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Ehe LIMMMW Stark 8 PAGES lODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 70 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JUNE 12. I9S3 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) <tj> M*u. par rear, tin adranoei ('•mar ort treat. (In adTanaet 33 Late News THE MARKETS I niton. spots ...——9 1-4 to 10c .wagon) ton ........... 17.00 (car) ton —--- 19.00 f .Showers Likely I Todays North Carolina Weather Rf,u»Tt ly>ral thundershowers to n!Ehi or Tuesday. Slightly cooler Tuesds' an*1 In central and north fsaiorn portions tonight. Complete Jury In Buck Trial By UNITED PRESS Barnstable, Mass., June 12.—A jyrv was completed in 45 minutes tnijar for the trial of Kenneth and Ctn! Buck, brothers of Harwich, charged with the. $60,000 kidnapping p( in vcar-oid Peggy McMath. Mattem Hop* For Alaska By UNITED PRESS Moscow ,.Tune 12.—Jimmy Mat jcni the round-the-world solo avia |or, hopped off today from Khaba-? rovvk. Siberia, on the long flight lo Nniuc, Alaska. No news has been heard from him over the single trberaph line connecting Moscow and the remote Eastern Siberian tnutl Parole Is Given Shelby Man; Cut Woman’sSentence Krgrri . Who Killed Husband Has Tfrm Cut To Two Years By Fhriiighaus. One Cleveland county man was rwro'Pd last week by Governor Ehr mehaus and a Cleveland county ne gvess, "bo killed her husband, bad her sentence cut down. The parole and commutation sere made by Tyre Taylor, acting pardon commissioner, just before hr retired from that office to ac cept a high Federal position. The man paroled was J. W. Smith convicted in county court in May, for driving an automobile while under the influence of whiskey. He was given 90 days, bu' upon recom mendation of Recorder J. M. Wright Solicitor C. C. Horn and Sheriff Raymond Cline the parole war i granted. Commuted The negress whose term was rut down was Florence Terrell, convict ed at the July, 1932, term of Super ior court, of killing her husband. Willie Terrell. She was sentenced to erve from four to seven years and the sentence was cut down to two jo seven years. It is recalled that the woman shot, her husband on the night of June 30, 1932, when it was alleged she found him in a com promising, position in the home of another woman. In reducing the' sentence the State pardon commis sioner said: l am informed by the prison of ficials that this girl has made a meet excellent record during the period of her incarceration and it b thp feeling of those who have come 1n contact with her that if extended executive clemency she "ill determine to live a good and law-abiding life in the future. Taking into consideration the excellent record this girl has made and acting upon the recommenda tion of the. officials of the State prison. I am granting this prisoner * commutation in her sentence re ducing same from a minimum of feur and a maximum of seven years ln state’s prison to a minimum two and a maximum of seven tears In the State's prison." Papers Finally Come To Bank -***1 department Of R. F. C. Fin ely Complete Drafting Of Legal Documents. A! last the legal department of r Reconstruction Finance corpora ,',’n at Washington has finished the ,T3; draft of the necessary papers in the reorganizations of the First attonal bank here and these pap were received over the weck r" ' Charlotte by Attorney Paul Whitlock, attorney for the Char ,,r,e F, F. c. branch, cashier Forrest Eskridge of the ! [r'' National bank went to Char r" '•his morning to complete the r.! C3nization plans. Several other 'K‘’' '• however, remain to be done '.re the bank can be opened un ^'-'n.rted. There must be a meet 't; ^nd organization of the Shelby ~^,r- ?nd Mortgage corporation for ■” ’n. a charter has already been 1 lcd stockholders must finish their assessments, etc. The ’ has been deducting twenty per ° frem deposits, off-setting de h' ‘its against loans when permis S5' ■- of customers was obtained. u is feit now that final plans are r roc ess for the opening of the f K °n an unrestricted basis, vet cate as been set for the reason t no* known just how long it will >c complete the details, , L Business Speeded Here By Textile Activity, Cotton Price Hold Whitworth And Falls With No Bond Allowed Murder Trial Set July 24th Former hhrlby Man And Cotnpan Ion Sent Bark To .fail In Mystery Death. Gastonia, June 12 A. F Whit worth ajid Deputy P C. Falls were lodged in the Ga.ston county Jail I without bond here Friday pending j trial on charges of murder in con-1 nection with the death of Whit-! worth’s wife, Mrs. Maude B. Whit worth. on May 27. The men. who had been out on $5,000 bond, each since at habeas corpus hearing last week, were or dered (cmanded to jail without bond by Judge John M. Oglesby just, before he adjourned a one week's erm of criminal court here. Tbeii rial has been set for July 24. hav ing been continued from the June erm of court on motion of the de fense. Fort Fails, son of the deputy, who was indicted for murder along with ills father and Whitworth, also was ordered remanded to jail without bond, but Judge Oglesby changed his decision in the youth's case Fri day afternoon, and ordered his re lease on $5,000 bond. This action, however, did not affect the status of Whitworth and Deputy Falls. The Whitworths were natives of Cleveland county and formerly lived in Shelby. King Nairwood Is Buried This P. M. Had Been Employed At Buffalo Mill Since Christmas. Was 51 Years Of Age. King S. Nairwood,. age 51 years tiled Sunday at die Shclb.v hospital where he had been a patient fori two days after a serious illness 01 five weeks or longer. He had bee an employee at the old Buff?.' Cotton mill four miles east of Si.el by since Christmas. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Revs.] H. E. Waldrop and Zeno Wai'. Sur-j viving are his second wife, oiv son, Bonnie Lee, three step-children, Eva Wootten. George Woctfen, Wil-1 liam G. Watson, five sisters and! one brother, Mrs. Minnie Huff-; stickler and Mrs. Dovie Huffstick-i ler of Shelby. Mrs. Callie Ross of Hickory. Mrs. Henry Gordon of Khrgs Mountain. Mrs. Bell*’ Morri son and John Nairwood, Doth of Chester, S. C. Hunts Injured In Car Wreck Friday _ I Hugh Hunt, well known Shelby j travelling salesman, and his daugh- j ter. Miss. Virginia Hunt, were pain-, fullv injured Friday afternoon when j their auto was sidesw iped ,it is said, J by a truck trailer just on th.., side! of Kings Mountain. Their car was 1 turned over several limes and prac-; tically demolished Both are pa-1 tients at. the Shelby hospital where ; it was said today that they are get -1 ting along very well. Miss Hunt re ceived a fracture of the pelvic bone ■ and a laceration of the head while f Mr, Hunt suffered lacerations about j the head and severe bruises. Sisk Is Re-elected Head School System Fayetteville, June Id:- Horace Sisk, native of Cleveland county was reelected as superintendent ofj the Fayetteville city schools n*. a; recent meeting of the board ot trus -1 tees of the township. No action war taken on the election of teacher* or< on the calling of a special election to vote additional taxes for an ex- j tended term. There was no petition; for the election before the board. 1933 Miss Shelby “Miss Shelby of 1933,” selected al the recent American Legion beauty contest, will represent this city Ir the state-wide contest at Wilming ton. She is Annie Ruth Dellinger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. S Drllingcr. and a graduate of this year’s class at Shelby high. Photo by Ellis. Telephone Book Promised In Sept. 16MonthsBetween Company Says Delay Was Occasion ed a« Matter of Economy. Patrons Complain. A 'presentative ol the Southern Beil Telephone Co,, called tn .per son at The Star to explain why the telephone company by local pat dtrn-toty since May 1932. Sr eral complaints had been made !o the telephone company by loval pat rons. calling attention to the incon ven>nee of having to use the year old djcctory when so many addi tional telephones and changes had jeen made. The Star was told that the Issu ance of a new directory was skipped as a matter of economy to the. tele phone company. It has been cus tomary to issue two directories a ear. one for spring-summer and srie tor fail-winter. None was issued last tall and none so far this -prone when !>. was due. The representative of the tele phone company states that a new directory is being planned tor is suance.'in' Septembe r cf this year— 16 months after the last di'eetory wa.> distributed to subscribers. 'When a dircr-tbry is issued, advertising is sold to local firms ir -.he town which practically pa^s it' com of the pub lication. Bi.sines* firms who have miscalled new photv-.-. professional men v' ■ T ve moved or r> aited D-a. 1: • :u ? May 193? and nthei palmiu w’o i ■. -e iv.d tfc-’r phone nt’.mbc cnai.'ged. ’»•>. complained because the ■ c company has r.-jgiectod director’ it’v. /. who want a n, v, dr.ectc" > .u« d before September arc asked ■ '-rite’to ‘he district effi’ ' of t’ •' ’Southern 'K*U Telephone company- at G. - .. via and u g- * new directory at once. Results Of Achievement tests n Shelby Schools Given For Ye?r Mrs. Hudson's Grad*- Made Great est Progress Of Year, indi vidual Leaders. (By B L. Smith. Superintendent Shelby Schools.) According to results revealed oy the standard achievement te.ts given in the city schools Mrs. Rubie Hudson's grade made the greatest progress of any grade in the sys tem. showing a gain ot one year arrl \ 1 ntuhr. r.t.-s C’aU Fe ai'd Mrs Maud*- Gardner i ic’d for -r and place with a gain of one year , mid five irx: .. -s. M;-;; Ruby Mf i Donald and Mrs. O. P. Hamrick ; tied for third plar. with a ga.n of ione year and four 'months. Miss ! Isabel Hoey .uvl Miss Ruby Mc : Dona’.!4, who also has a sect* -i cl jthe fourth grade. tied for ioiuth place with a gain of one v» r and three months. Other teach* rs whose pupi's showed out^taiid ng progress • re as follows: Miss \lnh-i ~rtfcys Mrs. Sara Ke>:d- 11. xfu-s letli; • 01 Jfvs. Flora 1 u. Mi :•< .Jps x;ar- M icki'- a*d M'ss Lucy Ham i tcominuMJ on raoa tium.i Exam For Cotton Office Comes On 27th; Must Apply Over 30 Applicants In Cleveland Applications For Cotton Statistician Should Be OP File By June 27. Applicants for the office of cotton statistician, a federal job. In Clevc- j land county should have their ap I plications in with the civil service I commission by June 27. according to Information received here. According to reports between 30 and 35 Cleveland county citizens have filed applications for the office with the impression that it would come by appointment. Since it has been learned that the applicants must stand a civil service examina tion it is not known whether all the 30 or more will continue to seek the office. Applications for examination should be on file by the 27th, it is said, so that, evaluations might be arranged right away as it will not be long until time for the cotton statisticians to go to work on the fall crop. Miles H. Ware is the present statistician for Cleveland and the Jobs has been paying $659 a year. Hereafter the salary la 15 per cent less. This examination Is open only to citizens of the United States who have residence, domicile and post office address in one of the coun ties listed. Foreign-bom applicants I must, submit with their applications | proof of United States citizenship. In view of the fact that the duties i require personal contact and oo ! operation with all cotton ginneries. ! cotton consuming establishments I and public storehouses in the dis it rict, applications will not be ac | cepted from persons who. during the ii’W .next preceding the eloetag ekat*. for the receipt of applications, have been engaged in any capacity in the j ownership or operation of a cotton ginnery, cotton mill, or cotton oil mill, or in the business of buying ,and selling cotton or cotton seed. [Native Of County j Dies In Hospital W. B. Melton. Polkrille Native, Dead. Had Been Living At Gaffney. Gaffney. June 13.~William Ben iamin Melton. for a number of Sears manager of Getty’s Lumber company here, died In a Spartan burg hospital Sunday after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at the home at 4 o'clock this afternoon with Dr. R. A. McFarland, pastor of the -First Baptist church, and Dr. R. C. Granborry. president of Lime i ''tone college in charge. Mr. Melton was formerly a dea : con in the church. He is survived | by: Mrs Melton, seven children; his | mother, Mrs. Sarah Melton, of Polk jville. N, C ; two brothers, Bryant Melton of Asheville and Oliver .Melton of Folkville: and a sister, i Mrs. J, W. Bridges of Gaffney, He | was a native of PolkviUe, Try Answering ! These I Can you answer 14 of these test j questions? Turn to page two for the ' answers. , 1. What does Colorado mean*1 2. W>. tp is the U. S Military aca j 0 nr. ? 3. When did the Turoo-Italiar ■ war begin? 1 4. V ho wrote the novel Journey s ' Tr.il." v 5. 6-,ate the salary of the presi | -r»fc r. the U. 8 6. Vvnat causes the whit* dual, on j I rubber P'Vds? j 7. Is r ’or-bUndness curable? « in .be army what are M P/s” 9. A no was Dick Turpin? 10. Name the father of Charles1 "> efc. ns. U. Name the two largest citiea In ■ ales. 12. Who composed "Annie Laurie". 13. Who wrote “The Scariit let ! | !4. What is a colossus? 15. ,vho was John Stuart Mill? 16, On a battleship was it a tux Met? j j 17. Which governor of New Fork I'V.is impeached and removed iWjni; 3. iV.iv must all bills for raising • nue originate in tht House ol | , , ntntives? ■19. Of wni^-h 11 i|)r was Lm i t’V' v!T • "'Ml P 1 ■ c3»llgbt/if? 20 Who 'iju, Bob FiUoiminons' Here Is The 1933 Graduating Class At Shelby High Above is shown the 71 boys and girls who received their diplomas at (he Shelby High school in the recent graduation exercises. The photo was made on the steps of the Central high school building and pictured with the gtraduatcs are Ft. L. Smith, superintendent; W, E. A hornet hy, principal; and Mrs. Ben Hendrick, sponsor.—Photo by Ellis Studio. War Debts Must Be SettledBefo re World Can Find Road ToRecovery Half Price For Auto Tags Will Begin July 1st Automobile license tags will (to on sale at half price July 1. according to instruction received at the Shelby license bureau, located at the Caro lina Motor Inn, corner East Warren and DeKalb streets. License tag* are now sell ing at three-fourths the ori ginal price, but In a latter to the bureaus the state Inform*. m follows, that the half price reduction docs not take ef fect until July I: "Pursuant to a great num ber of Inquiries regarding tht date on which the one-hall rear license fee wMl becomr effective. I beg to advise that the recent session of the leg islature did not ambnd the low effecting this question. As the law is now written the one-half year fees can not become effective before July 1 and this department as no authority to advance the date." Robinson Again Chief Of Shelby Fire Department Volunteer Firefighter* Cost CHj Only Minimum Hum For Year. J. R. Robinson has been re-elect ed chief of the Shelby fire depart ment, the election coming at busi ness session of the volunteer fire men. J. h. McDowell was elected as sistant chief; Sam Thompson cap tain, Paul Hawkins lieutenant; George B. Elam secretary and treas urer and Lorin Hord assistant sec retary and treasurer Cost la Low. A report for the years activity shows that the cost of maintaining the volunteer department for the year was exceptionally low consider ing the amount of work done. There are 20 members of the department and the entire cost for the year was only *915.25. In the year the fire men have won praise for exception al work at several Dlares and have rendered generally efficient, service in exi nguishing and controlling fires. Say* He Ha* Cotton 27 Inches High A. Alver Bianton, formerly of this county, now living at the Ramseur plantation four miles north of Lln solnton says he had acres and acres of cotton 29 Inches high. Prospects tre the best he has ever seen Publisher Appointed Washington—William E. Page of Columbus, Ga„ publisher of newspa pers there and at Wilmington N. 3., was approved by the senate fi nance committee last week to be collector of internal revenue for 'leorgiti PiV .idem r?• ■ ■ r'. rlt nmi t .lated Page for LUt pool last week MaoTtonaJd Addresses World Kco nomlr ConJcrrnrr In London. By I'NITLI) PBE^K London. June 12. — War debts must be settled before the world can find the road to business economic recovery. Ramsey MacDonald, pre mier of areal Britain, told repre sentatives of 66 nations today In opening the world economic confer ence. ! A great gathering of statesmen from all parte of the world first heard an earnest jriea by King i Oaorge, the Fifth, for friend collab oration among nations. MacDonald urgently insisted that ; debts be dealt with as a continua tion of the peace policies of Lau sanne, "settling the* once for all In ( light of present world conditions." Only 2 June Brides In This County Yet t I i Several County Couples Marry Sooth Carolina. Cost Is Ji In .huv brtctes tn Cleveland county are as noticeably absent as needed showers of rain. So far only two marriage licenses have been Issued st the Cleveland county court house during the month of brides. These license* were issued to John Lowry McGill and Lena Ware, and John Phllbeek and Elisabeth Tessner. Register A. F Newton has, how ever, two certificates mailed back to him from Oaffnev showing that two county couples have been mar ried this month at that Gretna Green.. Incidentally, Register Newton is not very hopeful of a pick-up In the local marrlagp activity. It was at first thought that the cost of li cense here was reduced by the last legislature to $3. but study of a copy of the new laws shows that the cost Is $4. the law saying that the State must have a license tax of *3 for each license while Si goes to the county. "As long as wp make them pav $4 for the papers, they’ll keep going to South Carolina lor the ceremony." said Mr. Newton who is very much opposed to the excessive cost of getting married In this State. Ellis Has First Local Tomatoes Forrest Ellis, local photographer and a garden enthusiast, was this rqprning exhibiting the first ripe tomatoes grown in this section Lawyers Boost Falls For Job In The Capital Member* of thp Shrlby bai ! «w inllnn are boosting II. T I'll ll», one of thp veterar members of thp ShPlby bnr for thp of nee of assistant eol Ipctor of federal revenue In Washington. I.ast week when Senator* ttcynolds and Halley were un I >ble to agree upon a North i irolinian for that offtpp. 'rnutm RJ-vnolris aubinittpd \ IUI of name* of Tar Heels, ill of whom would bp suitable to him. hr said. The name of fudge Falla waa in the Hat That afternoon lorbl attor ney* got together and atpnt a wire to Senator* Bailey Bnrt Reynold* and Postmaster General Farley urging that Falla be appointed. The Shel by man, now on a vlait to Ok lahoma, la a former enimty represent alive, eounty judge ! »nd eounty ehalrman and has v long been active In polities. Gardens, Poultry In County Look This Year Governmenl Requirement Brought About More Gardena. Better ebb-ken*. Cleveland county has more and better gardens, unless the hot wea ther causes further damage, than In several years, ami poultry pros pects are also brighter, according to the weekly report of R W. Shoffner, farm agent. In his report Mr. Shoffner says that In his opinion the county has more and better gardens because of the requirement of the government seed loan bureau. This requirement Is that every farmer borrowing from the seed loan fund must hRve a gar den In addition to these scores of Shelby people have gardens this year for the first time in years. In discussing the poultry outlook, the farm agent says: "The poultrymen seem to be hav ing the best season this spring in growing their chickens that they have had in some tirpp. This Is partly due to the fact that most of the poultrymen have purchased blood-tested stock." ! Grain Crops Will Fall Short Of Demand First Time In Century Report S«n Crop To Be Insufficient* For Needs For First Time This Century, Washington, June 12.—Govern ment crop reports, charting the se vere damage produced by bad weather conditions to wheat, indi cate that American production of the grain will fall short of domestic needs for the first time this cen tury. On (hr tv I of It;, report',, total production of 603,000,000 buibelfi t^. estimated, while the nation uses from 630,000,000 bushels upwards! each year without considering ex ports or shipments to territories and insular possessions, long an import ant factor. The crop reporting board today estimated production of winter sheat as of June X at 341.000,000 sushejs compared with the average uinual production of 589,000.000 rom 1926 to 1930. The board rrfer <d to the spring wheat crop ‘below " lCO.NIi.NUtO OM t>AOt tlutfl.l 1 t Trade Is Better Than In Months; More Work Ahead Building Spurt Ha* Good Impetu* Mfrchinli) Already Cheered By rreaaed Trade. MTnrh Build h»K On. General textile acilvtty. coupled with an announced expansion pro drain of local textile plant* and a i-talng cotton price. haa stimulated business in the Shelby area to an active level not. reached In many months. Today Shelby merchants, manu facturers and business men were more hopeful about Uie future than they have been In a long time and with cotton holding the gains It haa made, farmers are also encouraged. As a result cash registers rang out merry music to the merchants In the local business section during the week-end trading and on every hand there were marked Indication of the upturn Building Area. The moat Important announce ment of the past weak was. of course, that informing that, two lo cal manufacturing plants, th* Cleve land Cloth mill nnd the Eton, would soon inaugurate a half million dol* lar expansion program. Work la al ready underway at the Eton where a portion of the more than 100 new looms are being Installed and exca vation la beinR made on the base ment floor for the Installation ol I he looms being replaced by th* new ones Survey work at the Cloth Mill has started preparatory to the letting of the contract on June 24 for the. doubling in size of the plant. When the additions are complete the two plants will tie prepared to supply employment to around IS00 o* more workers than are now on the payroll The construction work will naturally provide work for still others, Running Now. In the meantime these plants and I others in or nesr the city are run J ning full time with practically full forces, wages being raised In sever j al Instances. As a. result the week | ly payroll in the Shelby sector la now larger than it has been »n | months with the prospect of being considerably larger by fall. This Increased payroll plus th* Income being received by many farm era as they sell their cotton with the price ranging around 10 cent* has added much to trade activity. Quite an amount of the W32 cotton crop has been held over by farmers, and those who have already dlspoe iCONTINUED ON PAO« SIQFn , John H. Lowery Of Shelby Dies Sunday F'wiwaJ Held Sunday At TrfaHf Church In No. Two Township. John H Lowery, age 3S. died Sat urday at hts home tn the Ourtis i town section of S. DeKalb street, following an illness of one year. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 3 o’clock at Trin ity church In No. 2 township, serv ices being conducted by Rev. W. O. Camp of Cherryvllle. Mr. Lowery had been an employee at the Dover mill and was a member of the Dover Baptist church. Surviving are his wife, Florence, four sons and one daughter. Frank, James, Nelson. Ned and Helen. Also surviving are three brothers and one sister, Grady of Gastonia, Mel vin of Shelby. Ernest of Newport, R I. and Mrs Effle Bostic of near Boiling Springs. Cotton Goes Up 17 Points; Stocks Soar July Contracts Close 17 Points Above * Saturday. American Telephone Up 7 Points. Cotton on the New York exchange shifted about today with little change either way until near the close when July ended 17 points above Saturday. Spots were 10 points up. July closed at 9.37-40 and October 9.62-66 Stocks were strong, the leader for the day being American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which owns the. Southern Bell, a system serving Shelby which has not issued a tele phone directory since May, 1932 on the ground of economy. It pays $9 per share dividend. American Tele phone had an advance of seven points over Saturday, opening at 124 and closing at 131. IT. S. Steel made a new high, closing at 58 1-2 and Case Thrc.liiny Machine reached a new top of 88 1-3
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