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MMMW Its-If 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX. No. 71 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y. JUNE 21, 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) ' ■■■ 11 ly 111 ... ■■■■■■.■Bnunijj il> Mail p«r ttm tin •ct»*n««t 13 #«.< Cforrtot net ve«i »irt $3.9* Late News i HE MARKETS rcf!nn l-ts -.9 1-4 to 10c 4p„,i •> 'ioni ton-—- 17.00 V,,i ■<) ton - 19.0G Shower# Likely Torm , \or)h Carolina Weather Ufr„r! Partly cloudy and possibly <(t0Wprs Thursday and In extreme >rv( tnd extreme south portions tonic1'* Slightly cooler on north j etia.t tonight. 3 More State# Vote Repeal By UNITED PRESS Three more, states, including the traditionally dry, Iowa where the prohibP'onists staged a last ditch firbt. were in the prohibition re pMi column today, making a total „l it states to ratify the 21st amend pent Kpealists piled up a majority of 125.800 in Iowa in 2,256 of the «t»tf'i 3.435 precincts. New Hamp jhirt. another state long considered dry, voted three to one for repeal. Connecticut lived up to predictions ,n(j voted overwhelmingly for re pe*l Spanish Prince Marries Today By UNITED PRESS Lausanne, Swltserland .June 21.— Prince of the Asturias, renouncing all right to succession of the vacant ypanisii throne, was married in a civil ceremony today to Senorita Fraaria Andrianna Sampedro Oceo hi, a Unban commoner. Says Fanner To Avoid Risks By Plan On Cotton j I -. i Blalock. Co-Op Head, Urges Farm ers To Join In Cotton Program. 'Special to The Star.) Raleigh, June 21.—Urging farm ers to cooperate in the government’s acreage reduction plan, U. Benton Blalock, president of the American Cotton Cooperative association, to day said that with a 13,000,000 bale carryover and good prospects for a | crop on 40.000,000 acres this year only "an optimist can look forward ' to anything like a. fair price for cot ton this fall unless our acreage re daction campaign goes over as a bie Success" Mr Blalock termed the plan as , probably about the best that could ( be submitted under the authority | vested in the secretary of agricul ture through the agricultural ad niMTient. act,” and summarized the fancying as seven inducements of- , fered cotton farmers to cooperate ! in the plan: ' . ■ "It offers a very fair rental for ®ton lands according to produc tivity. ■ ' ’ With options on cotton at six rent- per pound the cotton farmer can immediately close out his op ’ivm for three to three and one baif rente per pound profit. If be so desires he may hold his ^ COftflNUEb ON PAGE EIGHT ! Varmint Worries Colored People Near City Again Trv"« Hyena” Heard And See: ,n River Woods North Of Shelby. Another of those strange “var- f m:m‘- which bobs up every year or * ■ m this section to trouble the noc- f ■'r'! peace of the colored people f i ' t0 be al,road again near ' time the varmint is labelled c 9S 9 hyena—a hyena that “cries ] N t he a baby.” .Holered youths who live on the ' drKmney farm nortl! of Dixon in the vicinity of the Boy " ■Ir rabin say that the strange 1 atuma! has been prowling the *°otii thereabouts for two or three and has been chasing every " - man or dog, which comes Rear ip ’'•early all night long yo’ kin .ea'-. u cryin' just like a baby, ’cept according to Henry Foster, ^o.urerj man w]10 lives in that sec-' ' It liken to got my dawg •other night and Ector Butler, a ^ boy who lives near there, said h an him.” * ' ay, the animal, be it a hyena c •wVi3f not, has the colored people 1 sorr*e of the white youths of 1 3> '-Htion worried. They shy away c ^B1 travelling through the woods 1 ' "'K ’H contending that the ani- 1 tf- reported to be larger than a ! ~ '=!-ePherd dog, beds in daytime t 'Ll ticket near the scout cabin ^ c' -pends the night prowling the ! 8n^ bypaths, giving chase to * ’ ng it may encounter. The t ., ' ”-nes of the animal are said t en raore terrifying than the i C’ of meeting it in personal en- < ■turner - ; May Start Work On Enlarged Shelby Post Office Within 90 Days .j— i Will Pay Farmers To Retire 20,985 Acres Of Cotton Plan Reduction Of Acreage Here Fifteen Meetings Scheduled In The County To Explain And Get Farmers To Sign lip. — Cleveland county farmers wll! be asked to retire 20,935 acres of cotton land from production this year and accept pay there for under the cash-rental plan or the option-rental plan, it was announced this morning by R W. S.hoffner, county agent. Mr. Shoffner has been directed by die state extension department to :ancel all other engagements for he next three weeks and devote his ■n? ire time to the acreage re luction plan proposed by Secretary Wallace who seeks to retire ten million acres of cotton land in the relt from production in order to roost the price Cleveland county has approxi mately 69,956 acres of cotton this 'ear. Twenty five per cent is the minimum amount Secretary Wallace says will be acceptable and forty rer cent is the maximum, so Mr, Shoffner figures that Cleveland’s fuota would be thirty per cent of 'he acreage or 20,985 bales. Fifteen Meetings. Fifteen meetings are scheduled throughout the county early next veek at which time the plan will be explained to farmers and they will re asked to sign up a retirement :ontract. Assisting Mr. Shoffner in lolding these meetings are the agri mi ture teachers in the county high schools. The meetings are scheduled ’or the following places: Monday, June 26th, 2 o'clock Dourt House in Shelby. Tuesday Mornii^, June 27th, 10 >clock, Dillingham at No. 8 school Holey at Lattimore school: Winches er at No. 3 school; Shoffner at tings Mountain school. Tuesday,* June 27th. 2 o'clock, Dillingham at Casar School; Coley it Mooresboro school; Winchester ( it Beth-Ware school; Shoffner at j lony springs scnooi. 1 Wednesday, June 28th, 10 o'clock. ( Dillingham at Belwood school; Col- | >y at Boiling Springe Junior college; | Winchester at Waco school. i Wednesday, June 28th at 2 o’clock ( Dillingham at Piedmont school; i iCGNTINUEp ON eALir B.I.KI . 4 GROUNDHOG SAYS SURE IT i IS SUMMER TIME HERE NOW ' At least one groundhog thinks it 1 s the business of the groundhog to ‘ oretell the coming of summer as f fell as to inform of the breaking * if winter. Yesterday—the last day f spring—S. B. Shoup caught a 10- 4 lound groundhog on the Dedmon ( Jace north of Shelby. The big mar ant, exhibited in Shelby today, ' e Mr. Shoup and his dogs a | ;h battle before being captured. 1 Some Oddities1' Charles Beam, enterprising young arrner of the Poikville section, was a Shelby today exhibiting a soft hell egg with an unusual forma ion in the form of a handle on one nd of the egg. While here he told of an extra rdinary Jersey heifer .owned by W. V. Mauney, of route 5, which has ieen giving two gallons of milk Laily prior to her first calf. A calf at the home of Bruce Vhtsnant, at Poikville. was born flthout a tall, he added. Cotton Blooms At 3 Places Reported Cotton blooms are about two weeks earlier than usual this year. The first open bloom to be reported was on the Ora Mill farm tended by V. L. Queen. Mr. Queen found a bloom Tuesday. Later in the day Guy Ellis on the Blanton farm west of Shelby and M. A. Wood on the Earl Hamrick farm north of Shelby found blooms hs their fields. Cotton is suffering from the long drought, the most severe the farmers have experienced this early in the season in a number of years. Vegetables Here . Scarce Because Of Continued Drought Dorn, Beans, Etc., Being Trucked In From South Carolina. The customary table foods for June In this section are either missr ng or costing more than in several /ears. Boasting ears, beans, toma oes, etc., are scarce on local mar kets due to the continued drought ind heat. Market men and eating house jroprietors in Shelby say that /egetables are scarcer than In years, hardens and truck patches have >een parched and withered by the continued heat, and the majority of 'egetablgs now on the market here :ome, it is said, from sections in Sastern North Carolina and South Carolina where the farmers have lad rain. “Farmers in some sections of South Carolina and Eastern North Carolina must be mopping up sell ng vegetables recently,” one Shel ly merchant said yesterday. “I inderstand that motor trucks from his and other sections hard hit by he drought are just scouring those ections for any vegetables they can :et. Naturally that causes these ■egetables to sell higher when they :et here.” General reports Indicate that :ardens in this section are suffer ing more at this season of the year han at any time in five years. Un ess there is a change in the weath r vegetables may be a rarity by nother week or so, or at least rare nough to demand a fancy price. The heat is likewise damaging he blackberry crop, drying many f the berries on the vine. -^— \1I Day Service At Mull's Chapel Sunday There will be an all-day service it Mull’s Chapel Sunday, June 25th. dull’s Chapel is five miles north of jhelby on highway-No. 18. J. B. ^lark will conduct Sunday school at 1:30, J. M. Cooke leads the opening lervice at 10:15; Dr. J. B. Davis ireaches at 11. Dinner will be serv d in picnic style at noon. Singing n which all churches will take part >egins at 1:30. Rev J. L. Jenkins peaks at 2:30 and at 3 o’clock there vill be singing by quartets, fingers ire invited and all who attend are isked to bring picnic dinner. Cotton Ruling Makes Farmer Of Dixie Master Of His Own Fate iovemment’s Acreage Control Plan Meets With Approval Of Offi cials Of Several States. New Orleans, June 21.—Dixie’s otton farmer, long used.to a hum ile role, was made the master of his ate and the captain of a commo dity's price trend, as Secretary Wal ace announced the administration irogram for acreage control, based irimarilv on voluntarily co-opera ion by growers. Coincident with the announce nent, spot and future cotton here dvanced $1.30 to $1 40 a bale in ac ive trading, some states made plans o immediately carry out their part n the program, and southern agri ultura! Official^ voted enthusiastic upport One and all however were agreed that only the attitude of the man ^behind the plow could deter mine whether 10,000,000 acres would be taken out of production this year and whether the farm price this fall would approximate 12 cents or more a pound as compared to the prevailing scale in the neighbor hood of nine cents. Mississippi And Louisiana Act Within an hour .after the an nouncement of the Wallace plan, Louisiana and Mississippi took the lead in co-operation among south ern states when their extension di rectors called quick state-wide ses sions to bring the government's vol untary control contract, with its bounty feature, direct to the farm er. Mississippi’s extension , wor ers tcoNXinuau un paub Mercury Jumps To 102 In City, Highest In ’33 Heat records were smasher! again In Shelby yesterday when the Ebeltoft thermo meter registered 102 In the afternoon. On four previous days during the hot spell this year, the mercury had rlfmb , ed to 101, one of the days be ing Monday, but yesterday's heat provided a new high. The mercury was back In the high nineties today with the prospect of showers tonight or tomorrow. Gardens and crops In this section are continuing to suf fer from the lack of rain and the continued heat. Baby Girl Left At Belwood Home On Tuesday Mom Note Tells Name Of Child No Clue To People Who Left Glr And Clothes On Porch Of Lutz Home. ‘Tm here. My name is Betty Jean, and I was bom on Febru ary 2, 1933.” That was the message on thi card pinned to the dress of a four months-old baby girl found on thi porch of the Joe G. Lutz home a Belwood early yesterday morning. Around daylight the Lutz famil; was awakened by the cries of i baby. Going to the front porch thei fonnrt thp uhonHonpH hahv ortrl am the note. By the baby’s side was a travel tng bag with clothes, also a thermo bottle filled with milk and two ad ditional bottles oY milk. About thi bag*or botHes there was nothin! whereby the people leaving thi baby there could be traced. A Nash vllle, Tenn., address was on thi travelling bag but that was consld ered very little clue. Wilbur, son of Mr. Lutz who livei with his father, stated yesterdaj that they heard no noise during thi night and not until the baby wai heard crying about sunup Tuesdaj morning. About the yard and from porch, he said, there were no tracki or clues to indicate how the peoph who left the baby there might havi been travelling. The baby was described as t healthy, good-looking little girl who is seemingly getting along fim after being given attention bj members of the Lutz family. Just what may be done wit! "Betty Jean” had not been decidec yesterday, but many people havi visited the home to see the infani and discuss Its mysterious cominf into the Belwood community. Belk-Stevens Store Is Greatly Enlarged Adjoining Store Rented For ’bresi Department. Three Main St. • Entrance*. • Belk-Stevens Co. has leased at additional store room from Dr. S. S Royster on S. LaFayette street, th< new store room to be used as an up to-date dress shop. In addition tc women's wear, this department will handle infants and children’! apparel and thousand of dollars worth of summer merchandise has been received to stock this new de part, so announced Mr. A. V. Beck manager, this morning. Mr. W. S. Creighton, merchan dise manager of the Belk-Steveqi store at Winston, has been here as sisting Manager Beck is supervis ing the remodelling of the store ant the restocking an^i rearranging 01 displays. An arch-way has been cul in the wall, thus connecting the three jstore rooms. The piece good! department has been greatly en larged and larger stocks and dis plays of merchandise put in everj department. There will be an opening Thurs day morning of the new dress shop for women, infants and children and Manager Beck says the broad ening of the store means that the company is here to stay. Eli Roberts III ..Eli Roberts, 90, one of the coun ty’s most highly respected colored citizens. Is reported to be desperate ly 111 at his home just east of sbei tjy Masonic Meeting A regular meeting of Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. and A M. will br Held Friday night at 8 o’clock. County Board To Fix 1933 Budget At Special Meeti _ I Want Bill* In By Next Monday County Accountant Ask* That Alt June Accounts Be Settled By First Of Week. The Cleveland county commis sioners will hold a special session here on Monday at which time they will take up the. tentative oounty budget, for 1933, as outlined by Troy , McKinney, county accountant, and will likely adopt a budget in order \ to fix a tax levy' when further fig- 1 urea are concerned. The tentative budget figures which will be considered call. It Is understood, for a sizeable reduction In county expense and may result in a reduction of the county tax levy. Need Bills In. In order to close the books for the year ending this month and to lay the basts for the 1933' budget, the I commissioners hope to get all tbe June bills and accounts against the oounty in for the special session Monday. Individuals and firms who have accounts should have them in with the accountant by that time, or they will be carried over into the July bills In order to close the busi - ! ness for the present fiscal year . Although the new budget may be > adopted at Monday’s meeting there , is little likelihood that the 1933 tax levy will be fixed at the meeting. ’ This matter will be delayed In all i probability because Information ■ must be secured from Raleigh as to 1 valuations, etc., corporation*. , M. And J. Finance Pay* It’* Dividend 'At'i meeting* irf the director* of 1 the Merchants and Jobbers Finance corporation held Friday evening at ! the Carl Thompson lumber com pany office, the regular two per cent quarterly dividend was order 1 ed paid. Checks will be mailed out to shareholders to the amount of ; $2,000. Fred W. Blanton, treasurer, says there has been a $50,000 Increase In the total assets of the finance com 1 pany within the last year. This quarterly dividend Is the twelfth ' consecutive quarterly dividend the company has paid. Mr. Wright Makes 104 Bu. On 3 Acres C, R. Wright has threshed his wheat and he has a yield which will be hard to beat in Cleveland coun ty. Off of three acres he made 106 bushels. When asked what variety the wheat Is, he quickly replied: “Roosevelt Variety." It is better known however, as red chaff. Can you answer 14 of these test i questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. Where did the minuet origin ate? 2. What Is Unter den Linden? 3. What nickname was given the U. 8. 8. Constitution? 4. Where do the remnants of the Mission Indians live? 5. In which book of the Bible is the story of the seven fat years and the seven yean years? 6. In what part of Manhattan Is Wall street? 7. In what part of the world is the Upas tree native? 8 In which state is the city of Brockton? 9 Where is Juba river? 10. Name the first stat^ admitted to the union after the ratification of the constitution. 11. Name the largest of the Great Lakes. 12. Who was Charlotte Bronte? 13. Where ia the University of Upsala? 14. Hold often did the year of Jubilee occur among the Jews? 15. What is the name of an alloy of copper and tin? 16. How many states must ratify a constitutional amendment to make it effective? 17. When does an eclipse of the sun occur? 18. For whom is the state of Maryland named? 19. Who was the hero of the ! Jewish war of independence against 'the Syrian Kings tn the second •citury B. C,? I 20. What was Brook Farm? Answering Survived Kansas City Shooting R E. Vetterli (left), Kansas City Federal agept, and Frank Smith, Oklahoma City detective, who survived the withering machine gun Maui, with which gangsters killed four detectives and cx-convict' they were taking to Leavenworth Penitentiary. They are shown after the shoot ing at the Union Depot In Kansas City. New Tax Schedule Now In Effect; Includes Signs, Sports, Tourist Houses; Sales Tax Comes July 1st Athletic Contest*, Tourist Homes. Coal, Chain Stores, Pool Rooms, Etc, Many new state license taxes be came effective in North Carolina on June 1st and the general sales tax; which must be passed on to the public will become effective July 1, The general assembly gave ma ture consideration to this subject and determined to extend the scope of taxation of the Itinerant sale of merchandise. The amount of the annual license tax on peddling was greatly reduced. The former tax on peddling with motor vehicle was $100 for each county. This was re duced to $25 for each courity, plus 3 per cent upon all sales made. Counties, cities and towns may levy the same annual license tax. These changes affect many established distributors of merchandise, as well as the ordinary peddler from house to house. Athletic contests: Baseball, foot ball, boxing, wrestling, etc. A tax of $6.00 for each location plus 3 per cent on gross receipts. Boarding houses: Advertising for transient patronage, and all having more than 15 boarders whether ad vertising or not, $2 00 per room with minimum of $10.00 Loan companies or agencies: $500.00. Morticians or .embalniers: A per sonal privilege tax of 10.00 If gross receipt exceeded $1,000 In preceding year and $5.00 if less than $1,000. Toll bridges: $5.00 plus 3 percent of gross receipts. • Tourist camps or homes: $2.00 per room with minimum of $10.00. Automatic machines: Typewrtt tCONTINUSD ON PAUE KlUH l ■ First National Bank Plans Near Final Stage For Early Opening Reconstruction Attorney Whitlock t Gives His Approval Of Legal | f Papers. 1; _ I Plans for tlje reopening of the First National bank on an unre stricted basis are in their final stages and a definite annuoncement as to the opening date Is expected within a few days. Paul O. Whitlock, Charlotte at torney for the Charlotte branch of the Reconstruction Finance cor poration was here yesterday and approved all legal papers drawn and sxecuted in connection with the sank and its officers. Many of these japers have to be recorded in Cleveland, Gaston and Rutherford •ounties and this will be completed oday. It, Is learned fh&t the dorumen s c f e t d i t d c h n n ary stamps required by the federa overnment for recording thes apers cost $1,300. A special orde 'a» made by Postmaster Quinn fo Lamps of large, denominations ii rder to keep from covering up thi apers with stamps. Bank clerks will be busy for sev ral dqys making out the participn on certificates to the 6,000 or mon epositors, evidence of their shan i collected papier charged out o le bank's assets and accepted bi epoeitors in lieu of the twenty pei *nt of their detxwlts which the} aived One Day's Notice Since Attorney P C. Whitlock as approved all papers, he is com unicattng today with Washington atlfying them that alt papiers are iconrtNUEo on mu* wqht.i County Heads Will Confer About Roads In Cleveland Count} Commissioner* Will See Chalrma Jeffres* In Raleigh On Friday. County Commissioners Joe I Blanton, J. L, Herndon and J I Morris and County Attorney Peyto McSwaln will go to Raleigh Frida where they will confer with K. l Jeffress, state highway chalrmai about additional roads for th county. The county was promised seven new highway links some time ng but the road building program wi held up by a stfttc deficit. Now thf federal funds are available the ol flclals hope to get the road Wot done In the county. They have a engagement, with dhalrman Jel freM at II o'clock Friday morning They will return by way of Chap Hill to attend the better goverr ment Institute, Representative Gar ner, County Solicitor C. C, Horn an others may go down for the Chapi Hill session. • Cotton Closes Up Fifteen Points Todaj Cotton on the New York exchang closed today fifteen points ubov yesterday's close. July closed i 1.28 and Oct. at 9.54. The marke was nervous for awhile because c She uncertainty over the acreag reduction plan which the depart ment of agrlrulture is undertaktn to put Into effect. Possibility Now Of Getting Court Room Here Also Look For Temporary Office 0uar(ert Inspector* And Fn*lnr*m Her* looking Over Temporary Office Hite*. Actual construction work on the enlarging of the Sbaiby post office with Ihe possible addition of a fed eral court, room may be started within the next. »0 day*. I Tbla was learned here today aft i er three government, official* had spent two days In Shelby going (War plans for the enlarged federal building and inspecting altos for a temporary location of the post of fice while the new hulldlng Is under construction One of the three offloials here was a representative of t.he poet of fice department, end the others were from the treasury depart,ment. Find Kites The three officials, it; is said, looked over a number of prospec tive sites for the temporary post, office and found several which they considered to bo suitable. The gov ernment, they were quoted as say ing, will have to advertise for com pcll live bids for the temporary lo cation and I hen select one from the bide The postal force will then be moved and work started on the building. This will require around no days, they told Postmaster J. H Quinn. 10 Months Work The construction work will require around W months time, It, is esti mated, and the office will have to ha In temporary quarters that long Court Room The original plans for the en larging of the federal building here was thought to have Includod plans for adding another floor to the building to be used as a federal courtroom. Some time ago It waa learned that the court room was not. Included in the tentative plans and had not been provided for in Ihe appropriation. This was disap pointing locally. But yesterday one r of the three officials, an engineer, was asked if H would be possible to , Include a court room In the plan! this late and he Is reported to have stated that It was not too late. As a result of this Information it is , understood that Federal Judge ®. , Y. Webb, Postmaster Quinn and n others will attempt to have the y court room included In the plans , for the enlarged building. The etv I. ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE EIQHT.t 8 J O ,t k n >l d d >1 r e e t t f 8 l I 1 > Three Children Die; Two Today Sheriff Cline, G. C. Keever And CL B. Williams Lowe Their Chil dren. Three children have died in and near Shelby within the past few days Elizabeth Ann Cline, 13 months old daughter of Sheriff and Mrs. Raymond Cline died at the home of its parents Tuesday, Jack, (he four months old child of Mr. land Mrs. G. V. Keever died at the home of its parents on Buttle street at midnight last night and Oliver. 10 year old son of Mr, and Mrs. G. B Williams died near Elizabeth church Saturday morning Elizabeth Ann Cline had been sick with whooping cough and measles, two diseases which have been rath er general over the county this spring. On Monday the child be came worse and the end <*ame this morning at 3 o'clock. She was a bright and promising child and a great Joy in the home. Surviving are her parents, two brothers and two sisters. Funeral services will be conducted by Dr. Zeno Wall at Elizabeth Baptist, church Thursday morning at 11 o'clock Jack Keever died at the home of Its parents, Mr and Mrs. G. C. Kee ver on Buttle street shortly before midnight last night. The Zttle one had been sick for two days with colitis and pneumonia. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from the residence by Dr. E. K. McLarty. Interment takes place In Sunset cemetery. Besides the parents, one brother Bobby and two sisters, Betty Jean and Murial. survive. Oliver C. Williams, 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Williams was bujried at Beaver Dam church Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Pu ueral services were conducted by Rev. H E Waldrop. Oliver wis sick only a few days Besides the par ents. six sisters and six brothers survive. ■