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sp» The vallwkd Stark ----■» 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 38 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, MAR. 29, 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) mmm i-!.-.'. 'Hi*■■■■—n.mu..uu -ii—juBaftat *•*» Man. ixi ram an »)»iiu n» Carrier oer real m. aAranoei til • a --nil MARKETS otton. spot wagon' - «fd 'f*f M®' Late News 6.90 to 1c | 11.00 12.50 Thursday Fair ~r.is»rth Carolina Weather '. Kail and slightly warmer portion, probably light frost " Interior tonight. Thursday fair |0d warmer. Showers Friday. Hitler Discusses Jew Boycott ”~B, INITED PRESS Bfrlln. March 29.—The Jews of H„. Borld must recognize that the Jewish war against Germany iharply effects Jews within Ger Chancellor Adolf Hitler said U)da, in discussing with his cabi , Vaii measures against anti f.erman propaganda abroa* “Fur thfr reports from New York state Boycott agitation against Germany i, still raging, also mass meetings uid radio speeches agitating Amer ican citirens of German origin.” Kill Americans In China By I NITED PRESS bhanhalkwan, China, Mar. 29.— Two American missionaries were killed when Chinese bombarded a church in recent hostilities at Tai louying, according to unconfirmed reports received here today. The re ports contained no names and the church was said to be destroyed with the riclims dying in the wreckage. Schools To Hold Debates Friday; Talk Sales Tax Both Shelby Teams Debate Away From Home Friday Morning. Others In County. The annual state-wide triangular debate for high school students will be' held Friday of this week with a number of the Cleveland county high schools having teams entered. A full list of all the schools entered was not available today, but this information may be secured by Friday. The Shelby high school is in a inangle with Gastonia and Lin colnton and this year a new policy will be followed in that none of the learns will debate at their home schools. The Shelby affirmative team will meet the Lincolnton neg ative team in Gastonia and the Shelby negative team will meet the Gastonia affirmative team in Lin colnton. In the meantime the Gas tonia negative team and the Lin rolmon affirmative will compete in Shelby. Tire hour for the debates in this triangle is 10:30 o’clock Friday morning. The general public is cor dially invited to attend the Gas tonia-Lmcolnton debate at the Shelby high auditorium. Shelby's affirmative team is com posed of Loris Dover and Essie Bass snd the negative team is made up 01 Paul Bullington and Esther Ann Quinn. Another Triangle Fridav night the debates in the Belwood No,3-Lattimore t r i a n gle i be held. Belwood’s affirmative ,JU1 meet No, 3’s negative at Bel 'ood and Belwood’s negative will meet. Lattimore’s affirmative at -aiiunore, while Lattimore’s nega lve meets the No .3 affirmative at ■ 0i 3. A list of the Belwood debat es sent In shows that the Belwood uf Irma five is composed of C. Z. fails and Forrest Devenney, and ">e negative of Mendel Dellinger mid Estelle Brackett. 0ffk'lals °f the other schools In be debate are requested to send in * r‘ames of their debaters, their riangle, and the results when the Abates are over. The question to be debated by jugh school students all over the ’„.'a e t*1is year is ope of general currem_ interest—the sales tax. The formally reads “Resolved that i orm Carolina should adopt a sales "f as a feature of its state sys m of revenue.” Lincoln Man Dies Near Iron Station uncolnton, March 29.—Struck by true* early last night while rid t :nulc acro&s the highway near 1«L c e Robert Heavner, 60, of stauoa, wa6 fatal,y lnjured u.,."" ■ few minutes later while laicen ^ a hospital here. Sh. fe Jwer® no ^ye witnesses to £rr ac“dent, except Richard Heaf Wr\‘ , Gast°nia, driver of the %ccVp V‘ tfUCk whlch figured in the Was una vocable, and that an investigation, said the unavoidable, and that ~t. dashed out onto the high y directly m front of hta frock. •a s’s^r-*by Me avrangements had not night at a late hour last Heavy Sentences For Larceny Cases Given Three In Court Here 20-Months Term For j Storebreaker Three Larceny Defendants Get Total Terms Of Near Four Years. One Divorce. Defendants convicted of larceny are faring none too well in the su perior court term being presided over here this week by Judge T. B. Finley. So far three defendants | have been given sentences totalling 45 months or almost four yean. Those given the long terms were: Nelson Toney, 20 months; ' Boyd Upton, 15 months; and L. J. Mon roe, 10 months. Toney was convicted of breaking and entering and larceny in con nection with the robbery a number of months ago of the Brittain store at Casar. Three other defendants had been convicted previously in connection with the same affair but Toney was not apprehended until recently. Upton, also convicted of breaking and entering and larceny, received his 15 months for breaking in the Lone Star Inn and service station on the Cleveland Springs road just a week or two ago. Monroe, a, colored man, was given a 10-months term for the larceny of an auto a few weeks ago in South Shelby. Officers recovered the car Just a day or so after its theft when it was wrecked in the Earl section of the county. Under Bond In the assault charges against W. C. and Grady Blanton in connec tion with a fight with Cliff Ham rick, the two Blantons were placed under peace and good behavior bonds, W. C. Blanton also being re quired to pay $200 to the prosecutor. No Court This Morn No session of the court was held this morning as Judge Finley was confined to his hotel room with,a cold, but the court was to convene this afternoon. Approximately another day’s grind will be required, it is believed, to wind up the crim inal docket and then the civil cal endar will be taken up. Bill Prepared After a hearing was waived in the county court, superior court officials this morning prepared to file bills of indictment against John Arro wood and Lucy Wyatt for presenta tion to the grand jury today. Arro wood and Mrs. Wyatt disappeared from their homes in the No. 2 town ship section a couple of weeks ago but returned to the county and were apprehended this week. Re ports in that section at the time intimated that there might have been some connection between their disappearance, but in a communica tion to The Star today Mrs. Wyatt declares she did not leave with Ar rowood and was not with him. Ar rowood is around 40 and the father of several children, while Mrs. Wyatt In her early twenties, is the mother of two young children. Just what the nature of the bills prepared for the grand jury may be was not lessened this morn, Divorce Granted During a lull in the criminal docket yesterday one divorce suit was taken up and Horace Hudson was granted a divorce from Eunice Hudson on the grounds of five years separation. A rarity for the local court rec ords also developed yesterday when it became necessary to mark off the court records a larceny charge against a man who has died since the charge was filed. He was fatal ly Injured in an auto wreck and the entry was made to read "case abates because of death.” Pete Webb LeadsI First Round At Pinehurst Meet Shoots 67 To Lead Kirkwood. But I Falters In Afternoon. Still In Hanning. Pete Webb. Shelby's 30-year-old golf professional, and brother of j Fred Webb, national left-handed I golf champion, swept into farilfc In the North and South Open Tourney at Pinehurst yesterday by setting the pace in the morning round of 10 holes with a brilliant score of 67. In turning in hiSy scintillating score the Shelby youngster at the halfway mark was leading the en tire field composed of nationally known golfers. Just a stroke behind him was Joe Kirkwood, the inter nationally known Australian trick golfer. In the afternoon play of 18 holes, however, young Webb did not travel at such a sensational pace and made a 79 or 12 strokes more than required for his morn ing round. This slip moved him from first place at the midway mark for the day to a tie with Horton Smith, famous professional known as the "Joplin Ghost” for 10th place for the first day’s play of 36 holes. Thirty-six more holes are being played today and if the Shelby youngster can hold his stride of yesterday he will be well in the money in one of America’s "biggest winter golf events. Kirkwood staged a comeback in the afternoon for a | total 36-hold score of 135. The re maining leaders were grouped from that total up to 146, the score turn ed in by Webb and Smith. flpWt writers of the nation at Piriehutst for the tourney wrote very complimentary dispatches to their papers about the fine morn ing play of the "comparatively un known Shelby youngster.” The As sociated Press saying "with the ex ception of Webb in the first round none of the brilliant field could match the brand of play exhibited by Kirkwood and Wood." In his morning round young Webb registered seven birdies and eight pars for his 67 low score for the day. No Trace Of Boy Missing In City Ray Lee Gallimore, Age 16, Has Been Missing A Week And Half. Although an active search has been conducted by relatives and of ficers no tface had been found to day of Ray Lee Gallimore, 16-year old school boy and son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gallimore, who has been missing for a week and a half. The youth disappeared from Shel by-without any known reason a week ago last Monday afternoon. Since that time not a word has been heard from him although appeals have been broadcast by newspaper and radio. Play At Dover Mill School On Friday A play entitled "Eyes of Love ’ will be given at Dover mill school house next Friday night at 7:30 by the young people of the Sharon community. A small charge will be made for admission. “No Covering Up” For Bankers Or Anyone Under Him, Roosevelt Says Any Irregularities Will Be Turned To Proper Coarse Of Jnstlce In Land. Washington, March 29.—(U.P.)— President Roosevelt wants any banking irregularities referred to proper federal authorities prompt ly for immediate action, Secretary of Treasury Woodin revealed this week. “I want to make it clear that the public can be assured that nothing will be withheld or suppressed un der this administration,” Woodin said. "It is the president’s policy and mine that whenever banking irregu larities are revealed to us by any treasury department office or agent or investigator, they shall be con sidered promptly and referred with out delay to proper governmental authorities for immediate atten tion.” The genial and smiling secretary of treasury announced the admin istration banking policy to news paper men who questioned him about the delay during the last months of the Hoover administra tion in proceeding against the Har riman National Bank and Trust Co., of New York. A bank examiner reported to the Comptroller of the Currency’s of fice (last July that he had found allege dirregularities in the New York institution. The full report of the chief national bank examiner lOOM^nrtfTsn laaHT As Green Rapped Relief Plan William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, la pic tured as he testified before the joint House and Senate Labor Committee in connection with the emergency unemployment program proposed by President Roosevelt. Green testified that the bill, designed to employ 250,000 men in reforestation work, “smacks of Fascism,” and would fur ther depress wares. At left is Senator David I. Walsh, of Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee. Roosevelt Moves To Protect Investors Would Punish Promoters Of Fraud ulent Securities. Employment Program Approved. Washington, March 29.—Pres ident Roosevelt moved today to protect the investing public and to punish promoters of fraud ulent securities in line with his campaign pledges for su pervision of New York stock uwues stamping out mkrepre mentations wWch cost intBWM millions of dollars. Tlie President drafted a definite remedial program for submission to Congress this afternoon, and sourc es close to the White House reveal ed that Roosevelt is contemplating a comprehensive stock and bond regulatory program to supplant the one he is sending Congress today, Employment Move. Roosevelt’s proposal to enlist an overailed battalion ol unemployed Into a reconstruction army 250,000 strong, which is expected to re ceive final congressional approval, swept through the Senate yesterday, New Candidates In City Election Likely To Enter Two new candidate*, both to stage their campaign on an economy platform, are ex pected to announce this week or next for Shelby's ap proaching municipal election, ai imrdtMg In talk in city po litical circles today. The candidates expected to announce are E. F. McKin ney, farmer and business man, for mayor, and C. H. Rein hardt, South Shelby mer chant, for alderman in ward three. General reports continue to indicate that George P. Webb and L. E. Ligon may also en ter the mayoralty lists. debate began in the Hour*- today and passage Is expected before mid night. Josephus Daniels Denounced By Reds Of Mexico; Stone Embassy North Carolina Publisher. Appoint ed Ambassador, Subject Of Attack. * Mexico City, March 29.—Posters attacking Josephus Daniels, the new American ambassador to Mex ico, appeared on walls in Mexico City yesterday. The posters were captionad, "Out with Daniels,” and they called him "the murderer of Azueta and Uribe.” These men were Mexicans who were killed in the fighting when United States forces landed at Vera Cruz in 1914. At the time Mr. Daniels was secretary of the navy. The posters were captioned, "Out Central Committee of the Commun ist party of Mexico, section of the Communist International.” They called upon workers, farm ers, students, soldiers anfi sailors and "all anti-imperialists in gener al” to rise up and force Mr. Dan iels from Mexico The overthrow of the present Mexican government for permitting Mr. Daniels to sene as ambassador (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIGH I t I Funeral Mr*. Page Held On Tuesday Mrs. Jessie Freeman Page Died Monday Following Stroke. Buried At Zoar. Mrs. Jessie Freeman Page, wife o{ W. P. Page, died Monday after noon at 4 o’clock at her home in Curtis town. Mrs. Page, who was 23 years of age, had been sick for sev eral months, but suffered a stroke of paralysis Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at 3 o’clock at Zoar with Revs. H. C. 8isk, Spurgeon Scruggs, and Horace Easom officiat ing. Mrs. Page, who was preceded to the grave by two children, is sur vived by her husband, by her par ents, Mr. and l^rs. S. E. Freeman, and the following brothers and sis ter, Clarence, Charles, Coty and Duffy Page, Mrs. Ensiey Bridges, and Miss Annie Freeman. She was a native of South Carolina, but had lived here 10 or 12 years. Special Session Baptists April 30 I A special session of the Kingsv Mountain Baptist association will be held at Beaver Dam church on Sunday, April 30th when the sub ject “The Spirit Filled Church” will be discussed. Mrs, John Wacastcr, asks that each church in the asso ciation send its usual number ot delegates and all delegates are ask ed to bring lunch. The program is as follows: 9:30 devotional, W, G. Camp; 10 the Sunday School in the' Spirit Filled Church, by J. W Costner, L. W. Cain; 10:30 the W. M. U. in the Spirit Filled Church, fey Mrs. John 1 Wacaster, Mrs. Howard Camnitz; 11:00 Missionary sermon, Zeno Wall; lunch; 1:04 devotional, R. R. Cooke; 1:15 the B. Y. P. U. in the Spirit Filled Church, by Mrs. L. H. Led ford, C. F. McSwain; 1:45 the Spirit Filled Church's Attitude to Educa tion, by J. L. Jenkins, Rush Pad gett; 2:15 The Spirit Filled Church in Praise. Horace Easoni; 2:45 the Officers of the Spirit Filled Church, by W. A. Elam, H. E. Waldrop; 3:16 Our Spiritual Delinquents, L. L. Jessup, T. L. Justice; 3:45 Our Ajs~ sociational Objections. J W. But tle; < 00 adjourn. Beer Bill Gets1 Favorable Vote i In State Senate Opening Round Beer Battle Waged Snulr Committer Vote's 10 To 3 For Beer In N. C. Shelby Petition* (lo In. Shelby petition* end tele pram* were among those pre sented In the North Carolina General Assemble at Rsellgh I yesterday when the first round of the beer legalization battle wag fought. Monday and Tues day doren* of telegram* and message* were aent to Cleveland eounty representatives ahont the beer meaaure, some oppos ing legalisation of beer and oth ers urging It. Ministers and other dry* forwarded opposition telegrams to the senate com mittee which approved the bill, while others advocating beer since It has been legalised na tionally upon the platform of the Democratic party were also sent along with petitions favor ing beer said to have been sign ed by several hundred cltlsens. The comparative strength of the sentiment expressed by both sides In local messages and pe titions was Impossible to de termine. Raleigh, March 39—Beer yester day cleared Its first legislative hur dle In North Carolina with a rous ing whoop. A senate Judiciary committee with the cheers of wets and the pleas of drys still ringing after a two-and-one-half hour hearing, voted 10-3 for a favorable report on the Francis bill to legalise the sale of 3.2 per cent beer in this state after May 15. Last night on motion of Senator Roy Francis of Haywood, author of ooNTWtrgD on i»aob main i Cameron Beck To Speak In Xky 3 Times Thursday Prominent New Porker Speaks At Schools Twice And For Civic Chris. The citizens of Shelby are to have the good fortune of hearing Mr. Cameron Beck, personnel director of the New York stock exchange, In three addresses Thufsday. A cor dial invitation is extended by the school authorities to hear Mr. Beck at 30:25 o'clock, when he speaks to the high school at 4:15 o’clock when he speaks at the Graham school to the teachers of the city and sur rounding schools of the county. He will speak to the civic clubs of the community at 7:00 o’clock in the Hotel Charles main dining room. Those desiring to attend that meet ing should confer with one of the members of the civic clubs, either Kiwanis, Rotary or Lions. It is a rarp opportunity for Shel by to haVe the services of such an eminent man and one whose servic es are so greatly sought after. Dur ing the past year he has spoken In twenty-two states before more than two hundred thousand people. Everyone who can possibly do so ought to avail himself of the op portunity of hearing him. The heads of the civic, fraternal, governmental and other organiza tions of the city wil< occupy seats on the rostrum for the high school address. Those who expect to attend the high school meeting should come on time, inasmuch as the address will start promptly upon the hour and without preliminaries. Mellon And Othei Be Scrutinized i Wheeler, Man Who Drove Daofher- j ty From Office. Points Ac cusing Finger. Washington, March 29.—(OP)— Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon tana, who single-handedly drove former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty from office, turned his accusing finger this week at for mer Secretary of the Treasury An drew W. Mellon, multi-millionaire dean of three Republican adminis trations. The tall and handsome Democra tic senator, who still harbors the crusading spirit - of the vigorous western prosecuting attorney. Intro duced a resolution calling upon the justice department to investigate and determine whether there is' Union Trust Must Strengthen Capital; $130,000 Necessary Lions Gub Will Back Playground For Shelby Tots Unemployed Men To Ilulld Wading! Tool. Park On Old t orbltl- ] Green Property. , | Thanks to the activity of the Shelby lions club the children of Shelby will have a park, playground aftd wading pool centrally located in the city this summer. The club announced today that plans and arrangements had been completed for the playgrounds con struction on the old Corbitt,-Oreene property, comer East Marion and Washington streets, now owned by Judge B. T. Falls, The playground movement was inaugurated by the club last summer but plans did not materialise until recently. The site, Just to the rear or the Ideal Service station. Is Ideally lo cated for a playground. In the shady dell within sight of the court square is a former swimming pool site and only a minor amount of work will be necessary to convert It Into a wading pool for children. Construction work on the pool and getting the remainder of the prop erty in condition Will be done by unemployed men through the local relief agency as the park will come under the classification of a public project. The use of the property for a number of years ax a park and playground was donated by Judge Falls, and club women of the city are being asked to help assemble shrubbery and playground equip ment. Those who will contribute either shrubbery or equipment suit able for the playground are asked to communicate with Dr. Robert Wilson, lions clu official, telephone ngince the site Is naturally suited for a playground and no great amount of work is necessary to put It in condition the comple tion is expected to cost very little. The Lions will work out some sys tem of supervised play for the perk during the summer. Miss Greene Will Be May Queen The students of Boiling Springs Junior college recently elected Miss Margaret Greene, of Charlotte, queen of May. Miss Green was chos en because of her beauty, contri butions to college life, and scholar ship, which compose the basis for the selection of the May queen. During her two years at Boiling Springs, Miss Greene has proved her ability and leadership in a fine spirit. Some of her previous hon ors include: Editor Kalarathea (the college paper), president of Kaller geonlan literary society, and cap tain of girls basketball team. Miss Jessie Sue Harrill. of Bos tic, receiving the second highest number of votes, was chosen maid of honor. Miss Harrill is also out standing In student and college ac tivities. Three maids were selected from each class. Those from the first year class are Misses Clara Edna Jordan, of Roland; Margaret Au trey, of Mount Holly, and Mary Sup Holland of Bolling Springs. Misses Hlldegartle Barnes of Mount Holly. Vernle Cabanlss of Lattirnore and Mamie Lou Forney, of Lawndale were selected from the second year class. The coronation of the queen and the May Day festival will be held on May 6. ' Higher-Ups To | By Fiery Senator ground for either civil or criminal action against the lately retired Am bassador to Great Britain and other Republican treasury and in ternal revenue bureau officials, and if so, to prosecute them. Making no direct or specific charges himself, Wheeler based his action on suits recently filed in lo cal courts by David A. Alson, In the name of the United States, asking tor Judgment against Mellon and other treasury officials of some (600,000,000 with interest and pen- . aides, which he charged had been iost to tire United States through j failure to collect taxes due from foreign steamship companies. j Olson also filed suit a few days ** *» • i** wnv Hopes To Open Un restricted Officers And Directors To Meet Noon. Uni Notion*! Appraiser Coming Cater. Following an appraisal of the as* sets of the Union Trust Co., a re port was received this morning from the State Banking Commis sioner. setting forth a plan of re organisation which calls for strengthening the capital structure of the Institution. 9130,000 Necessary. The Commissioner of Banks say* that It will be necessary to raise *130,000 locally to put Into the capi tal structure of the bank and If this amount Is raised, he thinks tho bank can secure a loan of $180,000 from the Reconstruction Finance corpor ation or otherwise in preferred stock. This would give $280,000 ad ditional money' and make the bank liquid enough to open with restric tions to proceed in a normal way. Win Discus* Plans, A meeting of the officers end di rectors will be held today or to morrow at which time the situation will be fully discussed and some pltin worked out In the hope that the additional money necessary may be available so that the Institution might open without restrictions, or a least on the most liberal terms possible. It Is the hope of the offic ials that some plan might be evolv ed whereby the depositors will be fully protected and that the bank might resume gpripal justness. A considerable pwtion of. the bank's frozen loans were charged off In making the appraisement, al though it Is thought that many of these loans will be collected when business Improves and the money turned back to further strengthen the bank. Attend Raleigh Meeting. it is estimated that l.ooo official* and stockholddSf ttf-Wb»ed C banks were In Ratelgh yesterday tc hear discussed a state-wide plan ol re-organization sponsored by Our ney P. Hood, state commissioner of banks. Attending from Shelby to represent the Union Trust Co. olid the First National bank were R. E, Campbell, Rush Hamrick. Forrest Eskridge. Wm, Lineberger. Tom Webb, C. H. Shull, Z. J, 'Ihompeon and Oscgr Palmer:*" '**' More I,literal' Policy No closed bHnk Is to be forced in to the state-wide plan, but has been Invited to Join If the plan a^pealf The Shelby bankers who attended the Raleigh meeting prefer to re organize independently of the state wide system and put the banks In a liquid position so that there will be no restrictions or at least a more liberal policy toward depositors than the state-wide plan would permit. First National officials have been hot on the wires to get an apprais er here from the Federal Reserve Ip order to find out just what capital assets will be charged off and what plan of reorganization the comp • UONTinUMD ON PAG* ItlUH'l • Try Answering fhese Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. Name the source of the quota* tlon, 'What fools these mortals be." 2. What Is archaeology? 3. To what country Is the island of Yap mandated? 4. What Ls the. name for a young swan? 5. What Is the family name of the British royal house? 6. How was tin city of Pompeii destroyed? 7. Where Is Bebustcpoi? 8. What Is quicksilver? 0. Who invented the timing fork? 10. How did George Dewey get his title "Admiral of the nu\y?” 11. Are there any railroads in Ice land? 12. Does pure tin rust? 13. With what major league base ball team did Joe E .Brown, movie star, once play? 14. Who laid the cornerstone of the White House? 15. Who was the author of "Poor Richard’s Almanac?" 16. How much per ounce will a V. 3. assay office pay a cltisen for jure gold? 17. Where is the Colorado state chool of agriculture? 18. What island did Japan acquis >y cession from China In 1896? 19. In what national park are th» iridal Veil falls? 20. Name the four eomedianr wtm jlayed in Horscfeathera?’