North Carolina Newspapers

EASTER Edition R" M,u' P*r y*»i. (in •dvanet) - »j to CftfTlir. Mr VMr /In .. Do Your Easter Shopping With The Merchants Who Offer You Special Bargains In Today’s Star—Prices Have Not Been Lower In Quarter Centurv Late News | _t 'I HE MARKET button, >p»t ____ 7c and up Cotton Seed, per ton ........ SlO.Of — ..( Fair Thursday Today's North Carolina tVeathe Brport: Mostly cloudy and probably nut In extreme east poilion tonight. ’’Thursday generally fair, little change in temperature. Woman In Coma For 72 Hours Mrs. Sarah Emery who was crit ically injured Sunday afternoon when hit by an automobile near inc t levelatid counlv-Soutii Carol!* a line, is still uncourcious ai the Shei by hospital. This aflcrn.icn at 3 o'clock she will have been uncon M-ious for 77 hours and her condi tion is extremely critical. She ran into the side of a Gaffney boy’s auto in an attempt to bees her lit tle daughter, who had uni into tlx-. 1 load, from being iiit. The little gtti and her brother arc at the county * home. Sentences Total 18 Years For 26 In Federal Court Longest Sentence Is Two Years. Court Term To Auji nm This Afternoon. la cases disposed oi sc far In Federal court here this week sen tences given 26 delen lauts totallei 18 years and three mouths. X:.e two larger lines imposed by U. S. Judge E. Y. Webb totalled $350. The longest term meted out was ' VO years at Atlanta lor Alonzo Butler of Burke county. The next longest term was the If months at Atlanta given Kidney Wilson, of Rutherford, county, and the tnlrci longest term was 15 months giver. Barney G. Mathes, <>I Bnike. There were eight sentences Imposed of a ear apfl a day each, some at At, ianra, otilers at Chiiucothe and others at the Washington training school. The court term, which when it convened Monday faced a grind'of around 100 cases, a majority of them dry law violations, will in all probability adjourn this afternoon. Prison and jail .sentences and fines imposed up until noon today follow: Sanford McNeely, Burke county two months. Dewitt Smalley. Rutherford, year aud a day at Chlliicclhe, Ohio. M. M. Stewart, Eurke, seven months in jail. Geo. Bradshaw, Burke. four months. Wm. Abernethy, Burke, four months. Joe Abernethy, Burke, four months, 1 Barney G. Mathes Burke, la months at Atlanta. Earl Alexander. Burke, year atj Washington Training •school Wm. .Stewart, year and day at Chillicothe. , Holden Lane, Bark*1 lour monins. Girthie Branch, Burae year aad a day Chillicothe. Charlie Cline, burke year and a day at Chillicothe. Reid Friday, Gaston four months. Sam Moore, Eutne-.Rid; thJ V months and S150 fine Reed Hamrick, Rui.bcr.tord, thre-‘ montlis. Raleigh Lynch, Rutherford, $300 fine. Luther Brittain. Buike, five months. Horace Brittain. Bvke, five • months. John Hildebrar.i. Burke, six months. Lloyd Cloningei, drasicn, five monMrs. Cletus Cline, Gaston, tour months. Woodrow Birchtield, Cleveland, tear and a day at Washington train ing school. Fred Kiser, Rutherfovl, year a,tf a day at Chillicothe, 0 Ridney Wilson, Ruih: rfor,d 15 months at Atlanta. Alonzo Butler, Burk: two years at Atlanta. Ray Butler, Burke seven months in Burke jail. Lois Lynch, Rutherford year and e day at Atlanta. ~ Bible Classes Will Go To Prison Camp A religious service will be cou ducted Sunday afternoon at four o'clock at the state prison camp just east of Shelby. The service will be Jointly conducted by the Hoey Bible Mass of Central Meth odist church and the Newton class of the First Baptist cnurch. E. B. ,'arrett, president Of the Newton T class, has charge of the program. *r.d Prof. Horace Grigg, of the Hoey class, will be the speaker. There Will be special music by quartets from each class. A feature of the ■sendee will be the presentation of 2ft te'Caments fo the prisoners,. County Cotton Crop In \ 1931 Set New Record 1931 Crop Totalled 64,578 Bales Final Ginning Report l uts List Cotton Year Ahead of Record B.v 1,000 Bairs The 1031-1933 cotton crop in Cleveland county established a new record production for the state's larcest cotton-growing county, according to the final ginning report of the year giv en to The Slar today hy Miles H. Ware, special agent The final repoi t .sin \V£ 84,578 bales ginned in the com ty in what is called the 1931 crop Tills it, 1, 793 bales more than the 03.785-bcVe crop of 1930. The last ginning ltDort before the final covered the gtr.auig to January 16 at which lime 64,ltl bales had been ginned, wi tch mean that 467 bales have over, ginned since mid-January. Cotton buyers here say that a quantity of cotton in the county nas never been car ried to the gin , On IiCss Acreage The new figuies are approxi mately 1,000 bales higher than the largest crop producec heretofore in Cleveland. The record crop was produced on leas acreage than any crop in the last five yeuts. This was due to an unusually excellent cot ton season which booster the coun ty's per-acre production as well os tire total. Perry Holland j Funeral Today | well Known larmei Of Lattimo,"-, Section Died Early Tuesday. i Burled At Sandy Hun. Mr. Perry Morgan Holland, ag- i; 74, known fanner af.thc Lat«-! more section, died of k'ca.ey troubl. ! at his home about 3.30 Tuestra morning. Funeral service? were held this* afternoon at 2 o'clock a." Sandy Run j church, Mooresooro. conducted b, Rev. I. D. Harrill. Mr. Holland was u native o; | South Carolina but had bred in the1 Lattimore section of thus county for! many years and was a popular and! leading citizen. He was u member; of the Sandy Run church. Three wives preceded him to the grave. The following children sur vive: J. F. Holland, Mr.;. \es Jones, Mrs. George Towery and Mrs. Grady Lovelace, all of Laun.iore; Onzft Holland, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Ed VanDyke, of Mt. jGuca. Surviving also are 31 grandchilai en and frur great grandchildren. Community Players Have Play April 8 Shelby Dramatic Organization To Present "Love-In-A-Mist,” Comedy In 3 Acts The next presentation of tne Shelby Community Players, popu lar dramatic organization will be on Friday evening, April 8, it wa. announced this week. The presentation will be a three- j act comedy entitled "Love-In-A-) Mist.” It is the third public pro gram of the Community Players and much interest awaits the show Members of the organization who will play lead roles are Miss Mary Brandt Switzer. Mrs. W. D. Bab ington, jr., Miss Isabel Hoey, Hariy Speck, jr., E. O. McGowan, M«ss Carobel Lever, and Charles L. Keei. Shelby’s Twin Of Little Lindy Here is the adopted Shelby your, - ster that has attracted some attcn-, tion because of the close resem-1 blance to the kidnapped Charles Lindbergh, jr. So much dots Bobby Jean Camp resemble the kidnapped boy that officers were called a tew ' days after the kidnapping and told the child was in Shelby. He la 20 months old. the samr as little Lindy; weighs 26 1-2 pounds, a hall pound less than the kidnapped bOj, has burly blonde hair and blue eyes. He was adopted in Charlotte around a year ago by Mr. and Mrs. \u Camp, who live at the northern edge of Shelby. (Photo bv EHM Jenkins Named New President Junior College Will Succeed Dr. Wall At Bolling Sprints At Close Of School j Hear. i Photo on Pate Five) Rev. J. L. Jenkins, well known Baptist minister, has been elected1 president of Boiling Springs junior college, this county# The- public announcement was made today by Postmaster J. Hi Quinn, oi Shelby, head or the college board Rev. Mr. Jenkins win assume the duties of the oifice at,the close of the present school year, late in May dr the first of June. He suc ceeds Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the Shelby First Baptist cnurch, who resigned because of his duties as pastor did not leave i .in enough time to give what ne considered proper attention to the college. The new president ia a graduate of Wake Forest and o? the South Baptist Theolog.vat Seminary at Louisville. For two ano a hah years he was state evangelist for North Carolina and for four yeaw was pastor of the First Bapt'st church at Umatilla, Fla. He came from Florida to tne pastorate of me Boiling Springs church five years ago. He will continue to serve as pastor there after assuming the presidency. Another move made by the trus tees at the'time Presiaent Jenki is was elected wa 3to reduce the ex penses of the junioi coi.ege. Next year the full cost, fees, room, board, etc., for each student for the ,'uil school yeer will be only $525. Three Railroad Men Injured When Auto Hits Railway Car On Crossing Bridge .Supervisor Arm Helpers In jured Near Mooresbcro Mon day In Hospital Here Three railroad men, one sup ervisor of bridges lor the South ern system, arc in the Shelly hospital from injuries received late Monday afternoon when their railway' motor ear was struck by an automobile on r. Southern crossing near Moores boro, this county. The injured art: C. W, Mc Alheney, Rock Hill, bridge sap ervlsor, who has a broken bone in his foot; L. L. Tucket Blacksburg, bruises about the body and head; and Little john. veteran negro railroad worker of Blacksburg, with a broken leg. The accident look place about 5:30 Monday afternoon. Ac cording to information given The Star the railroad men were out on an inspection flip. Just as their railroad motor car reached the crossing near Mooresboro an automobile driv en bv * young man named Harris, of the Mooresboro Sec tion, also reached the crossing The two cars crashed and the three railroad men were injur ed. So far as The Star could learn the driver of the sutemo bile was not injured Respon sibility for the« unusual colli sion could not or learned tndne Office: Seekers Find Voters Not Saying Mach Cleveland Citizens Apathetic Yet 14 Candidates In County Camps is n Bat little Interest Shown In Polities. Judging by the inability of more than a dozen candidates to stir up any noticeable interest there i» a political depression on in Cleveland county. With the primary only two and a half months off there Is leas politi cal talk and enthusiasm evident in the county than in. many years .and it a year,' too, in which a president and a governor are to be elected. Fails To BoB. Some weeks ago when candidates .first began to announeeiorcounty races indications-wfre'tflat it would be another ofie of those warm po litical campaign* in a cofmty that heretofore has taken politics ser iously. But with one candidate and then another announcing, public interest seemed to wane. The origi nal Interest, it appeared, was mere ly curiosity as to what men would run and what would Hot. Now that the lists are pretty well filled gtod only a few more entrant*, expected there is little or no political talk to1 be heard. . A i The 14 announced county candi- I dates seem to realize it and for fhe last week at least have been wit ting around to "see the folks.” Tpis activity, though, seems to hjfce made no great impression. The p|b ple do not seem in the mood to tilk politics Just now and refuse to be coerced. | To Warm Vp let. Some of the county's veteran po litical observers say. however, that the lull now means heated interest in the closing weeks of the cam paign. When a campaign warm* up < cotrrwtrxD on psqe snt.il 4 __ Republicans To Meet April 1st Coant} Convention Wd Be H* W Heee April 1. Precinct Con* ventions March 26. H. Clay Cox. chairman of the Cleveland count? Rcpuolican execu tive committee, was down this week, from Mars Hill where he has his children in school, to call the Republican county convention to be held In Shelby, April 1, and the precinct conventions throughout tne county on Saturday, March 26. F. B. Hamrick of Boiling Springs and Charlotte, is tho secretory of the local Republican executive com mittee. Appoint Delegates The county convention to be lyuc* ip Shelby on Saturday. April 1, at 2 p. m. will elect delegates to 11 .u Republican state convention wh'ch meets in Charlotte "u April 14 .'i and to the comgressiona. convention which meets in Marshall on Apiil 2 and to the senatorial ana judicial conventions to be called later a-.vi to elect a county executive commit ted to serve for the next two years. -The precinct conventions through out the county are called to meet at various places on Saturday, Mar 26 at 3 o'clock 16 appoint delegates to the county convention which meets here April ,1 at 2 p. m. Pre cinct executive committeemen will also be elected to serve fer t.ie next two years, one member to be designated as precinct chairman and one as secretary. Mi. Cox asks that the secretaries send a full re port of them precinct meetings to the county conventions. Re-logging Roads In Entire County AU Public Roads Are Being Un measured By State Highway Department. All public roads in ^ClevtHuud county are being re-'oggeu, accord ing to Information learned toduy from W. A. Broadway, cfeunty revd supervisor. In tills survey all pub lic roads will be rc-measuied, show ing the mileage, together with the location and full description and capacity of ail bridges Jn the coim ty. - Mr. Broadway !et it be unck r stood that no private toads would be Included. Just what the re-loa Sing will be if sea for is not learn ed, but all roads in division E, di • trie I No. 2 are to be included in me turvey which il! «fo»rt in a ft f’aAti > •«***' 1 . __- ■ Tornado Death Toll Reaches Near 300 In Southern States; Great Property Damage Windstorm Lashes Edge Of County Shelby School Children To Get Friday And Monday As Holidays Easter means four consecu tive days of no school to near 3.50# Shelby school children From the office of the city system It hi announced that Friday and Monday will be given aa Easter holidays for the schools. The system will “close for the week at the end of the regulation day Thursday and open again ne> t Tuesday morning. The holidays. the fust sliiw the twrgtmihiK of the SWtMW* semester. wtO give out-of-town teachers an opportunity to go to their homes for a lull week end, or to spfnd Raster nt othe points. Deep Spirituality And Large Crowds Mark Three Revivals On j At Local Churches This Week Revival Climax On Kast< r Sunday At First Baptist. Central And LaFayette Methodist. Large crowds and doe*, spiritu .! ity mark the three revival meetings on at the First Baptist, Central and LaFayette street MeUlisfct church es this week. The meetings will cli max on Easter Sunday when it if expected that many new members will be added to the church rolls. Dr. Wall is preaching each morn ing at a! 45 minute set vice in one of the department rooms at tlie First Baptist and a van* tacn even ing in the main auditorium, follo.v ing group meetings in four different class rooms. The attendance is be yond expectations at each of cm meetings and the sermoi s have an appeal and a human touch that is characteristic of Dr. Wgh in all o! his melanges. Already 17 new mem bers have been received into yin church aud many others are in prospect. This morning lns Minicct was “Mending Our Nets” in which lie ap pealed to his hearers to mend their lives, discard finery ny.:\ Mimptuous living in order to render a service to: others less fortunate * 1 Hoey Oars Atii nds. One of the largest r.wds that has yet attended the Central Metm odist revival, gathered last night when the Hoey Bible ciasc attended tn a body_ and occup-co fully half ICOIV] ajCIu ON PAOB TWIEtVRj Governor Gardner Was 50 On Tuesday Raleigh, March 23.—Gov. O. Max Gardner was 50 years old yesterday. North Carolina's chid exeeo tlve, now In the last year of J>ls four-veer term, spent the dav quietly ■ at. the executive man sion bet Mrs. Gardner had a cake with 50 candles on it to commemorate the eveuc The governor’s health Is goon and he said lie weighed about 10 or 15 pounds more iban hr did ’when he look otfb r Turn Crodwg Away From 4th Pageant "Heaven Bound, u.e stirring ut> «ro pageant featuring tie favorite i negro spirituals and ferrying a' moral lesson, was pres.-* ted for tire fifth time in bhelby las’, night and people were turhed awnv fur lack of room. This time. the pageant was pre sented ip the South baelby school building under the auspices of ha Eastern Star The leveipts were about $95, which amount was d> vided equally between the Eastern Star and the colored schools, after expenses were paid. Feople came from far and near and the aur! - tarium was not only filleo to capa city, but many of the late comers could not get in. The performance was up to standard in every wuy and greatly enjoyed. The Eastern Star will present the pageant again Friday night of this week in the school auditorium at Lattimore. beginning at U o'clock. | Other engagements m U.and ad joining counties are being worked | out. Buildings Wrecked, Stock Killed Just Over In Cherokee Tornado Krtnwim Hite .n buffalo Broad Rival feeler Ketih Of Bluikalnir^. ■ Tlte u,mad»- whim s»ffiaf -i iwary toll of life a no proporty In Southern sfeate e*rij Tutsdey morning struck within a mile or so of Cleveland county ann old consid erable damage. Between'midnight mu.' one o'clock in the morning the uhavy wind wooped down on di. „._rt hern edge oi Cherokee county tietween toe Cle\ eland coutny,. Uni u«o Blacks burg, At least 10 houses Darns weie levelled by the tierce wind, two mules and one cow were killed, and there was much other property damage <n addition to hundreds <4 trees being b.-owu dowa Teds Of Dan.rgi. L J. Roberts, man carrier on Blacksburg Route 1 wa ; in duelbj yesterday afternoon wai gave no tails of the early morr 1114 otorm. iCprermuED f>:« (•Aon twelve .> Piedmont Cafe To Change Location Goes From Marlon Striet To Old I nlon Trust Site On Cornet. , The Piedmont cafe, operated by Mrs. B. C. Houser, will move late this month from the preterit Marion street location to the old Union Trust building on the Warren-La Fayette street corner on the south west side of the court square. Mrs. Houser hopes to be in her Her- lo cation by the first. The Piedmont, one ot tire city's mbst, popular eating places, has been operated for file vestry by Mis. I Houser at the present location ad ioining the Webb theatre The Star’s Pink Edition Heralds Easter Wear At Bargain Prices Easter Chopper* Will Kind M. r rhandiso Cheap* r lUun It llav Been For vlan. Years. Easter .shoppers wiri iota wearing. apparel and general merchanaise! cheaper than it has been for a] quarter of a century of more, thus! enabling the public to put on a! real Easter parade at b -modi rats! cost. Spring wear lot ocU sexes has; been featured for se.'erai weeks be cause of the spring-list weather.! but special bargains are offered >or the remainder of tnis week ic.r those who want to bu< a new spring outfit la-fore Eastei usltots in a real change of seasons Shop '"imlow And sto . art r* ea with templing styles and attrac tive prices and merchant are tea Hiring Easter apparel in The Star a pink edition today m the hope of making the remaining three days of this week, a period of buying and business revival. The Star appears loony printer) Oil pink paper. This fc the firs' time in The Star’s 38 years of e< isrenee that ihe entire paper nas been printed on pink. pape Throughout the twelve pages will be found an array of bargains never before offered the public. The twenty thousand reader will do their shopping through The Star's columns, then visit the stores for ihe next •three days to partake of ihe bargains that are, offered for tire ure-Esiviei shippers; Alabama Struck Heavy Blow By Twisting Wind 220 killed There, 2,500 Homeless (Irortia l>r»1h Tell 34.— fwo Kjlli‘1 In !<lparlantmrK County. I «nno«M» Hit. . • ’ • (First Photo* Of Storm 'Ji. Be hib* ItAheii in This Sectn.il Art on Par , Hi Birmingham,. Aw., ^rcU 33.. Five ..out hern state# liftr nig. ; counted a total of 273 pfrsuns «.i. ; ed. more tiuui 2.300 other* lnjur-Td and made homeless, uric viewer unastimated property damage cau. tid by a senes of tonntdbes tnrr struck, numerous oomnu.m',es Mon day night and early Taefday. * The storm struck trnh its great est fury in Alabama, leaving ii dead tuid many tyun&Mlv of other Injured and nomeh&o Building were literally tom t£ pieces and ths dying and injured thrown to the mercy of the elements, heavy down pours of rain .xcompanled ' the wind ajid lightning ar-‘ added to the *iimness of one of the south greatest disasters. In Oeorgia 34 person.- a ere kth id. Teuneasoe counted li dead whip Kentucky and South Cm clina had two rieatlis each. Not. until brokfn eouimunJeatlon Hires were restored was the full ex tent of vUe storms toll leurned. The twisting winds shuck first near Marion, then at KOrtl -art. both In tiie west central portion ov the state. Twenty-nine were kiUco ;»t Northpnrt and-scorer were ic Jjured. At Marlon 18 were Itilp, . Tlie storm then sppeared at Dcm . ■ polls, Faundsdate. and hmdsSo, ah hi the same area. It struck next 3»: the central portion, sweeping over the towns <>r BMftax, COumbla-x Thorsby, and other communities. It Dead tn Tenner tee • At the .-amc time a tornado dtp ped down on a half dozen common hies ip Tennessee. Five no rubers cf .COJfMfKUgb OS rtSflinv*. Try Answering These Cun yon answer iourwen of these Vit Questions? Turn to page 3 lor the answers. > 1. Do enlisted men in the army and utr-.-r aviation service receive extra pay? ' - : , , . 2. What is-.the Spanish for " Hal lo?’’ ■ . . >■ . - 3. In what valley is the city vat Winchester, ^Va. 4. tin what musical show a as the song: ‘I Pound,a Million-dollar Baby in the Five and Ten Cent Store?** ft. Oi what_ country is Northwest Territory a political .rubd^vivion? 6. What, year between 1896 and 190*'. was a leap year? . 7. In what t ea is the island of El ba? 8 Who was the last Emperor bt Austria-Hungary? 9. Where is tiie state University of Chile? v 10. Which is the larger dirigible, tllie Akron or the Los Angeles? 11. Where Is the first airplane ! that was built by the Wright Broth j era now? 12. Who wrote 'pracula?' . 113. In w hat country is the Hindu | religion widespread? 14. Who built the steamboat I “Clermont?” 15. What is a peon? 16: Is there life on the moon? 1". Wliat is “second growth* tim ber? 18. What does "Ltd.” stand for after the names of English com panies? 19. Is there a federal law against ! hdrse racing? - -J* ! • 20. Where was the SesquirCenten.- ,, ! nial exposition held? He Grow* Hi* Own Tangerine* Here Miles F. Harrekon o! near-. Wae* grows his own tangerines. Of csurs* they are^not as 'arge as the Me ld* fruitT but the;' haw the sain* fine flavor and color and the font year old bush make* a beautiful or nament. It Is four feet high and this year had 40 tangerines. T5i« : largest Were the sfeft of an esc. • -'/■ . • ' / iy 'X