Late News
THE MARKET
i i.ilon _ ___—— 6r
( niton ;>eed> ton ...._..... $9.50
Warmer Saturday
I.>day'» North Carolina Weather
(report: Fair and somewhat wanner
j„ «rst portion tonight. Saturday
in. reusing cloudiness and w armer.
Probably light rain in afternoon in
extreme west portion. Colder Sun
day
Repeal Is Nearer
Washington, .Ian. 6.—Labeled
•approved” by a subcommittee, a
prohibition ^.repeal resolution last
tiight awaited early action by the
, nate judiciary committee. Four
out of five members of the ,sub
. i.mmittee voted for the resolution
repeal the amendment, protect
stales which want to remain dry,
■ nd allow congress to legislate
against return of the saloon. The
full committee will take the meas
ure up Monday and must vote on it
before it reaches the senate floor.
Restful Sleep
For Gardner As
Gets Back Home
Off Today To Speak
In Iowa
Retiring- Governor Relaxes.... Will
\ddress legislature In <
West.
■ V:'h four years o? work and
Vorrv wrestling with problems of
Si„te behind him.' O. Max Gard
retiring governor of North Car
olina, returned to his home here yes
terday afternoon ■with Mrs. Gard
ner after participating in the in
augural rites of his successor. J. C.
ft .Ehringhaus. at Raleigh yester:
day. .• -
■ I feel fine today and I slept like
:• baby last night for the first time
i a long time." Mr. Gardner said
• this morning as he dropped back
temporarily into, his former life as
■ i private citizen after being this
ection's first chief executive.
"Couldn’t you see that smile on
my face in the inaugural photo
rvaphs this morning?” he asked. “It
Has' been a trying period, but one in
liich I made contacts and estab
hed real friendships, tested under
:■ re which T value beyond words;
' 1 tell you it is a great rel'efrAs
; ct I cannot comprehend my free
dom and all it means to be relieved
j of the problems, I have faced for
four years.”
Mr. and Mrs. Gardner after re
turning to their South Washington
meet' home late yesterday, spent
He remainder of the evening quiet -
b- and settled down to the routine
of once again acclirhating themselv
- to the home life they departed
; our years ago.
Off Today.
This afternoon, after his brief
. t. the former governor leaves for
foes Moines. Iowa, where on Mon
o- night, he wifi address a joint
• '•-ion of the IoWa general assem
He will complete the 1,600 mile
l™hi trip Sunday night and hopes
to. be back in Shelby next Friday
■ the Woman's club reception for
him. and Mrs. Gardner.
He was invited to Iowa by Gov
ernor. Clyde L. Herring. Iowa's first
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Mrs. Rhyne Diecl
Yesterday At I
1 uneral Services For Widow Of J.
B. Rhyne Will Be Held
Saturday. '
Mr? Margaret Rhyne, wife of the
| J. B Rhyne, died 'yesterday
1 o'clock at her home in the
action on Shelby route 1.
One of the section's highly respect
' t, women, Mrs. Rhyne was 85 years
01 age and had been an invalid for
.■'•’•vral years. Despite her long ill
' f the news of her death brought
' ’ * f to all who knew her.
Funeral services will be conducted
the home Saturday afternoon at
1 ’'clock by Rev, Mr. Allison, Meth
t’OLsT minister. Burial will follow at
Mountain Rest cemetery, Kings
Mountain.
Surviving -children are: J. R.
f’hyne, Gastonia; Herbert and
Charlie Rhyne, Shelby route 1; Mrs,
Mamie Smith, Shelby route 1; and
Mrs J R. Killian and Claud Rhyne,
1 ‘ Columbus, Ga.
Local People To
Hear Dr. Sutton
A number of Shelby and Cleve
■ d county people, school officials
■’tid those interested in Boy Scout
Tork. will go to Gastonia Tuesday
<5ning to hear Dr. Willis Sutton
! cdress the annual council meeting
J the Piedmont Boy Scout council.
t. Sutton, superintendent of the
Atlanta schools, is a former presi
■Mnt of the National Educational
■U’Soeiation and one of the country’s
eVost - interesting speakers. The ad
‘ > will be in the Masonic temple
of Gastonia ai 7 n>I<v>k.
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VOL. XXXIX, No. 3
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, JAN. 6. 193!*
(Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons)
tty Man. 001 veat. , Un advanoai - l^.ftv
Carrier. or» vear. fin adiancm ’ |3.cm
Shelby Building And Loans Pay Out Three-Fourths Million In ’32
Superior Court
Here Monday;
Finley Presides
Week's Mixed Term
To Convene
1 Colored Woman Will Face Murder
Charge For Killing Man At
Kings Mountain.
‘The.January term of Superior
court will convene In Shelby Mon
day morning with Judge T. B. Pin
ley presiding.
The term will be for only one
j week with a mixed calendar of
| criminal and civil cases, the crimi
\ nal docket to be taken up the first
| of the week. There are around 50
j cases. on the criminal docket.
No cases of major or county-wide
i importance are scheduled for trial,
i but there are several important cas
! es. Among them is the murder
! charge against Doia Williams, col-.
| ored, who is charged with fatally
| cutting Lander Morris,' Cherokee
i county. S. C., negro man, some time
ago at Kings Mountain.
Robbery Charge. "
Of particular interest in Shelby
! will be the larceny charges against
Toots’’ Hord. local colored youth,
I who faces about three counts in
j which She!by police allege he was
connected with a series of house
robberies about the city. Charged
jointly in one or two cases with
Hord is Alfonse Hoskins. Another
case of some interest is the charge
of arson and malicious damage to
personal property against Alvin Eak
er. of Lawndale. The allegation cen
j ters about the damage by fire of a
quantity of yarn aff the Cleveland
- Mill and Power Co.
A majority of the cases on the
j docket center about, breaking and
| entering arid larceny counts.
IP. C. Proctor Dies
In Greenville, S. C.
Former Shelby Citizen With Efird’s
For 22 Years. Buried At
Gastonia.
F. C. Proctor, former Shelby clt
I izen, who for 22 years had been
1 connected with the Efird depart
| ment store organization died Wed
; nesday night in a Greenville, S. C.
' hospital-, according to information
; received this morning by "G. W.
Neely, manager of the Efird’s store
ill Shelby.
!' Mr. Proctor's mother and sister
i live at Kings Mountain, it is tin
I derstood. His funeral took place
■ this morning in Greenville and the
i body was taken to Gastonia this
! afternoon for interment. It is un
! derstood Mr. Proctor was married
i and had a family. At the time of
j his death he was manager of the
I Efird store in Greenville and was
| held high in the esteem of the of
1 ficials.
This Year Will Have
Two Friday 13th’s
Friday will twice fall on the 13th
j during 1933, which allows for twice
as many such combination as did
I the late 1932.
The first occurs January 13, when
the evils of an unlucky day and an
unlucky number join forces. . The
second combination comes October
13. Only on May 13, 1932, did the
combination occur in the past .year.
Coolidge Funeral
Services Saturday
Only Ex-Prrsident Died Suddenly
Yesterday In Bedroom Of Ver
mont Home.
Northampton, Mass., Jan. 6.—Cal
vin Coolldge died yesterday.
The 30th President of the United
States, until his death the only liv
ing former President, was stricken
at noon with a heart attack while
alone in a dressing room of nis
home, “The Beeches.”
He was 60 years old on July 4.
1932.
Mrs. Coolidge, returning from a
shopping tour, discovered his body
lying on the floor, where he appar
ently had fallen as he went to his
room to rest and recover from what
he thought was a minor attack of
stomach trouble. He had been dead
only a few minutes.
With his secretary, Harry Ross,
Mr. Coolidge had returned home j
from his law office for luncheon
earlier than usual because re felt
111. But he had suffered from what
he thought was Indigestion for two
or three weeks, and neither he nor
his secretary regarded 4he attack
as serious.
Upon his arrival at the house, he
assured Ross that w:ith a few min
utes’ rest he would be all right. He
then went to the dressing room on
the second floor.
Wife Finds Body.
He had been there only a short
time when Mrs. Coolldge' arrived.
She went to the room at once. She
found her husband's body and im
mediately summoned Dr. E. W.
Brown, a friend of 20 years. He said i
Mr. Coolidge had been dead for j
about 15 minutes.
The funeral will be held Satur- j
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Leap Year Reaps
Only 83 Couples
Here During 1932
December Led List With 23 Licenses
Being Issued. One -Couple
This Year.
If it had not been for the holiday
weddings, Leap Year would have
been a washout for Cleveland coun
ty.
During the year only 83 couples
secured marriage license from Reg
ister of Deeds A. I’. Newton at the
Cleveland county court house. Of
this number 23 secured license dur
ing the month of December, or twice
as many as in any other month of
the year.
So far license has been issued for
the marriage of only one couple in
1933 and It appears to be one of
those December-May unions. The
license, according to Register Newr
! ton's record, went to Wesley Boy
kins, aged 60, and Hlllie Lumpkins,
aged 21, both colored and of the
; Delight section, of the county.
The 1932 $njtrriage record by
months follow^?-:
January, 8; February, 3: March, 3;
April, 4; May, 2; June, 8; July. 3;
August, 8; September. 9: October,
4; November, 8; and December, 23.
Miller Hamrick Of
Waco Dies Suddenly
Succumbs To Heart Attack In His
Chair. Buried At Union
Church Today.
Miller Hamrick, age 51, a black
smith by trade, died suddenly at his
home at Waco at 11 o’clock Wed
nesday night. He suffered a heart
attack and fell from his chair, dy
ing shortly thereafter.
Mr. Hamrick is survived by his
wife and one adopted daughter,
Miss Ruth Hamrick, two brothers,
Z. N. Hamrick of the Union com
munity, Arthur Hamrick of Buffa
lo, tw'o sisters, Mrs. Annie Webb of
Union and Mrs. Bessie Champion of
Waco.
The funeral service was held this
afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. D. G
Washburn and interment took place
in the cemetery at Union Baptist
church.
Mull Plan Of Cheapening Cold Gets
Attention, Attracts Much Interest
Easier Money Badly Needed. For
Debts, Says Gastonia Paper.
California Plan.
The plan of O. M. Mull, Shelby
man, for relieving the depression
and lifting the general burden of
debts by cheapening the value of
the gold dollar has attracted con
siderable interest and comment.
Of the plan The Gastonia Ga
Izette says:
j “Former State Chairman O. M
, Mull, lawyer and mill executive, of
Cleveland county, is advocating a
cheapening of the dollar by reduc
ing the gold content in the gold
dollar. He believes his suggestion
will bring relief to the debt-bur
dened world, for that is the trou
ble with the country—too many
debts.
“ ‘The one cause which is the bigj
mountain blocking the return of
I prosperity,’ he says, ‘is debts of all
kinds; private, corporate and gov
ernmental.’ The entire resources of
our country are constantly being
marshalled and employed in an ef
fort to pay interest on debts with
no thought of new business or do
ing anything constructive. We will
never be able to move forward un
less some settlement is made of all
our debts, which now aggregate ap
proximately eighty per cent of the
market value of all property in our
country.
‘Mr. Mull is getting at the heart
of the trouble. The trouble with
everybody is that it is taking all
they make and more, te pay their
debts, individuals, counties, cities,
and states, not to mention business
firms and corporations. Until we
can get out of debt, the depression
will not be over. And people ran
not get out of debt with money as
hard to make and scarce as it is.
ifnvTTMTvsri r>M
Plenty Of Rain
During Last Of
Year In County
■
j Rain And Snow Together Totalled
7.46 Inches In December.
March High.
| Despite the summer drought In
Cleveland county the rainfall for
the year, according to the records
maintained by John Phifer at the
Shelby post office, totalled 44.27
inches, of almost four Inches per
month.
The heaviest raining weather of
the year came in December with
7.46 inches of rain and snow, the
snowfall was figured at 2.37 Inches.
November was next highest with
6.86 inches and January, first
month of the year, came fourth
with 6.37 inches, while March was
third with 6.71 inches.
The combined rainfall of July,
August. September and October was
only 6.95 inches, or a little more
than thp rainfall of each month of
December, November. March and
January.
The rainfall by months was as
follows: January 6.3T Inches, Feb
ruary 2.97, March 6.71, April 1.78,
May^77, June 3.40, July 1.67, Aug
ust 142, September 1.58. October
1.28, November 6.86, December 7.46.
Try Answering
These
Can you answer 14 of these test
questions? Turn to page two for the
answers.
1. What former president went on
an extended hunting trip to Af
rica?
2. Which Country owns the island
of Miquelon?
3. Name the three rivers that
bound Manhattan Island?
4. What do the initials V. F. W.
stand for?
а. wiiere is rianaoipn r lying.
Field?
б. In which country is Bastile day!
a national holiday?
7. Under whom did Marshal Ney
serve ?
8. What is a bi-centennial anni
versary?
9. In which state is Yosemite Na
tional Park?
10. Where is Mongolia?
11. What is the political status of
Finland?
12. How did Japan acquire the*
island of Formosa?
13. How many cities in the U. S.
had populations of. more than one
million in the 1930 census.
14. Where are Bridal Veil Falls?
15. Name the mountains in which
the Hudson river has its source?
16. In which government depart-1
ment is the prohibition bureau?
17. From what plant is opium ob
tained?
18. What is the minimum age for
U. S. senators?
19. What country has sovereignty
over the island of Elba?
20. How many inches in a meter?
Post Office Flag
Goes At Half Mast:
The Shelby poet office flag was
at half mast today and will remain i
there for 30 days, during the period
of mourning for Calvin Coolidgc,
former president, who died yester
day. Postmaster J. H. Quinn receiv
ed official notice of the death to
gether with instructions for the flag
♦n fly at half masi for tbs* period.!
County Retail
Sales Run Over
'Eight Millions
307 Retail Stores
In Cleveland
Bhelby Retail Sulrs More'Than For
Remainder County. 130
Retail Places.
Net rt>tifi) sales In Cleveland
county, as compiled by the U. 8.
census bureau, for the year 1929,
total $8,801,000, according to a table
presented by the University News
Letter.
In the Cleveland county area, the
table shows, are 307 retail store* or
distributing centers handling auto
motive, food and general retail
supplies of all kinds.
Shelby heads
Shelby has approximately half of
the retail stores with 136. Kings
Mountain has 43 stores and the re
mainder of the county 128.
Shelby’s net retail business for
the year Is given at $5,467,000 For
Kings Mountain the figures are
$1,343,000 and for the remainder of
the county sales totalled $1,991,000.
Burke cpunty’s total sales for the'
year arc listed at $2,898,000. Cataw
ba county la given at $9,814,000, a
pillion ahead of Cleveland, and
Hickory rates slightly above Shelby
with sales of $5,485,000. Gaston re
tail sales total $16,711,000, Lincoln
totals $3,511,000, and Rutherford
$6,198,000.
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Mrs. Elmore Died
Suddenly Thursday
Former C’lemma Cornwell Passes
Unexpectedly At Home Near
Lawndale.
Mrs. Clemma Cornwell Elmore,
wife of Ira Elmore, died suddenly
Thursday afternoon about 1 o'clock
at her home near Lawndale. Her
death was unexpected and came as
a shock to her family and many
friends. 8he was about 30 years of
age.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 2 o'clock at Clover
Hill Methodist church where the
deceased was a loyal member.
Surviving In her Immediate fam
ily are her husband and four chil
dren: Jack. Betty Jean, Bill and
the baby. She Is also survived by
her parents, Mr, and Mrs. G. L.
Cornwell and twelve brothers and
sisters as follows: Mrs. Beuna Hull,
Mrs. Lola Stamey. Mrs. Marie Horn.
Margaret Lee, Mrs. Mattie Gettys
and Miss Pearl Cornwell, and Dr.
A. M. Cornwell, of Llncolnton, and
Messrs. Lee W., Tom, Hal, James
and Robert Cornwell.
Kiwanis Club Makes
Ready For New Year
Committee appointments were
read last night by President Henry
Edwards for the new year and each
committee was urged to function.
Some outstanding programs are In
the offing by the program commit
tee of which Thad C. Ford is chair
man. Attendance prizes will be of
fered by this committee of which
R. H. Rogers is Chairman.
President Edwards gave a din
ner at his home last week to the
directors and once a month the di
rectors will alternate at their
homes in dinner meetings to plan
for the club.
Power To Be Off On
Sunday Afternoon
Patrons of the electric system
will bear In mind that the electric
power will be off from 2 to 2:30
o'clock Sunday afternoon while the
Duke Power company Is doing some
repair work on the transmission
lines.
Postal Council Meet
Postponed 2 Weeks
Cleveland County Postal service
council meeting scheduled for Tues
day January 10 has been postponed
two weeks on account of weather
and large amount of sickness among
the membership.
Verdict Upheld
Supreme court this week handed
down an opinion this wfeek in
which no error was found in the
verdict of Cleveland-county superior
court in the action of 1 Yelton vs.
McKinney. This was a suit over a
note in which Yeiton was awarded,
as it: is recalled, between $1,500 and
*2.000
New And Retiring Governors
North Carolina’s 54th governor, John Christoph Hlucher R'hrlnghaus,
who was Inaugurated yesterday in Kalclgh, is pictured above and be
low is retiring Governor O. >tax Gardner who returned to his Shelby
home yesterday evening. (Star Photos)
John Ehringhaus Sworn In As
North Carolina’s 54th Governor
Gardner's Successor Takes Office
In Simple And Serious Hites.
Yesterday.
Raleigh, Jan. 0.—John Christoph
Blucher Ehringhaus yesterday .be-.
;ame the 54th" governor of North
Carolina. The inaugural exercises;
were the most sober and serious
since the days of reconstruction.
The famous Ehringhaus smile sel
dom flashedv The new governor
frankly painted an ‘ugly picture
if the financial difficulties that
reset. the state In such ah hour,";
re declared, the plain .unvarnished
:ruth is best
Thousands were on hand to greet;
:he popular son of the Albemarle
rut they too were serious in de-.
meaner. Frequently they clapped'
heir Itumls W never did they
iheer. It was a quiet, stern inaugu-;
•ation ,
“The stale which w.e love has
•eueher) the cross roads of Iff, lip
i,u£,iitl destiny," declared the gover
nor in his inaugural address, "The
way out Is plain but pleasureless; it
Involves the eating, for a season at
least, of the herbs and dry bread of
hard self-denial.”
His audience’responded with a
clutter of hands. The applause was
short but not perfunctory. Rather
did it seem to accept the.challenge
thrown down by its new chief ex
ecutive.
Draws Applause
Orroaped at, the front of the new
memorial auditorium, In which the
governor took the oath of office,
v,ere the, members of the senate and
house of representatives.' They gave
rapt attention to the inaugural ad
dress
What pageantry there was came
entirely from the military. Soldiers
from Fort Bragg, national guards
men of various sections and cadets
i.ont ftiatc college made up the pa-;
• V.
iONTt^PKl; i'HGV 'l \ » • I
b
Dividends And
Stock Together
Profits Of Year
Maturities Larger
Than Before
Twelve Merle* Matured; I’aaaea Pre
vious Year*. Check Of A*
sorlattons Show*.
Hintreholijrr.s In the three build
ing and loan associations of Shel
by received during the year, rnora
Utah three-quarters of a million
molars In cancelled mortgages, ma
tured stock, dividends on prepaid
stock, interest, and profits, accord
ing to figures gathered this morn
ing from J. F Roberts, J. L. Sut
tle and John P Mull, the secre
taries of these strong associations.
Mature 12 Series
To be exact the shareholder# re
cetved in money and cancelled
mortgages the handsome sum or
♦77B.251 during the year. Each as
sociation Is old enough to have m»
mii-u iuui wi«■# uuniiK me year
and the stockholders received this
amount in four installments.
Figures were not available for
comparison with other year#, but it
Is understood that the twelve aeries
matured by the three building and
loan association were large and
that the shareholders received In
1932 more than In any previous
year
Various Having Flans
The three associations are the.
Shelby Building and Loan, Cleve
land Building und Loan and Shel
by and Cleveland county butldlug
and loan. All have becsn great fac
tors in home ownership and
agencies through which people have
systematically invested their sav
ings. Those who are familiar with
building and loan associations know,
however, that they perform several
functions. Some people borrow on
first mortgage real estate and pay
back on the weekly plan. When
the loan Is paid back and mort
gages are cancelled. Others take
running shares on which there Is
no loan so when the stoak matures
the saving 1s paid out in a lump
sum—$100 for each $72.50 paid In
over a period of 333 weeks.
Others buy prepaid stock—that,
is, they Invest $72.50 at one time
and receive the $100 at maturity.
Others buy fully p&ld stock at $!00
per share and receive five per cent
Interest, payable semi-annually, so
In these various ways, the share
holders In the three building and
loan assoclaions received in cash and
cancelled papers during 1032 the
sum of $778,251.
The associations are In strong
financial condition, considering the
crisis through which all business has
passed and their earnings are keep
ing well up. There have been some
foreclosures and some refinancing,
but the strength of the associations
have not been Impaired, It Is said.
City Sd^dTWill
Open Again Monday
After Extra Week
3,(MHI School f'hildrerf Will Resume
Work After Over Two Weeks
Holiday.
The Shelby city schools will re
open for work on Monday morning.
It was definitely announced today
by Supt. B. L. Smith.
The city schools were scheduled
to reopen Tuesday of this week,
after having closed on Thursday
December 22, but the reopening was
postponed another week because of
th Influenza epidemic in Shetby.
Since there has been no Increase
In the spread of the epidemic this
week, although there are still many
cases about tha city, the schools
will open Monday morning and
over 3.000 children will return to
their books after a prolonged holi
day vacation of two and one-half
weeks.
Sister Near Death
At Virginia Home
Mrs. fteim Drum left Shelby this
| morning for Suffolk. Va., to be at
; the bedside of her sister, Mrs. C, B
! Craig, who is critically ill with In
fluenza and pneumonia. A message
this morning informed that there
was little hope for recovery. Mrs.
Craig is the wife of Rev. C. B. Craig
who has filled the pulpit at the
Shelby Presbyterian church on sev
eral occasions, and both have visit
ed here. Mrs. Drum was accompan
ied by her brother. Rev Hamilton
.Tohmton, of charlotte