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Late News Toda' <■ North C'ar®Una Weather rt jair tonight and Saturday, temperature. freight Train Is Derailed In N. C. it, i \rrri) press Ralfi?h, April 28.—Twenty-five | „ of a Southern frright train; ^rrtumed at Morrisvitle near Ra Several cars burned, vlth fire starting in an oil car,! )hf .southern railway office report-; „j ^ number of hoboes on the] n< re reported as being injur- j ”.. 3 Percent Sales Tax Is Approved By State Senate loiton M*’1 . ,fri. «*tnn lon «rr<l. e»r IoM ,on 1.25 to 7.15 812.0P $14.00 fair Saturday Mnuid Force Merchant To Paso Tax nn To Customer. Leave Cheap Clothes In, tj4U igh April 28.—By a one-vote ...arr.t; t i’.c senate last night adopt* ri the ‘ales tax section of the bien nlat revenue bill anti a moment 1s •pr passed the bill on first reading by accepting the report of the com mittee of I he v hole. A fee moments, earlier, the senate had voted 25-22 for the finance rjirml'ier amendment, which boost •d the sales tail from the house fig ire of " per cent to 3 per cent. Sen ator Hinsdale of Wake, luxury tax xrfvocate. voted for the three per mt amendment but switched on be vote for adoption of the section add the vote on that point was 24-23. No difficulty was experienced in adoption of the Waynick amend ment which would require the com missioner of revenue to devise ways which merchants must pass on the aies tax Failure of a merchant to pass on the tax would be a misde meanor,. Tire Griffin amendment, seeking ■n exempt certain cheap articles of ood ard clothing from the levy, *as dfteated 22 to IS. Three other amendments of like nature were ■ ithdrawn. as was the Hill proposal 'o erem.pt from sales taxation the 'irst *2 400 receipts of merchants. Defeat Luxury Tax. Before considering the general vw tax, the senate defeated the Hinsdale selected commodity tax by » "ote of 27 to 21. It then defeated 'he Clement one per cent produc >!on tax by an overwhelming ma turity, A' the house is not expected to concur in the senate amendments— *nich include reduction of corpora 'wn franchise taxes below the house CONTINUED ON PAG* BJ.i College To Hold May Day Program On Sat. May 6th R-ihn^ springs Students Will Crown v,i’' D*een In Brilliant May Festival. * May Day festival and program, siiich will center about the crown I of the college May Queen, will held on the Boiling Springs jun nr C0,,eSe campus on Saturday aft 'moon. May 6. at 5 o’clock. The festival will be based upon Alice in Wonderland theme and ■'oout 50 or 60 high school and col f‘Se students will participate in the ‘olorful program which is directed ro Miss Rosalie McMurtrey, of the '0|e?e faculty. The principal fea ^ Ul11 the crowning of Miss ‘ ®rBar*t Green, of Charlotte, as ,°‘ ^a-v Queen, but the general ‘Mural will include the Maypole Mher dances. ^ The festival will be held on the 'onipus at the main public and the ecneral public invited to attend. Particularly parents and relatives students and high school grad w °f Cleveland and adjoining wunties Relief Quarters Put $4,000 In Circulation ^4fcou: $jooo will be paid to the ^ ‘fnaiv of.the county this month ■w, rellcf department, so an 'crrl j, d. Lincbcrger, director _ ' niorm?ig. This money goes to or n>crchandiae furnished un 2^ ;,ml destitute families. Mr. rh!j?rger “ anxious that mer 0j „,uS *et ®U bills in by the first ,,K' e month in order that this f v nu»h$ get into circulation. . 'Vi“* Caroiina Store. h Bai'nett came here this " Morgan ton to assume . managership'of the Carolina r ,! Rarnett. who was con ''i 1 n thc Carolina store at was formerly with ft*.,/.'’ ""r- boiv'> tn bring his j~ '• ”'r 'n Urp < --- T »Alif dm _ MEWMMMD » IM« 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 51 SHELBY, N. C. -^L.L.1- . FRIDAY. APRIL 28. 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) .JUJU ■SWWI hj Mm i»i mi, Carrier. per real. Iln «c*»tic»i a».i> (in adtaneai fj.pi City Election Drive i I In Home Stretch Now ! Week-End To Bring Added Interest Interest Grown In Ballot Battle Only Tiiror Days Off But En thusiasm lacking. Four candidates for mayor of j Shelby and an even dozen bidders i for the four seats on the city coun-: '< cil today were prepared for an in-' tensive week-end drive to win votes j in the city's biennial municipal elec- j tion which will be held Tuesday. The candidates for mayor are S, i A. McMurry, present mayor; Z. J. | Thompson, alderman and mayor i pro tem; W. N. Dorsey, former may ! or; and R. Hope Brison, business man. The candidates for alderman, with a three-cornered race in each ward, are: Ward One—P. M. Wash burn. D. H. Cline and Roland Hol land: Ward Two—D. W. Royster, C. C. Coble and P. E. Brooks: Ward j Three—J. P. Austell, C. H. Rein- , hardt and John T. Honeycutt: Ward j Four—George Washburn, Durant) Crowder and W. C Harris. Old rep Missing. It may be because public interest I is centered in the two B’s—banks and beer—or it may be tor other causes, but the old pep, heat and enthusiasm customary in Shelby municipal elections for many years is missing at this time. During the last few days with the ballot battle less than a week off new interest is evident, but it is still far below par. It is likely that week-end activity on the part of candidates and their friends will have things steamed up by Monday, but unless such happens or unless voters are saying little but (CONTINUED ON PAG* TEN | Dorsey Not Against | Cows, Hogs In City j Former Mayor Now In Race Again ' Explains Policy On Sanitation Within City. * Conditions today are so changed from those of three or lour years ago that regulations of that period are automatically altered to suit conditions, according to W. N. Dor sey, a former mayor who is a can didate in Tuesday’s election. During Mr. Dorsey's first term in office he established quite a record for improving sanitary conditions. In fact, sanitation was one of his hobbies. At that time he enforced the city ordinance which forbade the keeping of cows and hogs with in the city limits. In a statement today, however, he said that condi tions have so changed that he would not follow that policy now if elected. He explained that with the depression and unemployment situ ation many families would be un able to make ends meet unless they could keep cows, hogs and chickens. There will be no objection from him he said, if they are kept in so long as citizens keeping cows and hogs keep their premises as sanitary as possible so that they will not be termed nuisances by neighbors or draw the attention U the State Health Department. In his final public statement of the last cam paign week he declared that he would engage in no last-minute tnud-slinging with liis opponents but merely wished to clear up his views on the sanitation matter as numerous people, keeping or desir ing to keep cows and hogs, had questioned him as to his policy. He also added that he would not make a personal canvass of the manu facturing plants of the city as he would be unable to meet all employ es if he did so and did not wish to show impartiality by meeting some and not seeing others. 64 Young Men Off For Examination To Enter Forestry On* Negro Is In The First Quota To Leave. Will Work Is PH pah National Forest. 1 _____ j —‘ | 'Hie first load of Cleveland coun i ty boys who are to enter forestry | work faile dto go the first of this week, due to the rush at the re cruiting station in Charlotte. Cleve land’s first assignment, consisting of sixty-four boys will leave Mon day for the army recruiting station at Charlotte to undergo the medi cal examination that is required of them before entering the training camp at Fort Bragg. J. D. Llneberger, local relief di rector and his assistants were very busily whipping things into shape Wednesday afternoon. The boys are to call at the office for cards ana final Instructions Monday, prior to going to Charlotte later in the day. Out of the three negro appli cants, only one was accepted. After the first weeks of training the majority of this county's boys: will be sent to Pisgah ForeEt to work. Numbers of applicants were turned down, and some did not ap pear for examination at the relief here. The load leaving Tuesday, May 2, completes this county’s first quota. Another assignment may be made later. List Of Workers Those going from this county are; Robert M. Johnson, 509 South DeKalb St.; Barry Richard Stone, of Kings Mountain; William Bruce Dobbins, of Shelby route 2; Enel Francis McSwain, of Shelby route 2; Harris Lowrance, of Shelby, route 3; A. L. Devine, of Cherryvllle, route 4; William Henry Littlejohn, of Kings Mountain; Tilden L. Mc Kee, of Shelby; Jessie Leo Caldwell, of Kings Mountain, route 1; Han nabel Onesby, of Grover, route 2; W. Lee Wall, of Shelby; Winford Jimereon, of Grover; Ed Berry, of Shelby; James Cully Short, of Kings Mountain, route 4; James Russell McAbee, of Kings Moun tain, route 4; Robert Dewey Hard ing, of Kings Mountain, route 2; Richard Jolley, of Shelby; Ralph Elps, of Shelby; Robert Lee Reid, of Shelby; Woodrow Wilson Laugh ter of Kings Mountain, route 1; Dewey Olan King, of Kings Moun tain, route 4; David Franklin CONTINUED ON PAG* TEN Open New Airport In City Saturday Henry Byers, Shelby Pilot In Charge. Planes Coming; For Week-End Program. Shelbys newest airport, which is ! planned as permanent, will be open ed tomorrow, Saturday, just south of town, it was announced today by Henry Byers, local aviator who has charge of the field. The new landing field is located on the L. A. Jackson farm about 2 miles south of the court square near the railroad in the Lily mill sec tion. Saturday D. C. Martin, of the Carolina Airways, Greenville, will come here with several planes for the opening of the new field. There will be various plane performances both Saturday and Sunday with a parachute jump Sunday afternoon by a one-armed parachute dare devil. Old Employment Service Method Is Junked For New By Frances Perkins j Labor Secretory Tears Up Republi can-Created Machine In Fav or Of Another One. Washington. April 28.—Secretary Frances Perkins has junked the Re publican-created federal, employ ment service in favor of a new ma chine fashioned after the Wagner bill which was vetoed in 1931 by President Hoover Miss Perkins said in making known her intention to abolish the more than 100 employment offices scattered over the country, except the veterans and farm labor divi sions. that the service had “proved to be too unsatisfactory to warranf continuance.” . Two Principles Cited In outlining the new service the labor secretary said these two prin ciples would he toiler cd • That the dlroe* operation "I public PoipipvmeD' oitlcf.*- !- bes* ;done by the state and local govern | ments. "That the function of the federal j government is to assist the state and local governments to develop and maintain and expand adequate employment services with high standards and common procedures and to weld them together into an effective nation-wide system.'’ Instead of the present 48 state ' directors, with some 100 direct ! placement offices, Miss Perkins will have a dollar-a-year director in each state to coordinate state and federal activities, and to "clear lab or among the states and collect re liable and comparable information with respect to the demand for and supply of labor. Several regional clearing houses with field supervision are planned with a national advisory < ounc-t! i representing employers and em- . plov«33 also to be jr-t up, i t. New Kahn Bride Meet the new Mrs. Roger Wolf* Kahn. the former Edith May Nelson, who. like her husband’s firs! | wife, was a Broadway musical com edy star. She became the bride oi Roger Kahn, son of the New York financier, just seventy-two hours , after he had been divorced by his i ‘cheerful little earful,” Hannah I Williams, at Reno. Urges Isolation Of Tuberculosis Cases In County \ Dr. Parker And J. D. I.meberger In Charge Of Health Program. Give Surprising Farts. Isolation of active* tuberculosis cases in the county was urged last night at the Klwanis club by Dr. S. P. Parker and J. D. Lincberger who had charge of a health pro gram. Startling facts were given as to the prevalence of tuberculosis and syphilis, both of which can be cured or arrested if taken in time. “In Biblical times, leprosy was the most dreaded disease. The ‘un clean’ lepers were isolated or mark ed with a bell so that the clean peo ple could avoid them. Yet leprosy is not as contagious as tuberculosis and right here in Cleveland county we have active cases an>*ng chil dren who sit In a close school room | with well children, thus exposing! them to the dreaded disease,” said Dr. Parker. Both Mr. Lineberger and Dr. Par ker suggested that the buildings at the old convict camp be moved to the county home and there set up a clinic for the treatment, of active tuberculosis cases. They urged that the active cases be isolated and that the patients be given a few weeks care and Instruction as to how to prevent its spread to others. CONTINUBD OX »AQ* TEN « Mr. Waldrop Begins Eastside Revival Rev. S. E. Waldrop will begin a two weeks revival Sunday at the Eastside Baptist church of which he is pastor. There will be preaching each evening beginning at 7:30 o’clock continuing through May 13. Mr. Waldrop Is just back from con ducting a successful revival at the Lowell Baptist church. Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. Where on the earth's surface is the maximum speed of rotation at tained? 2. Is the word “deer’' singular or plural in form? 3. Who was Themistocles? 4. Where was Mary Garden born? 5. Who is John Masefield? 6 In what year did James J. Jeffries retire as neavyweight box ing champion? 7. What is the common name for the American ground squirrel? 8. Do coal ashes have any fer tilizer value? 9. Who was Theodoric the Great? 10. Where are all U. S. postage stamps printed? 11. What name is given the sur vey line between Maryland and Pennsylvania? 12. Where is Lapland ’ 13. What is chive? 14. What heavyweight boxing champion held the title longest? 15. .What pass between Theslay and Locris is famous in ancient Greek history. 16. Which president refused to ride with his successor to the cap itol? 17. Wliai is the telegraph code for the signal SOS? 18. Who are eligible to member ship in the Order of the Eastern 19. What son of a president him-i self became president of the tj. s e; '0. Whetp are ih* Jura moun tain.' ' i Star? Duke Foundation' Gives $26,352 To Hospital In 9 Yrs. Based On Charity Patients Over .Vvfn Millions Given To Ho*, pits*l<* And Orphanage* Since Foundation Startrd. Appropriations of the Duke Foun dation for hospitals and orphan ages in the two Carolina.* since the Duke Foundation was established j amount to *7,114.658, according to figures released this week by Dr. W S. Rankin, director of the hospital and orphans section of the endow- j ment, , j • inr aneioy not.piun nas receiver! • $35,452 in the past nine wars. The: amount is determined by number | of charity patients the institution car?s for each year Usually the [ basis is *1 per clay for each charity! patient. Burke county received *95.503 in; the nine years the Duke foundation ! has been established. Rutherford i county received *57,923, Gaston I county *6,212, Mecklenburg county ; received $*49,135 in the nine years ' “Cricket” Weathers Given High Honors County Boy, Athletic Star At Caro lina, Tapped First For Covet, ed Golden Fleece. Chapel Hill, April 28—Governor John C. B. Ehnnghaus an alumnus j who delivered the principal address and ten students were tapped for membership in Golden Fleece, lead ing honor society at the university at impressive ceremonies held here' last ntght in Memorial Hall. Ten students were tapped. the first tapped being Virgil atone Weathers, of Shelby Selection Xor membership in the Fleece, second oldest honor society in the nation, which observed its thirty-first tapping last night, is based on character, leadership and excellence in one or more uni-j versity student activities. Governor Ehrtngliaus was the first to be pounced upon The black robed and hooded figures moved slowly up and down the alles as they singled out those honored After the tapping ceremony, Gov- i emor Ehringhaus and President Frank Graham were honor guests at a banquet given for old and new members in Graham memorial Governor Ehringhaus th his address which preceded the tapping stress ed work, ideas and ideals as the fundamental la\Cs governing the progress of mankind. Young Weathers, better knonn here as “Cricket” is a graduate of Lattimore high school and for sev eral summers has played baseball with Shelby clubs. He Is a basket ball and baseball star. His first year at Carolina he made the AU Southem basketball quint and was picked on the second All-Southern last, year. He Is second baseman and one of the leading hitters on the baseball team this year. He also ranks high in scholastic work and his last year at Lattimore in addi tion to captaining the basketball quint he won the Hoey oratorical contest and other honors. Negro Pupil* Will Give Play Tonight Tonight the citizens of Shelby will have the opportunity to wit ness an excellent production which will demonstrate the dramatic abil ity of the negro pupils of the Cleveland high school. The play which is to be presented Is entitled "The Path Across the .Hill.” The students who are to take part have been working diligently to make it a success, and it is expected that it will be very entertaining. The play has been given once at the Cleve j land high school, and proved to be such a success that the Dramatic club of Shelby high school has de cided to sponsor it in order that the public may enjoy It. The play will be given at the Shelby high school, at eight o'clock tonight, and the admission is ten cents. High School Band In Greensboro Now Around VS Shelby high school students were in Greensboro yes- ■ terday and today to compete in the state-wide music contests. In the group were the school band, orches tra, trios and soloists who won their way to the state contest by winning first places in the district contest held here last Saturday. The band played in the contest yesterday and according to reports made an ex cellent impression. Decision.' and awards in all contests will cot be announced, however until live o'clock (hie afternoon t Candidate for Derby Honors ••Crowning: dory," Mr*. John Hay Whitney's entry for the Blue Chum classic, t.« l>o run at Churchill Down*, May 6. He is the son of Black Toney—Fmeur. Hi* stock aa a Derby candidate rose considerably aa a »e«ii1i of hi* victory in the Hyde Park Stakes Rush Troops To Keep Judge From Violence Attempt To Hang Judge In Inna Became Of Farm Foreclosure* Other Late H«*hp*. I By united pressn lie* Moines, Iowa. April 18 — Governor Herrin* today pro claimed martial la* in Plymouth county where 200 guardsmen had been ordered a* a result of farm unrest and attempt* of masked men to hang Judge C. Bradley at Eemars last nithl. The attempt wav termed a protest against the. jurist's mortgage foreclosure activities. Judge Bradley was reported as recovering today from the at tack. ANOTHER BONUS DRIVE By UNITED PRESS Washington, April 28. — House Democratic leaders it was learned today will shortly pmee the issue of immediate soldier bonus payment squarely up to President Roosevelt for a decision. INFLATION FIGHT. The administration was in a fin ish fight today to protect the cur rency inflation bill against a Sen ate rider authorizing a cash bonus payment of more than two billions j Anti-bonus Senators contend it will j defeat the whole purpose of the in flation program. FRANCE TO DEFAULT By UNITED PRESS Parks, April 28—France will de fault the war debt payment to the United States on June 15, unless former Premier Harriott return from Washington with deftnite as-1 surance that America is willing to rewrite debt agreements, it was in dicated in French government cir cles today. HUNGER STRIKE By UNITED PRESS Birmingham, April 28,—A break was believed imminent here this morning in the rebellion of the nine Scoots boro negro defendants as pangs of hunger from 18 foodless hours were apparently driving the negroes to submission to jail regu lations against wheih they revolted late yesterday. ANOTHER JAP DRI VE By UNITED PRESS Peiping. /gnril 28.—Japanese troops launched a terrific offensive agalmst Chinese entrenched at Nan tlenmen, north of Peiping, today /he Japs threatened to continue to PieplnR if Ihe Clfi/i/se opened a counter attach Two Wreck Injured Still In Hospital Walter Kale \nd .1. R. WHght Do Inn Tstrly Well. Two Kflled In Wreck. I _____ Two of the people injured in the! i auto wreck Sunday between Oherry ! vllle and Shelby are still in the Shelby hospital. They are Walter III. Kale, who suffered a fractured ! leg and other injuries, and J. B. ! Wright who had his hip dislocated [and his head and body lacerated. Both were said to be doing fairly well and although painfully Injured are not thought to be seriously hurt. ' Two died from Injuries received in the same crash. They were Mrs. J. Walter Lindsay, of Bostie, and Jesse Jones, of Shelby. Negress May Live After Knife Wouiid A negress by the name oi Black who was severely cut In a knife battle in the Truelove alley Satur day night will likely recover, It was learned today. TTie Black wom an and Claudie May Buggs were cut, it Is said, by Inez Eskridge, a county home inmate who was up town Saturday night. The Buggs woman was stabbed in the back but not seriously hurt. The other wom an was cut about the heart and over I the week-end it was feared she might not recover if pneumonia de veloped Buy County Bond At Low Price, Saving Clevelan dcounty saved approxi mately $631 in principal and Inter est this week by buying in a $1, 000 county bond, Troy McKinney, county accountant, s«Vl today. The bond was a $1,000 No. 8 township road bond which was to have ma tured in 1941. It was purchased at the low price of 76 1-2 or for $765, thus saving *235 plus eight years interest of $296. Beer Hijackers Already At Work In State; Brew Cache Is Found Bandits in Throe Autos Take Truck Of South Carolina Beer. Arrest One. Henderson, April 28. -Badns in three automobiles hijacked a truck load of South Carolina bound beer near here Wednesday, but a few hours later one man was jailed when police found a cache of brew at a storehouse at his home. The man arrested was Garland Johnson of Henderscn, and he re mained in a cell after he failed to produce $5,000 bond. R, y. Pruitt, of Easley, S. C„ was j driving the load of 115 cases of 3.2 back from Washington when, he said, three automobiles forced his truck off the road as he neared Henderson, several imn with pistols Ipaped out., look hi.. truck atvf d'wr i off Frijiu »«,. lc-r t '.l anding tn the _ t road with his wife and James Hol combe, who were traveling with him. The three walked five miles into Henderson, and reported the affair to police, who immediately set out on an investigation. Ir. a few hours, officers located a storehouse at. Johnson's home here, and in the building they found brew which, they said, tallied exactly w-ith a de j seription of that stolen Johnson said the beer had been I bought in Baltimore and hauled to his home by himself. He denied any ; knowledge of the hijacking. Pruitt’s truck was found abandon | ed five miles south of here, and of i ficers said the beer evidently had been loaded to another truck and Pruitt's left by the side of the road * Pruitt r>« np<1 the truck aPH itvt'TtNttkiJ y# fau* Uh» Beer Sale Legal Here Monday; To Get Permit Today Issuing Temporary License Today County Bonn) Will Pa,in Formerly On Application* Monday, tl Seek Permits. Bom with an alcoholic content of 3.2 percent, something that, has not been sold or consumed legally m Shelby and Cleveland county tn al most, two decades, will go on sale In the city and county, at approxt mately a score of places Monday Today the last details and regu lations were being adjusted here and by tomorrow evening numerou* dealers will be all net to supplv what demand there may be for the lager when the legal hour arrives Sunday midnight. There were some reports today that one or two places which will sell beer may open for the first rush trade just after midnight Sunday, but the roaJorUy of the dealers, it is believed, will not open for beer trade until their regular business opening hours Monday morning License TuU; At the county court houae today it «u announced that temporary licenses were ready to he issued this afternoon and tomorrow to dealers so that they might be left ally prepared to begin sales early Monday. The county board docs not hold its regular session until Mon day at which time the application’' for licenses will be paSsed on But so that dealers will not have to wait until Monday afternoon for the board meeting a temporary 11 danse will be Issued today and Sat urday. Dealers will pay the regular license charge for these permits and sell beer Monday. At the board session Monday the commissioners will take up the formal applications and pass upon them, having the right to revoke the temporary pet mtts issued today and Saturday The requirements for legal setting license are somewhat strict m or der to keep tlaa' baas. huatnsan 'an a high plane and the commissioners It is reported, will give close nt tention Monday to the applicants Prospective beer dealers within the city limits of Shelby must first .secure city beer permits before se curing county permits. At the court house today It was stated that the regulations required that dealer.1 t within the limits first apply at the ; city- hall, according to law, and iCONTINIWD ON CAOIH T*K Monday Last Day To Avoid Larger Penalty On Taxes Count; Ha« Around 1*0,000 Of I MI l-evy To Collect And City About 134,000. Sever*] thousand dollar* In city and county taxes will likely be paid In Shelby Saturday and Monday by taxpayers who hope to avoid the additional delinquent penalty be ginning May 1 on unpaid 1933 tax es. The additional penalty on the county taxes will 30 or Tuesday morning, it was stated at Sherift Raymond Cline’s office this morn ing. This means that those who pay their taxes either today. Saturday or Monday will have to pay a pen alty of only two per cent. It Is ex pected that a considerable amount of taxes will be paid Monday since it Is first Monday and many coun ty residents will be in town duririR the day. There was approximately *90.000 of the 1932 taxes unpaid when Sheriff Cline entered office the first of this month and since then this amount has been reduced to approximately $70,000. Over $05,000 Of the $99,000 city tax levy for 1932 has been paid, leaving around $34000 yet to pfty. The additional penalty will go on this amount May 1 and taxpayers who can do so are urged to make their payments so as to avoid the larger penalty. Rnals At Grover To Open This Eve Commencement exercises at the Grover high school will be ushered in this evening with the class day exercises to be held in the high school auditorium. The baccalaur eate sermon will be* delivered by Rev. L. L. Jessup in the Grover Baptist church Sunday evening and the exercises will be concluded Mon day evening when the literary ad dress will be made to the graduate and rtmlomas presented hy Supertjv tenor.’! Hyde Brwirt of Pother fdrdton.