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T UJM 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XX XIX, No. 60 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) «r Mall, par nw. lla rtwtwi - u.at Oarrlar. par rear {In advaaeai U» thnI tate News rBE markets Cotton. sP°l.8 3‘4 lo 9 3*8 u^gon (ton) $15.00 c*T l<* (ton) .*19.00 Fair Saturday Today * North Carolina Weather Report fair and slightly warmer tonight and Saturday. Negro Dies In Chair Today By UNITED PRESS Raleigh, May 19.—Dave McNair, porivam negro, waa electrocuted at State prison here today for the murder of Mrs. .1. W. McCown, wife A Guilford county filling station operator. He made no statement of ter entering the death chamber, hoi had previously confessed. Germany Accept* Plan On Arm* By UNITED PRESS Geneva, May 19.—The world-Vide srtns conference took a definite step forward today when Germany ac cepted the British disarmament plan which Roosevelt urged all na tions *« adopt in his peace message to the, entire world. New School Plan Delays Hiring Of County Teachers $t*te.Wide Eight Months Setup May Call For Change in Several Districts. Cleveland county school affairs. Including the appointment of new district committeemen and the employing of teachers, for next year, are somewhat up in the air for the i etc ri of n ilnrl eiloM. a t ♦ U ,, npw eight months setup are await* ?d Under the former system the county would have gone ahead with the passage of the omnibus bill and named one-third of the commit teemen ui each district, as is re quired each year, and these new committeemen would have joined with the old hoard members in em ploying teachers. But the new sys tem necessitates a delay. h has been the custom in this county to name a portion of the district committeemen each year as the terms of one-third of the mem bers expire annually. Ordinarily a special session of the county board would have been held, immediately after the passage of the omnibus bill, for this purpose and also to fleet a county superintendent The new state plan. however, calls for redistricting in that all ■fboots must operate eight months text year and some of the smaller schools will have to join in with iarger ones. For this reason com mitteemen will not be appointed Until the redistricting work is com pleted so that new portions of dis tricts will have the opportunity to bp represented on the committee boards. 1 H Grigg. county superintend *nt said today that he expects to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN ■ Methodists Hold 8*»bot« MnmoD Preaches At Palm Delegates Elected To Annual Conference. The people of the Palm Tree Methodist church in Cleveland county were hosts this week for two rtavs to the ministers and delegates o! the Methodist Episcopal churches *0 the Gastonia district. Approximately 125 delegates and Ml of the 33 Methodist ministers in ;h* district attended the district conference Tuesday and Wednesday tbls week ,and the hospitality of thf Palm Tree people made of it one of the most enjoyable confer ences held in the district recently. Reports for the first half of the fhurth year were given and oth*-r usmess transacted at the Tuesday session, among the other items be ing the election of 21 delegates and •°ur aiicrnates to the annual con ference. The main feature of the Wednes ' ^'ssion was the sermon preach ■_Py Bishop Edwin Mouzon The district this year is entitled more delegates than heretofore v“*u-s of an increase in mfmber dih m the churches of the district j 11 delegates elected were: A Kirby, c. A. Jonas, J. H. Ongg - B Ooodson. C. S. Lee, J. H. Se r~ l w- Pickens. E. D. Maynard a, H Pugh, Mrs. George Hoyle, M * E. A. Thompson, C. W ?“nter. George A. Hoyle, J. R A Y. McMurry, W. R. Ford p nJ- R- Nixon, Marshall Dilling _ 8 Armstrong and D. E. Aber s ^1V' The alternates elected were ' Thicham. O. S. Anthony. D. E Plato Elliott. • Plan Approved At Washington For Reopening First National Bank * * * * * 1 Union Trust And 4 Branches Will Open Monday Local Bank Will i Resume Business; No Restrictions Announcement It Heralded Here Sis In Good Liquid Condition Through Reorganization Plan. In Strong Liquid Position. Many Deposits Predicted To Be Made On Opening Day. The Union Trust Co. will posi tively open its doors for unre stricted business on Monday morning at 9 o’clock, it was of ficially announced at % o'clock today by Chas. C. Blanton, president and Wm. Lineberger. artive vice president. On Unrestricted Basin This opening includes the Union branches at Fallston, Lawndale, Forest City and Rutherfordton. The Union and its branches have been on restricted operations since the national banking holiday was de clared on March 6th. Since that time the bank officials have been i working faithfully on re-organiia tion plans which have been fully ap proved by the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation and the State Bank Commissioner Gurney P Hood of Raleigh. In the reorganization, stockhold ers pledged their stock to depositors who loaned fifty per cent of their deposits, acoepting the bank’s stock as collateral for a period of three years. Much of the banks’ unaccept able paper was charged out of the assets of the bank and new money put in. .Strong Liquid Position The Union is in strong liquid position. In fact it is seventy-five per cent liquid, having 75c in cash or quick assets for every *1.00 on deposit. In the normal run of busi ness a bank usually remains around 15 per cent liquid, but the Union opens in a stronger position finan cially than is required by law or 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN. I ! Sam Lattimore Now Chief Appraiser Of Federal Land Bank j Former Shelby Man Begins Work In New Office. Long In Land W'ork. Sam C. Lattimore. of Shelby and , Blacksburg and former state sena j tor from this district, was recently j appointed chief appraiser for the Federal Land bank of Columbia, the appointment coming from the Federal Farm Loan board. For the past three years Mr Lat jtimore has been manager of the Greensboro Joint Stock Land bank i with headquarters at Greensboro. ! Prior to his work in Greensboro he was appraiser for several land banks ! operating in the two Carolinas. He assumed his new duties on May 17 with headquarters at Columbia and his territory covers the two Easier To Get Mamed In N. C. Now And Easier To Get Divorce ‘Marry-At-Home'* Movement Help ful Slightly By Last Session Assembly. . Raleigh. May 19—It’s easier to get marriedand it's easier to get divorced in North Carolina now. That’s due to the 1933 legislature. Easier marriage were underway shortly after the legislators hove in sight for the beginning of the ses sion. House bills number 14 and 15, introduced by Rep. Thompsonson of Columbus and Wilson of Caswell, saw to that. Those measures—which caused quite a bit of agnation—repealed the five-day notice law, thus allow ing minors to be married without filing notice; and repealed the mandatory physical examination re quirements Under the old law, both the bride and groom were required to file physician's certificates showing they were free from contagious disease. The new law does not require any examination of the bride, and al lows the groom either to make an affidavit that hr is free from dls j case or submil to nhc examination All the marriage laws were sup ported on the grounds that lighten ing the restrictions would keep North Carolinians “at home” for marriage Instead of sending them to South Carolina cm- Virginia. Thomp son and Wilson represent border counties. Another bill of the marry at home” type was that which requires all couples marrying out of the state to file record of their mar riage in the home county of the groom- This also was enacted into law. r Divorce was made easier in two bills, both of which reduced from five to two years the required sep aration for divorce on such grounds One of them simply reduced the separation, the other allowed either party—whether the aggrieved party or not—to sue for divorce on those grounds. Another attempt to amend the state’s divorce laws was the Grady bill which would haye allowed a person to sue for divorce if the oth er party had been declared insane foi a period of in vears. This bill wat defeated in ihe bou.se. • - - Tulip Time in Holland, Mich. It. w tulip time in Holland, the land of windmill*. It is also tulip tin : In Holland. Mich., where, once a year, the residents of tbe quaint tov ,i cast off their American habits and return to the customs and attire of the land whence came their forebears to the New World. Here is s typical rroup, pictured in Dutch costume, admiring the blooms so reminiscent of old Holland. Law Prevents Change In County Valuation Wage Increase At Ella Mill Here ConsottdMed Textile Corporation Makes Ten Per Cent Increase At Fire Of Its Plants. A ten per cent wage increase will go into effect at the Ella Mill di vision of the Consolidated Textile Corporation here on Monday May 39th, it was learned this morning from Mr. H B. Miller. superintend ent. The Ella division here has about 200 employees who will be benefi ted by the wage increase The Consolidated Textile Corpor ation operates five mills in tire South and it is understood that the increase will be put into effect at all five plants simultaneously. The largest Consolidated plant is at Lynchburg, Va., witn 1,000 employ ees. The Burlington. N. C. plant has 150 and the plant m Georgia about 500. It is not known how many em ployees the fifth plant located in Texas has. Business among the textile cor porations is very gratifying and ail local plants are running full. Buy ers are rushing to get orders ac cepted in anticipation of further advances in textiles. MM«nic Meeting A meeting of Cleveland lodge 202 A. F and A. M. will be held at the temple tonight at 8 o'clock for work in the second degree. County Board Prohibited Prom M juaMng Unequal Property Val uation This Year. Other than the horizontal reduc tion o 1 35 per cent in ail property valuation in Cleveland county for taxes there will be no further ad justment In property valuation this year. Some weeks ago the county com missioners. hoping to adjust un equal property valuations as listed for taxes appointed a board of j equalization and appraisal to hear i complaints and make whatever ad j justment, it was announced today 'at the court house. A copy of the machinery act passed by the gen eral assembly of 1933 says that county boards "shall not increase ;of reduce valuation of real estate except in cases where, there are new buildings and improvements or in cause of worthy destruction or division. The board of equalisation and ap praisal was scheduled to meet at the court house Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week to hear complaints about unequal val uations. Now that the machinery acts prevents any adjustments ex cept in the specific cases outlined above there is no hope of making general adjustments this year Those, however, who had property destroyed or divided may appear before the board and present pleas tor reduction and those owing prop icontinued on '»or ras.i Try Answering These I Oan you answer 14 ot these test questions? Turn to page two for the I answers. I. Where did the Mennonites ori ! ginate? I 2. Name the largest, lake in South America. 3. In which Arabian city did Mohammad take refuge after his flight from Mecca? 4. Who wrote "Adam Bede"? 5. What does the name Inez mean? 6. Who was Mario Garcia Meno cal. 7. What is a civil list 8. In which city is the Arch of Titus? 9. Name the governor of Mary land. 10. What is George M Cohan s middle name? II. Who was the founder of the doctrine of animal magnetism? 12. Who was Sir Henry Clinton? 13. Where are the Tonga Islands’’ 14. Who is Emperor of India? | 1ft. Where is the Yser Canal? 16. Where was Fort Duquesne? 17 What is the relationship be twen the wives of brothers? 18. What geologic era followed the Paleozoic age? 19. What name was given to sailing vessels built with very sharp lines, raking masts. and great spread of canvas? 4 30. Name tht capital of Kansas. To Honor Huggins { In College Finals; Beginning Today j Memorial Scholarship Is Planned Bnilinjt Spring* Junior Cnlltp Cotn mrnrrmrnt Open* With Mtn4ent Recital Thi* Eve. The commencement program nl Bolling Springs Junior college, thie county, will get underway at the college auditorium this evening, be ing opened with the annual student recital Alumni Gather. Tomorrow, Saturday, evening the annual alumni banquet, one of the most colorful events of the finals program, will be held Prior to the banquet alumni will gather for a business session. A feature of the alumni meeting and banquet will be the inaugura tion of a movement to honor the memory of the late Prof. J. D. Hug gins, for many years connected with the school as Instructor, dean and president. It was said today that many alumni and students have suggested that a memorial scholar ship would be a worthy tribute to the educator who gave so many years at his life to the institution. Following up this suggestion alum ni, students and friends will be ask ed at the alumni gathering to make what contribution they may desire t/i a mnmnri a 1 tw>hn1 a eeh in ai iha school for worthy boys and gtrte. Sumner* Preaches. The commencement sermon will] be preached at the college Sunday morning at 11 o'clock by Dr. Sum ners, of Concord. On Monday night, the annual so ciety play, "Adam and Bvs." will be presented in the auditorium. The closing program of the school year will come Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock with the graduating ex ercises and the awarding of diplom as and medals Indications today were that the commencement program will be well attended as renewed interest has been shown In the school and its work this year 28 Seniors In Grad Class at B. S. College Nearly Every Part Of The State Is Represented. Clyde Whitesides Is President. With plans for commencement exercises being prepared the Boil ing Springs College Senior class is carrying on its work toward com pletion of class work. This year's class numbers 28 with representa tion from all parts of the state. The class officers are: Clyde Whitesides, president; Sara Lee Hamrick, secretary and treasurer. The class roll is as follows: Hilde gard Barnes, Mt. Holly: Harry Bean Rutherfordton: Beairix_ Blanton, Lattimore; Boyd Blanton Shelby; Gail Bridges. Boiling Spring*; Sue1 Borders, Earl; Vernie Cabmess, Lat timore; Marion Champion, Shelby; Howard Camnitz. Shelby; Hubert Dixon, Grover; Mamie Lou Foriney, Lawndale; Margaret Green, Char lotte; Myrtle Green, Cllffside; Ber ry Hamrick, Boiling Springs; J. L. Hamrick, Mooresboro; Sera L. Ham rick. Shelby; Jennie Sue Harrill, Bostic; Mary Helton, Cherryvtlle; Evalena Holland. Boiling Springs; Beth Randall, Kings Mountain; Mary Lou Richards, Ca&ar; James Raeburn, Lattimore; Ruby Robbins Caroleen; Harry Sells, Wilmington; Ruby Silver, Avondale; L. E. Snipes | Boiling Springs; Marvin Turner, j Harris; Durwood Whisnant, New i ton; Clyde Whitesides, Weavervllle; | Net Whitworth, Waco: Annie Lee ! Walker, Lattimore; James Wilson Lattimore ___ > McLarty To Preach Elsewhere Sunday Dr. E. K. McLarty. pastor > of Central Methodist church, will preach two baccalaureate sermons Sunday On Sunday morning he will j deliver the commencement sermon at. Rutherford college and on Sun day evening the sermon to the graduates at the Rutherfordton Spindale high school. During his absence the pulpit at Central Methodist church will be filled Sunday morning at 11 o’clock by Rev. R. M Courtney, presiding elder of the Gastonia district, and Sunday evening by Rev. J M Bar , her, of Polk villa. | Bank Opening Date Will Be Set Later; R. F. C. Loan To Blantons CONDENSED PLAN For RE-OPENING FIRST NATIONAL BANK A* proposed and approved by the Reconstruction Pi- ' nance Corporation and the 1?. S. Treasury Department (!) Depositors waive their right to 20% of all deposits and accept participation certificates to tie paid from $375,000 of the hank’s eliminated assets. (2> Stockholders to pay in to the bank $40 per share for each share of stock held. This will add $100, 000 to the bank’s assets. „ (3) C. C. Blanton and associates to accept $300,000 worth of charged off bank assets (real estate and stocks) taken out by the examiner. This will be transferred to the Shelby Loan and Mortgage Co. { now being organised by Mr. Blanton and associates. r They put in the Hotel Charles block of business * property fronting LaFayette, Warren and Morgan r streets and appraised at nearly $500,000. With this p as collateral, they borrow $550,000 from the Re- lf construction Finance Corp., and Lake $250,000 of t preferred stock in the bank and pay $300,000 for i the eliminated assets above referred to. This puts t into the institution $550,000 new money. i <*4) Those who had money in bank on deposit at fchc i i close of business March 4th and owe the bank a * note, may offset their deposit against their note as ' far as it will go, but they will not; be required to 1 do so. 0) When seventy-five per cent, in amount of depositors ! ; sign waiver agreement, it hinds all depositors. No depositors are in "preferred class,'’ except secured i public funds. , i (<r) Upon completion of this Plan the First National [ wifi have Capital (common stock) $250,000; Oapi- i tal (preferred stock) $260,000; Surplus and reserv-, c ea (approximately) $319,000. « Truce Reported In Warring Retween Japanese, Chinese t i 1 i l < By UNITED PRCSK Two lifniflrml developments In Mm an official but ssnguin | ary war between lapan and China today supported earlier ru mors that a truce had been ar ranged conceding the sover eignty el Manchukuo. The Jap anese spokesman at Tokio in dicated that Japan would sup port the Roosevelt peace pro posal if the United States and world powers would recognise the Great Wail aa the southern boundary of Manchukuo. advance Halted. By UNITED PRKRP Peiping, May 19—The Japanese, legation announced that the Japa nese advance had been halted and that an area of China proper the approximate sire ol New Jersey would be occupied pending "aaaur ances " Young People Plant Two Acres of Cotton j The Baptist Young Peoples Union of the Poplar Springs church has ! resorted to cotton growing as a means of raising money. Hie or ganisation recently planted two acres of cotton on the farm Of Mrs Bunyan Jones. They will cultivate, harvest and sell it as an organiza tion, to get money to carry on Chris tian work I A Small Tornado Hits Section Of Toluca Laurel Hill Church h Moved on It* P*l»rs. Bam Unroofed and Crop* Damaged. A small tornado did considerable damage In the Toluca section about 3 o’clock Tuesday sf’ernoon Laurel Hfll church near the Pink Crow store was moved star inches on Its pillars, the barn on the Peeler farm was unroofed and cotton, com and grain eonslderably damaged. In a stretch extending from Cesar toward Hickory the young crops were almost a complete loss and much will have to be planted over, according bo Information from that section. Many trees were uprooted and other minor damage dong Shelby Boy* Given Fore§t Army Offices Several other Shelby boys in the local contingent ot the forestry army have been given signal hon ors, according to Information re ceived here Matt O'Shields has been made company clerk of com pany 404. Banks Mauney is postal clerk and B D. Hulick Is squad leader. I f n c t ( $ I I t c « V V r c V t 8 ft P 1 Wallace Wants 10 Million Acres Cotton Changed To Other Crops t c t Would Cut Production Of Staple To Increite Price. Too Ute This Yew Washington, Mav 19—Secretary Wallace believes that 10,000,000 acres at the area now bqjng planted to cotton should be devoted to the other crops; that this country’s out put should be reduced in order to better the price 1 to the southern farmer. Under the new lartn act he has * choice of several methods to ap proach the problem only one of s’hich is mandatory, This one—the Smith option plan—requires that le give growers who want them, op tions on cotton on which the gov ernment has made loans, in return for pledges to reduce acreage at least 30 per cent . He la authorised to obtain title to ;he cotton in which fhe government nan a stake more than 2.000,0001 Tales—and olKi iht options *1 the: current market price. with the a grower having the right to exercise his option at any time up to Jan- r uary 1. The grower is entitled to obtain c an option from the pool in an j amount equal to the estimated pro- ] ductlon of the area he retires from c cotton raising. If the price declln- c ed, the grower would not be re- t sponsible for loss. That would have 8 to be a sorbed by Wallace's admin- t istration. c The theory of the plan, cham pioned by Senator Smith <D-8C> s is that with acreage reduction po- v tentlal supply of cotton would be « reduced and prices would rise. The t growers’ reward for acreage reduc- R lion would be thfe amount of this d rise. o Whether It can be used this year with about 70 per cent of the cot ton now planted, has not been de termined The art say-- the plan ran be used next year as welt. fi fa C Depositor* Hear Plan Today "•tatted Plans Mailed. Him Hew Wafcrwr*. May Apply rtepoatl* On Notra, ▼he plan lor (he aeorpawtaa Mon and reopening on an on reel nr ted haute of the Pint Na ttonal hunk which Ha* been r I nerd atnre the banking: holiday wee declared, ia being sabmltled today for the approval of de o«attor* and stockholder*. It. ta a plan suggested and ap roved by the Racouatructton Fi ance corporation and the U. S. reanury department through For est Eskridge, cashier, who return d this week Irons a ten day atay i Washington. There ha went be am the various boards after tak ig hts turn with htmdrsdn of other ankers and borrowers from all over he country As originally proposed and set. ap y Bank Examiner Wood soma meks ago when the hank was ex mined and nppralaad. it calls for he cooperation of stockholders, da rnel tors and the government. When wm It Open? "When will the bank optin'?" has een the dally question throughout he county. How that, approval of the plan” has been tanued from Washington, the date for the open ng of the bank depends on how ulckly those interested, sign the tecesaary papers agreeing to the >lan. Considerable detail is to ba one by depositors, stockholders nd banking officer.* before the pairing can be made. A tentative at*, however. has been set for tine 10. St should certainly be on hat date or not ovej, a week later. ChsiW* In The Plan The one outstanding change made rom the original plan Is for the ank to accept $300,00 In cash from '. C. Blanton and associates for the 300,000 worth of real estate and lock eliminated from the bank's ssets when the bank examiner ap raise dthe assets In April. It was Irst proposed that Mr. Blanton and ssociates take over the $800,000 barged off assets and give thetr ote to the bank, bat tnstosd, Mr, eONTtNtUCD ON PAG* TWN I . Same Law Under W System For bounty And N. C. Lepraaantattve Oaednar introduced Bill Tn Abolish Officer Were. Wad pUled. in ltotuig, In Wednesday's Star. ie legislation introduced In the re wit general assembly by Jtepres ntative Ernest Oardner one bill as overlooked. That, was the one 'hlch would have abolished the of ice of game warden In Cleveland ■>unty and exempt the county from svlng to pay a hunting license This bill was, however, killed by ie committee and the old state a me law waa renovated, or rather new state-wide game law enact a. Copnnission Here Under the provisions of thus new iw. according to Representative lardner, Cleveland county will have game commission. This oommis lon will be composed of three men -the chairman of the county com aissioners, the clerk of superior ourt and a third man who will be he game warden or a citizen ap ointed by the state board of con ervation and development The specific duty of this com ilssion will be to supervise the ox enditure of a definite sum of the nnual collections from hunting li enses for the purpose of control! ig predatory birds and animals, ■ive per cent of the first $25,000 ollected; ten per cent of the sec nd $25,000 and fifteen per cent of he sales in excess of $50,000 are set side for this purpose, the stipula lon that each county is to get one. ne-hundredth part of this fund. For the purpose of establishing jasons for taking game, the stats fas divided into three acmes, ths •estern zone being composed of lleghany. Ashe, Watauga, Avery, litchell, Yancey, Buncombe, Hen erson and all counties to the west t these; the central zone extends om the counties named eastward i include Warren, Franklin. Wake, hatham Lee Moore and Rtch nnd end the eastern /one takes i all to eaol ol the central zone.