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10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVIII, No. 13 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932 • (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) Mill per year, (to advance) — c»rrl«r. wr T»ar, ttn um Late News' THE MARKET Cotton, Spot , ___.... 5’aC up Cotton Seed, ton ........... $8' Cloudy Saturday Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Partly rloudy tonight and Saturday. N'ol much rhange in tem perature. Roosevelt Gains Chicago. June I*.—The pledging of North Carolina’s 10 votes in the Democratic national convention to the presidential candidacy of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday boosted the New Yorker's pledged and claimed delegates to 56.1. or 15 short of a majority. Two-thirds, or 170. will he required to nominate by the Democrats whose convention open* here June 27. The Roosevelt forces hope to go Into ihe conven tion with close to 700 of the 1,154 votes and to win the nomination for their candidate on an early ballot by coaxing sufficient votes from favorite son states. They claim 105 of the 170 delegates from Pennsyl vania and New York, hut this eialm Is disputed by friends of Alfred E. S'mlth. County Schools Turn Back$2,000 Unspent Money No Tax l.evy In Cleveland For Six Months Terms. Says County Supt. J. H. Grlgg. Cleveland county is turning back to the state approximate ly *2,000 unexpended money from the operation of the six month schools, said County Superintendent .1. Horace Grigg speaking last night before the Kiwanis club in its weekly luncheon meeting. Debt Service Levy Mr Grigg reviewed the financial ■status of the school system which has been criticised by some who think the cost is too much. The tax levy in Cleveland for the extended term Is only 9.7 for indebtedness for buildings and capital outlay and no tax whatever is levied in the county for the operation of the six month term, said he. The money for the six months term comes from the state and already the appropria tion has been made for next year. Some districts have an extended term, running beyond the six months period and these districts have a levy to meet this cost. On State Standard "Cleveland county schools are operaVng on the state standard anti who reads in the papers that school boards in other counties have reduced their operating costs, they have been operating on higher standards than set by the state and standard set by the state and to the standard set b ythe state and to the basis Cleveland county has been following. The curtailments arc from the supplementary funds paid for by the ambitious counties,” con tinued Prof. Grigg. There are nearly 17,000 children in the public schools of Cleveland county, 11,600 of whom are in the schools outside of Shelby an;! Kings Mountain. Shelby has 3,500 and Kings Mountain 1,900 approxi mately, Last year an average of over 3 000 school children were hauled to schools in buses at a cost of $20,000 which expense was paid by the state, but Mr. Grigg pointed out (hat consolidated schools are econ-j omy in that two teacher schools have 22 pupils to each teacher, while (he teacher load in consolidated schools is 36 pupils. Continuing Prof. Grigg said Cleveland has been conservative and had not built extravagant buildings in the past. "In most every county that adjoins us there is a single school building that cost more than the Cleveland's total school indebt edness, so this accounts for us being in better condition than our neigh bors’’ Alfred Peeler Buried At Casar Father Of Mrs. Lem Elmore Of Shelby Succumbs At Age 82. Married 50 Years. Alfred Peeler, aged and respected citizen living between Bel wood 'and Casar, died at midnight Wednes day following a protracted illness and was buried this morning at Casar Baptist church, the funeral being held at 10 o’clock. Mr. Peeler was 82 years of age and a son of Dave Peeler. He was wide ly connected in upper Cleveland. He was married to Amanda Edwards, daughter of Amos Edwards fiver 50 years ago and she survives w'itll the following children: Mrs. Lem El more of Shelbv. Mrs. Creola Win : rhester. Mrs. Coran Morrison Shot ®nd Horatio Pselet A number of grandchildren also survive. Mr. and Mrs, Elmore. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Osborne and others from Shelby attended the funeral this morning Hoover And Curtis Nominees Of G, 0. P. One Ballot Nominate* President Again On* Ballot Puts Hoover Over. Some Votes Cast Against Curtis. Chicago. June 17.— rhe Republi- j can convention united behind the familiar Hoover-Curtis ticket yes terday. then disbanded to labor mightily for it from no-v until Nov ember. A lone ballot sufficed in each case, the president winning renomina tion by 2.126 1-2 of the 1.154 votes and his 1828 running mate gathering 634 1-4 in quick order. What there had been of dissens ion over the ticlelish prohibition plank was drowned in the closing hours beneath waves of enthusiasm Especially did the president triumph, scattering votes in oppoeitlon being divided with 13 for Senator Blaine, of Wisconsin: 4 1-2 for Calvin Cool idge, 4 to Dr. Joseph I Prance, of Maryland, and solitary counters for Charles G. Dawes and James W, Wadsworth, of New York Curtis Scores Victory. Curtis had no less reason for sat isfaction, in view of the Republi can precedent against renaming vice presidents that has been broken since Civil war days only by the choice of "Sunny Jim" Sherman, of New York, in 1912. When the end of the roll was reached, the swarthy Kansan still was 20 behind the ne cessary 578 but Pennsylvania put him across instantly with a switch of its block of 75. The other votes were distributed this way: Hanford MacNtder. of Iowa, 182 3-4; James G Harbord, of New York, 161 3-4; Alvin T. Fuller. Of Massachusetts. 57; J. Leonard Re plogle, of Florida, 23 3-4; James Couzens, of Michigan, 11; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, 9 3-4: David S. Ingalls, of Ohio. 5; Patrick J Hurley, of Oklahoma, 2; William S. <CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.) No Trace Found Of Gaffney Man, Missing 5 Days Horace Batchelor’s Car Found Near Shelby Monday Morning, Dis appeared Sunday. Horace A. Batchelor, of Gaff ney, whose car was found near Shelby early Monday morning, is still missing after five days. Batchelor, son of VV. P. Batch elor, Cherokee county coroner, was last seen Sunday afternoon. At that time he was planning to bring some negroes to the Earl section of Cleveland coun ty. When he failed to return Sunday night or Monday rela tives started a search. His car was found abandoned near the home of Bryant Poston, Just east of Shelby, but so far there has been no trace of the man. A letter to Police Chief Mc Bride Poston today from the missing man’s father asked that the police officer search the woods near where the car was found. The letter intimated ed that foul play was suspected. Country Budget AndTaxLevyTo Be Made Shortly Fiscal Tear Of Count? End* June 30th. Terms of Present Mem bers Expires Dec. L Important matters concerning the county as a whole are to be trans acted by the present board of coun ty commissioners before their term of office expires the first Monday in December. The new board to be composed of J. Lester Herndon, Joe E. Blanton and J, D. Morris will not begin until the first Monday in December. They are to be elected at the general election tn November Republican nominees will no doubt oppose them but their election is certain in Democratic Cleveland. Working On Taxes In the meantime County Ac countant A. E. Cline is as busy as he has been any time during this year. Tax listing is about, over and the abstracts are coming in. The total amount of real and personal property listed for taxes must be first arrived at and then the tax levy must me made and a budget for tht. incoming year’s expenses must be made and published, as is required by law. On Monday the 20th. the county commissioners will sit as an equali sation board and hear any and all requests for adjustments in prop erty assessments. Other than that, no other business Is scheduled to come up at the meeting next Mon day. Offices Expires July 1. The term of office of the county home keeper, county farm agent, demonstration agent, welfare officer, etc., will expire the first Monday in July. Whether any offices will be eliminated at this time is not known. If these offices are filled for the time being and the new board sees fit to discontinue their services after the first Monday in Decem ber, the incoming board may do so says Mr. Cline. There has been con siderable agitation for abolishing several jobs, reducing salaries fur ther and instituting other economies, but the present board has not in dicated just what action it will take. The members are too absorbed just now over determining the property valuation, budget, levy, etc. to take up these matters. The board meeting on the first Monday in July will be of consider able Importance as many plans for the ensuing year are to be made Two Prominent Men Are Seriously 111 Two prominent men of the coun ty are seriously ill and reports from their bedsides at noon indicates that they cannot survive many days. G. Hampton Simmons is confined to his bed at his home in the Double Shoals community and is only ra tional at times. J. R. Hoyle of up per Cleveland is unconscious and his death is expected momentarily. He is suffering with a stomach trou ble and has been unable to take nourishment for several days. Wallace Davis And Lake Lea Must Serve Sentences In Bank Failure Slate'* Highest Tribunal Upholds Verdict Of Buncombe Su perior Court. Raleigh, June 15.—Wallace B. Da vis, king among the western North Carolina financiers, and former United States Senator Luke Lea, re gent among the Tennessee politic ians and moneymakers, must do their long term in the North Caro lina prison. Twenty Million Dollar Bank. Mr. Davis, president of the Cen tral Bank and Trust company, which blew up as a $20,000,000 in stitution in December, 1930, and Colonel Lee lost their appeals today before a supreme court that voted four to one that they were guilty as found in the courts over which Judge M. V. Barnhill presided. The opinions were written by Chief Juptice Stacy and Justice Connor. The chief justice decided the Wal lace Davis, Luke Lea and Luke Lea. Jr. cases in which thV former Unit ed States senator and world war hen* received a sentence of two to three years, of three to five years, three to five years, six to 10 years, and Wallace Davis two to three. years, four to six years, Luke Lea', jr., one to three years, two to Jour years, and a fine of $5,000 to be imposed to pay the costs of the cause, also a fine of $10,000 to be taxed against Luke Lea, jr„ in lieu of the prison sentence. Sentences Run Concurrently. In the Davis case tried separately there was a sentence of five to sev en years. All sentences run con currently so that these prominent prisoners will not be required to serve until judgment day. The wrecking of this big bank, about the third largest in North Carolina, subjected these defend ants to every known form of viola tion. They were charged with all the statutory offenses against bank ing. The bill of indictment alleges that in the Wallace-Davis case this bank president concealed the true condition of the bank and fraudu lent)'.'. falsely, feloniously reported tp fhn corporation '■cmmission the condition of the bank, its finances its deposits, everything about. Swore Falsely. Specifically it was charged that on September 24, 1930. officers of iQOlilXUUlkB 04 P4t« 1 cn.< Republican Standard Bearer — Herbert Clark Homxa President Herbert Hoover wiio was nominated as the Re publican standard bearer in the Chicago Stadium yesterday on the first bsellot. His running made will again be Vice-! President Chas. \V. Curtis. Senate Or Hoover Likely To Stop Bonus Payment Passes TheHouse Legion Boys Will Eat Slumguliion In Rally June 28 Old Army Cooks Will Piepare The Same Kind Of Food The Boy* At “Over There." Memories of camp life will be re called on Tuesday. June 28th, when members of the Warren Hoyle Post of the American Legion will rally in a get-together meeting at the Cleveland County Pair Grounds and eat ‘'slumguliion." Arthur Sides says a rally is be ing planned for the 250 members of the local legion post and they are asked to gather at the: Fair Grounds about 6:30 o'clock on June 28th to enjoy themselves There is some old army cooking equipment around here and these stoves will be set up for the boys who cooked in the camps and cantonments to pre pare the same kind of food they partook of back in war days. There will be no speaking, no so licitation of membership, no col lection, no charge for members of the Legion. The purpose of the meeting is simply to renew ac quaintances and enjoy each other's fellowship. Mrs. Wright Dies At j Home Of Son Here Eighty-Two Year Old Woman Passes. Remains Taken To Wall's Church. Mrs, Sarah Dycus Wright. R2 i wife of George Wright, died at the home of her son J. B. Wright af 629 Smith street Wednesday morn ing. Mr. and Mrs. Wright moved from Rutherford county last Decem ber to live with their son at the Shelby Mill. Mrs. Wright was a dainty, neat and beautiful woman, and her per sonality was as charming as her appearance. She has been a member I of the Baptist church for 66 years and her radiant disposition made i her loved by all who came in con tact with her. Funeral services were held yes terday at Wall's Baptist church in Rutherford county, and many beautiful tributes were paid her long, useful and sacrificial life Surviving are her husband, one brother and one sister, and the fol lowing children: Mrs. lerVie Wright Lovelace. EUenboro, and J B. and Fulon Wright of Shelby. Thirty-sis grandchildren and 44 great grand children also survive. Funeral services were in charge of Revs. L. N. Epley, J. B. Bridges Henry Sisk, and A. C. Swofforri of Gastonia. Soldier* Ait Little Better Off Be <aoM* Defeat Is Absolute Certainty, Washington. June 16. —With the thousands of "bonus marchers' fac ing another crisis, as a result of a shortage of shelter, food and medi cines, the spirits of the men visibly brightened today when the house passed tire Patman bonus bill, which embraced the Owen bond scheme, but it is doubtful whether they have approached any nearer to the reali zation of their hopes The senate is not likely to concur, and if It did it would still not change the situa tion appreciably, for the president would veto the bill, and there would not be sufficient votes to override the veto. Vote 209 To 176. The vote on the bill today was 209 to 176, and, with the vote recently on the motion to discharge the com mittee In mind, it was remarked to day that the "bonus marchers’’ had probably not helped their cause greatly by coming here, a mass movement that suggested a strange, but spontaneous hegira; their pri vations and their sufferings, have probably been in vain. Both Secretary Mills and General Dawes, then head of the Recon struction Finance corporation, fought the bonus when it was in committee. Both, at that time, de clared the inflationary character of the measure would spell ruin for United States economic and busi ness security. The veterans' first victory came when bonus proponents forced con sideration of the measure after se •COJITimiD ON PACE TEN ) Negro Killed In Auto Crash Htriton Cabaniss, Native of Cleveland Fatally Injured En Route Home From Shelby. Holton Cabaniss, colored, son of Vance Cabaniss of Shelby and brother of Walter Cabaniss, janitor at the First National bank was fa tally injured Tuesday evening when his Studebaker car collided with an A. and P. truck on the outskirts of Charlotte., He died Wednesday evening in a Charlotte hospital where he had been taken for treat ment. Cabaniss was born and reared 1n Cleveland county near Zion church and for a number of years was fire man on a railroad engine running through Winston-Salem. He lived at Winston and had been to Shelby on * visit to members of his family. As he was returning home the ac cident happened. Details have not been learned as to the nature of his injuries and whether any one else was with him in the car at the time. I Mayor McMurry Not Arrested; Rumor Branded Present Board Has Heavy Work Official* Never Questioned tils Mfthod Of Distributing Red Own* Flour. No, Mayor 8 A. McMurry has not boon arrested and Is not, under bond in connection with the distribution here of government wheat, through the American Red C’nms to the needy Of the community A rumor came to The Star a week or ten days ago that Mayor Mc Murry had been arrested and plac ed under bond for requiring needy people to perform public work be fore Red Cross flour would be given to them. With the primary elect ion just closed when so many wild ru mors were afloat. no importance was attached to the rumor by The Star. Mayor McMurry. when in formed of the rumor, simply laugh ed and remarked that the rumor wm so silly he did not. care to be quoted as deny the report . The Red Cross flour Is being given out all over the country b\ welfare departments and charity bureahs and it was the specific in ftrurtlons of the Red Crom. that no; work should lx? require1,. »om the poor In payment of th« tm\y Mr MeMurry say hr has neve" required any work for the free flour, that officials have never questioned his manner of distributing it and that the rumor that hr had been arrest ed is ridiculous. Dented By Edwards. Henry Edwards, chairman of the Red Cross for Cleveland county says no official has even been here to Investigate and that there has been no cause for an investigation so far as he knows. He speaks In highest praise of the manner in which the mayor has handled the situation, giving of his time and often of his money to relieve distress. IT. 8. Commissioner John P Mull verified the. statement that no war rant has been taken out, no arrest has been made and no investigation has been made, so far as h* office knows. Vile Rumor "It is nothing but vile rumor," said a prominent citizen of the city today. “I have heard the rumor oil and on for ten days, but never at tached any importance to it. The people seem too willing and anxious to repeat false and defamatory ru mors and this particular one has traveled over the entire county. It is natural to see people listen to and repeat idle and injurious gossip with conditions like they are. Polks are naturally credulous, but they do not seem to realize that they arc doing the poor a great injustice in such talk as this. Mayor MeMurry has worked as faithfully as any citizen I know—he, Dr. Zeno Wall and J. D. Lineberger who had charge of the welfare work during the winter. All three are higli ton ed Christian men and they have carried on when others refused to help administer unto the needy. “Such criticism as this makes men shrink from public service. It is hard to get contributions and work ers when evil and malicious tongues are wagging at them," said this citizen. Back during the winter when J. D. Lineberger had charge of wel fare bureau and merchants, farm ers and business men contributed ICONTTNt’ED ON PACJE TEN I Roosevelt Will Get North Carolina Votes “Miss Shelby” Mn>ti» t>> Kills Mis*. Mabel Frances Hard who was voted “Miss Shelby” In the beauty content and style show held here a few days ago in the High school auditorium. The show was under the auspiro* of the Eastern Star and many of the merchants furnished clothes for modeling. Miss llord is the daughter of Mrs. W. N. Dorsey. North LaFayetle street. Cleveland Democrats Active At Convention Falls Chairman Of Delegation At Raleigh. Hoey Helps Write • Platform. Cleveland county's delegates to the State Democratic convention In Raleigh yesterday took an active part In the day’s proceedings. At a caucus held early Thursday, Judge B T Falls was named chair man of the county delegation and presided at the congressional con vention. Maurice R. Weathers, for mer county judge, was named a member of the district senatorial committee; C. C Horn, nominee for for county solicitor, was elected to the district judicial committee Odus M. Mull was elected to the State executive committee; D, W. Royster was named ns Cleveland's member of the congressional com mittee, and Clyde R. Hoey was the 10th district's representative in writing the party platlorm. Mr. Hoey also apoke in defense of the platform committee's prohibition plank and was one of the out standing favorites at the conven tion After the convention gave a hear ty endorsement to the administra tion of Governor O. Max Gardner, it elected him as a cielegatc-at iRrge to the Chicago convention, and a short time later the other dele gates elected h^m as chairman of the delegation to the national con vention Fountain Enters Second. Primary; Three State Races, Two In County Runner-up Against Ehruighaus De cides To Renew Contest. Senate Race. Richard T. Fountain, lieutenant governor of North Carolina has fil ed notice of his entrance in the second primary for the democratic nomination as Governor of North Carolina. Thus the state will have three contests for major state offices in the second primary to be held on Saturday, July 2nd. Ehringhaus who lead his next highest opponent for Governor by 47,000 votes will be op posed by Richard T. Fountain for Governor, United States Senator Cameron Morrison will be opposed by Robert R. Reynolds and A. L. Fletcher will be opposed bv Clar ence A Mitchell for Commissioner of labor. tn Cleveland county , there are two races to b* run orer on Bat'lr da' July 2nd Irvin M Allen and Raymond Clme who finished as high men for Sheriff, will determine the will of the majority of the vot ers and Joseph Wright high man for Recorder will be opposed by C B. (Pan McBrayer, the second hlgn man in the four cornered contest. Fountain's Attack. The principle involved in this campaign. Governor Fountain de clared in a statement announcing his entrance in the gubernatorial race, is whether the control of the democratic party “shall pass into the hands of a powerful machine that bids fair to become a political juggernaut, dictating the selection of the peoples’ representative and the policies of the party, and de priving the rank and file of demo cratic voters of North Carolina of a free and untrammeled choice in their selection, or whether the par ty, in accordance with Jeffersonian principles, shall protect their in terests against all influences of money and special privilege,’’ “Machine Control.” Governor Fountain called atten tion, to the combined vote of 217 1?A which h* and A. t Maxweit re retvedi in the first primary declar ing: It ts thereby evident that a vast majority of democrats of North Carolina have already registered their opposition to machine control 1 of the party and executive inter ference.” Gardner Is Endorsed By Convention Convention Refuse* To Instruct Chicago Delegates As Wets. Hney Speak*. Raleigh. June 17.—North Caro Una's Democratic state convention yesterday refused to direct it# dele gates to the national convention to vole for a platform proposal for as certaining the will of the people on retention, repeal or modification of the 18th amendment but Instructed Its 26 votes for Franklin D. Roose velt. of New York, for the president ial nomination. The prohibition tiue.it ion cause a the only fireworks in an otherwise harmonious and quick working con vention, debate on the wet Issue be ing provoked when two members of the platform committee presented a minority report Instructing the dele gates how to vote In Chicago. Majority Plank Assailed. The majority platform plank on prohibition which was adopted w'as termed a “string of platitudes mean ing nothing and a “still born child without life or form" in debate. It recognized the right of the voters to amend the constitution aj. any time but railed for la* enforce ment of all kinds The platform indorsed the ad ministration of Gov, o. vr«y Gerd lCONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.* Try Answering These --— Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page 2 for the answers. 1. What la a pachyderm? 2. Did President Wilaon person ally read his message to congress asking declaration of war against Germany? 3. In what city is John Hopkins university? 4 What was Mt. Olympus7 5. What American statesman called his home Monticello? fi What is a cashier’s check in banking practice? 7. Can the President of the U. S. pardon Mooney and Billings? ' 8. Prom what Ohio city did Coxey s army start its march on Washington? 9. What country has the largest gold reserve in the world? 10 What is a "light” wins? 11. For the same bulk, which is sweeter, sugar or saccharin? 12. In what month does the sum mer solstice occur? 13 Whose daughter was Salome? 14. When did the 18th amend ment go Into effect? 15. In what country is the dinar a unit of currency? 16. What breeds were crossed t* develop the Boston terrier? 17. What country, once partition ed among Germany, Austria and Russia, is now independent? 18. Who wrote “The Road Back?” 19. Wh^re is Haskell institute? 20. For what animal Is the term polecat” a popular synonym? Jenkins Authorized Subscription Agent J. C, Jenkins Authorized to Collect For The Star. An Appeal for Payment. J. C Jenkins’ who has been cir culation manager of The Star for six months or longer, is an author ized subscription agent for The Star and designated to receive any money due The Star, He is honeat, dependable and trustworthy and is now making a call on subscribers to renew their subscriptions. The Star realizes the condition of the times and is not disposed to pre&6 any one, but money is needed to issue the paper and if subscribers are unable to pay for a full year at a time, the management will appre ciate renewals for six or even three months to Mr Jenkins when he calls. Mr. Jenkins is the only authoriz ed collector for mail subscriptions except Q. J. Devenny who operates in restricted territory in the north western part of the county, P, S. Gettys who has been subscription agent for The Star for many years resigned recently because of til health and is no longer connected with the paper. Walter Fanning chiel carrier boy, has charge of the 20 carrier hovs In Shelbv and suburbs and u also an authorized outside collector for subscriptIcms paid by the month and delivered house-to-house py earner boys. He assists th«6e 20 boys in maintaining service on their routes and any complaints should be reported to The Star office so that the service might be satisfac tory.