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The MEVMMD SEND-D 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 48 Si JS-1 1ELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) By Man 00! feat ,1,, Q»m»r Mr ram l)n »n mner • XI: MU* 1HK MARKETS .7.25 to 7.75 ‘^""wagon ton . «* W ^d, c*r lot* . M4<W Warmer Saturday "rnd*'. North Carolina Weather j Cloud' tonight and Satur *\P probablv rain in northeast] portion tonight. Manner Saturday in central portion. France Resists Gold Change By UNITED PRESS pirls. Npril 21.—France is so far efforts to force the coun |rr 0ff the gold standard, believing that the United States and Eng , n(l oill return to the. gold basis simultaneously within a short time, it was learned in authoritative quar ters toda?. Conservative* Halt Inflation By UNITED PRESS Washington. April 21.—The ad ministration’s controlled inflation program today faced delay at the hands of conservative Republicans «ho denounced it as destructive 3nd dangerous. Senate Democratic leaders charged that a filibuster had been organized against the measure which would permit six billion expansion money credit. Chas. Stroup Dies In Gastonia, Bund Held Here Today Native Of Waco, Succumbs At Home Of Brother. Funeral Here At Home Of Mrs. Stroup. Charlie Stroup, retired wholesale merchant and traveling salesman, died, yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the home of his brother John Stroup with whom he had been making his home for the past 35 months. He was 66 years old. Mr. Stroup was borV and reared in the Waco community, the 'son of Mr and Mrs. Adam Stroup. He entered business eatly in life and was a traveling salesman for a large dry goods and notion house out of Lynchburg for many years. He was also a partner with Mr. Charlie Williams in the wholesale business in Charlotte for many years. Some years ago he retired and had been JJsuffering with a heart trouble. Mr Stroup was a successful busi ness man. possessed a keen intel lect was a student of business and politics and was kindly and gentle :n his disposition. He was widely acqulnted and enjoyed the con fidence and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. Surviving are the following brothers and sisters: J. C. Stroup -f Henry, Tenn., M. L. Stroup of South Pittsburg, Tenn., Mrs. H. S. Seller« of Kings Mountain; J. W. Stroup of Gastonia, D. B. Stroup of Waco, Mrs. J. B. Smith of Waco, Mrs. a. B. Sweatt of Cherryville, A. L. Stroup of Waco. The body was brought to the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Rush Stroup here on West Warren street this morning where he made his home for several years and the fu neral was held this afternoon at 3 30 o’clock by Dr. Zeno Wall, pas ter of the First Baptist church of which he was a member. His brother. Rush Stroup, was an attorney and former county treas urer for many years before his heath. Interment will take place in Sunset cemetery. To Hold District Music Meet Here H!*h School Musicians Of Five bounties Compete In District Contest Saturday. The district high school music contest for this district will be held “ the Shelby school auditorium to worrow, Saturday, beginning at 8 c-°ck in the morning and contin all day, it was announced to a by o. B. Lewis, music instruc tor. t>„ ?un? musicians from Lincoln Mherfqr'd. Catawba, Gaston an< ^e'tiand counties will contest fo w of representing the dis ~tl “n the State contest at Raleigh '/.' betby school will ener a mix Elbrus of 35 voices, the girls giei ' * Ttrls trio, and alto, soprani , tenor soloists baritone horn soli % the school orchestra. Slle^y high school band an< •l !ftra wW go to Greensboro fo tate contest and if a numbe: ■tn v^ S^'elby entrants in tomor ,‘,'j!Uest are victorious man G-V f’hflby students will go h to ,f?0ro,or the finals. They hop who '' 8ut°mobile and any on are aMn take of the student LeJr communicate with Mi - or high school officials, wii: i eonlest here tomorrow whicl ? °f Interest to music lovers Judged by L. R. Sides, dire! mtisir tor Chariot \ Lincoln Farmer Kills Self After Shooting Neighbors, Man And Wife Members School ; Board Announce For Race Again Filing Books Close On Saturday Unless Others File Tomorrow 14 Will Seek Mayor's Office And Four Council Berths. Unless new entries are filed to morrow. 14 candidates will line up at the post for the dash down the final sretch prior to the Shelby municipal election Tuesday week at which time the voters of Shelby will select from the.14 a major and four aldermen. With only one more day in which to file candidacies it was Indicated today that the five members of the city school board will be unopposed in the same election. No New Entries. The filing book at the city hall will be closed tomorrow and no new candidates have entered for mayor and aldermen, but today the five members of the present school board filed their candidacies for re election. They are Dr, T. B. Gold, chairman; L. P. Holland, secretary; Thad C. Ford, treasurer; J. Law rence Lackey and Roger Laughrldge. There Is a possibility, however, judging by political rumors today, that one more candidate will hop Into the four-cornered mayor's race before books close tomorrow, and possibly another candidate or two for the city council and school board. With less than two weeks time before the city election inter est is not as keen as in recent elec tions, but by next week It is ex pected that political activity will warm ud to a nonsidorahl#* Hpctpp Candidate* Tn. Candidates announced so far fol- j low: For mayor—S. A. McMurry, Z. J. Thompson, W. N. Dorsey, and R. Hope Brison. For alderman, Ward One: P. M. Washburn, D. Huss Cline and Rol and Holland; Ward Two: D. W. Royster and C. C Coble: Ward three: J. P. Austell C. H. Rein hardt and John Honeycutt; Ward Four: George D. Washburn. Durant Crowder and Will C. Harris. For school board: T. B. Gold, L. P. Holland. Thad C. Ford. J. L. Lackey and Roger Laughridge. Shakespeare Plays In City This Eve Matinee Performance This After noon And Another At School Tonight. The Dramatic club of Shelby high school has the honor of sponsoring two performances by the Shakes pearean Players of New York City at the local school this week. This company is an all-profes sional group that for many years has won recognition by producing Shakespeare’s works, and, for the past six years has traveled over the United States giving performances for the different high schools and colleges producing only Shakes peare's plays. The cast is all-star, with the well known James Hen dricksson and Claire Bruce playing the leads. The public will have the privi lege of seeing this group perform on Friday, the twenty-first of Ap ril In the high school auditorium. On this date there will be two per formances; the matinee will begin at 3:30 at which time the “Mer chant of Venice” will be given, and the evening show beginning at 8 o’clock will be “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” This is an excellent opportunity for the public to see professional actors In the well known works of Shakespeare. Big League Manager Sends Box Of Balls To Boiling Springs College Georg* Gibson, Of Pittsburgh Pir ates, Learns Son Of His Old Pal On Team. When the Boiling Springs junior college baseball team comes to Shelby Saturday to play the local All-Star outfit the collegians Will be using a box of baseballs pre* 6ented to them by a big league man ager. Recently the team received the box of balls from George Gibson, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National league, and there is a story behind It. Back in 1909 Manager Gibson was the star rarofrer of the PirT*|vu-~h < arr nnd the leading pitcher of the Pirates, who led the National league twirl ers that year was Howard Camnitz. Some tiny: ago Manager Gibson learned that his old pitching pal’s son. Howard, jr„ was a star in lielder on the college team in this county. He learned, too, that the college was somewhat "hard up’* in providing the necessary athletic equipment, and presto! along came the box oi balls as a remembrance of his association with Camnitz’ dad on the Pirate team of more than two decades ago. The collegians and All-Stars arc scheduled to start their game m the city perk Saturday ai :t n’rl/ir-Jc Contest Winner Charles Beam (above) young’ Folk ville agricultural' student. last night won the district speaking contest of the Future Farmers of America held at Harmony Farm Life school near Statesville. Beam won over si* contestants and there by won the right to represent Piedmont Carolina at the state con test in Raleigh in June. Only re cently the same youth won the Piedmont district livestock Judging contest at Charlotte and the privi lege of representing the district in the state contest at Raleigh. Polkville Youth Winner District Honors Will Represent Piedmont District1 In State Contest. Is Second District Victor}-. Charles Beam, ore of the out standing agricultural students at the Polkville high school, won his second district honors in two weeks last night when he took first place in the Piedmont district speaking contest for the Future Farmers of America. The contest was held at the Har mony Farm Life school, near Stat esville, and the Polkville youth won over contestants from six counties in Piedmont North Carolina. By virtue of his victory he will repre sent the district in the State con test at Raleigh and the winner of that contest will represent the State in the Southern and National con tests. Fifty schools were eligible for the contest last night and the entrants in addition to £oung Beam were: Warren Lowe, Bethel school, Cabar rus county: Argyle McLeod, Tay lorsville, Alexander county; Curtis Whitesides, Rutherfordton. Ruther ford county: Johnson Sanders, Sparta Alleghany county; Norman Hutchison. Harris, Rutherford coun ty. All the entrants were accom panied by their agricultural instruc tors, young Beam being accompan ied by Prof. E. L. Dillingham, of the Polkville school. Only recently the same youth won the Piedmont district livestock judging contest held at Charlotte and that entitled him to compete in the State contest for livestock judg ing at* Raleigh and the chance to go to the national contest Closing Exercises At Dover Mill School Closing exercises for the Dover Mill school begin tonight when the first three grades of the school will present the “Tom Thumb Wedding,'1 beginning at 7:15 there will be an aperetta entitled “Lost a Comet,” presented by the fourth and fifth grades, followed by a play “Quack, Quack,” presented by the sixth and seventh grades. R. F. C. Action On Banks Awaited; Signers Lacking Hoey And Eskridge In Washington Not Sufficient Amount Of First National Signed tlp.WHI Not Issue Preferred. About 175 depositors of the First National bank met, Wednesday aft ernoon and heard the re-organisa - tion plan explained by Clyde R Hoey, whereby the depositors are asked to waive 20 per cent of their deposits and accept their share of the money collected from the bank's $375,000 notes charged off as un collectible for the present. Stockholders Vote To Pay Following this there was a meet ing of the stockholders who voted unanimously to pay an assessment of $40 per share In order to rebuild the capital structure of the bank tn the re-organization scheme set up by the bank examiner. Mr. Wood. An adjourned meeting of the stockholders will be held Tuesday if necessary to act on further de tails in connection with the re opening of the bank on an unre stricted basis. The stockholders voted unanimously to issue $250. 000 preferred stock to the Recon struction Finance corporation, should this federal organization de cided to become a partner in the bank. Clyde R. Hoey and Forrest Esk «CONTINUED ON CAGE TEN.I Fanners To Get Loan Recording Fees Back Here Government Decide!) To Bear Ex* pease And Will Rebate. Many loans Sought. Cleveland county farmers who have secured crop loins from the government through the R. F. C. loan office in Shelby have around $300 in recording fees which will be refunded to thpm, it w'as announc ed today by F. T. Waggoner, field representative here. Last year the government bore the expense of recording the loan mortgages at the court house, but at the start of the loan season this year it was stated that the farmers securing loans would have to pay for thfe recording. As a result sev eral hundred farmers have already paid these fees along with others who were required to pay a fee for renewing their 1931 and 1932 mort gages. This week Mr. Waggoner was informed that the government and R. F. C. would bear this recording fee and as a result the fee money will be rebated. The loan office here has a record of the fees paid in and farmers who have secured loans are asked to come to the office and get their rebate. The total of fees to be rebate dwill run between $185 and $200 It is believed. Close On 39th. Between 900 and 1.000 Cleveland fanners have applied for crop loans. Mr. Waggoner said, and around 600 checks, averaging about $125 each, have already been received with others coming in. The office is how open only three days each week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the loan season will close Sat urday, April 29, therefore all who desire loans should apply before that time. Several application blanks are Incomplete not being properly signed by landlord or ten ant and those who have not signed should come in and do so at once so that the applications may be for warded to Washington. Revival To Begin At LaFayette St. Rev. J. Frank Armstrong Of Rutb erfordton. To Assist Rev, W. R. Jenkins. Revival services at the LaFayette Street Methodist church in Shelby will open Sunday, it was announced today Rev. J. Prank Armstrong. Meth odist pastor of Rutherfordton and a successful evangelist, will assist the pastor. Rev. W. R. Jenkins. Serv ices will be held each evening dur ing the week at 7:30 o'clock and will likely continue for two weeks. The LaFayette church considers It self fortunate in being able to se cure Rev, Mr. Armstrong for the services and a cordial invitation ts< ',\ie»Mled *h<~ public tf> Plan Temperance Drive On Sunday For This County Speakers Assemble Here Saturday . FIrit Concentrated Prohibition Drive lii County In V>ar» To R« Waited Sunday. Ministers of several denomina tions and lay speakers will pa*her in Shelby tomorrow afternoon to wage a united prohibition and tem perance campaign Sunday In be tween 50 and «0 Cleveland county churches in what wit Ibe the first organized temperance campaign of such magnitude the county has ex perienced in years. Tire meeting oi iht temperance speakers, at which final plans will be made for the Sunday campaign, will be held at. Central Methodict church at 4 o'clock Saturday after noon. On Sunday more than a score oi well known ministers and lay speuk-! ers will deliver temperance messag es in more than a half hundred i Shelby and Cleveland county church ! es. The movement, sponsored by the i Anti-Saloon league and actively supported by ministers of the city and county, has attracted much In terest in the county and the var- i iCOXTLNUMD ON t'AGK I-KN.I Jake McEntire Is Dead At Asheville former Shelby Resident And Son Of Billy MrF.ntlre Died Wed nesday. Funeral Today. Mr. Jake McEntire, aged 82 years, a native of Shelby, died Wednes day morning at his home In Ashe ville relatives here have been in formed. / Funeral services are being held today at Asheville, being delayed In order to permit children living in the north to attend. Mr. McEntire was the son of the. late Billy McEntire, lived here in: his boyhood and was well known to. many Shelby residents. He had. however, made his home in Ashe ville for 40 years or more. Among the survivors are 13 children anci two sisters, Mrs. E. A. Street rind Mrs Mary Jane Hughes, who live in Shelby. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Spangler, the , latter a niece of Mr. McEntire and Mrs. J. L. Stroup went to Asheville Wednesday. “Sugar Bowl” Will Open On Saturday "The Sugar Bowl," a new sand wich and soda shop for Shelby, will be open Saturday morning by John Stamey in the building adjoining the Carolina theatre. The new shop will specialize in sandwiches, cigars, cigarettes, etc. I ry Answering Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. , 1. In what city did Sarah -Bern hardt die? 2. Which state is called the Pal metto state? 3. How many electoral votes did Alfred E. Smith receive in 1928? 4. Who wrote the poem "Endymi on?” 5. Name the "Seven seas.” 6. What is the birthstone for Sep tember? 7. What is a “torch” singer. 8. What is Will Hays official pos ition? 9. Has a Roman Catholic ever held office as President of the U. S.? 10. Is mercury a metal? H. Who is next in line after the ' vice president for succession to the office of president? 12. Over what kingdom does Queen Salote rule? 13. What six states di dHerbert Hoover carry in the last election? 14. In what year was Alexander 2nd of Russia assassinated? j! 16. In iSouth Africa, what is a!; kopje? j t 16. What debts does the l). S. jf government owe to foreign nations?! 17. What Is the correct pronunci- c tion of the word “radio?” s 18. When does the fiscal year of | the U. S. government end? 19. What is the singular form of t ihe word data? , .•0 What rk*,v piy ij s»4nd tr>rV f Lindys Return to die Air I! i Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh pictured at Newark, N. J„ Airport just before they took off on a transcontinental flight. This v the tire! photo of the famous couple since the terrible tragedy that robbed them of their son, Charles, Jr. Colonel Lindbergh is making the flight on business connected with the aviation line to which he is technical adviser. 3 School Children Die In Bus Crash Fttlir OLhl'ik III HI toil Aw Tun . anil II... i.i.ie. »# School Buses Collide In Kownn County. By UNITED PRESS Salisbury. April 21,—A head nil collision between two Wood leaf school buses at 8 o'clock this morning resulted in the death of three school children Those killed were: Mary Broadway, 10. Frances Broad } way, 12, .•latere; and Curt I. Hartley, 12. One bus, which was empty, htt the other bus. loaded with SO school rhildrrn, on a blind curve about three miles from Woodleaf, Rowan county. Seventy One lo Be Sent To Camp From Cleveland On Next Monday rhpir Pay Will Bp $30 Per Month But 'Mott Of Money To Hr Sent Horne. J. D l.lneberger, director of un employment relief in Cleveland :ounly says 71 men will be sent to Charlotte Monday for physical el imination to be recruited for work n the national forests, the national varks and upon other public lands. Present plans of President Roose velt call for 250.000 men. Of this lumber the quota for North Caro lina Is 6,500. Recruits arc to be 18-25 years of ige, unmarried, physically fit for vorlt, will enroll for a period of six nonths, and who will allot a major soition or their pay to dependent •datives. The pay will be $30 per month. Each one will be supplied with ade juate housing, clothing, food, medi al care, and transportation from joint of enrollment to camp and •eturn to home, all without charge. Initial clothing allotment Is esti nated at $38 with additional al lowance for replacement estimated it $9, these estimates based upon irmy costs. Pick From Relief List There will be no. discrimination is to race or creed, but all must be (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN . U. S. Goes Off Gold Standard For First Time Since 1879; Market Up Movr To Adjust And Boom Market Levels. New York, April 21—The United States was frankly off the gold tandard yesterday Tor the first ime since specie payments were re tuned in 1879. The step was haued in many j uarters as a constructive move de igned to reduce the purchasing ower of the dollar, and conseqtient ! raise the price level, in a mow 3 bring the nation’s economic ma hinerv np,v rnor** into aorkina b ooing off the gold .standard means that the national currency, for the time being, is not redeem able In gold. Oold payments had been severely restricted since the banking holiday last month. but starting yesterday the govern itient announced definitely that it would cease licensing gold exports to'sup port the dollar in relation to other currencies, which definitely took the country off the gold standard. The gold standard is of practical importance chiefly in International trade, since gold is the only Inter- \ national standard or value. Cut j •H-QM-ntc xi ox t> ,»r.,K r|a», j British Premier In America Now By UNITED PRESS* New Vurk. April 21.—Prcmiei Ramsey MacDonald of England itnd an array of financial ami economic experts steamed Into American waters today to face as puzzling and confused situa tion as was ever met by any party of diplomatic negotiators. The liner Berengaria, bearing the British premier, his daugh ter and the experts, arrived within the quarantine at 10:30 and are scheduled to see Roose velt this afternoon. Rev. J. Frank Davis At Lutheran Church Rev. J. Prank Davis for some time, acting pastor of the Shelby Lutheran church, will return this Sunday for an all-day engagement. The hours of services will be: Sun day school, 9:45 a. m.; morning service, 11 o'clock; evening service, 7:30 o’clock. Pastor Davis is at present In charge of Calvary church, Concord.: Putnam Is Found Dead This Morn In Potato Shed Killed Hi* Neighbors Y esterday NhooU Down Bon Dellinger, Mrs. Dellinger Then fthmvt* Him self To Death. NATIVE OF COUNTY Cordle 7. Putnam. I.lnroln farmer, who yesterday killed (wo or his neighbors—Mr. and Mrs. Ben Dellinger—and lain shot himself—wan a native ot Cleveland county, being the son of the late Devine? Put nam. Two of hi* brothers and other relative* now live In thl county. The brothers are Will of the /oar section Just be low Shelby, nod 7,ay, of Ihr eonnty. By UNITED PRESS Lincoln ton, April SI.—C. 7. I'utnam. «<i, Mneoln county farmer, who shot and killed Ben Dellinger and Dellinger's wife, cclghbors of Putnam, late, yes "rday. was found dead In a po a to shed near hi* home early ■>f* morning. I^mal officers said Putnam cd a pistol to shoot him veil Itcongh the head. Officers and bloodhound* bunted Putnam for several hours Ust night arter he disappeared following the fatal shooting of hi* two neighbor*. Shot And Disappeared Lincolnton, April 31.-Be.1i Dei. Unger, 38. and his wife, (34. were shot to death in this county late yesterday afternoon by their/neigh bor V. Z. Putnam, who used a re peating shotgun in mowing them down before its withering blast. The shooting occurred about 6:30 o clock yesterday afternoon iti yh* eastern section of Linenin rrnmty about three miles from Lincolnton Three eye-witnesses were reported to have seen the tragedy. Feeding Cow* According to tfir story given out j by investigating officers, Dellinger had gone into his pasture after his rows when Putnam opened fire and j killed him. Mrs. Dellinger, hearing the shots, ran to her husband to see what had happened. As ah fled front the scene back toward; her house, she was slain. Putnam, according to the story told by officers after talking with neighbors and eye-witnesses, rat back to his house and went In t: front door. A few minutes later 'went out the back door and \ npt seen since until his body found today. Old Quarrel Officers said the boundary rti, nute between Dellinfcer and Pti nam was of several years’ standby and that there had been argument, before, but never a shooting. The' said that so far aa they could leatr at the time, no words preceded the shooting. Named as eye-witnesses were Mr and Mrs. Gaston Wise, and a ne-' srro. Putnam is married and has a grown son. Left fatherless and motherless by the shooting are thror Dellinger children. the younger only four montlis old. Cotton Holds Gain $2.50 Yesterday Market Settle* Down And Reacts Few Points Today. Stocks Also Steady. Commodity and stock markets to day settled down after two days of spectacular rise following the aban donment of the gold standard by the United States. In the first two days of trading, Wednesday anti Thursday, cotton had extreme sains of nearly $5 a bale but at 2:30 o'clock today. May was off 4 points from yesterday and October cotton ofr 8 points. There was some reaction yesterday from the high and for awhile buy ers were offering eight cents for good cotton, but today the Shelby market offered 7.2S to 7.79. Wheat had a gain of nearly six cente per buahel in two days after abandoning tire gold standard, but today it was holding around yester day's close. The stock market was steady. Pound sterling was quoted at 3.90 OTHER C1T\ AND l.OPAI. ypw> <w ft