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S PAGES TODAY LB\, N. C. FRIDAY, FEB. 12, 1932 Published Monday, Wednseday and Friday Afternoons. By Mail, per ye»r. tin advened - *3tg Currlif. orr vi* a r __ Late News THK MARK!I Colton . ... S.B5 to 7* Cotton wagon seed. tn .... $10 OC * ( loud- And Cooler Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy and cooler tonight preceded by rain. Saturday cloudy and cooler. Gardner Comes Out For County Representative Believe Edwards To Run Again Toung Attorney, Native of Beams Mill Section, Is legislative Candidate. Attorney Ernest A. Gardner an nounced today his candidacy for the house of representatives in the next general assembly. Cleveland county Is entitled to one represen tative every two years and one sen ator every two years, alternating with another county In this sena torial district on state senator. Mr. Gardner announces no piri form at this time and gives no In dication that he will have any plat form other than that of the Demo cratic party. He Is 34 years of age and married. He and Mrs. Gardner have one child. Native Of Cleveland. Mr. Gardner was born in the Beams Mill section of Cleveland county on the farm and now lives there. He is a grandson of the late Rufus Gardner and Anderson Nol an, Confederate veterans who serv ed in the same company during the Civil war. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Virgil A. Gardner, prominent people of the Beams Mill commun ity. After attending the Fallston high school, Mr. Gardner attended school at Boiling Springs where he was graduated, later entering Wake For est college where he received his degree in 1923. He passed a succe's fui examination before the supreme court to practise law in 1922 and Is now engaged in the practice of law in Shelby. The present representative from Cleveland is Attorney Henry B. Ed wards and It is generally believed that Mr. Edwards will announce *- himself a candidate 1# a short while. Dr. Parrott Talks Public Health And Saving Of Lives Says Typhoid Fever Will Be Thin* Of Past Within Five Years In Carolina. "In less than five years, typhoid fever will be as rare in North Car olina as a SlO'hill under this Hoo ver prosperity,” declared Dr. J. M. Parrott, secretary of the state boa’ d of health, as he spoke last night at the Hotel Charles before a joint meeting of the Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs. Dr. Parrot traced the history o* the state health work in North Carolina from the time it was start ed with a $100 annual appropriation m 1867 until today when it operates under five distinct divisions, all de voted to the preservation of life, health and happiness. One depart ment is engagtd in preventive medicine, another in laboratory work, then there is the division of sanitary enginering, division of den 4 listry and another of epidemolo^y which has oversight over the trans mission of disease^ After giving this background he cited the fact that the state is making annually 750,000 doses of typhoid vaccine, 250,00 doses of dipthheria vaccine, and other vac " cines in like proportion which are sold to the citizens of the state at a saving of thousands of dollars un der Ty; cost of such products frem commercial manufacturers. One de partment is sending out 207,00'! pieces of health literature every month and carrying on intensified campaigns to lower the death rale from diseases which have hereii fore taken such an enormous toll Death Rate Drops "The death rate In North Caro lina from tuberculosis hi 1913 wis 3.600. It was lowered to 2,000 iti 1931. There were 32 deaths In Cleveland county from this disease in 1915. Last year it was cut In half Speaking of the death rate as a whole in' North Carolina from ty phoid fever it had gradually drop ped from 61 to 35 and later to li iiecause of the health campaigns, vaccine, improved water system* * and milk Inspection Or Parrott’s talk was. informing and interesting not only to the doctors and dentists present but to the laymen who holds the pub1 c health service of the state in tlu *,«,hest reeard. No Hope For Needed Addition Shelby Post Office This Year * * *• *• 4 M w >■ .. . . . > ' , . .. .. .. ... _ _ .. ^ Board Opposes Present S. P. U. Offer Allen, If Elected, Will I ' ■ / Not Run Another Term Sheriff Announces His Candidacy Today His Entry Brings Four Announced Candidates In Race. Has Ex cellent Record. Sheriff Irvin M. Alien defi nitely announced today that he would be a candidate for re flection, offering himself for the Democratic nomination in the June primary. His entry, although anticipated, adds new zest to a contest in which there are now four announced can didates—the present sheriff, Ray mond Cline, of Kings Mountain; Roger Laughridge and E. L. Webb, of Shelby. Last Term. Sheriff Allen, now serving his second term in an office which he has capably filled, informs citizens of the county that if re-elected he will not ask another term. “If the people of Cleveland, who have so loyally supported me here tofore and have cooperated with me in carrying out the duties of my of fice see fit to return me to office, I will not again seek the office," Sheriff Allen said. "It takes some time for a man to get accustomed to the duties of the office and with the experience I have had as sher iff, combined with the experience ui acveim years as ponce omeer, i believe that I can better serve the county and its citizens during the period just ahead than in the past. With times as they are robberies are numerous and law enforcement is more of a proposition than in normal times. In view of such con ditions I am willing to let my rec ord speak for itself as it lists the number of robberies solved and bandit gangs broken up and con victed by my office and cooperating officers. If reelected, I will strive, as heretofore, to carry out the duties of the office as courteously and ef ficiently as possible but without fear or favor and with the basic principle of a fair deal to all. Sheriff Allen is a native of the Elizabeth section of the county but for years was a member of and chief of the Kings Mountain police depa.%nent. Altogether he has been an officer of the law for 11 years. During his regime as sheriff some of his outstanding accomplishments included the solving with the Shel by police department of the robbery of the Penney store, the reem.'erv of several thousand dollars worth of stolen goods and the tracing down and conviction of the rob bers; the conviction, after consider able detective work, of thieves who staged a series of robberies at the A. Blanton wholesale grocery house, and the ultimate breaking up of the “cigarctto rackei" in which thousands of cigarettes were being stolen and re-sold about, the section. His handling of the kidnaping bug aboo and the threatened Communis tic outbreak at Kings Mountain during the textile troubles several years ago also brought him consid erable praise. Since being elected sheriff, he and Mrs. Allen, end their 9 children, have lived In and | operated the county jail. SELI. OR NOT SELL? _ The "Sell or Not Sell?" de partment of The Star is on ; Page Three of today’s issue 1 This department, in which ‘ citizens discuss the proposed > sale of the city tight plant to J the S. P. U„ has become one of the most widely read sec- 1 tions of the paper. What are they saying today? Enters Race .. I ’Sheriff I. M .Allen <above I today announced that he would be a can didate In the Democratic primary In June to succeed himself as sheriff of Cleveland county. If elected, he says, it will be his last term. Cage Tourney May Start On Tuesday Annual County-Wide Tournament Will Be Played Here Neat W'eek. There Is a possibility that the annual Cleveland county high school basketball tournament, the major sport event of the year here, may begin in the Shelby high gym nasium Tuesday night of next week. The tournament is certain to be played next week. beginning either Tuesday or Wednesday night and running through Saturday night when the Rotary champion ship cup will be presented to the winner. It is believed now that 12 county high schools will enter teams, and if that many enter it will be necessary to start the tour ney Tuesday with two games per night until the title game Satur day night. (OTHER SPORT NEWS ON PAGES 2 AND 7). County Agent Opens Kings Mtn. Office County Agent R. W. ShOffner v.’H! do a halt day's office work in Kings Mountain each Monday aft ernoon, beginning next week. TTs say's many people in that section do not find it convenient to come to Shelby to see him about farm prob lems, so he has decide 1 to be in the office of the city hall si Kings Mountain each Mondav of tern non. He spends Saturdays ail Jay an i Monday mornings in his office in the court house here. The remain der of his time is spent travel ing over the county. Shanghai. Feb. 12.—The concen trated drive of the Japanese forces to hurl the Chinese out of the im portant Woosung forts was expected to get underway today. A reopen ing of a heavy bombardment was believed to be planned to follow a four-hour truce allowed foreign re lief workers to carry wounded sol jdiers and civilians out of the shat tered Chapel section. Parent-Teacher Meeting This Eve To Be Interesting; Expect Crowd State President To Make Address. Scouts To Participate. Hear Reports. ! _ l The program tor the joint meet ing of the Parent-Teacher associa tions of Shelby at the Central school auditorium tonight at 7.30 o’clock is one of the most interest ing of the type ever prepared here. The feature, of course, will be the address of Mrs. John Hender son. of Hickory-, t'ate president of the organization. She will talk on founders day. The meeting *iU be ‘pened. with Mrs. John Schehek, jr., president ©f the Shelby group presiding, by fpe association song After the form -1 : opening a short anniversary pro gram wiil be put on by the Boy Scouts of Shelby, this feature in i eluding the scout oath, etc. The ! scouts will also act as ushers with | Prank Jenkins as chief usher. In the business section of the gathering there will be reports from the units representing each school in the city as follows: Mrs. Fields Young for Graham school. Mrs \V. P Craig for .Jefferson school; Mrs* Flora Nolan for t_a Fayette school, representing Mrs. Roscoe Me Whir ter, group president; Mrs. J. D. Lineberger for Marion school, Rev. L. L. Jessup for South Shelby, and Mrs. Earl Hamrick for Washington school. None In Favor Of Election On i First Bid Made Three Members Board I < Express Views Thompson Had Already Spok- { en. Think Better Price Could Be Secured. % The four members of the city council have declared themselves against calling an election to submit the present proposition of the Southern Public Utilities to buy Shel by’s light plant for $1,100, D00, to a vote by the people. Following the published statement of Alderman Z. J. Thompson in; Wednesday’s Star in which he wrote unsolicited from New Orleans. La., that “the profits of the city's light plant are fair if properly handled, and I see no reason for selling—I will oppose the sale ol the plant to! the last,,'1 The Star got in touch 1 this morning with the other three members of the council and asked their views. ' "Always Opposed.” It Is now unanimous that all four members are opposed to the skle on the proposition submitted "I have always been opposed to the sale on the proposition before | us.” said Alderman Maynard Wash i burn. “I have with-held expressing my opinion .awaiting the sentiment I of the citizens who own the plant, i X am still opposed to Its sale at the | price offered." Wants Offer Raised. "I am nDt in favor of selling our light plant on the proposition sub mitted by the S. P. U,” said Alder - I man John Schenck, Jr. Sentiment Is so overwhelmingly against it, there is no use to put it to a vote. This has been my mind all along. If the S. P V. would raise their offer two or three hundred thousand dollars, I am Inclined to put it to a vote of i the people to determine whether they are willing; to accept it.” Alderman D. W Roystei was ask- j ed this morning by The Star if he is willing for the city to sell on the proposition submitted and his an-1 fwer was “No, I am not willing. I am not willing to call an election to submit the proposition now before us. If we can get a better proposi tion from the S. P. U., I would be inclined to submit it to a vote. I suggest if there is enough interest in selling the plant at an increased price, that the board appoint a1 number of representative business men to join them and go in a body > before the S. P. U. officials to ne gotiate for a better offer.” With all four members of the council holding positions against calling an election on the present; proposition, there are only two; courses to pursue. One is to drop; the matter entirely or open nego-1 tiatlons with the 55. P. O. officials | to determine whether they are will- • ing to raise their first offer for the plant. Some citizens are inclined to ask for bids from other companies, if .there Is any disposition to sell at; a higher price than has been offer-! Wonld Negotiate. Meet Tuesday Just what view the council will take to the suggestion that negotia tions be opened with the S. P. U. officials for a better price will be decided on at the mid-month meet ing of the council Tuesday night. Those aldermen who arc willing to pursue the matter further and at tempt to show the would-be pur chasers that the plant is worth more than offered, will bring this ques tion before the council Tuesday night of next week. 1,600 Sign Petitions. In the meantime the petitions asking that no election be called on the present proposition are still in circulation and new names are be ing added daily. It is estimated that 1,600 or more have signed the pe titions against calling an election at this time Just when these peti tions will be presented to the board is. not known. Now that the aider men have expressed themselves in harmony with the sentiment of the petitions, the circulation of said pe titions wilt probably be dropped Lattimore Youth Best Cotton Grower In N. C. i'k an- the winner* In the Cotton Crow In*: program sponsored by the Division of Vocational Edu cation. State Department of Public Instruction. By following the Ins!ruction* of the local teachers of agriculture, they produced more cotton per acre at a lower cost per pound than any other farmers in the atate. Standing are the adult winners, left to right: First prise. Aston Adam*. I<attlmore; second. J. W. Allen, Stanfield: third, W. L. Hunt, Forest City. Seated are the junior winners, left to right: First prise Woodrow Fortune, Forest City; second, Joe Pierce, Marshville: third. Olin Marsh, Marshvtlle. Turn to pagr sis for story of contest. Legion Post Will Meet Tuesday Eve There will be a call meeting of the Warren Hoyle post American Legion. Tuesday evening, February 16. at 7:30 o'clock at the court house. Commander Peyton Me* Swain urges ail ex-service men to be present and join in the campaign for new members. A hot contest is on between the Reds and Bluec. On February 39, Henry Stevens national commander , will be at Winston-Salem and it is hoped that the local post will send a majority crowd over to hear Commander Stevens. Cullen Mull May Run For Sheriff As Independent Former Democratic Worker Has About Made tip Mind to Enter Contest. For the first time in man; | years Cleveland county may have a third ticket, or at least one candidate on a third ticket, in the 1932 election. The Star learned this week that J. Cullen Mull, for years a worker in the Democratic party and well known throughout the county, had practically made up his mind to seek the office of sheriff as an In dependent candidate. Is Surprise. The news of his candidacy on an independent platform comes as a gwftral political surprise, but Mr. Mull says that friends have been urging him to do so for some time. In fact, unless he changes his mind, Mr Mull is already In the race. Not since Fustonist days has the political batt\efront of this county been invaded by more than two tickets. In those days election years saw three different party meetings The prospective independent can didate, who proposes, he says, to make it a race of issues instead of party lines, is the father of 10 chil dren, a farmer, and a former work er in the Democratic t anks. Several times he has been urged, he recalls, to enter the race for sheriff and other offices ' on the Democratic ticket but, stood aside | because he had friends m the races for other offices and preferred to help them. He broke with the party, or rather, he says, with some of its workers in 1930 when hif vote was challenged because he war consider ed anti-Smith man Mr. 'Glasco Gives $2,000 To Baptist And Masonic Orphanages Oliver G. Glascoc, proniinei.'t rainier of the Beams Mill com i.iunity remembered the Bap tist Orphanage at Thomasviltr (ind the Masonic Orphanage at Oxford with bequests of $1,000 each in his will probated yes lerday In the clerk of the i ourt’s office. Mr. Giaseoe’s will was made i:ine years ago and witt.'esscd oy D. Z. Newton and Lee B. Weathers who testified to Hs genuineness when it was pro hated yesterday. He died Mon day of this week. Two hundred dollars is left with which tor build a fert-ir ■ round the cemetery at Pleas ant Grove Baptist cfiurch where Mr. Glascoe was a devoted member. HU art fe, Eugenia Glascoe Is named executrix un der the will and she is to have lull use of his real and person al property for the remainder of her life.' There were no children, but Mr. Glascoe leav es some and a 1J0 acre farm. At the death of his wife his two brothers and one sis Vr are to receive one fifth of his real estate, while one fifth goes to each of two children .by a deceased sister upon the death of his wife. One third of his personal property upon the death of hl« •rife is to go to the children of Mack Green. r*!e Ihlrd to. the children of A. It. Spangler and •>ie third to the children of J. T. Spangler. Democratic Leaders Of County Will Gather In City Saturday A meeting of all Democratic pre cinct chairmen and secretaries in Cleveland county is to be held in Shelby Saturday at 2:30 o’clock. It is announced by Oliver S. Anthony, county chairman, and Henry P. Edwards, head of the Democratic Victory drive campaign for the county. The meeting will be held in the office of Mr. Anthony, in the Llr.r berger building, and all precinct of ficials are urged to attend. A short talk will be made at the meeting by Odus M. Mull. State Democratic chairman, and plans will be made for a thorough can vttss of the county to raise tune’s for what the Democratic term their "Victory Drive” in the fall election.” Numerous contributions have al ready been made in the county, Mr. Edwards said, although no active canvass has been made Members of the Junior Order in Shelby will attend as special guests a service at the Second Baptist church Sunday evening at sever, o’clock. The service will be con ducted by the pastor, Rev. L. L. Jessup and a good attendance is expected. Six Counties West Of Raleigh Pay Third N. C. Land Tax For Schools Leading Payers Have Paid Atmos) Half Paid In To Debt. Cleveland Quota. “(Special to The Star.) Raleigh, Peb. 12—Six of North Carolina's 100 counties, all located west of Raleigh, will pay 33.2 per cent of the 15-cent ad valorem tax imposed on the counties to help support I he six months school term, and the same six counties had already paid, up to Saturday night more than 42 per cent of the tqtal paid by the 100 counties up to thail time, according to figures released j by State Treasurer John Stedmac 1 The six counties. Forsyth. Ouh 1 lord. Mecklenburg. Buncombe. Gl» ton and Durham, in the order nam ed, under the 15-cent levy, will pay to the state school fund $1,481,133 of the total of $4,461,691, o ralmost exactly one-third of the total the state will receive from the counties to aid the state in operation of the six months term, if all pay what is due. The same six counties, Gaston supplanting Durham in amount paid, have altyady paid into the state treasury $839,819.70 of the $1 096.731.32 received from the 100 counties up to Saturday night, more than 42 per cent of the total Forsyth leads In amount of the levy, with $317,178. and had paio to the treasury $238,227.65 up to • fOKTINOaO ON l»-u' Deficit Delays Appropriations ForU.S.Building Little Chance Until Next Session Bureau Will Not Recomment Appropriation. Present Building Crowded. Practically all hope for se ,’uring the needed addition ti the Shelby post office and « third floor for a Federal court room was lost yesterday wher Postmaster Quinn received • letter from Congressman A L. Bulwinkle informing that the appropriation would not reabh the floor of Congress this session. Mr Quinn wrote Congressman Bulwinkle several days ago asking the present status of the appropria tion bill where by an $85,000 allot ment. was made for the Shelby ad dition by the last congress. In reply Mr. Bulwinkle said: "The building fund bill ia now with the bureau of mint, under the direction of the president, and they will not recommend the bill to congress this session on account of pres ent conditions, there being a deficit in the treasury of two billion dollars. Therefore it will be impossible to secure the ap propriation this year.” Disappoints The news is naturally riusa.j pomtiug to the city as a whole. At the last session the quota* named lor the local office was 985,00c, enough to add to the working space on the first floor and add a third floor for a federal court room and offices for federal men. An In spection revealed that additional ground apace would be necessary to enlarge the building, but It was believed this could be done by pur chasing footage from the Hoey property to the rear of the post of i lice, on East Warren street. Several months ago Shelby clvtc clubs got behind a united move ment to urge Senators Morrison and Bailey and Congressman Bul winklc to rush the appropriation I biJl through as it was believed the ! construction work would tend to pep up general activity here Working j conditions afe crowded at the loot (office and speedy construction of ;the addition was also necessary for that reason. The two senators and the congressman have done, they informed local citizens, what the? could about it. but all similar ap propriations will be put to one side at this session. "This means," Postmaster Quinn said upon receipt of the letter, "that we have no chance at all to get the addition before another ■ session of congress.” Head Of Davidson College Preaches In Shelby Sunday Or. Walter Lingle, Prominent Edn cator And Minister, Will Preach Two Sermons. Rev. Walter L. Lingle. D. D., president of Davidson coUege, will preach Sunday at 11 a. m. and o p. m. in Shelby Presbyterian church. At the morning service he will be heard by the public on a subject of his own choosing. Install Officers At the vesper hour he will preach the ordination sermon to the new elders and deacons recently elect ed by the congregation, and will assist the local pastor. Rev. H. K. McDiarmid, in their installation. Special music will be rendered by the choir at both services. Public Invited The announcement of Dr. Un gle’s coming to Shelby will be re ceived with unusual pleasure. 1> Lingle is a great educator and a srreat preacher He is always heard with the greatest pleasure aro profit on a public platform, harps congregations are expected to hear him at the two services Sunday February 14th. The public is invit ed to the services. An especial in vitation is extended the youn* people of the community.
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