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Late News THE MARKET t'oton . ...... 6.65 to ;< < olton wagon seed, tn _ $10 01 Cloudy And Colder. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Kaln this afternoon and l» east portion tonight. Colder In west tonight. Thursday cloudy and cold er. Death Crash Hearing. A preliminary hearing of the highway crash Saturday near Brushy Creek, west of Shelby In which Reuben Terry, aged colored farmer, was instantly killed, will be held in the county court her4 next Wednesday instead of today. R. V. C.riffin, of Monroe, driver of the 'ruck and trailer which struck Terry’s wagon, is under a $1,000 bond. The bond was put up by the transfer company who owned the truck and the trailer with which he was hauling cotton. Fees In County Offices Bring In $7,097Annually In Discussing Salary Reduction. | Matter of Fees Taken In Re ceives Attention. Since the publication, as required: by law, of the salaries received by | all county , 'fice holders, some peo- | pie have wondered how far fees go \ foward paying the salaries of of ficers who collect fees. All county officers are on salaries, but two of fices collect fees for recording pa- j pers, administering oaths, etc., said' fees being turned into the general; county fund. An investigation at the treasur er’s office shows that two offices in the court house collect fees, that of the register of deeds and that of the j clerk of the court, The fees collect ed last year in the office of the register of deeds Mr. A. F. Newton amounted to *4,062 80. Mr. Newton's salary few the year was *2,600. He voluntarily refunded ten per cent or $260 of his salary to the county. In the office of the clerk of the court Mr. A. M. Hamrick. the treasurer’s office reveals that *3, 03466 was collected in fees and turned to the treasurer where It was placed to the credit of the general fund of the county. Mr. Hamrick’s -alary lafet year was $2,400 as clerk of the court and *240 as judge of he juvenile court, a total of *2,640. In addition to the $3,034 66 collect ed In fees incident to his office, $645 was collected from the Super ior court fines. This sum was cred ited to the county school account. This makes a total of $7,097.46 collected in office fees in the two fee offices at the court house, such fee? being credited to the general county fund. Farm Board To Meet In Shelby Saturday At 2 I armers From Each Township To Discuss Suggestions Five Year Plan A meeting of the Cleveland Coun ty board of agriculture will be held at the court house in Shelby Sa' . tirday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The major item of business to be taken up by the board will be a discussion of the suggestion made at a farm meeting here recently by extension agents from Raleigh. This first meeting inaugurated a movement to put on a five-year farm program in Cleveland for the purpose of improving genera} ag ricultural conditions. At the first 'meeting, attended by the general public, a majority of the sugges tions met with approval, but it was decided best to permit the farm board to study the proposition and outline a definite program befo-e asking cooperation by farmers. The Cleveland farm board is made up of three representative farmer* from each of the 11 town hips in the county. Legion To Erect Tablet On Square; At a meeilng of the Warren Hoyle American Legion post held last, night it was decided that a silver tablet, seven feet square, will, be placed on the Shelby court square Inscribed on the tablet, as a per manent memorial, will be the- nam es of all Legion members in Cleve land county. It is hoped that every ex-service man in the county will enroll in the Legion by February 26 so that the nfmes of all veter •ans wfil go on the memorial. Ex mice men not members of the post are urged to get in touch with W. 3. Beam, R. S. Agnew, or Tcm Abernathy before the 36th. ITje •y-erman ’artillery gun now on South Washington street will also be placed on the square with the silver memorial > S. P. U. Withdraws $1,100,000 Offer For Shelby Light Plant Open New Camp Here For State Road Prisoners More Prisoners In Stockade Over 100 Prisoners Now Kept In New And Modern Camp Here. The new district prison camp for State prisoners was occu pied for the first time yester day by State convicts who have been quartered at the old No. 6 township convict camp since all convicts and road forces were taken over by the State. The new camp is located just east of Shelby, north of the fair grounds and Highway 20. The 56 prisoners, white and black, confined at the No. 6 camp weit moved into the new camp yesterday and today, and yesterday 45 pris oners frqm other camps were brought to the camp here. Twenty of the prisoners came from the Caldwell camp at Lenoir and 25 from the McDowell camp at Mar ion. The prisoners from the other camps brings the total to 101. The capacity of the neat cai^p is 110 men. Modern Quarters. The new prison camp is fireproof and modern in every detail. There are three brick buildings, all equip ped with modem conveniences.' safety devices and general comforts j Around the three main buildings is1 the regular prison stockade fence The three buildings are the malt, i convict quarters, the rooms of the guards ,and the prison laundry. New Guards On. Clyde Poston continues as camp superintendent, being in charge of the State prisoners while in camp and going to and from work on the State highways. Five new guards' were added yesterday to take care of the new-sized prison and It 3 greater number of occupants. The guards put on were Smith Galli more, of Kings Mountain; James Roberts, Jim Dycus, Ben Cooper and Tom Osborne, all of Shelby. Robber Enters Home Of Hoey, Gets $65 While Family Was Away, Robber Steals $65 In Gold From Hoey Home. Shortly after dark last night, a robber entered the home of Mr. ana Mrs. Frank Hoey in the Cleveland Springs Estates and stole $65 in gold from a dresser drawer, leav ing other valuables untouched. The glass in the front door was broken and the door unlocked from the in side. Evidence tends to show that the guilty party knew exactly where the money was for he went directly to the room, opened the dresser drawer and located the gold in a pill box. Several handbags were in the same drawer, but they were not even opened. The money represented gifts Mr. Hoey had made to his wife in the past. She had hidden the gold piec es in a pill box in the dresser draw er so it could not have been located except by some one who knew the situation. Mrs. Hoey had gone to Charlotte for the day, taking her daughter for dental treatmept, so the home was unoccupied at the time. Officers are working on a clue. Here Thursday Robert R. Reynolds (above), can didate for the United States Sen ate, will formally open his cam paign with an address In the Cleve land county court house in Shelby tomorrow, Thursday, night at 8 o’clock. Mr. Reynolds, Asheville at torney, is well known in this sec tion and poljed a fine vote In the county in his last campaign. Expect Crowd For Reynolds Opening Candidate For IJ. S. Senate Speaks In Shelby Thursday Night. First Speech. Reynolds supporters are expect ing a large crowd of people at the Cleveland county court house Thurs day night at 8 o’clock for the open ing campaign address of Robert R. Reynolds, of Asheville, candidate for the United States Senate. A motorcade of supporters wfll accompany Mr. Reynolds here from Asheville and the candidate will spend a short time about the city tomorrow afternoon. Several dele gations from nearby towns and counties plan to attend and seatt will be reserved for their as well ns for members of the Kiwanis cluo who will attend their weekly meet ing prior to the address. In seeking the Democratic nomination the weli known Asheville attorney is oppos ing Senator Cameron Morrison Frank Grist and Judge Tam Bowk'. Regal Club Holds Monthly Meeting Attorney Bynum Weathers Is Speak er. Several New Members Taken In. _ # Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock the Regal Club, Shelby youngest civic organization, held a monthly meet ing in the club rooms over Efirc’s store on South LaFayette street. More than 20 young members of the club attended. Attorney Bynum E. Weathers made an address, his subject being “The Purpose and Objects of Or ganization.” He stressed the develop ment of the three-fold nature of man, Spirif, Mind and Body, and emphasized the importance of right thinking and clean living. After the program, several new members were received for mem bership. The club is equipped with a radio, growing library .and other conveniences are being installed for the benefit of the young club mem bers between the ages of 16 and 30 years. Over $120,000 Spent In This Road District Under 6 Months New Plan Expenditures Larger In Only Ot»e District. Covers All Expense Raleigh, Feb, 17.—Highway ex penditures lor the last six months of 1931 in district two of division E of the N. C. highway system were the second largest in the stare. This district embraces the counties of Burke, McDowell, Rutherford and Cleveland. The expenditures fcr the six months, according to tne| report of Highway Chairman E. r Jeffress, were $121,567.36. District one of division D—Alle ghany, Wilkes, Surry and Yadkin had the highest expenditure, *133 - 289.40. Less Being Spent All North Carolina roads during the six months'cost, including con struction, maintenance, administra tion. patrol, debt service and ail other items a total of *14,593,602.62 which includes ahout JlO.nno.trh from gasoline and other motor ve hicle taxes and around $4,500,000 in federal aid funds, Of this amount, $2,591,941.08 was expended during the first six months of state maintenance of county roads, with slight increases to the 44,604 mileage. This ex penditure was from the $3,000,000 for the half-year county road fin ancing, but did not reach the es timated amount due to delay in getting inch full operation after July 1. Probably $75,000 of the total, sums ranging from $10,000 to $20 000 in each of the five divisions, was used in new construction, but the bulk was for road and bridge maintenance. Better Roads: While the nearly $2,592,000 in six months is considerably less than the approximately,$8,000,000 a year spent by the counties, belief is" ex pressed that county roads are now in better shape generally than ihev have ever been I Blanton To Offer For Commissioner; No New Candidate? To Make Formal Announcement Within Few Days. 10 Candi dates Out. Joe E. Blanton, well known 8hel by man and former No. 8 township I road official, will be a candidate for j county commissioner subject to the j Democratic primary. He has made ! no formal announcement to that ; effect but Is expected to do so wlth j in a few days, according to friends. No new political candidacies have ! enllved the approaching campaign in the county. To date 10 candi dates have announced or have pre pared the way to announcing for county" office. Four of the 10 are candidates for sheriff—Irvin M. Al len, present sheriff; Raymond Cline I Roger Laughridge and E. L. Webb There are two announced candidates j for legislature—Henry B. Edwards. | present representative; and Attor ney Ernest. Gardner. Three candt-. dates—Pink Lackey, “Nickey Eil*” Stewart and Bob Kendrick, presen: constable—are out for No. 6 town ship constable. J. Cullen Mull, for years a Democratic worker in the county, has made it known that he is considering running for sheriff on an independent ticket, but has made no definite announcement to date. j Mrs. J. C. Newton, widow of the late county court solicitor, has an j nounced Tor county treasurer. Mi l. | Mary E. Yarbrough, present treas urer, having stated that she will * not be a candidate again. Preacher Says People With Him j In Texas Trouble j Newspaper Report Say* Bev. H. C, ; C ampbell C harted Atheism Was Taught, - Newspaper reports or a lew days ago stated that Rev. R. C, Camp bell, formerly of Cleveland county, now preaching at Lubbock, Texas, caused a considerable rucus !h Tex as educational circles when he charged that four professors of the Texas Technological college hate been spreading atheism among the students. He charged specifically, ir is reported, that one of the profes sors engaged in spreading atheism jand infidelity among the students i is the head of j. department in the college. As a result of the alleged charge, It is reported that 2,000 students surrounded the preacher's home ard vented feelings by hooting and jeer ing the minister. Intimations were made that authorities of the Sta'e college would Insist that Rev. Mr Campbell resign. Seeing that Mr. Campbell was apparently in trouble. Dr. Zeno Wall, of Shelby, sent him a tele gram a few days ago, expressing sorrow for the alleged uprising of students and bearing Dr. Wall’s lo\* and hope that the situation would clear up. Rev. Mr. Campbell replied j that the wnld press dispatch con- j ceroing the student uprising an.1 demand for his resignation was ab solutely without foundation. , says, "deacons, church, host of stu dents, faculty member and public sentiment is with me. Watch papers fpr correction." The Star has seen no correction I in the press dispatches, but learns that the situation has cleared nr> land is near an amicable settlement. Mr. Campbell is pleasantly re membered in Shelby where he was pastor for a number of years of the Second Baptist church and a num ber of rural churches. He has just written and published a book en titled "Heaven and Hell,” a religious treatment highly endorsed by Dr. L. R. Scarborough. Mr. Campbell is considered one of the leading Bap tist ministers in the Southern Bap tist con ven cion. Formal Opening Of New Store Thursday A formal opening of the Clark Hardware company, formerly the Farmers and Planters Hardware, or. South LaFayette street will be held Thursday, beginning at 3 in the afternoon and continuing until 9 at night. The store was purchased some time ago by Mr. JI. G. Clark, ex perienced hardware man of Mt. Holly, but a formal opening was delayed until tomorrow. There wtl be souvenirs for all visitors, prires, and a special display for all fem inine visitors. Manager Clark in vites the general public to attend County To Have 43 Delegates To DemocraticMeet To Hold Convention In May j Convention May Be Held In Charlotte. County Conven tion First. H. R, DUNN AG AN Star News Bureau. Raleigh, Feb. 17.—Cleveland coiui ;ty will have 43 delegates and the ■same number of alternates, bated jon one of both for every 150 votes or major fraction thereof cast in j the last gubernatorial election, to the state Democratic convention, which will probably be held In Mpy, either in Raleigh or Charlotte, as determined at the meeting of the itate Democratic executive com mittee of 120 members, called to meet in Raleigh March 1 by State Chairman Odus M. Mull, Shelby, who was Is Raleigh for the week end. The executive committee will act a common day for precinct meet ings. to be followed by a common day for county convention, at which delegates will be elected to tire state convention, preceding which, cr the same day, will be held the con gressional district meetings of the delegates to name members of the executive committee, platform and other convention committees. Belief now Is that the state con vention will be held In Charlotte, since it Is expected that there win be uncertainty when the execut've committee meets as to whether nr not the Raleigh auditorium,' now being built, will be completed and furnished in time for the conven tion. Hie convention date Is expect ed to be in advance of the Jur.c primary’ date, in accordance with mb custom, which, however, was | changed two years ago. The convention will adopt a plat form and elect delegates to the na tional Democratic convention to be held in Chicago. It remains to be seen, whether or not there will be efforts to Instruct delegates to the state convention, or to the national convention. Indications are now that efforts will be made to have the delegates Instructed fc.' Franklin D. Roosevelt. Buncombe, the banner Democra tic county, will have 103 delegates, to the state convention. Mecklen burg will have 101, Guilford 90 Wake 79 and Forsyth 75. Buncombe also leads In number of delegates to Jhe Republican state conventicn to be held in Charlotte April 14, based on one for each 200 Repub lican votes. Cleveland county „ will have 18 delegates to the Republican Dipp ing. To Plant A Tree For G. Washington On School Ground R. Hney To Speak At Planting And W. R. Gary At Kiwanis Meeting. A tree will be planted on the high school ground here Thursday even ing at 6:30 o'clock by members of the Kiwanis club In observance of the bi-centennlal of the birth of George Washington, first president of the United States. Each Kiwanis member is asked to attend tnis ceremony at which Hon. Clyde P. Hoey will make a short dedicatory address. Members of the Kiwanis club will each put a shovel-full of dirt In the hole when the tree is planted. This Is In line with a form hf observance of Washington's 200 birthday anniversary throughout the United States. Immediately following the planting of the tree, the Kiwanis club will repair to the Hotel Charles where the weekiv luncheon will be served and Prof, W. R. Gary of the Fallston hi^ta school will speak on some phase of the life Of the beloved father of our country. Dr. McLarty Goes To Bedside Mother Dr. and Mrs, E. K. McLarty are In Monroe where they were, called yesterday on account of the illnesr of Dr. MeLarty's mother, who Is In a critical condition at her home there. Has Large Egg A White Leghorn egg, six by 8H inches, was exhibited in Shelby yes terday hr Averv M>Ncr'v of N ' Preparing for Trench Warfare This Actual photo from the scene of the Sino -Japan eseTiostilities ahows Japanese soldiers engaged at the task of digging trenches at Shan Hai Kwan, gateway from China proper to Manchuria. The activities of tiie invaders did not cease with the capture of virtually the entire province of Manchuria. The scene of operations has now shifted to Shanghai and Woosung, where the Japanese and Chinese aifnies face v each other on a 16-mile front preparing for a decisive battle. Shelby’s Brother Golfing Act Will Enter Florida Tourneys i Shelby's golfing brothers, the Webb boys, holder of more title for their age than any golfers In the Carolines, will leave late Oils week to enter the series of tournaments in the Florida section. Pete, .the older of the brothers, first attracted attention several years ago whten he won the Caro linas junior title at Greensboro Then the younger ' brother, Fred (Snook), came along to bag the same title two times. In later tour naments both have won high hon ors, Fred, considered the best southpaw golfer in the South, ®o ing to the semi-finals of the South ern Amateur. The young southpaw has also won the, Tryon invitation tournament twice and the Char lotte Country club once. In the prb-amateur play at ReldavUle last year they carried away top honor; with Pete winning thp first cash priae. At the Plnehurst Mid-South Pete later tied with Johnny Far rell, internationally known golfer, for fifth place. They will make their trip to the Florida tourneys by automobile, ac companied by their mother. Mrs. J. E. Webb. They plan to enter the Miami Open and swing about for the series of tournaments there as the cream of American golfers wor k their way back to the spring tour-, uey at Plnehurst. Pete will play as a pro, being eligible for cash prfcSes, and Fred as an amateur. Prizes Offered Oeveland Girl Who Can Make Best Biscuits What 4-H club girl in Cleveland county can make the 'best biscuits? The young lady over 14 years of age who thinks she is an expert lr. the culinary art, which has a side asset the alleged most direct route to a man’s heart, now has an op portunity to demonstrate that skfli. And the winner is to get a tret scholarship to the 4-H club short course at state college this spring. Rules and regulations covering the "Better Biscuit Contest" were announced as follows today by Jane 8. McKimmon, state agent, ana Irma P. Wallace, Cleveland county agent: “In order to improve the Quality of biscuits served in the homes oi 4-H club members, the home dem onstration division, extension serv ice, Slate College. Raleigh will conduct a Better Biscuit contest for 4-H club girls. All club girls are encouraged to take part in the coihmunity or club contest. The home demonstration agent or local leaders will In February and March give to each club a standard recipe for baking powder biscuits and in struction In measuring, mixing, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO I \ Cleveland Teachers Average 2.25 Years College Work, Shelby 3.41 Mecklenburg Teachers Lead In Tralfing. Rural Teachers Rank 83rd In N. V. 'Special to The Star. • Raleigh. Peb. 17.—Training of white school teachers in North Car olina has been increased in the past 10 years to the equivalent of nearly two years of college preparation, or from slightly more than one year to about three years, while the training of colored teachers has in creased about a years and a half college work. State School Pacts, published by Dr A. T. Allen, state superintendent of puolk; instruc tion shows. "Standard'’ teachers, those having certificates based on a minimum training t>i graduation from a stand ard, or equivalent, high school,' numbered 33,927. or X'.m white and 5,156 colored, teachers in 1930 31, while only 973 teachers 86 white end c.87 colored, had nee reached that standard. Mecklenburg county retains its lead as having the oest trained white teachers in the state, the av erage being 3.9 years in college. Dur ham and Guilford are second and tiiird. Rural schools ^show greater Im provement than charter' schools in 10 years, their increase in training being more than two years, while the increase in charter school teach ers is slightly less than one year. In This County Cleveland rural schools take 83rd place among the 100 counties in ex tent of teacher training, the average having 3.25 years in college for the whites, and 80th place with less than a year m college work for col-. ored teachers Shelby city charter schools are; shown to have teachers with an av- j erage of 3:41 years of college train- | Ing in the white schools and 2 vears j in ihe colored schools Opposition To Sale By People Reason Given Consider Proposition As Closed Now Letter f rom 8. pTtT Present Retd To City f 'ounrtl At Meet Loot Night. I’he offer of the Southern Public Utilities to buy Shelby's light plant for the sum of $U00.000 was with drawn yesterday by the power firm This withdrawal was read las' night to the members of the city council by Mayor S. A. McMum and there was little discussion of the matter at the mid-month meet tng. the council considering the proposition closed. ThJ* letter wan handed to the mayor yesterday by Manager Brown of the local office of the 8. P. tJ Withdrawal Letter “Charlotte. N. C., Feb. 16. im. “Charlotte, N. c. Feb. 1$. IMS To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Aldermen. , Shelby. «. C. Gentlemen: Under date af November 17th, 1931, this com pany. In a letter dated on that date, made yon an offer to p«r chase yoor electric distribution and lighting system In the Town of Shelby, agreeing to pay for the same, 11.100,060. "This offer has not been a« oepted by yon, and It la onr * understanding that there la con siderable opposition to the sale of this property by a number of cltisens. Under the circum stances this company does not with to purchase this property, and wo are. therefore, writing thla letter to withdraw our offer «*f Nor. 17, lUl, and to mat that no further consideration be glren to the same.. Respectfully yours, K. C. Marshall, President. It is understood unofficially that members of the council had to mind the Idea of appointing several In fluential and Interested cithern to go with the board before the 8. P. U. officials and negotiate for a bet ter offer for the plant, but when jthe withdrawal letter came, the matter of further consideration wrs dropped. Petitions Not Presented. The “considerable opposition” re ferred to to the letter was no doubt obtained from the signatures to tho petitions asking that the board no call an election on the sale of the plant. About 45 petitions were put to circulation on Saturday^ Feb. 6th. and to a week’s time over l,60( names had been signed, it was ex pected that these petitions would be presented to the board to their mid-month meeting last night but the four members of the council. Aldermen Z. J. Thompson, Maynard Washburn, John Schenck, Jr„ ana D. W. Royster had expressed them selves, to an interview with The Star, as unwilling to call an election on the sale of the plant at the price offered, so this settled the matte: Mr. Newton Tax Lister. The board's meeting last night was short. Most of the time was de voted to a discussion of the delin quency of the customers on water and light bills which amount to a considerable sum. W. R. Newton was appointed to I list taxes for the city of Shelby thi? I year and to be paid therefor the l sum of $300. Tax listing wiU begin ! in the early spring. Washington School To Put On Fashion Show j Fashion And Boll Show With Ba *aar To Be Sponsored By P. T. A. The Parent Teacher association ■of the Washington school will put Jon a fashion show and doll show Ja the auditorium of that school next j Tuesday evening for the benefit of I the school library. The fashion show JwiU be put on by Nash .Inc., aoo ! the doll show is to be put on by the | children of the town and county | Every child in and near Shelby is invited to enter a doll in the con test, in which there will be fits prizes given, a prise for the oldest doll, one for the prettiest, one frr tiie best dressed, one lor the quaint est, and one lor the largest In cor neetton rith the shot? there wi!« also be a bazaar at which ah fringe of home made goodies win be sold The colonial idea is to be egrri-d out in the costumes of ushers and in other details, a ensl) *dm|»ior •vil! be charged.
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