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S PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVIII, No. 146 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, DEC. 5, 1032 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) 07 Uaa oer y*at. 4in advance - S3.fi Carttt? Off yaar. tin a<irane«i $J.C< Late News! THE MARKET Cotton, spot ____ 5'it Cotton seed, ton __$10 [ Rain Likely Today's North Carolina Heather Report; Fair tonight. Tuesday in creasing cloudiness and warmer fol lowed by rain in extreme west por tion. j G. O. P. Future Harrisburg, Fa., Dec, 5.—Clifford Pinrhot, Independent Republican governor of Pennsylvania, said yes terday unless leadership of the Re publican party is changed, “the mil lions of voters who were lost to the party this year will be lost for -nod.” The governor, long a critic of the national and state Republican •■rganization, stated in an otjen let ter to "Republicans” that the Re publican national ticket was defeat ed last month by Republicans who voted the Democratic ticket. He n-crihed this shift to the action of the Republican lenders "who In every great; issue before the, Ameri can people * * * have taken the side of concentrated wealth.” Negro Is Killed When Truck Hits Pole Along Road Will Green’s Skull Fractured. Cor oner To Hold Inquest Tuesday. Will Green, negro youth of about IS years of age, was fatally injured late Saturday night in a motor truck accident in the No. 3 school section south of Shelby. The negro. Coroner Roscoe E Lutz was told, was riding on the -ide of a truck driven by Seth May how. son of Lee- Mayhew, and the truck sides wiped a telephone pole, or in some manner the colored boy was catapulted against the pole. Young Mayhew and the other white ouths riding v-ith him rushed the injured negro to the Shelby hos pital but he died just before reach ing the hospital. Hold Investigation His skull was fractured and both legs and an arm were broken, ac cording to the coroner. Complete de tails of the fatality were not secur 'd, Saturday night, as it was around midnight, but Coroner Lutz has been investigating the matter since nd will hold an inquest at the court house tomorrow, Tuesday, aft ernoon at 2 o'clock. With young Mayhew were four other boy friends, said by the cor oner to be Stacey Roberts, S. L. Roberts, Carl Logan and Wilburn Byers. As they left Shelby to re ; urn to their homes in the lower part of the county, they picked up, it is said. Green and another col ored boy. Alonzo Whitener. Green lived on the Paul Hamrick place in he Sulphur Springs church com munity and was getting a lift that far on his way. The other negro cot off the. truck, it is said, just a mile or two out of Shelby and was hot along when the other was fat ally injured. The dead negro had been living in this section for some time, but his father and relatives live, it is understood, at Winston-Salem. At the inquest the coroner's jury will attempt to determine just how the fatal Injuries were brought about. Kings Mtn. Boy Killed When Hit By Passing Truck .t. M. Blark. Age 11, Jumps From Wagon In Front Of Truck. I'navoidable Accident. Kings Mountain. Dec. M. Black. 11-year-old son o£ Mrs. Min nie Black, died in a hospital in Gas tonia late Friday night of injuries received when he was run over near his home here by a truck- driven by W. M. Green of High Point. Young Black was rushed to the hospital after the accident. His chest was crushed and he was suf fering front concussion of the brain. The truck driver was not held. Uoscoe E. Lut!!. th? Cleveland coun ty coroner, deeming the accident un avoidable. Witnesses said that young' Black jumped off the wagon on which he was riding direct in front ol the oncoming truck. Funeral services were held Sat urday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Glen Alpine, in Burke county. The • outh is survived by his mother, two brothers and one sister of Kings Mountain, and two naif brothers of Burke county. Cotton At Standstill From Saturday Close Cotton on the New York ex change at 2:15 today was at a standstill from Saturday's close December was 5.60, Jan. 5.59 and March 5.72 practically unchanged from Saturday. Rl ' New County Board Cuts Out Two Offices, Slash Other Salaries Polkville Road To Be Surfaced Jeffress Informs Work Will Be Done During Spring Highway Chairman Also Informs That Survey Of Grover Ko;ui Is Started. The new Shelby - Polkville j highway and the connecting route between Fallston and Polkville via Lawndale wilt be given an all-weather surface. This information comes from E.! B. Jeffress. chairman of • the state highway commission. who states that the surfacing of the road, or. which construction will start soon, will be done later in the spring Low bids were received for the two Cleveland county routes last week and when the bid.' were an nounced local citizens noticed that I they only called for grading and ] topsoiling. This caused quite a! number to think the new roads would not lie surfaced and the mat ter was widely . discussed over the i county. The Star- made Inquiry of j Chairman Jeffress and received the j following information: "The work Is let for drainage and top-soiling and funds are re served for placing a surface treat ment on the roads later in the spring. One class of contractors do grading work and a different out fit docs surface treatment, so it is advisable to split the contracts.” Other Roads In his letter Mr. Jeffress also stated that the engineers will this week begin the survey of the Shel by-Grover road. Survey notes on the Boiling Springs protect, he added, are now being forwarded to the highway de - paxtment for Consideration. Incidentally, the low bids on The the Shelby-Polkvllle and Fallston Polkvllle roads were approved at another meeting of the highway commission Friday. Thomas McCoy Dies; Buried In Shelby Former Citizen. Age 81 Years Pass es in Hickory. Body is .Brought Here. ‘Hickory Record.' Thomas Franklin McCoy, age 81 ! years died suddenly Thursday morn j ing at the home of his son, Dr. E. | J. McCoy, on North Fifteenth street j where he has been visiting for the | past two weeks. The body was removed to the I home of another son, T. F McCoy ! in Shelby, this morning, and fu neral services were conducted there this afternoon at three o'clock by Rev. Jenkins and Rev. McLarty, in ; ferment was in the Shelby ceme- j i tery. Mr, McCoy is survived by three sons: Dr. E. J. McCoy, of Hickory. J W. McCoy, of Statesville, T. F. McCoy Jr„ of Shfilby, one sister, ; Mrs. Rachel Huss, of Charlotte; also : 16 grandchildren and five great ! grandchildren, i __ Back From Funeral Held In Mississippi Mr. and Mrs. D. H Harris and ' children returned to Shelby Satur day after attending the funeral of Mrs. Harris’ uncle in Columbus, Mississippi, last week. The uncle, | Dr. W. C. Brewer, prominent Miss- , t issippi surgeon, died there Monday ! night. Cleveland County’s New Commission Board Above are shown the three men who form the new board of Clove land county commissioners which took office today. Heading left to right they are Joe E. Blanton, named chairman; J. I>. Morris and J. L. Herndon. One of the first acts of the hoard after being sworn In today was to discontinue appropria tions for two county offices and reduce the salaries of all other county officers and employes. Mr. Blan ton. of Shelby, is a merchant and farmer; Mr Morris Methodist Protestant minister and farmer of Eall ston; and Mr, Herndon Is a Grover merchant. Photo lit min CONGRESS FAILS TO REPEAL PROHI LA W Reynolds Surprised To Hear About His Political Machine In State; Knew Nothing Of Charlotte Meet Double Cage Bill Will Open Season In Shelby Tonight The basketball season will t)e opened in Shelby tonight with a douhle-header between Shelby high and Stanley {'reek at the high school gymnasium. The Shelby girls team will play the visiting girls sextet in the opening game and the Shelby high quint will meet the Stanley hoys in the sei • end game. (Other Sport News Page (> Woman Shot By Her Husband Is Living Bello Phillips Improves At Hospital. Husband Killed Uinisclt Thursday Belle Phillips, colored woman of the Patterson Springs section, who! was shot last. Thursday afternoon by her husband lust before he turned the gun upon himself and committed suicide, was still living in the Shelby hospital today, It was said that she has shown im provement and that her condition is more favorable. She was shot in the chest by her husband, Will Phillips, well known and industrious colored farmer, who then shot himself. He was believed to have become mentally deranged from continued ill health. His funer a. was conducted at Ellis Chapel, at Patterson Springs, Saturday after noon. Mrs. Santa Claus Of Opinion That Hard Times Make Her Work Easier Woman Who Plays Hole For 5,(MM) Youngsters Finds Many To Help Her. Kansas City. Kans. Dec. 5.—A woman who has oeen Mrs. Santa Claus here for 16 consecutive years, in which time her list of children has grown from 300 to 5.000, Is con vinced "hard times only makes the •role easier.” ?• ‘I .am actually amazed at the way people have offered to help when 1 i snow that they have fared none too well this year,” saios Mrs. George J. Stine as she went about storing gifts in the basement of her home | for 5.000 hoys and girls this Christ*. 1 mas. Kvcrv grade school t> achpr in the city is giving at least one doll. Jun ior and high school teachers are contributing money. Club women have taken her in their motor cars to the homes of the needy where she joted down names and ages. Approximately 1, 000 families are on the list. Merchants are contributing cloth ing, candy, food and toys. As in past years, the, distribution work will be carried on largely by stu dents home from college for the holidays. V Mother and father as well as sis ter and brother are remembered by Mrs. Stine and her "elves.” ‘‘It's such easy work this time, said the kindly woman whose hus band is a retired packing house em ploye , Senator Makes Statement About Meeting. Hill Not A ( an rtiriate. Says. Washington. Dee. 5—Reports from North Carolina that Senator-elect Robert R Reynolds was the leader of an "embryo” political organiza tion which would support Judge Wilson Warlick for governor in 1936 and John Bright Hil! lor lieu tenant governor were termed by Reynold last night S' "much of a surprise to me as to anyone else." "I was elected without the aid of a machine,” Reynolds said in a statement, "and it would certainly be very fpolish «f me to attempt the organization of' one, especially before I had even been seated hi the United States senate." llill Matfmenl Reynolds' office also issued a statement by Hill his campaign manager, denying he was a candi date for lieutenant governor or that he was' a part of « reported move ment to organize n Reynolds’ bloc in behalf of a state ticket next terpi" Hill, Reynolds said, came to Wash ington and "informed me that he liappened to be in Chariotte on leg al business last Friday night. He is positively not a candidate for lieutenant governor," he said, ‘‘and had ho thought or suggestion of any such movement as was re ported, and has not pledged Ills sup port to any candidate,” Reynolds continued. “My entire attention at present is being devoted to the re presentation of my people in the United States senate, and I feel sure the citizenship of North Caro lina will discontinue the world t>f political rumors which have a habit of circulating after every campaign. Made No Pledge. “I have neither pledged my sup port to any potential political can didate. nor have I given such mat ters the slightest consideration.” Hill’s statement said his presence in Charlotte was "purely in the course of my legal business and l iCONTINUED ON PAGE BIGHT i Mrs. Eliza Webb 91 Years Old Sun. Mrs. Eliza Webb celebrated her 91st birthday at her home on Most Marion street yester day. Mrs. Webb is the second oldest person in Shelby, lit* M)itc her years, she was feel inf much better than usual, certainly better than a year afo when she was 30 AJi members of her family and many friends called to wish her well. Many nice gifts were received. Mrs. Webb’s grandmother lived to be 10b. First Vote in Congress To day Failed To Repeal Ry Five Votes. Congress in an early move today failed to repeal the dry law. A vote was taken at 2 ■n’Bock this afternoon and re peal failed to carry by five and one-half votes. This means that the effort to repeal the dry law in the United States must await the next regular session of con gress gs it will not be taken up again during the lame duck session. 272 to 141. The final vote stood as fol lows : For repeal: 272. Against repeal: l it. Three congressmen \ph o voted dry could have brought the necessary two-thirds ma jority by switching their vot es for repeal. The floor was cleared for the test on the prohibiti<yi vote just after the session opened. This was done when a motion to apply the unit rule in the repeal vote was carried by the necessary ma jority. Announcement of the vote outcome, awaited with inter est by the entire nation, was given by radio and newspaper extras. White Man Has His Skull Fractured; Hurt Near Grover Oliver Hush Mhv Have Received Serious Injury In Trying To Catch Train. A white man appearing to be i about 25 years of age and whose j name is believed to be Oliver Bush j is in the Shelby hospital suffering j with a fractured skuil as the result. It is thought, of being thrown or struck in an attempt to catch a train near Grover Sunday after noon. The man. it is said, had been seen ; walking near the Southern tracks > at Grover just a short time before he was found injured and rushed to the hospital in Shelby about 4 Sun day afternoon. He was for a time in a semi-conscious condition but has since regained consciousness, it. was said at the liopital today. Two ad dressee one in Atlanta and one at Philadelphia, were found in his pocket. It is believed that his wife lives in Philadelphia. So far as could be determined here today no one saw the accident, and it is only presumption that he was hurt in attempting to catch the train. Al hough the man is seriously hurt he is not considered in critical condi Elect Officers j)rop Offices Of Two (Jr County Clubs . sis s n In Meeting Here Agents, All Are Cut Mr*. Huff Hamrick New President 27S Women Attend Achievement | Ray Program Of Denionstra* tton Club*. 'I'wo hundred and aeeenty-flve Cleveland county club women at tended the annual achievement day program of the county Federation i of Demonstration clubs held at. the South Shelby school Friday. Reports from 15 dubs were Judg -, eri by Miss Ruth Current, district farm agent. The Patterson Grove club with Mrs. A P. Falls as presl- j dent won tlrst place. The Karl club' with Mrs. W, D. Earl as president! took second honors and third hon-l ors went to the Belwood-Warltck club of which Mrs. A. D. Warltck Is president. Patterson Grove won on * all-around work, Earl on recreation : meetings and membership gain, while Belwood-Warltck more than I doubled membership since the last meeting by annexing another club,i giving the Bclwood prefix to thej original club name. New Officer* Mrs. Huff Hamrick, of Boiling Springs, was elected as the new president of the county federation. Mrs. Boyd Hnrrelson, of El-Bethel, was elected vice president; Mrs. L. C. Toms, of Lattlmore, secretary; Mrs Stough Miller, of Waco, treas urer; and Mrs! Forrest Crowder, of LattJmore, music leader. Mrs. Foy Putnam, tire retiring president, and her officers set a standard of excellence that ls ap preciated by the entire organization and Mrs. Irina P Wallace, demon stration agent, and with the new officers elected hy a unanimous vote It ls shown that the federation U confident that th« work will be handled equally as satisfactory. Sharon, the smallest club In the federation, was rated fourth In ex cellence of report, and had other clubs sent In more complete reports the awards may have been changed. St. Paul, youngest of the clubs, was the first to report to the agent. Eighteen, the club organized last month, had five members present, but having just started had no years report to make. The invocation opening the meet ing was conducted by Rev H N, icontinued on PAGd. eic;in > Junior Red Cross Meets Wednesday 'Hie third regular Junior Red Cross meeting will be held simul taneously in all the elementary schools Wednesday morning at 8:45 during chapel period. The chief features of the program to be rendered at this time will be sing ing of the Red Cross song, reciting the pledge and giving reports of Junior Red Cross work done by eacli grade during the past month, “Funny Folks” To Be At Jefferson The "funny folks," the entertain ing comic character skit, will be presented at the Jefferson school auditorium in the Eton village Tuesday evening at 7.30: The pro ceeds will go to the school. With Modern Cleaners. R, J. Howard, who has formerly been connected with the Shelby Dry Cleaning Company, has gone with the Modern Cleaners, it was an nounced today and will be in charge of the cleaning department. Public Ceremony In Court Hou«e Here Thi# Eve The general public of Shel by and Cleveland county la Invited to a public radio pro gram In the Cleveland countv court houae tonight at which time several of the new coun ty officers will be Installed In connection with a state wide installation. The pro \gram will be featured by a radio program over a state hook-up sponsored by the Good Government Institute. The installation of Wake county officers will be on the radio program and talks will be made by Governor-elect khringhaus and his Republi can rival. Clifford Frasier. The new Cleveland county commissioner* were sworn in here this morning, but Mrs ldllian Newton, new county treasurer: A. F. Newton, reg ister of deeds; Troy McKin ney, new accountant, and the constables will be sworn In at the program In the court house tonight. All other coun ty officers are asked to be present along with the gener al public. Police In Drive On Thieves; Get 3 Negro Youths Two ( htrird With Entering row Houses. Third (Jh»n Rood Term. A round-up last week by the Shel by police department resulted In the arrest of three alleged thieves and a general clean-up of articles said to have been stolen from sev eral Shelby homes. In the arrest of “Toots" Hord, Alfonse Hoskins and Dick Jolly, all colored youths, Chief McBride Poston and members of the police force think they have nabbed some of the chief offenders in recent thefts about the city. Hord and Hoskins were bound over to Superior court by Recorder Pat McBrayer on charges of break ing and entering three or four Shel by residences. When the two were arrested it is said they were to have in their possession articles taken from the residence of the late Capt. J. F. Jenkins, and from the homes of Randolph Logan and Mr, Dill worth. Hord is also charged with having entered the home Rev. John W. Suttle. Among the articles re covered were golf clubs, boots and clothing. Dick Jolly, the third youth, was given a road sentence of five months, 61 days being meter out for stealing coal and four months for the larceny of clothing from Hubert Jones Local Youths Make College Honor Roll W. W. Washburn, a member of the junior class, and Milton Loy, law student, both of Shelby, made the honor roll at Wake Forest last month. State To Adopt New Geography; 4 Books For Less Than Two Cost Four-Book Scries For Si60 While Present Books Cost S2.90 For Two. Raleigh, Dec. 5 —Settling the controverted question of a new adoption of school books at this time by a unanimous vote, the state board of education last week authorized a five-year contract with Stiver, Burdett Co, for the four book series of geographies by Bar row and Parker, replacing the two book series of Brigham and McFar lane series published by the Ameri can Book company, which has been in use in the state for 12 years. The new adoption, the third for a major subject in the past eight years, will be placed partially in effect during the next school year 1 The book now in use lor the fourth and fifth grade will be continued next year in the fifth grade and the book now in use in the sixth and seventh grades will be con* tinued in the seventh grade’ The new four-book series, a sepa rate book for each grade, costs $2.60 as against the $2.90 formerly paid for two books, and Dr. A. T. Al len, state superintendent of public instruction, yesterday estimated that the new prices are about 20 per cent under any renewal terms that could have been secured, the publishers of the present book hav ing offered a 25 percent reduction for a special North Carolina edi tion. The meeting was attended by the tcoNTctrEt- or " tar wear i McKinney Will Be New Accountant Blanton Named ('ommimlon Chair man. Economy Program To Save $5,000. l iving up to Its mandate for economy in county affairs, the three new County commissioners this morning reduced all county salaries and withdrew the appropriations of the offices of county farm agent and county home demonstration agent, the total amount of saving being over $5,000. Troy McKinney was elected audi tor and tax sujrervisor to succeed A. E. Cline, resigned. Hoards Meet Jointly Joe E. Blanton, who received the highest vote of the three county commissioners, was elected chair man of the board and in all prob ability will be granted the author ity to do the purchasing for the county. J. D. Morris, of Fallston and Lester Herndon, of Grover, the other members of the board and Mr. Blanton were sworn in early this morning. The retiring board A. E. CUne, R. L. Weathers and Oeorgc Lattimore held a short session in the county treasurer’s office, wind ing up their affairs. Upon invita tion of the Incoming board they walked across the hal to the reg ister's office and held a brief Joint session, after which the retiring members left, the room to the new board w'hieh will guide the destinies of the county for the next two years. Around the table with them was Peyton McSwaln, newly elected county attorney. Saving Over $5,000 A meeting had been held previous to the oath of office at which time the commissioners agreed on the salary cuts and new appointments. There was little delay In taking ac tion which will save the taxpayers over $5,000 a year. Back in May of this yew, be fore the June primaries, the former board of county com missioners, ordered a salary re duction of approximately ten percent, the cuts to take effect when tlie new terms began. This reduction was made earlier In the year so the candidates would know in advance what their sal aries would be, but the present board cut deper than this when they took office this morning. Peyton McSwain who becomes attorney will draw $600 a year as compared with the former salary of $750. New Salary Schedule The county has been paying $50 a month for clerk hire In the Of fice of A. M. Hamrick, clerk of court. This was withdrawn, mak ing a saving to the county of $600 a year. The salary of the clerk Is $2,400, with $200 allowance for be ing judge of the Juvenile court This office holder will have to pay for his own clerk if one is necessary. The salary of the register of deeds was reduced from $2,600 to (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.I T ry Answenng These 1. Who was the Democratic nomi nee for President in 1920? 2. Name the first woman who successfully swam the English Channel? 3. Where is “Little America?" 4. Who was Emile Coue? 5. What was the cause of the for mer German Kaiser’s withered arm? 6. What countries occupy the Scandinavian peninsula? 7. Which State has the largest number of counties? 8. What is the official spelling of the Island of which San Juan is the capital? 9. Who wrote the play "Madame X?” 10. What is a Centaur? 11. What states comprise the middle Atlantic Division of the United States? 12. What does the word Sahara mean? 13. What are words having the same spelling but different mean ings called? 14. What is the heaviest liquid’ 15. What i sFhilately? 16. Where is Blarney Castle? 17. In what year did President Harding die? 18. What kind of government haa Switzerland? 19. Where are the Black Hills? 20. Which is the largest elty on the Mississippi river?