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8 PAGES TODAY fly Mail, per year, (In advancei - Published Monday, Wednaeday and Friday Afternoons. Late News THE MARKET < otton, jjxiti lie and up Cotton seed, jxir ton $12.00 RAIN THURSDAY Today's North Carolina Heather Report: Increasing cloudiness fol lowed by rain Thursday and in west portion tonight. Slowly rising tem perature Thursday and in extreme west portion tonight, DANIELS PREDICTS WIN New York, Dec. 30—A 1932 prcsl * dentlal candidate, who embodies liberal and progressive views yrnd has "no vestige of standatism or pink Republicanism." was urged up on the Democratic party yesterday by Josephus Daniels. “For”, said the secretary of the navy in the Wilson administration, “the situa tion next year will be not unlike ♦hat of 1912. Now. as then, the people are going to elect a presi dent who embodies liberal and pro gressive views. If, in 1912, the Democrats hid nominated what is railed a conservative—a misnomer for a reae'ionary—Roosevelt would have won. Bnt the Democrats pick ' ed Wilson, a great progressive, and they won. No one who is known as a standpatter,’ or who acquiesced in ‘standpatism’ can win in 1932. Nor can we win with a ‘pink Repub lican,’ which is another name for reactionary Democrat. The people are on the march; they see con ditions are bad: Oiey demand a change. The party in power, by allowing 6,000.900 me to go without jobs, has, in the words of the scrip tures, been weighed and found wanting. The Republicans . next sear will have no more chance than o'id that great and good man, Taft, in 1912. It seems that the only question left for the Democrats to decide is the identity of their can didate.” Massey Leaves HardwareFirm In Shelby Soon '‘ells HU Interests In Farmers Hardware To N'ochols. Was Hire Six Years Ago. Henry Massey, who came here ix years ago from Ml. Holly as part owner to manage the Farmers Hardware company,- an old Shelby business, announced today that he had sold hU interests In the firm So Charles Nuchols, prominent hardware man of Charlotte. Mr, Nuchols, who is connected with the American Hardware and Equipment company and well known in the hardware world, was already * stockholder in the local enter prise. It is presumed that he will put a new manager in the store, vt is said, but that is not definitely known and Mr. Masse;' will remain until Mr. Nuchols completes his plans. Mr. Massey, who started li| the hardware business with his father at Wachaw years ago and later operated a stove at Mt. Holly before purchasing controlling interest in » the Farmers store here, until then operated by J. D. Lineberger. has not decided definitely upon his fvi iure plan.:. Carr To Address Young People In j Shelby This Eve; litigious Director, Weil Known i Here, To Speak At Presby terian Mass Meeting. Mr. Claude T. Carr. Director of Tt’.igious Education in the Synod of Worth Carolina, will speak to a mass meeting of young people at * Shelby Presbyterian church this evening at 7 o'clock. Mr. Carr ic well and favorably known in Shelby, having once been a teacher in the city sahools. A large and interested group of young folks will hear him tonight. The Woman’s Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church will be hostess to the you g people of the junior | age and above, including college students, and will serve supper to them at 7 o'clock. Following Mr. Carr’s address each group will re tire to a separate room for a social , and recreational period. A happy and profitable evening Is in store for all who attend. Yuletide Dancers Lose Their Coats 3everal young men who attended the Christmas Eve dance in Shelby are still minus the overcoats they wore’to the annual social event for the younger set. Quite a number of them shed their overcoats at convenient spots about the Hotel Charles and the dance floor, overlooking the fact that they might have been left at the offioe or checked As a result several of them found themselves without overcoats when the dance ended Christmas morn. Whether the thieves were among the dancers 'or were chance — happy chance— onlookers Is n^t known. Food And Feed Crops Give High Value To 1931 Cleveland Output Total Crops Valued Over 5 Million Poultry, Gardens, Dairy Products, Corn And Hay Climb On Cotton Value. An early estimate of the value of all farm crops In Cleveland county for 1931 shows that Cleveland is no longer just "a big cotton county”. An estimate sheet as prepared bv | R. W. Shoffner, county agent, after careful investigation, fixes the total | value of 1931 farm crops in Cleve-. land at $5,375, 750. Cotton Two Millions Despite the low price cotton rank ed in first place with a value of slightly over two million dollars, or $2,222,500, to be exact. Cotton seed was valued at $476,250, due to a higher value for a good variety of seed grown here, making the cot ton and” cotton seed total run slightly over two and one-half mil lion. Plenty of Food But the food and feed crops made; their greatest surge forward in 1931,! The poultry industry topped all' other endeavors in the live-at-home program. The poultry ana egg pro-' duction of the county during the | year was estimated at over a half million, or, to be exact, $615,000,1 thus ranking in second place. Garden crops, it being Cleveland’s greatest gardening year, came third with an estimated value of $575,000. Milk and dairy products came I fourth with an estimated value of $450,000; corn ranked fifth with a 1 vaJue of $380,000, and the hay crops | took sixth place with a $160 000 I value. nuiiviii iMU The chart of estimates show that1 the four major live-at-home items j in Cleveland county—poultry, dairy; products, garden crops, and corn— were valued over two million dol lars, almost half the value of the entire farm output. The estimated table by Individual items follows: Cotton, Cotton Seed . *2,636,750; Poultry, Eggs .615,000! Garden crops . 575,000j Dairy products ... 450,000 1 Com 380,000; Hay crops . 180,000j Wheat -----. 102,000! Fruits „w._—..... 100,000' Sweet Potatoes _ 98,000: Oats .... 52,000! Irish Potatoes _. 30,000; Rye .—— —. 5,0001 All other crops _...110,000! Total . -*5,375,750 Parole Explained By Court Officers: Was Conditioned On Emory Leav- ‘ ing State. Family Was On Charity. Some criticism having been j heard of county court officials for i recommending a parole for Roland] Emory, Cleveland man serving a six months road sentence, an explana tion was made today by them. Emory was sent up on the charge of operating a bawdy house and his sentence along with that of others cleared up the bawdy atmosphere in the community, it was said. The parole, however, was conditioned upon his moving along with hin people to some other section or out of the State where they can start over again. Another Incident that tended to make the parole a prop er move, it was said, was the fact that charity organizations were having to maintain his family while he was serving. Cleveland Farmers Receive More For 1931 Cotton Than For Crop Of 1926; Production Cost Less Large- Crop Brings More At Seven Cents Than 1926 Crop At 10 Cents. The year 1926 was one of the biggest boom years for Shelby and Cleveland county and the year 1931, just going out, was considered the reverse. Yet Cleveland county cotton faim ers received, or will receive, al most 880,000 more for their 1931 cotton crop than they did for their 1926 crop. In 1926 the weather conditions were unfavorable for cotton and as1 a result Cleveland county made only 43,000 bales. Cotton that year sold for 10 1-2 cents on the aver age. At that figure Cleveland farmers received $2,160 750 for their 1926 crop. Better Season This year the season was Ideal for cotton. A crop that was bat-! tered by storms early In the year, and had nothing like as much fer tilizer under It, developed Into a i record crop of 64,000 bales, or will have by the final ginning report, Due to a better grade of cotton, being grown this year it is estlmat- j ed that the crop as a whole sold; for an average of seven cents. That means that the 1931 crop of 64,000! bales has brought, or will bring. Cleveland farmers a total of $2,240, C00, which is, to be exact, $79,250 j more than received from the 1926 crop. WM Overhead The *79,000 gain over 1928 is riot the only phase in which the year now closing ranked ahead. The production cost of the crop this year was far loss than that of the 1926 crop. Some estimate that the crop this year was produced for half the cost of the crops of the years from 1926 through 1929. No farmer used as much fertilizer this year as he used in those years. Even the conservative figure that the 1931 crop cost 30 percent less than the 1930 and 1929 crops. Another gain over bygone years is that of the increase in food and feed crops this year. Prom 1926 j to 1929 Cleveland county drifted a Way from the live-at-home idea. A big percentage of the cotton money went out of the county for) imported hay and ether food and. feed. In 1930 the farmers turned again to the self-sustaining basis and grew a big percentage of,their entire food and feed Rtipply. This year more food and feed was pro duced than last year. All of which means that the cotton farmers of the county received almost *80.000 more for their cotton this year than in 1926; the cotton was produced at a third less cost than in 1926; and very little of the cotton money was sent outside this year for food and feed. FIELD WORKER SPEAKS L. L. Morgan, Sunday school field worker will be in the county from Goldsboro on Sunday Jan. 3rd, when the Kings Mountain Sunday School Association meets with the East side Baptist church. Mr. Mcrg&n will be the principal speaker at 3 o'clock. The program begins a! 2:30 o’clock and the most important business to be taken up is the election of officers for next year. Special music will be furnished by the Hopper, quartet from Gaffney, S. C. Deny Report That Cleveland County Native To Become Head State College Col. Harrelson Knows Nothin.-; Of Rumor. Other Officials Express Surprise. Reports published Monday that Col. J. w. Harrelson, head of the State conservation department and a native of Cleveland county, would be elected to succeed Dr. E. C. Brooks as president of State col lege were denied in Raleigh. Col onel Harrelson said that he had not heard of such a move and addpd that “such reports; are embarrass ing to me,’ Dr Brooks-, who, ac cording to the report, was slated to take over some other post in the State’s education department, said he knew nothing of such a change. Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Parmer and chairman of the executive committee' of State college board of trustees, said the report "is news to me.” The report further said that Tyre C. Taylor, executive counsel, would succeed Colonel Harrelson as direc tor of conservation and develop ment. Denies Letter. It was learned that the publish ed reoort came as a result of a let ter which Colonel Harrelson is al leged to have written to someone in Charlotte. Colonel Harrelson was emphatic in denying that he had writt m any such letter. "1 did not write such a letter; in fact I know nothl ig whatsoever about the mat ter. The whole thing is embarrass ing to me. T am satisfied with the work I am now doing and I want to se my program in the conserva OyrnrmcD on Extra! Shelby Copt York Checker Battle Local Checker Wizards Get First Victory Over South Carolina Experts. To that portion of the community interested in the popular game of checkers, this is news. Playing at York, South Carolina, yesterday, the Shelby checker team turned in its first tournament vic u>ry over the York team by a score of 38 to 26. The two teams have met three or four times heretofore, but the South Carolinians, with the Shillinglaw brothers setting the pace, have been too good for the lo cals. The individual scores of Tuesdays tourney follow: Shelby— Cashion 10, Bridges 10, Hord 10 and Rollins 8; York— Joe Shillinglaw 7, Walter Shillinglaw’ 7, and Sherrill 8 Many Cleveland Couples Married At Gretna Green Ten County Couple*- Murry At Gaffney During Christmas -Season. Almost half of the Vultide business at the Gaffney, 8 C., Gretna Green was furnished fcy Cleveland county couples. Ten Cleveland couples Journeyed to the Cherokee county seat, Just across the line from Cleveland, to secure marriage license from Pro bate Judge Lake W. 8troup during the holiday season. They were: Ernest Self and Ruth Downs, of Shelby. Carl McSwain and Girtha Sellers, of Shelby R-8. Martin S. Beam and Mary Ellen Hoyle, of Shelby R-l. John Workman and Mae Elwood, of Shelby. Boyce Goins and Rosaleen Hud son, of Kings Mountain. John Jones and Beulah Wilson, of Kings Mountain. Esley Bridges and 8adie Beason, of Boiling Springs. George P. Ware, of Asheville, and Lena Wilkinson, of Shelby. Paul Short and Jessie Lee Mc Daniel, of Kings Mountain. Howard Wilson and Maiie Hud son, of Shelby. Quietest Holiday Season In Shelby For Number Years Less Drinking And Rowdyism Than Polir* Chief Hz* Tver Seen. It has been the quietest uni; most law-abiding holiday season in Shel by that Police Chief Mac Poston has known since he became a mem ber of the city police force seven years ago. The chief, however, is wary about making the statement because the holiday season isn’t over until after the New Year’s celebration—and something could break loose then. Up until today, howbeit, it has been an unusually peaceful holiday period. There has been less drink ing and crime than in many years All about the city one heRrs citi zens remark, "I haven’t seen a single drunk this Christmas.” There has been some drinking, of course, but officers say it has been on a more moderate scale than usual with very few taking on enough to start trouble or cause any commo ! tlon. Quite a number of arrests were made last week and this week, but few of them were for serious charges. The lack of excessive | drinking and rowdyism is shown by the fact that thus far in the | holidays there has pot been a single serious wreck or mishap in Shelby and the surrounding section BIRTH Born a', 12 40 today, at the Shel by hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hamrick, a son, Joseph Eugene, weight 8 pounds and one ounce. Mrs. Hamrick, who kvas Miss Louise Allen before marriage, and son are getting along nicely First Baby Of 1932In County To Get Welcome Star And Merchants Arrange Gifts Clevelands Pint 19.1t Youngster WH1 Get Good Start In Life, Cleveland county'* young "Master 1931" or young "Miss 193?" has a warm welcome awaiting his or her arrival. Some time alter the clock tolls out the old year Thursday midnight and the New Year begins—maybe Just a lew minutes alter—Cleveland coun ty's first baby of 1932 will be born. Following a custom ol several years The Cleveland Star and a group ol cooperative Shelby merchants and business men plan to give the first 1932 baby a reception party Array Of Gift*. ■ To the first white baby, bom of residential parents, in Cleveland county in 1932 will go the designa tion "New Year Baby" and along with that designation an array of gilts tendered by The Star and Shelby merchants. For some time The Star has given a year's sub scription to yie first baby of the year, but these days It Is difficult for the stork to find a Cleveland county home In which the paper Is not going. In order, then, not to double up on the youngster, whose birth will be recorded In the news paper hie or her parents take. The Star has decided this year to give a $2 savings account. Others cooper ating with The Star list their wel come gifts below1 and In a page ad vertisement In today’s Issue. And there are some nifty gifts for "Master or Miss 1932,” If you Ware |to turn to the page and look. nates. i The 8tai must be officially noti fied of the birth by the attending [physician, a qualified nurse, or the i submission of a birth certificate, I The notification must contain the i enact time of the birth and the names and address of the parents. The baby MUST also be named to qualify as a contestant for the title and gifts. All birth records must be submit ted to The Star not later than 10 o’clock Monday morning, January 4, and when possible before that time. Official announcement of the winner and the names of the other early arrivals for 1933 will be mad' In the Monday afternoon edition of The Star Those giving prizes to the first baby of the year and their nrtzes follow: J. C. McNeeiy & Company, $2.50 savings bank account. Sloop’s Pharmacy, 3 4-pound can milk. Sterchi Brothers, baby stroller. Carolina theatre, five-year pass, Cleveland Star, prize of a $2 sav ings account to the second baby born in 1932 Pendleton s Music Store, ukelele. Sanitary Market, dozen cans Pet milk. Efird'a. baby blanket Quinn’s Drug Store. baby: comb and brush set. Charles Stores Company. $2.50 worth of baby clothes A. V. Wray & 6 Sons, one bolt bird's eye diaper cloth. Tillmaw’s Service Station, family car washed and greased free of charge About 1,700 Car Tags Bought Here Hea«l of Highway Patrol bays New Plates Must Be On All Cars By Friday. Approximately 1,700 new N. Carolina automobile license plates have already been sold at the Shelby license bureau on North Washington street, it was announced today by Chas. R. Eskridge, manager. Of that number about 1.600 were for automobiles and 100 for trucks The bureau will open Friday, the first day of the New Year. Checks are not accepted as payment on plates. Raleigh. Dec. 30.—Captain Chas D. Fanner, head of the state high way patrol, this week said that his force was going to enforce "to the letter" the law requiring motor ve hicles to carry new license togs on and after January 1. “As far as 1 know there will be no extension of time granted to car owners,” he declared, “and begin ning with the first of January the highway patrol Is going to see that i cars display the proper plates or! else he kept off the hlcthwavs." i Carideo in Benedict Role V V Here Is the ft rut and dfclusive picture of Frank Carideo, former All Vmerk-an quarterback at Notre Dame, with hi* bride, the former Vera Crawley. Carideo, who many experts say wan one of the greatest 1 quarterback* In football history, was an assistant roach at hla Aim > Mater last season. Photo was made in the Carideo home at Mount Vernon, N. V., where the couple Is spending the holidays. Angelo. Frank's younger brother. Is another rising star at Notre Dame. Hoped That $85,000 Allotment Will Suffice To Construct Needed Additions For Shelby Post Office Builder Say* Sum May Buy Ad ditional Space A* Well As Coyer Building The prospect of aecuring the hoped-for and needed additions to the Shelbypost office, Including a third story to be usetf as a Federal court room, are not as gloomy a.'-, they were a week ago. Last spring Congress allotted >» quota of *85.000 for the construc tion of needed additions to the local Federal building, the additions to Include enlarged working space in the postal department on the main floor and for a third floor court room and Federal off lets The sum was considered sufficient to cover the construction expense as the temporary plan was outlined by department architects. But a visit here by one of the officials revealed that to erect the necessary addition to the main floor would require more ground space. No more space was available on ths sides of the present building, and the only hope was to purchase some of the Hoey building property to the rear of the office. It was then that it was realized that if the (85,000 quota was need ed to cover the actual construction work, there would be no other money available with which to purchase the additional ground space. Local civic organizations and others then got hi touch with senators, congressmen and other officials in Washington and sough* to have the appropriation Increased so that It would cover the purchase of the additional property. Back from Washington, however, came the word that. due. to a deficit in the treasury, the outlook seemed hopeless for getting the quota In creased. During the holidays Joe Lacy, Georgia contractor, who has erect ed quite a number of government buildings this year, was a visitor here, his wife being a Shelby girl, and the matter was mentioned to him. If, he said, the *86,000 quota was considered sufficient last year or early this year to make the addl tioi», it might be pouible to stretch tr into enough to purchase the additional footage'and make the ; outlined addition. He based his view upon the fact that building materia] and labor are considerably cheaper now than they were when the building appropriations com mittee made its investigations and recommendations a year ago. It is possible, as he viewed it, that enough can be saved upon the original estimated cost ol material and labor to take care of the sum needed to purchase more space. In several of the governmental building projects this year it was found that contractors turned in bids considerably under the govern ment's estimates and quotas as as sembled a year ago because they could secure material and labor at a lower price than when the esti mate was first made. All the estimates and quotas made on th* the building projects were figured upon the basis of the price of material and labor at that time With a decline In both since several post offices and additions already constructed or under construction I are being completed for a sum less than allotted by Congress. As a result- It is hoped here now that the bids for the addition to the Shelby office will be enough under the quota to leave a sum sufficient to purchase the needed property at the rear of the office, Kiwanis Installs Officers Tomorrow Officers, lor the new year of the Kiwanis club will be installed at the Thursday night meeting this week, 1 according to an announcement from the secretary, C. A. Burrus. Mr. Forrest Eskridge will assume the presidency of the club and plans will be made for the coming year. Gardner Praises Aycock Statue; Tells N. Y. Of Carolina Finances Governor On Formal Trip There With Josephus Daniels And Joyner. New York. Dec. 30.—Governor O. Max Gardner of North Carolina, and two other distinguished citi zens of that state visited a Green wich Village studio Monday and gave approval to a statue that is destined for National Statuary hall. It was a sculptural likeness of Charles B. Ay rock. North Carolina's famous "educational governor 1 who occupied the state house from 1900 to 1905 The plaster was still damp on the model as North Carolinians inspected It. yet— "It is excellent,” said Governor Gardner, “excellent. It is a very fine likeness indeed.” With him were Joseph us Daniels j secretary of the navy In Woodrow ! Wilson's administration, and Dr. J. jY- Joyner, both of Raleigh. They also, constituting the official Ay cock Statue committee. approved the model. The sculptor is Charles Keck. Governor Gardner said he hopes the final bronze casting will be completed in time for presentation to congress on May 20, which is the date of the Mecklenburg cclebra- i Mon Onal Mission. -i'-s Governor Gardner, tall, bronzed and robust, had a dual mission on his current visit to New York. First, he came to inspect the Aycock statue and, secondly, he came to j tell a banking syndicate about if.T-seiiMiTwn ok "test rmm H* Postal Receipts Of‘Hard Times’ Year Lead 1930 Christmas Receipts Also Better Hu«in<w» Handled Through Nlielbj Post Offlff Shorn Rain Over (ant Vrar. The year 1931, believe U or not, was better than 1930 in .several respects. For instance 1. More holiday greeting cards and Christmas gift packages were sent through the Shelby post office this year than were sent last year. *, Postal receipts at the Shel by post office this year were larger every month of the year than for the corresponding months of last year. Although the full postal report of December cannot be known un til the end of the month, Post master J. H. Quinn stated today that Shelby is certain to retain a first-class post office because the postal receipts here passed the re quired 440,000 annual quota severe I weeks age Surprising Gain. "We Were surprised this week Postmaster Quinn continued, ‘‘to '•heck up and tind that our Christ mas mail was heavier than that o* 1930." The postal receipts at the local office, he said, from the 30th Ot December through Christmas this year totalled *400 more than re celpts for the same period law year. The December receipts, for the entire month to date, are ahead of those for last December although the second-class mall and special permit receipts have not as yet been added thereto. With this December running »« head of December of last year it is how assured that the receipts ol eve* mofffhtSfc, ykiewww,. larger than corresponding months las* year. The closest call was in No vember when the receipts tyarelv ran ahead of three of November 1930 Holidays At End For Children In Cleveland Schools Resume Work Tomorrow Morning After Holiday Starting Week Ago. City Later. The yule holidays end tomorrow. Thursday, for several thousand Cleveland county school children a* they return to their class work aft er a holiday period that began a week ago today. Although the schools will be back at work a day before the entrance of th£ New Year It is believed that attendance will be normal. Open Monday. The city schools ot Shelby, wtaiei closed a week ago yesterday, will re sume work Monday morning, Jan uary 4. A majority of the Shelby boys ant girls at home for college will nt» return until some time next week Boiling Springs Men Form Club At Wake Wake Forest Dec, 30—Tlie grad uates of Boiling Sorings College and High Scho6l recently organ ized into a club. The officers elect ed were: President, Grady Haynes vice-president, Robert Farney Secretary, Floyd Harrili, and re porter, Ryan Robinson, The spon sor Is Miss Bessie Sue Wilson oi Shelby. Bolling Springs has the distinc tlon this year of sending mort students to Wake Forest than any other Junior college. The member* of the club follow: Oscar Balch Forest Hunt, Grady Haynes. Frani. Hamrick, John Hamrick, Floyd Harr 111, Jakie Harrili, Carl Latham, M. J. Padgett, J. W. Davis, Ryan Robinson, A. V. Washburn, Zenc Wall, Howard Moore. Evans Boney Vincent Falkenberg, Ralph Carpen ter, Howard McDonald, Wyman Wood. Hubert Huggins, Robert Fax ney, and Herman Petty. Tennant Improve*, B B Tennant, owner and opera tor of the Central Cafe, who broke his ankle in a fall Christmas Eve. is improving at his room on South Washington stree' his fri»r.dr wi’.i be glad to h«»r
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