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VOi f i Late News THE MARKET Cotton, spots __... 6e and up Cotton Seed, ton .....$11.00 Cloudy And Colder. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy and colder tonight Preceded by rain. Tuesday partly tfoudy and colder. Only One Escapes. Leavenworth. Kans., Dec. 15.—A 05-year-old desperado, only one of ■even Leavenworth prison convicts who made good an escape from posses that brought back three dead, one wounded and two unscratched, was still at large Sunday. United States penitentiary guards have given up organised search for Earl Thayer who was serving a 25-year sentence for an Oklahoma mall train robbery when he and the other sis prisoners made a sensational dash for liberty Friday with War den Thomas B. White as hostage. Cleveland Has Tax Reduction AmongLeaders Counly-Wide Rate Is Down 23 Cents General Rate 50 Cents Now, Was 73 In 1930. Eighty-Two Counties Cnt .Taxes. ^Special to The Star.) Raleigh, Dec. 14.—Eighty two of the 83 North Carolina counties re ported have decreased their county wide tax rate this year under last year for an average of 3 cents on the *100 properly valuation, or from a rate of $1.39 in 190 to a rate ol $106 in 1931, a reduction which is reflected exactly in the reduction of the county-wide rate for the six month* school term, figures com piled by Dr. Fred W. Morrison, sec retary of the State Tax Commission, show. The county-wide tax rate for sup ixirt of the six months school term has been reduced an average of 33 cents on the $100 valuation, or from 70 cents in 1930 to 37 cents in 1931, while the county-wide rate for pur poses other than school remains at 69 cents this year, the same as last year. On the other hand, the aver age rat* levied for debt service, which includes interest, repayments of principle, deposits in sinking funds and other costs paid on mon ey borrowed, increased US cents on the $100, or from 31 cents in 1930 to 47 cents in 1931. as an average. Brunswick, the only county with a county-wide total tax rate of as much as $2, was the only county making no reduction. Eight coun ties, Ashe, Bladen, Chowan. Dare, Forsyth, Martin, Randolph. 8wain, reduced the total county-wide rate 10 cents or less. Thirteen counties reduced this rate 50 cents or more, including Camden 56. Currituck 80, Davidson 70, Halifax 50, Henderson •30. Hertford 63, Madison 50, Ruth rrford 62, Scotland 58. Tyrrell 71, Union 83, Wilkes 54 cents. Thirteen counties have additional county wide levies for extending the six months school term, including Av ery, Carteret, Currituck, Greene, Guilford, Henderson, Jonc?. New Hanover, Northampton, Pamlico, Perquimaifc, Vance and Washing ton. Cleveland county's total county wide rate for 1931 is *0.50. as com pared with $0.73 in 1930, a decrease of 23 cents. Of this the county-wide rate for school is 25 cents in 1931 and was 54 cents in 1930, or a de crease of 29 cents, and the county wide rate for purposes other than the six months school term is $0.25 in 1931 and was *0.19 in 1930. an in crease of six cents. The county-wide rate for debt service in 1931 is five cents, as compared with nothing in 1930, an increase of five cents. Cleveland Produce Company 1$ Robbed The robbery wave last Thursday night in this section included one robbery that The Star did not learn about until the week-end. The Cleveland Produce company head quarters, at the rear of the Choco late shop, on South LaFayette St., was entered and robbed of a pis tol and a .22 rifle. Entrance was made by tearing the heavy screen from a rear window and raising the window. 9 SHOPPING DAYS TIL Christmas Shelby Opens $10,000 Charity Drive Today; All Urged To Help ! 15 Group Captains Lead Campaign Every Person With Job Is Asked To Contribute Something To Help Needy. Fifteen Shelby business men today headed a dozen group committees in opening the city’s whirlwind drive to raise Slflf.OOO for charity relief work in the city and surrounding ter ritory. This morning these group cap tains began their canvass of all business houses and firms in the city and were making good head way despite the inclement weather. Need Clothing. The heavy rains of the week-end have added to the calls for aid as many people are without proper clothing and shoes and sufficient food and the weather is of such a j nature to bring on illness among; the undernourished and poorly j clothed. The dozen canvassing committees were being directed in their drive by O. M. Mull, chairman of the charity finance committee, and by J. D. Lineberger, general chairman of the relief work. The groups have so mapped out their canvass that j they will not conflict with each oth er. Every business firm and organi zation is being visited and pledge cards left with the owner or man ager, who in turn will distribute them among employes. Every per son with a job is urged to give something as such wUl be neces sary to care for the needy during the four winter months. One plan suggested is that every employed person give a certain amount each week or month to the fund. This will enable the charity committee to know just how much is coming in .and when. A distribution system has been worked out in a systematic manner and only actual necessities. will be turned over to the poor. ; "We should be able to complete; the drive and have our $10,000 in' by Wednesday," Mr. Mull said this1 morning. ‘‘It may see* to be a large sum. but if every person in Shelbv who has a job will pledge something, to be given by the week or month, it can be raised without much diffi- j cutly and without handicapping anyone. 8ome may be able to give only a little, because of their own decreased income, but even those j smaller gifts will help tp build up! the main sum. If proper cooperation i is shown, and I believe it will, two days work should see the entire amount pledged. It is not necessary to remind of the needy conditions. They are evident to every one. Each j day for some time there has been a steafly stream of callers at the char-! lty distribution office in the base ment under the Woolworth build ing. There are pleas for help from ■ peopl^who are sick and have noth-: ing at all with which to call in al doctor and secure medicine. and on top of that they must have seme-, thing to cat and fuefcto keep warm.’ is an excellent time for Shelbv to? show' what she is made of by put ting over something that mftsV be! put over." Anyone who r: :; not he rcache?! through their place of employment j may secure a pledge card at the: charity headquarters nr mail their j contribution cr pledge to the Gen- ’ eral Charity Committee. Al’g Missing Son The disappearance of Walter Smith, youngest son of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, from Man hattan college, where hr was a stu dent, is believed to have the fine Italian hand of little Dan Cupid behind it. The young man is shown in a photo made last summer at Southampton, L. I„ with Florence Watson, In whom he was unusually interested. Two Arrested In Fallston Station Robbery Thursday Burke Officers Get Two In Con nection With Fallston Theft. Had Goods. Frank Abe and Harvey Setzer, white men, were arrested Sunday by Burke county officers in connec tion with the robbery of the Till man service station at Fallston last Thursday night. The arrests were made by Sheriff Ross and John Stillwell arul Ernest William*. Deputy Tom Sweezy, of Cleveland county, went there today after the two prisoners. Hiding Loot. The two men were nabbed, i* is said, when they were attempting to hide the loot. Among the goods re covered were four automobile tires, four boxes of cigars, some cigaret tes and peanut butter sandwiches. These articles were said to have been identified by the owner of the Fallston station Other Rubbers. Officers have been unable t.* *ct any definite information about the robbery of the P. S. Gettvs home in the same night. Thursday, a.- the Fallston robber*’. Someone entered the Gettys residence in the Po'.kville section and stole, officers were in formed, around $75 from the pocket at Mr. Gettys while he was asleep. Hard Head Of Charity Drive Wclfurr Work Bring Organised Subscriptions Through Churches. (By E. R. GAMBLE.) Kings Mountain, Dec. U.—-At » special meeting ol the Associated Charities of Kings Mountain held at J. R. Davis's office Thursday after noon, D. P. Hord was elected chair man to succeed J. R. Davis, who re signed because of a tack of time to devote to its causes. Charles T Thomasson was elected treasurer and E. R. Gamble secretary. The following Committee was appointed, one from each of the up town churches: H. W. McGinnis, J, R. i Davis, W. K. Mauney, R, C. Gold. G. W. Allen and R. D. Goforth. Sub committees were appointed ; as follows: Fuel committee, W. K. Mauney and R. D. Goforth; Medi cine committee, A. H. Patterson and J. R. Davis; The Woman’s clubs have assumed the responsibility of : distributing the food and clothing; The ministers of the various churches are cooperating by askin'? , their congregations to bring any j contribution to the church that thc> care to give to this worthy cause. Each church has arranged rheir own day that this contribution be collected. Mr. and Mrs. Booth Gillespie and Mr, and Mrs. Hunter Neisler lef Saturday for New York where they will spend a week. Miss Annie Roberts of the Poplai . Springs school faculty near Shelby ! spent ihe week-end here with her 1 parents Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rob erts. Haywood Cline, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cline was taken ! lo the city hospital in Gastonia Saturday for an operation. Reports fteem the hospital are that he Is do? • lng fine. Miss Pauline Adair of the high school faculty is spending the week | end in Pineville with friends Mr. J. W. Hiil, spent Sundav in Charlotte. I Mrs. Pick Jackson of Charlotte i spent the week-end in Kings Moun | tain with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. j G. D. Hambright. Mr. R. C. Gold spent Friday and . Saturday in Pineville on business^ | Home Of Monroe Poston Is Burned Residence North Of Town Destroy ed While Owner Was In Shelby. Tlie residence of Monroe Poston, who lives about two miles north of : Shelby, was completely destroyed by ; fire about 9 o'clock Friday night. Mr. Poston was in Shelby at the time, no one else was at the home, and neighbors did not notice the blaze until the fire was so fa1 ad vanced that i was impossible to save the house. Hubert Ervin and ' Lawrence Oabnniss noticed an auto | mobile parked b" the side of the burning residence end just manag ! ed to roll It away before it caught j on fire. | How the blaze orgiinated it not ! known. Do G, 0. P. Postmasters And Officeholders Pay Levy To Camnaign Fund To Hold Their Positions? District Attorney Investigating Con tributions Made To Party K-.nenses. I . j j Greensooro, Dec. '.4.— Possibility that the federal grand jury of the: ; middle district will be called upon ; this week to investigate evidence i i purporting to show that James 8. Duncan, chairman of the Republi can state executive committee, and W. H. Poster, secretary-treasurer] have been soliciting monthly con tributions for the Republican party from federal officeholders in viola tion of a federal statute, looms with announcement by District Attorney E. L. Gavin that the allegations would be thoroughly probed. The district attorney seized the files at committee headquarters last week and informed Judge Johnson J Hayes, presiding over federal court, that he would have addi tional business to present to the grand jury next Thursday Paul Hansen, of Charlotte, who is connected with the bureau of inves tigation of the United States de partment. of justice, arrived here Friday to assist Mr Gavin and hr-1 staff in the investigation. Mr. Duncan stated that he wel comed a Cull investigation of the allegations. He said all contribu tions to the Republican funds are made voluntarily and no compulsion is used. Grand Jury Back Thursday. The grand jury, in session here last week, lor the regular Decem ber term of federal court, was dis charged Friday afternoon and or dered to report back Thursday morning by District Attorney Gavin of Sanford, who has officially start ed an investigation of reports that Mr. Duncan and Mr. Foster have •solicited contributions on a large scale for financial promotion of the Republican party in North Caro lina. The first official step in the probe came alx^ut, Friday when dep uty United States marshals appear ed at committee headquarters with subpoenas for Mr. Duncan and Mr. Foster, issued for the purpr.se of seizing the files and records of the executive committee It was learned from other sources that subpoenas have been issued for federal officeholders in many sec tions of the state. They will prob ably be asked to testify before the grand jury, if presentments ere brought before that body next week as expected. Letters to office-holders remind ing them of ‘‘contributions ’ to the party, several of which mention the heavy' expense incurred in fin ancing the election contest brought by George M. Pritchard, of Ashe ville, against United States Senatoi Josiah W. Bailey, are contained in the files taken from the Republi can headquarters in the Jefferson Standard building, it was learned. These files also contain a card sys tem recording monthly payments made by various office-holders who are among the contributors to the party, according to officials. A number of postmasters and fed eral prohibition agents are among those approached by letter on the subject of contribution. At least two dry agents were reported to have been making payments of $5 a month to the party "jvhose posi tion created the jobs which they hold.” as was pointed out to one officeholder in a letter signed bv Mi Foster. Shelby Seniors TopHonorRoll In Third Month Fourth Of Class Gets Merited Honor Junior* Rank Second. One of fvrry Five High School Pupil* I* Honur Student, One out of ever* four *tn dent* tn the senior, rlan »t Shelby1# Central high school I* an honor roll puplt, and one out of every five student* in the entire l>»gh arhool I* an honor roll student, according to the monthly honor roll for the third school month. Eighty.nine high school students, or 19 percent, of the student body attained the honor roll during the ! j month; N'inllt 1* I,owes!. 1 Seventeen members, or 25 per cent, of the senior class made the honor roll. Twenty-five juniors. 23 percent of the class, attained the honor, while 18 ninth graders, or 13 percent of the class, and 31 eight graders, or 20 per cent of the fr<>:h jman class, made the roll In the grammar gTade school^ hue ! ' O' ilNI’SO ON PS'IK MO-l J Shelby Firm To Get Post Office Job In Tennessee jC. V Morrison And Son Low Bidder For Elizabethtown Contract On Big Job. iBy United Press.) Washington, Dec. 1*.—A Shelby contracting firm. C. A. Morrison and Son, was the low bidder for the const ruouon ot m now poet office at Elizabethtown, Tennessee, it w an nounced by the poet office depart ment here. The” low bid. submitted by tiie 8helby builders, was *67.066 I Thieves Take Cash From Jolley s Shop On Saturday Night About Ml) Stolen From Soda And Smoke Shop In Heart Of Business Session. Jolley's smoke and soda shop, near the corner of La Payette and Warren streets, in the heart of Shelby’s business section, was en tered and robbed some time Satur day night or early Sunday morning. The thief, or thieves, enteredby way of the basement of the building and made away with between *80 and $100 in cash and checks Two colored youths, Owen Hall and Leo Abrams. were arrested Sunday by city officers in connec tion with the robbery and are to be given a hearing in county court. They deny any knowledge of the affair Legion Auxiliary Wants Needy Names Will Give Special Attention To Families Of War Veterans. Rehef work among World War veterans and their families will be administered by the American Le» gion Auxiliary, according to Mrs. Tom Gold and Mrs. T. J. Ramseur. They want the names of any needy families of war veterans to be re ported to Mrs. T. J. Ramseur. health nurse, either at her telephone No 337-W at 525 S Washington street or notify her in person on her round of the city. All cases pertaining to wag veter ans and their families have been assigned to *he American Legion Auxiliary by the Central Relief headquarters and people who know of any needy families will oblige the Legion Auxiliary by acquainting them of the fact so that investiga tion can be made Wednesday Service To Honor McLartys An informal reception will be giv en *t, the Central Methodist church on Wednesday evening of this week following prayer meeting service. The reception is to honor Dr. and j Mrs. E. K. McLarty, the new pastor 1 and his wife. All member of the , chinch are invited To Face Senate Quiz One of the most formidable bombshells ever to explode tn the I'ntted ’tales Senate was the adoption bv that body of the resolution by Sen ator Hiram Johnson (center) of California ordering a sweeping Inves tigation into the hale of more than J15.000,000,000 worth of foreign securities in this country. If the Californian Senator's plan go through on schedule the committee will begin its inquiry by calling such power- ' ful figures in the world of finance as Albert H. Wtggin (top left), Thomas W. Cam on I (lower left). J. I*. Morgan itop right) and Otto H. Kahn (lower left). Senator Johnson’s move may have an important effect on the ratification of President Hoover's our-year moratorium on international war debts Cleveland Tops Robeson In Cotton To December 1 Over 16,000 Bales Jtlui-ion County In Third Plurr. Lincoln Ahead Of Ruth erford. The complete cotton ginning report for North Carolina lip lo Oer.embfr I shows that Cleve land county’s 62,747 bales lead Robeson, second cotton county, by 16.243 bales. Robeson’s ginning to the first was 46.504 ‘ bales, and Robesoif was the only county in the state’s five lead- i lng cotton counties to fall behind! last year’s ginning to the s*the| date. • The five leaders and their ginning to December 1 this year and la*;’ follow: Countg 1931 I SCO Cleveland ... . . 62,747 .".0.035 Robeson _ 46.504 47.043 Johnston _ _ 35.796 35.718 j Sampson , ....... 31,794 ’!6.S60 Halifax 2 30.870 28,696! Close By Counties. Lincoln continued to show the! lead in cotton growing over other I counties adjoining Cleveland. Oin-; nlng figures for neighboring ooun ties up U> the first were as follows:! Lincoln 20,403. Rutherford 20.054 ! Catawba 15,237, Gaston 11,344 Joe Wray 111 In A Charlotte Hospital Mr Joe. Wray, superintendent of the public schools at Bessemer City.i was taken suddenly ill over the week end with appendicitis and rushed to j g Charlotte hospital for an opera tion. His appendix was found to be ruptured and his condition rath er serious but he was resting "fair-j ly well" last night. Mr. Wray, who lives in Gastonia, is a brother of Mrs. Carl Thompson. Messrs. A. V. and Stough Wray of this place. Henry Ledbetter In Narrow Escape As Car Turns Over Young Man Has Rlh» And Collar- , bone Broken In U’rrrk llrrr Sunday* 1 Henry Ledbetter, 25, of the Buf lalo .section, miraculously escaped death about 8:30 Hist nlglu when his car plunged over (he embank ment at the bridge o i highway ',10 in the eastern section of tli«’ City Just west of the service station best known as King's place. I Ad better. riding in a ford coupe, was travelling east. Just as his tar left the bridge. It is said, it veered to the right and plunged off the high embankment, turning over three or four times before it crashed to the ground at the stream level 30 or 40 feet below. The entire top of the car was crushed tin and it seems only a miracle that young Ledbetter Was not fatally injured. When he was rushed to the hos pital in was found that he had sev sral ribs fractured, his collarbone broken and some lacerations about the head. Although his injuries are painful they are not considered ser ious, A wrecking derrick was used this morning to drag the wrecked car out of the fill. The injured youth is a brother of the young man accidentally shot to death in the Buffalo section some months ago. One Marriage. Marriage license were issued here j Saturday to Ralph Callahan and ( Nancy McCurry, both of Cleveland] county. They were the third couple ! to secure license here this month. ; Checks Totaling Over $10,000Come This Week To Confederate Vets Here I Cleveland Has 102 Pensioners. •»*» Of Whom Are Veterans. One Colored Man. ‘Special to The Stur t Raleigh, Dec 14—Vouchers lor a total of *448,605 for 4,950 Confeder- j ate veterans, their widows and negro servants have been mailed out to the clerks of Superior court In the 100 counties of the state as the semi annual pension fund, for distribu tion on Tuesday of this week, by State Auditor Baxter Durham. Of the number, 1.094 are former j Confederate soltUers who receive checks for *182.50, or half of 'he an nual sum at the rate of *1 a day. the total amount at this time be ing *199,655, the 530 class A wid ows receive checks for *150, amount ing in the aggregate to $79,100: the class B widows, numbering 3.243, re ceive $40 checks, a total of *111,150 while the 83 negro servants of vet erans receive *100 each, a total of $8,900. Auditor Durham's figures show The extent to which the "thin gray line" is getugn thinner and grayer is shown by the fact tha, while only 1,094 veterans are living today, an average of less than 11 to to the county, five years ago at this date the number was 2.682 and eight years ago there were 4,111 veterans who had followed Lee and Jackson, the auditor’s records show. Cleveland county now lias 202 pen-* sioners who rpoeivr a total of $10, 892.30 this week, including 29 Con federate veterans, receiving *3,292 - 30, to class A widows, receiving 12,830. 53 class B widow's, receiving 12,650, and one negro servant who accompanied his master in military j service, who receives *100 from the; state fund. Cleveland Man Killed As Gun Fires On Hunt Ed Metcalf Die$ In Hunting Accident IVa* Squirrel Hurtling Late Frida? When Gun Was Arrldrnlaily llisi barged. l-rt Metcalf, miridlr-agrd farm* «*r of lower < levrland, wa<*the first |lrllm of this itunn whe| hr was arririentally shot t* death while out squirrel hunt' in* late Friday afternoon. Mr. Metcalf, who was a native of 'he Bessemer City section of Gas on county and a cousin of the Met ■alfs of ihe Shelby section, had been living for a year or so on the M D Hopper place near the South Caro lina line. The fatal accident, took place near his home there. I.oad Into Body. The details ol the accident as best, as could be .secured Friday night by Coroner Roscoe Luta and Deputy Ed Dixon were as follows: Metcalf was out hunting near hia home. When hts son, about 14 or IS year, of age, came from school he heard his father's gun fire, went to join him As he approached on on« side of the hill his father called to him from across a small .stream and (old him to shake a hush there so as to frighten the squirrel around where it could be killed. Just, after shaking the bush me boy heard the shotgun fire again ai,:d when he gut wlierc he could see lus father' the latter was tumbling into the stieam Tl*e bov ran to him and saw that he was clutching hia side and at tempting to crawl up the stream. Unable to get hts father out , by himself, the youth ran for help. When he returned with others Mr. Metcalf was dead. , When his body we., removed trom the stream it. was found that the emke load oi the single-barrel shot gun had torn into his body just v» cier thc rmjm the »?*t« »t*v There were a number of boshes near fi-.e i,po' and one presumption g> that the gun was cocked and wa» di charced wnen in some .manner It struck a bush as Mr. Metcalf shift ed lit. position in order to locate the squirreL Another supposition ia ' tiiftt Ire may have started to Jump he stream ana the gun was firerf in .owe manner by the jump, ‘fast fhe rnuMle was pressed pret ty close to hia body was shown by the fact that a round hole was cut without a single to*. Tliere were powder burns on the skin and no blood, further proof that the gun was close to him when if fired. Funeral Sunday. Funeral servicer; were held Sun day at 11 o'clors at Bessemer Cky. The deceased is survived by m* widow- and five children Spikes New Head Of Duke Alumni In Two Counties Rutherford School Man mu reads j, H. Grig*. Whhnaiu Is Vice President. L E. Spikes superintendent of the Rutherfordton-Spindaie school, u the new president of the Duke alumni chapter covering Cleveland and Rutherford counties. Mr. Spike succeeds J. H. Grrgg. o' Shelby, superintendent of the Clev eland county schools He was elect ed at a meeting of the Cleveland' Rutherford alumni chapter held s', the Hotel Charles hn ? last Frida'' night Other Officers. Oilier officers we?te elected as fol lows: Miss Isabel Hoev. Shelby, sec retary-treasurer; Mis, Kl.zabt ifj Tucker, Elicnboro: member at alum nae council! The feature of the meeting ticrq. whi^h was well intended, was « speech by Prol Albert M. Webb, o* the Duke French department: Dr Webb spoke interestingly bl tlw new plant and equipment at the university, talked of the now meth ods, departments and course,: added and expressed optimism over future ideals and ambitions of the school George Fitch Child I* Pneumonia Victim The friends of Mi. »od Mis C«ru Pitch will he grieved tii learn of the death of their six months old baby yesterday a* their home neai Kings Mountain, death resulting from Bronchial pneumonia The tuneraj and interment will be held at Beth lehem church this afternoon at J j'clock. •
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