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Late News THE MARKET * niton, spot basic __6',i Cotton Seed, bu. .. i Cloudy Tuesday Todays North Carolina Weather Rrport: Cloudy and somewhat cold er on coast tonight. Tuesday most lv cloudy with mild temperature probably rain in extreme portion in afternoon. Roosevelt Will Win, Republican Papers Predict New York, Nov. 7.—The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Presi dent Tuesday was conceded in sur vey results published this week-end by several New York newspapers, in eluding two Republican dailies. The Times, independent Democrat, through a survey conducted by Ar thur Krock. Its Washington corres pondent. forecast Herbert Hoover's electoral vote would be from 93 to 143. The Sun. independent Repub lican. supporting a Democratic can didate for governor, indicated the president may not win "more than four or five states." The Evening Post, Republican, listed 166 elec toral votes as "probably for Hoover." The forecast was by Clinton Gil bert, its national political writer. The electoral college casts 531 votes and 266 are necessary to elect. Negro Minister Teaching For 50 Years In Section Rev J. W Rotvrts A Teacher For Half Century. Was Born As ! A Slave. Cleveland county.; oldest school teacher from the point of service In 1 the school room and perhaps the veteran teacher of this section is a colored man. Rev. J. W. Roberts, best known to the white and col ored of this county as ' Preacher Roberts.” Short in stature and graying about the temples but still retaining sur prising vigor for his 70 years. 'Preacher" Roberts modestly replied to questions about his teaching ca reer while on a visit to the office of J. H. Grigg. county superintend ent. here Saturday. ■’Yessir,” he said. "I am now i teaching my 51st, year. I. started j teaching In 1881 when X was only 18. and I hope to keep teaching for j a good many years yet. I'm mighty j close to 71. I know, but you see my | grandfather lived to be 109,' Then his exceptional memory | flitted back over his teaching ca-1 reer. and in as excellent English as I is spoken by anyone, the graying colored man gave lights in an edu-1 cational service to his race which j has covered more than a half cen- i tury. ■T was bom over across the creek J between Shelby and Kings Moun- ( Lain. Yes I remember slavery days for you see I was born a slave. I clearly remember carrying water and doing light work for my master Tommy Ware. He was known as Bridge Tommy Ware because he liv ed near the bridge. First To Normal. "In 1877 when Zeb Vance made it possible I was the first colored boy from this section to go off to school. I went to the Fayetteville normal three years 1877-1181. Then I (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.! “Knows How To Deal With A Mob” Says He A speaker on the platform of President Hoover when he was speaking Saturday night in Minne apolis. Minn., said “thank God you still have a government in Wash ion that knows how to dead with a mob," Radio listeners attributed this remark to the President himself,! while others think it came from ! seme other Republican speaker.' There has been general resentment on the part of veterans because the bonus army was drlvn by force from the nation's capital. VOTE FOR THE 4 AMENDMENTS Cleveland county voters whe go to the polls tomorrow will have the opportunity of vot ing upon four amendments Do not overlook these. They are not partisan measures and deserve the consideration of all voters wf both parties and in The Star’s opinion all should be passed since it is jencrally believed the changes will be for improved public service and • economy to the tax-payer. Concurring in this belief are such men as C’hiet Justice Walter P. Stacey (Democrat) of the North Car nlina Supreme court and Judge John I. Parker (Rc. pit hilt j n 1 of i hr f irrtfM ( nijrl of srIvr.i ' Oft rpi: tmi AMENDMENT*—AND VOTE EARLY - 8 PAGES TODAY „- - - BJ Mall. per year. (to advance! — $31>;> Carritr. otr rear, tin advance* f3.c» VOL. XXXVIII, No. 134 SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY. NOV. 7. 1932 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) Three New Sites Considered For Enlarged Shelby Post Office Dougherty Will Speak In Shelby On Friday Night In Observance Of Education Week Schools Will Observe Week With Special Programs. Supt. Erwin Here Thursday. Too widely known North Caro lina directors—Clyde A. Erwin, of Rutherfordton. president of the N C. E A , and Dr. B B, Dougherty, president of Appalachian college— will be the chief speakers during American Education Week, Novem ber 7-13, as it is elaborately ob served in Shelby. The schools of the city will have appropriate assembly programs, and special days for visitation on the part of the patrons. The high school will have as a guest speaker on Thursday morning Superintend-, ent. Clyde A. Erwin, president, N. C. E A. The Citizens of the coin - munity are invited to attend assem bly at 10:30 o'clock and hear this pleasing speaker, who will bring a vital message on public education Friday Night A special feature of the observ , ance will be a joint meeting at the j Hotel Charles at 7 p. m., Friday ] November 11, of the American Le-1 gion, teachers, P T A. officials.; school board members, Kiwariis, Ro tary and Lions clubs. Dr. J. S. Dor ton. commander of the Warren Hoyle American Legion post, will preside Tire high school orchestra, under the direction of Mr O. B Lewis, will furnish music during the meal. Other special music is being arranged by Mrs. Beatrice Suttle Dougherty Speaks Greetings will be brought from the teachers by Mrs. Ruby Hudson, from the P. T. A. by Mrs. Harry Speck and from the civic clubs by Mr. Carl Thompson. The main ad dress will be delivered by Dr. B. B Dougherty, president of the Ap palachian State Teachers’ college. Boone. Joe Tarlton Found Dead In Bed Here Mill Worker W ith W ife And Several , Children Dies At West Shelby Home. Joe Tarlton, a middle aged mill worker was found dead in bed at his home in West Shelby this morn ing about daylight. Cause of his death was attributed to heart fail ure by Coroner Roscoe Luts who visited the home and made an in vestigation but did not think it ne cessary to hold an inquest. Mr. Tarlton has been living in Shelby several years, working at several mills. It is understood that he leaves a wife ana several child ren. Funeral services will take place tomorrow. Presenting The Next President I———i ■ ■■■■■■ M i i if■ .. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the voters of the Tnited States will choose one of the two men shown above for the country’s highest office of president. Six other men are candidates but none has a chance of coming down the home stretch close to Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. Yesterday three of the largest Republican papers in the east, tw-o in New York and one in Washington, predicted that Roosevelt would win. Which will it be? Parade In Armistice Fete Starts At 10:30 Will Let Polkville Road Contract 29th Highway Board Approves Bids Oif Eleven State Road Projects, Approving low bids-Oft IP* road construction projects, the state high way commission Friday in Raleigh turned to routine matters and re viewed the first quarter’s activities. Approval of the bids swelled to 75 the number of projects let by the commission since the $5,200,000 emergency federal aid program was launched last August. The state already has designated more than $3,500,000 of this sum and supplementary contracts will run the total $4,480,000, Chairman E. B. Jeffress said. Under the program six lettings have been held, and the commission tentatively set November 29 as the date for the next one. A list of pro jects has not been completed. The letting of the Shelby-Polkville road contract was delayed and could not be let Nov. 3rd, but it is understood that it will be let Nov. 29th. A map showing the routing of the road has been posted in the court house, as is required by law The posting date was Oct. 27th and the map must be posted thirty days before letting, hence it, is thought this project will be in the Nov. 29th letting in Raleigh. Will Still Be Voting Along Pacific After Voters In East Are In Bed Wide Variation Ipr Voting: Hours Reason For Late Election Returns. New York. Nov. 4.—When it's counting time next Tuesday, and you're all a-swither to know who's elected, don't be too hasty in judg ing the relative merits of election officials. Consider also the antics of Father Time, and the whims of leg ■ islatures. The polls will close in some of the eastern states before the voters on the Pacific Coast finish lunch. And they’ll still be voting out there after much of the East has gone to bed. New Hampshire and Rhode Island close the polls in the rural districts at 3 p. m. Eastern Standard time, Massachusetts goes them one bet ter. Although polls in most partj of the state close at 8 p. m., smaller communities may count the vote as soon as all registered voters have marked their ballots. Polls open at 6 a. m. and in past years rivalry has been so keen to be the first ones in. that several villages have completed their count not long after 6 to xvsshineton and O’egon .and the rO’V nf Fra nrK.'-n thr PoHS oat open until s nrlock. which i5 11 in the eastern time belt. The new England state presnm ably will be among the first to re port the choice of their electorates but the Pacific coast states may not be the last. That a is unction probably will fall to Kentucky. The polls close there at four o'clock, Central Standard time, but the count will not be started until 10 o'clock the follow ing morning, under a new law in effect this year for the first time in a presidential election. Kentucky's 11 electoral votes wit] thus be in doubt for about 24 hours Eleven states have different clos ing hours for their city and rural districts—California, Georgia, Kan sas, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire. Oklahoma, Rhode Is land, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wyoming. The widest variation is in Rhode Island— five hours. In Georgia, New Hampshire and Tennessee the var iation is three hours. There are two closing hours in one state—Nebraska—because of time variations. The piortlons of the state m the Central time belt closes .its pulls at 8 o'clock, In its Moun tain time portion they - close the polls at the .same hour by their own .me Three States close their pohs a* -on ei Florida. North rafobne and Virginia The nour.' the almanac says, will be 4:53 p. m. Eastern Standard Time on November 8. Military Salute. Wreath And Air plane Salute To Honor County's War Dead BANKS AND BUSINESS CLOSE FOR ARMISTICE An American Legion com mittee announced at noon to day that around a score ol Shelby business houses hac agreed to close during' tht Armistice day program hour Friday. Others_are expected it was said, to join in with the result that a majority of the business houses may be clos ed a major portion of the day. Banks and building ant loan offices will be close' Friday, it was definitely an nounced today. Details were being completed here today for Shelby's big Armistice Day celebration Friday. Major features of (he morning program will be the mammoth pa rade in uptown Shelby and the tribute on the court square to the county's World war dead The parade is to begin forming at the Central high school on West Marion Street at 10:30. The line of march will swerve to Sumter street and then come down Lafayette street and circle the court square The parade on which more than a dozen committees are working promises to be one of the most elab orate ever staged in Shelby. Floats. World war guns, depression char iots, the high school band, and auto I mobiles filled with representatives of organizations covering three wars will take part. Salute The Dead. The salute to the war dead be : fore the bronze memorial tablet on : the west side of the court house, 1s 1 expected to be one of the outstand ing events on the program and will likely be attended by hundreds Three honors will oc accorded the memory of the boys whose names are inscribed on the memorial. The first will be the placing of a wreath upon the memorial by the buddies of the war dead, veterans- of the World war and Legionnaires. Then a gun salute will be fired by a squad from Company K while the entire military outfit Is in saluate forma tion. As a climax to the program Col. J. J. Grady, World war aviator, will fly over the square and dip his plane in salute just over the ccAirt house and memorial tablet. To Fair Grounds. At 1:30 the celebration will be CO.'.TtttttBD ON »AOB BIGHt I < Baby And Flower Show Wednesday Much interest is being shown in the baby and floWc show to be held Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 8 ■ o'clock in the basement under the 1 Hotel Charles dining room The .-tio-i ibsin^ sponsored h* the Music and Arts department of the Woman's club. Prizes are being off ; ered in both contests. Newell Speaks To Full House; Against Liquor Can’t See How Hoey Stays Dry flays Dr mot-rat* For Ro Many Offted Holder*. Depression Backwash Of Buying. • I appeal to members of both parties to rise to their full height and cast their votes on Tuesday to stem the tide of liquor that threat ens this country,” said Jake Newell, Republican nominee for U. S. sen ator as he adetressed a full court room here Saturday afternoon. Democratic Job Holder* Mr Newell rose to heights of ora tory as he flayed the Democratic party in North Carolina, particular ly the creation of jobs for game, fish and fire wardens. “Why," said Mr. Newell, “they havfe so many employes on road maintenance In North Carolina, X have, taken out more insurance on my car, fearing I might, run into a pack of them and kill three or four.” With refer ence to the claims by the Demo crats that they had saved the tax payers of North Carolina thirty million dollars. Mr. Newell said. "They simply intended to spend thirty million more than they had to spend. When it was found that the tax payers didn't have it for them to create more joha and keep up expenditures, they were forced to cut " Can’t Understand Hoey Mr Newell is an outstanding dry candidate and said he could not understand why some of the lead ing Democratic drys would not CONTINUED ON PAGE HIGH i > Local Methodists Annual Conference Meet* At Win ston- Salem On Wednesday Night. Quite a number of Shelby and Cleveland county Methodists will so this week to Winston-Salem to at tend the annual Western North Carolina conference of the Meth odist church. The conference opens Wednesday night and continues through next Monday. Lay delegates and officers from Central Methodist church who will attend are: Mr. and Mrs. George Hoyle, Thad Ford, Horace Grigg and William Llneberger. Ministers from the city and coun ty who will attend include: Dr. E. K McLarty, Rev. J. W. Tngle, Rev. W. R. Jenkins, Rev. J. M. Randall. Shelby circuit; Rev. J. M. Barber, Polkville, Rev. E. E. Snow,'FaUston. Rev. J R Church, Kings Moun tain Conference Try Answering Can you answer 14 oX these test questions? Turn to page three for the answers. 1. Which president was mcknam de "Old Hickory"? 2. Of what state is Pierre the cap ital? 3. Name the third largest city in population in the U. 6 ? 3. Name the third largest city in I population in the U. S.? 4 How many members has the U. S. senate? i 5. Who represents the British king in the government' of Canada1’ j 6 WTiere is Pago Pago? j 7. What treaty established Dan jzig as a Free City? j 8. Where did the Jeffries-John | son heavyweight championship fight | occur? 9. Who was the father of the negro leader, Booker T. W'ashlng 1 ton? i 10 What Is the "Pine Tree1' state? 11. Does a ship that, sinks in deep water always go to the bot tom? 12 Translate the U. S motto "E Plurlbus Unum.” 13. Did Estelle Taylor divorce Jack Dempsey? 14. Of what materials are tin cups made? 15. How many' lives does super• | stition say a cat has? 16. Name the nine planets of the solar system. 17. In what state is Great Salt Lake? 18. In what year did the mast ernnt admission of a new state to ! the Union oerur' 19. Hon- long is ryf office ■ 20. In what country Is Monte video? Hoey Ends Campaign With Colorful Speech Packed Court House Hears Him Predict Democratic Victory. One Of Most Enthusiastic Campaign Events In Shelby History. "l>d by thy intrepid, brilliant, unci courageous Franklin D. Roose-" veil, this country can again be the great nation it was under Wood row Wilson for I refuse to believe along with the Republicans that this country is bankrupt or Insol vent In statesmanship and leader ship," Clyde R. Hoey declared to a wildly cheering throng which pack ed every available inch of the Cleveland county court house Sat urday night for the closing speech of the campaign. Many Turned Away It was one of the largest and moat, enthusiastic crowds which ever gathered in Shelby for a cam paign speech and the throng, key ed to a high pitch by the swaying oratory, roared its approval when the speaker declared "1 firmly be lieve there are better days ahead and that they will be the result of a new deal with the next President of thp United States, Franklin De lano Roosevelt, as the dealer.” long before the address began the first floor of the main court room was packed, every seat taken. By the time the address got underway there was not a seat left on the main floor, 1n the gallery or anywhere else. Hundreds of others stood In every aisle on the two floors, fill ed the windows and even sat on the floor and railings about the front of the buildings. Scores and scores of people were turned away when they could not even fight their way up to the stairways, which were Jammed with men struggling to get In hearing dis tance at least. Mr. Hoey was introduced by Qdus M. Mull, former state Democratic chairman. Ehrlnghatn, Reynold* Digressing from the main theme of his talk. Mr. Hoey took note of the campaign* of Frazier and New ell. Republican candidates for gov ernor and senator, the latter having spoken In the same court room Just six hours before. "Jake Newell," he declared, “has no more rhanee of going to thi* senate than Up shaw has of being elected presi dent. and Frazier has no more chance to be governor. The arous ed Democracy of North Carolina is going to elect the fighting Bob Reynolds to the senate and Ehring haus governor with the same sleep ing majority they will send Roose velt into office No Time For Fear Despite the misery, the want, the suffering, the chaos into which the supine, incompetent and flounder ing Hoover administration has plunged this nation, said Mr. Hoey. now is no time for the psychology of defeat or fear. “For in every crisis of the world’s history God has lifted up a man to lead nations back to prosperity and the ways of peace. And as the hosts erf Demo cracy march from the shadows of darkness and despair toward the rising sun of a new day and a new deal, that man appears upon the tcoNTitroan on *ao* iro«i » Court Resumes Grind Thursday Will Take ITp CivtTCalendar After Clectkm. Jary Is Drawn. Superior court which last week completed the first week of a two weeks session will resume Its grind here again Thursday morning. No court was held today and the re cess will continue through election dsy and Wednesday. The latter part of last week’s grind was given over to the civil calendar and civil Issues will be taken up again Thursday Jurors Named Jurors drawn for the trial suits beginning Thursday were: A. O. Humphries. J. N. Gantt, W. N. Lowery. J. Frank Goforth. W. L. Plonk, P. C. Dellinger, H. E. Rhyne, C. H. Shull, Fred E. Morton, Ever ette Spangler. L. E. Jenkins, W. P. Hawkins. Fred H Grlgg, Roy F. Crowder, John C. Ledford, O. V, WarHck. J. W. AUran, D, O, Melton. Young Man Injured In Car Crash Here; Has Skull Fractured Roy Rickard. Of Belmont, In Hos piUL Car Tamed Over On Marlon Street. Roy Rickard, 33, of Belmont, 1s In the Shelby hospital seriously Injur ed as the result of suffering a frac ture of the skull Saturday night when his automobile turned over on West Marion street > Rickard was accompanied by his brother, Arthur, and a half broth er, A. B. Floyd. Officers who Inves tigated the wreck said that there was some evidence that the young men had been drinking. After Ar thur Rickard and Floyd had been given treatment for their minor in juries they were placed under arrest by the police. crash, which came very near proving fatal, happened, it is said, when the wheels of the ear struck the curb about the grass plots in the center of West Marion street, and the car turned over. The auto mobile. a Ford, was considerably smashed up. Three Systems For Election Night Returns At The Star Every facility will be provided Tuesday night for election returns and the public is cordially invited to ittend. A full leased telegraph wire from the Western I'nion, installed in The Star building, will bring in the returns as fast as possible. Every fifteen minutes the radio broadcast will be received, giving summaries of results from every State in the Union. Through a public address system, the returns from the county, state and nation will be announced through loud speakers, amplified so that the news can be heard a block away. This system is furnished through the courtesy of Pendleton’s Music store. A bulletin board will show a tabulation of county returns on the front of the building, precinct by pre cinct. Election officials from the various precincts arc asked to send or telephone returns from their boxes to The Star (Phone 11.) Our other telephone. No. 4-J will be used for long distance calls or calls beyond the county. Drivers are asked NOT to park in front of The Stai office in order to make space for election return listen ers. Our audience can hear the returns from any point on the north side of the court square. Should it rain, a loud speaker will be installed in the Court room. You arc cordially invited to be here, ladies as “ell as gentlemen in get the verdict from the largest fury on the highest office in all the world. Seek Prices On Uptown Comers For Likely Site Gourtview Corner I* Among Three Miller Rlor.k Comer And Fall* Green Comer Price* Asked. Fund Not Large Enough Ij H Blanton, a representative of th« U. S Treasury department is here today looking over pomibla site# for the new postoffioe build ing for which rongrea# ha# ap propriated $8,1.000. The appropria tion is to enlarge the present post office and build on the second floor a federal court, room. Already a price of $47,000 has bean secured from Clyde R, Hoey and Mrs. J G Dudley for the three two-story brick store rooms to the rear of the present postoffice and this proposition is being considered Several Site* Priced Mr Blanton, however, la securing prices on other sites with a view of re-locating the postoffice and fed eral court room. Prices are being secured on the Courtvtew Hotel property from Its owner R. E Campbell, from C C. Blanton and the Plr«» National bank on the old Miller block, from B T. Palls on the Ideal Service station corner lGreene old home-site) and other cloae-ln locations. Mr Campbell was In New York today and Mr. Blanton was unable to see him In regard to the Courtvtew hotel site but before any decision Is made, al'. available sites will be priced and consideration given to the various locations. « More Money Needed With only *86,000 appropriated, this is not sufficient to buy the Hoey-Dudley building to the rear of the postofftoe and also make the necessary addition to the present building. Furthermore the available sum is not sufficient to buy a new location and erect a new postofflce and federal court building, hence there would be considerable delay In getting another appropriation through congress, says Mr. Blanton. Ground sufficient for the building alone would not suit for the build ing, as open space Is needed for the mall carriers’ cars and to protect the building from fire from ad jacent property. In other words, congress does not appropriate money to pay fire Insurance premiums on federal buildings and when ona is erected, it Is usually built some distance from other buildings. “In the event the federal build ing would be built on another site, what disposition would the govern ment make of the present postof fice?” Mr. Blanton was asked by a representative of The Star. “It is our policy to sell abandoned post offices. In this case, we would prob ably sell to the city for a city hall," smiled Mr. Blanton as he was talk ing to Mayor McMurry. "Of course we would not think of setting the old postofftoe on the present mar ket. We would no doubt wait until real estate advances some." Ehringhaus Talks To Large Throng At Kings Mountain Democratic Gubernatorial Nomine* Makes Excellent Address In County. (Special to The Stan Kings Mountain, Nov. 7.—J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Democratic nominee for governor of North Carolina, en tered the last leg of Iris whirlwind swing across the state here Friday night with an arousing address to an audience that packed and over flowed the local auditorium. It was one of the most enthusiastic recep tions ever accorded a political can didate. Answering the specific charges of Clifford Frazier. Re publican nominee, that the Demo cratic administrations were guilty of extravagance, he challenged his opponent to compare records of economy. In North Carolina, Mr. Ehring haus said, “the great bulk of the State debt was created In response to popular demand. North Carolina has the greatest highway system of any state in the union.” Excellent schools have been provided, much attention has been given to "the higher Institutions of learning and to the great humanitarian tnstftu ttons.” Ot>« of the bond issues m the state was to provide loans for veterans of the world war, it was re