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8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVIII. No. 15 SHELBY, N. C. W EDNESDAY, FEB. 3. 1932 Published Monday, Wednseday and Friday Afternoons. ny MeU. p«r y«Er. (in Edvanco - n.M Carrier, wr year, (in advance) $3.Of Late News THE MARKET Cotton . ... 6.65 to 7r Cotton wagon seed, tn __ S10 0C Rain And Colder. Today'* North Carolina Weather Report: Rain tonight and Thurs day. Colder in interior Thursday. Opposes League. Albany, N. Y, Feb. 3.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in 1920 stumped the country for Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations last night declared he opposed American participation In the league. “The League of Nations today Is not the league conceived by Woodrow Wil son,” said Mr. Roosevelt, a candi date for the. Democratic nomina tion for the presidency. “It might have been had the United States joined. Too often through the years its major function has been not the broad overwhelming purpose of world peace, but rather a mere meeting place for the political dis cussion of strictly European politi cal difficulties. In these the United States should have no paN.” Roose velt proclaimed against rancella " tion of European debts and said he favored an international trade con ference to level tariff barriers. The governor blamed the Smoot-Haw ley tariff act for trade walls erected by customer nations as a retalia tory measure. Patrons Build New School In Bethlehem Area New Elementary Structure Practi cally Complete. Name Teachers After April 4. The citizens of the Bethlehem ection of Cleveland county decided ?ome months ago that they desired a new elementary school building and as a result of that desire and iheir energetic work to realize it they have ft new building almost ready to be occupied. The members of the county hoard of education took off enough ! time from their other duties at their regular monthly meeting this week to visit and inspect the new building. It is, the members of the board say, a nice four-room brick veneered structure. After de ciding that they needed a new building, for elementary school, j ince Bethlehem high school stu dents are being transported to drover, the Bethlehem people talk ed it over with the county board. The board members agreed to fur-1 ■ riish the material and the Bethle hem citizens solved the hard times handicap by doing practically all the work of construction themselv es, New Teachers. Another rather important item of business with the board of edu cation was the decision not to elect new rural school teachers until April .4, or the first Monday in April. A resolution was passed ask ing the various committeemen over the county to postpone election of Teachers and principals until after the first Monday in April for the reason that new committeemen for 1 he school districts are appointed f t that time and the county board rhinks the committeemen who will have charge of the schools for the next year should have a say in se lecting the teachers for the year. "11 places on the school committee, however, are not filled in April. On The three-member boards only one new one is appointed each year, and on the fivermember boards one end two in alternating years. Taylor Wall Dies In Upper County i Aged And Respected t itizen Suc cumbs Near His 84th Birth day. Buried At Moriah Zachary Taylor Wall, one of the j most respected citizen of upper Cleveland was buried Monday aft- j rrnoon at 2 o'clock at Moriah! Methodist church, the funeral serv-. Ice being conducted by his pastor. Rev. Otis Cook, assisted by Rev. C. K. Ridge and Rev. Miller Goode. Mr. Taylor was 83 years eleven months and two days old. He died Sunday after a protracted illness Mr. Taylor was twice married, the lirst time to Octavia Bridges who died April 30th, 1877, leaving one ron. Miller Wall, now living at Marion. On Sept. 22, 1880 Mr. Wall was married to Martha Black and a dozen children were born to this union, ten of whom are living: Mrs. Texie Price, Mrs. Nolan New ton, Coweu Wall, Osney Wall, China Wall, Odus Wall, Mrs. Clem Wortman, Mrs. Robert Newton, Osa and Roma Wall, 63 grandchil dren and eight great grandchil dren. Also surviving are his wife, two sisters. Proney and Docia Towerv, one brother J. B. Wall, with a host of friends and other relatives. There was a large crowd at the tuner*!. Mr Wall joined the Bap ’ »t*t church at High Shoals when e •sung man and later moved h>s membership to Zion Baptist church where he remained a member un ■o death. i Shelby Secures More Data On S.P. U. Offer Will Publish Letters From Mayors Board Discusses Proposal. Takes No Action. May Make Counter Offer. The S. P U. offer of a million and or.e hundred thousand dollars for the Shelby light plant was dis cussed once again last night at the regular meeting of the city alder men. but no action wa3 taken. Al derman Z. J. Thompson Who Js in New Orleans, La., was absent from the meeting. Additional information about S P. U. service and rate; in other towns has been secured by the city board and was given to The Star. This information, letters from may ors of tour towns and cities served ed by the power firm, reached the paper too late today tor publica tion and will be published Friday. The letters were in reply to a re quest from local officials as to the type of service given in their mu nicipalities under S. P. U. manage ment. It is understood, in the mean time, that local people opposed to selling the plant are endeavoring to get the views of private citizens and light plant patrons in the same towns in which the mayors were asked about their attitude to the S. P. U. Although practicallv the entire meeting of the council last night was devoted to a discussion of the proposed sale, no official entry was made in the minutes and no defi nite date was set in which to decide to call or not call a special election. A definite decision by tht board, it is presumed, will be withheld for some time yet as further facts are secured and turned to the public for a reaction. It is reported, although there has been no- official announcement to that effect, that before calling or re fusing to call an election the' board may make a counter proposition to the power firm asking a boost in the $1,100,000 offer. Opponents of the sale argue that no first offer is the highest offer, while a number who favor the sale express the be lief that the S. P. U. will give more for the plant than the original off er Other rumors, of which there are many, have it that another audit on the five year earnings will be made as some have expressed the view that a second audit might bring out additional facts The brief statement of Mayor S A. McMurry and the aldermen as handed to The Star today with let ters from mayors of towns served: by the S, P. U. does not take cog- i nizance of these reports It merely j states that the letters are given the i public as a matter of additional in formation to be thought over by citizens. Aged Mooresboro Man Buried Tuesday * i Columbus Johnson, Eighty Years1 Old Buried At Sandy Run Baptist Church. Columbus Johnson, eighty years of age died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G. \V. Curtis, near Mooresboro on Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock, following an illness of a year or longer. Mr. Johnson's wife died fourteen years ago He i? sur vived by the one daughter, Mrs. Curtis, eight grand children and eight great grand children. Funeral services were conducted ! Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by I Rev. Ves Jones and interment was in the cemetery at Sandy Run Bap- j tist church. County Board To Help With Curb Market Project County Club Women Plan Build ing On Site Where Open Market Operated. Cleveland county commissioners at their meeting this week decid ed to help finance the erection of a small building on North Wash ington street, just otf the court square, to be used by the county club women as a curb market. The proposed building, about 10 feet by 12 in size, will be erected on the site where the curb market was conducted last summer and fall and where the new enterprise met with considerable success. The county board in deciding to lend a helping hand to the movement which brought a new income and a new market to farm women added the provision that the member of the home demonstration clubs “might apply what money they have on hands to the buildings as they see fit.” The following people, after ap peals were investigated, were al lowed the following sums for sup port: Mrs. L. L. Moss $4-per month, Mrs. Ethel Fortune *6 for two months, and Mary Seism *3 per month. Peddling license Was grant ed J. D. Green. The following bills were ordered paid by the board; City Ice and Fuel Co, county home, $1.80; McKnight & Co., Inc", county home, $48.35; Southern Cot ton Oil Co., county home, $115.44: Mrs. John T. Borders, extra labor, county home, $30.00; Sloops Phar macy, county home, $5.15; Cleve land Hardware Co., county home $11.76; T. P. Eskridge, county horn* $62.10; D. H. Cline, Inc., county home, $9.85; City of Shelby, ja:1 $41.22: Star Publishing Co., publ report, $233.30; I. M. Allen, stamps etc., $10.88; I. M. Allen, jail report 'CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.' Quake In Cuba Reports reached here at noon today stating that the Sino . a panes* trouble has reached more serious proportions as the result of the sinking near Shanghai today of a Japanese cruiser by Chinese artillery fire Number Killed Another late report stated that eight people were killed and several hundred injured in an earthquake which rocked a Cuban town early in the day. ' Mr. Kendall Sends His Wife To Manila Chinese Sink Mr. Henry Kendall, Shelbv inan who is in Shanghai. China where he represents a tobacco company, has cabled the head office of his company in Dan ville, Va., that he has sent his bride to Manila, Philippine Is lands. where she will be out of the danger zone. The rituation in Shanghai, says Mr. Kendall in a cablegram to the president of his company, Col. A. B. Car rington of Danville, Va., is "Very serious." Mr. Keittlall was married last Fall in Shanghai to an Ameri can girl, Miss Isabel Gillman. Harper Cleared Of Murder In Death Of Wife’s Lover; Crowd Applauds High Point Salesman Acquitted By Jury In Shooting Of Charles O. Holton. Greensboro, Feb. 3.~Terry H, Harper, 44-year-old traveling sales man, was acquitted by a jury in su perior court Tuesday night shortly after 9 o’clock of the murder of Charles O. Holton, his vvife's alleg ed paramdur. who was fatally shot by him in the Hamper home, near High Point, the night of December 23. As Claude A. Smith, High Point elementary school principal, spokes man for (he jury,, announced i4v verdict, the defendant swooned and fell In a faint to the courtroom floor. He was carried by court officers and spectators into the judge's chamber where first aid was administered by Dr. A. D. Ownbey, who happened to be in the courtroom at the time Mrs. Harper Shows Emotion. The defendant’s wife, Mrs. Cath erine C. Harper, acquitted of com plicity in Holton's murder by judg ment of non-suit entered last, Sat urday, heard the verdict with deep' emotiom She was sitting with friends inside the bar, only a few feet from her husband, when the jury return cosrriNUBD on paoe eimh'i Quinn Named | Postmaster President Hoover on Monday sent 1 to the senate the appointment of Jacob H. Quinn (above) as post* ! master for Shelby. Mr. Quinn, the i present postmaster, has served in j that office for a little over nine j years. He was appointed acting post 1 master in September 1923 by Presi dent Harding to succeed W. J. Rob erts, who resigned. Since that time he has been appointed for two full ; terms. Confirmation of the post ; office appointments by the senate ! will not likely be made for several ! days. Groundhog Sees No Shadow, Says Winter Is Over * Woodchuck Weather Prophet Has Law Of Average* Working Against Him. And now the groundhog, who lias been considered a fairlv reliable weather prophet for several centuries, says that wr are going to have no winter this summer. Groundhog day, listed on the calendar as February 2 and known in the old days as Candlemas, was rainy and cloudy throughout the entire country. As a result, say ■ those who believe In the wood | chuck's weather wisdom, winter, if ! there be such this year, is at an ! end and spring has arrived. Ac cording to the legend, if the ground hog emerges from his hiding place on February 2 and sees his shadow, he becomes frightened, darts back into his hole and hides for six more weeks during which bad, winter weather will prevail. But if it is cloudy and he does not see his shadow’, then the woodchuck re mains above ground and the win ter season has broken. Which means that the tra-la iaing springtime is here for those who swear by the groundhog, but on tire other side are the skeptic." shaking their heads. This time, the skeptics say, the wood chuck must buck up against a-re lentless foe—the law of average... So far during the 1931-32 winti’ , reason there has been no winto weather. The normally cold months have been warmer than in any season in 40 years and bitter weath er is anticipated during February and March. So among the other contests of the year to be watched is the weather battle between the w’ood chuck and the law of averages Col. Harrelson To Speak Before Club Director of Conservation And De velopment To Address Kiwanis Club. Col. J. W. Harrelson. director ol conservation and development in North Carolina will be the principal speaker here Thursday night at the weekly Kiwanis club luncheon. His subject has not been announced, but it is supposed he will speak on some phase of conserving and de veloping the natural resources of the State. * Col. Harrelson is a native of the Lawndale section of Cleveland county, a graduate of State couege and has been head of this State de partment since his appointment when Governor Gardner became chief executive of the Stat^ Mr Luther Reynolds of New York City, spent last week-end with Mr. and Mrs. John Rehenek at Lawndale. Hamrick Likely To Be District Court Attorney County Native Seems | Sure Of Job _ Itailrv * Objection To Chat. Jonas As “Obnoxious'' May Bloch Lincoln Man. Fred D Hamrick, Rutherfordton lawyer and a native of Bolling Springs, Cleveland county, may be the next district attorney for the, Western North Carolina federal j court district. According to reports last night and today from Washington, Chas, A. Jonas, of Llncolnton, who is act -1 | ing district attorney, maw not be i I confirmed by the United States senate due to objections filed by I 18enator J. W. Bailey, of North Car olina. If the senate fails to confirm Jonas. Republican leaders here and Over the state believe that Mr Hamrick, a brother of F. B. Ham rick, of Boiling Springs, deputy j marshal, will get the appointment. May Defeat Him The Washington dispatch telling j of the Bailey objections to Jonas | former congressman and fiery O. O. P. campaigner, says: "The likelihood of the senate taking favorable action on the nomination of Charles A. Jonas as United States district attorney for the western district of North Caro lina was brought into serious ques tion yesterday when it was reveal ed that Senator Jewish W. Ballsy i has filed with the judiciary eom ■ mittee a brief declaring that Mr | Jonas’ appointment is ‘personal ly objectionable and obnoxious' to him, "In the past the senate has con sistently refused to confirm ap pointments when a member of the bojly raised the personalty obnox objection.” Prom Charlotte comes the fol lowing dispatch which predict r Hamrick will get the office If Jonas is defeated: "Fred Hamrick of Rutherfordton will be the next western North Carolina district attorney, it ap peared last night with the an nouncement from Washington that Senator J. W. Bailey had filed with the senate judiciary committee a brief declaring the appointment of Charles A. Jonas would be ‘person ally objectionable and obnoxious’ to j him. “Mr Hamrick's friends say there is no opposition to him for the district attorneyship in event the j senate rejects Mr. Jonas, who is i now serving under recess appoint j ment of President Hoover. Some time ago Mr. Hamrick admitted that he would be a candidate in event Mr. Jonas should fail to be given the senate's confirmation, but made it plain that he was a close friend of the Lincolnton man and was anxious to see him confirmed. He made it quite clear that he was In no sense a candidate against Mr. Jonas.” Hickory Man Gives I ions Club Program ; Local Civic Club To Give Scrolls To C'onnty And City Schools. H. A. *McNeely, Hickory business man, was the chief entertainer at the meeting of the Shelby Lions club last night in a program put on by Prank L. Hoyle, jr. Mr. McNeely, a gifted singer, ren dered a number of selections, both classical and popular, together with a few of his own composition. At the meeting the dub decided to give each school room in the county and city a copy of the moral code scroll. These scrolls will be deliver ed to the county schools by Supt. J. H. Grigg or may be secured at his office. The members of the club will distribute them >o the city schools. Good Week-End For Getting County Tax; The last week-end was the best tax collecting period Sheriff Irvin M. Allen’s office has had since Uu>t fall. Prom Friday through Monday a little over $37,000 in county taxes was collected by the sheriff. This ran the total collections of the 1931 levy above $185,000. Tax-payers coming in Friday Saturday and Monday were those seeking to avoid the one percent penalty which was added to the taxes on February 2 by the slate taw Fighting A bo ut Shanghai Breaks Out Anew As Truce Is Talked __ _ . * How Shanghai Crisis Evolved . . :----- , The above map present* a nutshell history of events that led to the present crisis In Shanghai, which threatens International peace. The blowing up of the railroad tracks of the Japanese-owned South Man churia railway, north of Mukden, started the fracas. Japanese placed the blame on Chinese and occupied Mukden as a reprisal. Gradual occupation of the entire province of Manchuria followed, the Chinese putting up no resistance, but appealing to League of Nations and boycotting Japanese trade. It was to force the lifting of the boycott and the suppression of anti-Japanese societies that Japan attempted the occupation of Shanghai. Bostic Plant May Bring Back Monazite Industry For This Section; Seek Tariff Action California Man To Open Plant In Spring. Plana To Pa; $25 Per Ton. • Rutherford ton, Feb. 3.—A num ber of representative citizens of Rutherfordton met recently to de vise plans to revive the monazlte in dustry. It was the concensus of opinion that the first important step was to secure a duty, or small tariff through congress so that monazlte in this country would be in demand and could compete with that of other countries, mainly Ceylon where it is mined with slave labor at low prices.Frank R. Porter, president of the Porter-Placer Min ing Co., of California, Bridgewater and Fredericksburg, Va., addressed | the meeting and displayed samples ;of the mineral which he said can | be found in great abundance in more than 20 counties of the Pied mont Carolin&s. He further stated that this country had been using over five million pounds of mona zite. It was decided to form a central organization, ask each of the coun ties in which this mineral abounds to help contribute a small sum to promote legislation. The plan being to open an office in Washington, D. C., as soon as possible where mem bers of congress, tariff commission and others can see at first hand just what the Carolinas have to offer in the way of monazite and other CONTINUED ON PAOE EIGHT! Many Applicants For Star Mail Routes In County And Over N. C. Several score Shelby and Cleve land county men made bids on star mail route Jobs in this county and over the State, it was learned to day. All bids for carrying star mail routes in North Carolina had to be in Washington by January 19, but announcement of the low bidders will not be known, it is believed, before late this month. All con tracts will go to low bidders and bids for every star route in the State were received. Every bidder had to put up a bond of good faith and a number, it is said, failed to get formal bids In because of ina bility to get up bonds. Chas. A. Hoey, local representative of a bonding company, handled a large number of bonds for bidders for routes in this county and other sec tions of the state. One Cleveland man placed a bid, on the biggest route in North Car olina, a two trip daily route between Wilmington and Newbern. The new low bidders will not take over the route until June 30, the present carriers serving until that time. In Cleveland county there are six star routes as folloys: Shelby to Liawndale, Shelby via Fallston to Belwood, Kings Mountain-Shelby, bus route Shelby to Gastonia. Ruth erfordton via Shelby to Kings Mountain, and Bolling Springs to Lattimore. “First Monday” Is Again A Day Of Trading And Fun On “Bone-Yard” Famous Old Trade Alley Buzr.cs And Seethes Once More With Varied “Swapping.’' They do oome back. First Mon day has In Shelby! “How’ll you swap? How much ‘boot’ will you give? What you trading today?—and how?’’ The above and many other fam iliar old sayings rang out all day Monday along the one-time famous “Boneyard Alle^”—better known today as King street. ■Bone Alley,’' for the first tune in many years, has come into its own, and was the business place in and round town putting on tvf > dog” for fair, and had every other business center in town backed off the boards. The echo of yesteryear rang clear and true as the clap trap of “hoss” and mule hoofs re sounded throughout the length of the busy side street. Monday was the greatest gather ing of old cronies, pals and side kicks and "hoss-traders" and others who have promenaded this “euro market” in two and twenty years. Old friends were united, old scenes renewed and enacted all ove again As the day lengthened, the crowds increased to hundred ■WWKVID ON PAOt *IOKf Four Countries Join In Truce Move Artillery Battle Resumed A* Trace Plan Ik Advanced By Great Power*. Shanghai, China. Feb. 3.—An ar tillery battle between Japanese and Chinese troops broke forth again early today as hopes were high for a truce proposed by Anglo-American powers until the two countries could settle their difficulties peacefully In the spirit of the Paris pact and th» League of Nations resolution. Firing between the Chinese and Jap forces flared up again when ths Japanese declared that the Chinese were preparing a concentrated rush to regain sectors In the Shanghai district now patrolled by the Japa nese. The major points of the new flare-up were in the Chapel Chinesi section already bombarded and part ly destroyed by the Jape and along the Shanghai-Woosing railroad. Offer Peace Plans. Yesterday the four great powers - America. England. France and Italy -cooperate in a movement to end hostilities without conflict and without endangering citizens and Interests of the four countries in the battle area. The plan, as sent out by the League of Nations, asked that all hostilities cease, that both coun tries withdraw their troops from the Shanghai area, and establish a neu tral zone for International protec tion until peace negotiations could be carried on. tne truce which was hardly ever In evidence was shattered by the scattered artillery duels, a constant moving of troops by noth Japanese and Chinese, and the hovering over the Bund sector of Jap bombing planes and the continued alert watch of Jap shipe about Fne har bor. The hope was expressed that the renewed fighting likely resulted from a misunderstanding between patrol groups of the opposing fore i es, and general reports are encour aging for the establishment of » truce. A dispatch from Tokio said that four of the five proposals submit ted in the Anglo-American peace plan were acceptable to Japan but that the fifth was “absolutely un acceptable.” United State officials made it clear, after the peace plan was presented, that the Anglo-Am erican proposal did not contain any threat of war and suggested only peaceful negotiations between the two nations. Despite the fact that the peace plan was submitted under friendly relations to both nations, it was emphasized that citizens of the four countries residing in the Shang hai area not be molested. Another day, it is believed, will bring a truce and a cessation of hostilities or wil lmake an already grave situation more tense. Spread Rumor Of War Over Shelby Cltisens Excited Yesterday By Wild Reports Of Extra Newspapers On Conflict Unfounded rumors, of the type that caused one militia company in North Carolina to mobilise, spread about Shelby yesterday and caused considerable excitement in the city about the Slno-Japanesa war. Early in the day reports trickled about the streets saying that news paper extras were out in several cities over the state. By noon the rumor had grown to the extent that it was reported on all street corners that war had officially been de clared between China and Japan. Among the more imaginative it was reported that the late news had the United States, England Russia and other nations involved and that all signs pointed to anoth er big war. Numerous calls were made to The Star asking for Information, but no new developments of a ser ious nature being known bv the paper inquirers were informed that the reports were in all probability exaggerated. Yet late in the day the reports continued to run wild and had spread into the adjoining countryside. Interest in the Sino Japanese situation seems to have almost reached the World war stage when rumors were spread as fact and the citiaenship was continu ously aroused by reports of a new conflict or of peace. Miss Adelsce lineberger. student at Fassifern school at Henderson ville, spent last week-end with her parents. Mr and Mrs William ' 'neherger.
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