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[ VOL. XXXVIII, No. 24 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, FEB. 24. 1932 10 PAGES TODAY * --- M ,« By MaU, per year, uu advance» - U.00 Carrier, p«r year, tin advance? 13.00 Late News THE MARKET Cotton, spot _ 7c and up Cotton Seed, per ton _ $9.0(1 Cloudy Thursday Today's North Carolina Heather Report: Fair tonight and not quite so cold in north and west portions. Thursday partly cloudy. Gardner Speaks Miami Beaoh. Fla., Feb. 74.—A plea for Americana to steer a care ful economic course between magi cal medicine men and their “mag ics” and the so-called ultra-con servatives “who sit around aban doned campfires of twenty years ago” was issued last night by Gov ernor O. Max Gardner, of North Carolina, in an address before the committee of 100 of Miami Beach. Approximately 450 business, pro fessional and sports leaders of the nation attended the meeting of the committee, which is made up of wealthy winter residents interested in civil and social betterment. Former Hotel Clerk Is Found Dead In His Bed I. W, .McCombs. Former Clerk At Central Hotel Dies At Home Of Hazel Turner. Mn J. W. McCombs who has been boarding and making Ills home with Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Turner of Karl for some time was found dead, in bed, Tuesday morning, Feb. 23. When he failed to get up for the breakfast meal, the family thought he was just resting as he would often do. About 8:30 Mr. Turner went back to his room and called but he didn't answer, so he decided io go In and see about him. He was found dead, so Mr. Turner called a doctor and wired his daughter Miss Elizabeth McCombs of Charlotte who came for his body Tuesday afternoon and carried It .o Charlotte for burial. He was a native of CharIott° having been in the real estate busi ness there. He later came to Shel by and was clerk at the Central hotel for a number of years. His health failed him and he went out in the country to stay. He had a wide circle of friends In the Earl and Patterson communities. He was a member of the Patterson Springs Baptist church. County Girl Given Boost For Article Miss Selma Warlick, Of Lawndale, Writes Feature On Washing ton In Brooklyn. Miss Selma Warlick, who did her first newspaper work writing fea tures for The Star during the sum mer vacations while she was a stu dent at Duke university, has at > racted considerable attention to her newspaper work since leaving school. The following editorial com ment in today’s Charlotte Observer concerns a recent article by her: •‘Hie Brooklyn Eagle featured Washington’s birthday with a full page story of ’The Private Life of he Washingtons,’ accompanied with appropriate illustrations. The point of interest to North Carolina people is that this page was the production of a young woman of this state—Miss Selma Warlick. ■laughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Warlick, of the Lawndale section of Cleveland county. Miss Warlick was graduated from Duke univer sity, and, after serving apprentice ship on a Durham paper, went to Columbia university, where she was . graduated in the School of Jour nalism, after which she was “pick ed up’’ by The Eagle, upon which paper she has been doing w'ork of recognized merit, and now enjoys reputation as one of the brightest of women journalists in that city. The Observer is passing to her ‘the compliments of the day,* to be shared in, likewise, by the parents who have reason to be proud of her accomplishments." Legion Membership Drive Ends Tuesday Warren Hoyle Post Postpones Oy ster Slipper Until Friday Night Week The membership drive oi the Warren Hoyle Post of ihe American Legion will continue until Tuesday evening of next week instead of closing Friday, it was announced to day. A regular meeting of the post will be held at the court house next Tuesday night, at which time a check will be made of the member ship contest between the red and blue teams. Due to the fact that the campaign will not close until next week the oyster supper to be given the winning team will not be held Friday night of this week, being »istponerf until Friday night of next week. The post has enrolled a large number of new members during the ror.test and hopes to enroll others by Tuesday to bring the member ship to the highest point since the Legion was organized here. Talk New Candidates For County Contests May Be Candidate For Recorder — Rumors Indicate There May B« Races For Two County Record er’s Court Offices. The bid for the Democratic nom- j ination for sheriff, with four candl- j dates already announced, still hold* | the center of Interest in the Cleve land county jsolitical campaign, but , rumors this week indicate that sev- i eral other contests may he Inaugur I ated bj' announcements soon. The new candidates said to be preparing for announcements will, according to reports, offer for coun ty recorder and solicitor of the re corder's court. So far, however, no definite announcement lias been made. The present recorder, Maurice R, Weathers, and the present solicitor. W. Speight Beam, are serving their ! first terms, Judge Weathers being elected two years ago and Solicitor Beam being appointed to fill out the term of the late J. Clint Newton. Both officials are expected to offer again due to the fact that it is their ! first term. Generally Anticipated. The general political talk about j the court house this week, however, anticipates the entry soon of an -i j other candidate for judge and pos-1 t sibly two for solicitor. Attorney Ec tor Harrill, of Kings Mountain, a; native of lower Cleveland, is said to be considering the face for record er. For some time it nas been re ported that P. Cleveland Gardner, former county solicitor for several years, is preparing to seek that of fice again, and one report has it that he may announce during the present week. The name of Attorney Bynum E. Weathers, Jormer chair man of the county board of elec tions, has also been mentioned by friends as a possible candidate for solicitor, but has not expressed him self In the matter Just how much fact there may be to the rumors c&unot be., foretold, but political observers are now con fident that races will in all proba bility develop for both offices. Employee Of Mill At Lawndale Dies Joseph Jefferson Bowman Succumbs To Heart Attack At Ape Of 56 Years Joseph Jefferson Bowman. a faithful employe of the textile mill at Lawndale from the lime he was 18 years of age until he died Sun day morning at 6 o’clock, was bu ried Monday-afternoon at 2 o’clock at Lawndale. Mr, Bowman had been suffering for the past five years with heart trouble and Sunday morning he was found almost dead in bed before the family arose for the cay. He was born May 4th, 1876 and went to work for the Lawndale mill at the age of 18 years. He was married to Miss Lou Person who survives with the following children: Morris, Hal. Lennie, Sue, Grace and Annie Lee ! Deceased was a member of the i Lawndale Baptist church where the; funeral was conducted Monday aft-. ernoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. J. V. Devenny, Interment took place in the cemetery at Double Shoals. Masonic Meeting. A regular meeting of Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. will be helcii Friday evening at 7:30. Shelby Republican Fights Prohibition George llel’rirst, former Postmast er Here, I’rges Repeal Vol stead Act, Charlotte, Fob 24.—George w. De Priest, former Shelby postmaster and well knot’ll republican leader f, Cleveland county, yesterday declar ed that "in the name of freedom and economy I do appeal to the peo ple to vote for men who stand for the repeal of the Volstead act. "The devil and the Anti-Saloon league and their organizations have forced this law upon the people. Let them bear the responsibility of dishonoring God. Men of any or ganization claiming to represent God and claiming that God endors es their action to enforce the law 11 it takes murdering of Innocent men, women and children, are riot telling the truth and God will hold them responsible,” he declared "A senator or congressman who votes for prohibition and its en forcement In any form and Indulg es in drinking Is not only a fraud, he is dishonest,” Mr. DePriest's In dictment of prohibition continued. “The Judges on the bench that send poor persons to prison for drinking or possessing and indulge in it themselves are frauds and dishon est. An officer of the law- who seiz es wine, beer, etc., and secretly drinks or disposes of it for profit Is dishonest.” The burden of Mr DePriest's statement was a recital of Biblical quotations that he claimed tend to prove that prohibition is directly opposed to the divine plan rather than in line with it. Burial Today Of Mrs.J.B.M’Swain Well Known Woman Died Late Yesterday After Illness Of Year. Mrs. Marcissa McSwain, wife of Mr. J. B. McSwain, died about 7 o’clock Tuesday evening at her home in Swainville several miles west of Shelby. Funeral services were being con ducted this afternoon at Pleasant Ridge Baptist church by Rev. W G. Camp. Mrs. McSwain, who was 55 years of age, had been in ill health for a year. She was a popular and high ly respected woman in her com munity and she joined Beaver Darn church two score years ago, later moving her membership to Pleas ant Ridge when that church was organized. She is survived by her husband and two children, Brady and Bros sie McSwain. Her mother also sur vives along with the following sis ter'and two brothers: Mrs. J. B. Francis, of Lattimore; and T. I and Ray McSwain. Piedmont To Hold Girls Tournament A basketball tournament for the girls teams of Cleveland county will begin at Piedmont high school on Wednesday, March 2, and con tinue through Saturday, March 5 it was announced today. The win ner will be awarded the Myers trophy and it is hoped to have as many girls teams enter as possible. The schedule will be arranged at a. meeting Saturday. Charlie Jonas Not To Be Candidate For U. S. Senate Against Morrison Lincoln' Man Will Not Seek. Chance To Kun Against Bulwinkle Either. _ Charlotte, Feb. 24.—District At torney Charles A. Jonas of Lincoln ton, whose confirmation is being vigorously opposed by Senators J. W. Bailey and Cameron Morrison of North Carolina, positively will not run for the senate, he said this week. * "I may have a lot of meanness in me,” declared Mr. Jonas, “but, I am certainly not little enough to be anybody's spite candidate. I ant not going to run for anything. If T ever had thought of running for the re publican nomination for the sen ate. I could not do It under the present circumstances. I wouldn t enter into any such plan,” Mr. Jonas had reference to a report from Raleigh carried in one of. tile North Carolina dailies dr. daring the republicans of the state would nominate Mr. Jonas for the senate in opposition to Senator Morrison in order to “get Morri son" and “secure revenge" upon the senator for his having opposed Mr. Jonas. This would happen, it was fore cast, in event the Lincolnton man, who is now serving under recess appointment of President Hoover, is refused confirmation. “In the first place," said Mr. Jonas, “I have already given my support to Jake F. Newell of Char lotte for the republican nominal tion. For that reason, had this oth er matter not come up I cotltd not run for the nomination'. And of course, now that it has, I would be no ' spite candidate' for anyhody. It looks like somebody has cut out a mighty big order for me any way," he added, with a dry laugh, TKrrrn v»> P» - ■.* Her Radio Debut Ypperiing for t,he victim* of the re cent Chinese floods, Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Is shown mat ing her radio debut In New York. Mrs. Lindbergh told of her experi ences in flying over the inundated areas with her famous husband. The broadcast was over a nation wide network Truck Driver Held To Higher Court In Death Preliminary Fxaminaiiun Waived Here Today In Death o. Colored Farmer. R. V. Griffin, truck di ver of Mon roe, waived preliminary examination ! m county recorder's court here to day on a manslaughter charge and was bound over to Superior court under a bond of *1,000 The charge against Griffin de veloped from the death in a htgh ! way accident crash on Saturday, j Feb. 13, of Reuben Terry, aged col ored farmer of the Double Springs section. i Terry was en route to Shelby on j a wagon when his wagon was struck on the Brushy Creek hill, on High way 20 several miles west of Shelby, by a loaded cotton truck and trail er driven by Griffin. The impact hurtled the wagon, truck and trail er off an embankment and Terry was' instantly killed. One of the mules to his wagon was so injured that it had to be shot. The cotton on the truck was considerably dam aged by fire and one of the Shelby lire trucks was rushed to the scene to prevent the complete destruction of the truck, trailer and cotton. Griffin was quoted by officers ar saying at the time he could not hold back the loaded truck as it came down the steep hill and that the trailer swerved and hit the colored man’s wagon as the truck driver at tempted to pull around him. Griffin was driving for the Wolfe Transfer of Monroe and the firm put up his $1,000 bond to the hearing here to day. He was represented in court by Clyde R. Hoey. creed On Assault. Five young white men of the Ca section were acquitted in cottaty court today of assaulting Robert Whaley colored in the Cnsar section a week ago last Sunday. The men— Less Hull, Fred Newton. Vesca Wright, George White end Ruffin Brackett—along with Florence Roch ester were found guilty of violating the prohibition law' and fined $5 and the costs each with a 30-day suspended sentence. The negro was considerably beat up about the head but the evidence was not- conclusive enough to identify the defendants as his assailants. The numerous ar rests in the case were made last night by Deputies Frank Walker, Plato Ledford, W, C Powell, Harvey Guin and John Newton New Store To Open Here Thursday Morn Home Furniture Co„ Located On South LaFayettc, To Be Managed By Goss. The Home Furniture company, Shelby's new furniture store, will open .Thursday morning beginning at 8:30 o'clock, on South LaFay ette street, in the Royster building store rooms next to Jackson's Cash Grocery. The new concern will op erate under the management of Mr M. B. Goss, experienced furniture dealer and undertaker, who come' fi Opj Florence R ft More Attention Turned To Boom Of Gov. Gardner Recent Speeches Get National Notice Speaking Charier At Convention Might Flare Him On National Ticket (LeGKTTE BLITHE tn Charlotte Observer.) Some lime ago it was forecast by friends of Governor O. Max Gard ner that lie was rapidly reaching a political level that would assure hi* being given consideration for the vice presidential nomination on th< 1932 democratic ticket, The national recogni.Vm accord ed him through publication of his article in The Saturday Evening Post on North Carolina's recent ra ther unique legislative reforms, call ed "One State Cleans House,” was pointed to as a probable boost fci the North Carolina governor. But within the last month or sc, the governor’s friend* are beginning to point out, Mr. Gardner has been adding laurels to his political crown in many widely scattered areas of the country. He was the recent hon or guest arid principal speaker, at a meeting of actors tn New York city and the metropolitan press gave him flattering attention in its re port of his visit and his speech. Greeted In Virginia. The other day he addressed the general assembly of Virginia, was received with enthusiasm and made a great impression, apparently, up jon North Carolina's sister to the ! north. A few days later Mr. Gard ner was speaking before the Ken tucky legislature, where he was made a "Kentucky Colonel” on the staff of Governor Ruby Laffoon. nasi mgnt Governor Gardner was j the honor guest of the Miami, Fla , , Committee of One Hundred, a civic j organization of the Florida metro ; polls. He again made a very favor able impression, according to the press accounts. Governor Gardner is a great ora tor and can give a fine account o! himself before any audience. He invariably impresses any assemb'y before which he appears. Perhaps, say his friends, he may get a chance at Chicago—and great ora tors have been known to stampede ■ national conventions; William Jen nings Bryan for instance. One Handicap The greatest handicap he faces ■however, is his geographic location He is from the south and the south -the southeast, at least—will harrl ily be given one of the two places ;on the national ticket. If this sec tion of the south is honored with , the vice presidential candidate’s be ! ing chosen from it, however, Nortli j Carolina is the ideal state, since it I is nationally regarded as t he out - j standing state of the south in rnanv ' respects. If Roosevelt is the presidential j nominee, the vice presidential choice j will likely be from the west. If it I is Baker, the same situation will I obtain. And so with Ritchie or A’. ! Smith. If it is Garner from Texas, II hen the vice presidential choice CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) Try Answering These Can you answer seven of there test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. Of what state is Gifford Pin chot the governor? 2. Where was Woodrow Wilson buried? i 3. Is a sponge, animal of vegeta ble? 4 How can congress pass a bill lover the president's veto? 5. With what college was Knute Rockne connected? 6. Where is the Kentucky Derby iun? 7. What form of government ha Greece? 8 When was California ceded to the United States? 9. What is a seismograph? 10. Who wrote “Dombey and Sons”? 11. Who were the county officers in Cleveland county in 1889? 12. What Shelby store advertised in The Star on Monday, 36 inch LL sheeting at 3 cents per yard? Kiwanis Will Hear Community Players A playlet will be given by the Shelby Community Players at Thursday evening's meeting of the Kiwanis club at Hotel Charles. The program, in charge of O. 5. An thony, S. A. McMurry and R. W Shoffner, is for the purpose of ar quaint ing the club with the work cf .♦he drwnotir oreanlwrtioe ( Worship as Washington IJid Opi ning the rites commemorating the till entennial of the birth of Cieorge Washington, President and Mm. Hoover we shown leaving Christ Church in Alexandria, Vu„ where the first President worship ped. The Hoovers occupied Washington's pew during the service. I Clean-Up Drive In City Having ; Good Results; Continue Campaign Downs of truck loads of rubbish and trash have been removed from backyards and vacant lots In Shelby during the more than a week of the cooperative city clean-up campaign. Last week Mayor 8. A. McMurry announced that if citizens would clean up their backyards and as semble the rubbish and garbage In piles an extra truck would be put on the street-cleaning force to help remove the rubbish to the city dump. The move followed the sug gestion of Chas. R. Whitaker. State sanitary inspector, that * general clean-up now would prevent much disease next summer. Unemployed men who have been worked on the city streets during the charity pro gram have been used to assist In the clean-up. Although many yards have been cleaned there are still many others which have not and all citizens arc asked during the re mainder of this week to cooperate by a general tldylng-up of their premises with the collected rubbish to be removed by the city trucks, Home and property owners who dc not desire to do the work themselv es may further help by getting In touch with charity headquarters and engaging unemployed men for a day or half day. Were You Born On February 29th How many people in Cleve land county were born or February 29? This is a day that tomr: only once in four years, and neat Monday is February 29. A person born on that date only has one-fourth as manv birthdays as those bom on other days of the year. On Monday The Star hope address of all Cleveland peo pie born on February 29th. to publish the name, are and All who were born on that date are asked to write or telephone in their names, the date of birth and the number of birthdays they have had. The names should be in be fore or by Saturday if possi ble. Play By Faculty At Patterson Springs A play entitled “Two Days To Marry” will be presented Friday evening, Feb. 26th, beginning at 7:30 o’clock by members of the fac ulty of the Patterson Springs school. The public is cordially invited Building And Loan Group Enjoys Good Vear; Reelect Head i l<e(irand Again President With John P. Mull As 8*crftary TrfMurtr A report given stockholder# at their annual meeting yesterday showed that the Shelby and Cleve land County Building and Loan as sociation enjoyed a good year. A total of *176,524 in stock was matured during the year, profits totalling *41,095.32 were paid, and $80,100 in mortgages retired. The following directors were re elected: R. T. LeGrand, W. E. Whis nant, J. 8. McKnight, C. 8. Young, E. B, Hamrick, G. W, Green, L. 8 ! Hamrick, L. U. Arrowood, R. L. Weathers, Wm. Lowery and John |P. Mull. Mr. LeGrand was reelected presi dent, L. S. Hamrick was elected vice president, and Mr. Mull reelected secretary and treasurer. Cinderella Purchase The entire stock of women’s shoes from Mellon’s Gray shop In Charlotte, has been purchased by the Cinderella Slipper Shoppe of Shel by and will be put on sale in that store beginning Thursday morning. Saw Japs Slaughter Chinese Women, And Children, States Newspaperman j Shanghai Editor tVrilrs or l ruelty Seen. Many Stabbed And Shot Shanghai, China, Feb. 24.— Charges that Japanese soldiers were killing defenseless Chinese peasants behind the lines at Kiang wan were printed this week in the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post-Mercury. The accusations were in an arti cle under the signature of T. O. Thackrey, managing editor of the paper, who said that he went to the Kiangwan international race club without being seen by the Ja panese and there looked on while Japanese officers killed Chinese men. women and children. •‘I stood there in the grandstand with one of my reporters,” M. Thackrey wrote, “and watched what happened to these Chinese prisoners in the hands of the Ja panese. “A Japanese officer turned one of a group of Chinese in peasant garb to face the sun. His shining sabie flashed up to the hilt in its human sheath. A second figure took its place and once again the sabre found its pulsing scabbard. -"Perhaps, as the official Japan ese military comnfhni^ues say, ivese corpses once had been snipers or even perhaps spies. I make no challenge; I just detail what I have seen. "There were women and children among the corpses. Women shot through their padded coats. run through with sabres. Children whore bodies were riddled with bullets Men garbed as peasants were heap ed grotesquely about, their wounds waking the ground." He told also that he had seen a farmer boy flung face down on the arround and shot to death by Japa nese officers School Pupils Get Ready For Annual Contest Webb, Hoey Contests Start Soon Recitation Content To Be H-ld Week From Friday Night. Hoey Content I.ater. In practically every high school in Cleveland county students are this week preparing for the an nual Hoey and Webb contests, the highlight events of the scholastic year In (he county. Several schools are holding eli mination contests to decide upon their entrants for the events and by tlie end of this week practical - ly nil entrants will have been pick ed. Recitation Contest. The Selma Webb recitation con test will be held In the Shelby high school auditorium on Friday night March 4. At that time the Winn® of the Selma Webb essay contest will also be announced. A week later or Friday night March 11. the Clyde R. Hoey ora torical contest will be held In the local school auditorium. The recitation contest Is limited to girls while the oratorical contest is limited to boys ,but both boy* and girls have entered the essay contest, the papers In the essay contest already being turned in for a decision by the Judges Jake Fortenbury Of Fallston Dead Well Known Farmer Succumbs After Lone Illness. Wu 79 Yean old. Jake H Fortenberry, prominent fanner of the Fallston community wu buried Monday at the Fall aton Baptist church cemetery the funeral beta* conducted at 11 o'clock by Rev. W. A. Elam. Mr. Fortenberry died Saturday evening after a long illness with Bright's disease and dropsy. He was bom on Christmas day. 1863, and was 79 years, one month and 35 days old. Mr. Fortenberry was an Indus troua and Jovial farmer and a staunch pemocrat. He was married to Miss Cordelia Horn, a slater of Mr. Cobb Horn who survives with the following children: George, Jenkins, Cape, Bill, Bruce and Jake, jr., Mrs. John Hoyle and Johnnie Fortenberry. He waa a member of the Baptist church at Fallston which he Joined eleven years ago. A large crowd attended the f« neral and a beautiful floral offer, lng was in evidence. Reading Contest On Here Friday Students Will Compete for The J, R. Dover Medal Friday Morn ing At 10:30. The public is cordially invited to the high school assembly period Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock to hear the readings, which are to be presented by contestants for the John R. Dover medal. The winner of this contest will represent the school on March 4. in the county contest for the Selma C. Webb medal. The students par ticipating Friday morning are Esther Ann Quinn, Mildred Mc Swain. Mary Lillian Speck, and Margaret L. McNeely. These stu dents are the winners in a prelim inary contest held last Friday aft ernoon. Final Cage Game Here Monday Eve Shelby Teams Play Rutherfordtoa. Visiting Boys Have Great Team. The last basketball of the season is to be played here Monday night when the two Shelby High cage teams, boys and girls, meet the strong cage outfits of Rutherford ton. In a previous double bill at > Ruth erfordton the Shelby girls won and the Shelby boys were nosed out by a narrow margin. The Rutherford ton boys, with one of the greatest high school quints in the Carolina* have been defeated only three tim es in three years and two of those times by prep school or collage teams. Vith all the regulars back in the lineup the Cleveland county champions hope to get revenge fo* ti'eir previous defeat tOther Sports on Page i.)