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110 PAGES I TODAY i By Mml. per year, <ln advance) - is si Currier, per year, <ui advance) IJ.PC Late News j ■ THE MARKET I Cotton, spot __ n to «V,r Cotton Seed, per ton .$15 Fair Tuesday . Today’s North Carolina Weathei Report: Fair tonight and Tuesday. I.ittle change in temperature Constance Marries. Hollywood. Calif., Nov. 23.—Con stance Bennett of the stage and i screen Bennett family, was married 1 here yesterday to the recently di- j , vorced husband of Gloria Swanson, the Marquis Henri le Ballly de la > Falaise dc la Coudraye, of the > French nobility. The wedding was performed at the home of George j F'itimaurice. director, by the Hon. I.ewis R. Work, a presiding civil ap- ! pelate justice. The couple stood In an alcove at the end of an English ! drawing room, flower decorated,; while a double ring ceremony was solemnized. The rings were plain : platinum bands. I ___' ■ Negro Seriously Injured In Car Wreck Saturday Mangled l.eg Amputated At Hos pital Here Sunday. Proctor Said To Be Driver. Harrison Degree, negro farm hand on the O. C. Dixon place near Shelby. I* In the Shelby hospital with serious injuries j and one leg missing as the re- j suit of being struck by an auto mobile in east Shelby early Sunday night. Degree, officers say. was struck. | ■while pushing another car out of j gas, by an automobile alleged to have been driven by Vernon Proc lor. former Southern agent in Shel- j by but. now living in Spindale. The crash took place on the j Cleveland Springs road in the Bel- i - edere Heights .tertian and near the j ■*. home of Rochel Hendrick. Another Struck. Information given officers had it; that Degree and three other colored' rneh were in an automobile which ; i an out of gas. They got out and ; ■were pushing it along the highway, going east, with the hope of getting over the hill so that they could v toast down nearer a service station. > "The other automobile, also going: east and said to be driven ty Proc tor, came along and struck the carj being pushed oh the rear side. De-j , tree was jammed in between in the. impact and Charlie Degree, another j one of the pushers, was injured. Degreewas picked up and rushed to the Shelby hospital with his right leg broken below the knee and con siderably mangled. Such was the condition of the leg that it was am putated Sunday morning by hospital surgeons. Charlie Degree was bruis ed and lacerated and was said to be s in bed today but did not enter the hospital. Proctor’s car was damaged about the front in the crash. He had left i he scene, officers say, when they arrived. His brother, a railroad em ploye here, sought to arrange a bond yesterday until a preliminary in vestigation could be made. It was later learned, officers stated today, that Proctor will be down from Spindale tonight for an investiga tion hearing. Picture Shows To Give Charity Show; Will Co-operate With the Welfare Committee in Raising Rands Here. Both the Carolina and the Webb theatres of this place will give their hearty co-operation to the Welfare committee in raising funds during the winter months, it was an nounced a few days ago by Mana gers Webb end Reynolds. These picture show managers volunteered to give each a s-how a week, the entire proceeds to be turn ed over to the committe. The benc r fit performances will begin Decem ber 1st. Betwen December 1st and » December 5th both show houses will put on benefit performances and follow with shows each week, the hours and names of the films to br announced later. It is understood that the picture producers are also giving their hearty co-operation to the cause through the nation and will supply advertising matter to the ’ show houses. Legion Meeting On Here Tuesday Night A special meeting of the Warren Hoyle Post of the American Legion will be held Tuesday evening at , 7 .10 o’clock, it is announced by commander Peyton MrSwain Among other items of business in* «eter5»ns v *n discuss the dispo sHlon of the charity money raised in their Armistice Day program .S! Interest Wanes In t S. P. U. Plant Offer Board WiM Discuss Offer Soon Not As Much Controversy. Onr Rc-j port Says Offer Will Never Uave Board. The city-wide controversy that spread over Shelby last week when the Southern Public rtilities offered over a million dollars for Shelby's municipal light plant has subsided to a considerable extent. There is, however, considerable calk about the matter here and ..here over the city, but nothing to compare with the general interest] shown last week. Board To Meet. One reason, of course, is that no formal action has been taken since the official offer was made to the city council la I Monday night. The council tool: VTie offer under consideration and lias been consid ering it since . Late last week it was stated that a meeting of the council would be held some time this week for offi cial debate of the alderman No definite date, however, was set for the session, one presumption being that the special meeting may be held Tuesday night, a customary meeting night for the city fathers. Three Courses. Public opinion is that three courses are up to the board. These are listed as follows : 1. Submit the $1,100,000 offer to the cltiiens In a special elec tion. Even if the board endorsed the offer the approval by the citizens at an election would be necessary before the sale couitl be made. 2. Turn down the offer as not high enough for the city-own ed property or make a counter proposal. 3. Refuse the offer outright in declining to call an election to permit a vote upon it. There perhaps are other actions the city council could take. bui chances are that one Of these three moves will be made. Numerous reports are along the streets as to what will be done. One report has it that the board will refuse an election and thus end the matter, those behind this report declaring that at least two of the four aldermen are opposed, and perhaps another. Another ru mor ts that the matter is rather certain to be placed before the people, and those of this opinion say that the election will carry. This view is the reverse of the opinion of the first group, which thinks the board will turn down the offer be cause councilmen have heard enough opposition expressed tc know that the people would defeat the sale. Still other rumors, as is always the case, say that other offers will be made for the plant, etc. Meantime proponents and op ponents of the sale continue to ad vance facts, figures and fancies supporting their respective sides But the public as a whole ts not as stirred up as it was last week. At Union Churrh. A special Thanksgiving service will be held at Union Baptist church Thursday evening at 6:30. There will be a short program bv the B. Y. P. U. and this will be fol lowed by an address by Rev. W A i Elam. The public ts invited. : Cleveland Gins j Almost 60,000 Bales Cotton — ! With almost 60.000 hairs of cotton ginned to November It, it is now believed that the Cleveland county cotton crop will go beyond the 6.1,000 bales of last year. Up to November 14, this year. 59,205 bales had been ginned in the county, Miles H. Ware announced today. This Is 1.519 bales above the ginning to the same dale last year, which was 55,686 bales. This means that approxi mately 8.000 bales have been ginned in the county since Nov. 1 when the total ginning was 51.252. » City Attorney ! Would Get Facts . On S.P.U. Matter Would Ascertain Value Of Other Plants For Comparison And Get Bate Facts. __ D. Z. Newton, city attorney, has proposed to the Shelby city coun cil, it is understood. that before passing upon the S. P. U. offer for the municipal light plant the board should secure taxable valuations of plants elsewhere and contrast light rates under municipal and S. P. U. ownership. His-first idea, as The Star learns,! is that the estimated and taxable j valuations - of light plants clse ! where, municipally and privately , owned, Should be secured so that i< might be ascertained if the offer [here was in proportion to its real worth as based upon the value of other plants acording to size, etc. The second proposal ts that the consumers’ light bills for any month in Shelby be taken and then that the S. P. U. rate for light and pow er be figured out upon the month’s consumption. This should show whether or not the average citizen and consumer would benefit or lose by a change. Theoretical statements as to the light and power rate un der the S. P. U. would not be as dependable, it is argued, as to take an actual month’s consumption here, figure the cost to the con sumer by the S. P. U. rate and then compare it with the amount as charged by the city. New Central Pastor To Preach Sermon Thanksgiving Morn Dr. K. K. McLarty, new pas tor will hold his first service here on Thanksgiving morning at Central Methodist church, A Thanksgiving service will be hell! at 8 o’clock Thursday morning and the public is in vited. A special offering will be tak en for the Children’s Home at Winston-Salem and it is urged that all members of the church bring their offering for the or phanage to this service. Ten Year Plan For North State And Definite Goals Set For It Raleigh.—Having as its purpose] | the general promotion of North j j Carolina, a general development | corporation has been formed with | ! Tyre C. Taylor, state executive coun : sel and author a “Ten-Year plan” i as its president but its name will not be selected until every North Carolinian has been given the chance to make a suggestion The corporation was organized at j a recent meeting of 46 prominent i business and professional leaders of! the state. President Hoover and Governor ! O. Max Gardner lauded the propos al that an organization take con crete steps to develop the state. President Hoover’s note to Mr. Taylor saidt “I shall appreciate it if you will extend to those present, at the organization meeting in Ra- j letgh my congratulations on 1 he1 important effor* which they are un-j derfakini. The .. - achievement of these objectives would contribute most substantially not only to the current, but future progress of the state. While the program looks to the future, those phases of it which contribute to the employment ot labor during the present emergency are also especially desirable. They are in line with the president's or ganization on unemployment re lief." Governor Gardner, who was in vited to the meeting but could not attend, sent the following message: "The fact that a group of North Carolinians united to their best thought and resources in planning a scientific program for the re habilitation of our state is most en couraging. "Conditions in the nation may be bad; but they are certainly made worse by a demon.I-/.eri state of mind. ,_rhc state that first To.gets its •ears and courageously determines to improve its condition will surely the firs* to recover its social and CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN Kemper Kendall Victim Of Heart Attack Sunday Business Man Dies After Attack Funeral This Morning At 10.30 O'clock At Kendall Home On .V. FaFavette .st. Kemper Kendall, well known. business man and merchant, died I Sunday morning at 5 o’clock at his I home on N. LaFayette street, twelve] hours after he was at his place of I business up-town on Saturday. Mr. Kendall’s drath was a shock ! to his host of friends, it was known that he had been subject to chart attacks, angina pectoris, since he had a spell of influenza three years ago. During the last three months, the heart attacks were more fre quent and vigorous and Saturday afternoon whrn an attack struck him at the store, he hurried hom« and a physician was summoned Hi* condition was critical until the end came just before day-light. Mr. Kendal! was a prominent merchant here for many years and active in Sunday school work and fraternal orders. He was teacher of a class at Central Methodist 'Church, active in the promotion of music and served for a long time as pres ident of the Hoey Bible class. He was born in Wadesboro 64 years ago March 30th of this year, but j spent most of his life in Shelby. On October 4th, 188", he married Miss Maggie Cabanlss who survives with- one daughter, Mrs. A. Pitt Beam, of Shelby One brother. Bloom V. Kendall and three sis ters, Misses Carrie and Annie Ken dall and Mrs. John Birmingham also survive. The funeral was conducted tilts j morning at ,10:30 o'clock from the I residence by Rtv. L. B Hayes, pas tor of Central Methodist church of which he was a member, assisted by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church. Interment was In Sunset cemetery beside hU daughter. AUeen Kendall who was killed when run down by a street car in Charlotte when she was r student in College. , j A beautiful floral tribute was in i evidence and serving as pall bear ers were Paul Webb, E. F. McKin- j ney. C. H. Swofford. J. F. Robert . | J. B Jones and Dr. E. B Latt.i-1 more Fatal Shooting As Negro Youths Play Wild West Wilkes Osborne, Colored. Held In Jail Here Says Killing An Accident. Frank Hickman, negro youth of the Lawndale section, is dead and Wilkes Osborne, about IS, of the same section, is in jail here as the result, so Osborne says, of "playing cowboy'’ last Friday evening on the Dirk Spangler place above Shelby. Hickman, whose head was badly i torn and mangled by the load of j shot which hit him about the eyes and forehead, was rushed to thr Shelby hospital early Friday night, but died within a few minutes. "His | condition was hopeless when brought in," it was said. Had Been Hunting. There were no eyc-vitnesses to, the actual shooting and Osborne's! story Is that the shooting was en tirely accidental. The two youths, said to be friends had been out hunting. Coming in. it is said by Osborne, they began playing "cowboy.” In setiffling and while the gun was down at his side Osborne says it was struck ir some manner and discharged, the load hitting Hickman in the head Other information and details may be worked up. however, by of ficers before the hearing. Trial Wednesday. Osborne will be given a hearing Wednesday morning in county re- j corder’s court it was announced ! this morning. At that time the evi dence will likely bear out the acci dental version of the killing or j show that there was more to it. Dover In Hospital At Portsmouth Now M. J. Dover, of Shelby, under went a tonsil operation last week in the ft S t>i;yva 1 hospital r( Ports mouth Va After lie recovers and regains his strength he is expected . to undergo another operation there 1 Embattled with Japs in Manchuria An “rm0r,‘0 MJiroart nr of the type now uted by General Mt Chan Shan, Chinese military leader dur in>r fighting with the Japanese in Manchuria is shown camoiiflaifecl to protect the defeated C hinese com mander from ambitious Japanese death-dealing guns. This ear, no doubt, had a great deal to do with carrying General Mi to safety after his army was routed from the ancient walled eltv of TsiUhar In Northeastern Manchuria by advancing Nipponese. Marshal Chang H.ueh-IJang, Governor of Manchuria to whom General Ma has reported he hopes lo stem the tide of Japanese troops. Is shown upper left A Chinese soldier garbed in a roat of sheepskin to protect him from the blltcr suh-*ero weather in which fighting is taking place is shown ilower right). Central Welfare Quarters Open; Name Committees For All Groups Headquarters Set lip In Basement Under W'nolworth’s. J. D. Linc berger In Charge. Headquarters for the unemploy ment and relief work will be open ed today in the basement under Woolworth's store to collect and dis tribute food and clothing, provide shelter and medicines and odd jobs tcrf the unemployed. J. D. Lineberger, chairman of the executive committee will be In charge of headquarters and have i. j competent office force of steno-1 graphers, filing clerks, investigators and distributors. R W. Shoffner farm agent and Mrs. Irma Wallace, home demonstration agent, have secured permission from the state and federal departments to assist Mr. Lineberger and J. B Smith, welfare officer in the work for the next few months. Telephone No. 820 A telephone is furnished as a courtesy of the local telephone ex change, lights will be furnished by the city and the heated room pro vided without .charge' by Wool worths. The telephone number is 820 and those who wish to get in touch with headquarters should cal! this number where someone will be on duty each and every day. Committee Appointed. Mr. Lineberger and his executive committee have appointed repres entatives from the various organ izations of the city who will co-op erate in the relief work and steer ihe entire endeavor. The executive committee is composed of Mr. Line berger, chairman. S. A. McMurry, vice chairman, C. Rush Hamrick. 'CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN ' No More Potatoes, But Bring Molasses Mar's .Special Offer To Subscribers Is Changed To Molasses Only Don't bring any more potatoes to The Star office to take advantage of The Star’s special office to raise food for distribution by the relier committee. but bring on gallon buckets of molasses. The Star finds that because ol the continued warm weather po tatoes are not keeping well and some are rotting on our hands be fore the welfare committee gets in to operation. Already we have re ceived 15 bushels of potatoes and about 25 gallons of molasses which will be turned over to the central welfare office this week, but with out facilities for keeping potatoes The Star wishes to withdraw Its special offer to farmers. Those farmers who have a sur plus of molasses, however. may bring one gallon on subscription until 100 gallons are received. For each gallon, The Star will allow 60c in payment on a year’s sub scription. the remainder of the subscription price. SI 00 to be paid in rash at. tire time the gallon rf molasses is delivered Mo» more ■ than one gallon will be accepted upon any one yearly subscription. ! Farm Board To Hold Cotton Off Market To Increase Price Lock Up Over 6 Million Bale* t’ntit Late In 1932. Hop* To Aid Farmer. 'Washington! Nov. 23.—An agreement to lock tip 8,600,900 bales of cotton for one year until the crush of the enormous current crop has spent Us force was announced yesterday by the farm board. Word was received from Nathan Adams, of Dallas. Texas, that southern bankers have arranged to make of renew loans to fanner fof- holding 3,100.000 bales--400,000 short of the original goal. The board and the American Cotton Co-operative association, for their part, have agreed to hold their stores of about 3,500,000 bales until July 31. 1932, the beginning of the new crop year. This pledge, however, would not be binding if the price should reach 12 1-2 cents a pound during the interim, The bankers, board officials and representatives of the co-operative association drafted the.plan in New Orleans October 12 as an emergency move to increase prices by prevent ing gluts on an already congested market. A slight rise in prices re sulted from the announcement. The bankers sought financing for 3,500,000 bales, but encountered dif ficulty in obtaining full support. The 1931 crop of 16.903,000 bales —the second largest In history sent prices tobagganing to five cent levels. Hoping for better re turns. farmers are generally stor ing as much as possible The agrl Banks, Business Houses To Close For Thanksgiving The two hanks in Shelby aw4 the building and loan of fices will he closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, it was an nounced today. It has been a custom for years for all stores and busi ness houses to elose also and observe Thanksgiving as a holiday, and it Is presumed that they will do so this week, but no definite an nouncement has yet been made. culture department has agreed to accept cotton as collateral for drought loans at eight cents a pound to encourage storage, Mirny banks, too, are making individual loans for this purpose. Mr*. Pearl Bell Of Kings Mountain Dead Mrs Pearl Bell, wife of Starling Bell of Kings Mountain, was burled yesterday in Mountain Rest ceme tery, following her funeral con ducted by Rev Robert L. Chaney, pastor of the Kings Mountain Sec ond Baptist church. Mrs. Bell died at her home near the Pauline Mill Saturday morning at 1:20 o'clock Surviving are her husband and four small children. Cost Of Living In The South Is On Decline, Figures Are Proving Atlanta.—The high cost of living is on the run in the south and the trail of the flight leads downward Living quarters, food and wearing apparel can be had at prices that in many instances are barely shad ows of their corpulent predecessor' of 1929. Statistics gathered from real es tate boards. retail merchants’ groc ers' association in Dixie's repres entative cities show decreases in the prices of essential living com modities range from 50 to 70 perl centcent as compared with prevail ing costs two years ago. Perhaps the most outstanding decline involves milady's wardrobe In New Orleans a woman can dress in good style at a total cost cf $12 for the outfit, one store man ager pointed out. The genera) aver age would run the total up to $18 or a fraction therof, including $10 for » dr**ss, $? for a ha! and ahces -»t| $8 a pair Memphis, Tenn , reported a 59 per 'ent decrease In the price of worn < en’s clothing for the two-year per iod. The decline In Richmond ,Va. ranges from 30 to 35 per cent. A wider range is noted in Nashville, Term , where prices for ladies' fin ery are 30 to 50 per cent cheaper. Since 1929 rental on houses and apartments has declined approxi mately 25 per cent in Louisville. A four room house, described as "first class." can be had there for *35 to $40 a month. A three to four-rootn furnished apartment rents for $90 a month. The decrease for the same period in Birmingham is 35 to 38 tier cent. An average apartment can be se cured'tor $40 to $50 a month and "the best’’ rents for $55 upward. As regards groceries in general, they are 28 to 33 per cent cheaper in Louisville; 17 to 20 per cent low er in Birmingham. 37 per rent lesr >u New Orleans; 25 to 27 cheapo •r» NaabTillf, so rer»* iov*? in Memphis and 19 per cent less in Richmond. Woman Slashes Throat, School Boys Find Body IWrs. Emmie Earney Took Own Life Body (-mind This Morning In Yard 0( llomy Near Bethlehem School. The body of Mr*. I mmif Karney, aged a lion I 35, her throat badly gashed by a razor, and with all indications being that of suicide, was found in the vard of her home near the Bethlehem school, about 10:3# this morning. Tlic gruesome discovery was made by two students at the Bethlehem, school, which is south of Highway 20 between Shelby and Kings Moun tain ‘ Hold Inquest Alter discovering the body the two school boys. Herman Blalock and Floyd McDaniels, called afd and officers were rent for. Sheriff Irvin Allen, Coroner Roscoe Lute, Chief Oeorge Allen, of King* Mountain; Deputies Gus Jolly, Bob Kendrlok, Harvey Harrelson and others rush ed to the scene An Investigation made indicated that the young wile and mother had slain herself, but it was decided to hold an inquest and the body was brought to Shel by for an inquest which started at 3 o'clock Among the members of the coroner's jury was E. R. Gamble The Star's Kings Mountain cor respondent. Child In Vard. I* is thought the suicide took place around 8:30 or 10 o'clock. At recess time, 10:30, the two Bethle hem school boys went to the Burney house, near the school, to get wa ter. As they came in the yard they found the body of Mrs. Barney In a pool of blood Nearby was her stx months-old son, James .too young to comprehend what a tragedy cen tered about him. There was no one else about the home at that time, but-ft WMBred boy, Robert Laslie, was at the near by barn shucking corn. He knew nothing of what had happened, it is said, until there was some com motion after the discovery and ha came to the house. When the coroner and officers arrived they began an inspection of the premises Husband In Town. Meantime someone went after her husband, Frank Barney, small dairyman, who was In King?, Moun tain delivering milk. From the woman's body to the front steps was a flowing trail of blood. The blood trail continued through the hall and into one of the rooms where the first blood stains were found. There on a dresser was a note, apparently writ ten by 'the woman, informing that she intended to kill herself. One sentence In the note expressed her love for her husband and childre i She left three children. Beside the baby there were Lee and Erma, both young, who were at school at the time. The note also stated that a certain sum of money could be found in a box behind the bed and the money when searched for was located there. It is presumed that Mrs, Egrney first slashed her throat in the bed room and then ran out into the hall, to the front porch and on Into the yard. The slash which almoet severed her heard, leaving a gap ping hole, indicated that she must have slashed herself again, inflict ing the worst wound, after getting in the yard. Raior In Hand. The razor was tightly clenched in her hand when she was found Near the left hand an ice pick was found but this was not in any way connected with the tragedy prior to the inquest as there was no blood upon it. No definite reason for the tragedy had been advanced early this after noon. Officers Have Much Week-End Activity Even Dozen Looked I'p Saturday Night And Sunday. Most Ac tivity Recently. Shelby and county officers were more active over the last week-end than in several months, it was stat ed today. Which is to say that with the holiday season approaching there was more imbiding and mer ry-making than in some time. An even dozen defendants, most of them prohibition law violators •• ere placed tP the county tail Sat urday ntght end Sunday. A number of others were arrested bit* gave bond and did not go to jail.