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Late News TIIE MARKET ( otlon, spots -. Sc and np Cotton seed, per ton.$12.00 RAIN TUESDAY Today's North Carolina Weather lleport: Increasing cloudiness to night followed by rain Tuesday. Ris ing temperature in west and central portions tonight and Tuesday. STARTS SILVER ISSUE Washington. Jan. 4.—The “lfi to 1" silvej issue on which William i i nnings Bryan rode to the thresh iiold of the White House in 1806 ii as revived this week by Senator Wheeler as the nation faced a new Presidential election year. The Mon tana Democrat announced he would introduce today a bill providing for Hie free coinage of silver on tire basis of 16 ounces to one of gold— the identical issue for which Bryan fought. "This legislation would do uiore than all suggestions hereto fore combined towards reviving, en couraging, vitalizing and resuscita ting business in this country and throughout- the world.” Wheeler said. Offering Odds Daniels Is To Get In Contest State Economizes To Meet Decline Kinston Group Adds To Daniels Urge. Other Events About Raleigh. 'M. R. Dunnagan. Star News, Bureau i Raleigh, Jan. 4.—A. lew two-to one offers to bet have been made— and covered—that Josephus Daniels will be a candidate for Governor his year. This may not be an indi cation of the genera! view, the known bets of this nature are few and small, but It doe, show how some Raleigh folks feel. While many believe Mr. Daniels would prefer having A. D. MacLean, Beaufort county representative, as a candidate they doubt that Mr. MacLean will be forced into the race, and feel that Mr. Daniels, if. he does enter, will do so because Mr. MacLean would not 'and he finds no candidate in the list to whom j-he could give whole-hearted sup port. Kinston Boost Kinston folks are trying to help show him his "duty” to run, tak ing up his statement to the Pitt county delegation recently that he would not delay if he is shown it is his duty. He gave no satisfac tion to Washington reporters, face tiously suggesting that he may be a candidate for President, What ever he will have to say mav be expected soon, and his statement may serve as the spark that will . set off dormant but waiting an nouncements of candidates for other State, district and county offices. Economy Move. Stringent economy is required oi ail departments, institutions and agen cies of the State in a Budget Bureau memorandum signed by Governor Gardner, as director of The Budget, and sent to heads of divisions by Henry Burke, assistant director, as the old year closed. The memoran dum announces that allotments are tut to about 70 per cent of the ap propriations made by tlie General CONTIHirsj.1 ON PA3B BidHT.) Revive Monazite Mining Industry 0 In This Section California Alan To Open Alonazite Plant In Bostie Section Of Rntherford. Ruteerfordton, Jan. 4. — The Monazite mining industry, to be the principal industry of Cleveland and Rutherford counties is being revived. Prank R. Porter of the Potter Placer Mining company of Los Angeles, California, has been in this county some time working on the project. He has headquarters at the Isothermal hotel* though the plant will be located near Bostic. ' J T McGregor, secretary of the local chamber of commerce and manager of the hotel, who has been interested in the mining industry for seme time, wjis instrumental in securing the industry for this coun ty Mr. Porter lias had 35 years’ ex perience in the mining Ijpsiness. He plans to erect a large and modern monazite plant on Broad river nflar Bostic at the junction of the Sea board and Clinchfield railroads Mr Porter has contracted with B. Bryan Harrill of Forest, city for five acres t of land at the site. There will be » good highway, two railroads, tele phone and electric light accessible for the plant. Mr. Porter plans to hate the plant in operation not later than April 1st. The plant will pay the farmers $25 per ton for monazite sands to start with Chick Stealing Biggest Racket In This Section Poultryrhan Says It Is Extensive At Least SI0,000 Worth Of Chick, ens Stolen in Cleveland Each Year. The biggest larceny racket In Cleveland county is that of chicken stealing Such is the opinion of Alvin Har din. former county farm agent, who manages a local poultry and feed house Noting that the present county agent, R W. Shoffner. has esti mated the 1901 value of poultry and eggs in Cleveland at over a half million dollars, Mr. Hardin said "If the stealing game was so costly in any other business as in the poultry business, there would be a lot more heard about it,’. Hardly h Week passes he declar ed, without local poultry hbuses, and those in neighboring counties, having stolen chickens brought to them for sale. Often Get By. Very often it is difficult for poul try buyers to know when they are buying chickens from the real owner or from a thief. The proprietor of a poultry house cannot hurt the feelings of a prospective patron by being too curious, yet he must pro tect himself by ascertaining as far as possible If the chickens are stolen. "On occasion* it is easy to tell when we ore being offered stolen chickens," the former agent said. ‘‘When colored men come in with a coop of pure-bred chickens we get suspicious, for very few colored people go in for the better grade of poultry. Likewise, when a white man comes in with chickens of two or three breeds and varieties we witch our step. Very few poultry men have more than one or two breeds of the better stock of chick ens. Yet we have a difficult time doing our part of halting the sale of stolen chickens, and the chicken stealing racket certainly is hard on the poultryman." The former agent does not say so outright, but he intimates that one of the difficulties in breaking up the racket is due to the fact that the stealing game is pretty well organ ized with "fences" (buyers who do not ask too many questions), and other methods of assembling and dis posing of the stolen chickens at some distant point. Kayo Chickens. The actual stealing angle of the racket is cleverly handled these days, he says. No longer do the thieves grope into a chicken house and snatch one chicken at a time off the roost by grabbing them around the neck so they will not squawk.. Instead, they use clever ! tricks. The favorite is to bum sul phur in the roosts and chicken houses. This puts the chickens to sleep or in a stupefied daze, so that they can be tossed into a sack and carried off without making any noise to attract the attention of the owner. "The poultry business." Hardin stated, “would be a lot more profit j able and enticing in this section If | we could in some manner combat ; with the stealing racket.” Present Session Of Congress Puts 9,000 Bills In Hopper In Four Weeks Bills Introduced In H Working Bays Equal To-3 Mor.'lhs In Past. Washington. Jan. 4.—One large sized record the present congress hfis piled up. In four week with only 14 working days, its members have introduced 9,000 bills. As the members return to work from-their Christmas-New Year holiday they face this mountain of printed paper, a number of meas ures, say the bill room clerks. Which in the past has taken three or four months to pile up. The house, with more than four times the membership of the Sen ate has done the biggest job of in troducing. It has 6,059 bills, to the ! Senate, 2,419. Of the total a scant handful— the fingers on both hands would al most add them up—have gone even half way to passage. Among these is the proposal to increase the capital of land banks, passed by the House and now in the hands of the Senate banking committee Thousands Will Die Thousands will die of neglect, ethers will be pushed aside by the emergency program, relief and tax ation bills. So far, since Congress met De cember 7 orvfy six resolutions and bills have been unproved and pass ed. They include approval of the in I"national one-year moratorium; appropriation of $200,000,000 for the veterans administration; a much smaller grant of fe'nds for the em ployment service: permission Nfor Olympic athlfites to enter free of immigration restriction.; extension of the war policies commission, and a bill by Senator Norris'of Nebras ka amending* the penal laws. The first ten bills in each branch still remain for the lawmakers to pass i’non after reconvening Mon day. Five of th# first 10 in the House bear the name of Representative La Guardia, Republican, New York, Senator King, the Utah Democrat, submitted four of the first ten to that chamber. Senator Walcott, Republican, Con necticut, submitted number one on his side, the $500,000,000 recon struction finance corporation, urged by President Hoover, which is to be reported soon by the banking com mittee to the floor. Representative Patman, Democrat Texas, dropped’ number one into the House—to pay immediately to veterans the face • value of their adjusted service certificates. It probably will stay with the ways and means commrtiec for. a while t Farmers Gather In City Thursday To Organize Body To Form General Marketing Vnit Of Farmers Mutual Exchange. A combined movement to start the new year off on a systematic basis will be inaugurated here Thursday when farmers of Cleveland county, particularly poultry and dairy farmers, will gather to form a cooperative marketing unit of the Farmers Mutual Exchange. 'The meeting Is called for the court house at 2 in the afternoon, it Is announced by R. W. Shoffner, Cleveland farm agent. Speaker Coming L. C. Salter, State marketing specialist, will be a guest at the meeting and will explain the value of such an organization from the angle of securing better prices and marketing advantages by coopera tion. Cnit Here Now At present the poultrymen of Cleveland, county have a county united of the Farmers Mutual Ex change, but the meeting Thursday will be for the purpose of Incorpo rating a counfy-wide unit of the general organization in order to boost farm marketing in 1932 When the general county unit of the Exchange is formed there will be branches under it devoted to poultry products, dairy products etc. The organization, when defi nitely formed Thursday, will outline plans to assist in marketing all farm products, and a general invitation is extended for all county farmers to attend. Sale Of Car Tag? Behind Last Year Around Auto Plates Sold Here. Stop Old Tags Last Of Week. Atauod 3,000 automobile and truck license plates for 1932 had been sold at the motor license bureau In Shel by up to today, according to Chas. R. Eskridge, manager of the buicau and motor club. Of this number approximately 2,800 plates were for automobiles and 200 for trucks The number sold to date is be tween 500 and 1,000 tags behind the sale to the same date last year, : Approximately 8 000 tags were sold | here altogether last year, but the 1932 total will hardly reach this figure. For a day or two yet highway ! patrolmen say they will merely i warn motorists who are still using old tags, but after that time users of 1931 plates'Will be arrested Biggs Liquidating Agent Grover Bank i Claims To Be In By April. Biggs Handled Rutherford Bank Affairs. John D. Biggs, who served as liquidating agent in clearing up (bank affairs in Rutherford county [a year ago, has been named liqut ! dating agent of the Grover bank, I In form legal announcement he [says that all claims must be filed i with proof by April, 1932. j Bowling, Adams Babies Winners Of1932Honors Jane Bowling First Baby Of Year Eleven Cilfts For First Habv, Sav ing Account For Second Baby. Little Miss Jane Westley Bowling who arrived In Shelby-at 3 :20 on the afternoon of January 1, wins the honor of bethg Cleveland coun ty’s 1932 baby. Along with the honor goes eleven prizes, given by Shelby merchants, for the little miss and her parents. A boy, weighing 6 3-4 pounds, gave the 1932 girl a race for first honors. The second baby of the year was born at the Shelby hospital Friday evening, January 1, at 7:45, to Mr. and Mrs. Jess C. Adams of the Cleveland Cloth mill village. His name is Cleve Cornelius Adams. The parents of the first baby of the year are Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Westley Bowling, and their daugh ter was born at the home. 517 S Washington street. Dr. B. B, Mat thews was the physician. Mrs. Bowling before marriage was Miss Mary Frances Putnam, well known Shelby girl. The mother of the second baby was Miss Ola Mac Shackley, of Greenville, S. C, before her mar riage to Mr. Adams. Dr. Ben Gold was the physician. Third Baby The third baby, a boy, reported was born yesterday, Sunday, Jan. 3, to Mr. and Mrs. Moody Cook, young couple of the Lawndale sec tion of No. 9 township. To the first baby go the following gifts: J. C. McNeely Company, $2.50 savings bank account. Sloop's Pharmacy, 2%-pound car milk. Sterchl Brothers, baby stroller. Carolina theatre, five-year pass, Pendleton's Music Store, ukelePr Sanltary Market, dozen cans Pet. milk, Efird’s, baby blanket. Quinn’s Drug Store, baby comb and brush set. Charles Stores Company, *3.50 worth of baby clothes. i A. V Wray & 6 Sons, one bolt bird’s eye diaper cloth. Tillman’s Service Station, family car washed and greased free of charge. And young Mr. Cleve Adams as | the second baby of 1932 will be given : a $2 savings account by The Cleve ! land Star. Coca Cola Plant Changes Hands Here Now Operated As A Branch Of The Charlotte Plant—Jones, Is Manager. The Shelby Coco Cola Bottling Co. heretofore owned and operated under a lease from J. Luther Sny der of Charlotte, changed hands the first of the year. It Is now operated as the Coco Cola Bott ling Co., i Shelby Branch) with Mr. Hubert Jones of Charlotte as mana ger. Mr. Jones is originally from Raleigh and a son-in-law ol Mr. Snyder, owner of the Coco Cola franchise In this territory. Mr. John Honeycutt who has been associated with his father Ip the ownership of the plant and opera ting under a lease, has become as sistant manager. The Honeycutts operated the plant here for m&py years under a lease which expired a few months ago. The company will continue to oocupy the Honey cutt building on West Warren street. Community Players Meet On Monday A meeting of the Community Players, Shelby dramatic organiza | t»on, will be held Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. , The purpose of the meeting is to select a play to be produced next and to plan for the stage produc tion some time in February. The Community Players have already offered one production in Shelby and it was considered one of the best stage presentations ever seen here. Interest in the organization | was materially increased by the suc cess of the first effort, and play \ lovers of the section are eager to ! witness the second production plan t ned for February. American Legion To Meet On Tuesday There will be a meeting of the | American Legion at the Court House ion Tuesday evening of this week heeinning nr ft o’clock New Year Reception at White House • his general view of the White House grounds on the morning of New Year's Day shows part of the huge crowd which gathered to pay their respects to President and Mrs, Hoover at the traditional recep tion. Inset at left shows the JPresident and First Lady with some of the diplomatic dignitaries who loud at the white House doorway to free I the thron* of well-wishers. Right is John William Hun ■■field, who for five year* has been the first man • n the pabllc line to greet the Chief Kaerutlve. Ilunefield refused the President's invitation to break fast because he wished to keep his place in front. To Ask Reynolds To Deliver First Speech In Shelby Kevnolds-For Senate Club Ri-inr Formed In County This Week. A Reynolds-for-Senate club b being formed in Shelby this week with the view of asking Robert R Reynolds, of Asheville, to make his first campaign speech here. Mr. Reynolds, well known In this ^action, is a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination to the United States Senate, and if he accepts the proposed offer to speak here, it will be the opening gun for the section in the 1932 political campaign. Third Of Year’s Rain Fell Here During December More Rain In December Than Dur ing Six Months Summer— Fall Drought. December was by far tiie wet, teat month of 1931, more than twice as much rain falling in the Shelby section during the final month of the year as dur ing any other month of the year. The rainfall record, maintained at the 8helby post office, shows that the rainfall here In December was 12.71 Inches, over two inches more than the combined rainfall of the six preceding months. Drought Broken. The long drought, which began In August was broken with heavy rains the first week of December There were other showers during the month but the heaviest rainfall was at the end of the month From the first of June through the last of November the total rain fall here was 10 inches, which was 2.82 Inches less than during the six months period from June through November. In other words, one-third of the year's rainfall was in De cember, the total for the entire year being 38.82 inches. » Wet In May. The second wettest month of the year was May with 5,25 Inches. March was third with 3.84 inches and July fourth with 3.36 Inches. Three months of the year—Septem ber. October and November had less than an inch of rainfall each The rainfall by months follows: January 1.98. February 1.96, March 3.84. April 3.08, May 5.25, June 3.01, July 3.36. August 2.10, September .45, October .77, November .31. and December 12.71. Spanish-American War Vets To Meet Tonight Court House Spanish-American War Veterans will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Court House to Install officers for the ensuing year State Depart ment Commander J. t. Booth of j Charlotte and state Department Adjutant A. J. Brandes of Charlotte will be here to help in the installa tion of officers ami all members ar* ! arced to attend. I Real Winter Scheduled To Hit Section This Month; Cold Wave Predicted By Blum’s For 16th Stormy Heather And Some Icei Forecast For This Week, February Bad. Will there be no r«U winter weather for 1031-32? The tenacious manner In which WWB.Jfllft 'WBrtW*' Hh* .m>tlw *&lfl on through December and Into January has caused many in the Shelby section to believe that there may be very little cold weather J. Martin Grant, the Chester wea ther prophet, who hits his mark right often, predicted bad weather snow, sleet, etc., for last week, but j It felled to arrive Is Yet To Coinr Blum .5. or the Salem, almanec ] for many years a standby with! farmers and, others, says, however I that there will be real winter wea then yet. The almanac forecasts a storm; period for this week with ice and ( increased cold. Late next week, or j from the 16th to the 19th, will come! “a cold wave of great Intensity." This cold wave, it is predicted will moderate about the 21st, but wtS be followed in the last week of the month with snow storms. In February Cold spells, snow' and Ice In Feb-! ruary and March are expected to make up for the summerllke fall and early winter. Snow flurries. Blum’s says, will come early in Feb ruary, with‘heavy snows setting In about the middle of the month and continuing for a week More snow and sleet are forcast for early Ini March followed by heavy snow about the middle of the month and cold, biting winds the latter por tion of the month Girls, Want A Hubby During Leap Year? He Tells How To Do It Donf rich A Sheik Or Any Man On His Looks And Clothing. Kansas City, Kur, Jail. 4—Judge Henry Meade of the Wyandotte county probate court has announced ten commandments to guide women Seeking to take advantage of leap year. They follow: Don’t pick a shiek. * Don't let a handsome lace In fluence your better judgment. Don’t shy from the bashful be ! cause the bashful are shy. ConsMer the man who considers his nickles. Believe not that the man with the motor car has the only vehicle to happiness. Remember clothes may make the man and fill the clothes closet, but they dop't fill the pantry. Don't, delay a proposal because he is old fashioned He may be like your father Demand much character, but be satisfied with a small part of the. pay check. Don’t be finicky; you have faults yourself. Let love be the only consider 1 ‘.ion; after ail nothing else count Community Players Prepare For Play l-oeal Dramatic Organization Hopes To Stage Production In February A meeting ot the Community Play ers, Shelby dramatic organization, wfll be held Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. , The purpose of the meeting is to select a play to be produced next and to plan for the stage product ion somp time in February. The Community Players have already offered one production in Shelby and it was considered one of the best stage presentations ever seen here. Interest in the organization was materially increased by the suc cess of the first effort, and play lovers of the section are eager to witness the second production for February; MISTAKE IN FIGURES In comparing the amount Cleve land farmers received for their cot ton in 1931 with that of 1926 The Star made an error in the figuring !1 The JfSl total was S79.000 less Ilian* he 1926 Instead of *17,000 mpn Local Banks Pay SI0,500 Dividends Bank dividends totalling »Ut.. 5,000 were mailed to sharehold er* of MwMWwfr National am* the Union Tmst Co. a few days ago. The. First National paid three per pent on its capital of S'!50,000 and the Union Trust Co, two per cent on its capital of $150,000. Both banks paid dividends in July, the First National paying sis per cent and the Cnfon Trust Co. four per cent. Insurance Company Sued For SI0,380 hen Harris Asks For Disability Claim Of *25 Moifthly For Policy. A IIO.UOO suit against, the Metro politan Life Insurance company has been filed in Superior court here by Allen Kent Harris through his attorneys. Ernest Gardner and Pey ton McSwain. Tiie complaint says that Harris took out a policy with the company in 1922 which included a disability clause. He was disabled, it is claim ed. in 1928, and beginning in 1927 was paid *25 per month on the dis ability clause by the insurance company. In November. 1931, he contends, payments were stopped although he Is still disabled and has been told by physicians that he will remain disabled. His suit asks for a suni totalling $25 per month tor 34 years or the remainder of his natural life. Weddings Show Large Decrease In This County ] Only 69 Couples Get License Here j Ihrw Years Ago Total Number Of IJrrnses Sold Here Ran Over !W, Dan Cupids business In Cleveland i county during lf»31 came nearer be i big a flop or a washout. If you care fi>r the modern expression, than anv other business. Marriage licenses were Issued to only «B couples at the Cleveland county court house during the year, according to a check on the license book maintained by Register Andy Newton Steady Decline. Three years ago, before North Carolina passed a law making mar riage In this State more difficult and more expensive, around 20ti marriage license were sold each year—the total never falling below 100. One year since he has been in office Register Newton remem bers selling a number over 200. But the structer marriage laws started J the lovelorn couples to South Caro lina. Year before last the total dropped off here., and last year i* ' cropped Off even more, hut local matrimonial stock, as the market, experts put It, dropped to a new low level In 1931. Slaty-nine mar riage licenses In a year is only be tween four and five per month. Nowadays almost twice as manv Cleveland couples get married at Gaffney as marry' at home. September Leads The month of September topped all other months of the year in What little business Dan Cupid did ip this county. Eleven couples se I cured licenses in September, and (December ranked next with nihe. January was the low month of the i year with only two marriages and | October ranked next to the botton ! with Just, three. June, the month I of brides, had a grand total of 7 | The number of licenses Issued j per month follow: January 2, Feh | ruary 4. March 5. April 6, May 3 ! June 7, July 7, August 6, Septem ber 11. October 3. November 5, end December 9 Attendance Good As School Opens For Second Term Over Shelby Vaanfuter> Back To Work Today. One Teacher Chan ye. When the Shelby school sjstem reopened this morning after the holiday season the attendance was unusually good for the first school day of the new year. An early check today revealed that 3.025 students, a high propor tion of the total enrollment, were back at work in the school room. At the high school three stude> to dropped out because their parents moved away but three new ones were enrolled and the total enioll ment was not changed. Some stu dents dropped out In the other school® but new ones came In and all enrollment remains practically the same. One change was made in the city faculty. Miss Louise Lever who has been married was replaced by Mrs. Hugh Arrowood. The latter goes to the South Shelby school and Miss Mae Connor, of the South Shelby school, goes to the Graham school. The attendance today was s'a fol lows by schools: Central High _. . Graham ..._ 039 Washington ______ . 337 Marlon ..._ .... ;j0,j Jefferson ......._ 339 L&Fayette _ 345 South Shelby ......._... 473 Colored elementary _ 443 Colored high .J.___ 120 Zoar colored *__ 5b Total .. 3,025 Efird Opens Four New Units In 1931 The Bfird department store chain operating principaUy in North Carolina, mth headquarters in Charlotte, hat opened four nexr stores since fall, 1931. One Qt the four units is in Cheraw. S- C The pther three are in Smithfield. ‘ Mount Airy and Rockingham North > Danilina, the l.vsl ntuned store hav ng opened Satnrdas'. January a. » |
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