North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXVIII, No. 05 S PAGES TODAY i'y M*ll. por your. (in »dr«nc«l — *a.*o <'*rrt*r. rwr Tfat u„ «dr«io«i Late News' THE MARKET tottoa. Spot . —......... 554c up Cotton Seed, ton . -—- 58 Fair Weather I Today’* weather forects is “Fair tonight, slightly cooler in the cen tral end east portion. Tuesday fair. She Surrenders Libby Holman, Broadway singer of blues songs, appeared today hi Winston-Salem to surrender to of ficers In connection with the death' of her husband. Smith Reynolds,! the youthful tobacco heir to a for-j tune of fifteen millions. She will stake her hope of avoidirft inccr eeratlon In Jail on Immediate ha-j hea* corpus proceedings. Morrison Will Direct Relief Work In State Named By Gardner For Post Relief Director Wilt Handle Funds Received By North Carolina From R. F. C. Raleigh, Aug. 8. — Dr. Fred W Morrison, executive secretary of the state tax commission, last week was appointed director of relief to handle relief funds secured by North Caro lina from the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation under the recent act of congress. His appointment *-as announced bv Governor O. Max Gardner be fore the governor left for Shelby to day on his vacation Dr. Morrison is at work now with Mrs. W. T Bost, superintendent of the state welfare department, and the other state agencies preparing a statement of the needs of North Carolina to be presented to the R. F C , the governor said. The state's application for the loan will not be presented until aft er completion of a survey of coun ties begun last week under direction of the governor. "I have decided not to set up a commission," the governor said, "to administer whatever funds may be received from the federal govern ment to supply the needs of the state: but shall rely upon the ad ministration of these funds through existing agencies, expanded suffi ciently to carry the extra load." In announcing the appointment of Mr Morrison, the governor said: "Under the relief act the admin istration of all funds is entrusted solely to the responsibility ot the governor to be expanded under clans made and put into effect by him. The administration of relief funds in the period immediately in frint of us is a most important duty and would place upon the governor an unusual burden if per sonally administered The act pro vides that the governor may dele gate this responsibility, and I have appointed Dr. Morrison as my per onal representative in this highly important work. "I am particularly pleased to be able to find one so well qualified to perform this duty. I seriously doubt if there is a man in the state better informed on all the questions relating to its social and economic welfare than Dr. Morrison and he enjoys my confidence to the high est degree. "Dr. Morrison's work as director (CONTTKTTED ON »AGE I5IGHT > Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. What University had Knute Porkne for a football coach? 2. What famous horse race is run annually at Louisville, Ky? 3. Name the Governor of Penn sylvania? , -' 4. Who is candidate for Vice President. on the Socialist Party ticket? 5. What does Vicarius .Pilii Dei mean? 6. What is ornithology? 7. In which states do the Navajo Indians dwell? 8. Who was Richard J. Gatling? 9 Who composed ''Traumerei?” 10. What expedition did Theo dore Roosevelt undertake when he retired from the Presidency in 1909? 11. How large was the 1930 pop ulation of the U. S. and its posses sions? 12. To w-hat country do the islands of Miquelon and St. Pierre belong? 13. What is the national flower of Scotland? 14. What is the name of the elective branch of the British par liment? 15. How many ounces of gold are In a pound? 16. In sea lore, who is "Davy Jones?" 17. is there a tide its the Hudson river'’ i? Who constructed the first thermometer ? 19. Who was Alfred Aloysius Smith? 20. Who wrote Dombey and Son?1' Try Answering County Has A Surplus Of $12,000-Cut Debt Last Year By $57,000 4 Favorable Showing ] In Finances Every Fond Of The County Ha* A : Surplus, Except Three School Districts. Cleveland county has a total j surplus of $120,989 at the end j of the fiscal year June 30th. had j reduced its bonded indebted ness over $57,000 and has a sur plus in every fund, except three j school districts, according to the annual statement published In j today’s Star by A. E. Cline, county auditor from an audit made by Scott and Co., certi fied accountants of Charlotte. It is without a doubt the most favorable showing the county has ever had and made in the face of obstacles which were beyond the power of the county to overcome. This financial statement shows that the county has bridge bonds outstanding to the amount of SI79. 000. township road bonds amount ing to $425,000, No 6 hospital bonds j $87,000, indebtedness to the state | for loans to school buildings and school bonds $252,987. making the total outstanding indebtedness of the county, townships r nd school districts of $943,987. This is $57,075 less than a year ago, tire amount the indebtedness of the county has been reduced in a year. One of two school districts borrowed about $28,000 from the state tor buildings, otherwise the reduction in the county's indebtedness would have ■ amounted to $85 000 during the past j year. Tax I,evies i ms unanciai siaiemen. snows the amount ot the tax lewes for last year, the amount of revenue raised, the levy for this year and the expected amount of revenue. According to the levies for county purposes, there has been a reduction i of seven cents in the county-wide tax rate and the comity trill have an estimated tax revenue income for county purposes during the current fiscal year of 4153.000 against a re venue last year of $174,890. a saving j to the tax payers this year of $21. 890. In this financial statement the, tax levies for the township road district this year and last are given and compared, showing the amount of revenue produced. Also this re port shows the special school tax ing district rates for last year and i this year, together with the amount; of revenue produced last year for these special districts. Taxes Paid Belter It is interesting to note also that the people paid their taxes better in 1932 than they did last, year. This year there were $31,571 levied but uncollected taxes, while last year the amount of levied but uncollected taxes amounted to $37,175. In spite of this loss of revenue to the coun ty, there have been tax rate reduc tions for the past twTo years. Surplus Of $120,000 One of the outstanding showings of the financial statement publish ed today is a cash surplus of $120, 989. Practically every fund of the county has a surplus. There is a surplus in the county general fund, a surplus in the poor fund a sur plus in the debt surplus fund, a surplus in the capital outlay fund, a surplus in the riebi surplus fund, a surplus in each of the 13 road dis Cotton Advances $4*25 Bale Today On Bureau Report Indicated Crop Of 11.336,000 Bale' With Condition 65 6 Of Normal. Cotton had an advance of S3 points or approximately $4.23 a bate bv noon today on the strength of the government'* btireau report showing an indi cated yield of only 11,306,000 bales. Condition 63.6 There had been ginned out of this year s crop 70,978 bales and the condition of the crop was given at S5.6 per cent of normal. Or the New York exchange October closed Sat urday at 6.16 and at noon today it was 6.95. December cotton closed Saturday at 6.34 and at noon today it had advanced to 7.13. Another bouyant day is being seen in stocks with shares advancing two and three points f’om Satur day's close. The stock market has been strong for" the past ten days and on Saturday there was an ad vance in stocks ranging as much as 12 points. Over two million shares were traded In, the largest Satur day for several years. indicating that the public is coming back In the market and that the general feeling is much better. This morning's cotton letter re corded showers at Abilene, Okla homa City. San Antonio, and points in the eastern belt. A maximum temperature of 100 degrees was re corded yesterday at Fort Worth. Forecast, for South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana, east and west Texas, showers bal ance part cloudy. Washington tells of various plans proposed to help agriculture, back ed by the Reconstruction F’inanee Corporal ioiv to be discussed this week. One of the suggestions is a super farm board. Burke Man Mutt Die In Nevada R*no, Nev.. Aug. 8—The Supreme court of Nevada last week denied the appeal of Everett T. Mull, form erly of Morganton. N. C„ sentenced under the name of John Hall to die in the lethal gas chamber for the murder of his bootlegging part ner, John C. O’Brien. Mull’s identity as a former Mor ganton contractor who fled with estimate money before completing a piece of work was revealed when his wife, a former Morganton woman who married him after their flight from North Carolina, asked his relatives for money with which to perfect the appeal. tricts and a surplus in eighteen of the special taxing school districts. There are deficits in only three of the school districts. Mr. Cline, when quesuoned about the financial statement, said today that there is enough money in the township road funds to meet the bonds and interest for the coming year, these funds showing a total surplus of over $60,000 Federal Judge Webb Says Drinking Among Young People Has Decreased; No One Can Tell Good Of Drinking Think Everybody Should Sell Liquor On None Should Sell. No Control Possible. Asheville, Aug. 8 — ‘Everybody should be allowed to sell liquor, or it should be abolished completely. There is no compromise with ths liquor traffic,” Judge E. Yates Webb, of Shelby, federal judge for the western district of North Carolina, said in the course of an interview in Asheville last week. Judge Webb -has been In the thick of the campaign against liquor since the days when saloons were not al lowed within one mile of church and school buildings. In addition to being a federal jurist, Judge Webb is an ardent dry. He was active against the wets while he was a member ot congress. "1 believe progress has been made in educating the public on the liquor question," Judge Webb said. ‘ As an illustration, when there were bars in my home city of Shelby during the Christmas seasons, first Mon days and on Saturdays, the streets were not safe for women and child ren due to drunkenness, disorderly conduct, fights and even murders During the past two Christmas sea sons, Shelby has been full of shop pers. I moved about among them on the streets and in the stores. I did not see a single drunken man. I did not even smell the odor of liquor. I believe this is typical of every city in North Carolina." Compares Drinking Habits Judge Webb was questioned as to his opinion on the drinking habits of young people of today and 15 or 20 years ago. He said: "I think drinking among young folks now and 20 years ago is just about a thimble full compared to a hogshead full. When bars were flourishing, young men were drink ing liquor, staggering home at. nights and breaking their mothers' hearts. With the ever-present temptation of legalized bars, young men in COM LNUtn OS PAOA Blum.I Lady or Plain Mrs.' Something* wrong somewhere. Elaine Manzi (above). New York dancer, informed her family she had married Lord North of Eng land. at Media, Pa., but the real Lord North happens to be in Eng-1 land and denies he is a groom City Schools Live Within Budget And HaveBankBalance Big Reduction In t itt School Cost* Cost Per Pupil Is $2617 Prr Vear. Elsewhere in this issue of The Star there appears a summary of the audit, of the Shelby public school funds by Georgt G Scotl and company, certified public ac countants. It reveals a most grati j tying financial condition For the ; first time in many years the rec jord is out of the red’—the old deficit having b»en entirely fund , ed and the operating expenses brought within the income The schools have been operated for the past three years upon the revenue received and not even a dollar has been borrowed for that purpose. However, it was only within the last fiscal year that the board has been able completely to fund the old floating debt of long standing. A very great reduction has been made in the cost of operating the schools—the largest portion of this reduction has accrued to the bene fit of the local tax payer. A reduc tion of more than fifty-two per cent has been made from the local obli gations in the operating cost during the last fiscal year over a pre-de pression year. It now costs only $26.17 a year for each of the 3,504 pupils enrolled to enjoy the benefits of a nine months standard school heated, lighted, cleaned, repaired, insured, equipped with libraries, and in which a well trained teacher imparts instruc tion. For each puppil in daily at tendance this is only *3.61 a month; eighteen cents a day; three cents an hour. Of this, the state pays two cents for each one paid by the local community. The schools have a cash balance in the First National bank of *5, 467.52. There are no outstanding ob ligations. Early Fire Ruins Baber Grocery; Mr. Baber Burned Grocery Store Is A Complete Loss. Frank Baber Burned In Fire Fighting. A fire discovered just before day light this morning, destroyed the stock of groceries belonging to Frank Baber opposite the Shelby Mill on S. Morgan street and a cafe operat ed in the rear of the store by Ba ffin Wilson. The two story building is owned by the Shelby Cotton Mill and is badly damaged inside, while the grocery stock and fixtures are a total loss, from all appearances. Tile fire is supposed to have start ed near a side door in the rear of the building. Oil and kerosene con tainers near the seat of the fire caused a rapid spread of the flames and when the fire department re sponded, the interior of the store was a mass of flames. John Sei lers who lives near-by turned in the alarm, but he did not discover the fire until it had made considerable headway. The fire laddies did a good Job of saving the building and contents from being a total loss and endangering the dwelling houses nearby. Mr. Baber undertook to push him self in the store as soon as he arriv ed on the scene and the flame and smoke overcame him. He wa.-, badly burned on the leg and had to be taken home and placed under the care of a physician. , Negro Youth Is Killed Saturday By Freight Train Tom Martin'* Body Cut In Two H’a< tying: On Southern Track* Just . H'Mt Of Ultlmorr rhurrh Hoi tie* Found. Tom Martin, alias Tom Wray, a j negro youth about 30 year* o! 1 age was instantly killed Saturday] morning at 10 o'clock when struck by a Southern freight train. No tlfi I near Lattimore , Martin was lying on the track just west of the Lattimore Baptist ! church and the engineer dtd not 1 see him until the train was upon I him Body I* Mangled. The wheels of the locomotive cut hi* hody in two and also severed an arm. Death was instantaneous Two bottles *with corn cob stop pers were found near the body and a supposition was that the young negm might have been drinking and had fallen asleep on the tracks. Dr S. S Royster, Shelby physician went to make an examination of the stomach to determine. If pos sible. if he had been drinking. But with the body being cut in two the examination was not successful Martin s mother lives near Moor esboro and the -family is known in that section of the county Snake Bites Man At His Ice Box F.mmeM Pwlfr In Serious Condition. Ha* Strok* Following Bit* By Snake. Eminett Peeler, well known fann er of the Palm Tree community is in a very serious condition at the Shelby hospital where he was brought yesterday for treatment following a snake bite and a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Peeler went out on his porch of Ms home Friday night to get some fresh cider out of his Ice bo*. He was barefooted and felt some thing playing around his loot, but thought it to be the house cat, un til it stuck is fangs in hir heel. He kicked the snake and it bit him a second time. When it was discovered that he was bitten by a snake, the wife was busy getting up the ten ants on the farm to summons medi cal aid, when the snake got away before they could find out what kind it was. On Sunday Mr. Peeler had a stroke of paralysis and was brought to the hospital In a very serious condition. It was feared last night that he could not survive un til morning. Shoots His Brother In-Law In The Leg Pink Page Is Taken Into Custody For Shooting Clarence Freeman. Pink Page of “Curtis Town ' S. DeKalb stfeet, was yesterday taken into custody by city police, follow ing a fracas at the home of Clar ence Freeman. Page's brother-in law. in the course of which Freeman was shot in the left leg The wounded man was treated at a doctor's office, and later returned I home. But Page's trial was held up this morning awaiting such time as f Freeman is in condition to appear | against him. 1 The fight occurred it the Free man home, which is across the street from where Page lives. The police assert Page went to Free man's to get a bucket of water, and during the visit, an old quarrel was renewed, which resulted in the fist fight. In the course of the melee Page is charged with drawing a gun. and shooting his brother-in-law. It is said the fight was ultimately stop ped by Charlie Freeman, the wounded man's brother v Double Fracture Of Jaw On Trip West George Cabaniss son of Clarence Cabiness who lives just east of Shelby on the old Kings Mountain road is at home after a sad exper ience . hoboing west. He first tried thumbing rides from passing auto mobiles, but at Little Rock, Ark. attempted to swing a freight train He was carrying a suit case and the speed of the train was too much for him and his baggage, so the car struck his jaw, rendering a double fracture. For twelve days he was a patient in a government hospital, but has sufficiently recovered to come home. However, his fractured bones did not set property and may have to have to be broken and re set Mother of Triplets at 13 Mrs. Callie Green, aged thirteen, is shown holding her three pound baby, the only survivor of triplet* born to her recently »t North Wilkaboro, N. C. Mrs. Green’s mother, Mrs. Smith Gould (at right) is a grandmother at thirty-two. The father of the baby is only sixteen. Governor Says Cotton Would Be 10 Cents If F arm Board Would N ot Dump Three Million Bales On Market Now Ru.«inrM Show* I'p-Trend Will Bo j Sustained If Farm Trice* Are Stimulated. Governor O. Max Gardner, visit in* hi* home in Shelby on a brief vacation, tn an interview with The Star this morning came out In a direct and severe attack upon the federal farm board for It* policy of dumping government owned cotton on ihe present market, not only re- j busing the commodity at a lows, but tending to depress the price at this present crisis. Cotton Should Be 10c. The governor made the assertion that but for the activity of the farm board the present price of cotton would be ten cents a pound. Highly incensed at the action ol I the federal authorities, he charged I their action was demoralizing the! cotton market, at the very crux in the period when American business is in the throes of a tremendous ef fort to make a come back out of the depression. The governor declared the farm board is regularly marketing ten to twenty thousand bales oi cotton a day, having already in the past i month disposed of a quarter of j a million bales. "The cotton,” he asserted, "is be ing marketed at six cents a pound, cotton which cost the government on an average of thirteen cents. And this despite the fact,,” he de clared, "that cotton 1* not a perish able product, but may be held In definitely.” The Interviewer found the gover nor preparing a statement on the subject, which he proposes to re lease today for country-wide con sumption, Farm Products Need Help Asked about the current business situation, whether or not he expects the present advance to hold. Mr. Gardner declared that m his opin ion the up-trend will be sustained if some way can be. found to stim ulate the price of farm products. The governor Is definite in his (CONTINUED ON PS«1E 81<5h1.i 10 Lawyers Help Woman To Secure A Divorce Here TfJi lawyrrn helped Kffie Phillip*, of Kin** Mountain, <ecurr> her diyorce of freedom from matrimonial bonds In Superior court just before it adjourned here last week. She ['banted her husband. Janies, with adultery and the divorce plea was * ran ted. When the unconteated suit rame up. the only jury was still out in the Devault rail road death suit. Judge Srheni k did not want to put the county to the additional cost of se curing another Jury, ao hr asked for volunteers. And nine lawyer* stepped up to see how it feel* to ait in a Jury box and have the tables turn ed with the lawyer doing thr talking to them, or the plead ing with them. Then the tenth lawyer in the case, the attorney of the plaintiff, gof busy, showed his fellow bar rister* and the three other jurors that the woman was entitled to her divorce. Stephenson Back To Local Drug Store B O. Stephenson who formerly owned and operated the Stephenson drug store here in the Webb build ing, has taken the management again and will operate the store. Mr. Sloop continues with the firm which is now operating under the name of Sloops Pharmacy. Tom Cornwell,, son. of. George Cornwell and a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Alfred Eskridge, another student of the*University, make up the person nel of the store,. Weather Good Topic; Folks Howl | About Heat, About Damp Weather Rerord Heat 1* 136 Decree*. Weath erman Finds It Hard Tti Please Everyone. Just a week or two ago people tn the Shelby section were growling or fuming, perhaps, about the heat. When two people met, one would sa| to the other, “Is it hot enough for you?” and the other fellow' would feel like committing murder, only to walk on and ask the same pesky question of a third man standing on the street curb mopping his brow. But in recent days there has been almost as much howling about the continued rains It’s that way; the weather seldom ever pleases. It's too hot, too cool, too wet, or too dry. That, says the Hickory Record, is why the weather Is several hops, skips and jumps ahead of everything else as a ren vetsation topic Rut the hot July wpajhet here ' was nothing, that is very’ near i nothing as contrasted with places i I where it really gets hot. The hot i weather has served to revive com- i Iparisons of heat with conditions of i former years. In the United States the hottest spot on the average is a place in Death Valley, Calif, namec oddly enoughs Greenland Ranch where on July 10, 1910 the tempera ture rose to 134 degrees. The record for cold in this countrj is held by Miles City, Mont., wherf the mercury sank to 65 below zerc in 1888. Higher and lower temperatures have been recorded in Africa anc Siberia, respectively, although Death Valley’s high mark is within twc degrees of the world's record, 136 degrees at Azzia, Tripoli, in 1924. Some interesting cases of exces sive rainfall and snow fall have been noted by the United States Weather Bureau. The hardest rain »ver recorded was at Ophld’s Camp n California, where an inch of rain >quivalcnt of 115 tons of water per )C'T. fell In one minute on April «, 1936. At Porto Bello. Panama. !.47 inches of rain fell in three ninutes on May 1 1906 The heav est snowfall ever to occur at a place quipped for accurate observation vas 25 inches in 24 hours at Wash ngton, D. C.. in January, 1922. Award $3,000In Railroad Death Suit In Court Civil Court Ended On Saturday Administrator Of Devault, Killed Ry Train, Oris Vrrdlrt. Few rases Tried. Superior rourt. In MMlon two weeks, adjourned here Saturday after Judge Michael Schenck heard several motions and minor actions Saturday morning. The Devault suit against the Sea board railroad came to an end Sat urday when the Jury, after having the ease since 3 o'clock Friday after noon. brought in a verdict, award ing the plaintiff $3,000 damage* The amount asked was $60,000 by Wm T Hanna, administrator of Nell A, Devault. of Tennessee. Devault, employed by a construe - tlon firm on Highway IS, was kill ed near the Seaboard station in Shelby In 192R when he was cut Ml two while walking between two freight cars. The damage suit took Up two days and a half of the court’s time, it opened before noon Wednesday and did not end until mid-afternoon Friday. Other than three or four divorce cases, only two major cases were tried during the term. These were the Devault suit end the Conslh dated Textile. corporation suit against M. L. Patterson, former employe. As a result of the two long-drawn out trials, many of the civil litiga tions on the already congested doc ket were carried over to the next court. Girl Killed At Forest City Nineteen Year Old Girl Steps In Front Of Charlotte Car— St a rem Held. Fowwt OH.v. AVg. 8.—Miss N&unis , Sue Farris, nineteen, was fatally In , Jured on a highway near here Sa* urelay night when she was struck by an automohile driven by Edward L Sayers, of Charlotte. Miss Farris was rushed to a Rutherfordton hospital, where she died two hours after the accident without regaining consciousness. Sayers was held by police hut was later released when witnesses told Solicitor O. J. Monneyham the accident was unavoidable. v Several brothers and sisters sur vive. Funeral services were held Sunday at Pleasant Grove chnrch Ea$om Begins His Fifth Year Here Due recognition was given Mr. Horace Easom yesterday at the First Baptist Sunday school when he entered upon bis lifth year as director of music and educational work. He and Mbs. Easom had Just returned from a three weeks vaca tion and after the Sunday school classes were over Sunday morning, each department presented him with a basket of beautiful flowers and spoke words of praise for his effec tive leadership. During the past four years the church and Sunday school have shown marvelous growth and Dr. Wall, the pastor, who was to start on his vacation last week, remained over to have a part in the recog nition given Mr. Easom. There ware over 900 at Sunday school and large crowds at both preaching services. Dr. Wall enters upon his vacation this week but will be in constant touch with his church people. . Ramsey Child Dies In West Shelby Frank Oarr Ramsey, the six . months old son at Mr. and Mrs. A . A, Ramsey died at the home of his i parents on Clegg street at 7 o’clock this morning. The little fellow had been sick for two weeks and in a l serious condition since last Friday. Funeral services will he held from i the home on Tuesday morning at. i 10 o’clock and interment will take place in Sunset cemetery. Meeting To Begin At Pleasant Grove Rev. D. G. Washburn will begin revival meeting at Pleasant Grove church on the second Sunday in August. Mr, Washburn is the pas tor of this church The cemetery at. this church will be cleaned off on Thursday morning of this week and all who have friends and rela tives buried there are asked to re Iport.