—g».g ‘ 1 ■% 10 PAGES TODAY _ __ VOL. XXXVIII, No. 48 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, APR. 20. 1932 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) ») Mall per real, iin advancei - Carrier. «r rear, (in adraneai nrt, Late News ’ THE MARKET Cotton, Spot_.................. 6c U{. Cotton Seed, ton__ $8.0-' Cloudy Thursday Today’s North Cvtllna Weather Report: Tartly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change In temperature. . See Baby Lindy? Press reports today Informed that a baby very much usembling the kidnapped Charles A Lindbergh, jr was taken to a beauty parlor at St. John's Newfoundland recently. The operator who cut thr baby's hair kept several locks and they *re similar in the hair o> the kidnapped boy. |le was brought to the shop by a woman, the operator said, who; said she wanted he.- “little gir'V hair cut. While the woman was in another department the operalor discovered that the ''idle girl” «as a boy. When the matter was men tioned the woman became flustrat ed, took the baby and made a hut rled departure. She had previously said she was from the West a id was enroute to England. A gangster who has been sought in connection with the kidnapping lias also been «een recently at St. John's. County Schools Closing Events Hold Attention All County High Schools Except Three Close This Week. Others Next Week. This Is commencement week in ail sections of Cleveland county as hun dreds of high school students com plete their last week's work of the year and turn their attention to the commencement programs. The final exercises in eight rural high schools get underway this evening and continue through Sat urday with programs expected to be attended by hundreds of parents and friends. The schools not closing this week are Boiling Springs, Piedmont and Fa 11ston. Boiling Springs will con tinue until the end of the junior college year and the commence ment programs at Failston and Piedmont will be held next week. Others Close. All the si*-months schools which have not already closed are also closing this week and are staging their commencement program Thursday and Friday. Lattimore's final exercises wUl come to a close Saturday afternoon and Clyde R. Hoey is the principal speaker of the program ^covering several days. Supt. B. L. Smith of Shelby will be the principal speaker at Polk ville Thursday evening and the commencement program ends with several plays Friday evening. The address at No. 3 will be made Friday evening at 2:30 by John P. Mull, of Shelby. Judge Mull will also be the speak er at the Belwood closing program Thursday evening Supt. Clyde A. Erwin, of Ruth erfordton, will be the speaker Fri day at 11 o’clock at the Waco grad uating exercises. The Grover commencement is al so on the remainder of this week, and Attorney D Z. Newton will be the speaker at the Casar closing Friday evening, the graduating ex ercises to be held at the same time. Try Answering These Can you answer i4 of these test questions? Turn to page 2 for the answers. 1. Which state of the union is the smallest in area? 2. From what language is Sophia tie rived? 3. What two parts of Germany are separated by the Polish Corri dor? 4. What food product is made from cassava? 5. Who wrote “Three Men in a Boat"? 6. How did the U. 3. acquire ‘he American Virgin Islands? 7. Who was Joaquin Miller? 8. What relation was John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the U. 6 to John Adams, the second pres‘ i’ent? 9. What does one* cubic inch of pure gold weigh? • 10. Who was Euclid? 11. Where is Bayior University" 12. In what city is the New Em pire State building? 13. Who has been called “TW Bard of Avon”? 14. Why did Secretary of State Stimson recently go tc Europe? 15. How can a law be enacted over a presidential veto? 16 What slang name is given to • police informer, agent or spy? 17. What is the Hawaiian word fora tvreath of flowers for the head or neck? 18. Who may be out-led in Arling ton National cemetery? 19. Who was Adeli"? Patti? 20 Where was the sesquiceut/1., nial exposition of 1920 held? State Convict Camp Struck By “Flu’’Epidemic t -* 30 Prisoners Sick At One Time Epidemic Improving Now At Pr.'son, In Schools And Throughout County. The influenza epidemic which has been raging over Cleveland county for almost a fortnight sems to be letting up with warm weather this week, but at least 10 men at the State convict camp, east of Shelby, where the epidemic struck the. hardest blow, are still confined. The first case of •'flu" developed at the new prison camp week be fore last. Within a short time, due to the fact that it is necessary to keep the men in close quarters, be tween a third and a half of the en tire convict force and guards had to take to their beds. 30 At One Time. Information secured at the camp today had it that a total of 30 men, prisoners and guards, were down at one time last week. The epidemic at the camp was generally light, but at least one prisoner, a white con vict, became seriously ill. it wa/ said, before showing improvement. This week there had been a considerable let-up. Only eight prisoners and two I guards were still in bed today. The ■ guards still sick are James Roberts and Arthur Moss. The other guards who have improved and are able to be out are Doc Jones and Smith Gallimore. . In Schools. The epidemic caused many ab sences in the county schools last week and some this week, but only a few' cases were of a severe type. The epidemic had its origin in the county in the lower section, where around 40 pupils were taken sick with cold and influenza in one week in one school. Gradually the epi demic travelled over the county. Schools in the upper section of the coffitt#'- were hardly touched, how ever, the majority of the cases be ing in the southern snd eastern sections. There have been some cas es, it is said, in practicailv all of the 30 schools still running. There are a number of cases in Shelby, but they are not as num erous in proportion to population as those in the colinty. • One or two cases have developed complications, such as turning Into pneumonia, but generally speaking all attacks were light and physic ians are of the opinion that another ■week of warm weather may bring an end to the spread. Home Of Champion Destroyed By Fire Shelby Druggist Loses Home And Major Part Of Furniture Monday Eve, The residence of Mr. Chiv His Champion, Quinns drug afore pharmacist, was destroyed by fi*' along with practically all the fu. nishlngs Monday night. The home, on Bropd street in South Shelby, caught on fire about 8 o'clock In the evening while Mr. and Mrs. Champion and childr »p were attending a more The struc ture was quickly a mass of flaoies and the small a mono; of furniture carried out was damaged by the heat and water. Mr. Champion had $1,800 insurance on the house and around $1,000 on the furniture. “Made-In-North Carolina Week” To Be Observed FromMay 16Through21 Will Be Celebrated * To Coincide With National Cotton Week Program. Raleigh, April 20.—‘‘Made - in - North Carolina Week” will be cele brated May 16-21, to coincide with NationH Cotton Week, Col. J. W. Harrelson. director of the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment, announces. The week was ob served in June last year, along with National Cotton Week, and is moved up this year to the same dates to bring increased emphasis on the oc casion. All articles manufactured In North Carolina, including cotton goods, will be emphasized during the specia' week. Director Harrel son calling attention to the inter est focused on goods manufactured in the State by former events. Previous celebrations of "Made-in North Carolina Week" have been featured by special displays and ales of Carolina goods by retail merchants, making it fn effect, a: State-wide exposition of Industrial products. These displays and sales are credited with attracting many people and stimulating materially the purchases of locally-made goods. Manufacturers have cooperated through special displays of their products and consumers have shown preference for goods manufactured in the State. The Department of Conservation and Development, which sponsors the week, has compiled a list of consumers’ goods produced in North Carolina, thereby placing the mer chant in closer contact with the manufacturer and familiarising the consumer with goods produced in the State. Extensive educational work has been carried on in con nection with the program by the de partment. Colonel Harrelson expresses the belief that the movement has, in addition to promoting larger sales, pointed out numbers of new lines of development, which will bear im portant fruit in the i'utuie 1 Season for Atlantic Flights Is Open # * * * * * * * * Elinor Smith Planning to Smash Jinx That Has Haunted Trans-oceanic Attempts by Women—Five Ladybirds Have Died Trying to Beat Neptune. EttWDR Smith. WFVwe Ruth Ew^Sfi. Mopped fto fe^T*3** ^ *»* *. Undaunted by the tale that has befallen many women filers who attempted to conquer the Atlantic, Miss Elinor Smith, New York aviatrix is planning an attempted conquest of the big watery dnide this year. Though Miss Smith shows commendable courage, she would be well advised to study the score sheet in | the battle between the sea and women fliers who hav» tried to conquer it. Out of seven la Jvlirds to mr.ke the trans-oceanic attempt only two lived to tell about it Amelia Earbart accomplished the crossing from | Newfoundland to Wales successfully, with Mllmer Stall end Lou Gordon. And Ruth Elder was picked up out of the sea off the Azores, after the plane in which she was flying to Paris with Geroge Haldeman was forced down on the sea. Five other women met death. Pi Ircess Lowenstein Werthelm flew Into obllv'on with Capt. Leslie Hamilton and CoL F. Minchin, while attempting a flight from Upavon, Eng., to Ottawa. ! ('an. Eight day later RHIdred Doran, Flint, Mieh., teacher, flew to death with John PedVt while at | tempting a flight from Oakland. Cal., to Honolulu, for the 135,000 Dole prize. Then came ihe tragedy of j Mrs. Frances Grayson, who was never heard of after sbe took off with Bryce Goldsborough and two com panions in an attempt to fly from New York to Copenhagen. Right ontop of that disaster came that of the Hon. Elsie Mack ay, daughter of Lord Inchcape, whi was swallowed by the Atlantic while flying from England to America with Capt. Walter Hinchcllffe. The last woman to go down to defeat at the hands of | Neptune was Mrs. Beryl Hart, wealthy American widow, who. with Lieut W. 8. McLaren, attempted a flight from New York to Paris. They vanished somewheie between Bermuda and the Azores. I Over $300,000 III County And City Taxes Collected; Will Advertise First Week In May, Sell In June Cmamty Has CoBwW Three-Koartb* Of Levy. City Has Collected Two-Thirds With only a week raid one-ha f | to go before property is advertised for sale because of delinquent 1931 taxes, the tax offices of Cleveland county and the city ot Shelby hive collected more than $300,000 of a combined $415,000 'e-y At the court house Sheriff Irvin Allen has collected $41,6,659.19 of the $302,068./5 levy for 1031, or appr >x imately three-fourths At the City Hall Clerk L. E. Ligon and his assistants nsu- collected a little more than $76 000 of the city levy of $113,092.14. In other wcudi the- city levy of 1931 is approxi mately $38,000 shy oi being paid while about $75,000 of the county levy remains to be collected. Advertise fn May 1 Both city and ccinty officials iare now making out the deliquent hist to be published the first we'd; in May and to be fohowed by the | sale of property th^ first week in i June. Officials of ooth the county land city urge that ax-payers who can do so pay their taxes prior to May 1 and keep frojc having their property advertised with the subse jquent extra cost when paid. They remind that it is not a local law but ! a state requirement' that property be sold this year for all taxes not paid by the first of May. Mr. D. A. Tedder has been in i Greenville, S. C., this week on busi | ness. i . ri-fav 'ft*** ' 1^| • , >;****■■ TUTTSestone College Choir Will Appear | In Shelby Sunday Over 7.000 Pwplf Heard College' Girls On Tour Last Year. The choir of Lime? tone college, j Gaffney, S. C., begw its annual spring tour Sunday April 17, and concludes its week o» engagement; in Shelby one week later. The Limestone college choir will I sing at the First Bap'ist church on Sunday, April 24. The hour will be 7:46 p, m. This is a second annual tour of the Limestone college choir. Tl>i3 organization specialize., in the ren dition of sacred mus t. The cliou is modeled after the wen known West - minister choir of New York. The director, Miss Katha'ine Pfohl, wa a member of the Westminister choir for three years making three ; tours of the largest cities in Ame -| ica, and one tour through Europe! with the choir. Last year Limestone college choir! gave more than fortv programs, and; I was favorably received everywhere No charge has ever been made, and! no collection has e?tr been taken. I Limestone college choir Is a con , tribution the Institution is makin>;1 to the nroper singing of sacred music. ine cnoir is to vxuit this com munity on its 1932 spring tour. On I this tour the choir will sing in the l following community's: Batesburg Orangeburg, St. Matthews, Mar ton. Sumter, Timmonsville Mullins, Dar lington, Florence, Kershaw. Lan caster, Cheraw, Chester, Benne’t' jville and Shelby. The members of the choir are a? follows: Una Belle Gwin, Pauline,! S. C.; Mary Hamrics. Gaffney 8. C.: Emma Lee Rearers, Timmons ville, S. C.; Margaret Cranberry Gaffney, &. C.; Eileen Cooper, Mor ton. Mass.; Louise Phifer, Sumter, S. C.; Mary Lanforri. Woodruff, S. C.; Elizabeth Lowry 6eneca, S. C„j Mary Littlejohn, Prosperity, S. C i Clara Burch, Cheraw 8. C.; Ethel Singletary, Florence. S C.: Betty Evans, Quincy, Mass.; Elizabeth Stone, Greer, S. C.; Bess Lipscomb, Gaffney, S. C.; Martha Bowen Washington, D. C.- Marguerite Jones, Gray Court, e> C.; Olivia Moln. Westminister, fc C.: Euzel'a Allen, Marlon, S. C.-, Eugenia Cos, accompanist, Columbia, S.'C.; Kath arine Pfohl, director, Wlnstcn | Salem, N C. Before starting the week’s ton’ the choir gave progms in Green I ville, Spartanburg, Kings Mountain. ! Duncan, Seneca, Inman Easley anc i®-o programs to Gaffney. The choir sang to more than i. : non on the week’s tour last year To Help Pay Church Debt With Chickens The women of Toplar Springs community decide 1 they want ed to help in paying off Poplar . .Springs church debt this fait so Sunday it was decided to atait a chicken campaign Meadames Wake Hamrick and W. W. Jones were named as committee to canvass the com munity' and see how many women would set a hen and five the hen and her chickens to the church. Th »y will can vass soon. * Wake Forest Men To Organize Here Alumni Orgai'.ration to be Formed. Banquet at First Baptist Church. There will be a reorganization of the Wake Forest college alumni as sociation for Cleveland county at the First Baptist church here next Tuesday evening April 26th when a banquet will be served in the base ment of the Sunday fchool depart ment. Hon. Henry' Edwards says Prof. E. W. Timberlake of the law de partment, Prof. F. W. Clonts of the history department and A. A.‘Dow tin, alumni secretary will be here to deliver addresses. It is estimated that there are 115 Wake Forest alumni in Cleveland county and invitation cards are go ing out to all whose names and ad dresses are known. Mr. Edwards is anxious to have those who do not receive a card, attend the banquet and notify him of any intention to be present so that a plate may be reserved. There was an alumn tassociation in Cleveland among the Wake For est men several years ago but it w'as allowed to lapse. A re-organi zation will be perfected at the meet ing next Tuesday evening. Humorist Threatt To Speak At Kiwanis Ward Threatt, a humorist of Gastonia, will furnish the enter tainment at the regular weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis club to be held Thursday evening of this week. Dinner will b* served by the Mary Lee Hudson '•‘rcle and the meeting will be in the basement room of the Centra1. Methodist church. J. O. Propst Remain* 111 With Heart Attack J. O. Propst who it connected with the office at the Shelby Cotton mill and has charge •4 the bonded cotton warehouse. <s seriously ill in the Shelby hospital. He suffered a heart attack Sundav and for awmile it was feared he wou-a not recover. Mr. Propst had just cclten up from a severe a ttack of **J1uensa Month Yet To \ File In County Political Race Seventeen Candidate* In Race Candidates For State Offices, How ever, Must File By Frida; Of This Week. Candidates for county offices in the June primary do not have to flic with the county election board for another month. Candidates for State and congressional offices must file by Friday, the 22nd, and an announcement to that effect has caused some to think that It will be Impossible for county candidates to file after Friday. Such is not the case, according to Chairman John P. Mull of the county election board, who says that candidates for county or town ship offices may file with him up to May 20. Only Constables File. If such were not the case the election board chairman would llke by trampled In the rush before Fri day, for today only four candidates have formally filed with the elec tion board. All four are candidates for constable, two in No. 8 town ship and two in No 8. The No. 6 candidates are Bob Kendrick, vet eran officer, and Pink Lackey, a former candidate for Sheriff Quite | a contest, it Is reported, will de velop In this race. Seventeen candidates have an nounced for five county offices but not a candidate ha* formally filed. This list Includes the following. Sheriff—Irvin Allen. Raymond Cllfte. Roger Laughrldge and E. L. Webb: Representative—Henry B. Edwards and Ernest Gardner; Treasurer—Mrs. J. C. Newton and Mrs. Hugh Mauney: Solicitor Coun ty Court—W. S. Beam, C. C. Horn and P. C. Gardner: Judge County Court—M. R Weathers, J. M. Wright and James Cline: County Commissioners—G. R. Lattlmore, R. L. Weather* and J. E. Blanton. . Three More Days Of Lattimore Finals There are three more gay* Qf the Lattimore commencement exercises which culminate Saturday night of this week. Tonight’s r-ogram is the musical recital while class nir;bt exercises will be r* Id Thursday evening. The 1932 graduate" are: Allunn Crowder, Frances Greene, Faith Davis, A. V. Irvin, John Hawhins Ruth McBrayer, DenrJs Washburn, A. B. Blanton, Thomas Lattimore, Osborne Lee, Wyatt Martin, John Albert McBrayer, j Z. Walker, Annette Blanton, Jennie Blanton, Beatrice Blanton, Vhginla Bigger - staff, 8usan Brooks Frances Csba niss, Mattie Crawlee Reba Davlr, [Sara Doggett. Iva Hamrick, Do-css Lattimore, Ellen Padgett, Maude Willis. Dr. Wall Conduct* Charlotte Revival Charlotte, April 20.—Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of jthe First Baptist church of Shelby, will conduct re vival services at St. John’s Baptist church next week. He will preach Sunday night and twice daily the remainder of the week through Fri day. Dr. Wall is in his 26 th year as pastor in North Carolina and Miss issippi. During this time he has preached more than 3,030 sermons, conducted more than 120 revivals, witnessed over 5,000 conversions, de livered 215 special addresses and or dained 52 ministers. North Carolina Swings Into Dry Column Of Literary Digest Poll State Now Gives Prohibition Ma jority of 81 in Literary Di gest Poll. New York. April 20—North Caro lina swings from the wet into the dry column with a majority of 81 in the semi-final returns of the Literary Digest nation-wide primary poll is announced in the last issue of the magazine. Kansas is the only other state giving a majority for prohibition. The vote for North Carolina now stands at 30,772 in favor of contin uance of the eighteenth amend ment and 30,691 for repeal. The wets have been in the lead in NWth Carolina voting until this week. A total of 4.329,416 ballots are reported In the semi-linal returns of which 1,137,287 or 26.27 per cent vote for continuance of the prohibi tion amendment and 3,192,129, or 13 73 pet- cent* reflate their woti ments in favor of repeal. Dry Vote Gains. The dry vote shows a seventh consecutive gain during the poll, rising from 15 85 per cent of the total vote of the initial returns In the “straw" referendum The geographical section show ing the heaviest wet vote is the Middle Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania which show a combined percentage of 80.73 for repeal. The dryest section is the east South Central group of Ken tucky, Tennessee. Alabama and Mississippi where the combined dry vote is 40.77 per cent of the total for the four states. South Carolina has cast 10,987 votes in favor of continuance of the amendment and 16.499 votes for repeal, while Virginia, North Car olina’s neighbor to the north, has cast 26,331 for the amendment and 45.107 for repeal. Prof. Huggins, Dean Of Jr. College, Passes For Solicitor W, .Speight Beam (ai.ove), Shelby attorney. Is a candidate for aolic.l tor of county court to succeed hit,' self. He was appointed to succeed the late J. (lint Newton. County Veterans Seek Payment Of Bonus Due Them i._ Meeting Here and In Rings Mtn. Well Attend. Beam Speaks World veterans of Shelby and Cleveland county seem almost un animous In desiring Immediate payment of the bonus. Two gatherings of veterans were held In the county Monday night, one at Shelby and one at Kings Mountain. In the meeting here attended by approximately 150 ex-service men, the vote for Immediate payment of the bonus carried unanimously. At Klhgs Mountain only two veterans in the meeting voted payment now The Kings Mountain meeting, at tended also by the Legion auxiliary members was held Inn the new Womans club building and addressed by Soliclotr W. S. Ik am of Shelbv former commander of the Shelby Legion Post Vale Youths Come Clear Of Charges Llncolnton, April 19 —Webb Beam John Houser. Red Taylor and Her man Dellinger, young white men of this county, were acquitted of any connection with the recent robbery of the store of Mrs. J O. HolliPeld located At Vale, in the northern part of Lincoln county, wl en arraigned In recorder's court nerc today. Mrs. McGinnis Falls And Breaks An Arm While working with her flowers in the yard of her home at King? Mountain. Mrs. Wiley McGinnis fell Monday and broke both bones In her arm above the wrist. She is getting1 along as well as oou'd be expecied Tied By Darkness A baseball game between the 8helby and Mlllsldc lunior legion baseball teams Monday afternoon ended In a tie of 10*10 when the game was stopped b\ darkness. Funeral Thursday Morning Beloved Educator, Connected With Bolling Springs School And College For W rears. Prof. Janies Dwyer Hoggin*, dean of Bolling Springs Junior college and belorrd educator who has been connected with • that Institution for 38 yean, died last night at S o’clock fol lowing a heart attack. Death Sudden The news of his death comes as a great shock to his host of friend* and former students throughout th« Carolina*. He had b*en sick for s week, but his condition was noi thought to be serious {Shortly be fore he died, he was sitting up to hi* bed room, talking and joktofi to Mrs. Huggins who was reading a newspaptr to him Death cane suddenly and expectenly. Wife And 3 Children Prof. Huggins was born neat Sumter. S. C., August 34th. 1874 and was married in 1006 to Miss Be**le Atkinson, who survives with three children, James Dwyer, Ka. chael and Mrs. Css, c. Prince at Greenville, S. C. HU mother, Mrv Martha Huggins and two sisters. Misses Mattie and o'mils Huggins of Btshonvllle, 8. C. and two broth ers, William Huggins of Lamar, 8. C. and Vallie Huggins, of Vadet, <3a„ also survive. Dean Of College Prof. Huggins was giaduated from Catawba college ami spent all of his life as a teacher and educator For four years he was prlncilpal of Bethany (B. C.) high school anc came to Bolling Springs in the spring of 1007 where he was prin clpal in Boiling Springs higl school. Later he became dean O; Bolling Springs junior college anc was connected with the same lnsti tutlon which operator, under twr different names, for s quarter of s century, except for one year whet he was principal of Mooresboro big' school. FaltfeM Te ftetaoL Quiet in manner sympathetic and understanding, Frof. Huggdu enjoyed the confidence and esteem of aU who knew him His students loved him and always confided to him with their problems. He loved Boiling Springs and its traditions with unshakable devotion and work ed faithfully to steer it through its Hnanclal problems, often at greKt sacrifice to himself. The greatest Jay came to him in the success of his pupils who are now lining Import ant positions in many states of the union. Funeral Thursday Funeral services will be tteld Thursday morning at 10 o'clock to the handsome Boiling Springs Bap tist church where ha had been de voted member and worker sicca coming to that community. Funeral services wiU be conducted by Rev. J. L. Jenkins, newly elected presi dent of the college, assisted by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Btp tist church, Shelby. Mrs. Rebecca Lowery Dies At Age Of 95 | One Of City * Oldest Women Sac combe To Injury Received A Tear Ajro. One of the city'* eldest women Mrs. Rebecca Lowery died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. D. F Laughlin In the Ella mill village at 8 o’clock Monday night She was K years old. Mrs. Lowery had a fall a year ago and broke her hip and leg which gave her considerable trouble. Gangrene developed and hastened her death. Her husbanc died many years ago. Mrs. Lowery was born In Mit chell county, but had lived here foi 20 years. She was t. member ol Grassy Creek church In Mltchei | but the body was curled Tuesday at Providence church near Hen rietta, the funeral service b?lny conducted by Rev L. L. Jessup, I pastor of the Second Baptist church here. Two daughters survive, Mrs Laughlin, of Shelby, and Mrs. Jeff Paris of Gaffney, fwo grandchil dren and six great grandchildren also survive. Bank Of Grover Pay* 15 Per Cent Dividend A fifteen percent dividend was paid to depositors of the Bank of Orover this week, oy the liquidating agent, Mr. W B. Tyer The Bank of Grover closed on December 17 »f last rear and this ts the first <Si» vfrtertW T on *r> rienO^itOTS. 4 i

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