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" TM Mkviewnd SEND THE MARKETS ,npt .6.90 to 7c Tnn) . U.00 "Hi' .12-50 %tti car I®”' -. Warmer Saturday % s North Carolina Weather „ ‘ rt , air and slightly wanner at,d south portions tonight Saturday cloudy and somewhat rm,T probably occasionally rain ^Vand central portions. Hitler Absolute Dictator Now ‘ "J*, INITED TRESS) Mar. 24.—Adolf Hitler’s •orcrnment was today confirmed as absolute dictatorship for your rears. Attention was then turned to the twin problems of answering a troetty reports abroad and meeting threats of economic boycott on the part of Jewish business men In for eign lands. Jap* Defy U. S. Interference (By EXITED PRESS) New fork, Mar. 2*.—Japan is not obligated to explain her activities in Manrhuria to any nation since she “Is not a vassal state of the United States nor any other country,” Yo ,uke Matsuoka, chief of the Japa nese delegation to the Leagufc of Nations, declared today upon his arrival from Europe. Police smash ed an Incipient demonstration against Matsuoka at the pier where the leviathan docked and arrested Lin Mat Hin, a Chinaman, for earning a pistol. Sales Tax Basis Of Highway Bill Passed In State 19 Million Dollar Highway Supply Bill Indicates Sales Tax To Be Imposed. Raleigh. March 24.—Apparently predicated on the assumption a sales tax will be enacted, the North Carolina house of representatives yesterday ended a six-day battle of appropriations by passing: and send ing to the senate a 178,019,000 gen eral and highway supply bill for 1933-35. The measure falls more than $4, 000.000 short of the amount recom mended In the appropriations com mittee's bill. ,but provides for ex penditures of nearly $6,000,000 more than were included in the Bowie Cherry substitute which its spon sors claimed would avert the ne cessity of levying a sales tax. The major battle over the bill in volved allotments for educational institutions. The consolidated Uni versity of North Carolina emerged Kith a *760,240 annual appropria tion. compared to $644,800 recom mended in the Bowie-Cherry sub stitute and $832,240 proposed by the committee. Faced with a public calendar con taining 54 statewide measures, the house debated for two hours on a hill proposing stricted state regula (COXTINUED ON PAGE) SIX. I Shelby Youth Has Been Missing From Home Since Monday Farents Worried About Ray Lee GaUlmore As Wide Search Continues. Perhaps impelled by the spring lure of faraway places and the wan derlust of youth, Ray Lee Galli h»re, 16-vear-old Shelby boy, has been missing , from his home since Monday afternoon. Although officers have cooperated *llh his parents, Mr. and Mrs. "»rry GaUlmore, not a single defi ne trace of his whereabouts has n found in the four days since if sut*denly dropped out of sight. . R; r®P°rt had It that he had gone “Seville or elsewhere to get wk, but these reports have not umtely checked up with any suc At the time he left young G re was wearing blue trouser R neater and black slip] JiJt ,dark br°wn hair-biue < abofu f<U8 to 120 pounds and feetl si* iriches in hei * knowing his whereboutj ent, ' communicate with his - or Police Chief McBride 1 ^°ttori Unchanged Yesterday '''•Uiged Y' 2 °clock today wa two * ye£t*rday. On th ea ten T?OUS days- cotton had establish 5lore P01111* from the t pushed earlier in the week t . °n New York was Farm ^ ,and °ctober at 6.72 CO,*1** legislation pendi . r® said to have some * -rr tmop the mark r 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 36 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 193* (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) My Mull t>»f y»m. im taianctl Nil ('•mar ort r«ar on uivtneat no County Cotton Crop Just Reaches 45,000 20,000 Bales Below Previous Year Crop of 1932 Was Smallest In Sev eral Years. Almost 20,000 Bales Behind Previous Y'ear. Cleveland county’s 1932 cotton crop barely passed the 45,000 bale mark, according to final ginning figures issued today by Miles H. Ware, special agent. The total ginning figures for 1932 as given today were 45,788 bales. This was almost 20,000 bales behind the 64.576-bale total of 1931. The crop, incidentally, was one of the smallest made in the county in years, yet Cleveland continued to lead the state in cotton production. The decrease in the size of the crop is attributed to at least three factors—reduced acreage, use of les sfertilizer, and a sea son which was not very favor able. Debate Tonight At Shelby HighSchool Will Contest For Max Gardner Med al And Discus Sales Tax Ques tion For State. The triangular debaters will com pete, tonight, tor the O. Max Gard ner debating medal, to be presented to the best debater. Those uphold ing the affirmative are Essie Bass and Loris Dover. Those defendant the negative are Esther Ann Quinn and Paul Bullington. Miss Quinn is ineligible for the medal, hating won it last year. There is keen rivalry among the other members, each has outstanding abilities combined with oratorical powers. The query is a very timely prob lem: Resolved that North Carolina should adopt the sales tax as a fea ture of its state system of revenue The affirmative is advocating a lux ury tax, and the negative is argu ing against the luxury tax. This subject, should be of interest to every citizen in the community, for the North Carolina legislature is now debating as to whether a sales tax should be adjusted. The debaters will be able to give information in detail about the tax situation and will afford a profit able evening to those who attend. The annual debate is a big event in the school’s numerous activities and everyone is looking forward to it with much anticipation. Over 1,500 Bowl» Soup To Children During the past month 1,540 bowls of soup have been served to under • nourished children in the South Shelby school. This is an average of 77 bowls each day. Bread, milk, and soup are served each day to the children from the iirst. through the fourth grades. The lunch room is under the supervision of Miss Mar garet Anthony and her home mak ing classes of the South Shelby community. Miss Anthony is ably assisted in this work by the seventh grade home economics classes. The janitor of the school, Mr. Randall, has also rendered valuable assist ance. Teachers and patrons of the school are deeply grateful to the Kiwanis club for fifteen pints of milk each day.'Bread is donated by the C. H. Rhinehardt and Keeter’s grocery stores, and ingredients for the soup are given by local meat markets, relief organization, and the home making classes. Shelby Students Winners Of N. C. Contest In French State-Wide Contest Won. One. Shel by Student Takes Second Individual Honors For the past six years the uni versity of North Carolina has spon sored academic contests in Latin, French, and Mathematics. These contests are participated in by the leadihg schools throughout the state. According to a letter received yes terday by W. E. Abernethy, princi pal of the high school, from E. R. Rankin, secretary of the academic contests, the announcement was made that the team of the Shelby high school had won first place in the entire state in the French con test. Second place was won by the Oxford high school, and third place by central high school, of Charlotte. The Shelby team was composed of Rachel Connor, Colbert Mc Knigbt, and Loris Dover. The best individual paper was written by Belle Kearney, of Oxford high school, with Rachel Connor, of Shelby high school, second. All three Shelby papers rated 90 or better. The combined scores of the three Shelby contestants gave the local high school first place. These pupils have been taught for two years by Miss Roelna Pearl. Shoplifter Gets Term Of 4 Months It. T. Planning Sentenced In Conn* ty Court Today. Heavy Kings Mountain Docket. R. T. Planning, negro man. was given a four months road sentence in county recorder's cohrt here to day on the charge cf shoplifting. Planning was found guilty of the larceny of several hats from the local Wright-Baker store on March 17. Seven hats were said to be miss ing but only three were recovered. At yesterday’s county court ses sion in Kings Mountain the court had one of its heaviest grinds there. The court was in continuous ses sion from 10 o’clock until 3:30 in the afternoon. The majority of the charges were prohibition law vio lations, larceny counts and assaults. Hen Lays Egg With Owner’s Initials Some men have monogrammed shirts, ties, socks, and even under wear, but Clint C. Owens, Shelby Route 5, is one up on the Best of them. He has a hen which lays monogrammed eggs. He was in Shelby today exhibiting an egg laid this week by one of his Rhode Is land hens which had a very distinct capital letter “C” on one end. Ex cept that it is his initial Mr. Owens can think of no other reason why the hen should have so labelled it. Revival Meeting At Missionary Church A revival meeting at the Mission ary Methodist church in West Shel by came to a close last Sunday aft ernoon. Rev. Reichard did some ex cellent preaching and about 135 j people professed faith in Christ, j Several members were added to the church. The ordttiance of baptism! will be administered Sunday after noon March 26th at 2 o’clock at the Shelby Cotton mill pool. N. C. School Leaders Urge Fight To Save Schools From 40 Percent Cut Clyde Erwin Declares Such Cut Would Bring Disaster, Educa tors In Meet. Raleigh, March 24.—Educational leaders last night sounded the call to arms for "a fight to the finish” to save the public school program as the North Carolina Education association convened its 49th an nual convention here. ' Let us consider this the zero hour,” said Clyde A. Erwin of Ruth erfordton, president, in his message to the first assembly. “I say to the citizenship of this great state, let us prepare to go over the top Let us not submit to defeatism.” . Vial niessages to the educators were heard from two other speakers. Th«w> were tv Tsouelass Freeman , editor of the Richmond, Va., News i Leader, and Dr. W. D. Reeve of teachers’ college, Columbia uni versity, New York. In its preliminary business ses sion, the convention threw its en tire vote behind Harry P. Harding of Charlotte, as its president during the coming year, and the secretary was instructed to lo record the vote ! TWO other outstanding educators John C, Lockhart of Raleigh and Guy Phillips of Greensboro, ^were nominated for vice president, and delegates will decide by ballot dur ing the convention their choice f >’ this office. “The answer to the challenge o j fascism and of communism is be tng written in the schools of Amer- ; ®*f3» SEE, New Jury System Works Well; Term Convenes Monday Summons Jurors By Postal Card All But Three Of 54 Juror* Return Cards. Judge Finley To Preside. A two-weeks term of superior court will convene In Shelby Mon day with Judge T. B. Pinley presid ing and for the first time all Jurors for the session were summoned by the new mall method Instead of by personal service through an officer. Heretofore It has cost 50 cents pel juror to have those draw served with a summons to attend. This year the commissioners tried a new plan and sent postal card notifica tion to each Juror with a return card attached for the jurors to return to the sheriff. This was done at a cost of less than three cents per Juror, or a saving of around 47 cents per Jur or. Questioning today revealed that the plan has worked out unusually well for the first test. Sheriff Allen has had cards returned from all of the 54 Jurors except three. One of these lives In Lincoln county, and the two others who neglected to send their cards bach livve in Shelby. In instances where the cards are not returned, thus failing to show that the juror has been prop erly notified, the summons will be served by an officer. Light Docket The superior court docket Is one of the lightest In several years. Only 40 cases are scheduled for trial on the criminal docket and the court may be ready to take up the civil calendar by Thursday of next week. The civil calendar is also exception ally light due to the fact that many litigations were cleared at a special term of court held some time ago. No major suits or litigations featuie the calendar, and only three di vorce suits are on the lists to be heard. Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page 2 for the answers. 1. Who was Catherine Parr? 2. In what province of Canada is the city of Calgary? 3. Who was Knule Rockne? 4. What famous horserace Is run annually at Churchill Downs, Louisville. Ky? 5. Where Is the city of Yedo? 6. What Is the minimum width of the English channel? 7. How many times did Lou Geh rig strike out in the 1932 World se ries? 8. Which English novelist wrote a series of novels about the Forsythe family? 9. What proportion of the V. 6. senate Is elected every two years? 10. Of what country is Sofia the capital? 11. Name the two men who serv ed as secretary of war in President Lincoln's cabinet? 12. Name the capital of West Vir ginia? 13. where was Jno. Brown execut ed? 14. Whom did King Edward VII of England marry? 15. Which president had the nick name "Old Rough and Ready?” 16. What building in Washington, D. C.. is dedicated to Nie memory of the heroic women of the Civil war? 17. For whom is the Smithsonian institution named? 18. With the settlement of what colony is the name ol James Ogle thorpe connected? 19. What was the name of the communistic colony established in Massachusetts in 1841. 20. What Constitutional amend ment guarantees freedom of the press? MR. HOEY MOVING HIS FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE Chae. A. Hoey has moved his in surance office from the Hoey build ing to the rear of the postoffice on East Warren street to the Hoey l building on South Washington street. The building which Mr. Hoey formerly occupied has been sold to the government for the enlargement of the Shelby postoffice. Mitchell Indicted For Tax Evasion By UNITED PRESS New York. March 24.—Charles »■'. Mitchell, chairman of the noard of the National City Bank uid a powerful figure in inter national finance, was Indicted today by the federal grand jury, ! charged with evading payment of more than a half million f rtnllar* In Income tare* for In Senate-House Beer Harmony ii Senator Pat Harrison (right), of MUsissippi, and Representative Thomas H. Cullen, author of the 3.2 per cent beer bill, leaders of Senate and House conferees, respectively, are shown as they signed the conference report providing for beer and wine of 3.2 per cent alcoholic content. The report of the joint conference was later accepted by the Senate by a vote »f 43 to 36. It is now practically certain that the country will have law. ful beer on April 5. Roosevelt’s Program Now Striking Snags Senate Revolt Against Farm Relief Bill Breaks Forth. Organized Labor Also Bucking (By UNITED PRESS) Washington. March 24.—The expected Senate revolt against the Roosevelt farm relief bill broke out out in the agricultural committee today when Chairman Smith pre sented a substitute measure eliminating the complex allot ment provision and strictly limiting the processing of taxes. The substitute to the administration bill, overwhelmingly approved by the House, leaves intact the cotton option plan (jponsored by Smith. FIGHT EMPLOYMENT PLAN The charge that Roosevelt's dollar-a-day forest work pro gram “smacks of Fascism, Hitlerism, and a form of Soviet ism" was made today before a joint congressional committee by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. He denounced “regimentation of labor subjecting laborers in the hour of deepest distress to this sort of sys tem/’ Judge Webb Believes N. C. Will Oppose Beer; Praised In Stand Large Crowd Attends A. P. Weathers Rites Nephews And Former Clerks Are Pallbearers. Beautiful Floral Offering. A large crowd attended the funer al yesterday at 3 o'clock of ex-May or A. P. Weathers who died Tues day morning In the Shelby hospital. Services were held at the residence at 3 o’clock by Dr. Zeno Wall and a double mixed quartet from the First Baptist church furnished music. Ab Poston, Clyde Nolan, Robert Hord, Flay Gardner, Tom Sweezy, Wyte Royster, Will Metcalf, Curtis Weathers and Mlal W. Tiddy serv ed as active pallbearers and Inter ment was In Sunset cemetery. The pall bearers were nephews and for mer clerks in the old Farmers Hard ware Co., which Mr. Weathers oper ated for twenty years until the death of his partner, C. T. Hord. A most beautiful array of flowers, handsome and varied in their de sign, almost filled the room and at the cemetery completely covered the family plot. Flower bearers were members of Mrs. W. J. Roberts Sunday school class to which Mrs. Weathers belonged. Sheriff Allen Is Moving To Farm New Sheriff Moving Household Goods Into County Jail Here. Sheriff Irvin M. Allen, who re tires from office on April 1,. this week moved from the county Jail to his farm east of Buffalo. The house hold effects of Raymond Cline, sher iff-elect, are being moved into the jail. Sheriff Allen will make his home jon his farm, but his family has gone on a camping trip to the ! eastern section of the state, and jMr. Allen will join them there for I a stay alter his +env of office ends Saturday w»eit Closes Federal Court Term With ^Appeal To Keep State Dry Receives Messages. Federal Judge E. Y. Webb “hopes and believes" that the people of North Carolina will refuse to per mit beer to, be sold legally In this state. That was the declaration of the Jurist made at the closing ses sion of the United States district court here Wednesday. The court adjourned after a speedy three-day grind in which numerous cases were disposed of, in cluding the conviction and sentenc ing of two bankers and the formal' indictment of five others. In a closing talk to the court’s Juries which also included specta tors, the federal judge, co-author of one of America’s first prohibition laws while he was in congress, ex pressed the firm conviction that North Carolina would not fall be fore the wet forces. “I do not believe the people of this good state,” he said, “will ever vote for the repeal of prohibition. You gray-haired ICON riNUED ON PACK StX.i New Bank Deposits Reach $150,000Now Shelby May Have Link In Mammoth State-Wide Bank Plans For Mammoth Industrial Bank Will Bo Discussed At Farley In Raleigh. Raleigh, March 34,—A meeting of banker* from all part* of North Carolina la to be held here today at which plan* for a state-wide Indus trial bank with a capital of more than $3,000,000 and branches In from 35 to 40 cities will be discussed. The proposal will be outlined by Ourney P. Hood, state commission er of banks, as a part of his pro gram for rehabilitation of the state financial situation following the re oent banking holiday. Hood had already announced that plans for a state-wide commer cial bank, rising from the group of state banks which have not re opened since tha holiday, were be ing considered. Tentative plans call for a $6,000,000 Institution, and were reported to involve the North Car olina Bank and Trust company, with 17 offices, and the Page Trust company, with 14 offices. Officials of industrial banks now operating In 35 cities of the state have been Invited to the meeting. Towns involved Include Burling ton, Lenoir, Roxboro, Mt. Airy, Mar lon, Greenville, Forest City, New Bern, Washington, Hickory, Rocky Mou n t, Greensboro, Charlotte, Reidsvllle, Hendersonville, Leaks* vllle, Asheville, Lexington. Tarboro, High Point, Durham. Winston-Sa lem, Statesville, Elisabeth City. Rutherfordton and Goldsboro, These already have Industrial banks oper ating others considered for new bran ches were Concord, Gastonia, Ashe boro, Lumberton, Shelby, Hender sonville, Hamlet, Sanford, Fayette , vllle, MooresvUle, Monroe, Laurin burg, Thomaevllle, Kinston and Ox ford. Father Of Shelby Woman Is Dead At Home In Gastonia Former Gaston Sheriff, W. Nell Davie, Waa Father Mrs. Ed. McCarry. Gastonia, March 24.—W. Nell Da vis, 60, one of Ofcstonla’s oldest na tive citizens and best known resi dents, died at his home here Mon day afternoon, after a brief Illness Death was due to a combination of heart and kidney troubles. Funeral services were held at the residence on Third avenue at 3:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon, with Rev. J. B. Craven, pastor of Main Street Methodist church, officiat ing. Interment was In Oakland cemetery. Mr. Davis was born November 4, I860, a son of the late O. W. and Jeanette Bradley Davis. Mr. Davis was married three tim es. His first wife was Miss Maggie Rhyne, a sister of Dr. R. E. Rhyne, Gaston county health officer. His second wife was Miss Etta Bigger staff Finley. Of this second union were born the following children who survive: Mrs. Evon Glenn, Mrs. G. N. Hinson. Jr.. Sam and W. N. Davis, Jr., of Gastonia, and Mrs. Ed McCurry, of Shelby. Mr. Davis’ third wife, who sur vives, was Miss Willie Clark of Liles vllle, Anson county. Mr. Davis served as sheriff ot Gaston county from 1912 to 1914, and also served several years as county coroner. Former Shelby Man Given Prison Sentence For Killing His Wife Edgar Scott Gets 10 Year* In Davie County For Fatal Shooting Of Girl Wife. Mocksville, March 24.—Edgar B. Scott, 25, of Glen Alpine, was sen tenced to 10 years in state's prison by Judge Michael Schenck in Davie county superior court yesterday aft er his conviction of manslaughter by a jury which deliberated 30 min utes. Scott was ordered held by a cor oner’s jury in October, 1931, for the fatal shooting of his girl wife, Es ther Smith Scott, daughter of Rev. L. L. 8mith, a Methodist minister of Hickory. Scott, a native of the Glen Al pine section, formerly lived in Shel by in his youth and is known to a number of people here. The Scott* had been married ope. year, and Mrs. Scott was an expect ant mother. The woman died with a buiyt through the breast which barely missed the heart. Scott al legedly stated In the presence of witnesses at the time that the wom an shot herself accidentally or com mitted suicide. He took the stand In his own de fense after the state had woven a chain of circumstantial evidence around him. He was attended In court by his mother, a brother and two sisters, and sat apparently unmoved until the Jury filed Into the bar and an nounced a verdict of guilty of man slaughter. Then he burst Into tears and dropped his head on a table. Solicitor John R. Jones did not ask for a first degree verdict, but for only second degree. or man slaughter Appraiser Coming Here Soon ■ - - —r r , I To Appraise Amts Of First Na> tlonol. Union Examination 1» Finished. At noon today over $180,000 had been deposited In the First National bank since the conservator was ap pointed. This amount has been de posited in “special trust accounts’ and is subject to withdrawals and checking at any time. No report was obtainable as to the amount of the "special ac counts" opened at the Union Trust Oo', but It la understood that the deposits are growing. Branches ol the Union Trust were authorised this week lo accept these trust ac counts and officials this morning stated that business Is moving along very satisfactorily. Returns From Richmond Mr. Forrest Eskridge returned this week tram Richmond, Va„ where ho visited the Federal Re serve with a complete and detailed statement of the bank's condition. This Information was placed before officials who promised to send as early as possible an appraiser to appraise the real estate which the bank owns together with real es tate and other collateral which the banks hold. No appraisal was made In Richmond as It was thought best to send a man to make a personal Investigation of the property and the assets of the bank before any plan of re-organization ts recom mended. Officials of the First National are making every effort to hasten a decision as to what course to take, but there Is such a congestion of problems such ns the First National has at both the Richmond Federal Reserve office and the comptroller of the currency’s office in Wash ington. D. O. that tndivtdu&l and personal attention cannot be given to the First National’s condition un til an appraiser Is available to co»ne .Jr person- and appraise the assets of the inatltutI3h. Officials of both the Union Trust and First National were invited to Raleigh yesterday to sit in on a meeting of bankers to hear discuss - ed plans of State Bank Commission er Gurney P. Hood relative to a state-wide system of industrail and commercial banks. The conference iCONTtm.'KU ON e,Uil‘ Si.. . Seniors Honored At Mooresboro School Sixty Guests At Junior-Settlor Ban quet. Sam DfPries! Moves To Mooresboro Mooresboro, Mar 33.-—The Moor esboro high school seniors were honored at an elegant banquet last Saturday night. Several persons were also Invited as guests of hon or. The dinner, which was served by the sophomores with much dignity and mannerism, was formal. Fruit cocktails, cake, ice cream, etc,, were served to some sixty guests .after and during which they were very delightfully and graciously enter tained by the Juniors with songs addresses and readings. This year's senior class boasts of more members than have the last two. Mr. and Mrs. Hai Martin have recently moved to town. Poster, their son, and a star football play er, is now visiting them. Mr Sam DePriest and family moved from Mooresboro to New House Thursday. Mr. Webb Ellis of Wake Forest visited his grandmother Mrs. B. P. Greene here Friday night. Mr. Roy Bridges, of Washington, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bridges over the week-end. Mr. Roy Greene of Charlotte is now visiting in town and commun ity. The local women's society held a quilting party Tuesday. A senior B. Y. P. is now' being or ganized at Sandy Run. Much good is expected to be the culmination of the new group. Families Moving Into New Homes Mr. and Mrs. Horace Eaeom are moving today into their new home on West Marion street which has Just been completed. Mr. and Mrs. Cltnfc Hendrick are moving into their new home in Bel vedere. They have been making their home with his mother, Mrs. Frank Hendrick on Sumter street. These new two homes, being oc cupied by their owners, are two of the handsomest and mo6t conven ient. homes built in Shelby for * year or two
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