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S PAGES TODAY »____, Hy Mail. rear, tin advance - rift Carr!i»r. par v*ar. Oft n-!vanr«» 93.0ft — Late News THE MARKET < otton. Spot . _ 7%cJ Seed, per ton _*13.00 j Warmer Tonight Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Tuesday. I Slightly warmer tonight in north I and extreme west portions. “A» Maine Goes” -j Portland, Maine, Sept. 12.—With j the eves of the nation upon it. the state of Maine becomes the battle ground today for the first test of! strength in this rountry between the j major political parties. Antedating the general Presidential canvass by ; two months, today's slate elertion was termed by Senator Moses, Re- | publican. New Hampshire, in a campaign address, as "critically in fluential” in the vote of the nation in November, A governor, three eon-! gressmen, State legislative represen-j tative. senators and county officials] will tie chosen. The polls, opening j from 6 a. m. to 10 a. m.. tE.S.T.I, on option of communities, automatical ly close at 7 p. m. For the first time in years. Democrats put for ward a full slate of candidates in a campaign without any clear-rut state Issues, but sharply waged up on national prohibition In the con gressional contests. El Bethel Man Is Found Dead James Boyce Elam Believed To' Have D'ed From Heart Attack I Found Today. James Boyce Elam. 5o years of I nge, was found dead r.t a spring! near his home In the El Bethel sec tion this morning about 8 o'clock Death resulted from heart trouble, it was said, and Coroner Roscdt Lutz did not think an inquest ne cessary. Mr, Elam was last seer Sunday morning when he started for the spring. He lived alone and had not been seen by neighbors until this morning when his body was found. He had suffered from heart trouble and is believed to have suffered the fatal attack soon after going to tbej spring as indications were he had] been dead for many hours. this afternoon at 5 o’clock at Beth-1 lehem church where Mr. Elam s fa ther. the late Rev. Phillip Elam.j was pastor for 20 years. Mr. Elam was a member of a well | known family and was popular and highly respected in the community. j Surviving are three brothers: C.j S., of near Charlotte; W B., of Lin coln county;.and R. F. Elam of Kings Mountain. A half brother.! ■John Crawford, of Earl, also surviv es. His Son Of Minister, Funeral services are to be held Compensation Case Will Be Held Here (Star News Bureau.! Raleigh. Sept. 12.—Forty work men’s compensation cases are set tor hearing during the next twt weeks before Industrial Coinmis- j stone’- T. A. Wilson, largely in the piedmont and mountain sections Deaths of two men. J. P. Jones, em- | ployed by the R, J. Reynolds To- j bacco Co., and S. M. Hagan, em ployed by the city of Asheville, are involved. The cases include five in Winston Salem. four in Asheville, two in Mar ion, one in Morganton, one in Le ' noir. three in Waynesville, four in Sylva, two in Robbinsvill“, one each in Hendersonville and Bryson City, two in Rutherfordton, one in Slielby. two in Lincolnton. four in Statesville two in Dobson, one in Spray, one each in Louisburg and Henderson and two in Wnrrenton. Court House Gets Western Union Time A new dock has been installed in the main floor lobby of the county court house by the Western Union office as a courtesy of the A. V. Wray store. The clock is located just over the entrance to the Sheriff’s office and Us at a place where it can be conveniently seen from the of fices and in the lobby. Gaston Couple Is Married In Shelby A Gaston county couple, Ben Griffith, 25. and Ruby Nell Foushee, 18, were married at tile court house here Saturday afternoon by 'Squire T. Cling Eskridge. Young Griffith is the son of the late Joe Griffith and his bride is the daughter of Bratt Foushee. Taken To Hospital W. O. Shearer, well known citizen of Lattimore was taken over the .mrk-end in an ambulance lo a go', eminent hosruta! in Richmond. va for treatment His condition is -•ported to be quite s#rebus and the long ambulance trip was very trying on him. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war. Professional Building Contract Will Be Let Wednesday; To House Drug Store, Offices For Medical Men Dr*. Gold And Moore Are Owner* S8.00»l Building To Be Krected On South Washington Street. Plans { Released. Another building project for Shel- j by was announced today when it i was learned that the building con trait for an *8,000 professional j building will be let Wednesday of this week The owners of the proposed build ing are Drs. Ben and Tom Gold. Shelby physician and specialist, and Dr. D. P. Moore, another Shelby[ physician. The three men recently purchns- j eel a lot on South Washington Street i from A. V. Wray. The lot is located at the 'southeast side of the Hotel I Cleveland at the present location of the tennis club courts. Store And Offices. Plans for the building have just j been completed by the Martin L. | Hampton architectural office at i Hickory. These plans call for a two- j story building of brick, wood and | steel construction, it will be 50 by j 80 in dimensions and the front will 1 be of ornamental terra cotta. The j main floor will house a drug store and there will be more than 20 of fices in the building for medical and professional men. The names of the occupants ol the store and offices have not been announced, although it is under- j stood that the offices of the two Golds and Moore will N* in the building. • This is the second building pro ject to be started here in recent, weeks, work now being underway on the newr Lutheran church, and the j erection of several residences adds J to the genera! building activity j which is better than in many j months Cloth Mill Fire Sunday Did Small Damage To Goods Damage Caused By Water In Ship ping Room. Blare At Carpenter Home. A tire in the shipping room ol the Cleveland Cloth mill Sunday after noon at 5:45 resulted in damage from water to a quantity of cloth stored there for shipping The wa ter damage came from the releasing of the sprinkler system in the plant, it is said. Firemen used chemicals to extinguish the blaze. A report at the fire department today stated that the belief was that the blaze originated from ship ping room stencils which became heated from steam pipes. Saturday afternoon at 6:45 the fire trucks were called to the K. E. Carpenter residence. South LaFay ette street, where the kitchen floor was damaged from a fire starting from a stove Landrum Webb Dies Here; Buried Sunday Landrum Webb, well known col ored man and a member of a large colored family that hits lived in Shelby for the past half century or longer, died at his home in Freed mon Friday and was buried Sun day. Prosperous Days Fill County Jail Twenty-Seven Arrests In City Over Week-End. largest Number In Months. More than a seorr of people “just couldn't stand prosperity” over the week-end in Shelby. With practically all industrial plants back on full time and extra work being picked up in cotton j fields, the new money in circulation provided enough hilarity and whoo pee to keep county and city officers on'the trot Saturday and Sunday. Around a score of people were j jailed in a 24-hour period, a new high mark since the beginning of the depression. Twenty-seven defendants were hailed into county court this morn- i mg to answer week-end charges. The majority were imbibers and vio lators of the prohibition laws. In the 27 cases two defendants re-' ceived 90-day sentences for operat-l ing autos while intoxicated; four ’ defendants were given 61-day terms j and a colored man and woman were ordered to leave town or start serv- ! ing sentence of 90 day eacli. Cotton Off S2.00 Per Bale Today _ ■ t Liquidation Extends Through Com modify And Stork Market* Today. At 1:30 o'clock cotton hud declin ed *2 a bale on the New York cotton exchange from Saturday s close and the weakness reflected itself through the stock market which suffered a severe decline throughout the list. Oct. cotton was quoted at 7.66. December at 7.82. as compared with ; a close Saturday Oct. 8.08. Decern- j ber 8.26. Cleveaburg'-s comment reads: Tropical disturbance in gulf about 200 miles south east of Galveston moving north. Forecast Miss.. Ala.,; La., rain. East Tex. rain, southeast portion Ga., showers, ?. C., showers syuth portion. N. C. chowers west portion. Ark. showers tomorrow. Okia., part: cloudy showers recorded ; on last night’s map at Jacksonville. J Macon and Savannah. Exchange j service says weeks weather mostly j favorable except Texas. Commodity i prices continue rise, business activ ity points upward with textiles and shoes in lead. Textile report for four j weeks in August shows sales 282.4 percent of production, hillings 139.7 percent of production. stocks on hand decreased 25.5 percent, unfill ed orders increased 113 1 percent. Light business in Worth St.. Satur day market should sell higher to day on weather and bullish textile report. Crowder Is Manager Southern Cotton Oil Assistant Manager Of Plant Suc ceeds Late Capt. Jenkins. 18 Years Service. j Robert D. Crowder has been nam ed as successor to the late Capt, J. Frank Jenkins as manager of the Shelby branch of the Southern Cot ton Oil company. He has been In charge of the plant since Capt. Jen kins death and official confirmation of his appointment is expected soon. The new manager, who has been ; assistant manager for some time, 'has been with the firm for 18 years. Open Democratic Headquarters In Raleigh; Sees Victory For Party C hairman Winborne Pleased With' Outlook As He Opens Raleigh ; Offices. (Special To The Star.> Raleigh, Sept. 12.—State Demo- i cratic headquarters were opened on j the 10th floor of the Sir Walter1 Hotel, in the rooms occupied by that j organiation in 1928. this morning to remain as the seat of Democratic activities in the State for the next eight weeks, until the November 8 election. State Chairman J. Wallace Winbome announced last week. Chairman Winborne said his pre ; liminary staff of workers is com 'plete and wifi start today. He re turned Sunday to remain here al most constantly until the election. Mr?. Thoma- OBerrv. vice-chair - man, and John Bright Hill, Wil mington, secretary, will be '£> al I most constant attendance at the ! headquarters. For several days Mr. Winborne has been in conference with county leaders in the various districts, hav ing been at Burlington with Sixth district leaders Thursday night. He went to Chapel Hill Friday to at tend the Institute of Government in session at the State University. Mr. Winborne reported a uni formly optimistic spirit for the Democratic ticket, State and na tional, and found only rare local troubles, he said. “I am well pleas ed with the activities of the Young Democratic Clubs,” he said. “I find the members enthusiastic and co operating fully with the county chairmen in almost every county. I feel that this organization will do lots of good in the coming cam paign,’ he said. John W Devane, Fayetteville, has been announced as chairman 6f the r>ptfi(yra*ic Advisor*- Committee for the campaign, Chairman Wmbprne saying he has a tentative commit tee of 20 or more men who will be asked to serve. j ? it Queen of the Cream This pretty Southern girl, Mia# Anne Elizabeth Davies, of Arling ton County, Va., has been chosen as queen of the second Piedmont Virginia Dairy Festival. She is a granddaughter of the Hon. George Carr Bound, early settler in the State. Miss Davies will be orownec Regina II with elaborate ceremo nies on the opening of the festival Police Get Man Wanted In Store Robbery Of 1931 Alton Eskridge. Colored. Brought Bark From Winston-Salem Friday. Alton 'Eskridge, colored, w bock in the county' jail here after being missing for months as a suspect in the robbery, in February lfl'jt of the Basil Goode grocery store. He was. brought back Friday night by Police Chife McBride Pos ton and Fireman Joseph Carroll, who located Eskridge at Winston Salem. The officers first visited High Point, attempting to check upi on the owners of the cars abandon ed during a recent robbery attempt of the McKnight wholesale grocery. They then went on to Winston where they located Eskridge. Two negroes. Dug Wray and Ew- j ell < Bad Eyel Eskridge are already | serving time for the Goode store' robbery. Returning with officer.-j yesterday. Eskridge admitted. Po-. lice Chief Poston says, that he watched while the others entered ■ the store but did not take an active! part in the robbery. The officers also learned that three or four of the men thought to have attempted the McKnight rob bery are now in jai! at Winston and High Point on store robbery charg es. The owner of one car abandon ed when officers flushed the bandit party is said to be held in Forsyth on the charge of breaking in two stores. Non McSwain Dies At Shelby Mill I/One And Faithful Employee Found' Dead In Bed. Buried Sunday At Sharon Methodist. Non McSwain, age 78 years, wasi found dead in bed at his home in the Shelby mill village Saturday morning. He had been in bad health for over a year and unable to work, but had been upyand around the house. His death was a great shock to his family and host of friends. Mr. McSwain was a native of this county and had lived in the same house in the Shelby mill village for 28 years. He was a long and faiths ful employee of the mill, depend able and trustworthy and held in high esteem by the mill officials. The funeral was conducted Sun day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. W. R. Jenkins, pastor of La Fayette Street Methodist church as sisted by Rev. Mr. Randall of Sha ron church. A large crowd and a beautiful floral offering attested the esteem in which he was held. His grandchildren acted as pall bearers and flower girls. Surviving are his wife and four daughters. Mrs. Sam Morrison, Mrs. Andy Dawson. Mrs. Bert Green and Miss Rssie MeSwaiti. one broth er. Henry McSwain of Sharon sec tion, too s!®ters, Miss Frankie Mc Swaln of Mooresboro, and Mrs Capias Lee of Shelby, together witn fourteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. , Negro Fair To Have Free Gate For Event Here Anticipate Greatest Fair Yet tolnred Tropic Of County Plan Good Ran Of Feature* For Four Oar*. The big Cleveland County fair Srhieh open* two weeks from tomor row, will not have anything on the Cleveland county negro fair In the -mutter of free admission, j Rev N. J. Pass and Rev. A W .Foster, president and secretary re- ! speettvely of the negro fair asso j elation, announced today there 'would be uo admission charge to the ^colored fair. The event opens for a four-day run on Wednesday, October 12. closing Saturday night. Oct. 15. Feature School Booths School booths will be one ol the big features of the fair. Under the supervision of Violet Thomas it is expected to have 25 to 30 schools competing in the booth exhibits along with a number of the parent teacher associations The daily program will include free acts and fireworks, football, field dav sports and other attiat tlons. The fair lias booked a good carnival show for the midway and numerous rides and entertainment? Concerning the tree admission, officials say "By having a free gate every day all visitors will be admitted free to the grounds and as a result we believe our attendance will be increased 100 percent We are expecting as many good exhib its as ever and with bur colored farmers supporting us with their ex hibits we think we will have our best fair " Large Crowd Attend Mr. Litton’s Funeral M*nv Out Of Town Visitor*. List Of Pall Brarrra And Flower Brirert, A Urge crowd attended the fu neral on Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock of Mr. F. B. Litton at h1s home on West Warren street and there were many out-of-town vis iting friends of the family. The services were conducted by Dr Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Bap tist church of which he was a mem ber, assisted by Rev. John W. Sut tle and Rev. H. E W'aldrop. The following served as active pall bearers: J. L. Lackey. Bill Dog gett, Robert Crowder. Mason Car roll. Willis McMurry. R. G. Honey cutt, D. H. Cline and M. W. Stew art. Honorary pall bearers were Paid HRWkins. D W. Royster, A. W. McMurry; John Campbell, Sam Hazel, Clyde Mauney, L. C. Boat There was a beautiful arroy of flowers handled by the following: Mesdames Horace Easorii, William Osborne. Hobson Austell. Paul Webb, jr., Henry Edwards, Yates McSwain. Janie Stamey. John Honeycutt, R. B Costner. Alvin I Propst. Yates Blanton W. E Hanks | and A. E. Gregory. Cook Reunion To Be Held Sept. 25 Will Be Held At Rev. J. H. Cook's Vear Bens Knob. Preaching And Dinner. There will be a reunion in re membrance of Edward Cook, Re volutionary war veteran and wife Ann, at the family graveyard on the farm of Rev, J. H. Cook, one mile north of Oliver Grove Baptist church and near the foot of Bens Knob in upper Cleveland, on the fourth Sunday in September, Sept. 25, 1932. F.dward Cook moved from Orange county to this county in the year of 1795 and resided at this place until his death, Feb 7, 1842. There will be preaching service at 11 o’clock, followed by exercises for the occasion. Everybody cordially invited and come prepared to spend the day. Have Any Chicken* Missing? See Chief Wanted the owner of four hens now in the custody of the Shelby police department. Saturday policemen were called and told that a colored man was at a local poultry house with chickens to sell and It was suspicioned that the chickens were stolen As Chief Poston and Policeman Kufus Sparks approached, the negro broke and ran. The officers caught him and placed him in tail. His name, offic ers say, is Will Dur?’r and he has served time, it is said, on the gang in the past. Durtin says he didn't steal the chickens but purchased ihem from a colored youth. ( Jean Harlow at Bern Rites Grief~8t*icken and showing signs of the strain entailed by the suicide of her husband, Paul Bern, Jean Harlow, in sombre black, is shown being aided by her stepfather, Marino Bello (left) and Willis GoMbach, a relative, as she left the Bello home in Los Angeles-for the funeral services. Milling Crowds In City Saturday Best Sign Of Business Gain Seen Streets packed with people and store aisles filled withj jostling buyers on Saturday gave Shelby the best indication! of a business upturn seen in two years. It was an oldttmey Saturday.' Such was the pick-up Hr acfft** Saturday afternoon that along the ■streets observers tossed the "Happy Days are Here Again" refrain. Causes Listed There were several reasons for the bustle evident on one of the best trading week-ends the city has experienced since the beginning of what the punsters call the Big Slide of 1929 One was the weather Grisp au tumn weather which brought scores of shoppers to town on the ques of fall and winter clothing Another was that quite a bit 0/ cotton has been picked, ginned and sold. And that mean’s money out on the farm. The big item, of the cotton situation, of course, is the price of eight cents and better when even the optimistic were ex pecting only five and six cents two months ago. The third cause of the pick-up is that practically all local textile plants are now running full time or almost full time, and several of the plants have announced a wage increase of 10 percent Anyway, the old town was hum ming Saturday as it hasn't hum med in many dreary months. Farm ers, textile workers, laborers, cot ton pickers and business people, all seemed to be getting a kick out of it. Along the streets hurrying ped estrians were forced to take many football sidesteps to avoid head-on collisions and tramped toes. Park ing places were not to be found m the uptown business section. not for blocks and blocks. One of the best upturn signs was in the lobbies of the First Na tional bank and Union Trust com panleg. There, In the section's btg W'Sf'flfiSneiRl institutions, the ac tivity resembled a bee hive. Tellers declared It to be the best day in almost. two years. "All week it hat been somewhat like tills, but to day's the peak!” The lobbies until closing time were a mass of constant ly moving people, some depositing money, others adding to their sav ings accounts, and still others cash ing pay checks. At one interval during the afternoon 46 people were counted in the lines in front of the tellers’ windows. Forty-six is no large'number. but is a sizeable enough crowd, after the lull of more than a year, to prove a tonic. It may not last—that probability inserted for the benefit of the pes simist—but Saturday was certainly a day of the type about which "Happy Days Are Here Again" was written. Policeman Moore Up Town Saturday Officer Out for the f irst Time Since Bring Struck, Hurt By Auto. Policeman Marshall Moore struck and seriously injured dv an automo bile, was up town riding Saturday for the first time since his injury 16 weeks ago. He was struck and knocked down by an alleged drunken driver near the corner of South LaFayette and Graham streets. His leg was broken and he was otherwise Injured. Al thought, It was the officer's first trip uptown he has been walking a little with crutches for several days, but as yet has not become accus tomed to them. n tlegging Of Gasoline Is Costing This State Million Dollars Yearly Carried Across Borders In ‘Blind” Trucks. Often Billed As Kero sene Shipment. Charlotte, Sept. 12 —North Caro lina is losing $1,000,000 each year in gasoline taxes brought through the “boctlegglng'' activities of illicit operators who sell the gasoline to the public and pocket the tax. as serted representatives of thJ North Carolina Petroleum Industries com mittee who are in Charlotte inves tigating gas tax evasion cases. The committee, which has been organized by the large otl compa nies and the independent dealers in •the state, has established head quarters in Raleigh and will endeav or to break up gasoline •‘bootlegging-’ which will be tumrd over to the 5.t»t-e depart mart of revenue tor »'c tion. Investigations in other states have revealed that from 10 to 20 ocr cent or the gasoline was tax! tree Assuming that the s«n< is true m North Carolina, where the gasoline tax last year amounted to $14,000,000. the state probably lost 1,11 ooo.OOO last year, the Investiga tors here last week said. They with held their names pending comple tion of their investigations, Methods most practiced are the mixing of other ingredients, notably kerosene, which is tax free. with gasoline; the mis-billing of gaso line. which is often labeled kerosene and the running of gaso'Ine across .herders in "blind" trucks. It was pointed out that gasoline is often bought in Virginia for use in North Carolina, the assumption being that the tax will be paid here. The operators thus fall • to pav the tax In either stair' Trv«$tigat ws of the committee be* f*cve that through the mhetag of gasoline with tax-free liquids, such as kerosene, vhich are sufficiently combustib'e to permit their use in .roNTiwnnn on paok eix > Money Allotted For Post Office In Shelby Is Cut 10 Percent Cut For Federal Building | Allocation for l.m-al Off Iff H'w $85,000, That Amount Was N'ot Thought K.nnugh When and if. the Shclbv post of fice is enlarged with an extra story added the construction work will have to he carried out lor *76.500 instead of tlir original allocation of $85,000. Karly this year, scam arter the amount was fixed for r.-reasing the size of the local Federal building, tt was hoped that the construction work would start soon The addi tlonal floor space was and is, need ed in the mail rooms and the new third floor was to ‘have* taken care of Federal offices and a Federal court room, as United States court is held in the county court house Plans 6f the architect, for the en 1 urged building ealed for addition al footage of property, and an at tempt was made to have the ftllo cation Increased in order to take I rare of the building cost and the | additional purchase of property I This faded, and how tomes the word from Washington that these appropriations have been slashed 10 per cent. Just what status the local post office work is left In as a re sult is not known, Slash Announced The 10 per cent cut is told as fol lows by H. E. C. Bryant. Washing ton correspondent of .the Raleigh News and Observer: “Thi> public building program out side of the District of Columbia pro posed under the $415,000,000 author isation contained in acts approved May 25. 1826. February 24. 1928. March 31. 1930 and February 1G. 1931, provided for appropriations for 29 buildings in North Carolina, 14 of them to be taken care of in a bill passed by the present r.ongress These fourteen buildings, for which appropriations were allocated, come within the provisions of the Wag ner-Garner emergency relief bill, which carries one hundred million dollars for public building projects "Comptroller General J. R. Mc Carl holds that ten per cent must be deducted from this emergency fund. Under his ruling, Secretary of the Treasury Mills said today, the total allowed will be ninety million' not one hundred. Each project, he added, will suffer a lass of ten per cent. For instance, the $360,000 al located for Raleigh, will be reduced to $356,400. North Carolina was to have had a total of $2,355,000 under the algb catlons in that program. But, if the ten per cent cut is demanded, it will reduce the sum to $2,331,450. The building projects for which appro priations had already been made will not be reduced. Secretary Mills explained that some of the cities - may have to get. more money from congress If they find that the funds left, after the ten per cent reduction, are not ade quate." Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to-page eight for the answers. 1. Is Prime Minister Ramsay Mac Donald a member of the British La bour party? 2. Of w'hat political party is William Z. Poster the presidential candidate? Answering 3. What is the English equivalent | of the Italian name Giovanni? 4. What woman’s name is asso I elated with the Bible st-ory of Sam son? 5. Of what is Purim the name? 6. What is the popular meaning lot Kibitzer? 7. Who was Michael Hillegas? | 8 Where is the University of j Southern California? | 9. Who is Anton J. Certnak? 10, How much Indian blood has | Vice-President Curtis ? j II. What do the initials U. C. V [stand for? 12. Who wrote the play "Madame X"? 13. —Do cadets at West Point pay their way through the institution? 14. In horseracing. what does "scratched" mean? 15. What do the initials U. S W V. stand for? 16. In what country is the State of Petibla? 17. What state is represented in the senate by Tasker l,. Oddfe? i tg Marne iht mythological ere a Hire half man and ha!! horse? 19 Prom what plant is tapioca taken? 20. Ip what country Is the state of San Paulo?