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ETIJ e le W r E Hi M g I a f S 10 PAGES TODAY l- - - VOL. XXXIX. No. or* SHELBY, N. C FRIDAY. JUNE 9. 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) ... .—■ '■.■■■ 1 " .. .. ('* Moil oaf yeai (to advancai (3 .*< •nrrfaf per »«»i iln ■<1*»no»t i3.0* Late News the markets spots - --9 to 10c ^ed fwagon) ton - 17.00 jefd (car) ton --- 19.00 Showers Coming Today's North Carolina Weather : Local thundershowers to njC!ii or Saturday. Not much change j„ temperature. Kill Prisoner In Tennessee By UNITED PRESS Knoxville. June 9.—Armed men 'forced their way into the Srotl county jail last night and carried off Jerome Boyatt and Harvey Win chester, prisoners being held foi milder. The body of Winchester rid dled with bullets, was found today near the lluntsvitle-Helcnw ooc highway. Boyatt is unfound as yet. Mattern Flying Route Again By UNITED PRESS Moscow. June 9.—Jimmy Mattern r. n ri-the-v er'd solo aviator, tool off from the airport at Krasnoyark s her >. at 11:1:'. a. in. today, Mox ecu’ time, or 2:55 a. m., C. S. T. after a five-hour ston to refuel am complete repairs to his damage! pi in-. He was headed for Khaba pnsk Frank Mauney Is Dead At Home In Mo., Bury Today Sort Of Late Mark M. Mauney Diet Wednesdayr Relatives At tend Funeral Frank Mauney. sr., Clcvelant county'native and prominent rail road man of Missouri, died sudden iy at his home at Jefferson City Mo.. Wednesday afternoon about ' o'clock, according to informatipt received by relatives here. Mr. Mauney visited in Shelby an< the county last year and at th< time was in ill health,: but he irn proved after returning to Missour ■•nd had resumed his work. Deatl came suddenly from heart trouble. Funeral There Funeral services are being held a leffprson City today. Among thi local relatives who left Wednesda1 night to attend the funeral wer, Messrs, S. S.,; Grady and .M. M Mauney and Mr. and Mrs. Jin Harris. Tire deceased was the son of thi late M. M. Mauney, for years conn >v commissioner and one of Cleve land’s; leading citizens. He had beei living in the West for 25 years o more and had risen to be one o that state's most respected and sue cessful business men. In his imme chare family he is survived by hi widow and a son, Frank, jr. In this section the followini brothers survive: Messrs. Zeb C., £ S. W. W. and Bailey Mauney. Sur viving half brothers and half sis ters are: Mrs. Anderson Green, Mrs Wilbur Simmons, Mrs. Fred S1m monj, Mrs. Dathia Spangler, Mrs Gliivous Spangler, Mrs. Ed Grigg Grady Mauney M. M. Mauney an< Hubert. Mauney. Surviving also 1 his stepmother. Mrs, M. M. Mauney sr Fry Answering These Can you answer 14 of these tes questions? Turn to page two for th answers. I Who owns Bedloe Island ii New York harbor? 2. Name the furthest north U. £ poet office. 3. How many grains of pure goli floes a U, S. gold dollar contain? * Did Calvin Coolidge leave th territory of the U. S. during hi term of office as president? 0 Do peanuts grow under o Above the ground? 6 What article of food Is mos frequently mentioned in the Bible ‘•'Is Kentucky officially desig na,,’d a state or a commonwealth? S How many times was Mar; IDber Eddy married? 9 What was the name of the cit; b‘ft)re Constantine the Grea changed it to Constantinople? 10 Where Is the Colorado stat coO’ge of agriculture? II What, language Is the nam Eva? *2 Was President Garfield owmber of the Masonic order? U. How many elements are rec d by chemists? If- From what are sausage cas ,f5:: made? 1 What is an orthodontist? 16 Name the governor of Mis *ouri: D Which state is nickname "Iodine State”? 18 How old was President Jame A Garfield when he was assassin a feel? 1? What river forms the bound between Texas and Mexico? 0 Which is the most norther r's! producing state? Half Million Dollar Addition To Shelby Textile Plants Announced Hope To Cut County Tax Rate For 19331 Board 1 o Discuss Budget 26th ' -r-V | County Accountant About Through With Tentative Outline Of Budget. Reports at the court house here today indicated that the 1933 tax levy for Cleveland county may be ' reduced in addition to the one fourth reduction in valuation on all , property ordered by the county ! commissioners. . ’ Troy McKinney, county account I ant, is now busy preparing the 1933 I budget set-up and hopes to have his tentative budget figures ready I soon. With that in view the county I commissioners plan to hold a spe cial session on Monday, June 26, to icuss the budget figures. Will End Tear The meeting will be held then in rder that the June bills may be approved and paid so that the county books may be closed then or the end of the fiscal business ! . ear June 30. Then on the following I first Monday, July 3, the board will I j meet in regular session to pass upon the budget and prepare the tax levy j for the. year. j In his tentative figures so far i | Accountant McKinney has so re | dueed appropriations as to indicate | there may be some reduction In the tax rate. In 1932 the combined ap • propria t ion for the general and ! poor fund in the county was $72, , 475. By the tentative figures for this year the appropriation for these two funds will be only $56, f 065. or a reduction of $16,410. The ■ debt service fund cannot, of course, be lowered, and the same applies to [ the various township taxes. Balanrc Unknown l| Even with these tentative figures showing a reduction in appropria tions it is impossible to do any def ' Inite estimating as to the new tax ! levy for the reason that the bal ance at the end of this year, June 130, cannot be determined. This Is due to the fact that quite a per 1 centage of taxes remains to be col lected. So far, however, the county has lived within and below the budget figures' for the year and l .CONTINUED ON PAGS IEN Library Hours Here Changed For Summer Library hours for the Shelby pub - lie library are changed for the summer, according to an announce ment, made by Miss Stella Murchi son, librarian. Instead of being open from 2 to 5 o'clock the library will be open from 3 to 6 o’clock on Tues day. Thursday and Saturday after noons. First Cotton Shape Reported In County John Glover, Shelby route 1 found cotton shapes in his fields on Monday, June 5th. Mr. Glover lives on the Frank Heavner place and says he will have open blooms with ■ in a few days. Cotton Closes Up 19 Points Today Cotton on the New York exchange today was 19 points above yester 1 day's close. At 2 o'clock today July closed at 9.16 and October 9.44. ’ Stocks displayed considerable strength. Playground Has Supervisor Now; Will Be Lighted Frank Jenkins To Supervise Flay Of Children On New Lions Playground. Shelby's new playground for chil dren, located near the corner of| East Marlon and North Washington streets, now has a supervisor to take’ | care ol the children and supervise [their play. The supervisor is Frank Jenkins, jr., honor graduate of Oak Ridge and capable for the work due to his years of training as a Boy Scout. The announcement was made to day by Wm. Osborne, head of the Lions club, who states that here after parents need not worry about the safety of their children while at play. Rowdyism on the play ground will not be tolerated and young Jenkins will also keep careful watch to see that children at plav are safe at all times. He will also keep up the playground equipment, .see to the changing of water in the [wading pool, and otherwise main | tain the attractive spot as it Is now The pay for the supervisor was made possible through the coopera tion of city officials, the Lions club, the Woman’s club and other service organizations of the city. s In addition to securing of a sup ervisor, It Is understood that the city will install electric lights in the playground and park thus mak ing play and recreation at night possible. Send Flower* To Shut-In* Saturday Florists And Western Union To De liver Bouquets To Hospital Inmates. Others. Wishing to do then part toward making National Flower Shut-in day, June 10, a great success and to brighten the lives ol the sick and disabled, Western Union messengers in Shelby have volunteered to make free delivery of flowers to shut-in people. The national flower day for shut ins is sponsored by the florists tele graph delivery association, and the announcement that Shelby messen gers will make deliveries without charge comes from R. E. Blackweld er, manager of the local Western Union office. Patterson's Flowers is the local member of the association and from Mr. Patterson comes the word that bouquets of fresh flowers will be I sent without cost tomorrow to hos ! pita! inmates and other Shelby shut-ins. Best Furniture In New Quarter* Tire Best Furniture company ts moving today from the West War ren street location to the Shelby Hardware building on North La Favette street, next door to Paul Webb's drug store. John M. Best, manager of the store, has been to the furniture markets this week buying and shipping new merchan dise for the opening Saturday. The firm will sell on a cash-or-credit plan. Local Waltons To Resume Fishing This Week-End; Parties Planned Trot Line Regulation Abolished. May Fish After Saturday Midnight. ' Isaac Waltons of the Sheiby and 3 Cleveland county section. barred from their favorite sport for sev , eral weeks, are planning numerous fishing parties for the week-end . and next week as the open fishing season returns. A news dispatch . from Raleigh gives the lollowing in formation about the reopening of the fishing season: North Carolina anglers can re sume general fishing at midnight 1 Saturday, June 10. Closed season for fish, to allow s spawning has been in eftect since - May 1 under state regulations, with a few exceptions, but at midnight - Saturd?" *> i again will be at the " mercy of man. , j.- ; ,rii; , r all specie.-, including j mountain trout and the muskal lunge found In mountain streams Is legal after this week. Mountain trout fishing Is governed by special seasons, the open period being from April 15 to September 1. Coincident with the seasonal re minder from the department of con servation and development that fishing is once more to be in vogue, came word that the fisheries divi sion has prepared a new booklet of rules and regulations on inland fish ing. Tile booklet contains a summary of 1933 fishing laws. Under the new statutes a daily fishing permit may be issued to non-residents at the rate of 60 cents per day. Formerly non-resi dents pay a season fee of $5.10 to fish in the state One'important change in deparV mental rules is tne abolition of the rule prohibiting use of trot lines in .inland waters. , World’s Oldest Printing Press - - y . -as - It is a king cry from this one-man-power printing press to the giant multiple presses that grind out a million copies of a bi^ newspaper in a few hours today. The press shown here is a reproduction of the Guten berg Press, the oldest printing machine in the world. Otto JM. Korkert of the Art Institute of Chicago, costumed for the period, is shown oper ating it at the Chicago World’s Fait, where ii is an exhibition. All Cases Must Be Tried In Court, Judge Wright States Max Baer Licks German Fighter (Other Spoils. Baseball News Page 8.) tn a stunning; pugilistic up set, Max Baer, rugged Cali fornia heavyweight, won by a technical knockout in the tenth round over Max Schmeling, former champion in a spectacular bout at Yan kee Stadium, New York, last night. A crowd of more than 60, 000 saw the Californian dc feat the German with a fer ocious attack, twice flooring Him in the tenth round before the bout was stopped. Sehe meling was the favorite by ai high as 4 to 1, but Baer wa> too strong and powerful for him and elubbed him unmer cifully before he was awarded the fight. ■lack Dempsey promoted thr fight, which was an outstand ing financial success. District B. Y. P U. 1 uesday No, I District Meets At Zion Church Good Program Arranged For Session. .District No. 2 of the Kings Moun tain associational B. Y. p. u. will hold their summer quarterly meet ing at Zion Baptist church, accord ing to Bynum E. Weathers, leader Tuesday night, June 13. The program has been plannee with the hot weather in view, anc will start* at 8 o'clock p. m., lasting only one hour. The theme for discussion is "Book ing Unto Jesus for Guidance ir Life’s Pleasures," and the following comprises the program: 8:00 song service. 8:05 devotional, “Hold Past Tnal Which is Good,” by Miss Mildrec McSwain of the South Shelby Bap tist church. 8:15 business and records. 8:25 '’What Do You Enjoy?" bj Mrs. Paul Hawkins of the Firsl Baptist church of Shelby. 8:30 "Worthwhile Recreation" b> Mr. Carl Mauney of the Elizabeth Baptist church 8:35 special music by the ladie< quartet of the Eastside Baptist church. 8:40 inspirational address, “Look ing Unto Jesus for Guidance ir Life’s Pleasures.” by Rev. Jno W Suttie of Shelby. (Miller-Jones Has Moved Store Here Ihe Miher-Jones shoe firm, which >>as been operated in Shelby foi four years or more in the old Unior hank building, closed up this week and moved the stock of the local store away. Will Hoar No Plea* For t’hangtn) Sentences Except In Open Court. No Advance Pleas. Hereafter all county court casej In Cleveland must be disposed of u open court and after being disposer of will not be altered. This was th< statement made this morning b: Recorder Joseph M. Wright In dls cussing the practice of pleadinf with court officials to change sen tences after court and also of at tempting to “make matters easier' by talking over eases with court of ficials prior to court. The abolishing of these practice: will give a fair, square deal to all the recorder stated. He called thi J attention of the public to the fac' that a nu/nber of defendants, coun set and other intere,sted parties have on certain occasions called up on both the recorder and solicit™ in regard to the changing of pun tshment inflicted m the court. Ii some meritorious cases there ha; been some modification of judg ments. Hereafter such requests wil and must be made in open cour and if upon the facts involved, somi lighter punishment would be in ord er. then and there the changes wil be made. — Another fact called to the atten tion of the public is the practice 01 the part of some to make an jeffor to discuss cases with the recorde before trial. 'This is a practice whicl in fairness to all paitics concernec must, be refrained from. It is no the purpose of the court to appea harsh and unmindful of the inter ests of the public as a whole, but h view of the fact that such practice is not in keeping with good ethics, i cannot be tolerated. A further fac brought to the attention of the pub lie is the practice of defendant seeking unmerited consideration pi the part of the solicitor. In that thi solicitor represents the State in a! criminal matters, such a practice I not to be encouraged. However th< solicitor stands ready at all time to aid, assist and advise before war rants are issued as to the merits o demerits of the prosecution. Th facts, it was stated, are called to thi attention of the public with the soli purpose of serving the best interest of all the people of the county, am the conscientious effort to keep thi county court upon a plane whicl will continue to merit the esteen and respect of the public generally. Negroes Cut Each Other Here Todaj Dwight Mauney and Hugh Tayloi | colored employes or a local dr; j cleaning plant, slashed and stabbec leach other in a fight at the plam 1 today. Mauney was stabbfed anc | slashed in the back, police officer! said, and Taylor was cut about the i hand. Neither Is thought to be ser ' iously injured. Masonic Meeting ■\ meeting of Cleveland lodge ?0' ( A. F and a M will lx* held tonigh ; for work m the third degree. I Cloth Mill Doubling Size; Eton Enlarging; To Add 500 Workers Teachers To Get $12,850 In Back Pay In Few Days l«ong l)fl»ypd 30 Per Cent Held Out Since March Comes From State Department, School teachers of Shelby, Kings Mountain and Cleveland county will recpivo approximately $13,850 tn back pay Mondny or Tuesday of next week. J H. drifts, county sup erintendent, said today. 'Ilils pay has been due the teach ers for two months, being six days pay. The pay will represent 30 per cent of one month’s salary. A teach er who was drawing $90 per month will get a check for $27; one whn was getting a $100 salary will get a check for $30. This represents the balance due the teachers from the last payment from the state, which was only 70 per cent of the last month. Of the total amount around $8 - 5no will go to rural teachers, $1,600 to Kings Mountain teachers and $2,750 to Shelby teachers. Softie counties have already received their checks from the state, but Supt. Grlgg has been notified that the check for this county will not be available until Monday or Tuesday. The back pay will then be distri buted, checks going by mall to : teachers at their summer addresses. Fall* Mentioned For High Post By Senator Reynolds B T. Falls, Shelby attorney, was mentioned In Washington dis patches today, as a prospect for as* • Blatant federal collector of internal revenue The office will likely go to a North Carolinian and Falls' name , was mentioned among others when Senators J. W. Bailey and Bob Rey nolds split over the appointment. Bailey was advocating Will Neal, Marion manufacturer, but Rey nolds objected to him and offered the name of T. D, Warren. Seem ingly Bailey was no more pleased With the Reynolds choice than Rey nolds was with the Bailey choice. Then Senator Reynolds submitted a score or more names, ajpong them the name of the Shelby attorney, [ all of whom would be satisfactory 1 to him, he said. The office will pay j between $7,000 and $8,000 per year. Mrs. Bost’s Father , Dies In Washington Father Of Local Woman Die* In Washington. D. O. This Morn ' ing Of Heart Trouble. E P. Bennett, father of Mrs L, J C. Bost of Shelby, died suddenly this morning at 9 o’clock In Wash ' lngton, D. C. He was a victim of heart trouble. Mr. Bennett lived In Shelby about 17 years ago. He was J 65 years of age and Is survived by : his wife and six children. Funeral , services will be held In Washington ' tomorrow and Mrs Bost, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Garrett and Miss Clark of ’ Spartanburg, S. C. left this morning j to attend the funeral. Workable Cotton Plan To Have Supply, Demand Meet Is Advanced . Wannamaker Wires Roosevelt His i Idea About Leasing Land I Program. i fet. Matthews, June 9.—J Skot i towe Wannamaker, of this place, president of the American Cotton Association, announced this week he had telegraphed President Roose velt urging the government adopt a ’ cotton-purchase, land-lease plan to put cotton production on a “reason able profit" basis. Under the plan, as Wannamaker I explained, the government would buy now and “retire until the fall of 1934, four million bales of cot i ton and immediately lease from cotton farmers for the year 1934, the necessary cotton acreage to pro duce this cotton under normal con ditions.” Reasonable Rental ' In addition to “a reasonable ren tal for lands so leased." he eontin i ued the government would give the Business Stimulated By Textile Extensions Which Will Greatly Increase City’s Week ly Payroll. Shelby Mill Opens New Power Plant. Plans were announced today for the expenditure of a half million dollars or more in enlarging the Cleveland Cloth Mill and the Eton (Eastside) Mill, which will give employ ment to 500 or more additional workers. Thirsty Shelby Guzzles Record Amount Water Shelby people, sweltering under a scorching 10.1 »un yesterday drank enough wa ter to flood the city had II come In a downpour of rain. \ total of 800,(MM) gallons ol water, a new high record, was consumed by the elty yester day. according to R. V. Toms water and light plant super intendent. The city tank wan filled from the city reservoir eight times during the day— and the tank holds 100,00(1 gallons of water. If evenly divided. It means that each Shelby resident used approxi mately 80 gallons of water during the hottest day of thr year. Mercury Strikes 101 Here As New High For Season Stalling Ural. Wave Continue* And Cardens And Hay Crop* Suffer. The stalling lira! wave which ha* blistered the Shelby section this week was In Its fourth day today with little promise of re lief at noon. For three consecutive days the heat records for the year have been broken. The mercury here climbed to a new high, fraction above 98, on Tuesday, On Wednesday It reached 99, and then swung to 101 yesterday afternoon for the warmest, weather of this year or last. Although many people have suf fered more or less from the sultry heat, no serious Illness has resulted so far as could be determined today. At noon today the mercury was back to 94 and was expected to hit close to 100 again between 3 and 5 o'clock this afternoon unless there is change. Gardens Damaged Gardens and hay crons in this section are suffering from the hot weather. Unless there Is rainfall soon many of the gardens through out the city and county will be ser iously Injured while quite a number are already badly damaged. Hay crops are also being delayed by the extreme heat. Corn is still small but Is wilting now and the produc tion will be hit if rain does not come soon. Cotton, a hot-weather crop, has suffered very little dam age so far from the torrid wave. farmers "an option, on the amount of cotton they have produced on such lands as an average for the last, five years at the average pur chase price of the 4,000,000 bales o1 cotton, such option to be good until the close of the cotton year 1934, "This plan has for its purpose tc promote economic regulation of cot ton supplies and cotton production to the end that supply shall be sc adjusted to demand that the farm er shall obtain cost plus reasonable profit. "It is practicably workable and a solution of the cotton problem and. with the endorsement and pledged cooperation of farmers and repre sentatives of allied lines, which It now' has and the consideration it is receiving, it will doubtless be put into operation, "It is similar In principle to the plan used with most beneficial re sults to the cotton industry under similar conditions in 1931 J nih news oi broadening the ac tivities of the Industrial plants comes on top of a $75,000 eloctrlo power generating plant at the Shel by mill and the Installation of a few new looms and eight tenement houses at the Dover mill, two miles west of Shelby. The $75,000 power plant at the Shelby mill Is nearing completion, according to Mr. R. T. LeGrand and Is now being tested out. This plant will be put in operation within the next, few days. Cloth Mill Doubles Last night at (he weekly lunch eon of tho Ktwanis club, O. M. Mull, manager of tho Cleveland Cloth mill, announced that this plant will be doubled in size. A brick addition to tiro present building will be erected to house new Cromp ton and Knowles late style looms. Lockwood-Green, textile engineers of Spartanburg. 8. C. are drawing plans for the plant addition. Bids on the building construction will bn received June 24th and the work will be pushed to rapid completion. It Ls thought the building will bn « ready for the machinery In about 90 days. One hundred of tho late style looms are being made and will be ready for installation when the building is completed ojw! the 100 additional looms will be Installed later. Half of the building will be one story In height and the other half two stories. The building will be mod ern In every respect and designed es pecially to facilitate the manufac ture of rayon and celanese dress materials. Former Governor O. Max Gard ner, now attorney for the rayon manufacturers of America, is presl (CONTtNTJKD ON PAGE TBN.i Bank Plans Wait Upon Washington Ucal Department Of R. F. C. De lays Sending No»wwry Paper* Promised Weeks Ago. first National bank officials and the public are glowing Impatient over the delay In reopening the bank, due to a tie-up by the legal department of the Reconstruction Finance corporation at Washington, When Forrest Eskridge, cashier of the bank was In Washington over three weeks ago. the plan was ap proved and a tentative draft of a resolution approving the set-up and authorizing the issuance of prefer red stock was furnished hhn. He wanted to wait a few days and get all necessary papers fixed and sign ed, but was told that it would not be necessary lor him to wait. The final draft of the necessary resolu tion was promised by mall In a few days. For weeks, now the bank of ficials and their attorney Mr. Hoey have been wiring and telephoning Washington urging that the papers be hurried through. They were as sured that these papers would be gotten off In a day or so, going so far as to promise a definite time. Today they had not come. As far as plans go locally m the reorganization. practically every thing is set. Depositors have signed up the necessary seventy-five per cent, nearly all stockholders have paid their assessment or are ready to pay, but the legal department of the R. F. C. neglects to fulfil its promises. The Roosevelt administration has been one of action, but the R. F. C. is wearing the patience of Shelby people who want to see the First National opened without further de lay. Today a telegram went from the bank to ex-Governor Gardner who is in Washington asking that he use his Influence to urge the legal department to make good its j past due promises. I Attorney Clyde R. Hoey who rep resents the bank will return tonight from Nashville. Tenn., where he spoke before the Peabody institute and it Is thought that he win de mand action from the R. F. C legal department In ordei that there might be no further delay.