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■ggggg and Friday Afternoons) 10 PAGES TODAY ay Mall per mi, cm adrancei - Carrier, per rear, lln ad ranee < 85 Late News THE MARKET * Cotton, Spot __....._So np Cotton Seed, ton___I84W Frost Tonight? Today’* North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonlgnt and possibly Hlfht frost in Intenor. Thursday partly cloudy and slowly rising temperature. Opposing Bonus Washington, April IS.—New York banking interest* rigorously con demned the $2,000 000,000 soldi.? bonus biU yesterday through Char les E. Mitchell, chairman of the board. National City bank, who de clared It is “dangerous In the e« treme.” In a letter to Senator El mer Thomas, Democrat of Okla homa, Mitchell attacked the Pat man bill before the house ways and means committee as gravely dam aging both to the credit of the Unit ed States and the stability of our moneary system, and said it “opens _ the way to a paper money inflation of unlimited possibilities.” Shelby Postal Receipts Drop In 1st Quarter Total Leas Than First Quarter Of 1931. Decline Due To Thread Shipments. Receipts at the Shelby post of fice for the first quarter this, year were somewhat behind those for the same quarter last year, it was learned today. The decline, according to Pos ■r master *J. H. Quinn is due, to e considerable extent, to a change in policy by some of the local Indus trial plants. Heretofore one of the local plants has made most of its smaller shipments bv parcel pos* This year a big percentage of tiie shipments are being sent by ex press or otherwise. Other departments of the office receipts, however, have held up well. In fact, a gain was shown In receipts foi the first, quarter in all departments other than the parcel post division. Apd should this de partment pick up >n the months ahead it is probable that the total receipts will equal or come near those establishing a record high last year. Wanted, Home For Two Small Children A home is wanted for two child* ' ren, a girl age 5 and a boy age 10 years. They are the • children of Mrs. Sara Emery who was struck by an automobile oti No. 18 high way south three weeks ago and re mained unconscious for nearly two weeks. She is a public charge and while a patient in the hospital the children have been at the county home where Miss Eva Eorders takes them dally to Oak Grove school for study. Both are bright, healthy and strong. Mr. J. B. Smith, county wel fare officer prefers to place them together in one home or in differ ent homes in the same community. Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page 2 for the answers. 1 Where Is the disarmament con ference of the league of national being held? 2. Name the boy scout who accom panted Admiral Byrd on his antac tic expedition? 3. About how much gold is there in the banks and treasuries of the world? 4. What is the principal city In Georgia? I. What was Norman Selby’s ring nickname? e What currency is used in Porto Rico? 7. In what country is the decking bird a native. 8. Who is Archilles Ratti? 8. Through what Dody of water does the Bible story say the chil dren of Israel passed on their flight from Egypt? 10. What form of government did Hawaii have Just before its annex ation to the U. S.? II. What position in the Hoover cabinet Is held by Walter F. Brown? 12. How many battleships has the U. S. navy? 13. What part did Joan Marsh play In the motion picture, "Poli tics?” 14. Who said: “What this country needs Is a good five ceiif cigar?” 15. Of what university is Herbert Hoover one the trustees? 16. Does Canada have a sales tax? 17. Who was the author of •‘Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne?” - 18. Who is William DeWitt Mitch ell? 19. To what country did Lupisiana belong before its purchase by the U. S.? 20. Where did Baron von Steuben Join George Washington’s army? Ehringhaus Pleases Large A udience Here In County Race C. C. (Cobby) Horn ;»bove), Is an announced candidate for solicitor of the county court tn the Demo cratic primary. His announcement was made some time ago, but a photograph was not at that time available. HoeyToSpeakAt Lattimore Finals Dr. Wall to Deliver Sermon. St Seniors to Receive Diplomas. Starts Friday. The Lattimore school having al | most completed another year of work, is fast approaching the finals. The commencement exercises will begin with the childrens program on Friday night, April lb, and con tinue through Saturday night, Apr. 23. The general outline of the pro gram is given below: Abril 15, 8 p. m. operetta “Sunny of Sunny side’’ by elementary school April 17, 3 p. m. Baccalaureate sermon by Dr. Zeno Wall pastor p* the First Baptist church, of Shelby. April 19, 8 p. m.—Declamation and recitation contest. April 20, 8 p. m Music recital. April 21, 8 p. m., class night ex ercises. April 23, 3 p m., gradu ation ex ercises, address by Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby. April 23, 8 p. m., senior play: “Skidding.” The results of the year in the school and former years will be re flected in the numbers of students in the seventh grade and in the graduating class. Approximately 48 students will receive certificates, admitting them to the high school twenty-four seniors will graduate. Those to receive diplomas are as follows: A. B. Blanton, John Hawkins, A. V. Irvin, Thomas Lattimore, Os borne Lee, Wyatt Martin, John Al bert McBrayer, J. Z. Walker, An nette Blanton, Beatrice Blanton, Jennie Blanton, Virginia Bigger staff, Susan Brooks, Frances Cab iness, Mattie Crawley, Aileen Crow der, Faith Davis, Reba Davis, Sara Doggett, Frances Greene, Iva Ham rick, Dorcas Lattimore, Ellen Pad gett, Maude Willis. Kendall Loses In the second round of the North and South tennis tournament ^ps terday at Plnehuvst Whitelaw (Slim) Kendall, of Shelby, was de feated by Robert Lovtll, Mt. Airy. 6-2, 8-6. Zeno Wall jr., of Wake Forest college, anothei Shelby en trant, lost by default In the first round. (Other sports on page 10). Strong Democratic Speech Wu Father Of Knral High School System. Favors Economy And Lower Taxes. A clarion call to the democracy of North Carolina to "continue tts traditional march forward, united under the banner of progress," was made here Monday night by John C. B. Ehrlnghaus, Democratic can didate for governor. Speaking In a citadel of state democracy—the home town of the present governor, O. Max Gardner and ln*the presence ot O. M. Mull state chairman—Mr. Ehrlnghaus dispensed with the pointed issues of a customary campaign speech and delivered an old-fashioned Democratic call to arms. After tracing the party’s convt bution to North Carolina’s progress Mr. Ehrlnghaus said, “that which the democracy of the state has so proudly created must be preserved ’ Marching Together “We must present a solid front, the speaker declared “to the de structive forces which have sur • rounded us in these trying times If we are to continue to build a great Christian and civilised common- j wealth we will do it when all North Carolinians of every sect' *-i, class and activity are marching to gether under the earner of pro gress.” Attacks Fountain In discussing the lecord of bis party the speaker declared, “I can not understand the philosophy of Lt Gov. Fountain who is gol.'g about the state attacking the rec ord of the party which has already honored him and which he aspires to lead as governor." “When I receive the nomination for governor," Mr, iShrlnghaus con tinued, “I shall be pujud, without the slightest apology, to champion my party's principles and to defend its record.” Mr.Ebiuaghaw* •oeteh-Irtsl descent and for ISO y%zn his fain ily has lived in the Albemarle .sec tion of Eastern Carolina, the cradle of early civilisation in this count! v While his name is a bit unusual to the people of this section, lt is e household word in Eastern Caro lina. For 30 years he has been ac tive in party circles and with the exception of serving as solicitor in his distret and in the legislature with R. L. Ryburn of Shelby, he h.is not sought public office, while both of his opponents Mr Maxwell and Mr. Fountain have been in office (CONTINUED ON PACK TEN. I Mrs. Etters Dead; Funeral On Tuesday Resident Of Cloth Mill Village D.a At 39. Survived By Two Children Mrs. Lillie Etters, 39. died Mon day just after 11 o’clock at her ho.ae In the Cleveland Clo'h mill villagt Funeral services were conducted, yesterday morning at the Fi-st Baptist church with Ofc Zeno Wall and Rev. H. E. Waldrop in charge, and burial was at Bethlehem. Mrs. Etters was a native of this county but had lived in Sheloy only four years, mo-'ing here from Cherryville. Prior to her marrlagt she was a Miss Ware of Kings Mountain and her parents along with three brothers and five sis ters survive. Surviving also are her husband, a son, Clyde Etters, of Burlington, and a daughter, Mis-. Ava, of Shelby. No. 3 Finals To Begin Sunday; Jessup And Mull On Program Finals for No. 3 Consolidated school will begin on Sunday, April 17th with the comm'rcement ser mon to be delivered by Rev. L. L. Jessup, pastor of th“ Second Bap tist church of Shelby Judge John P. Mull will deliver the literary ad dress on next Friday afternoon. The program for the finals is as fpllows: Sunday afternoon April 17, 3.00 o’clock, commencement sermon, Roy L. L. Jessup, high 3„bool auditor ium. Tuesday evening, April 19, 8.00 o’clock, exercises by elementary grades, Patterson Sorings school. Wednesday evening April 20, 8 o’clock, exercises by elemeniar. grades, Patterson Springs school Earl school, McBra/er school. Thursday afternoon April 21, 2.30 c'clock, reader? and dfrJaimers con test, high school auditorium. Thursday evening, April 21, 8:00 o’clock, class play, the Graduates Seven Guides, high school auditor ium. Friday afternoon, April 22. 2 30 o’clock, literary address. Judge John P. Mull; graduating exercises, high school auditorium. Friday evening, April 22, 8 00 o’clock, play by senior class, nigh school auditorium. NINE ADDITIONS AT TABERNACLE REVIVAL Already there have been nine ad ditions to the Roberts Tabernacle C. M. E. church on Flat Rock where a revival is under way this week. Dr. R. D. Garrett of Norfolk, Va., is assisting the pastor, Rev. E. L. Johnson in the services. On Big Program Above la pictured Ml** Louli* Whltener who la perhsps 8heth* s beat known [Irl of her age. Mias Whltener, a ranking 'Indent of the South Shelby school, waa ao out standing In the Jun'or Red , Cross work of the school that she waa in vited to Washington to attend the national Red Cross convention held there and yesterday the 12-year-old girl was on the progtsm of the na tional convention. She was accom panied by Mist Seims Webb, prin cipal of the South Shelby school, and by Attorney'Henry B. Edwards, county Red Cross chairman, and Mrs. Edwards. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. I Whltener. Hatchett Term Cat Down Four Years By Court To Serve Three Ye*rs In Atlanta And Not Serve Five Yean In State Prison. Carl Hatchell. Shelby man. sen tence to three years at Atlanta by Judge I. Tates Webb on a Federal bootlegging charge, will not utnm five years In the North Carolina State prison on a cigarette larceny charge In which he was sentenced in Superior court here prior to the Federal court sentence in Char lotte. The sentence imposed the State court was changed at the term of court here last week, It was learned today. Hatchell was convicted ot break ing and entering and receiving In connection with a cigarette robbe-y at the wholesale house of the A. Blanton company here. Judge Moore gave him a sentence of five years In the State prison and an appeal was entered to Supreme court. While a decision was awaited on the ap peal, Federal officers arrested him on a whiskey charge. The case came up in Federal court here two weeks ago but was continued to the Fed eral term at Charlotte last week where he was given three years by Judge Webb, the jurist stating that the defendant had been violating the law within sight of his home. When Superior court was In ses sion last week attorneys for Hatch ell filed an affidavit, with Judge P. A. McElroy declaring, it is said, that new evidence unearthed es tablished his Innocence in the cig arette racket. In view of this fact and also in view of the three-year Federal sentence a recommendation was made that the previous verdict and Judgment be set aside. This was done and following another plea of guilty a sentence of 12 months was imposed. This sentence, It Is un derstood, runs concurrently with the Atlanta sentence, which means that the three years there will be all that he will have to serve. An other provision of the sentence, it is said, is that Hatchell pay the A. Blanton firm the value of the cig arettes alleged to hive been stoi*n The changed sentence was a lead ing topic of conversation among of ficers this week. Ransom Money Is Found In London London, April 13.—The Dully Mall said today that some o« the banknotes of the $50,000 ransom which Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh paid In the hope of regaining his kidnapped babr had been found In London. Scotland Yard was doing its utmost to discover bow they were smuggled Into England was inquiring at hotels, banks and other places where the blits were likely to have been chang ed. and has asked several per sons who handled the notes tr explain how thev were obtain ed. G. 0. P. Ticket Will Be Named ByPartyHeads Candidates To Be Picked Soon Convention (lave Kmollrr Cotu And Pmlwt Group* Nomination Authority _M. - The Republican ticket for nannty office* In Cleveland will |p named at an early date, or at least prior to the primary in At the county Republican con vention ncld here recently the con vention authorised the county ex ecutive committee and the precinct committees to get together and slate a county ticket. Just when a meet-" Inf for this purpose will be be id has not been announced by the new chairman. W. R. Casstevens. Full Ticket It Is generally be'ieved, although no ’definite statement, has been made to that effect, that the ex eoutive committee will name a full county ticket, or, In other words, a I candidate for each county office District H. S. Music Contest To Be In Shelby On Saturday Miss Roberta, Chairman, Announces Plans And Urges Public To Attend. Saturday morning, April IS, at 9 O'clock In the Shelby high school auditorium, the young musicians of the high schools In this district will gather to compete (or the privilege of representing the district In the State Music contest to be neld In Owensboro April 28th and 29th. PtVe counties compete this district, and the following towns will send musicians from treir high school to take part In the contest: Bel mont, Bessemer City, CherryvlUe, Forest City, Hickory, Kings Moun tain, Llncolnton, Newton and Shel by**.,Judge for the contest Is se lected by the North Carolina Col lege for Women in Greensboro. Shelby is entering the following numbers: Plano solo, clarinet solo, trumpet solo, trombone solo, bari tone horn solo, French horn solo baritone vocal solo, alto vocal sou, girl’s glee club and boys’ glee club. The contest begins at 9 o'clock and will continue all day. The pub lic Is cordially Invited and urged to attend. Newton To Spealc At Casar Finals Rev. J. M. Barber To Preach Bac calaureate Sermon Nest Sunday. Finals at the Casa; high school of which Prof. H. M Loy is prin cipal, will begin Friday of this week with an operetta by the primary and grammar grades beginning »t 8 o’clock. Rev. J. M Barber wil! preach the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, April 17th at 3 p. m. and on Monday evening at 8 o'clock there will be a mur.'c recital, read ing and declamation contests. The high school play will be given Thursday evening and on Friday evening, at the graduating exe cises Ex-Senator D. Z. Newton will deliver the literary address. Nine students will be graduate'.' this year, as follows- Della Mae Brackett, Elmer Downs, Lois £ - mdre, Mamie Fortenotiry, Elizabeth Morris, Lester Pruett Delia Fae Pruett, A. B. Robertson, Burleigh Wortman. Debate Team To Chapel Hill Lattimore Team Leaves Thursday. Six Students In The Party. The triangular debating team of the Lattimore High school will leave Thursday for Chapel Hill to com pete in the final elimination con tests for the state. The Lattimore teams were victorious in the first contests held April 1, and thus won the right to participate in the con tests at Chapel Hill. The affirma tive team composed of Misses Dor othy Washburn and Faith Davis won over the negative team of the Long Creek High school In Meck lenburg county, while the negative team composed of Misses Jennie and Annette Blanton secured a unanimous decision over the af firmative team of the PlpevUi^ High school .also of Mecklenburg county. These four young ladies to gether with Ulysses Champion of the tenth grade and Miss Catherine Eastep, of the faculty, will go to Chapel Hill on Thursday Peeps at Democratic Hope Hew aw thwe interesting pictorial studies of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, wcorded by the Candid camera, when the out standing Democratic candidate for the Presidency attended the annual meeting of the Boy Scout Foundation at New York. The Governor is shown at left In an attitude of intense concentration. Center, he faces his camera interviewer, and at right he engages in the very human act ef lighting a cigarette—even as you or I. Vets May Draft Candidate To Oppose Bulwinkle Over Bonus World ww veterans of the Shelby section and this congressional dis trict have inaugurated a move ment, It was learned today, to draft another Democratic candidate for congress to oppose Congressman A. L. Bulwlnkle. Veterans do not hesi tate to express disapproval of Major Bulwinkle’s j*aud In oppos ing the payment of the bonus new, but the political maneuvers to get another candidate out are being conducted somewhat on the quiet The man most mentioned as the prospective draft candidate of ti e war veterans In Judge Wilson Wr lick, of Newton. Judge Warllck, like Major Bulwlnkl'. Is a veteran himself. He was popular in the dis trict and talked for congress prior to his election to the bench. Since taking office to judge hie popular ity has increased and in several places he has beea mentioned for governor In 1936. But Judge War lick Is not the only prospect mentioned. If he re fuses to be drafted, It was under stood here today, ur.at efforts will bajfnade to get Attorney Sam Er win, of Morganton, tn the race. lie too la a veteran and popular In the section. Practically all American Leg'on posts in district have endorsed the bonus payment. The Shelby and Cleveland county post, the Newton and Catawba posts and the veter ans of Charlotte and Mecklenburg are among those urging action or the bonus Just what the movement to draft a candidate will lead to cannot be foretold, out It Is a gen » erally accepted fact that the vetor* ians of this section held a strong political influence. Youth Knocked From Trestle And Killed; Funeral At Sandy Run Therman Oak*, Age 17, Knocked From Trestle; Is Buried At Sandy Run. Special to The Star. Moores boro, April 11.—Funeral services for Thermar Oaks, 17, who was knocked from a trestle and killed by two men at Red River, S C„ Saturday night, were held here at Sandy Run Baptist church tills afternoon at 2 o'clock. Young Oaks had been to town and was enroute home, when he was struck in the nstd with some heavy object, causing him to fail some twelve feet into about iff > feet of water in the Catawba river. He was found later by a fellow em ploye. Oaks was a mill hand. Once Lived Near Here Oaks, the son of “Je&k” Oahr lived some few miles from Moore , boro last year. F-om here they went to 8helby. then to the Red River section. According to reports circulating here, one man has confessed to having a part in the murder and his oompanion is said to be located in Durham. It is rumored that the pair was drunk. While the appre hended man claims the Oaks boy tried to take a watih from one of them. The man wh > confessed is said to be an elderty man of some fifty or sixty years. Funeral rites were conducted hy a Rev. Hall of Soutn Carolina and Rev, Jones of near New House. Large numbers attended the fu neral. The deceased Is survived by his parents and two older brothers, Ed gar and worth, and several smaller brothers. To Make Tax Lists For Advertising Soon Work on making out the 1331 delinquent tax lists for advertising and sale of property Is to be start ed this week, It was ‘earned at the court house today. The names of delinquent tax-payers must be con led from the books and made ready for advertising the first of next month. This year the state law re quires that property on which 1931 taxes are not paid by the first of May must be advertised that month and sold the first of June. Delin quent tax-payers wm pay between now and the first of the month will, of course, have their names taken from the adve.Rising list be | fore publication. State G. 0. P. May Name Jonas For Governor At Thursday Meet North Carolina Republicans Gather In Charlotte Tomorrow For Their Convention. A score or more of Cleveland county Republicans will go to Char lotte today and tomorrow to attend the State G. O. P. convention there. Charlotte, April 13.—Charles A. Jonas of Lincolnton in all proba bility will be the next republican candidate for governor—or MaJ. George Butler of Clinton. That, at any rate, is the “inside dope” on the eve of the republican state convention, which is schedul ed to get down to official business tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the Charlotte ArmorjAAuditorium with more than 5,000 delegates, al ternates, and individual party en thusiasts in their seats There has been a new arrange ment of the tentative slate, and now the Lincolnton man '.s said to be on top for the honor of leading the state ticket But the republicans aren't so certain that Mr. “onas will accept. He has already been nominated by the district convention to run for the national house of representatives, and he has said that he will not accept that nom ination. Major Butler was considered the leading candidate for the nomina tion some time ago, but for a while others were talked for the Job. Brownlow Jackson of Henderson ville and Boone Tillett of Charlotte will be the leading candidates for lieutenant governor, and Mr. Jack son, because he is older and better known and has served as state chairman and Is now marshal of the western North Carolina district CONTINUED ON PAQE TEN Elect Teachers In City, County Systems Soon Few School Changes Thought Likely Rural School Boards Already Con sidering Faculties For Next School Tear. Within another month or so prac tically all of the principals and teachers of the Cleveland county and Shelby schools will be named for next year. Some of the rural committeemen are meeting this week, according to County Supt. J. H. Origg, to decide what members of their present fac ulties will be reelected for next year. Complete faculties tor several of the large consolidated schools In the county will be elected during the next week or two, but the majority will not be ready for publication be fore the passing of a month. Re elections, it Is understood, are being made now In schools that close with in a short time. Few Changes. General report Is that there will be few changes, perhaps not more than one, in the principals of the rural high schools. In City System. A meeting of the Shelby school board was held last night, but only routine business was attended to, according to Dr. Tom Gold, chair man. No date, he said, was set for electing teachers for next year in the city system, but this will likely be done, he added, at a called meet ing the last of this month or at the regular meeting early in May. The board chairman had nothing to say about prospective Changes in view of the fact that the matter has not as yet been discussed by the board. Erwin To Speak At Waco Finals Exercises Begin On Friday Evening. Her. Mr. Chnreh To PradL School closing exercises will begin at Waco on Friday of this week and continue through Friday of next week when Supt. Clyde A Erwin of the Rutherford county schools and president of the North Carolina Teachers Association will deliver the address. Mr. Erwin is a native of that section of Cleveland county. The program for Friday evening of this week will be an operetta with a cast of 88 children. The title of the operetta is "Aunt Druscilla’i Garden. ’ On Sunday April 17tn at 2:30 o’clock Rev. Mr. Church ol Kings Mountain will preach the baccalaureate sermon. On Wednes day evening of next week there will be two Junior plays, the first a two act laugh provoking comedy entitled "Nothing Never Happens," followed by another one act comedy entitled "Don’t Believe It.” Graduating exercises will come on Friday morning at 11 o’clock April 22nd when the literary address will be dellevered by Mr. Etwln and class day exercises will be told. Wray Starts Stock Control System Inaugurates Store-Wide Sale Fri day. Start* New Stock Con trol System. Beginning Friday ol this week A V. Wray and 6 Soaa Inaugurate • store-wide sale as announced in to day’s Issue of The Star, the pur pose of the sale being to institute a change in the poltry of the store with reference to shies. The new policy is a stock cnu trol system on shoes Wrays han dles shoes made by Roberta, John son and Rand, branch of the Inter national Shoe Co., or St. Louis, tne largest shoe manufacturers In the world. Two experts from the fac tory are here to institute the new system by which a perpetual Inven tory will be kept. When shoes are sold from the large stock each day there is a record made of the sale and the stock is Immediately re plenished so that It >c kept up to date at all times. By this system customers will a wavs find all num bers and sizes on banc, First Clear Circus Day In Many Years Barnett Brothers circus drew a siaeable crowd et people to Shelby yesterday alter noon and night for the flrsl circus pro • gram of the year. U waa the ■ second circus day in Shelby In seven years, it is said, that It did not rain.