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Mk MEDIUM-km ZM “ ; . - —^ 8 PAGES TODAY »- __ _ VOL. XXXIX,. No.. 32 SHELBY, N. C. VVEDNESD’Y. MAR. 15, 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) Bf Man. p«r rear, itn .dTaneai Carrlat. put »«»,. on ariaaneat > •3(0 — Late News j the markets , f0tton or seed quoted. Colder Thursday ^v', North Carolina Weather' rl Fair and much colder to ,, ^1 Thursday fair and colder. Immediate Work For 200,000 | ~7iiy l MTED PRESS) Washington, Mar. 15.—A two-point program calling foij immediate employment of at j least 200,000 idle men in tht! national forest and expert i mental farm relief is to bf; submitted to Congress soot! hy President Roosevelt, it watj announced at the \\ hiti] Mouse today. Roosevelt'is ex j peeled to send the message oni the unemployment relief fea-j ure to Congress tomorrow. Number Of Needy People Here Cut By Relief Agency Many Are Found To Be Undeserving private Investigation Cuts Off Un deserving “Deadheads.?’ Have Two Employment Days. through a systematic investiga rion which determined th06e who | are in real need and deserving and j those who are not the new set-up of the Cleveland Belief Agency is trraduaBy eliminating undeserving “deadheads” and professional Idlers from the local charity lists. The investigations during the last tuck have resulted in 686 people be ing removed from the charity aid list. Heretofore the relief bureau has merely taken the word of ap ollcants for food and help, but by the new system a careful check is made of all applicants to determine it they have or can secure work and if they refuse to v'ork or help them selves when opportunity presents. Those who refuse to plant gardens when the relief bureau furnishes teed and fertilizer are. also being cut off unless they agree to do so. The new plan is working successful h; so far and is making the work more beneficial for the deserving needy by eliminating undeserving who have been imposing upon the charity work. Tenants and others who apply for aid are new being asked if their landlords can or cannot support them or refuse to do so. while land owners are being asked if tenants and hands refuse work. Similar Questions are being asked of cooks I and washwomen. Farmers, landowners and other | employer# who need tenants, farm hands and laborers are requested to I come to the relief agency headquar ters on Wednesday and Saturday of each week where they may person ally view applicants on the charity ! list who seek employment. These two days are set aside as employ ment days, according to J .D. Line berger, relief director, and unem ployed being aided are asked to be present on those days so that they may be interviewed by farmers or f:-’; - r:- wh£. need help. Due to the bank holiday the re | agency has continued its policy 0? giving food orders to needy, while in cases where money is need cd government orders are given which are cashed at stores and oth fr business houses. Will Relocate Negro Cemetery j N'" ttmnery At City Rock Quarry tw Colored Will Be Changed. * onimiUee Appointed .j1 n';''v location will be sought for . e colored cemetery which the city "*a Banned to locate on the rock Uarry property on the southeast Pinion of the city. John Beam who owns property went before the board last Sht and protested against the lo U..,” of u Pew cemetery in that brar,i'\ t0r the colored and the t decided to seek another loca ; A committee from the board Lri ;!neR w111 be appointed to b. new site- 11 was argued - Beam that the rock quarry in„. ‘ to° elose in town, too insufficiently large and underground rock which would gJr-’e digging expensive. :th.'?ady ?he city has partly fln sit« rf r°ad kadin8 to this new ^wlnemployed People had been ,r‘i \,or‘ this new road, but they -ji . J;'eri the job this morn • ‘r last night’s decision. PlHKK CITY NEWS WILL K)l \u ON PAGE 8. t Open 93 More Banks In North Carolina Today: Others Later Hundreds Of Cleveland Fanners Seeking Seed Loans; Held Record Last Year In Paying Back Money 100 Applications On File Already Six People Kept Busy Here An swering Inquiries And Handling Loan Applications. In three days since the opening of the R. F. C, seed and fertilizer loan office in Shelby approximately 500 Cleveland county fanners have visited the office to make inquiries and to file applications for loans to purchase seed and fertilizer for their 1933 crops. , The local loan office was opened Saturday in the upstairs court house office formerly occupied by the county agent. The office is in charge of F. T. Wagner, field rep resentative of the R. F. C., and as sisting him in the work of handling, filling out and filing of the applica tions are R. W. Shoffner, former county agent, who supervised the work last year; and H. T. Bess, Harry Speck, jr., Mrs. Faye Over ton and Mrs. Reid Young. Applications. Applications have already been filled out and filed lor loans for 99 individuals, Saturday 23 applica tions were filed, Monday 41 and yes terday 35. The office has been pack ed and jammed with lines of farm ers seeking to make application and those in charge announce that there is no rush as the office will be open every day through April. Must Cut Acreage. Messrs. Wagner and Shoffner an nounce that it will be useless for any farmer to apply for a loan un less he agrees to cut his 1932 cot ton acreage by at least 30 percent. No loan will be made to any farmer who will not cut his cotton acreage to that extent. Tt is also urged that landlords ac company tenants who desire loans or that tenants accompany land lords seeking loans as it is neces sary for them to sign waivers of the crop which is mortgaged for the loans and the waivers must be signed in the office. The maximum loan which will be made to an individual is $300 and $1,200 to a landlord with consider able acreage and tenants. In the 100 applications filed here to date the loans range from $50 to $300. The requirement Is that the money loaned must go for seed and ferti lizer or for a limited amount of supplies. Good Record. If Cleveland farmers securing loans for their crops this year make a record of payment such as was made last year it will be very' en couraging to loan officials. Last year 470 loans, amounting to $70, 000, were made to Cleveland farm ers and at last report all had been., repaid except less than $100. That was said to be the best payment of any county in the State and North Carolina led other Stales in repaying the seed and fertilizer loans. Practically the same regulations and requirements of last year are in force this year, and full details may be secured by making inquiry at the loan office. Webb Essay Papers Not Judge As Yet Tlie papers submitted in the an nual Selma C. Webb essay contest for Cleveland high schools have not yet been judged and it will be im possible to announce the winner this wreek as originally scheduled. Ten essays were submitted in the contest by high school pupils of the county and the judging is being done by members of a North Caro lina college faculty. It is hoped that the judging will be completed in time to announce the winner next week. Shelby Loses Play Contest With Kings Mountain Dramatists Contest Held Here Last Night At tended By A Large Audience. In the preliminary round for the State-wide dramatic contests for high schools held in Shelby last night the Kings Mountain students won from {Shelby. The winners pre sented in a very capable manner the play "Uncle Jimmy" by Zona Gale. The Shelby High dramatists presented "In Dixon's Kitchen” by Wilbur Stout. The victors won the unanimous votes of the three judges, who were Carl McArthur, head of the dra matic department at Gastonia; Miss Pearl Setzer, of Lenoir-Rhyne college, and Miss Emma Fritz, of Hickory. Around 300 people attend ed the presentation of the two plays, both of which were entertaining and revealed commendable talent in the two casts. City Election Officials Chosen First Time The Five Voting Wards Will Be Used In a City Election. Books Open April 1. Registrars and judges were ap pointed last night by the board of aldermen for the city election to be held here May 2nd. This will be the first city election at which the vot ers will use the five polling places that are used in all primaries and general election. Heretofore in city elections for mayor and aldermen, all of the voting has been done at one polling place in the court hpuse and the number of voters has grown so large that they crowd the polls and delay the voting. An amendment was made to the city charter at the present session of the general assembly proving for the use of the five polling places in the city election and last night the registrars and judges were appoint ed as follows: Ward 1: Zemri Kistler, registrar; B. R. Dellinger and G. O. Wall, judges. Ward 2: H. T. Bess, regis trar; Randolph Logan and H. L. Toms, judges. Ward 3: George Wray, i yiistrar; Frank McKee and S. C. Hewitt, judges.. Ward 4: Mrs. Annie Smith Long, registrar; Ran som Casstevens and W. C. Harris, Judges. South Shelby; Marvin Blan ton, registrar; B. O. Dodd and A. W. Duncan, judges. City Attorney Newton says the registration books open on the fifth Saturday before the eleetlon on May 2nd and remain open for twenty days. Then seven days before the election the books reopen for regis tration. No new registration is called for this year. Voters whose names are already on the city poll books will be permitted to vote without re-reg istration. Only those who have mov ed in, become of age since last elec tion or have not been voting, are required to register. Names already on the city polling book from the last election, will be divided into the five ward books. Dr. Osborne Will Undergo Operation Dr. J. R. Osborne, popular Shelby dentist, will undergo an operation soon, it is learned. He was taken to Charlotte Sunday by his son. Dr. Joe Osborne, of Rosman, who spent the week-end at his home here, and will remain at the Crowell clinic for treatment preparatory to the opera tion. Add Wine To Beer Bill In Senate; Anticipate Legal Beer By April 3 Senate May Pass Beer Legalization Today After Endorsing Economy Program. (By UNITED PRESS* * Washington, Mar. 15.—The senate finance committee today amended the house 3.2 percent beer bill so that it will include wines and fruit juices, and ord ered a favorable report on the bill. "! predicted #iegal beer by \prtl miiri Senator Reed. Re publican, Pennsylvania, as h# emerged, smiling from the com mittee room. Chairman Harri son said that the Senate might be able to get to the beer bill today after disposition of the economy legislation asked by Roosevelt. North Carolina Vote. Eight of North Carolina's 11 congressmen supported the beer measure when it passed the ; llouse yesterday, among them j being Congressman IRnlwinkle. “ | Goes To Mexico Josephus Daniels (above), Raleigh newspaper publisher, has been ap pointed ambassador to Mexico by President Roosevelt. Mr. Daniels was secretary of the navy under Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Roosevelt was his assistant secretary. Secure Land For Local Garden To Feed Unemployed Around 15 Acres To Be Planted In Vegetables To Peed Unemploy ed And Needy. Ground for Shelby’s community garden, where the unemployed will be worked to produce food for the needy, will be broken late this week or the first of next week. The Shelby hospital tract, ot about 14 or 15 acres, just east of the hospital, has been secured by the Cleveland Relief Agency for the community garden. Unemployed men will be worked In planting and cultivating the gar den under the supervision of R. W. Shoffner, former farm agent, who Is assisting in the relief work. The seed and fertilizer for the garden will be furnished by the gov ernment relief agency the equip ment will be furnished locally and all the work done by the unem ployed so that there will be no di rect cost. The acreage will be planted in all kinds of vegetables such as corn, beans, peas, potatoes, etc. It is be lieved that the garden will* furnish a considerable amouni of the green foodstuff which will be needed dur ing the spring and summer to feed the needy. WIDOW BRINGS $1,200 TO BANK FOR MINOR Angattractive young w idow of the county lame Into the office of the Clerk of Court A. M. Hamrick yes terday with $1,200 in cash for her minor child. The money, It is un derstood, cSsie from a check for war insurance of the deceased fath er. The money was promptly de posited in a local bank. Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. For what is Gertrude Ederle famous? 2. Who was Democratic candi date for president in 1924? 3. What is the derivation of the word “Colorado"? 4. Who wrote the World war song “Over There”? 5. What was the first university founded in the U. S.? 6. What is moonlight? 7. What is the nickname for South Carolina? 8. Does the constitution prohibit a man from serving more than two terms as president? 9. Where is Colgate university? 10. Name the first woman ap pointed to serve in a president’s cabinet. 11. For what political subdivision of the U. S. do the initials “T. H.” stand? 12. What part of the country is “way down East"? 13. Which city in Alaska has the largest population? 14. What was the theme song of the movie, “Bird of Paradise”? 15. When was Franklin D. Roose velt first inaugurated as governor rf New York? 16. How did Elbert Hubbard lose ais life? 17. What city had the first sub way system? 18. Name the city inhabited by ;he ancient Trojans. 19. Name the most famous vol canic peak in Japan. 20. Ls the oath of office of the dee president prescribed in the vwtUuHon of the TT 8 ? Stock Market In Good Gain Today; Cotton Thursday Average Stock Gain Is Four Points Limits Set For Single Day's Fluc tuation In Wheat, Corn, Etc, Reserve* Building Up. A bouyant spirit was evident In the faces of Shelby people tills morning as pessimism and gloom disappeared. The black clouds that have been hanging over the econo mic horizon are breaking away anti a much more hopeful atmosphere is in evidence. Stocks Up Four Points At the office of John F. Clark and Co., 30 industrial stocks had an average advance of four points a< the end of the first hour of trad ing. Extreme gains of six points wert registered in some stock after tin New York stock exchange had beer open an hour thla morning. American Tobacco which closed on March 3 at 55.3 was 58 at 11 o'clock: American Chemical and Dye closed ten days ago at 78 wa; 82.8; Reynolds Tobacco 29.1 against 31.3 today; American Telephone and Telegraph Co. 99.6 to 101.6; Contin ental Can 38.5 to 42; United States Steel 26.2 to 29.2; Case Threshing Machine which manufactures a line of farm implements rose from 36.t to 42.4; Ligett and Myers Tobaccr from 53.3 to 58. In the first hall hour of trading 546,000 shares had changed hands. Effect Of Beer BUI The bill to legalize beer has al ready passed the lower house ol congress and is now in the senate where it is sure to pass this week. This naturally affects many com modities and stocks listed on the exchanges. Owen Bottle Co., which makes glass containers in which beer will bfe sold when legalized, had advanced from 36 ten days ago tc 40.4, while Coco Cola which maket a fountain and bottle non-alcoholic drink slipped from 85 to 83.7. Cotton and other commodity mar kets will be open Thursday morn ing and considerable interest in this section attaches to the course cotton will take. With o strong de mand for cotton goods, a strong stock market and the banks all over the country opening rapidly, it 1* expected that cotton will have a substantial rise. Cotton is limited to a fluctuation of 200 points in a sin gle day. This morning limits Up and down i CONTINUED ON PAGE EIOHT.I Three Men Bound To Higher Court Here Breaking And Entering And As sault Charges Aired In County Court. In county court this week three defendants were bound to superior court, which convenes in Shelby Monday week. Boyd Upton, charged with break ing and entering and larceny in connection with the robbery of the Lone Star Inn Sunday night, was bound over under a bond of $500. The inn is operated by A. E. Yar brough and pennies and cigarettes were alleged to have been stolen, a portion being recovered. Not This Boyd The Boyd Upton referred to is not Boyd Upton, weaver at the Eton mill, and son of T. H. Upton, the latter announced today. Charged with assault with dead ly weapons, an axe and knife, Grady and W. C. Blanton were bound to superior court. Cliff Hamrick, whom they were charged with assaulting and injuring, was fined $10 and the co6ts for simple assault as the re sult of an encounter in No, 2 town ship on February 27. ^ Parent-Teacher* To Meet At Mooresboro The Mooresboro Parent-Teachers association will meet on Thursday night at 7:45 and be addressed by H. M. Loy, principal of the Casar high school. There will be other features including music and hum orous readings, after which the business will be attended to. Play At Casar On Saturday Night There will be a play at the Casar nigh school on Saturday night, March 18th, entitled • "Mammy's Little Wild Rose." The attraction is presented by the Community Play ;rs. A small admission price will be 'harcer! Expect Local Banks To Get Permits Soon Application* For License To Open H* vo Gone Forward. Opr rate Now In Limited Way, Application* foe license to oper the First National bank and thf Union Trust Co. and Its branches haw been made with the Federal Reserve bank and with the state commissioner of banks, but up to 5 o’clock today, no authorlaation had been received. It is thought, however, that some instructions will be received short ly. President Roosevelt's Idea ol opening banks was on a "progres sive plan,” meaning that those lr the reserve bank centers opened Monday, those In large cities hav ing clearing house organisations or ", ..—. " • — Tuesday and the other banks as fit. as their applications were review In the order received. Although no formal applicant, blanks have been received by tli First National and Union Trust Co request* to open were made by wlr or letter. There are 18XKK1 banks tt the United'States and naturaltj- th approval of these licenses require some time to review and approve Local people are expectant and on the streets the chief concern le when the Shelby banks will open The First National of Kings Moun tain was authorised to open in full swing this merging. In the meantime the First Na tional and Union Trust of Shelby are making change for customers, receiving new deposits and checks on out of town banks for collection Terrific Wind And Hail Storm Hits County Above Shelby; Outbuildings And Barns Toppled; Heavy Winds Hail Batter* Out Window Panes, Tears Holes In Auto Top*. Heavy Wind. A terrific wind and hat! storm, apparently the tall of the tornado which swept across thr Tennessee Kentucky border region and killed 31 people, struck the upper section of Cleveland county yesterday aft ernoon and did considerable dam age. Hail fell as far south as Shelby, but the major hail and wind ranged from a point three or four miles north of town to the Burke and Lin coin county lines over into Lincoln county. Although the fall of hall was the heaviest in the county in some time the major damage In this county was done by the driving wind which upset or unroofed barm and outbuildings in several sections of upper Cleveland. In the section between Shelby and Lawndale, about five or six miles from Shelby, ! there was considerable damage, a bam and other outbuildings blow- ' ing over on the Wilbur Simmons , place, it is said, and in that neigh- , borhood. There was also heavy wind and hail In the Belwood and Toluca sections and elsewhere. Arthur C. , Walker, mall carrier on the Pall- ] ston-Belwood route out of Shelby, j was making his route in his car ] near Belwood when the hail storm , started. When he arrived in Shelby i some of the glass windows in his ] car were shattered by the hail and the top of the car was filled with holes where the hailstones had bat- i tered their way through. There were dents from the hailstones all over the hood and fenders. One re port here today had It that around 50 windows in the Belwood school , had been shattered by the hall. The ; stones .which fell from three to five minutes, varying in the several sec tions, were reported to range in size from marbles to hen eggs. General reports Indicate that the i storm, accompanied by thunder and 1 lightning, cut a swath 10 mile* or so wide across the upper section of the county. 80 far ns could be definite ly learned today no one In the coun ty was injured during the storm, al though the wind at times threaten ed to blow over many residences and the storm period was consider ed exceedingly dangerous for around 30 minutes . Negroes Support Relief Program rtiree Hundred Pledge To Plant Gardens And Become Self Supporting. Three hundred negroes gathered > it Shiloh church Monday night and fledged to co-operate in every pos sible way with the unemployment , ■ellef program in the county and jlant home gardens this year. J. D. Idneberger, county director of relief vas invited to speak to them and ifter outlining the plans and pur )oses of the relief work In the coun y, the large body unanimously vot 'd to co-operate in carrying on the vork. Mr. Llneberger says the colored >eople are whole-heartedly in sym >athy with the garden ideas as a neans of support an dthey pledged >lant home gardens this spring and lillgently work them in the hope hat they can make enough for jome use and a surplus for canning, f possible. Guardian Reports Should Be Filed All guardians and administrators J if estates in Cleveland county hould have their annual reports Hied by Monday week when super or court convenes in ahelby, it was , mnounced today by A. M. Ham •ick, clerk of court. The law requires hat these reports be filed each year ] >y that date. Thirty-One Known Dead, 400 Hurt In Tornado Lashing Tennessee; Property Damage Kuna Into Tens Of Thousands. Hits Cumber lands Mountain Region. By UNITED PRESS Nashville, Tenn., March 15.— A tornado which cut a narrow path across Tennessee late yes terday left 31 known dead, at least 400 injured and property damage running into the tens of thousands. The list of dead by communities i follows: Nashville, nine; Pruden, i eight; Kingsport, six; Harrogate, two; Bcllwood, two; Lebannon, , two; Mill Point, one; Oswego, one. 1 Relief work today was concen- i trated In the remote Cumberland 1 mountain region along the eastern 1 Kentucky and Tennessee border : where the lashing tornado reached 1 its greatest fury. ■t Cheering Normal Conditions Feature : Opening First Banks Over NationI Common Sense And Sober Realiza tion Shown By People Of Country. Washington, March 15 —Cheered by the normal conditions that mark ed the reopening of banks in 12 federal financial centers of the na tion Monday, Treasury authorities went ahead with plans to open fir t nancial institutions in hundreds of other cities. 1 Reports from the 12 'Federal Re ft serve cities where banks were per mitted to reopen Monday brought optimistic predictions' from Treas ury officials that there would be sn early return to norma! banking relations In all sections of the rountry. Secretary of Treasury William H iVoodin was so pleased with these eports that he issued a statement aying "the Treasury is delighted vith the indication of the success >f the plan under which regular < { t I 1 r t r f 1 a n u b OOKTfWKt. oe cuo* Kinw i , \ Applications For Other Banks Will Be Passed Along Vorking Overtime To Get All Going ,k{n«: Commissioner And Federal Reserve Passing Upon Appli cations Made. <By EXITED PRESS) Rslolirh, Manh is_glxtv four Stair banks and 20 nation al banks In North Carolina wore reopened today by permission or (Inrney Hood. State banking commissioner and the Federal Reserve Rank at Richmond. Va. Commissioner Hood reported that 1« of the 250 banks In the State hid applied for permission to reopen ind 85 others were still unheard from. The banking department was working overtime Inst night and today in checking Rnd approving applications still on fib and other banks will be opened as applica tions are reached. Aid State Bank*. (By UNITED TRESS) Washington. Mar. !5.~An emer gency Senate bill giving State banka direct access to Fpdeial Reserve re servoir currency although not mem bers,- was scheduled for considera tion in the House today. Tile ad ministration's plan for bank reopen ing had in the meantime moved ln |t0 lta third day, permitting resump tion of banking business In licens ed Institutions of smaller towns and cities. Carolina Banks RVesgh, March IS,- North Caro line banking yesterday took a sharp turn toward' normalcy witli finan cial Institutions reopening for reg ular business In four cities with scores of others, state and. national, scheduled to resume operations to day and Thursday. The only restriction was the fed eral ruling against hoarding. Banks transacting business yes terday were the Wachovia Bank and Trust company at its offices in iCONTINTJKD ON PAOJE EIGHT « Two Little Girls Worked On Street Begging By Father South Carolina Family Of PrafM •ional Beggars Rounded lip in Shelby Tuesday. A South Carolina family which used two little girls aa decoys for professional begging was rounded up In Shelby yesterday by relief workers who are attempting to halt professional beggings In the city, particularly by undeserving outsid ers. The little girls, aged about 12 and 14, have “worked” the city before, but the manner In which they were worked was not learned until re cently. South Carolina officials ask ed that the family be traced and gave certain Information which re sulted In their apprehension yester day and their return to South Car olina. Due to their shrewdness and experience It was difficult to ap prehend them and the task requir ed several hours. In the party were a man and his wife, a grown daugh ter and her husband and the two little girls. Arriving in town they parked their car near the Presby terian church and the group divid ed up, the little girls beginning their round of begging uptown. They car ried a note from Di\ F. B. Stokes stating that one of the girls had been treated for a fractured skull In 1927. The little girls had been so trained that they would not go near their parents while begging. but after several hours tho entire party reassembled at their auto, where they were sent back to South Car olina under the law which prohibit# the working of children under 15 years of age In this state. It is un derstood that Police Chief Faulkner and the mayor of York, 8. C„ wish to withdraw their names from the petition carried by the girls. The father was well-dressed and car ried an extra suit in a box while the mother had a shopping beg, and none of the party seemed In want. Reports sent to relief headquarters here had it that the family owns a farm In the Clover section and la not needy and deserving, having used the little girls for professional begging at numerous town- and title* in the two Carolina*.