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VOL. XXXVUI, No. 90 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, JULY 27; 1932 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) 10 PAGES TODAY Br M»U. DM TMt. (to Xtumi _ a.»a C»rrt«r. per »#w. (Ui »dT»ne«i Moo Late News! THE MARKET Cotton, Spot . ..._..... the op Cotton Seed, ton . __.... $8 Promise Showers Today's North Carolina Heather Report: Local thundershowers to night and Thursday. Little change in temperature. Better Times! Greenville, S. C., July 27.—A pre diction that “better times than In two years now face the textile In dustry” was made here y eater day by M. P. Orr, president of the Orr Mills of Anderson. Orr made his statement Just before leaving on a trip by plane to New York. The textile manufacturer said "better times are already here. We have already passed the corner and things are not* looking up. Even better times are ahead and will be seep In the next six' months.” Heat Continues; Water Not Short Despite Drought Tuesday Cooler Than In Two Weeks crops Parching AU Oyer County. Tuesday was perhaps the coolest day the Shelby section has experi enced during the record-breaking heat wave of two weeks, but at that the mercury soared around 90 and had climbed back to that point be fore noon today. The heat wave began two weeks 3-go today and the drought has been almost as long, the last rain of any consequence coming Saturday night week ago. There have been several scattered showers in the last two weeks but the heat in the county as a whole has been so intense as to remove the benefits of the show ers. Rain has threatened for three days and a few scattered showers have fallen. The drought and heat have reached the extent, however, that com and garden crops are suf fering badly. Farmers in the city today declared that rain must come this week or crop3 would be off 40 to 70 percent. All, meantime, were pinning hope on the weatherman's predictions of showers this after noon and again Thursday afternoon. Plenty of Water Although crops are suffering from s. lack of rain, there is no im - mediate danger of a water shortage in Shelby. R. V. Toms, water and light superintendent, told The Star today. "The heat has been such," he said ‘ that the rains made no showing on the crops, but they have held our water supply up very well. We’re still getting water at our river in take in the norma! manner and the reservoir supply is at the regular mar^." Mr. Toms was of the idea that despite the heat no more water was being used this July than last. A check of the water station figures bore out this prediction. In fact, the city of Shelby used 14,000 more gallons of water during the first 26 days of July, 1931, than during the 26 days of the present month. One reason, of course, is that the average ciliseir is being more eco nomical with water as with every thing else. So far this month through Tues day, Shelby had consumed 15,326, 000 gallons of water. That's quite a bit of water—over 15 million gal lons, if it may seem larger put that away. That's an average of 500 000 gallons per day. Last July the average d&iiy consumption was around 600,000 gallons per day. More water—710,000 gallons—was used on Wednesday, the 13th, the day the heat wave set in, than on any other day so far this month. The next high day was yesterday when 700, 000 gallons were shown to be used by the city meter, and Monday with 697,000 gallons ran third. , County Budget Printed Today Tax Rates For Fast Year And This Year Are Given In Budget Estimate. Today's Star carries a summary ol the uniform annual budget esti mate of Cleveland county as pre pared by A. E. Cline, county audi tor and this budget shows what the tax rate was for last year for county wide purposes, for the six months school term, for the special school taxing districts and for the road districts with a comparison of the rate with this year’s levies. As published in Monday's Issue oi The Star there is a reduction ol sven cents in the count;>wide rate •even cents in the county-wide rate the road districts. This reduction is made in the face of a shrinkage of over a million dollars in the amount of property listed for tax atlon. No change whatever has beer made in the rite for the specia ■rhool taxing districts. This budget estimate is publishec as required by the County Fisca Control Act of the public laws oi 1037. Polkville Road To Be Constructed Soon Bid Going In Second State Letting Hlfhwi; Chairman Tell* Represen tative Edwards State WIH Build Road. Construction work on the first link, 8helby to Polkville. in the Shelby-Marlon highway will likely get under way this fall. Highway officials, The Star learned today, have definitely promised that con tract on the 12-mlle strip will be let In the second State letting un der Federal unemployment con struction funds for North Carolina. Just when the remainder of the highway, Unking the county seate of Cleveland and McDowell, will be built Is not known now, but it will eventually be a through highway. Talks With Officials Representative Henry B. Edwards has Just returned to Shelby from a trip to Raleigh where he talked with E. B. Jeffress, highway chair man, with Governor Gardner and others. The Shelby attorney, who helped pass the highway legislation, was assured, he said, that the Polk viUe contract would go in the second letting. The highway commission met in Raleigh yesterday to approve road projects on which contracts will be let on August 10. At the August meeting more projects will be ap proved, including the Shelby-Polk ville road and contracts under the second approval will be let in Sep tember if not earlier. ‘‘Later," Chairman Jefress was quoted as saying, “we intend to build the remaining portion of the highway on to Marion." Mr. Edwards would not be posi tive about what type of surface the Shelby-Polkville road would be, but he judged from his conversation with officials that it would be the latest type in tar and gravel. Another Road. He also learned that another county road is looked upon with favor by highway officials. This is the so-called proposed road from Fallston to Polkville by way of Lawndale. No date was intimated for State construction of this route, the Shelby man said, but he was told that it would be placed in some later letting. Mr. Browning, chief supervising engineer for the State highway Commission, will be in Shelby prior to the letting of the new road, will give final approval to a survey al ready made and will investigate construction of the remainder of the road and the Fallston-Polkville road. Concert Here Sunday Of Sacred Music Professor Roy Young and his wife. Mrs. Dorothy West Young, musi cians of national note who have just been announced as members of the Limestone College faculty for th* next session, will render a program of sacred music at the First Bap tist church Sunday night at 8:00 o’clock. Dr. Wall, the pastor an nounces. There will' be no preach ing at the evening hour, the en tire program being one of inspira tion. Professor Young is a violinist of exceptional ability, anti Mrs. Young has talent for the pipe organ, piano, and violin. Do not fail to hear the talented and finely trained musi dans. New Rural Light Line At Toluca Twenty Four Mile Stretch To Run From Cherryvllle To Lincoln* ton Through Vale. Hickory, July 26. — Approxi mately 24 mile* additional light and power line*, representing ex tension serrlce to *00 more farm families and a number of small industries, are In prospect In the Vale community south of Hickory. The new extension, which it Is estimated will cost approximate ly $32,000. will run from Cherry rtlle through the Vale communi ty to Lincolnton. The proposed extension of power and light service will fill in the gap be tween Blackburn school and Toluca. License Schedule Practically Same Several Reductions Made by the City on Prlvilige License Taxes for Fiscal Year. Today’s issue of The Star carries the privilege license schedule which the city of Shelby has adopted for the fiscal year beginning July 1st Practically all licenses taxes remain the same as last year, with two new forms of business taxes and sever al reduction on businesses already included in the schedule. ”ltinerant”auto~dealers "“"and fi nance corporations nave not been subject to a license tax in the past. This year $15 is levied on itinerant, auto dealers and $25'on finance cor-! porations. Several reductions were made I from last year s schedule. Pool and [billiard tables will be taxed $40 each Tor the first and second tables, $25 for the third table and $10 for the [remainder. The tax on cotton seed dealers and buyers and fertiliser plants has been reduced from $50 annually to $25 Garages and re pair shops and those who wash and grease cars will be required to pay $5 annually instead of $10 as here tofore. Junk dealers have been re duced from $50 to $25, laundries jfrom $10 to $5 and oicture shows and vaudevilles from $37.50 to $25 .annually. Now Hauling Poultry On Trucks, Not Cars County Chickens Now Being Haul ed To Northern Markets By Motor Trucks. Motor trucks are making further inroads on freight transportation. The Cleveland Farmers Mutual Ex change will buy poultry for cash here Thursday of this week at the Seaboard depot but instead of us ing poultry freight cars, motor trucks will be used to transport the poultry. It is understood that mot or trucks were used the last time a shipment was made-up. It is not known whether the poultry was car ried all the way to market in trucks, or loaded at another point on a Freight car. * Lattimore School Bus And Auto In Collision; No Serious Injuries Thirty Or More Students Said To Be Shaken Cp. Bruised And Cut. Two Lattimore school boys were slightly injured and arouna 30 other students of the school shaken up and slightly bruised as the result of a collision between the school bus and another automobile yester day afternoon, according t6 reports reaching Shelby today. The bus. loaded with 30 or more children from the Padgett commun ity was said to have beer, en route to the homes in the district after school was out in the afternoon. Where the Polkville road comes in to the road on which the bus was travelling a new car, said to have been driven by Ons Lattimore, came out, striking the bus on the side. The bus was pot badly damaged and did not turn over, it was said, but the front of the Lattimore coupe was considerably damaged by the * impact. [ All the children on the bus were Isaid to be shaken up and a number bruised. Mac Fite, young student, received a gash on the head and Sam Brooks .another boy on the bus was considerably shaken up. At the Lattimore telephone ex change this morning it was said that all students were back In school so far as was known. Reports here before noon stated that some of the children might be examined to be sure they had not suffered internal inurles in the crash. The accident took place soon aft er the close of the second day of the school term. The school bus was driven by Max Padgett, who has been driving it for several years. Double Pay Roll Of Tobacco Company Richmond, Va.—A 100 per cent increase in the payroll of the Ex port Leaf Tobacco company, and the resumption of operations of the Dupon rayon plant at Ampthill to day put back to work nearly 1,000 workers who had been unemployed for many weeks. Eastside Mill In Bankruptcy Bat Operating j To Operate Until Sale Is Made Jack Dover l» Temporary Receiver Milt Will Continue Operating Until It Is Sold. Eaststde Manufacturing Oo. «n tered voluntary bankruptcy yester day, but will continue to operate th'* textile plant in Shelby until the property is sold to satisfy creditors. Mr. Jack Dover president of th<’( mill has been appointed receiver to i continue operating the (hill unde-| receivership until further action tsj taken before the Federal Court. It is understood that the credit ors are five directors of the mill who signed notes sometime ago to try to tide the mill through, the com mission merchants of Philadelphia who have represented the mill in the sale of its products and two other smaller creditors. All other current obligations for the opera tton of the mill have been paid leaving the five directors, the com mission house, a mill machinerv house and one other creditor as the only creditors. These hold claims against the mill of about $270,000 No Bank Debts. The Eastside Mill owes no local bank obligations, hat settled all lo cal taxes and other local obligations It has been known for several years that the mill was laboring under a heavy financial handicap It's statement was not strong enough to secure loans on, but di rectors and selling agency went to its rescue and carried the mill through several years in the hope that it would work out. Conditions, however, grew worse, and being un willing to finance it further. It was deemed best to go into bankruptcy and bring about re-organizatton The mill was built over ten years ago at a high time, largely by local capital. A big loss was entailed tn cotton purchased by the South Carolina pan who promoted the mill and with a slump on. It was decided to sell preferred stock to the holder* of common stock in order to save it from financial wreck at that time. There Is outstanding about $<570,000 worth of Common and preferred stock with little or no hope that the holder* will realize anything on their Investment. Since the mill started, no divi dends have been paid on common stock but $100,000 worth of prefer red was retired. When the plant is sold by court order, all stock holders will be given an opportunity to organise and bid on the property. Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page 2 for the answers. 1. In the old testament story, whose wife was Bathsheba? 2. Who wrote the. novel, ‘Adam Bede?” 3. Which Is larger in area the United States or Australia? 4. How many ounces in a Troy pound? 5. What 1* a Tasmanian bandi coot? fi. What do the initials B T. U stand for? 7. Which talk better, male or fe male parrots? 8. What is the name of the imag inary dividing line between the Northern and Southern Hemis pheres of the earth? 9. Of what science is trigonome Try Answering cry a pare ? 10. Who was "Man o’ War?" 11. Over what country does King Boris in, rule? 12. Who wrote the novel "Pride and Prejudice?” 13. What Is a kelt? 14. Who Is the author of the line, "A rag, and a bone and a hank of hair?” 15. How did the Luthern church get its name? 16. What is the estimated popu lation of the world?* 17. For what is Peggy a nick name? 18. Who was author of the toast: “Our country! In her Intercourse with foreign nations, may she al ways be right; but our country, right or wrong?” 19. Who was William Tyndale? 20. What is sampler? Concert Saturday Eve At Ross Grove The singing school which is being conducted by Prof. Gardner r Ross Grove this week, will come to a close Saturday night. There will be a concert Saturday night and all lovers of music are cordially invited. Singing will be gin at 8 p. in. r Star’s Romance on Rocks There was no ripple on the matrimonial sea when thus picture of Maurice Chevalier, fammie French mueieal comedy and screen star, and his wife. Yvonne ValVee, was made. Now the marital barijue has come a cropper upon the rocks of incompatability and'Chevalier has filed auit for divorce in Paris. Chevalier married MUe. Vallee, also a stage luminary, about five years a*o. New Business Boom Being Foreseen Now Bit Federal Construction Bill Con-! stdered Starter. Many Mrn Return To Work. The re-opening of two textile mills In Cleveland county and the | definite assurance of highway con stgpction Jobs here in the fall give a brighter hue to the economical outlook locally, and the trend seems to be the same over the nation Industrial and economical news to day was more cheering than in fttany weclU. .. The Shelby-PolktdUe highway will be built. Worn the 12d million dollar Perietal appropriation to aid unem ployment and a similar construction program kill give johs in every county add section in the nation. It is estimated that the Federal highway program will give jobs to a quarter of a million men, the esti mate in North Carolina being 5,000 With a road to be constructed in this county it should mean between 50 and 106 jobs here. This nation wide construction program is sched uled to give employment 30 hours per week for 11 months. The pre paration and delivery of materials are expected to bring about addt tional employment X.000 Back To Work Camden, N. J, July 21—More than 5 000 employes of the RCA Victor corporation, here are back on a full-time working schedule, after a week's lay-off due to a mid summer iaspection. Next Monday, Campbell's Soup company will recall a number of employes after a month’s layoff, of ficials said. The Continental Can company adjoining the soup company, also announced it. will put an extra 200 (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE I Large Crowds Here For Superior Court Mnrder And Bigamy Cases Attract Many. Difficult To Find Standing Room. The crowds attending Superloi court the first days of this week were larger than tn many years ex cept for trials of unusual public in terest. Yesterday the court room, win dows and aisles were so packed that officers frequently had to clear out space to give the court workers air and to permit witnesses to get to and from the stand. There were no cases docketed of outstanding interest, but there was quite a bit of sectional Interest in two killing casses and two bigamy charges. The other reasons for the sise, of the crowd are that many people are now out of work and have nothing else to do, while the dry spell makes it convenient for many farm people to attend. All in all, the court crowd has been orderly in view of the fact that every available inch t!f stand ing room and seats are filled. On one or two occassions Judge Schenck has been forced to rap for order when the spectators laughed at some witty reply made by a wit ness or at some stinging rejoinder by a barrister. (OTHER CITY AND COUNTY NEWS ON RAGE 9) ! Court Here Both Day, Night; County Court In Session TantM-Up Famllj Affair Kept Befordw'i Tribunal In Seealon Until Midnight The county recorder's court la having to work at pight and over* I HMle atthsit b#t*ause the main court i room is being used this week by the ! Superior court session. Monday night the recorder* court held forth until 11 o'clock, and last I night's session did not end until | between 11:30 and midnight. One case, a tangled-up family af fair. took up the major portion of last night's long session. The affair Involved double charges—an as sault charge against Kern Marlow and a boy friend, and a fornication and adultery count against Mar low's sister, Ruth, and C. A. Nash. Kern and his companion were ac quitted of a charge of assault upon Nash and the father of the Mar lows. the row developing, it was al leged, over what young Marlow considered questionable relations between his sister and Nash while the latter was said to have been staying at the Marlow home. On the other charge Nasn was given eight months and the girl six months, but both sentences were appealed. TO CLEAN GRAVEYARD AT SHARON THURSDAY Those who have relatives or friends buried at Sharon Methodist church graveyard are asked to re port Tuesday morning August 2nd to help clean off the cemetery. Bring tools and report early. Get* Year’* Term For Breaking Leg Of City Policeman / _____ On the night of Mot 19. Inhn Sim*, young textile work er of ('llffside and Shelby, drove hi* automobile Into Po liceman Mondial Moore, while the latter woo standing by the side of South Lafayette atreet. The policeman had hi* leg broken and was Injured to the extent that he will not be able to return to the force for some time yet. In Superior court yesterday .fudge Michael Schenck decided that Sims, who struck the officer, will be out of circulation for that long or longer. Kim* waa given a year’* sentence to the road* after several charge* had been con solidated Into one caae of reckless driving and a verdict of guilty returned. Two Wives Worth 3 Years For Him; Sentence Negroes Frank HiUen, of Kings Mountain HtnlMwMl For Bigamy. Truck Death CMC Ends. Frank Watson, J5-year-old Kings Mountain white man. forgot about divorcing his Georgia wife before he married a North Carolina wife and as a result he is to serve from three to five years tn the North Carolina prison. Watson was sentenoed on a big amy charge in Superior court here this week, the charge being prefer red by wife Number Two, who was married to him nine months before !»he learns of wife number one In | Georgia. Truck Death Case Ends. Judgment was suspended on pay I ment of the coats In Superior court here yesterday in the killing charge against R. V. Griffin, young trans fer truck driver of Monroe, in con nection with the death months ago of an aged negro tenant farmer. Griffin, it will be remembered, was driving a truck loaded with cotton when the truck struck the colored man’s wagon on a steep grade just west of Shelby on Highway 20. The wagon was demolished, a mule was killed and the truck and cotton hurtled over an embankment in addition to instantly killing the aged driver of the wagon. Since the criminal charge was filed and before the case came up for trial a civil settlement had been effected with the plaintiff and prosecuting witness, and as a result of this set tlement, Judge Schenck ordered the defendant to pay the costs, w'hereupon Judgment was suspended StorebreakerV Terms Edgar Ross, Andy Bridges, and O V. Humphries, all colored were sentenced to two years each on the roads on a charge of breaking anti entering and larceny. The charge developed about the robbery oi the Cohen store a week or so .X?. A’ the time of the arrest Humphrte gave his name as Lee Smith. Later Lee Smith, valued employe at Fiflrd’s, made a statement that he was not the man charged. It was then learned that the other man’s name was Humphries, although It Is written on the court records as | Smith alias Humphries. Gardner Makes Survey Before Seeking Government Relief Loan j Every County is Being Studied Preparatory to Asking For Federal Aid. Raleigh. July 27.—Gov. O. Max Gardner is conducting a survey of every county in North Carolina pre paratory to asking the federal gov ernment for a loan for relief work, he said today. The governor’s council on unem ployment anti relief, which direct ed job finding work ana co-ordin ated local relief In the state during the past two winters, has been dis continued. he added. ■ Estimating that 225,000 usually employed in North Carolina are now without work the governor said it was planned to ask the govern ment to lend the state enough money to "meet the fullest needs of the people" and yet make the 'low est possible expenditure." All of the federal funds, he made it clear, will be used as a supple ment. to local charity work. The entire, federal appropriation available, $300,000,000, is only one third of the amount known to have ^en spent in the nation in relief work last year, he said. Through the state welfare agen eies, through the county govern ment commission and the state banking department as well as other agencies, a thorough study of the state's needs Is being made. Governor Gardner said. He would not risk any estimate as to what the state's needs will amount to, but pointed out that if the government as originally planned on a popula tion basis this state could have borrowed $7,700,000. The money will be used as much as possible on public works, the gov ernar said. “Straight charity, or a dole, is a morale-breaking thing,” he com mented. “We will try to use the money to give as many people as possible some kind of work for the state, counties or municipalities.” With drought seriously facing the state's food and feed crops the gov ernor said he estimated that the value of crops grown under his live at-home idea, this year would be at least $10,000,000 less than last year. This reduction In food crops will be felt in added burdens on relief agencies this winter, be predicted. Given 20 Years For Slaying His Brother-In-Law Guilty Plea Second Degrree Murder Sam Hillman Mast Live In Prleoa I ntll t!W» For Killing Henry English. Becaui* hr shot and killed his brother-in-law Instead of killing crows which were bothering his com. Sam Hillman, colored farmer of the Waco section, must serve from 30 to 30 years in prison. Hillman, short dark-skinned negro with heavy black mustach. was given that sentence in Superior court here yesterday by Judge Michael Schenck Murder Evidence Sentence was passed after Hill man plead guilty of second-degree murder and that plea wn accepted for the State by Solicitor Spurgeon Spurllng. The evidence as present ed by the Stale had it that Hill man, carrying a snot gun, visited a field, near Waco, where English was plowing Approaching his brother, in-law it was said by eye witnesses, one of them the dead man's wife, that, Hillman threw tfhe gun to fils shoulder. English ran around the mule two or three times attempting to get away, but the load from Hill man's gun tore into the side of English's head and killed him al most instantly. Counsel for the de fense. Horace Kennedy, attempted to show by witnesses and by Hill man himself that English had gone to the Hillman home the night be fore. chased Hillman away and car ried Hillman’s wife, a sister of English, back to the English home Hillman on the stand said he had no intention of killing English. He had the gun, he declared, because he had been out killing crows. When he approached English, Hillman said English forbid him taking his wife back home and ordered him not to go to the house. He said h* did not shoot until English started to pull a pistol from his pocket. No evidence was introduced, how ever. to show that English had a gun. On tlie oth<;r hand, one colored girl testified that Hillman came by her home and Bsked to borrow two shells, stating that he was going to kill Henry English that day. Character witnesses said that Hill man and fiis* wife frequently hat: trouble and it was said, English took the part of his sister. Character witnesses also '*id that both men were good workers and not known as troublesome, although Hillman, said not to be none too brigb' mentally, was termed a; "a h|t mouthy to whites and biac’,- * ' Married First Wife 2nd Time For 3rd Event Married Sierend Wife, However, Be tween Other Marriages. Gets 18 Months Term. One of the most unusual matri monial tangles In the history of this section was aired in Superior court here yesterday when wyiie Sisk, young Shelby and Georgia man. received an 18-months road sentence after a bigamy charge had been altered to fornication and adultery The weirdest part of the mixup was that , Sisk was charged with re marrying his first wife without get ting a divorce from his second Wife. The evidence was to the effect that the defendant was married to Quilla Green, of Shelby, some years ago. Later, it was said, he divorced her and moved to Georgia where he married again. Still iater he re turned to Shelby and was sgid to have remarried his first wife, Quilla Green Sisk. She did not know then, her complaint said, that he had taken another wife in Georgia be tween their two marriages. When she learned this, she preferrd the bigamy charge. The defense pled guilty of forni cation and adultery and the bigamy charge was modified and accepted on the lesser charge by the state and sentence of 18 months on the roads passed. NEW THEATRE CASHIER Mr*. Peggy Webb Hopper Is now cashier at the Webb theatre since the theatre Was taken over and » now being operated by J. X. Webb and son, W. H . with the latter as manager. So far no other change has been made in the person* 1 «f the show.
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