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VOL. XXXVIII, No. SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1932 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) S PAGES TODAY Bjf Mult. pet jui, (to iitiuni - »j.w C»rri«r. per mi. (to irltoDMi (3 Late News THE MARKET Cotton, Spot . __........ 5 He up Cotton Seed, ton . -W I Saturday Fair Today’* North Carolina Weather Report: Loral thundersstorms this afternoon or tonight. Slightly cool er in northeast portion tonight Slightly cooler In northeast portion tonight. Generally fair and *otne nhat cooler Saturday. Officer Talk* Marion. .July 1.—Tallin* the stand In hla own defense yesterday on a charge of murdering a Texaa bonus marcher in a freight car here, W. tV. Banks testified that several •‘thugs’’ surrounded him and at tempted to disarm him. He pulled lis gun and fired accidentally in the ensuing tussle, he said. Banks, a railroad detective of Asheville, went on trial here Wednesday charged with the murder of Louis C'hlapet ta, of Houston. Texas, who was kill 'd near here. Veterans who were with him testified that Chiapetta was killed as he slept in the freight car. Banks said on the stand that the shooting occurred outside the car. He did not know whether a bul let from his gun killed the Texai, as another gun fired simultaneous ly with his and near by, he said. sking Damages Of $101,000 In Crash Near City Mi*s Brown I* Suing Railroad Now former »cnooi leacner And .Mece Injured When Train Hit Hay Wagon. Miss Ethel Brown, who taught school just west of Shelby, and her seven-year old niece, are asking damages totaling $101,000 from the Southern railroad and W .T. Tessner as the result of a train-wagon collision at the Dover mill crossing, just west of the. city, on October 30, last year. The complaint has been filed in Cleveland county superior court by Attorney J. Allen Austin, of High Point. Miss Brown lived there be fore coming to Shelby, being ' reared in the Methodist Protests nt orphans home a that city. Taking Hay Bide The complaint alleges that a hav ride brought on the injuries sus tained by her and her niece, Shelby and Cleveland people clear ly remember the accident which was a close call for Miss Brown, her niece, and Mr. Tessner with whom they were riding, | Miss Brown and.her niece were 1 walking into Shelby from the school j ,iust west of town, beyond the Dover village. Mr. Tessner, who was mov ing from _ Rutherford county to ' Cleveland, ' below Shelby, came I along with his two-horse wagon 1 loaded with hay. Miss Brown alleges I that she and her niece were car vying two heavy suit cases and that I Mr. Tessner asked them to ride in ’town. They did this, she says, par ticularly because the little girl was anxious to ride on the wagon-load of hay. They climbed on the wagon and just a few minutes later the Occident took place. A Southern reight train struck the mules to the 1 agon, as it is recalled, about the une they got on the tracks. The nules were killed, the wagon throw n for some distance and torn up, and the three occupants of the wagon were hurtled to the roadside. They I were rushed to the hospital and f given treatment. Miss Brown ap peared to be the more seriously hurt as she remained there under treatment for months. The niece also remained for some time, and Mr. Tessner w»as a hospital patient until he receievd from a severe head injury. In her charge Miss Brown con ' tends that she was permanently and totally disabled. Bad Luck Follows Mr. Jones In Fires Man Wljo Lott Home Back In Win ter Loses His Barn In A . A" . Fire. t f Moores^toro. June 29.—A black cat or some other bearer of bad luck seems to be following M. M. Jones ; of Mooresboro, Route 2. His barn was burned a few days ago. Back in ■ the winter his home and its con tents went up in flames. The origin of the fire is not. known. f Neighbors reached the scene in ; time to save all the livestock, but all i of his corn, fodder, etc., were de ■ stroyed. According to men who were \ present, the newly completed resi lence built on the site of the home .which was burned during the win ter. would have been destroyed ex-! eept for the heroic efforts of hi: neighbors Mr. Jones had his residence coh ered with insurance or about enough to rebuild his new residence, but it is not known whether he carried a-ny insurance on his barn. Expecting No Heavy Vote Here Tomorrow i ■ Not Over 6,500 Is Predicted Now Second Primary Campaign Not As Heated As First Race. Women Not Voting. Unless some last minute up heaval arouses more enthusiasm than is now evident, the vote in Cleveland county in the second primary tomorrow will fall considerably shy of the record vote cast in the first primary on June 4. Last week and early this week close political observers m the dMin ty admitted that there was not as much interest evident among vot ers as in the first race, but they pre dicted that the campaign would be come more heated this week as vot ing day neared. The prediction, however, failed to materialise. Talking Little. Less enthusiasm was in evidence here yesterday and today than in several previous campaigns. The county got redhot over the first primary and polled the record vote I of 7.900 ballots. But if the lack of ' talk heard noV means anything, the | vote tomorrow will fall at least 1, j 000 votes shy of the June 4 total. Under 7,000. Judge John P. Mull, election board chairman, stated today that in his opinion the vote Saturday would total around 6.000, ‘‘perhaps up to 6,500, but not above.” That estimate is generally concurred In, There is much interest in the Reynolds-Morrison senatorial fight and that is being talked more, ap parently, than the other races. The county is pretty well stirred up. too, as it usually is. over the sheriff’s race between Allen and Cline. But otherwise there is not so much ac tivity. One major reason assigned by Judge Mull for his prediction of a low vote is that not as many wom en wili vote this time. He has a plausible explanation for that view. “Some women take great interest in all campaigns, but the majority do not. It takes something special to get them stirred up. In my opin ion more women voted in the first primary in Cleveland county than ever voted before. The reason for It, as I see it, is that we had two well known w'omen opposing each other, Mrs. Newdon and Mrs. Mauney. Since there is not % woman in the running now I do hot believe that half as many women will vote to morrow’.” The customary roundup tomor row may, after all, bring out a big vote, but it is doubtful. With the contest nip-and-tuck, seemingly, between the candidates for sheriff and -with both sides claiming a county victory in the senatorial contest, the workers will take every voter possible to the polls. The weather, too, will have something to do with it. If the weather is good many will work in the farming sec tions, and, on the other hand, if it is bad, it may be too bad for some to get out. Governor’s Race. The trend in the couryy as to the governor's race still appears to fa vor Ehringhaus. It is generally tak en for granted that he will carry the county as he did in the first primary, with the Maxwell strength boosting his lead. Fletcher still seems tc be ahead as the county’s favorite over Mitch ell for labor commissioner. The other county race—that for recorder—has the boys guessing al most as much as the senatorial and sheriff’s contests. It is, as is known, a contest between Joseph Wright Reynolds Given Big Ovation In KingsMtn. Talk Large Shelby Delegation Goes To Hear Candidate. Allied With No One. A large and enthusiastic audience packed the high school auditorium in Kings Mountain Wednesday aft ernoon to hear Robert R. Reynolds, one of the two candidates for the United States senate, make his only speech of the second primary in this county. Several hundred people from the 8helby section were among the crowd, forming a motor caravan for the trip to Kings Mountain. Mr. Reynolds, very hoarse be cause of the many speeches made, had enough of his typical zest and personal enthusiasm, however, to entertain his cheering hearers for near two hours. He was frequently interrupted by outbursts of applause and roundly cheered when he de clared that the outcome between him and Senator Morrison was as good as settled and "in my favor." He explained his views on econo mic problems, prohibition and other issues, declaring himself to be the people's candidate. . Running For Himself. Earlier in the day at Lenoir Mr. Reynolds made a statement In which he declared that he was not lined up with any other candidate. His statement, similar to that made recently by Mr. Ehringhaus, a can didate for governor, said in part: “The people know I am running under my own steam. It is absurd to try to make them believe I would hazard my own chances in th|s great fight just for the purpose of aiding some other candidate. It would be utterly ridiculous for me to take sides in the governor’s race.' New City Tag* Now On Sale; Price Will Go Up On August 1 Will Sell During: July For 25 Cent*. Will Cost 15 Cents There after. The new automobile license plates for the city of Shelby have arrived and are now on sale at the city hall, Police Chief McBride Poston an nounced today. The tags, he said, will sell for 25 cents each during July, but at the end of tfie month will sell for 75 cents. All Shelby motorists must have city tags and those who pur chase now will effect a saving. Stolen Shelby Auto Found In Louisiana The Buick sedan of R. Z. Riviere, Shelby oil dealer, which was stofen here several weeks ago, has been located at Shreveport, Louisiana. Mr. Riviere was notified by wire yesterday. Officers there did not say in the telegram whether they got the man or men driving the car, but since nothing was said about that angle it is presumed they did not. Mr. Riviere will either send for the car or trade it, he said today. and Pat (C. B.) McBrayer. Both are popular and few positive pre dictions are being maae as to the victor. Election Returns Saturday Night At The Star Office You are invited to the election night party of The Star office Saturday night, July 2nd. The usual bulletin board will be in operation and public announcement made of returns from county and state races as they come in. As there are only two races in the county and three in the state, the counting will be over early and' final results are expected to be known in the county by 10 o’clock or earlier. Arrangements have been made to get returns on the state contests. Election officials are asked to report the result of their boxes as ear!}' as possible by telephone or in per son In reporting returns, cal! us collect by telephone. Leads At Democratic Meet FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom North Carolina's dele gation is instructed, led all three ballots cast so far at Chicago by the national Democratic convention for presiden tial nominee. At the end of the third ballot early this morn ing he was still 8f> votes short of the number necessary to nominate. Polkville Boys \ Win Honors At i Raleigh Session\ Three Polkville bads OuMindin; At State Meeting. Teacher Honored. The young farmers and agricul tural students of the Polkville sec tion are still copping state-wide honors and attention. The Polkville delegation won a major share of honors at the meeting Tuesday and Wednesday at Kalelgh of the Tar Heel group of Future Farmers of America, an organization of young agricultural students who are seek ing to raise the standards of farm ing and to interest the youth of the nation in more approved agricul tural methods. Ben Jenkins, jr„ Charles Beam and Robert Phllbeck. all students of Polkville high school. and E. L. Dillingham. agricultural teacher there, won important honors at the state meeting, Jenkins Honored Young Jenkins won third place in the dairy judging contest and a free trip to Kansas City, Mo., to attend and participate In the Royal Livestock show there the first of November. He was one of the four named to represent North Carolina in the national judging contest to be held during this show. He was also elected a delegate to represent this state’s Future Farmers at the national convention of the organ ization, which is also to be held at Kansas City, the latter part of November. Young Jenkins was named vice president of the state organization at the election yester day. He won perhaps the largest single share of honors at the con vention. • cnaries Beam was second in the public speaking contest in which members of the organization com peted. The subject of the speeches included various topics of particu lar interest to farmers and those interested in agriculture. Young Beam also received the honor of being named secretary of the North Carolina group, Future Farmers of America. The third member of the Polk ville trio, Robert Philbeck, was elect ed to the class of candidates for the degree of Carolina Farmer, an honorary degree conferred upon outstanding members of the organ ization. The degree will be confer red at a subsequent session. •Mr. Dillingham, who coached the boys in their dairy judging and other farming activities, will accom pany young Jenkins to Kansas City in the fall. EARLY BLOOM BUT NOT FIRST TO BE SHOWN' Car! White "■ho live* on the Harne Patterson plantation fourj miles belotr Shelbv brought a ne" cotton bloom to The Star office on; Wednesday of thia week. While not! the first, this is another early re-1 jCKl ' • 1 Cleveland Girl And Boy Winner# In Health Meet The boy and girl seek led at the healthiest in the 4-H clab> of Cleveland county were alas picked as the healthiest in i*U» Piedmont 'district "at the district contest held In Char lotte Wednesday. At the county contest held in Shelh(| Miss Mary Sue Holland, of Bolling Springs and Charles Palmer, of the Polkvilie section, were picked as the county's healthiest from a group of 14 healthy boys and girls. Wednesday the two youngsters went to Char lotte for the district contest and won both honors from boys and girls from sever, roonties in the district. Next Tuesday Miss Hollanc and young Palmer return tc Charlotte to compete with the winners of the mountain dis trict for the honors of enter ing the state-wide health con test at Raleigh. Out-Of-Town People At Shelby Funeral Among the out of town relatives and friends who were hero on Tuesday afternoon for the funeral of Mrs C. W. Laughridge were: Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Kennedy, of Co lumbia, S. C., Mrs. Cliarles Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, and Mr. Robert Hughes, of Thomasville; Miss Ruby Kennedy, of Belmont; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Laughridge, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Laughridge, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laughridge, and Miss Ellen Laughridge, of Forest City; Mrs. B. Daves, Mrs. J. M. Laugh ridge, and Mr. and Mrs. Conley Laughridge, of Marion; Mr. and Mrs. Guy Laughridge, of Gastonia; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hoover, of Hen dersonville; Mrs. J. M. Taylor and Miss Violet Frye of Asheville; Mr and Mrs. Clarence Crouch, of Mor ganton; Miss Margaret Joyner, Rev A. V. Joyner, and Mrs. Earle E Smith of Canton. Three Cent Postage Effective Wednesday Three cents letters postage, and other increased postal rates, will become effective July 6, which Is next Wednesday, it was stated today by Postmaster J. H. Quinn. Due to some conclusion on account of the new federal taxes which were put into effect June 21, some letters bearing three cents postage have been pass ing through the mails for sev ‘r#| days. The postmaster said *he aid costal »%♦*» remain in effect until next Wednesday. Letters mailed after midnight next Tuesday will require 3 cents per OU|>ce. ' •• ~ Democrats Ballot Again Tonight As Roosevelt Still Holds Lead Daniels Seconds Nomination Of Roosevelt; Warren Is Honored; Convention Stays Up All Night Paste This Up For Checking In Saturday’s Vote Who will win tomorrow? Morrison or Reynolds? F.hring haus or Fonntaln. Mitrhrll or Fletcher, Allen or Cllnr. Wright or McBrayer? How did they come out in thr first primary? Here are the figures. Paste them up for ref erence Saturday: Short Term Senator Reynold*, 156,54*. Morrison, 143,176. long Terra Senator Reynolds, 190,7*3. Morrison, 139,632. Governor Rhrtnghaus. 162,40* Fountain, 115.127. Ijabor CommlMtonrr Fletcher. 76J81*. Mitchell, 74,820 Sheriff Allen, 2.786. CMne. 2,30* Recorder Wright, 2,8*9. McBrayer. 2.114. City To Observe Fourth; Business Houses To Close Banks. Post Office. Building And I .owns. Stores To Observe Holiday. The bimnea* section of Shelby, or the majority of it, will observe Monday, July Fourth, as a holiday. Definite announcement has been made that the banks, building and Loan associations and post office will close In observance of the na tional holiday. Today it was generally reported that a majority of the mercantile firms In the uptown business section would also close. Drug stores and some few business houses will re main open for a portion of the day at least. The others, however, will follow the custom of bygone years and remain closed No Celebration. No formal observance program will be held in Shelby, no Fourth of July celebration having been held here in years. Those who go out of town for the day will take in festivities at Lake Lure and other nearby sport centers. The majority of Shelby people not working on Monday will remain at their homes or participate in local amusements and make it a day of rest and re creation. Will Canvass Returns On Primary Monday Monday. July 4th, Is a legal holi day, but the election board wants to celebrate by working. It is the regular time to canvass the primary election returns and Judge John P. Mull, chairman of the election board asks all the Judges to bring in the returns from the various pre cincts early Monday morning. North Carolina Get* Into Rimwvelt Demonstration, Speeches And Ballot* All Night. Chicago, July 1 -North Carolina's delegation was in the limelight again during a big Roosevelt, day In the Democratic national convention here yesterday afternoon, 1. Josephus Daniels, Raleigh pub Usher who was secretary of the navy In the cabinet of Woodrow Wilson, made one of the speeches seconding the nomination of Gov ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for presidential choice of the ! Democrats. 3 Congressman Lindsey Warren (of Washington, first district, was ! appointed assistant floor manager | for Roosevelt forces. I 3. The prolonged demonstration I followed ths nomination of Roose jvelt drew North Carolina's banner : and delegation into a parade for | the first time since the convention ■ tarted. Standard In Line TW Tar Heel standard was one of the first to reach the aisles. Fred Sutton of Kinston grabbed it and J. O Carr, Wilmington was close on his heels as they began the pa rade through the aisles. The North Carolinians encounter ed trouble before they were half way around the hall. Riggit behind Sutton was a man carrying a huge American flag. He waved It as he passed the platform and knocked the Roosevelt banner from the Tar Heel's flagpole. Sutton raised the standard high er and continued marching, while Can- regained the Roosevelt ban ner and again fastened It to the pole. , , . „ . . Carries Broom Young Charles Abernathy of New Bern, the biggest man in North CONTINUED ON PAOE EIGHT l Legion Boys Play Here On Wednesday The Shelby American fceglon jun ior baseball team will play Its first game in the district championship race at the city park here Wednes day of next week. On an inside page today is a sport story saying the game is to be played Tuesday. It was later learned that the date was changed to Wednesday. Charlotte will play the Shelby yomgsters here and the local teams will go to Char lotte Thursday with Charlotte re turning here for another game Sat urday. All members of the team are asked to report for practice tomor row. Saturday, afternoon. Sun Rises At 5; 10; And Sets At T»:38 The sun rises at 5:10 a. m. to morrow morning when election officials will be at their various polling places in the county ready for the voters to register their choice In the state and county races of the second pri mary. This time is according to Blum's Almanac which shows the sun to rise at 5:10 and set at '7.38. The polls are open from sun-up to sun-down, ac cording to law. There might be a slight variation in time, hut this is substantially correct. Democratic Platform Shortest And Frankest Ever; Outline Of Repeal Contains 1,396 Word*. Written So That All May Understand View*. Chicago, July 1*—The Democratic platform contains exactly 1,396 words. The longest plank in the pro posed platform is that on prohibi tion which contains 143 words. The shortest one, containing only nine words, deals with unemployment and old-age insurance. This platform is one of the short est ever written for a political par ty. 1928 Democratic planK was more than 8.900 words in length Prohibition The Democratic plank m prohibi ten says “We fivor the repeal of the 18th imendment. “To effect such repeal, we demand hat congress ungiedlftely propose a constitutional amendment to truly representative conventions tn the states called to act solely on that proposal. “We urge the enactment of such measures by the several states as will actually promote temperance, effectively prevent the return of the saloon and bring the liquor traf fic into the open under complete supervision and control by the states. “We demand that the federal government effectively exercise its power to enable the states to ef fectively protect themselves against importation of intoxicating liquors in violation of their laws. Pending repeal, we favor Im mediate modification of the Vol stead act to legatee the manufac ture and sale of beer and other bev erages of such alcoholic content as is permissible under the constitution and to provide therefrom a proper and needed revenue.’’ 86 Vote* Below Mark For Nomination bmifh Second With Garner Third. Roosevelt Gains In Three Hal lots. f Chicago* Stadium, July k— One of the most colorful po litical conventions in history was attempting to sleep ft off today preparatory to return ing to the convention stadium tonight to take the fourth bal lot on the Democratic party’s presidential nominee. Last, night Democratic delegates attending the national Demo cratic convention nominated candidates and cast ballots all night in the attempt to nomi nate a president before taking a recess. The attempt to nominate failed, however, anti shortly after 0 o'clock this morning the weary delegates were adjourned to return to the stadium at. 8:30 tonight to resuma their balloting, HOW Vote Stand*. Franklin D. Roosevelt. whoa* candidacy went before the conven tion with the largest pledged vote, managed to hold his strength and was still far in the lead on the third ballot early today, but was still S6 votes shy of the neeeaaary two thirds majority to nominate. The vote in the third ballot, the last taken before adjourning, was as fol lows: Roosevelt. M3 • Smith, 190 Garner, 101 White, 52. Traylor, 40 Reed. 37. Byrd. 34 Ritchie. 33 Baker, a. On the first ballot Rooaevelt was 102 votes shy of the two-thirds ma jority necessary to nominate and Al Smith had over 200 votes. Bgf by the third ballot Rooaevelt had picked up 16 more votes and Smith had dropped some, a part of the Roosevelt gain came from Missouri with the indication that other Mis sourians would later switch from their home favorite. Jim Reed, to Roosevelt. Heated Working From the first ballot, on to the third floor managers worked fev erishly. Roosevelt backers mingled with the various delegations, at tempting to switch delegates Iran favorite sons to Roosevelt and get the New Yorker the nomination be fore the convention recessed. Votes were gained by this activity and others assured later, but a counter attack by workers of other candi dates held the remaining delega tions in line. Today managers of the several candidate# and their assistants me putting forth every effort to switch enough votes by balloting time to night to* strengthen their candi dates. Rooaevelt men believe the fourth ballot will see favorite son (CONTINUSD ON PAG* WIGHT.) Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to pafe 2 tor the answers. 1. For what does the abbreviation MMes. stand? 2. Who Is the governor of Mary land? 3. What Is a lei? 4. How much is a milliard? 5. Who is the governor-general ol the Philippine Islands? 6. Where is the city of Bombay? 7. What is the present form of the government of Spain? 8. What famous statue is located in New York harbor? 9. In which executive department of the government is the U. S, forest service? 10. What poem contains the re frain, "Quoth the raven, never more?” 11. Which two continents are sep arated by the Straits of Gibraltar? 12. Who was the 1st woman mem ber of the U. S. house of represen tatives? 13. Where is Abraham Lincoln burled? 14. In which state did the Custer massacre occur? 15. Name the capital ol Canada? 16. Name the principal • river of Egypt? 17. Where is Princeton university? 18. What is the principal product exported from Braail’J 19. Which country has fhs lily fot its national flower? 30. What ts the name ol the pop ularly elected legislative assembly of the German republic?