VOL. XXXVII1, No. 141
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 23. 1932
(Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons)
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Late News
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! Cloudy Thursday
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Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Generally fair and warm
er tonight. Thursday cloudy, prob
ably occasional light rain In west
and north central portions. Colder
in west Thursday and over State
Thursday night.
Dies In Crash
Gaffney, S. C„ Nov. 23—J. C. Mil
ieu, 15, of rineville, N. was fa
tally injured yesterday when struck
by an automobile near Thirkety, six
miles south of here. J. E. Reeves of !
Whistle. Ala., driver of the car, was:
exonerated by a coroner's jury.
Reeves brought Millen to the hos
pital here. He was dead before ar- ;
rival, and examination showed bis
neck was broken. Millen and a com
panion w-ere walking the highway !
towards Spartanburg.
Probe Death Of
Woman At Kings
Mountain Tonight
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Shot By Her Husband
Monday Afternoon
Mrs, Noland Gamer Killed When
Gun In Hands Of Husband
Is Discharged
A coroner's jury, working under s
'•rhe direction of County Coroner
Roscoe . Lutz, Will tonight continue
its probe Into the tatai shooting
Monday afternoon of Mrs. Noland
Garner. 21, who lived Just east of
Kings Mountain.
Mrs. Garner was shot in the
chest and almost instantly killed
Monday afternoon when a shotgun
in the hands of her husband was
accidentally discharged, according
t.o her husband. Information is that
Garner picked up the gun and
started to take it to the rear of the
house to give it to his brother-in
Jaw from whom he had borrowed
ft, The gun, he Is quoted as saying,
was cocked and he did not know it.
in some manner it was accidental
ly discharged and the load struck j
Mrs. Garner who was fitting in a
chair reading a newspaper.
Dr. S. S. Royster, Shelby physi
cian, happened to be at a nearby
store and was among those first
called to the home. He said death
was almost instantaneous.
Coroner Lutz called an inquest
Monday night and examined the
body in addition to questioning the
husband and others who might
know' anything of the fatality. Aft
er hearing some evidence he order
ed the inquest held operi until 7:30
'onight. At that time the jury will
meet in the Kings Mountain city
hall and return a verdict.
Funeral Today
Mrs. Gamer Is survived in he?
immediate family by her husband
and two small children. Her hus
band is a textile mill worker.
Funeral services were held at the
Second Baptist church in Kings
Mountain this afternoon and inter
ment was in Mountain Rest ceme
tery there.
Former Burke Man
To Die In Nevada
Nevada Board Refuses to Commute
Sentence of Mull: To Be Ex
ecuted Monday
Carson City, Nev\. Nov. 23,—Ever
ett T. Mull, alias John Hall, former
successful North Carolina contract
or, Tuesday lost his last chance to
escape execution Monday for the
murder of John C, O'Brien when
the state board of pardons and
parole commissioners refused to
commute the death sentence.
The Nevada supreme court previ
ously had sustained his conviction
by a jury in the district court of
Lincoln county.
Mull, who disappeared from Mor
ganton. N. C„ early in 1931, shot and
killed O'Brien last year near Las
Vegas following a quarrel over an
asserted bootlegging enterprise in
which they were engaged.
He was convicted ’.tnder the name i
of John Hall and his real identity [
did not become known until his wife j
wrote to Relatives in North Carolina 1
for aid in financing an appeal.
LIBRARY W ILL BE CLOSED
ON THANKSGIVING DAY
The Shelby public library will be
closed on Thursday of this week in
observance of Thanksgiving, so an
nounces Miss Stella Murchison. li-j
brarian
SPORTS—page 6
WANTS APS—page r
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS—
page 8.
AROlWiD TOWN—page S.
County Cotton Crop
Nears 40,000 Bales
39,903 Bales Ginned
10 Days Ago
I Over 3,<MM) Hales Ginned This
Montli, Crops 40,IKK) Bales
Behind 1931.
The report of rollon ginned
to November U assures for a
certainty that the 1932 Cleve
land eountv rrop will reach and
go slightly beyond the 40.000
hale mark.
It is also shown by the last re
port that the total county crop
Will fall more than 20.000 bales un
der the record crop of 04.one bales
in 1931.
figures Given
Up to November 14 a total of
! 39.903 bales had been ginned In the
; county as compared with 59.203
i bales ginned to the same date last
i year. This means that the ginning
! 10 days ago was billy 97 bales below
; 40,000 and will likely range be
lt ween' that figure and 42,000 bales.
Ginning reports seem to have
been better filled out or more than
! normal ginning done this month.
To the first of November, the time
j of the last report prior to the
present one, only 36,324 bales Had
| been ginned Practically all of the
county gins are now operating only
I part time. one or two days per
[ week, but by the end of the month
[ it is believed that the ginning will
j be well into 41,000 bales.
Masons To Elect
Officers Friday At
Regular Meeting
AH Members Urged To Attend The
Lodge Session In Masonic
Temple.
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New oincers for Cleveland Lodge
202 A. F. & A. M. will be elected at
a regular meeting of the lodge Fri
day night of this week at the Ma
sonic temple.
Since the annual election is one
i of the most important sessions of
the year all local Masons are urg
ed to attend. Other important busi
ness in addition to election of of
ficers will be taken up. J. D. Line
berger is present woi shipful master,
with George Washburn senior ward
en. B. A. Lefler, junior warden.
Capt. J. F. Roberts treasurer, and
Russell La ughridge secretary.
Royal Arcanum In
Tuesday Night Meet
A meeting of the local Royal Ar
canum council was held at the Ma
sonic Temple Tuesday evening. The
entertainment program included
spiritual numbers by the Cleveland
Choral Club and songs by the Ar
canum quartet, composed of D. L.
Kalter. Cornelius Moser, Charlie
Swofford and R L. Cook. Initiation
work was a part of the regular busi
ness session and it was decided to
enter the degree team contest with
Charlotte, Statesville and Salisbury.
The next meeting will be held Tues
day. Dec. 13.
j Wall And Easom
In Marion Meeting
Dr, Zeno Wall and Horace Easom
are conducting a meeting this week
at the Baptist church at Marion.
The meeting began Monday and
continues through the week-end.
The Shelby men are in Shelby dur
ing the day to keep in touch with
the local congregation.
Business Closes
For Thanksgiving
\ majority of the business
houses in Shelby will be clos
ed tomorrow. Thursday, in
observance of the Thanks
giving holiday. The hank
building and loans, post of
fice and a big percentage of
the business houses will be
closed.
Morning services will be
held in some of the uptown
churches, and after familv
dinners hundreds will spend
the afternoon hunting, at
tending football games, or in
other relaxation or sport.
i
College Star To
Play In Opening
NewPolkviileGym
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j “l rickc-t" Heathers And two
j Brothers Will Be On All-Star
Team Friday.
All All-Southern collegiate bas
ketball player, a Cleveland county
product, will be one of the per
formers in the game Friday night
of this Week which will formally
open the new gymnasium at Polk
vlfle high school.
The new building L, to be opened‘
with a contest between the high
school quint and an all-star team.
Playing on the all-star five will be
“Cricket” Weathers. University of
North Carolina player who was ;se-,
lected on the AU-^outiyiy ■ last year.,
and 'two ofTiia brothers. Paris and;
Ray. All the Weathers boys are. cage j
stars and two other former high'
school players from Polkville, Lat
timore or Shelby will team with
them. The game will be refereed by
Tilden Falls, of the Shelby high
coaching staff, and is expected to
be witnessed by many Shelby cage
fans.
A preliminary contest will see
two sextets of Polkville girls pitted
against each other in a game
Another Opening
Cage Game Friday j
: Lattimorr All-Stars To Take On
Present Team Coached By
Simmons.
j Another basketball clash In which
all-stars will feature is billed /or
the Lattimore gym Friday night of
this week.
A group of former Lattimore play
ers will team together against the
present outfit coached by ‘Pop"
Simmons. Among the all-stars will
be A. V. Irvin. Lyman Martin, the
Wilson brothers and others. On the
high school squad Coach Simmons
has the following players back from
last year: Ben and Rush Davis, Red
Towery, A. V. Blanton, Wright and
Hodges. He has many new candi
dates out also and one of the larg
est cage squads in the history of a
school that has long produced bas
ketball champions.
Howell Transfer Moves
Offices of the Howell Transfer
firm were moved yesterday from the
basement of the Jackson grocery on
South LaFayette street to an office
in the North LaFayette side of the
Courtview building.
Many Alleged Bootleggers Nabbed
Around Gaffney By Federal Agents
| Undercover Men Had Been Work
ing There For Some Time.
Vmusing Stories.
Gaffney, Nov. 23.—Springing a
trap on which they had been work
ing for nine months or more, a
group of federal prohibition agents
Friday night and Saturday arrested
16 alleged violators of the prohibi
| Hon laws here and 16 at Union.
Among those arrested here were
such well known, figures as Beattie
Bolin, Ed Moseley. Jack Sensing and
DeWits Kirby.
| The local prisoners, with the ex
[ caption of Mrs. DeWitt Kirby, the
! only woman arrested in the laid, i
were Indeed in Cherokee county
jail.
T. K. VaSiy, United States com
missioner, fixed bonds for the pris
oners ranging from S500 to $1,000
each.
Tlie round up started early Friday
night in the rain with half dozen
federal agents being assisted by
Sheriff Zeb V. Whelcel's deputies
and rural officers.
\l!eged Violators Held
The alleged violators taken >n
the round up were E. B. Bolin, Ray
mond Blanton, Eb and OeWitt Mos
eley, Lee and Ansel Coyle, DeWltt
Kirby, Mrs. DeWitt Kirby, Stan
Moseley, Tom DeStaffino Jack
Sansing. Robert Phillips, Clarence
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City Drive For
Needy Proves A
Diappointment
Only Third Of Quota
Raised So Far
| Rwpnnx- To Ked Cross Chart ti
i Campaign Far Short Of Nece*
aarv Amount
There will be hungry people in
| Shelby this winter and many who
will suffer from insufficient cloth
ing and care unless a better re
sponse is shown during the lasl
half-day drive of the combined Red i
Cross roll call and city charity
campaign
Today at noon, despite a thorough :
canvass of the city, onely one-third.
of the fixed quota had been raised.'
according to Henry B. Fd.wards, Red j
Crass chairman.
It is believed that at least $2,0tK)
will be necessary to take care of the
needy and unfortunates tn the city
and township during the winter
months, and the total cash contrib
uted until noon today, after two
and one-half days drive, was only
$741. Tills was given by 24] peoplt
w ho enrolled in the Red Gross.
A number of other rontribution
are believed to be in the mall while j
it is hoped that last-minute con-1
tributions will help bring the total:
up. During the past year the Red
Cross distributed around $3,Otto
worth of flour and clothing here
and- the section's response to tht
charitable aid is less than a third
of what was given.
Citizens who have hot contribut
ed are reminded that all local Char
ity drives were combined into th«
present roll call, and those who
give now will be assured that an
other campaign will not be waged
unless, of course, the sum raised
falls to take care of suffering peo
ple. Those who have not contribut- j
ed are urged to do so this evening
ur tomorrow, .Cyu*,r)biiUoUA may hv
mailed to or left at Red Cross head
quarters, or given to any of the la
dies who aided in the campaign.
Every cent will go for relief work
among the needy. Although the or
ganized drive ends tonight, contri
butions may be sent in for the re
mainder of the week and next week.
Can you answer 14 of these test
questions? Turn to page two for the
answers.
1. Who was the author of the
poem "The Vampire?”
2. In embroidery, What Is a sam
pler?
3. Is there such a thing as a ‘‘cow
tree?'’
4 What is Neapolitan ice cream?
5. Who gave the toast about "Our
country right or wrong?”
6. Who wTote “Adam Bede?”
7. What is the equator?
8. Name the controller general of
the United States?
Try Answering
9. In whose cabinet aid James K ;
Garfield serve?
10. In what country Is the Jordan I
river?
11. Who was “Man o' War?"
15. What satire In the form of a
Volstead act? 1
13. What do the Initials B T. TJ
stand for?
14. —For whom Is the Gregorian
calendar named?
! zl5. What satire in the form of a
Travel story was written by Jona
than Swift?
16. Which state does not have
counties?
17. By what country' was Manhat
tan first settled?
18. What is the natural habitat of
the secretary bird?
19. What is a nautical knot?
20. Who is leader of the German
National socialist (Fascist! party?
Miss Mary Sisk Of
South Shelby Passes
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Moved Here From No. 11 Township
Eight Months Ago. Funeral
Today.
Miss Mary Sisk, age 53 years, died
last night at 6 o’clock in South
Shelby, following an illness of about
a month. She moved to Shelby from
the Moriah section of No. 11 town
ship a taxit eight months ago. In
early hie she joined the Moriah
Methodist Protestant church and
the funeral was held there this aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock, services being
conducted by Rev. C E. Ridge of
PolkvUle.
Surviving are two sisters. Miss
i Sisk Mrs. Juki'-- Spurliiv; • d
V n t i . V. i
Roosevelt Shown Arriving In Washington
President-elect Roosevelt is shown on his wav to the White House where yesterday he con
ferred with President Hoover on the wax debt situation. Hfc> car (arrow pointing: to Roose
velt) is shown passing1 down Pennsylvania avenue with the United State Capitol in the
background. (International Illustrated News.
Hoover And Roosevelt Hold Confab
About War Debts; Roosevelt Refuses
To Give View On Debt Problems
Young Jenkins Back
From 2-Weeks Trip!
Ben Jenkins, jr„ Polkville youth,
has returned from a two weeks trip I
to Kansas City where he attended
the national meeting of Future!
Farmers as a delegate from the!
North Carolina organization oi j
which he is an official. While there 1
he participated, as a member of the '
North Carolina team, in the na-]
tional livestock judging contest, the'
Tar Heel team placing 20th among [
all the state teams. i
Dan Cupid Will
Get Action Here
For Thanksgiving
Several Marriage* Scheduled For
First Holiday Of Years.
Licenses Issued.
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Dan Cupid, who always perks up
at tire beginning of the holiday
season, is expected to participate
in a number of Thanksgiving events
in and about Shelby.
Only three or four marriage li
censes had been Issued at tjie Cleve
land county court house up until
today, but several more will likeh
be filled out before Thursday. Some
were issued some time ago in prep-,
aration for Thanksgiving cere-1
monies, and still other local couples |
will journey to Gaffney to be mar-:
ried.
Although a pick-up is in evidence
in the sale of license here as the
holiday season approaches. Register
of Deeds Andy Newton continues to
remind that “business isn't what it
once was, this time of year, before,
these new marriage regulations
came in,’’
Among the licenses issued recent
ly were the .following which the
register was not requested to -keep
nfurs” about until the ceremony to
night or Thanksgiving:
Albert B. McGinnis and Faye
Glascoe, both of the county: Henry n
Watt> and Sarah Jane Smith, bothy
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Pit si drill-elect Will Not Soy Any
thing About Further Imlency
To Other Nation*.
Washington Nov 23—President
elect Roosevelt refused yesterday at
a protracted conference with Presi
dent Hoover to be drawn Into any
commitment on the Immediate prob
lem raised by the plea of foreign
nations for postponement of the De
cember 15 debt, payments amount
ing to $124,000,000, it was learned
last night.
"Progress” was reported in the un
precedented conference, held in the
historic red room in the White
House, in a formal statement In
which the President and his succes
sor joined.
President Hoover will lay before
Democratic and Republican con
gressional leaders today the results
of the conference, which extended
beyond the debt problem to a dis
cussion of the projected internation
al economic conference and the
pending disarmament conference.
Issue Statement.
The Statement issued after the
conference said:
"The President and (governor
Roosevelt traversed at length the
subjects mentioned In their tele
graphic communication. It is felt
that progress has been made. The
ICOVTINCED OS esciE TEN i
“Top-Heavy” Cabinet May Not Be
Picked For Helpers By Roosevelt
Too Many Big Men hike Young And
Smith Might Overshadow The
President Himself-'
Washington, Nov. 23—Governor
Roosevelt is quite right in warning
his people not to pay any atten
tion to what they read in the news
papers about the possible makeup
of his cabinet
Speculation js speculation and it
£ very much in order at this time.!
insofar as the next cabinet is cor.- i
terr.ed. But everyone who writes a-!
xnit it is Just guessing and hardly)
my of the guesses nre better than
ht oii’et>. 'JTl.c guessing will be-!
w gradually more accurate of.
course, as March approaches.
One reason the president-elect is
so completely justified in warning
the public not to take any stock in
the cabinet speculation is that no
one knows whether Roosevelt wants
a strong cabinet or a weak cabinet.
Nearly all the current speculation
has been based on the theory that,
he will br wanting a strong cabi
net. That's why you find the cor
respondents picking posts for such
folks as Newton D. Baker. Owen D.
You-g, Albert C. Ritchie. John w.
Davis, James M. Cox. Ai Smith,
Carter Glass, Bernard Baruch, Mel
vin M. Traylor, William G. MeAdoo
Frances Perkins and Thomas .1.
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Roosevelt Gets
Cheers On Ride
\ To WhiteHoase
| Cheer* Of Hundreds Greet Him As
He Rides “Avenue Of
Presidents.”
Washington, Nov. 23—With the
cheers of hundreds beating against
his ears. Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt rode down the “Avenue
of Presidents’’ yesterday to the most
unusual conference in American
history.
At the end of Pennsylvania Ave
nue, President Hoover — a scant
month ago Roosevelt's rival In a
strenuous political campaign—await
ed him in the White House. Both
had expressed a desire to sink their
political differences In the common
welfare of the nation
Three months from now Roosevelt
will ride back up the avenue that
links the executive and legislative
branches of the government to be
come President of the United Stat
es.
Yesterday the great and the ob
scure greeted him. At union station,
White House aides boarded the
President-elect's special train as
soon as its wheels came grinding to
a stop.
Formal Greeting.
Warren Delano Robbins, protocol
chief of the State Department, ex
tended formal greetings to the par
ty that included James A. Farley,
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Power Rate Cat
By S. P. U. In
Rural County
County Consumer*
Will Benefit
laiwrr Hair Will Affect 1,100 Utrn
Outside Of Shelby In Cleve
land County.
An electric power rate .reduction
will be noted In monthly bills re
ceived December 1st by 1,200 users
of electric current furnished by the
Southern Public Utility company In
Cleveland county.
The schedule of new rates pub
lished In today’s Issue of The Scar
shows substantial reduction for
electric .servlet* for every customer
of this company who uses service
amounting to more than $1,00 per
month and there is no Increase In
the cost of service for a single cus
tomer
The new schedule No. I permits
the use of residential devices of
every description, such as electric
Irons, electric ranges, electric re
frigerators, washing machines, mot
ors for furnaces and all other de
vices usable In the home on a sin
gle meter.
Cat* As High As 36 Percent
According to the schedule 30 kilo
watt hours used per month In a
residence will cost 2.13, a reduction
of 4 5 per cent from the former
rate; 50 kilowatt hours used per
month In a residence will cost $2.88,
a reduction of 19.1 tier cent from
the former rate; 100 kilowatt hours
used per month will cost under the
new schedule $4.75 or a reduction
of 31.1 per cent under the former
rate; 150 kilowatt hours used per
month In a residence will cost $6.63
or a reduction of 36.4 per cent un
der the former rate.
Farmers are gratified over tt*» re
duction. Many residents living be
yond the city limits in the direc
tion of Cleveland Springs where
! they are served by the Southern
Public Utility, found the old scale
and Aassific&tion too costly if they
cooked on electric ranges, conse
quently they went back to the wood
stove method. Under the new
schedule whereby one flat rate Is
obtainable for lighting, heating,
cooking, refrigeration, etc., these
people will no doubt return to
electric ranges and other electrical
devices in the home.
It will be recalled that the S. P.
U. company purchased a few years
ago the lighting systems in Lattl
more. Mooresboro, Ellenboro, Boil
ing Springs, Patterson Springs and
Earl, Falls ton. Double Shoals and
many other places.
Larceny Trials
Gain On Liquor
Cases In Coart
Drunks Supplanted In Number Thte
Week By Stealers Of
CoaL
The change in weather has
brought a change in the county
court docket in Shelby. For week*
and months the majority of cases
have been centered about some
form of violation of the prohibition
laws, but last week and this week,
according to Wm. Osborne, deputy
clerk of recorder’s court, petty lar
ceny cases have outnumbered the
dry law cases.
The Increase in larceny charges
is due to a great extent to the ac
tivity of city police in rounding up
alleged coal stealers. With the ad
vent of cold weather a quantity ot
coal has been stolen from coal yards
near both local railway stations.
Close to a dozen arrests have been
made and seven or eight defend
ants have been given road sentenc
es.
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Tile recorder’s sentences have
helped, it is believed, officers in
bringing a halt to the coal-theft ac
tivity. Practically all defendants
convicted and sentenced have been
given 61 days on the roads. The
ages of the defendants have ranged
from 15 years to middle age, and
some are white and some black.
Monday's court docket was the
usual week-end run, while Tuesday
the court was in session practically
all day. with a light docket this
morning. In yestei day’s session
Uge -Sweery. who vas with Tom
Lattimore when $100 of his money
mysteriously disappeared last Sat
urday evening, was bound over to
Superior court under a bond of
1500.