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—-— * 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVIII, No. 129 SIIELBV, N. C. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 26. 1932 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) Bj M*U» par fitt, (In advance) — SS.fto Carrier vrr ?aar. (Us ad-naca. 13 fit rHE MARKET lotion. basic spot __. dc ('ottos Seed, bu. __....__ I8*,c Rain Thursday I Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Probably rain tonight and Thursday. Colder Thursday and in west portion tonight. Wide Open ’Bama i Montgomery. Ala., Oct. 38.—Thr Alabama legislature legalized Sun day movies, baseball, golf and ten nis in Birmingham. Montgomery ?ed Mobile yesterday over the veto of Governor Miller. He insisted thal a bill to repeal Sabbath day blue law* In these cities be amended to provided for a referendum in Bir mingham on the theater clause. The legislature was adamant and the governor was. too. so he vetoed the whole thing. The house of represen tatives passed the bill regardless of his veto. Eater In the day the senate took similar action and now the bill is law, effective immediately. Gover nor Miller based his light for a Bir mingham referendum on the view (hat the city voted down Sunday amusements soveral years ago. It dldnt make any difference in Mont gomery and Mobile, he said, for the majority of people there wanted wide open Sundays. Former Shelby Men Get Terms For Bank Theft Trio Who Looted Dallas Institu tion l.a>t Year Gets Five To Seven Years. Gastonia, Oct, 26—Ebau Carpen ter and Will Lingerfelt, Lincoln county men, and R, D. Smith of Pocono. Fla.,' o ere sentenced to 'from live to seven years each in the state's prison in superior court here yesterday after all had enter a plea of guilty to charges of lobbing the Bank of Dallas, this county, in July, 1931. To o of the men. Smith and Car penter, formerly lived in Shelby. The three men all had previously made full confessions of partieipo tion in the robbery, which was com mitted about noon on July 2i of last year. They were arrested sev rrsft weeks ago after an extended earch. Two of the men entered flv> bank, held up the cashier. Andrew Mauney, who was the sole occu pant* of the bank at the time, scoop ed up tome $2,000. bound and gag ycd Mauney. and escaped in a waiting automobile guarded by the third member of the party. The men said they were drunk at the time of the robbery. Sen tence was passed by Judge Wilson Warlick, Andy Hoyle Of Casar Passes Prominent Farmer Dies Nearing *2nd Birthday. Funeral This Afternoon. Andy Hoyle, prominent farmer of Casar died Tuesday morning at 'i o'clock following a decline in health extending over a two year period. He was born October 30, 1860 and was nearing his 72nd birthday Mr. Hoyle was highly esteemed in his community and was considered as good a citizen as ever lived in upper Cleveland He was widely connected and a large crowd at tended the funeral this afternoon at Clover Hill Methodist church where he held his membership. Services were conducted by Rev. J. M. Barber, assisted by Rev.‘J. D. Morris this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Surviving are his wife and four children, two sons. Ausney and Lin- j nie Hoyle and two daughters, Mr. Minnie Self and Mrs. Corrah Hoyle all of the Casar section Club Women Making Clothes At Relief Headquarters Here I'sing Cloth Givem By Red Cross. Location In Ellis Building. _____ Twenty members Of the Shelby Woman’s club this afternoon open ed a sewing circle at the Red Cross relief headquarters here to make clothing of the cloth alloted Shelby by the Red Cross. The relief headquarters is located In the Dr. R C Elliss building on West. Marion street, the former lo cution of the Jiggs shop. The Red Crce# rioth included 12,000 yards "f ginghams, shirting, sheeting etc., and the club sewing circle is mak ing dresses, shirts and undercloth ing. Although the workers are occupy ing the relief headquarters actual distribution is not yet being handled there, but will be after the arrival of cold weather. I Reynolds Will Not Speak Friday Night Schedule Tangle Is Cause Of Change r Advance Preparations Made Here For Address fio For Naught. Booked Elsewhere. What had been planned as the biggest political rally of the year In Shelby was1 railed off today' when it was learned that it would be impossible for Hnhert l{. Reynolds. Democra tic senatorial nominee, to speak in Shelby Friday night of this week as advertised. Early today Oliver S Anthony, county Democratic chairman, was notified by state headquarters that there had been a mistake and that Reynolds was to speak in Mitchell county Friday night. Every effort was made up until I noon today to make a change, but without success. The major speak ers in the campaign are directed and scheduled by the state demo* cfatlc headquarters, and for some reason Reynolds was listed for Mitchell county Friday night de spite the fact that local officials had been notified two weeks age that the senatorial nominee would speak here. The rally had been widely advertised and it was be lieved (hat an unusually large aud ince would have attended. Expect ing a big attendance a loud speak er system had already been secured for installation in the court house so that those unable to -get inside might hear Reynolds form the court square. Talks To Revnolds After getting the message Chair - i man Anthony telephoned Mr. Rey ! nolds and he expressed surprise.; stating that he, too, was of the; opinion that he was to speak in1 Shelby. Later Mr Anthony called; the Mitchell county officials and. asked if they would agree to a change, but the request was re fused on the basis that Reynolds was needed more there than here. As a result of the mix- up. which -was aim. fat»H - - ■©( ><*»h~ cfticfaiJgr there will be no speaking Friday night, leaders believing it will be better not to attempt a substitu tion With the Reynolds speech can celled the big rally of the cam paign will be focused on the Clyde R Hoev address on Saturday night November 5. An effort will be made by the regular Democratic organ-! ization and the club of Young Democrats to bring out a record crowd to hear Mr Hoev. Traveling Salesman Known Here Is Dead Thad Hedgepeth, well known traveling salesman in this territory where he called on the trade for about 35 years, died suddenly at' his home at Eim City Monday morning. Mr Hedgepeth sold bug gies in this territory for many years and was selling auto bodies at the time of his death. He was buried Tuesday at Elm City and several Shelby people attended the services. Mr. Hedgepeth married a sister of Mr. Ned McGowan of the O E. Ford Co. of this place. Jones To Speak At Polkville On ThursdayProgram Speaking* Thursday Night Also At Holly Springs And At Phtlbeck. Hamilton G. Jones, prominent Charlotte attorney, will be the prin cipal speaker at a Democratic rally to be held at Polkville Thursday night of this week. Mr. Jones is a former candidate for the Democra tic nomination to congress and lsj expected to be heard by a large j audience. Attorney Joe Whusnant j of Shelby is also on the Polkville \ program. On the same night. Thursday. C C. Horn and Joseph M Wright candidates for county solicitor and judge,, are scheduled to speak ?.\ Holly Springs, and Attorney E. A HaiTill is to speak at Philbeck's. All three of these rallies are to be held under the auspices of the organization of Young Democrats Bulwinkle Tonight. Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle n scheduled to speak at a rally to night at Bolling Springs. Later Major Bulwinkle will speak in South Shelby, and Monday after noon at 1:30, during the superior court .noon recess, he is to speak in the Cleveland county court I bouse* In Shelby.. War Veteran In Rutherford Shot Rutherford Man Near Death In Hospital. Wounded Twice In Chest. sMfeMf. - r i •m'lUn'JinP'WiMi friui Rutherfordton. Oct. ?8 Shot twice iii the chest. John Simpson, World War veteran, is near death in a local hospital while Rutherford and Henderson county officers are seeking to locate Clyde Brown. 18, wanted for the shooting According to information from of ficers. the shooting toe* place about 6 o’clock on highway No. 20. at the; edge of Rutherfordton and was preceded by a quarrel over two bushels of apples. Officers said > Brown was driving an apple truck j and that he fired the shots while sitting in the truck with Simpson close by. One shot pierced the chest and another lodged slightly above the heart. Simpson was taken to a local hospital where he was reported in a. critical condition. Officers said the shots were fired from a .32 calibre pistol. Brown escaped in the truck, fol lowing the shooting, and has not been apprehended Henderson coun ty officers were notified and re quested to watch for him on the highway, while Rutherford county officers immediately started a search. Whispering Campaigns Now Strike At Both Mr. Hoover, Mr. Roosevelt Whisperers Say Hoover Is British. Try To Have Catholics Fight Roosevelt. Washington' — The presidential campaign is warming up — and so are the whispering campaigns. With very few if any exceptions, ail election years have found poli ticians circulating malicious false hoods about the opposition's candi date among the mass of credulous voters. The only pleasant aspect to this ancient phase of politics Is that it doesn't seem very effective. Whis pering campaigns probably do not change many votes, and there is no good evidence that one ever affect ed the result in a presidential elec tion. Those best remembered have usually been aimed at candidates who were victorious. Origin of the subterannean cam paign canards is usually hard to trace, but there is frequently a sus picion that they emanate from a source close up toward the party's high command. Either the Republi can or the Democratic national committee people can work them selves into high indignation over the other committee's alleged propa gation of them. Sometimes they even take official notice and issue substantiated de ntals. Perhaps the chief rumor nrcu lated against Hoover this year has been the allegation that he was a British citizen and had voted in England. Republicans say “millions" of photostatic copies of a page from a London voters' roll bearing Hoov er's name have been distributed | widely. There is not the slightest evi dence that Hoover ever voted in London. Yet Republican Publicity Director Henry J. Allen has felt it worthwhile to issue a new denial by Assistant Secretary of State Castle, who said he had checked the rec ords again. The British voting charge was old stuff, having been invectigated and I denied by Secretary Kellogg in 192S. A1 Smith suffered far worse than Hoover from whispered attacks ir, 1928. but no one supposes they cast him the election, even though they were as vicious and absurd as any barrage of false gossip ever laid down at an individual. And no one supposes thaf whispering campaigns will decide the contest of 1932. Democrats say the Republicans have been spreading lies about Roosevelt's health, also basing an under-cover attack against Jack: Garner on the assertion that Gar- j ner would be sure to complete th» Roosevelt term. Roosevelt has pret ty well vitiated that on^ by his CUN l IN fitly Ltu y l (. t M.1I.U ■ • "BigTammany Man” m am > ■> . mt! Chief War Eagle,'of Deway, Olcla., descendant of the original Indian chief for whom Tammany Hall, New York, was named, is shown as he appeared jn fu;| regalia during the Philadelphia ceremonies com memorating the 260th anniversary of the landing of William Penn in the United States. It was Chief Tammany who concluded the famous land peace with Penn. Two Men Given Terms In Theft At Local Plant Charlie Davis Get* Si* Months And Eskridge Eight. Latter Appeals. Charlie Davis and John Eskridge both colored, were tried in county court yesterday on the charge of stealing fertilizer from the Southern Cotton Oil plant here late last Saturday " night or. early Sunday morning. Davis, who has been in the em ploy of the plant, it is said, for around 17 years, was found guilty and givpn the alternative, of a *123 fine and the costs or six months on the roads. He will likely serve the sentence ,jt was said today. msa?e W mtWSr and the costs with the alternative of an eight months sentence. He entered an appeal to superior court. Local Teachers To Attend Gathering South Piedmont District Teachers Meeting In Charlotte Friday. Scores of Shelby and Cleveland county school teachers will be in Charlotte Friday afternoon and Saturday to attend the meeting of the South Piedmont district of the North Carolina Educational asso ciation. The meeting opens at 2;30 Pri-j day afternoon and the Shelby schools will close at noon Friday 30 that members of. the city schools j faculty may get to Charlotte for j the opening session Supt. B. L, Smith is on the pro-1 gram for an address to the gram- j mar grade group of teachers. His! subject will be ‘ Public Education as Insurance of Democracy.” Miss Ruby Mcponald. of the city schools, is also on the progranY Miss Joe Shaw, head of the com mercial department of the local’ schools, is vice president of the commercial teachers group in the district. Shelby Students Named At College In recent election of society ot- j ficers at Mars Hill college a num-, ber of Shelby students were honor ed. In the Philomathian literary society Fegram Holland was elect ed librarian; John Corbett. English critic; Albert Suttle, dues collector, and Virgil Cox. reporter. Elizabeth Blanton was named as one of the marshals of the Clio literary so ciety. Buyers Warn Of Damage To Cotton Left In Weather Cleveland county farmers are losing from 10 to 25 pounds per bale on their cotton by not storing it properly, according to Shelby cotton buyers. With many farmers holding 1 heir cofion In the hope of se curing a better price, there arc a number, buyers say. who arc, leaving their rotton out in the weather. This in some instances results in a damage equal to 25 pounds per bale.' Buyers urge that in order to prevent this loss farmers should keep their cotton in a sheltered place and off (he ground, Superior Court Term Will Open Here Monday Judge Schenck Will Be Jurist No Criminal Cases Of Major In Ifrfit On lioeke t. Try Civil Inuni. The fail term of Cleveland eoun ty superior eoun will convene m Shelby Monday morning of next week with Judge Michael Schencl: presiding. The court. Is scheduled to con tinue for two weeks, but the calen dar for the second week la marked for a recess on Monday and Tue> day because of the general elec tton, Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday will be devoted to t criminal docket. There are a num her of minor eases on the docket for trial, but for the first time tn several years there is no criminal action which is of anything near county-wide Interest, Friday’s session of the court will bring up the congested civil calen dar. and the hearing of civil litiga tions will be resumed on Wednes day, November 9. following the election on Tuesday. City News CLINE BACK A E. Cline, county accountant, was back on the Job at his office in the court house yesterday and today after being ill for some time at his home in Kings Mountain MASONIC MEET A regular communication ol Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. and A. M will be held Friday night at 7 30 at the Masonic temple. IN GASTONIA TODAY A number ot Shelby dentists will go to Gastonia this evening and tomorrow for the annual meeting of the first trict dejwfcl society. • • • • SHELBY IS BEST "I ltrmly believe business is bet* ter in Shelby and that there is more building here than in any town or city in several states,” J, D. Lineberger sai dtoday after re turning from a business trip to Chattanooga. "On that trip and cm other trips recently to other sec tions of North Carolina I have not seen as much building as is going on here. Add to that an almost be lieve-it-or-not opening, here of a new industry, the hosiery plant, and the beginning soon of 50 miles of road construction, and “it is a cer tainty that Shelby is in pretty good ■ shape, considering—.” NEW COTTON OFFICE Cleveland Cotton Co., Is the name , of a new firm of spot cotton buyers which has opened offices in the! Royster building. The members of! the firm are W, E. Dye and Geo. j Witherspoon. Jr., who have been ■ buying cotton in the county for sev- j eral years, but they are now per- j manently situated with an office. { Both men come from Spartanburg. Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn lo page two for the answers. 1. Who was president when Alas ka was purchased from Russia? 2. What country raises and con sumes the most tea? 3. How many senators does each state have? 4. In w'hat state is Hood River Valley? 5. In what year did John W Davis run for president? 6. What is heliotherapy? 7. What are the political subdivi sions in Canada called? 8 What is an Att? 9. What state is nicknamed the Bear State”? 10. What is a pangrammatist? 11. Name the fourth book in the Bible? 12. Name the six New England slates? 13. What disease Is called the White Plague”? 14. With which country is Cecil Rhodes associated? 15. Give the maiden name of President Cleveland's wife? IB. Who was Aesculapius? 17. How many U. 8. Civil Service commissioners are there? it. What is a tailor's smoothing iron called? 19. What game is called the great national pasttime of the United States? 20 What does Erin Go Bragin mean ? In Law’s Clutches Again Her* are two Interesting earner* studies of Arthui Barry, ao called modem Raffles, whose capture in the Roseville mountains of New Jersey ended the hunt that has been in progress since the notorious jewel thief escaped from Auburn Prison during the jail break of 1920. At left Barry is shown, youthful, rigorous and debonnaire as he was Are years ago, when he stole $90,000 worth of jewels from Jess* Livermore, of Long Island. At right is Barry as h* is today, worn and prematurely aged es a result of the constant strain of dodging the law. Barry was quisled st Newark, N. J., In connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnaping on the chance that he might have tome knowledge ef the perpetrators of that crime. Repair Work On Highway 20 In East Shelby Completed; To Reduce Road Maintenance Forces Soon, Reported Highway Open For Traffic I J»le To day Report Cot In Highway Work. Highway S# In east Shelbv which has been rlo»cel for a week for repair work is to he opened for traffic again late to day, It was stated al noon. The highway was closed a week ago for resurfacing of more than 100 yards just east of Belvedere Heights. From the east entrance ol Belvedere Heights to the King place hrlctae the highway hai been worn out and in bad condition for sever al yean. Highway workers removed the top surfacing of the old road and put down a new tar and gravel , surface, thus eliminating one of the | roughest spots on a main highway in this section. On Detour. While the repair work was being carried on all Highway 20 traffic was detoured around the loop road by the rock quarry by the county home, a strip which was surfaced just before the State look over the county road system. Less Maintenance. An unofficial report in Shelby to day had it that due to a lack of State highway funds road mainten ance in the counties over the State will be cut almost in half at an early date. With highway mainten ance funds running low this report has it that even the convicts will not be worked full time, and this may mean that a number of guards and paid employes will be tempor arily laid off. No official announce ment'has been made as yet out of Raleigh, but the report seems trom a source believed to be authentic. The reduction in road mainten Polkville Road Is Not Listed For November Letting The bid for the Shelby - Polk Title rood may not be among the f1r*t projects tok en np by the highway com mission in November. Dispatches from Raleigh veoterdoy afternoon sold that bid* would be opened on Thursday, November S, for 11 road-building project*, but the Shelby-Polk villa routine wa* not Included among the eleven. Cotton Futures Up Few Points Today At 5 o'colck today Dec cotton was 8:30, up two points from yes terdays close and Jan was 6.25 The market was holding steady and quiet. Weather forecast in rast er nand central belt rain or show ers, western belt fair. Peak cif the season brings increased offerings in west and north west Texas, farmers in those: sections re taining only a small part of their ginning,s. Little Bock says growers are resisting decline in prices; Memphis reports sales lightest on record. Crop in that section three quarters ginned and mostly sold. ance work is not expected, however, to cut down any of the proposed road building projects for this coun ty and other sections as the new roads to be constructed come under Federal employment aid funds and not from State highway funds. Saturday Last Day To Register For General Election In November Straight Australian Balloting Sys tem To Bf Used. How To Votr. Registration books in Cleveland county for the November election close Saturday at sundown and all citiaens now eligible to vote who are not registered by that time will be unable to cast their ballots, John P. Mull, chairman of the county board of elections, declared tasr night. Persons whose names are not on the registration books but who are entitled to registration may reg ister by going either to their re spective polling places Saturday from 9 o'clock to sundown or to the homes of their respective registrars any day of this week except Sat urday. A residence of one year and four months in the precinct are require ments for registration. There is no. requirement for residence, in the county. Heavy Vote Anyone who becomes 21 years of i age and is otherwise qualified to register or whose term of residence does not qualify him until after sunset Saturday, it was made clear, may register at the polls on elec tion day and immediately cast his vote. The boa id pf elections chairman predicted a heavy vote, judging by the present rate of registration, This year a straight Australia*', balloting system will be in use. There will be four ballots The ; first will contain only the presi dential electors for the Democratic Republican and Socialist partes. There are 13 electors on each tick et, one for each congressional dis trict, and two for the state at large How To Vote The names ol the elector.- of each party are placed one under the other down the column. To vote a‘straight ticket, the voter merely makes a cross mark in the circle at the head of each column. The other three ballots are one for the four state constitutional amendments. one on which are listed names of the state candi dates, the United States senatorial candidates and the candidates for the house of representatives from the tenth district. The third is the county ticket, on which appear the names of the candidates for coun ty office The Socialists present no eandi dates for state or rounty office and those tickets contain only the names of the Republican and Dem ocratic candidates. To vote a straight ticket, the voter creases the circle at the head of the column, asl in the presidential electoral ticke: If he wishes to split his ticket, he votes for (he individual candidate ! he prefer*. , 10-Year Drive For Boy Scouts Outlined Here Hope To Add 500 County Scouts Atkin* Preside* At District Meeting In Shelby LmI Might Men interested in boy scout work from ten of the eleven counties com prising the Piedmont Boy Scout Council gathered here last night at l he Hotel Charles to lay plans for the ten year scout prognam which has for Its goal, the enlistment ol one out. of every four boy* between the ages of 12 and 18 years. County Statistics. The meeting was called by the Piedmont Council Chairman Editor J, W Atkins of Gastonia. Interest ing figures were revealed by R. M. Schiele, executive councillor, show ing that Cleveland county has a population of 51,91* of which num ber 12,067 are negroes In this popu lation there are 3,324 boys between the ages of 12 and 16 years--2,*97 of whom are whites and 827 are ne groes. The county has eleven scout troops now with a total enrollment of 175 boys. The most recently or ganized troop Is a rural organization in the Sharon community. The pres ent density of soout membership in Cleveland is 34 boys to each ten thousand population To reach the neceasary objective of the ten year program and enlist one out of every four boys between the scout ages of 12 and 16. Cleveland county will en deavor to increase its scout mem bership to 831. Chairman Atkins outlined several plans whereby this objective might be reached. Every existing troop will undertake to get four new members and new troops will be farmed by enlisting the interest of the religious, educational, civic, fra ternal and Industrial organizations of the community. Council Goal. Under the ten year program, an effort will be made to enlist 4,00C boys of scout age. Mr Schiele gave the population of the 11 counties in the council as 380,000 with 19.900 boys of scout age At present the ■ total scout enrollment is 1,642 ' which is a larger enrollment accord | ing to population than any other j council In the south Citlsenship Training. As chief speaker for the meeting last night the council had Mr Bent* regional director of Atlanta, who explained the ten year program and read endorsements by President Hoover, Governor Roosevelt and for mer President Theodore Roosevelt, the greatest scout America has ever had He commended the 300,000 vol unteer men who are lending their time and efforts in Dehalf of scout ing. There are 833,000 boys identi fied with scouting in good standing but this represents only one out of seven of scout age and the ten year program lias for its object enlist ing one out of four. An effort will be made to keep the boys for four years in order that they may be taught the full virtues of good char acter and citizenship. Goal Unreached For Scout Fund Only *300 Of The *1,000 Quo! < Ha# Been Reached By Can vassers. The *1,000 goal for Cleveland county's quota of the Piedmont Boy Scout council is far irom being reached. John S McKnight, treas urer. reported the corning that so far-, less than $300 has been sub scribed to the scout work. He has several canvassing committees in the field and they have been work ing since last Friday when time 1 from their business would permit The response, however, has been very disappointing. Mr McKnight asks that any who wish to contribute to the cause oi scouting in the Piedmont council, and have not already been seen, can mail checks to him this week. Th« canvassing committees will b« called in to a meeting on Monday night of next week to check up. sc it is planned for them to finish their canvas this week Shelby’s quota of S1.000 Is con sidered very reasonable in view oi the fart that there are eleven ar five troops th the county with » total enrollment of 17* boys. Un der the ten year program It ts hop ed to enlist. 831 boys of scout age with a neglible increase in council expense. AROUND OI R TOWN, page S. WANT AD* BARGAINS, page 1. >PORTS, page. 9.