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Late News THE MARKET ( „iton. spot basis --- j roiton ijptd' ton $9'30 > .i Showers Today • \nrth Carolina: Occasional rain tonight and Thursday. Warmer in and colder in extreme west portion tonight. Colder Thursday. | Libby Has A Son \ Philadelphia. Jan. 11.—A son was j born to Mrs. Libby Holman Rey nolds widow of Smith Reynolds, at the Pennsylvania hospital last night. I,r. \orris W. Vaux. attending phy, .p.jjin. said the condition of mother and child was “satisfactory.” Governor Is Sick 1_ _j KuWgh. Jan. 11.—Mrs. J. C. B. j Hiringhaus is going: to make her j husband, the governor of North | t »rolina. remain in bed until his j temperature returns to normal, she i »aid last night. Governor Ehrlng l)3us was ordered to the mansion K his physician yesterday after noon when it was discovered he had: a slight temperature, caused by a re< vrrence Of a kidney ailment that }»pt hi min a Norfolk, Va., hospital for a week. I Mrs. S. Gardner Buried Tuesday Wile of Squire Sylvanus Gardner j Succumbs After Three Years j Illness. M. ■ Sylvanus Gardner died at i >:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at her home on Clegg afreet following ai illness of the past three years. Tac on-set of her affliction was a stroke of paralysis three years ago from which site never recovered. She was 64 year old. Mrs. Gardner before marriage *vus Amanda Alice Costner, daugh ter of Jake and Martha Costner of the Beam’s Mill community. At the ;<ge of 14 she joined Pleasant Grove church and was a faithful member until- death. Mrs. Gardner was a fine Christian woman and greatly j beloved by her host of friends. Surviving are her husband and three children Mrs. Ed Hamrick, Mrs. A. H. Smith and Miss Ada Gardner, all of this county, togeth er v irh four brothers Aleck. Thom as. Perry and Julius Co6tner of the Beams Mill community. Eight grand Children also survive. Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at 2:SO , o’clock at , Pleasant Grove by Rev. D. G. Washburn Dr. Wall and W. E. Elam and interment was in the cemetery there. A large crowd was present to pay her tribute. Will L. Carroll Succumbs Here Former Baseball Player Died At Home Of His Brother. Fu neral Thursday. Will L Carroll, age 73 last June, ticd 'last night at 11:20 o'clock at ■ home of his brother, J. Henrv un-oil, following a decline in health extending over a period of two years or more. Mr. Carroll was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs, Marcus L. Carroll and i :< within a stone's throw of the ; ■ id Carroll homestead where he spent, most of his life. At one time Mr. Carroll was a noted amateur n ■> ball player and was one of the • ' rongest men physically in this sec ' . n He enjoyed sports of all kinds ssa was an authority on .baseball 'rack in the days when keen rivalry developed between the teams of the ’ • iis of this section. Mr. Carroll is r followed the carpentry trade. He is survived by cate brother J. Henry Can-oil, of Shelby, and one - ;n Paul Carroll, conductor on the S aboard. The son lives at Sanford. Sometime ago he joined the First Baptist church and was a regular a tendant at church services and also at the Mull Bible class. Funeral services will be conduct '< by his pastor, Dr. Zeno Wall fi®m the Carroll home on North Washington street Thursday after noon at 2:30 o’clock and interment w:ll be in Sunset cemetery. Carl Thompson Head -)f Scouts In County At the annual scout meeting of Mo Piedmont Council held last 1 Wm at Gastonia at the Masonic Temple. Carl Thompson of Shelby a* elected vice-president for Cleve 3nd county. Mr. Thompson is al ■M-.s active in anything he under takes ar.d the cause of scouting is expected to fare well this year in Cleveland. Between 50 and 75 men from Cleveland county attended last iM-ht's meeting, the feature of - an address by Dr 'wniis sutton of Atlanta. Ga. M WÆMD SEND 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 5 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11. 103:? (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) Or Man. oat raai. on aaaanoai air. Carriat oar aaar. tin a'lvaocai »3.C" Road Program Will Not Suffer Because Of 2-Year Building Halt Chairman Jeffress Writes That Polkville Road Is Certain. Oth er Surveys Under Way. Since the state tax commission recommended that two million dol lars be diverted.from the state high way fund to the general fund, some question has arisen in the mbfds of Cleveland county citizens as to whether the road program will be carried out as agreed upon in Clev eland county The Star Wrote State Highway Chairman E. B. Jeffress on this point and his reply is as follows: "As far as the Shelby-Polkville Lawndale highway vs concerned, these roads have been provided for in the Federal aid program, and are being paid for exclusively . out of Federal aid funds. These roads are now under contract and will be completed. Surveys have been com pleted on the Shelby-Boiling Springs road and almost completed on the Shelby-Grover road. We are going to do our best to go as far as i we can on these projects. Things,! however, are in utmost confusion and will be so until definite policies are determined by congress and by our general assembly." It will be recalled that a road program was worked out with Mr. Jeffress last fall in which he agreed 'CONTINUED ON PARE RIGHT.i First National F leets Officials For 1933; Former Officers And Directors Are Re-EJected. Think The Worst Is Over. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National bank held Tuesday morning at 11 Will Be Built. Improvement u uucti, wte L/UU& '■ aiiauh wcic ic ported in excellent condition con sidering the stress through which all institutions and individuals are passing! During the better years, a large surplus and undivided surplus account had been built, up. yet after losses and charge-offs last year, the bank still has a surplus of $250,000 and an undivided surplus of over $60,000. Total assets of the bank are nearly three and a quarter mil lion and the bank has met the sit uation much'better than banks in other communities. The opinion was expressed that conditions are much better here than in other places and officials are regarding the future with con fidence. anticipating some improve ment in business within the next few months. C. C. Blanton continues as presi dent, John F. Schenck and George Blanton, vice presidents, Forrest Eskridge, cashier. Directors are J. F. Roberts, O. M. Gardner. C. R. Hoey, John F. Schenck, Paul Webb, C. C. Blanton. Forrest Eskridge, R. T. LeGrand. George Blanton and Lee B. Weathers. Sperling To Speak At Men’s Meeting The men of the Presbyterian church will hold their regular monthly meeting this evening at 7 o’clock in the basement of the church. L. S. Spurling. solicitor of this dictrict will be the speaker of the evening. Inasmuch as he is to speak on a subject which is of vital interest to all, the president urges all members to be present. Supper will be served by the ladies. Swift Justice In Court Cases Swift justice has been dealt out in two cases before the superior court over which Judge T. B. Finley is presid ing.. Both cases were felonies and called for penitentiary sentences. On the third day after the crimes were com mitted, the guilty were tried and sentenced. “Lawyer” Lattimorc, negro, who shot and killed his wife at Doable Shoals Saturday night was on yesterday sen tenced to the state peniten tiary for 15 to 20 years. Three white men of Lincoln county entered and robbed a store in No. 10 township Sat urday. They were caught by the Lincoln sheriff before the storekeeper knew his store had been robbed. On yester day the trree were given pri son sentences. Good Scout Year In County Report Of Smith Reveals Twelve Troops With 190 Scouts. Two Youths Saved Lives During Year. There are 190 boys in the 12 Boy Scout troops in Cleveland county. This was shown in the annual re port of B. L. Smith, of Shelby, vice chairman for this county, made to the Piedmont council at Gastonia last night. Among the outstanding scout work listed in the repor is'the saving of two lives from' drowning VWUliVJ IJVVUVOt The report follows: "The Boy Scout work In Cleve land county is operated in two sep arately organized districts; the Shelby district and the Kfngs Mountain district, each having its own administrative committee. The Kings Mountain district gives sup ervision to the eastern section of the county, whereas the Shelby dis trict supervises the central and western sections of the county. "There are twelve organized troops in the county with a mem bership of 190 registered scouts. Several additional troops are in the process of organization. "Near the close of the year both the Shelby and the Kings Moun tain district committees voted to extend scouting to the negro boys of their respective sections. Negro troops will be organized in the near future. Two training schools for scout masters have been held in the coun ty during the sear; oile was con ducted on the principles of scout mastership and the other on first aid. A number of our leaders avail ed themselves of the opportunity of receiving training in these courses. "Mr. Alvin Propst, scoutmaster of troop No. 2, Shelby, has qualified for the scoutmaster's key, having completed the five-year program of the Boy Scouts of America. He was j the first scoutmaster in the Pied-; mont council to qualify for this award and so far as we are able to ascertain, was the first scoutmaster ■in North Carolina to reach this at tainment. 5 "Two of the Kings Mountain scouts rendered conspicuous service in saving two persons from drown ooN'rtNtrED on ° te (Ham i McSwain Proposes Plan To Bring Back Prosperity; U. S. Would Issue New Money And Lend Against Bonds Cities Could Borrow For Current Expenses and Thus Reduce . The Taxes. Capt. Peyton McSwain, Shelbj lawyer and former member of thf state senate, has a plan which h« contends will brine back prosper ity and give the taxpayers immedi ate relief. He would have the ■ government through the Federal reserve bank! issue a sufficient amount of nets currency to loan every state, counts and town in the United States enough money to pay their curreni or operating expenses for a perioc of tjvo years. These loans to fcx made yfithnw* any interest or dis count, and to be repaid in ten equal annual installments. As each pay ment is made the Federal reserve I board would take out of circulation ■ an equal amount of currency, so | that at the end of ten years all the new money would be withdrawn. Writes Senators. Captain McSwatn has written Senators Bailey and Reynolds ex plaining the plan in detail. His let ter is as follows: “I think we can all agree that we ■j '.vill never get out of this depression until the price of commodities and labor go up. We can. I presume, also agree that the man in debt can never pay out with our present high * iCONTivrirr,. o.\ r«..r BtOH'i b Strangely Missing Marie Ann Dubois, 19-year-old society beauty of Worcester, Mass., whose mysterious disappearance with three others started the police { of New York and Massachusetts on an intensive search. The missing debutante, a daughter of E. P. j Dubois, wealthy realtor, motored from Worcester to New York with I Evelyn Becker, Dwight L. Pierce and John Macklin, all from the same city, on January 4. None of the party has been heard from since. Tries Suicide In Jail After Long Sentence Dora Williams, Convicted Of Kill ing "Her Man” At Kings Mtn. Tries Hanging. Dora Williams, 30 year old negro day on a murder charge, made an unsuccessful attempt to take her own life in her cell at the county jail Monday night about 9 o'clock. Dora felt that life was not worth living in the face of a penitentiary sentence of seven to 10 years for killing “her man," Boyd Morris in Kings Mountain on Nwvembt’ 4th. j She stabbed him to death. Members of the family of Sheriff Allen heard her struggling and i hurried to the cell. She had tied one end of a blanket around her neck, the other end to the top cor ner of the barred cell and jumped. The distance she fell was too short,1 however, to break her neck and by j the time Haywood Allen, the sher-J iff’s son reached her, she was lying • on the cell floor. Sheriff Allen says she iater tried | to kill herself by rushing her head against the steel cage, but after1 talking to her and telling her that clemency might come, she has been quieter. woman, who was convicted Mon Try Answering Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page 3 for the answers. 1. What does "Auf wiederbehen” mean? 2. Where does the Yukon river rise? 3. What is prosopology? 4. What is the name for a herd of whales? 5. What Indian name means "Beautiful River"? 6. Where were the ancient king doms of Babylonia and Assyria? j 7. According to modern ealcula-' tions in what year was Jesus born? I 8. What prominent citizen 'ivec at Northampton. Ma's ? 9. What prominent indue* •iab.it! first introduced a minimum wage of five dollars a day in his fac-} lories? 10. What is the prevailing j r : ligion in Afghanistan? 11. Of what country is Prague the; capital? 12. What epithet was applied to! fractional panur currency of the; Civil war period? 13. Who advanced the theory *h*t all space is curved? 14. What famous street In New; York City is over fifteen miles long? 15. What is Pidgin English? 13. What is the Latin word fc? i dug? 17. Where are the Jura ■noun tairs? 18. Who said, "There is no new thing under the sun?” 19. In what religion is Yom i£io-! pur a holiday? V / 20. Name the president of Prance’, MR. WEBB MOVES PIEOT AGENCY TO NEW OFFICE The C. R. Webb general agency of the Pilot l ife Insurance Co. war moved yesterday from the second floor of the M v:. ••{.■• r building to J the first floor or the same building.; The offices are now on We# Mar-1 ion -treef next to Western Union. Ernest Gardner On Seven House Committees Now Cleveland*! Representative Placed On Seven Committees Of General Assembly. Hon. Ernest Gardner, representa tive from Cleveland county In tht general assembly of North Caroline has bebn appointed on seven com mittees. according to a list of ap pointments announced yesterday bj Speaker R. L. Harrt«. The committees to which Mr Gardner has been assigned are edu catton, congressional districts, elec tion laws, courts and judicial dis tricts. judiciary No. 2. public road and library. Other Committee Heads Rufus A. Doughton of Alleghany veteran of M sessions of the. North Carolina general assembly, ha been appointed chairman of th» important house committee, "on fi nance by Speaker R. L. Harris Doughton was speaker of the hous« 49 vpura turn Representative Harris Newman ol Neve Hanover was given the job o) leading the house appropriation; committee. Walter Murphy of Rowan, anoth er former speaker, was namec chairman of the committee on con stitutional amendments. Tam C Bowie of Ashe, the third formei speaker now sitting as a member ol the house, was given leadership ol the group on elections. O. B, Moss of Nash, who had been frequently speculated upon tc head the appropriations group, drew the chairmanship of Judiciary num ber one and Thomas Turner, Jr., oi Guilford, got judiciary number two R, _Gregg Cherry of Gaston wa named chairman of public road Ernest Graham of Robeson, drew education, and Robert Cox of For syth, senior member of the house got the powerful rules committee chairmanship. W. W. Neil of McDowell wa. given counties, cities and towns and J. R. Young of Harnett got courts and judicial districts. Former Home Agent Passes Miss Elizabeth Cornelius. Former Home Agent in Cleveland. Dies In New Mexico. News has been received here of the death Sunday in Albuquerque New Mexico, of Miss Elizabeth Cor nelius, a former demonstration agent in Cleveland county, Miss Cornelius served here about 12 years a.go. and was a faithful relief worker in the first influenza epi demic. She was well and favorably known through Cleveland county. For six years she was demonstra tion agent of Davidson county, this state, when she became assistant state home agent. She suOrsd a de cline in health and prior to her go ing west, she spent 15 months in the state sanitorium. Miss Cornelius was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cor nelius of Winston-Salem and la sur vived by a brother, John and sister, Julia, both of Winston-Salem. The body is being brought to that city, and funeral probably will be held Thursday or Friday The deceased was a graduate of Salem college. Special Term 01 Court Ordered A -special term of civil court lieu been ordered for Cleveland county to‘begin Monday, Jan. 23rd, accord ing to Information received this morning from the office of Gover nor Khringhaus. A special term of civil court was ia progress about the middle of De ceniber, but the court had run onlj or.e week when, the snow and sleel farced the judge to call off the sec ond week. Many cases were left or the docket and upon petition by th< members cf the local bar and the county commissioners, the governoi has authorized another special tern for the trial of civil cases only. Judge Michael Schenck will pre side. Motion Up $1 Bale And Holding Steady Cotton gained 20 points or $1 a bale yesterday and was holding Its ■siain at 2 o'clock this afternoon, ac >rdinj? to reports from the J. F Clark, and Co., cotton office here. At 2 o’clock March was 6.38 and May 0,51, a gain of from one to twe (joints over yesterday’s close when the 20 point gain was registered. ’ Conducts Coolidge Rites Rev. Albert J. Pcnner, pastor of Edwards Congregational Church, at Northampton, Mass., to whom falls tho melancholy duty of officiating at the funeral of former President Calvin Coolidge, is shown as ha read the news of Coolidge’s death, the suddenness of which stunned the entire nation. To Welcome Gardners Home Friday Evening Public Reception To Be Held Fri day At Hotel Charle* A* Wel come To Ex-Govrmor. A welcome will be extended cx-Govcrnor and Mrs. O. Max Gardner by Cleveland county people at the Hotel Charles on Friday evening between the hours of 8 and 10 o’clock. The reception Is sponsored by the Woman's club of which Mrs. H. T. Hudson is president, in con junction with the civic clubs of J (he city. The reception will not be for mal and a general invitation Is ex tended to the adult people of the county to call within the two hour period to formally welcome the re turning former chief executive of the state and his . charming wife, after four years in Raleigh. The re ception was suggested by the Wom an’s club some weeks ago and it was planned to hold It on the evening of January 6th, the day aft er Governor Ehrlnghaus was Inaug urated as Mr. Gardner's successor, but the retiring governor had a speaking engagement on Monday before the general assembly of Iowa in Des Moines on the subject of “Economy in Government” which has been a hobby with Mr. Gard ner during his administration, henoe the postponement until Friday even ing, January 13th. Expect KNi Callers Officials of the Woman's club and civic clubs will be In the receiving line with the Gardners, after which light refreshments will be served In the dining room of the hotel. A committee has been appointed to arrange the decorations and the music for the occasion and some 700 visitors are expected to call and extend a cordial welcome to the distinguished citizens. While Mrs. Gardner has been here wltlfher mother, Mrs. J. L. Webb since last Thursday, the ex-gover nor has spent only one day In Shelby, leaving Thursday afternoon for Washington, thence for Iowa. Shortly after the reception, both will go to New York, Mr. Gardner to look after the affairs of the Cleveland Cloth mill which main tains Its own selling agency there, while Mrs. Gardner will spend some time with her daughter, Mrs. Eu gene Burgess. This TTew York trip will keep them away about four weeks, so the many friends of the Gardners will have their only op portunity of welcoming them home at the reception here Friday even ing at the Hotel Charles. Mrs. Katherine Black Dies-Qn Night Visit Ifr of John Blark of Waco Sec tion, Dies at Home of Fallston Sister. wife of John Black of the Waco section, died suddenly Saturday night at 1 o'clock while on a visit with her sister Mrs. Luther Selleft, near Fallston. The cause of her death was heart trouble. Mrs. Black Joined Fleaaant Grove Baptist church tk the age of 12. Nineteen years agrf she was married to Mr. Black and although she had no children of her own, she is sur vived by her husband, four step children, three sisters and four brothers. She was a daughter of the late Lawson Wright, well known In upper Cleveland. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at Pleasant Grove church by Rev. D. G. Wash burn and interment was in the cem etery there. Mrs. Katherine Elisabeth Black, Grading On Route From Lincolnton Cleveland county is interested in the progress being made on grad ing a short-route highway north that will shorten the travelling dis tance between Shelby and Salis bury and other points when a link in No. 150 Is paved. About a mile and a quarter has | already been graded on highway 150 that will conect Lincolnton and points west with a direct route to Mooresvtlle, Salisbury and points j east cutting off considerable mil?-' age over the previous route by Charlotte. This road wilt open up new ter ritory in East Lincoln and lower Catawba and will prove of great benefit to those lost provinces that ! heretofore could hardly make the i trip to the trading centers during | the bad weather during the winter | months. Ncllo Teer. of Durham is the j grading contractor and J. L. Phillips is state resident engineer in charge I of that part of the work. J. S. Bow ers is the construction contractor. Tax Measure To Replace Property Tax Offered By Senator Clement; Many Other Measures Proposed Revenue Proposed Embraces Wide Scope Of Subjects. Manufae- j turers To Pay. Raleigh, Jan. 10.- Hardly secondj to a sales tax in Its broad scope and! the number of persons and Inter ests that It affects directly, the 1933 |J production tax act was offered this morning to the senate by Senator ; Hayden Clement, of Salisbury, who ' at one and the same time propoees ' to carry out at least one Democra- ; tic pledge of 1932' that is to re- 1 move the 15-eent state tax on prop- 1 erty and have sufficient revenue 1 left to make a hefty payment of 1 the state deficit. • Few escape the sharp eye of the t jenman of this 22 page document vhlch was referred by Lieutenan, 3overnor Graham to the finance •ommittee. All producers, save the armers are those with an annual production of less than .$1,800; all tanks save those with no capital tpek In shares; all power companies, til telephone and telegraph com panies operating within North Car )llna; all Insurance companies vhether they sell protection against Ire, death, storm or what not; all allroads and transportation com panies operating within the state: J1 manufacturers whether they make ayon undies, automobiles or furnl ure: all newspapers and other pub COVTIWtTWS ON TAOS ffiJOHT Eight Draw Pen Terms; Court Moves Swiftly All Criminal Cum Tried So Fir Art Submissions tfxcept One. Only One Jury Cane. In the first three days of the «u perior court over which Judea T. B. Finley Is presiding, eight havd been given prison sentences and all defendants tried so far have sub mitted except one. There has only been one. jury trial In the criminal court so far this week so the wheel* of Justice have moved swiftly, reminding ana of the speed with which the court* move In England. Two Murder Cases In two cases In particular tt» of fenders have been arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced within three or four days after their crimes were committed. "Lawyer” Lattl more (colored) shot his estranged wife, Ode, to death Saturday night Just, as she wo* returned to her home near Double Shoals. Latttmore came to Shelby and gave hlmaelf up while a deputy was en route to the scene of the crime to arrest him. The court appointed Attorney Joe Whlsnant to represent the de fendant and he submitted hi* client to second degree murder, for which he drew n sentence of from IS to 30 years In the state prison. Store Breakers Three white men of Llnoolu oounty broke and entered the store of Claude Mttchem In No. 10 town ship over the week-end and before the store-keeper knew his store had been entered the officers of Lincoln county had them under arrest. They had stolen *300 worth of mer chandise, including the scales. On yesterday they had been tried and convicted In Cleveland superior court and Loys Huss drew 13 months on the chain gang, Roy Duncan two years in the state prison and Loy Lynn three years in the state prison. House Breakers Convicted Two negro youths who created fear in Shelby for entering and rob bing homes a few months ago were found guilty and sentenced. Toots Hord being sentenced from three to five years in the state prison and his running-mate, Alfonso Hoskins two years. Jim Packard, white, was given fivo months on a charge of false pre tense and Volley Thompson, colored youth, was given six months for stealing corn from a farmer In ths Bolling Bprings community. Negro Woman Murderess Alvin Baker, white, charged with burning a quantity of yarn belong ing to the Cleveland Mill and Pow er Co. drew a sentence of from three to five years In the state prison. The second murder case wad against Dora Williams, negro, charged with stabbing to death "her man" Boyd Morris at Kings Mountain on November 4. Dora drew a sentence of from seven to ten years and went to jail Monday night, where she made an unsuccessful at tempt to hang herself in the Jail cell, Mrs. Lem Hamrick Passes Suddenly Death Of Young Matron Shook- TO Community. Bury Today At Pleasant Grove. Mrs. Eulalia Estelle Elliott Ham rick, wife of Lem Hamrick, died Tuesday morning at her home near Pleasant Grove Baptist church, death resulting from Influenza and pneumonia. Mrs. Hamrick is survived by her husband, two small children. James Dillard and Sarah Annette, also five step children to whom she was de voted. She also leaves a mother, Mrs. J. Y. Elliott, five sisters, Mrs. Ed Crawford of Oastonia, Mrs. Lem Seism, Mrs. Sylvanus Greene, Mrs. Sherman Costner and Miss Eleanor Elliott, seven brothers, Dothla El liott, Dr. Forrest Elliott of Lincoln ton, Sloan Elliott, Rev. Sylvester Elliott of Paris, Ark., Bonnie Elliott. Colemas Elliott and Rev. Yancey Elliott of Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Hamrick lived a beautiful Christian life and was good and kind to all. Before her marriage she taught in the Pleasant Grove school and was greatly beloved and admired by all her pupils. The funeral was held Wednesday i at 2 o clock at Pleasant Grove with ] her pastor, Rev. D. G. Washburn in charge. Pall bearers being her brothers and brothers-in-law. Flow er girls her sisters-in-law and nieces. Joe Enin, recently announced for congress In 1934. and Mr Price, of Charlotte were visitors in Shelby « today.
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