Snooky) Lineberger, of Shelby, son of Mr. and Mrs. J, D. Lineberger, has been elected presi dent of the Pi Kappa Alpha fra ternitv pledges at Duke university. Claims Reputation Is Hurt N»n Britton, author of "The President’* Daughter." and hrr l*-year old daughter, whom she named Elisabeth Ann BHtton Harding are shown at Toledo, Ohio, as the trial of a *50,000 libel snH brought against a Marion, Ohio, hotel keepe r by the authoress was begun. Miss Britton seeks damages from C. A, K lank, who wrote "The Answer to the President’s Daughter’ and who sold the book In his hotel. She maintains her reputation has been harmed to the extent of *50,000. The child was not allowed In eouri. Prepare Mules, Dogs For Armistice Races Boy* Getting Bike* Beady For Brent. Mpch Interest Shown. Cleveland county’* find for mal Armistice Day celebration In yean Is developing much en thusiasm over the county. The American Legion program, In addition to furnishing a galaxy pf entertainment Wednesday afternoon week, will offer the opportunity to settle quite a number of argument* about the fastest mule, the fastest horse, and the speediest flivver In the county. And It will bring anoth er chanca to decide the constant controversy over the fleetest fox hounds and rabbit dogs. Getting Ready. All about Shelby and Cleveland county boys of 16 years and under are oiling up their bicycles for the half-mile bike race. This feature of the program at the fairgrounds as sures that every youngster in this section who owns a bicycle will be present. There is more to it for them than the prises. Every boy who en ters the race will be admitted tree to the remaining portion of the program. The bike race will open up the event and will be followed by a series of races that are varied enough to interest every one. There will be a fox race for the foxhounds, a rabbit race, around the fail track, for the rabbit dogs, and p free-for-all race in which dogs of all breeds and descriptions may be entered. Mulct, Horses, Flivvert. Then will come the races that should bring out the entire country side—the mule race, the running horse race, and the model T Ford race. Entries in these races will be restricted to the county and it will be the first affair of it stype in which county mules and horses may exhibit their speed. Another Business Gainning Steadily Now In South; New Activities Opened Up New Building Started, Industrial Plants Add More Workers. Atlanta, Ga„ Nov. 2.—The Chesa peake and Potomac Telephone com pany has expended $2,4000,000 of the $3,100 000 to be spent on Vir ginia plants and equipment this year. At Canton, N. C . near Asheville the Champion Fibre company ha., announced plans for a $1,000,000 addition to its paper mills there. In that same section, at Marble, N. C., new marble quarries are be ing opened. At Wilmington, mill activity Is being increased, and a new boat line for that seaport if being formed. New Charlotte Theatre Plans for a $50 000 community theatre in Charlotte have been an nounced, while at Durham, work i still going forward on the Duke uol'-ersitr building' orogrem Artj addition is being mad£ to Oteen hospital near Asheville. Road building in South Carolina where the state is spending millions on hard surfaced highways, is giv ing employment to citizens In al most every section of the state. Work on a new government vet eran’s hospital to cost more than $1,000,000 will begin shortly near Columbia, At Laurens, a new silk mill is to be constructed soon that will give employment of 140 addi tional men. In the lower part of the state, work on hunting preserves and es tates at this time of the year gives seasonal employment to many fam ilies. First of the new' buildings of the $2,500,000 Marine hospital, govern ment project in Louisiana, will be Occupied within 30 days. Every major industrial plant ir. iCQWTIOTKP OJ» T*K Legion’s Armistice Committee To Meet A mrrtlnt of the Warren Hoyle American Legion pout committee, which will iponnor the Armistice Day event at the county fair grounds, will he held Tuesday night at T:30 at the County court house. At this session the Legion of ficials will work out further de tails of teh program to be given for charity at the fairgrounds on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, November II. j ; -- Lawrence Barrett, Young Barber, Dies Funeral Will Be Held Tuesday At Second Baptist Church. Wife And Two Children. Lawrence Barrett, well known Shelby barber, died this morning at 9 o'clock at his home in South Shelby following an illness extend ing over a period of eleven months. Mr, Barrett was popular about town and was considered very efficient at- the trade he followed. He Is sur vived by his wife and two children, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Barrett, one brother and four sis ters. Mr. Barrett was a faithful mem ber of the Second Baptist church and 39 years of age. His funeral will be conducted from the Second Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Revs. L. L. Jessup, J. B. Davis, w. A Elam and J. L. Jenkin* Interment will be at Pat terson Springs church. Misses Sadie and Charlotte Bev erly spent the week-end in Burling ton with their sister. Mrs. Ed Bos well Judge May Put Idle Sheiks In Cotton Fields Term Of Superior Court Opens Picking Cotton Better Than Living On Someone Rise, Judge Moore Declares. Judge Walter E. Moore, pre siding over the term of superior court which convened here this morning, may help Cleveland county tanners get their cotton picked. Ills Idea of going about It is to round up the Idle sheiks and soda cowboys, who will not work unless they find the par ticular work they desire, and cend them out to pick cotton and peas, or else. The charge of Judge Moore, srtu la presiding over his second term here, was one of frank talking in stead of an oratorical colectlon of platitudes and pretty phrases. He told the grand jurors some of the things wrong with the country to day, expressed regret at some of the angles In which modem times do not measure up to the past, and of fered plain, workable remedies for these Ills. Auto Tragedies. He emphasised the alarming number of deaths In auto accidonts the larceny of automobiles, th« missing activity somewhere that brings on bank failures, the refusal of some Idle people to try to help themselves, and the abuhdance of , worthless checks. Worthless Youths. He particularly stressed the ldis ness of many young people when "the fields of your fine county an still white with cotton." "I noticed In the papers that the farmers of this county have found it difficult to get the nefr ssary lab or to get their cotton and peas picked and their crops harvested,* he said. “I see where people refused to pick cotton at the prevailing price and to pick peas for half. Peo ple like that do not want to help themselves; they'd rather loaf about and depend upon others to feed them. What they can make in the cotton fields may not be much but the man who goes out and works ! and makes six dollars a week is do ing what he can and he has thai much at the end of the week If be doesn't, he is being fed and cared for by others. There is no excuse for him not doing what he can. And the man who can pick peas for half should do so. He would certainly be getting himself - and his family something to eat. I have no respect and no sympathy for the fellow who hangs around and refuses to work when there Is work because It isn't the work he desires, you’ll notice < CONTINUED ON SACK TSNj No Major Hearings For Court Session jC. M. Hamrick, Bolling Sprint*, Foreman Of Grand Jury Here. Following Judge Moore's charge to the jury and other opening for malities, which were briefly dispos ed of, the fall term of Superior court got down to a steady grind this morning. Solicitor Spurgeon Spurllng, of i Lenoir, is prosecuting, and C. M. : Hamrick, of Boiling Springs, is fore man of the grand Jury. Deputy Gus ; Jolley is acting as court officer and Deputy Henry McKinney is grand jury officer. Although quite a heavy docket faces the week of criminal court, which precedes a week of civil court, no cases of outstanding in terest are scheduled to be tried. No new murder cases are on the dock et, but two or three old ones have been carried over, and at least two rape charges are expected to be heard. Among the cases brought over from the last term, when It ended In a mistrial, is the charge against Paul Wilkerson, young South Carolina man, whose auto mobile Is alleged to have featured in an accident which fatally Injur ed an aged resident at Moores boro It was announced this morning that the case would In all probabil ity be taken up Wednesday. Another case of interest Is that of Ralph Foust. Last spring Foust and another were accused of steal ing an automobile from the Esk ridge garage. They were given 10 tc 20 years each. More than a month ago Fonst escaped from the State prison farm at Raleigh, returned i here and broke in, it is alleged, the : same garage, and then took a car [ from another. He has been in Jail since and will likely face Judge Moore for the wood time
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