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THE MARKET Cotton, Spot . .....—.... 6He up Cotton Seed, ton . ____ $8 Shower*, Maybe! Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Local thundershowers to night and Saturday. Not quite so warm Saturday in west and North Central portions. Marching Order* Washington, July 32.—The bonus expedition army received marching orders last night. Alarmed at the Shortage of food, increasing rest lessness and suffering among the men and unsanitary conditions at their sprawling Anacostla camp, district board of commissioners yes terday ordered the ragged veterans to be out of town by August 4. Chief of Police Pelham D. Glass ford, tall, diplomatic retired army officer, was Instructed to see that no exceptions are made and that the men leave. A few hours before the commissioners acted, Glassford had ordered bonus marchers to evacuate several buildings they were using as billets. Divorces Gain, Marriages Off In This County 1931 Marriages Third Less Than 1930 Only 70 Marriages In Cleveland Last Year. Divorces More Than Double 193 Total. The year 1931 was one of de pression In Cleveland county for Dan Cupid. Marriages de creased 33 per cent from 1930 and divorces Increased by more than double. In 1931, according to figures com piled by the census bureau at Wash ington and released to The Star to day, there were only 70 marriages in Cleveland county as compared with 10 in 1930. This was a drop of 35 marriages, or exactly a third. In 1931 there were 17 divorces as compared with only seven divorces in 1930. The marriage decrease for the en tire state was Just nine percent, or only a third of the decrease in Cleveland county. ■ Across Line The fact that only 70 marriages were recorded for Cleveland county in 1931 does not mean, however, that there were not any more coun ty couples married during the year. It -is estimated that almost twice that many Cleveland couples jour neyed across the state line to be married at less expense at some South Carolina Gretna Green— Gaffney or York. Faculty Given For Lattimore Name* Of Teachers Who Constitute Faculty Of Lattlmore School Which Opens July 25. (Special to The Star ) Lattlmore, July 22.—The following la a list of the faculty for the Lat timore school which will $pen Mon day the 25th: Misses Mary Ward of Seven Springs and Amorae Robinson of Mooresboro, first grade; Miss Eu nice Robbs of Gaffney, second grade; Miss Selma Branton of Shelby, third grade; Miss Helen Collins, Kings Mountain, fifth grade. Miss Madge Sperling, Shelby, fourth grade; Miss Lucy Yelton, Lawndale, fifth grade, Miss Margaret Hamrick of Grover, sixth grade. Miss Ruth Whisonant of Shelby, seventh grade. High school teacers: Miss Mary Phelps, Nashville, Tenn., history and French; Miss Agnes Welch, Gas tonia, English; Miss Irene Hamrick Rutherfordton, home economics; Miss Francis Graham, Earl, n\isic; Prof. P. M. Coley, Lattimore, agri culture; Prof. B. E. Simmons, Cliff side, science and athletic coach; Prof. Glenn R. Stine again elected principal. Mr. Stine will also teach math. Lee Lowman Hurt When Tree Falls; Narrow Escape Lee Lowman, well known carpen ter and farmer, suffered severe in juries and had a narrow escape from death Wednesday afternoon when a tree fell upon him. While cutting a tree, preparatory to build ing a house for a neighbor, the tree fell upon him. He had the oresence of mind to fall by the side of a log, otherwise the falling tree might have killed him. He consid ered himself fortunate to get out with several broken ribs on each side. The injured man has had several misfortunes in recent months. Some time ago his home was destroyed mg fire. Superior Court Will Convene On Monday - - Heavy Docket Faces Judge Schenck Two Weeks Term With Biff Civil Calendar For Second Week. Numerous Divorcee. A two weeks term of Superior court will convene in Shelby Mon day morning with Judge Michael Schenck' presiding. The first week will be devoted to the criminal docket on w'hich 60 cases are booked for trial. The second week will be taken up with civil litigations, a total of 76 hear ings being scheduled for disposal. The civil calendar is congested with cases and the court will not be able to dispose of half the litigations, it is said. About the court house it is ; stated that a month’s court would be required to clean up the entire calendar. Divorce Suits. On the civil calendar 15 or 16 divorce suits are scheduled for trial, the majority of them being set for the first days of the second Court week. The suit of Ethel Brown, school teacher, and her niece., who were injured when a Southern train struck the hay wagon on which they were riding, has been trans ferred to Federal court. Two Killing Cases. Two killing cases are to be taken up the first week. One is the mur der charge against Sam Heilman, colored, who killed Henry English, also colored, near Waco several weeks ago. The other is the slaying charge against Florine Terrell, col ored. who is charged with shooting her husband in the up county sec tion. The slain negro, incidentally, 'was the son of the aged negro ten ant farmer killed several months I ago when a Monroe cotton truck struck his wagon on Highway 20 a few miles west of Shelby. Shelby Teams Win In Tennis Matches Large Crowd Witnesses First Night Contest With Lincolnton Teams. Night tennis promises to become one of Shelby’s best sports. The first night matches of the summer played here Wednesday night, on the Shelby Tennis Club court on South Washington street, drew a crowd of between two and three hundred people. The matches included two doubles contests and two singles with Lincolnton teams. The Shelby teams won both of the doubles, lost one of the singles matches and tied the other. In one doubles match George Wray and Whitelaw Kendall defeated Cap Love and Jimmy Putnam 6-3, 6-3. In the other Russell Laughridge and George Washburn defeated Prof. Smith and Jack Ramseur 6-4, 6-3. In the singles matches T. B. Gold, Jr., lost in two sets to a Lincolnton player and Whitlaw Kendall and his opponent broke even with a set each. Suttle Conducts His Seventeenth Revival Double Shoals, July 21—The an nual revival meeting is In full swing at the Baptist church. Rev. John W. Suttle, pastor, is conducting his 17th revival since he became pastor in 1915. He has done all the preach ing himself with the exception of about three revivals during one of which he was sick. His powerful gospel messages are continuing to bring large crowds twice daily, 10:30 a. m. and 8 o’clock p. m Thieves Attempt Robbery Here But Fail; Get 2 Cars Try To Get In McKnight Wholesale House. Abandon Two Cars, Steal Two More. A robbery outbreak which sprang up at scattered poihts in the city last night gave local officers several hours of hur ried activity as an attempt was made to break in a wholesale house, a filling station, and two automobiles were stolen while two others were abandoned. Between 12:30 and 1 o’clock'this morning, Nat Bowman, coal dealer, who was sleeping on his porch, heard a noise. He soon located it as an attempt to , break in the Me- i Knight wholesale grocery house nearby. Nearer his home two auto mobiles had been parked by the thieves, numbering six or seven as best he could see in the darkness. He made a call to the police sta tion but the night patrol was out on a round of Inspection. Then he called Chief McBride Poston and Sheriff Irvin Allen. They hurried to the scene along with other officers, but the thieves had slipped away, being frightened perhaps by the approach of the cars, In leaving, however, they abandoned their two automobiles. From High Point. Both ears are now being held by officers for an investigation. One Is a Chevrolet coupe with a High Point city license and the other a Ford roadster, carrying only a North Carolina license tag. Before being frightened away the robbers had broken one lock on the door of the wholesale house but were seemingly baffled by the other. Steal Car. While officers were making the search about the wholesale house, two other calls came In. One re ported a stolen car on South De kalb street and the other a filling station robbery on the Fallston road. Hurrying to South Dekalb of ficers found that the Essex car of “Shorty” Valentine had been stolen, presumably by the thieves who abandoned their two cars near the Southern tracks. Later In the night the Valentine car was found aban doned near Kings Mountain where it had rim out of gas. The thieves apparently had kept going for a Buick car was reported to have been stolen at Kings Mountain. This car was later found wrecked near Gastonia, Getting Gas. The other excitement of the sev eral exciting hours came when of ficers were called to Bowling’s Gulf station on the Fallston road, east of the hospital, where a man by the name of Sanders was alleged to have been apprehended whUe pump ing gas from the station tank into his automobile. Dr. Joe Osborne Is Located At Rosman Dr. Joe Osborne, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Osborne, of Shelby, has recently located at Rosman, Tran sylvania county, fo. the practice of medicine. Befor going to Rosman he was on the staff of the'Grady hospital at Atlanta. Before study ing medicine and surgery and re ceiving his license, Dr. Osborne was a practising dentist. Auto Death Toll In North Carolina Was Three Each Two Days In June St* Months Death Toll From Ac cidents On State Highways Raised To 280. Raleigh, July 22—Automobile ac cidents claimed 49 lives in North Carolina in June and raised the six months death toll to 280, L. S. Har ris, director of the State motor vehicle bureau, announced Thurs day. During June there were 49 killed and 416 Injured in 290 accidents. In May there were 50 killed and 329 injured in 207 accidents. There were 38 intoxicated drivers involved in accidents in June and five persons were killed in the mis haps. Three children playing in the street were killed by cars and nine were injured.* Five persons were killed and twelve injured by hit-and-run driv , ers, ten were killed and 39 injured in accidents caused by speeding: three were killed and 21 hurt in accidents caused when a car was being driven on the wrong side of the highway and one was killed and seven hurt when cars attempted to pass other machines on curves or hills. There were seven killed and 25 hurt, when cars were un able to negotiate curves and 24 were killed and 103 hurt on state high ways. The hour between 7 and 8 F. M. was the most dangerous in June 27 accidents being reported tor the period including five in which per sons were killed. Sunday was most dangerous day with 59 accidents. The six month’s total list 1,548 mishaps in which 280 were killed and 2,204 injured. j Twice Olympian Though not yet 18, this fair young athlete is already a veteran Olym pian. She is Dorothy Poynton, of Los Angeles, who recently defeated Georgia Coleman in the diving event at the Olympic final tryouts at Jones’ Beach, L. I. Miss Poyntcm was the “Baby” of the U. S. Olym pic swimming team in the 1828 games at Amsterdam. Hoover Signs Bill To Fight Business Lull Great Fund Made Available By Act To Battle Depression And Aid Jobless. Washington, July 22.,—President Hoover signed into law yesterday the gigantic federal relief plan that masses $3,800,000,000 in one coffer for invigorating business, increasing employment and relieving hurn&ri destitution. His approval came five days after the $2,122,000,000 bill that nearly doubles resources of the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation and opens its purse, to needy states, emerged from a last-hour congressional snarl. • The President's signature, attach ed without ceremony or public com ment. makes the relief act immedi ately effective. This means: Operating funds of the Recon struction corporation are increased from $2,000,000,000 to $3,800,000,000; $300,000,000 is available for advances to states for unemployment relief; 1.500.000. 000 is on tap for public construction and self liquidating private loans, and the financing of agriculture through Credit corpora tions; 120.000. 000 Is available for ad vances to states under the federal aid highway law; $16,000,000 will go to roads and trails in the national parks and for ests; $186,224,000 Is avalfable for public building and waterway Improve ment when the condition of the treasury permits; > Federal reserve banks may dis count eligible paper, for Individuals 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT! Shelby Fire Among Largest In Month Damages For First Six Months Of 1932 Lower Than For Same Period Last Year. Raleigh, July 22.—North Caro lina’s fire loss for the first six months of 1932 was about $20,000 less than for the same period last year, Dan C. Boney, state insur ance commissioner, reported yester day in announcing a loss this year of $3,346,315. The six months’ loss in 1931 was $3,359,380. The June fire loss totaled $470,199 from 156 fires, which compared with a June 1931 loss of $510,064 in 169 blazes. Sixteen of the June fires caused a loss of $374,579, an average of $23,411 per fire, and the remaining 140 blazes averaged only $200 each for a total of $27,500. Lenoir Leads. Lenoir, with a loss of $115,926 in a veneer plant, led ail places in loss in a single fire. Other large losses in single fires were: Thomasville $58,560 veneer plar$ and warehouse: Hendersonville, $53,000 in theater and stores; Raleigh, $40,875 in Sea shops; Clinton, $17,000 in a business board Air Line railroad machine block; Shelby, $13,000 in a store and contents; Salisbury, $11,750 in a store and contents; Plnehurst, $10, 000 in a dwelling and Winston, *9. 9fi8 in a store and coutents. Hoey Will Speak j In Three States In Fall Election Thinks Roosevelt And Garner To Win Shelby Man Wtl Make Campaign Speechn In Virginia, Tenn essee, And Home State. Charlotte, July 22—Clyde Hoey, veteran democratic leader of Shelby, will stump three states this fall for the ticket he predicted four months ago would be nominated at the Chi cago convention. Mr. Hoey. In an interview printed In The Observer in March, made the outright prediction that Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Oarner would be the presidential and vlce I'residential nominees. He believed at that, time, he declared, that these two men would make the strongest combination with which the demo crats could go before the people in November. To Take Stomp Nothing has happened since then he says, to change this opinion and he will make speeches in North Carolina. Virginia and Tennessee in September and October In their be half Mr. Hoey's speeches in Virginia and Tennessee will be for the na tional ticket. In the North Carolina speeches he will bring into play his superb oratorical ability in be half of both the state and national ticket*. Speeches in the two neighboring states will be in the larger cities only. Favor* Referendum. While Mr. Hoey is an ardent dry. he believes the people should have the privilege of expressing their views on the whiskey question at the polls. "I am personally against repeal of the eighteenth amendment and will fight against any letup In the dry laws in North Carolina. How ever. I do believe the people should be allowed to express their wishes at the polls and will so advocate,'1 Mr. Hoey declared. The silver-tongued orator of Cleveland believes this is a demo cratic year. He Is positive that the south will go solidly for Roosevelt and Garner and that the democratic nominees on the national ticket will win a sweeping victory and that the next congress will be preponder antly democratic. Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page 2 for the answers. 1. Who was the Democratic nomi nee for president In 1924? 2. Who Is the active head of the American Red Cross? 3. What was the nom de plume of Samuel Clemens? 4. Where is the Republic of Geor gia? 5. What Is the speed of sound? 6. What Is the principal city of Wales? 7. Who was Mary Baker Eddy? 8. Where is Northwestern univer sity? 9. Who presides over the United States senate? 10. Who Is the candidate of the Socialist party for president of the U. 8.? 11. In what confederation was the Republic of Guatemala once a part? 12. Are cucumbers pickles? 13. What kind of nut3 do oak trees produce? 14. Who was the youngest presi dent of the United States? 15. Where Is the story of the Witch and Endor?” 16. Who were the Vikings? ! 17. What do the initials R. S. V. P. stand for? 18. What Is a rubber in bridge? 19. Where Is the Neva river? 20. Where does the former Kaiser of Germany live? Vandals Raid Melon Patches In County Numerous Fanners Report That In truders Cut Up Small Melons And Vines. The nocturnal quietude, may be broken some of these nights In sev eral sections of Cleveland county by the discharge of shotguns load ed with buckshot. Quite a number of farmers, ac cording to reports In Shelby, are plenty riled about damage being done to their watermelon crop. In several sections recently, it Is said, intruders in melon patches have cut up small and not full grown melons as well as vines. The mo tive for the vandalism is not known Politics or a Social Call? Beneath the surface of this Informal chat between Governor Franklin D, Roosevelt (left), Democratic Presidential nominee, and Colonel Edward M. House there may be a deal of significance, when one considers that the Colonel, an intimate adviser of the late President Wilson, is one of the world’s greatest, political strategists. The Governor stopped off at the Colonel's home in Beverly Farms, Mass., enroute to Albany after ending bis vacation cruise along the New England coast. Governor’s Son, Mooresboro Girl Married At York Wednesday Night James W'ebb Gardner And MU* Iris Rollins Married. Parent! Give Couple Auto. James Webb Gardner, 23-year-old son of Oovernor and Mrs. O, Max Gardner, and Miss Iris Rollins, 21-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. U, Rollins, of Mooresboro, were married Wednesday night in a quiet ceremony at York, 8. C, performed by Judge Gettys Nunn. The ceremony followed a whirl wind courtship. Wednesday even ing the young Shelby man drove to Mooresboro, carried Miss Rollins, a pretty blond, for a ride. Coining to Shelby, they were accompanied on to York by Miss Louise Cox, Carl Ray Webb and Roy Newman, who witnessed the marriage. Following the ceremony they returned to Shel by and later in the night left by automobile for Greensboro and Raleigh. Many Shelby people knew of the wedding Wednesday night, but no public announcement was made before noon Thursday in order to permit young Gardner to walk in the governor's mansion at Raleigh and surprise his parents by introducing his bride. Get A Gift Governor and Mrs. Gardner pleased with their daughter-in-law, presented the couple with a new sedan. After spending several days In Raleigh Mr. and Mrs. Gasdner will return to Shelby to live. Dis patches from Raleigh this morning stated they would open the Webb Gardner home on South Washing ton street. The home has been closed since Mrs. J. L. Webb went to Raleigh to live with Governor and Mrs. Gardner. The bride Is one of the county’s best known and most attractive girls She was educated at Boiling Springs junior college and at the North Carolina college, Greensboro, where she would have graduated next term. Her family Is one of the leading families in' western Cleve land and her father operates the Mooresboro creamery. Young Oardner, after attending school In Shelby, was a student at Riverside academy, Georgia, and at Carolina. Later he took a textile course at State college. He hat been employed at the Cleveland Cloth mill and will return to work | there, It is said, upon his return to Shelby. The romance of the young couple might be classed In the "love-at flrst-alght" category. They met some time ago and soon became at tached to each other. It was rum ored that they were married a week ago, but this report was unfounded although it was said they had ten tatively planned to marry then. When Governor Gardner learned of ,the marriage yesterday upon the arrival of the couple In Raleigh, he told newspap^-men that "Mrs. Gardner and 1 think he has done a fine thing.” The Governor was quoted by the Associated Press to day as saying “I like to see ’em get married while they are young.” Both the young newlyweds are widely known and popular with the younger set In this section of the State and the announcement of the marriage was received with wide Interest. Child Run Down And Hurt At Fallston (Special to The Star.) Palls ton, July 21,-Little Billy Hicks, four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hicks, suffered a brok en leg and collar bone when run over by a car driven by a Mr. Led ford of Eastside mill, Sunday aft ernoon near the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Stroup. The accident was said by eye witnesses to be un avoidable as the child tan out from behind a hedge Into the highway In front of the approaching car. The little fellow Is doing as well as could be expected. Tar Heel Truckmen Held Up, Robbed Of $40,000 In Silks In New York Burlington Men Kidnapped And loiter Released. Thieve* From South. New York. July 22.—Two Bur lington, North Carolina, truckmen were kidnapped' about 4 A. M. yes terday from in front of 410 Wash ington street by two robbers who spoke with a Southern accent and whose companions drove away with the victims’ truck and trailer con taining unfinished a>#ifictal silk valued at $40,000 The truckmen. Edward Howe, driver, and Paul Vance, his helper, both employees of Barnwell Broth ers. truckmen of Burlington, N. C„ were driven by their captors in an automobile to the Winfield section of Queen’s, where they were re leased. The artificial silk was destined tor the trucking concern of Smith Brothers 78 Laight street, just iround the corner from the place vherc the kidnapping occurred Rowe and Vance had arrived at then- "destination about half an hour earlier and decided to take a nap while waiting for Smith Brothers to open for the day. They had been asleep about thirty minutes when two men awakened them and forc ed them, at revolver point, to enter a small sedan. While they w-ere en tering the car, the driver and his helper saw three more men near the truck. Robbery Reported. v The truckmens captors drove up town and across the Queensboro bridge, finally releasing the men In Blxty-Flfth street. Queens. The two men made their way to a po lice station and reported the kid napping and robbery. The tact that the kidnappers ot the truckmen spoke with a South ern accent led detectives to the theory that the robbers might have followed the truck most of its way here from Burlington awaiting an opportunity to steal it. Crops Damaged By Drought And Heat In County Corn Dying; Garden* Burning Up Even Cotton Seem* To Be Dying* Former* Report, From Kxce* »lw Heat Wave. Crops in Cleveland oounty are 14 dire need of rain and a break 14 the heat wave. Farmers n» the city yesterday -re ported that crops were literally burning up." Com is particularly tilt hard by the week of excessive heat and no rain. Gardens are also in bad shape and other crops are suffering in proportion. The drought has not been of long dura tion, but the heat has been so un usually high that the dryneae coupled with it threatens to cut down all crop production. # "My com,” one fanner said yes terday, "seems just about ruined. It Is dying around the top, and tf it doesn't rain soon, It will be top late. The same thing goes for my garden crops. It sure la hot and dry when cotton shows it as it does now. I've noticed a large number of stalks of cotton which seem to be dying or wilting Just, above the ground ” Others described the one week* drought as doing as much danftgg as droughts of a month's duration In the past. Mercury Climbs To 101 Here As Heat Wave Holds / _______ ■ Temperature Soars To Lut Than* day Record. Weather Mon Promises Relief. As the Shelby section swel-* tered under record high tem perature again yesterday, last night and today .they wore con soled somewhat by the weath erman’s promise of a let-np to night or Saturday. Yesterday was another Thursday like the Thursday of last week. The mercury in the thermometer at the old Ebeltoft stand climbed back to 101 degrees to tie the years high of Thursday of last week. Last night was of the scorcher variety and fag; noon today there was little change. By 11 o’clock this morning the teqw perature had climbed to 96 and threatened to mount on to 100 ua» less halted In Its climb by thunder showers. Wednesday the tempera* ture reached 100 in the afternoon, the fourth reading as high as lOg this year. e Higher readings were reported ig many privately owned-thermome* ters. At the Rush Thompson homf a dependable thermometer register* ed 103 on the north side of the house. Smaller thermometers tigs carded as high as 108 about thp city. Such was the intense heat th^l work and activity was almost at « standstill. The average tempera* ture In Shelby from Wednesday July 13, up until today is the highs est of any 10-djiy period in man# years Relief, Maybe. Raleigh, July 33.—Uncomfortably high temperatures continued td hold sway over North Carolina yea* terday, but a prediction of "load thunderstorms" for today gave hops of relief. The United States Weather Bu* reau, however, modified the fore cast of thundershowers by promis ing also "continued warm.” The "continued warm” which pre vailed yesterday meant a high tem perature of close to the century mark for most of the principal cit ies of the State. In Durham the reading was an even 100, but that mark was two degrees under the reading for the day before when a nine-year high temprature record was broken. Raleight's high was 99.9 and Char lotte's 100; Greensboro’s high was the same as Charlotte and Winston Salem’s was only one degree lower. It was the 17th consecutive -day for the Twin City—and for most of the rest of the State—in which the mer cury had risen above 90. Salisbury reported an official high temperature of 103 plus, the maximum for the year. Church Filed At Sinking Double Shoals. July 21.—A crowd that filled every seat and around 75 chairs to the Baptist church 8unday enjoyed the singing at the all day convention which has met annually for three years, singers were present from various parts of the state and from as far as Spar tanburg, S. C. Prof. Wade Hum phries from Gaffney was present with many singers from his coun ty
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