North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXVIII. No. 101 SIIELBV, N. C. MONDAY. AI T,. 22. 1932 ...—---- -1 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) 8 PAGES TODAY ! Mall, per rear, tin advancel - tit Carrier, per rear, (in advance* MB Late News THE MARKET Cotton, Spot . 7 35 "P Cotton Seed, ton - Cloudy Tuesday Today's North C arolina Weather] Report: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Not much chance in tern-] perature. Roosevelt Bucks Albany, N. Y„ Aug. 22 — Governor Franklin D. Rooserelt ha* formal ly notified the courts of the state they have no power to stop him from hearing and acting on the de mand for removal from office of Mayor Walker of New York. A brief filed with the supreme court by the attorney general's office, repres enting Mr. Roosevelt in the double attempt of Walker and a Bronv county roan to halt the proceedings, definitely challenged the right of Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley to stop the governor from acting on the charges. Mrs. McBrayer Dies Suddenly; Buried This A. M. i Four Children Survive Her One Of Shelby’s Loveliest Charac ters And Widow of Or. Victor McBrayer Dies. Mrs. Esther Suttle McBrayer. agej 73 and widow of Dr. Victor Mc Brayer. who during his life was one of the leading physicians of the city, passed quietly Saturday aft ernoon at her home on N Morgan street. End Unexpected Mrs. McBrayer had been a suf ferer with a heart trouble and had a severe attack Friday night after she returned from a visit in the neighborhood Another attack seized her Saturday morning and during each attack her family physician attended her. Having last consider able sleep and suffered intense pain the night before. she -lay resting after lunch and never awoke. Her passing was without a struggle. Quickly the news spread over the city and members of her family were summoned. It was a severe shock to many who did not realize that her condition was in any way serious Lovely Character Being one of Shelby's most love ly characters, and widely connected, the funeral this morning at 10 o'clock from the residence was largely attended. She Had always actively identified herself with the religious and social life of the com munity and was a most active member and constant attendant at the First Baptist church where she held her membership since young womanhood. She was gentle, kind, thoughtful, sympathetic, with a heart full of love for her Master, His church, her home, family and friends. She had great reverence (or the Sabbath and one of the joys of her life was to go to church and feast her soul on spiritual thoughts. Her Christian home always stood for the better things of life for she made it after the fashion pleasing to her Lord. Four Children Thirty-four years ago her belov ed husband passed on and one by one her brothers and sisters until •he was the last of the family. Sur i iving are three noble daughters, Mrs. Paul Webb. Mrs. Odus M Mull and Miss Elizabeth McBrayer of Shelby and one son, Willie Mc •CONTINtnED ON PAGE EIGHT I Select Judges ForKennelClub Show Here Soon Western Carolina Kennel Club Show To Be Held Thursday. Friday. September 29-30 Dan Frazier, president of the Western Carolinas Kennel Club, an nounces the names of the judges who will serve during the kennel club's dog show here on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 29-30. They are E. D. McQuown, Dayton, Ohio; D. S Weaver,, State college, Raleigh, end Dr. W. T. Scarborough, Raleigh. The show, to be held Thursday end Friday of fair week, Is the first dog show to be held in this section with the recognition of the Ameri can Kennel Club, and hundreds of entries are expected from over the two States. Dogs do not necessarily have to be registered, Mr. Frazier informs, but many registered dogs, some of the best dogs in the Carolinas, Ten nessee and Virginia, will be entered. As a result dog fanciers from all sections of the South are expected to attend the event. The fair proper begins September and runs through October 1. New Polkville Highway Route Big Topic Now Engineer* Back For Another Survey Reported That Bridge Will Be Built Over River Above Pump Station. When, and if built, what route will the proposed new Shelby-Polk vllle highway follow? That question has been a major topic of conversation in Shelby and the section through which It will pass since It. was learned two weeks ago that this road link will be constructed as a part of the federal highway program for aiding unem ployed. The contract for the road will, reports today had it, likely be ap proved this week or next and con tracts led early in September, Make Another Survey Some of the engineers who made the first survey on the proposed route, or routes, are back In Shelby this week, presumably for the pur pose of making another survey. For several weeks two or three routes have been considered as the best suited, but in the meantime highway engineers have had noth ing public to say about the matter. If they have decided definitely upon a route, it is not definitely known After the completion of the fust survey reports were that the high way would leave Shelby by the northern route, across Hopper Park bridge, and would cross the river in the Cornwell neighborhood. This week, however, the word r that the road will leave the ofty along tire route of the present Dov er mill-pump station road, but will swing to the north in order to eli minate both railroad crossings, the one east of the pump station and the one west of the river, near tire Dover mill store. If this route is followed, it is believed that the road will swing north just before reach ing the first railroad crossing, go behind, or northeast of the pump station, and cross the river just above the water station pumps. This would require a new bridge, as would be the case, it is said, on the other route. Opinion is divided about the two routes, while still other routes have supporters. The route out by Hopper Park would, it is argued, make a more direct route, but the other would, the other side con tends. benefit more people, in that it would swing back south after crossing the river above the pump station and come back into the present road, or near it. Just north of the Dover village As it is nothing is definite about the routing, and chances are that the exact route may not be known until the project goes before the highway commission for approval this week or next. The road construction will give employment to quite a number of local employed, and the majority of citizens are naturally anxious that a route be selected and work start as soon as possible. Falls And McSwain On Bar Committees (Star News Bureau ! Raleigh, Aug. 22.—B. T Falls, Shelby, has been named as the Cleveland county member of the county membership committee of the N. C. Bar Association by Presi dent Kemp D. Battle, Rocky Mount who named D. D, Priden, Edenton, chairman and F. U. Spruill, jrj., Rocky Mount, secretary. The com mittee consists of one member from each county. Peyton McSwain, Shelby, was named as 16t.h Judicial district member of the committee on Ad mission to Membership. On First Campaign Sortee Surrounded by members of his devoted family. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown as be left Albany, N. V , cnroute to Columbus, Ohio, to make his first campaign speech outside his own State since his acceptance address at Chicago c>n July 2. Left to right in the group are; Mrs. Roosevelt, the Governor's wife. Governor Roosevelt, his son Tames, Mrs. Anna Dahl and John Roosevelt. , This County To Get Dividends In Closed Banks At Kings Mountain And Grover Through Liquidations S4.WKI To Growr I* 45 Percent Liquidation. Cheeky Total Near SfO.llOO Raleigh, Aug 22 — Checks as divi dends trom banks in liquidation will go this week to the communities of Grover in Cleveland county, Burgaw in Pender, and Gastonia in Gaston, carrying more than *100 000 in pay- j ment of losses sustained in the suspension of tnose depositories. A 10 per cent dividend will be sent to Grover paying *4,600 to the de positors in that bank and bringing the total of the liquidation to 43 per cent. Another 10 per cent will be forwarded to Burgaw to pay *14.783 on the losses in the Bank of Pender in Burgaw. A 5 per cent dividend will be sent to Gastonia, but that represents in money $84,450 and brings the total collections for that ill fated institution to 45 cents on the dollar. The Commercial Bank jof Gastonia had total resources of *1.689.000. ft had branches in Cher-, j ryville, Mount Holly. Llneolnton. and I Kings Mountain^nd when the par ent bank in Gastonia l“li. great was [that fall throughout the county. The Bank of Grover, my properly ■ in Cleveland county, both bearing I the name of one of Democracy's I most illustrious men. gets a 45 per icent liquidation to date; the Bank of ! Pender makes a 30 per cent collect j ion and the Commercial at Gastonia |45 per cent. Thus $100,000 and more will be turned loose to pay debts in sorely smitten communities It is a settlement which the wildest sort ot i speculators would not have promis ed when the liquidation began Commissioner Gurney Hood, of the banking system of the state, is mak ing up figures which will be avail able Within another fortnight show ing the progress of liquidation under taken in the unprecendented failur es recorded over the past two years. The settlements are proceeding with much greater speed and iar greater money than anybody had hoped they would. These dividends announced today as ready to go out do not come out of favored spots. No parts of the state have been harder hit fi nancially than these four counties in which the banks did business. Next Assembly May Attack Marriage License Laws Of N. C. As Too Strict Cost And Stritness Of Regulations May Come liiAler Fire. Raleigh. Aug. 22.^-Marriage li censes. which have been increasing ly harder to get in North Carolyia during the last several years, Are expected to have ihelr inning in the 1933 session of the General As sembly, and probably with better chance of success, since it has de veloped that the number issued in this state has been split almost half in two in the last-five year period. Efforts were made by represen tatives of border counties in 1931 to modify 'he strict laws, but with out, success The law in force about 10 years requires a mental and physical examination of both par ties, for which a fee is charged by the examining physician, the male t party to the event having to sub mit to an examination for social disease as well. The 1929 general assembly added another law that requires publishing the marriage banns or application five days be jfore the license is issued, if the parties or either of them is under 21 years of age, unless consent of the parents or guardians is present ed. Big Decline. Five years ago, for the fiscal i I year from July 1, 1926 to June 30.' 1927. marriac : licenses reached; iheir peak in numbers. 23.361 having been istied in the state From that, icojrrirttigD on paux tuum.i ! No Arrests Over Week-End In City Saturday and Sunday unr of those record week-ends with local officers. Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night not a single person was placed in jail, ac cording to Sheriff Irvin M. Allen. Only two or three times in a period of five years has i week-end passed in Shelby without * single person going to jail from Saturday after noon until Monday morning. Bring Body Of Harry ReidHere For Interment Brother Of Mr*. Hennessa Anri Brother-In-I^aw Of Mrs. Latr timore Dies In Baltimore. The remains of Mr. Harry Reid who died at 4 p. in. Sunday after noon in Johns Hopkins hospital Baltimore, will be brought to Shel by Wednesday or Thursday for in terment in Sunset cemetery. Mr Reid was well and favorably known in Shelby, being a brother of Mrs P. L, Hennessa and a brother-in law of Mrs. E. B. Lattimore was taken to the Baltimore hospital ten days ago for treatment and for several days his life was despaired of. Mr. Reid was married to Mins Jessie Brevard, daughter of the late John D. Brevard who formerly lived here. Mr. Reid was born in Statesville in 1877 and spent most of his life in North Carolina In early manhood he travelled for the Allen Hardware Co., of Charlotte and tyter engaged in the retail hard ware business for fifteen y.ears. He was prominent in the Masonic fraternity. having at one time dpch grand ntgn priest oi me i-toyai Arch Masons of North Carolina. He was a member of Saint Luke's Episcopal church in Lincolnton A funeral car from Shelby ha gone for his body, but it is not known yet just when it will return The interment, however, will be here either Wednesday or Thurs day. Webb Barnett Is Injured At Plant Has Arm Broken And Other Injures When Caught In Cards Webb Barnett, well known em ploye of the Eastside textile plant is in the hospital with severe in juries, suffered, it is reported, when he w’as caught in the cards at the plant Saturday morning The accident occured around 9 o'clock and Mr. Barnett had tfn arm broken, a gash on the head and other injuries. He is reported to be iblr to leave the hospital within a lew days. Farmers Grange \ Will Meet Here Thursday Night All Farm People Should Attend National Organization Hope* To Form any I'nlt* In t onntv. rnbllr Invited A national Grange meeting will be held Thursday night .August 25. (n the Cleveland county court house and all farm people of the county are urged to attend. W Kerr Seott. Stale Orange] master, will be present and will speak. Hope To Organize The Orange is now Hie only na tion-wide farm organization which has stood up through the years With farmers realizing now more than ever that they ni'iet stick to gether in order to advance agricul ture and make it a more profitable undertaking the meeting is consid ered a highly Important one This county's first unit, of the Grange is located at FI Bethel and has been operating for eight months in a successful manner At the meeting here Thursday night it Is hoped to begin the or ganization ot several other local Granges and eventually make the movement as near county-wide as possible. This fall the first national Grange convention to ever meet In the South will bo staged at Winston Salmi. Farm Agent R W Sholfner ts urging that every farmer, every farm wife and hoy and girl attend thts week's meeting If possible. Orphanage Head Killed By Train I Or M. L. Keeler Superintendent Of I Bspttit Orphanage la Burled Sunday ! .Thouiasville, Aug. 21 Dr Martin .'Luther Kesler. 74, killed 'n a collis ion between his automobile and h i train at a crossing near here early Saturday, was burled Sunday at Mills home. Baptist orphanage where lor 27 years he. had been general ; manager. Funeral services was held at 3 p. : m . at Mills Home Baptist church. I Dr. Kesler. known In thousands of Baptist homes throughout the state apparently became confused by the passing of a south-bound train and i drove his car Into a north-bound train at. Boyles street crossing, near the home. He was killed instantly. Leave* Three Sons. S H. Gardner said he heard the crash after the engine and several icars of the train had passed the jrrosslng. Dr. Kesler is survived by his widow and tree sons. Jack and Courtney of Winston-Salem, and M L Kesler, Jr., of New Jersey. Dr. Kesler. who had been super intendent of the Mills home, for i merly Thomasvllle Baptist orphan age, since 1905. was widely recog Inized as one of'the leading orphan age leaders In the Baptist denom ination in North Carolina Shelby Given $246 For Firemen’* Aid Raleigh, Aug. 22.- Shelby hfus I been sent $246.25 as its share of the State Firemen's Relief Fund, distributed each year on the basis of the amount of fire insurance premiums collected the year before in the towns and cities of the State which qualify by having an organized fire department, a desig nated fire district and regulations complying with the fire waste law. The total distributed to 153 towns and cities qualifying was $30,506.91. which is one per cent of the insur ance premiums paid in these towns and cities. This is $5,830 less than tlie amount distributed last year, showing a decrease in the amount of business done. Kings Mountain received $107 01 of this fund. Whisnant Reunion Friday Aug. 26th The Whisnant reunion is to be held Friday, August 26th at old Mount Harmony church northwest of Polkville. A fine program has been arranged with a history of the Whisnant family. All Whisnants and their relatives are invited to at tend with well filled baskets. Small Blaze Today The city fire trucks were called out, at 11.30 this morning to ex tInguiBh a small roof blaze .on a house owned by Dr R M. Gidne1 and occupied by Charlie Carson, Just below the Marion street school Cotton Acreage Cut, Corn And Wheat Acreage Larger In County This Year Mayor Honored Mayor S. A. McMurry, of Shelby, j ni on Saturday Heeled tenth iHs- i trtet director of the North Carolina j Municipal amnrlatlon at it* eon- ‘ vention in Hendersonville. Mayors Desire Slash In Rate For Utilities Shelby Mayor lyierted Director In State Association. Meet ing Closer Hendersonville. Auk 32 The l’he North Carolina Municipal Asso \ < ration concluded its annual meeting .here Saturday with the election of ! Mayor George W. Coan < i Winston I Salem, as president. ■ Mayor Sim A. McMurry of Shelby, was elected a director of the asso ciation for the tenth district. The convention discussed the re port of the temporary legislative committee, in which the committee recommended among other things a uniform date for elective munlci ! pal officers to take office, and the elimination of the gasoline fax on gasoline consumed by municipal ve hicles. Another recommendation was that the State return to cities CONTINUED ON PAOf EIOH1 , Mr. McEntyre Dies In Union Section — I Aged Citisfn Succumbs At 79 Vears. j Six Children Survive. Buried Thursday. Andrew McEntyre. aged farmer of the. Union section died Wednes day. August 17th at his home fol lowing a long illness. He had been bedfast, for three weeks and unable to take nourishment. Mr. McEntyre was well known in his community and had been a most Industrious man before he was forced to retire because of his ad vanclng years His wife died in 1924 Surviving are the following Misses Mary and Maggie McEntyre. Mrs. Toy Mode. Ransom. Louie, J. M. and Robert McEntyre. together with four grandchildren. Also sur viving arc four brothers and one sister. Robbie of Polk county, Coon of Hickory, Tom of the Union sec tion, Dick McEntyre of Polk coun ty and Mrs Ben Powell of thb county. A large crowd attended the fu neral service which was held at Union church on Thursday, the services being conducted by Rev D. O. Washburn. Try Another On Store Theft At Kings Mountain Jim Mull RoihAJ Over To Superior Court. Say flood* Found ; In Homo. Jim atogg, young white man of Kings Mountain, was given a pro- \ tlmtnary hearing in county court! this morning on the charge of en- | terlng and robbing (he Phoenix mill store and barbershop at Kings Mountain He was bound over to superior court The alleged robbery took place six or eight months ago Stagg, one of the men suspected by officers, was only located last week in South Carolina and returned here for trial. Just after the robbery officers testified they found a quantity of goods, presumably some of those stolen in the house where Stags had been living at Kings Moun tain. Two other men. who lived acroas the street from hint were tried on the charge but acquitted. The haul from the store included a general run of drygoods, meat, rood, etc., and from the barbershop was taken a large niwnher of the barber tools. Former Pilot Here Leading Air Derby Fred Dorsett leads As Planes Pass Over Slielby Before Noon Today. A former Shelby pilot and air barnstormer was leading the na tional handicap air derby as the planes passed over the city today, Fred Dorsett, who barnstormed with the Cleveland Springs airport, a« his headquarters several years ago, was ahead when the planes reach led Winston-Salem last night after the first, leg of the flight from Washington. He camp in there five minutes j ahead of the others and led the ■procession out this morning, flying the Winston-Spartanburg route over this city. His plan passed over i Just before 11 30, The 2.369-mtle race will end at Cleveland, Ohio Dorsett. now of Augusta and said to be flying the slowest plane in the handicap race. came from Washington to Winston in two [hours and 3« minutes, landing [ttee at 5:41 yesterday afternoon Hr won 270 points thereby toward ■first prize in the derby. He left Winston this morning at 10. Helen MacCloskey, 22-year-old Pittsburg ! girl, was flying one of the planes In i the derby, which is the Atlantic (wind of the transcontinental handi cap sweepstakes race. Young Mull Boy 1* Drowned Near Vale Bobby Hugh Mull, IS Months. Drowns In RIVer Trying To Follow Mother ! Hickory, Aug. 22.—An attempt of ! Bobby Hugh Mull. 19-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Mull, of the Vale community, to follow hts mother across the lower branch of the South Fork river, tesulted in his death late Friday afternoon. The mother had gone to pick to matoes and had left the child with some older children, it was said He left the group unnoticed and when found his body had drifted about 50 feet down the stream. The funeral was conducted Saturday after noon Mull Finds G. 0. P. Making Same Type Of Insinuations Against Roosevelt Open Forum Propaganda Hits At Decorated Religion And Af filiation With Mason*. M. R. DUNN AG AN Star News Bureau Raleigh, Aug. 22.—"Franklin D Roosevelt is an Episcopalian relig iously. A watch charm Mason frat ernally, and a Tammany Democrat politically! He is as rotten as the devil and unfit to hold any office i within the gift of the people!" | "Do you want to transfer a man I from a convention that packed the j Catholic churches, the brothels,: and the booze joints to their capa city, to the White House? A to e for Roosevelt is h vote for booze boodle and lolien politics as again the home, the school, and the church of Jesus Christ. Think it over." Those are two paragraphs from an insidious publication, “The Raii Splitter,” published monthly at Milan, Illinois, and edited by Wil liam Lloyd Clark, similar in many respects to the widely distributed publication of the 1928 campaign. "The Open Forum." which devoted itself to seeking to degrade the Democratic nominee, Alfred E. Smith, and the Roman Catholic church. Mull's Charge Odus M. Mull, recent state Dem ocratic chairman, charged in the executive committee meeting here about two weeks ago that “The Open Forum ' was spread by the) coariNuajj us pact* KiQm.j j Cotton Acreage Le»» Than In 5 Year* Seven Thousand Acffn Im» Irf Cnl ton Oil Crop Al<m Shun fialn. Otiwland county K grad uaH.v switching imr from rol lon and giving morr arrragr and timr to food and frrd crop*, It Ik shown by thr 19S! arrragr arM crop report just made public by R W. Shnffner. county agent. Thr arrragr report for thr fou leading crops and for poultry an* rattle was made up from the Us tin returns this year and’is as nra; acrurate as was thr Itsting Changes Made. These figures show that the 19,* cotton crop is 7,000 acres below tha. of last year, the com crop Is 2,00t acres ahead of 1931. the wheat, cro| 1s 3.000 acres ahead and the or it crop more than 100 acres Which may he taken t<1 mean that the 7 000 acres devoted to cotton last, yaa< were switched to com, wheat an« oats and hay crops this year as « trend of the live-at-home move ment Morr Chirks. Cows. The report also shows a fain l* chickens and cows There are 10, 000 more hens In the county fchae last rear and over 250 more cows. No 4 Leads. The a reage figure* by township* shows No. 4 leading In corn, wheat and poultry and ranking second lr number of cows No. 6 township leads in cotton acreage with No * next, and No. 2 leads in oats whll* No 7 ha* the largest number of cows. The acreage figures over three and four year periods follow: Cotton- 1932. 67.147: 1931. 74,332; 1930, 66,443: 1929. 83,036 Corn—1932. 40,178 acres 1931 38. 054; 1930, 37,861; 1929, 35.361 Wheat,—1932. 10.912 acres: 1931. 7.361: 1930. 2.269 tthls «"1S the wet fall year); 1929 7.375 Oats—1932, 7,950 acres: 1931. 7, 816; 1930 5.599. 1929. 4 109 Hens—1832. 86.301; 1931. 76.949; 1930. 93,778; 1929. 94.908 Cows—1932. 5,591; 1931. 5,331 These figures show that the coun ty has a total of 126,187 acres in th* four major crops, a little more than half of the acreage being in cotton. Three to five years ago more than 60 percent of the acreage was In cotton The township ranking in each of the items listed was as follow* for the two leaders: Cotton—No 6 township, 10,798 acres: No. 8. 9.067 Corn—No. 4 township, 5.434 seres; No. 8, 5,260 Wheat—No. 4 township, 3.159 acres; No. 5. 1»554. Oats—No. 2 township. 1,160 acres; No. 3, 934 Hens—No 4 township. H.787; No, 8. 10,817. Cows—No 7 township 70ft; No 4, 677. Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. ! 1. Where is the "Lost Dutchman's Mine" supposed to be? 2 Did the selective service act during the World war include the Philippines? 3 Who is Felix Hebert? 4 What is the language of Ire land? 5 What is a "Papal Bull?" fi. Name the three leading corn producing states of the U. S,° 7. Did Andrew Jackson hold any public office after he was presi dent? 8 What is the average seasonal production of a coffee tree’ j 9. How old is Col Charles A Lindbergh? I 10 How much pay do privates In i the national guard receive? J 11. What kind of fraternity is Pi !Mu? j 12. For what act is Pontius Pilate principally known? I 13. Name the U. S. Secretary of ! Labor? i 14.—’Where did the Meadow j Mountain massacre occur? ! 15. What Is the masculine form |of the name Marian? 16. Who has been called ‘The j Father of the Constitution?" 17. Between which two countries was the Tacna-Arlca Dispute? 18. What is the rule of the aea about a captain leaving a sinking ship? 19 Across what Central Ameri can country has the V S. ?he rlgb* to build a second oceanic can*)» 20 Wli-re did the Romanoff dy nasty rule.