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late Newsj Cloudy Tuesday ~MU'- sor,h t'aro,ina Wei»th,‘r' 1 rt Part I v cloudy tonight. Tnes- j LT increasing cloudiness, slightly .arinrr followed by rain in ex-( tfrmc west. j Cermak the Same; Late U.P. News rBy rMTED PRESS) Miami Feb. 27.—The condition of! M4,„r \nton Cermak. of Chicago, ri,„i In the attempted assassination „f president-elect Roosevelt, has unchanged during the past 12 hour. Mayor Cermak developed pneumonia In one lung yesterday and his chance of recovery dwindl f ME MARKETS . 6.25 jSS.tMl 11.25 Atlanta I eb. 27.—The Coca-Cola rampaoy today declared its regular dividend of S1.175 quarterly. \c« York. Feb. 27.—The National (ity directors have accepted the resignation of Charles E. Mitchell ,s chairman and elected James H. | Perkin*. Washington, Feb. 27.—The senate investigating committee Is told that the National City company floated i Peruvian bond issue despite re port? from its officials that the J history of Peruvian finances was! ansatisfactory. The bonds, whichj void for 96 1-2 with profit of five to; «j\ points per bond, are now selling j 'between seven and 10. $2,780 Penalties; On Tax Not Paid Before Wednesday Over SHO.O(M) In City And County ! 1932 Taxes Unpaid Here. Unless Shelby and Cleveland county citizens pay a considerable amount of taxes prior to Wednes day of this week the ttvo percent penalty on delinquent taxes, taking effect Wednesday, will add *2.780 to tile tax bill. During February the penalty on 1932 taxes paid that month was one percent but beginning Macrh 1 the penalty on both city and county taxes will be two percent. Unpaid Totals Through last week around $158, 900 of the county tax levy of $262, 000 tor 1932 had been paid, Troy McKinney, county accountant, said today. This leaves approximately ! *104,000 yet to be paid and the two j percent but beginning March 1 the j *i" be a little more than $2,000. Through last week almost two thirds of the Shelby tax levy had been paid, The exact figures secur- ; d at the city hall show that $60, 19o of the $99,922 levy has been paid, leaving $39,426 to be paid. The we percent penalty on this amount ,J‘!i be around S788. Six Boys Compete For Hoey Honors in Contest Friday r”|iminary Held Here Saturday To S^ect Six From 11 Entrants. £iexen high schools in Cleveland county participated in the prelim Tp’ fiwttest for the Clyde R. Hoey “faimer's, medal In the Shelby " - sciloo! auditorium Saturday iWHing, The following boys won for their «*** schools the right to par B Jh-lllc heal contest which "i! , heW hi the Shelby high y"00; awditoriiim Friday night. 3 at 7:30 o'clock: aughn Whitaker, Mooresboro; Matheson. Casar; O. T. Hayes. !rgs Mountain; Charles Goforth A'L«: vHarold Bettis- Shelby; Evans *«n, No. 3. {°*lowlhg eleven schools had ^“U,s :i, the contest: Moores Pon,:,,, Lat'imore, Casar, Fallston St‘ ‘i,e KmSs Mountain, Boiling 8pnngs, Belwood, "0. 3. Waco, -Shelby Receive Bids On Audit Of County 1'tojnt ^.ilneeUnS 01 the board *or„v umfliissiphets held this Scta'af’-i wert behig received Xok, 1. ;; ?lrms for auditing the books f( -:f' county and the tax •w. ’nere is soon to be a ?a« lile sheriff ^ho collects there remains some \ ear; s ,W| from previous ted birjl . r 1 widit firms submit '< tb v° ,tde w°rk. All members Were Prespnt: Joe E. i+ttLna!!1:nan. J r> Morris and 1 ,,rM‘*n . The MEVMMD th ■" ■ ^ 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 25 Li1 ■■U'JUS!!"-1"■". ■ -Hf SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, FEB. 27. 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) ...'I11*1 ...I ■!■■■■ 1 ... ■ ■ ■ ■ .1 'Jjr t‘4uu. vem <ut iHvencti M t*. Carrier v*t rear »u ranee* $j t < Big Increase Food Acreage In County Live-At-Home Move Shown In Acreage Acreage In Hay Crops, Corn. Wheat Greatly Increased. Cotton Acreage Cut. The year 1932 was a bad farm yyar from the standpoint of price but figures just released by the Farm Forecast agricul tural service for North Carolina show that Cleveland county farmers went at the live-at home movement in a serious, worthwhile manner. They reduced their cotton acreage by 7,000 acres and put around 10, 000 more acres into food and feed crops than in the previous year of 1931. More Food, Feed The figures show that the county corn acreage was increased 2,000 acres in 1932 over 1931, the wheat acreage was increased by 3,000, cow peas for hay by 3,000 acres, mixed hays by 500 acres, garden and tru<£ patches by 425 acres. That food and feed acreage was lopped off by the raising of 300 more hogs for sale or slaughter and the addition to 10, 000 laying hens to the county poul try flocks. The report for the county Shows perhaps the most noticeable trend In the state to living at home. Figures Given The following figures give the acreage for the several crops In both 1931 and 1932: Crop 1931 19321 Cotton. 74,362 67.292 Cora - ....... 38.054 40,086 Wheat _ ......I. 7,316 10,840 Cowpeas for hay_ 627 3,739 Soy Beans for hay ... 126 272 Mixed hays . ..._ 562 1,009 Irish potatoes -__ 392 395 Sweet potatoes __ 1,180 1,587 Home gardens ..._ 1,077 1,425 Hogs . ............. 5,762 6,032 Laying hens . _ 76,949 86.697 Milk cows ____ 5 331 5,599 Odds And Ends The farm acreage llgures, inci dentally, show acreage devoted to certain crops not common In this section. In 1932 the county had 66 acres In tobacco, and 66 acres in peanuts. During the year the total acre age in county farm tracts was 265, 475. The county had 62.123 acres In I timber of usuable sized trees, andj 9,320 acres in plowable pasture j land. Two Fires In City On Saturday Night Roof Of Howell Home In Curtis town Damaged. Chimney Fire At Bank The city fire department was called out twice Saturday night, once to a residence and the other to a chimney blaze in the business j section. The first alarm, around 9:30. was to the Union Trust company build ing where the smoke from a chim ney fire fanned back down by the wind made it appear as if there was a fire on the interior There was no damage. The second call, just after mid night, was to a house in Curtistown. owned by A. G. Howeil, where the roof was badly burned by a blaze said to have originated from the chimney. County Union Meets At Kings Mt. Mar. 3 The Cleveland County Union meeting will be held March 3rd, at 7:30 o'clock at the Park Grace church at Kings Mountain. All the presidents of the division .are urg ed to be present. Two Announce For City Council In May Election Two new candidates an nounced today for the Shel by municipal election in May They were P. Maynard Washburn and J. P. Austell, both of whom are running: for alderman. Mr. Washburn, well known business man, is now com pleting his second term as al derman for Ward One and seeks reelectlon. D. Huss Cline has already announced as a candidate from that ward, and the Washburn en try assures at least one alder manic contest. J. P. Austell, veteran bar ber and well known citiien, announced that after being urged by friends and follow ing . the announcement of John Schenck, jr., present al derman for ward three, he had decided to be a candidate in ward three. He is the only entray so far from that ward Bettis Is Winner Of Eskridge Medal Annual Contest Held Friday At Shelby High. Much Interest. The Eskridge declaimer's medal, awarded annually by Mr. Forrest Eskridge to the boy in Shelby high school who shows greatest superior ity in declaiming was won this year by Harold Bettis, a member of tire sophomore class. The preliminary contest in the Public Speaking club was held ear lier in the week, at which time the number of contestants was narrow ed down to three. The finals for the Eskridge contest toe* place at the regular high sehool assembly on Friday morning. Those taking part with their subjects were: Edison Noggle, “Charity or Justics?”; Wal ter Fanning. “The Flag We Follow”; Harold Bettis, “A Child Cannot Grow Up Twice.” The judges for the contest were: Mrs. John P. McKnight, Furman McLarty, Horace Grigg. The winner in this contest is sent annually as Shelby high school’s representative In the county-wide Hoey declamation contest. The con tests. so far have been exceedingly close, and have for this reason aroused unusual interest among the students and in the community. The final contest on Friday night is be ing eagerly anticipated. Girl Injured When Auto Turns Turtle Willie Lemmons Suffers Lacera tions And Cerebral Concussion. Miss Willie Lemmons, 14, Shelby girl, is in the hospital here suffer ing from lacerations of the back and a cerebral concussion received in an auto accident Sunday even ing, Her sister, Ferrell, received minor injuries but did not remain in the hospital after receiving first aid treatment. The girls were injured, it is said, when the automoblie they were driving, owned by an uncle, side swiped another auto and then plunged from'the roadway near the entrance of the old Cleveland Springs hotel on Highway 20 around 6 o’clock Sunday evening. Miss Lemmons wa^ -repotted as be ing improved today. - MORE CITV NEWS, page 8, SPORTS, page 3. ! State Will Purchase Garden Seed ! For Needy To Aid In Food Growing Contracts Are Awarded At Raleigh For Purchase Of Garden Seed ■“ For Needy. Raleigh. Feb. 27.— Steps looking toward bringing relief* to thousands of needy families,,in North Carolina were taken by the governor s office of /relief, and an extensive home garden program is to be launched at once. Contracts were let by the division of purchase and contract for more than 60,000 packages of seed to be used in planting family gardens over the state. The allotment for small family seed packages went to the W. Atlee Burtpee company oi Philadelphia. and that of tb» large packsvcs *0 the Francis C. Stokes company, al so of Philadelphia. Seed needed to carry out the pro gram will cost approximately $30. 000, which will come out of the federal relief allotment to this state. Dr. Fred W. Morrison, state di rector of relief, returned her last week from Washington, where he asked for additional federal funds for March and April. It was un derstood he requested $1,660,000. Approximately 143 000 families in the state received aid during Jan uary, Morrison estimated. The department oi purchase and | contract deferred award of a num 1 her of other contracts for which I bids had been askwl. Big County Cage Tourney To Open In Shelby Tonight 11 Crack Basketball Teams Enter Three Games Tonight, Two Even Other Night Except Tuesday Night. Schedule Of Play All games start at 7:30. Tonight, Monday, threo games: No. 3 vs. Polkville; Shelby vs. Mooresboro; Fallston vs. Bel wood—to be played In the order named. Wednesday night, two games: Piedmont vs. Grover: W'aco vs. Lattimore. Thursday night, two games: The winner of the No. 3-Polk ville game will play the winner of the Shelby-Mooresboro game; and the winner of the Fallston Belwood game will play t'asar. Friday night, two games: The winners of the two Thursday night games will play the win ners of the two Wednesday night games. Saturday night, two games: j The two undefeated quints wilt play for the county title, and the two runners-up. the teams i defeated Friday night, will play for consolation honors. Cleveland county's annual sport classic, the county-wide high school basketball tournament, opens to night in the Shelby gymnasium with three fast games booked for the first evening. The eleven high school teams en tered will compete for the county championship and the Rotary cup which will be presented to the vic torious quint after the title game Saturday night. Stellar Athletes Taken as a whole the cage teams (Continued on e.ui* eioti't • Eagle Roller Mill Being Repaired Of Recent Fire Damage —— ! Wholesale And Retail Trade Being Served. But Machinery Won’t Start For Some Time. A satisfactory adjustment has been made by the Eagle Roller Mill with the fire insurance company for the disastrous fire which dam aged machinery and stock on two floors of the building three weeks ago. Repair men are here now mak ing repairs to the machinery. Some new machinery is being added while that which suffered little damage is being repaired. It was learned this morning that the plant will be put In operation again about April 1st. The Eagle Roller mill has been supplying its wholesale trade and taking care of its custom grinuihg without interruption. Considerable stock was not damaged by the fire and when necessary the courtesy of other nearby mills is accepted, in enabling the Eagle plant to con tinue to serve its trade while the fire damage is being repaired. I Try Answering These '_.__ Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. In what city did Christopher Columbus dife? 2. Who was Thurlow Weed? 3. Name the French Diplomat j and engineer who was responsible i for the building of the Suez CanaL j 4. What is the common name for tuberculosis? ■ ~3."Who wrote "Canterbury Tales? ’ 6. Winch Spanish explorer dis I covered Florida? j 7. Who was Peter Cooper? 8. What, does the French phrase j "L'etat c’est mol" mean? j 9. What product is made by the j Bessemer process? 10. What did the first French j setters in Nova Scotia call their ‘ land’ | It. What is Sigma Delta Phi? j 12. Name the gulf at the mouth of . the St. Lawrence River, i 13. When was St. Augustine, Flor ! Ida, settled by Spaniards? 14. Who made the famous remirk j about "Rum. Romaniab, and Rebel 1iion?" i 15. During which war was the in •igue. known as the Conway Ca ! bal? ■ 16. Which is the most used letter | of the English alphabet? 17. Who wrote "Comedy of £r j rors?" • -- . ..*-i-^ j 18. In what year did the English ! e^le at Jamestown, Vt.7 19. W!io was the Republican can didate for'President against Grover Cleveland in 1884? 20. By what mime were the Ha ( n alien Tslend preriotiKlv known? REPEAL SENTIMENT AS SHOWN BY HOUSE MOTE ■WVom r i wet DIVIDED ■■ DRY Repeal Battles Loom in Doubtful States * * * * * * Wets Must Win Six of Eleven Now on Fence to Have Threo-Fourths Majority Neces sary for Ratification of Repeal Amendment. Drys to Fight “to the Last Ditch.” Attn-- ; - m lu« first llush of victory, following th« passage of tbe repeal raaolution by tba House by a vote ot 289 to 121, wet leaders throughout the country considered tba lopg fight against prohibition al ready won, an analysis of the vote hy States brings home the fact that a great fight is yet to come before the quietus is definitely put on the Eighteenth Amendment. Thirty States voted solidly well eleven uncom promisingly dry and seven divided their votes between wet and dry. In order to ratify the repeal amend ment a majority of three-fourths of the States will be necessary. Therefore, the wet forces must hold the thirty already won and in addition woo sin more from among the doubtful States. This might not be such a difficult task if the dry forces were to lay down on the job. But this they show no sign of doing. Already the arid leaders are planning ways and means of dominating the State Conventions in these doubtful States and it looks as if a stern battle is in the offing. The wet leaders lost no time in pushing their advantage. A few hours after the repeal resolution had passed the House, twenty-three States had initiated action towards the establishment of conventions for ratification. Special elections of delegates within thirty, sixty and ninety days are provided in most cases. Sales Tax, 8-Months School Plan HaveN. C. Legislators Deadlocked Favor Liquor Referendum. Abolish' Corporation Commission. A*- j •embly Summary. f ;v " ——— ! By M. R. Ounnagan Star Sews Bureau.) Raleigh Feb. 27.—On wliat is probably the eve of the birth of a new revenue bill the Joint finance committees at house and senate seem in hopeless deadlock on two important phases of the measure they are to present to the general assembly: the sales tax and the eight months school term. These two phases have been look ed upon as inseparable. They have been linked to the extent that pro ponents of the sales tax plant have used the eight months school term proposal as a means of getting the ‘CONTINUED ON PAoS Eta:II Junior Red Cross Meets Wednesday Sixth Regular Monthly Meeting. AH Elementary Schools Now Have Chapters. The sixth regular monthly Jun ior Red Cross meeting will be held in all the' lementary schools Wed nesday morning March 1, at 8:45 a. m. The chief features of the pro gram, in which a large number of pupils will participate will be the singing of the Junior Red Cross song, reciting the pledge and giving reports of work done during the past, month. The Junior chairman. Miss Selma Webb will attend the meeting at the Graham school Wednesday morning and the Washington school at their meeting in April. Miss Webb has already attended Junior meetings at LaFayette, Marlon, Jefferson and South Shelby schools. All the schools have splendid or ganizations and much Interest is being manifested in Junior Red Cross work. Stolen Car Wrecked, Officer* Get One One stolen automobile proved to be a hoodoo to a couple of colored men over the week-end. Saturday night the Chevrolet of Palmer Hud son, South Shelby, was stolen. Sun day afternoon officers were noti fied that an automobile occupied by two negroes had turned over in the Earl section. Police Chief McBride Poston and Deputy Bob Kendrick hurried to the scene and after some tracking caught one of the negroes, Arthur Moore. The wrecked car. which turned over on a curve, was the stolen auto of the Shelby man. Wealthy Colored Man Here Forrest Anderson. colored, of Earlsboro. Oklahoma, arrived in Shelby Saturday night to visit rel atives and take some nieces and nephews back with him. An derson, who left Shelby years ago. 'struck oil In Oklahoma an di« very 1 Shelby Charter Bills By House; Altered Kings Mtn. Bill Is In Method Of Electing Mayor (hang ed From That Of First Bill In. Two of Representative Ernest j Gardner's bills passed the house and 1 were sent to the senate last week in Raleigh and a third was sent to the Judiciary committee. The bills passing the house were those altering the Shelby charter and making general election regu lations apply to Shelby municipal elections. The charter is to be ao altered by one bill as to permit newly elected mayors and aldermen to take office on July 1 instead of June 1 as has been the custom. By doing this new administrations will go in at the beginning of the city’s fiscal year, thus making it more convenient and less expensive to keep the records. By making the general election law apply to city elections It la made posible for vot ers In a city election to vote at four or more voting places instead of one. Kings Mountain Bill The new charter amendment bill applying to Kings Mountain was Introduced last week, by Represen tative Gardner and referred to Jud iciary committee No. 2. This bill is materially different In one particu lar from a similar blit Introduced early in the legislative session. The first bill would have had the Kings Mountain mayor elected by five | councllraen from their own number. The new bill, in the legislature now, would divide the town into five wards with an alderman or council man elected from each ward as well as a school commissioner and may or. Japs Tell Foreigners To Leave Jehol City (By UNITED PRESS. Ungyam, l>b. 27.—Jap air men today dropped pamphlets printed in English telling for eigners to leave as they plan ned to bomb the city. > Japs Slowed Up. (By UNITED PRESS) Chinchow, Feb. 27.—The Japanese infantry has occupied Paischichu men on the drive to Jehol city but have been slowed down by stubborn resistance. Ollier War Brief*.. Tokio, Feb. 27.—Secretary Sthn son'a declaration of the American policy, blaming Japs for Manchur ian troubles and war clashes, which in general coincides with the Lea gue of Nations attitude, will not change Toklo’s program of govern ment. its spokesman says. London. Feb. . 23 — 'I he British have placed an embargo upon ship ments of arms to the far east as a result of the Japanese invasion of Jehol. W. N. C. Democrats Displeased, Said, With Reynolds Giving Friends Jobs Buncombe Democrats Recorded At. OfferingAProtest On Patronage. Hickory, Feb. 27.—Rumblings ol growing discontent among Demo crats, following the announcement from Washington of appointments for United States marshal and dis trict attorney for the Western dis trict, which Senator Robert R. Rey nolds will recommend, were heard In Hickory , more.. distinctly last week That there is to be open revolt against the recommendations of Senator Reynolds for the appoint ment of McGee Cooper for U. S. Marshal, and Marcus Ervin for dis trict attorney, i* generally predicted i by Democrats of this city. Both Cooper and Ervin are Asheville friends of the new senator, bui party leaders assert that neither of the men Is representative of the party or wih meet with organiza tion approval. A delegation of Asheville Demo crats was in Hickory Thursday con ferring with leading Catawba coun ty Democrats on the matter of Sen ator Reynolds' announcement con cerning his intended recommenda tions ‘ They were certainly boiling mad.'' one local leader told The Rec ord, when inquiry was made as to the mission of the Buncombe men. •One thing is certain,” he added, Coleman Elliott, Prominent Young Farmer, Is Dead Bury Polkville Man This Morning W’m Victim Of Pneumonia. Leaves Wife And Five Children. Burled At Zion Today. Coleman Elliott, a leading and in fluential farmer of No. 8 township, {tied of pneumonia last Saturday at hla home near Polkville, and was burled Monday at 11 o’clock at Zion church three miles north of Shelby. He was born June 23, 1889, being the oldest aon of Rhlnedardt and Alice Poston Elliott. His father dlad some forty years ago, and hla moth er llvea with her daughter, Mr*. R. L. Westbrook at Blacksburg. S. C. He is survived by his widow, who before marriage was Miss Bessie McSwain, and five children, Hugh. Howard, Alice Sue, Dorcas and Oeorge, and his mother, Mrs. Alice Elliott, Mrs. R. L. Westbrook and Clain Elliott, all of Blacksburg, 8. C. Mr. Elliott was a member of the Big Springs Baptist church, and superintendent of the Sunday school, taking an active part In church and community activities The funeral services were con ducted by Revs. D. O. Washburn and D. P. Putnam and the remains buried in the family plot In the Zion cemetery. The eervice was In charge of the Lattlmore Masonic lodge, of which he was an active1 member. The following: were honorary pall hearers: Orange Lattlmore, Grady Wilson, Clarence Wilson. Tom Cornwell, Forrest Bowen, D. D. Lattlmore, C. T. St&iney, J. C. Gold, Edgar Horn and Thurman Horn, Hts neighbors speak of him as a good all-round citizen, never being too busy with his own work to stop and lend a helping hand. He took an active part in all community af faira and will be greatly missed In his- community. A large concourse of relatives and IrSends gathered to pay their last tribute of respect. A beautiful floral offering bedecked the last resting place. Mrs. Jane Williams, Dr. Aydolett’s Sister Dies In Charlotte Funeral Services Hold III Charlotte Sunday. She Was 66 years Old. Mrs. Susan Jane Williams died In a Charlotte hospital Saturday aft ernoon after an illness of one week. Mrs. Williams was a sister of Dr, J. P. Aydolette of Earl and had vlalted In this section on many occasions. She was 68 years of age and a daughter of the late J. P. and Lucy Anne Aydolette of Cleveland coun ty. Her husband. Marcus T. Wil liams died a number of years ago. She was a member of the First Baptist church of Charlotte where she had lived for many years. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon In a funeral parlor I In Charlotte by Dr. C. W. Durden and Interment was In Elmwood cemetery. She Is survived by four children, Mrs. W. L. Nance. John J. Williams, Charles W. Williams and Miss Jess Carr Williams, all of Charlotte; five grandchildren; two brothers. Dr. J. P. Aydolette of Earl and R. K. Aydlotte of Gilfcej Mrs. McSwain Dies In City This Morn I uneral Services For 17-Vrar-Old ['-Mother Will tie heW Tuesday Mrs. Stella McSwain - wife or Phate W. McSwain of the Lily mill village, died this morning at 7 o’clock. Mrs. McSwain who was only 17 years of age had been ill since last Tuesday with pneumonia and complications. Funeral services wil' be held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. W R. Jenkins in charge and interment will follow at Sunset cemetery. Surviving are me husband and one child, Matilda, and also Mrs, McSwain’s parents. Mr. anti Mrs. Dan Ledford and two sisters Baptists Oppose Liquor Law Repeal Boiling Springs, Feb. 27.—Repres entative pastors and workers of the Kings Mountain and Sandy Run Baptist associations, meeting here for the training school, passed res olutions urging North Carolina leg islators to use their efforts to keep,; the 18th amendment in the const!
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