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SM / f 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 79 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) o»t rut. <la adVaaMt - u.*u W t ate News THE MARKETS Cettp"- ----- eU ton - S3 csr) ton 10 to 10 vie _ 18.00 st*f «r) t/,n - 20.00 1; Rain Tonight -vs North Carolina Weather , t Generally fair tonight and »v preceded by local thunder Matnn this afternoon or late to Xm *js sooth central portions and t portion Tuesday. Boardman Dies Of Injuries By UNITED PRESS Hfijsioolis, July 3.—Russel! Soardreao holder of the American lo-f distance flying record, who injured here Saturday while piloting his plane in the Bendix nie. died today I I Hurricane nits Cuba Area By UNITED PRESS Havana, Cuba, July 3.—A violent hurricane which struck the western coast o! Cuba early today passed 0Bt to the northwestward towards the Gulf of Mexico after doing con pderable damage on the island. Casualties are undetermined. Driver Hurt As Trailer Ploughs Into Truck Front _ Louis Green Has Leg Broken And Head Hurt. Now In Petersburg Hospital Louis Green, convoy truck driver for the K. and S. trucking firm with headquarters in Shelby, was badly injured in a truck accident near Petersburg late yesterday, Sun day evening, according to informa tion here. Greeii was en route to New York with one of the large K. & S. trucks when in some manner, according to reports, the big truck trailer tore loose and plunged through the driv er's cab Green, it is said, suffered a broken leg and a crushed fTead. He was taken to a hospital in Peters burg M. M. Stewart, official of thp trucking firm, and Green’s wife and two t'. ildren are en route to Peters burg today. The relief driver of the truck was said to be asleep at the time while > awaiting his turn at the wheel and ,50 far as Is known he was not in - ■ jured m the accident. [ Gre*n is a native of the Moores ‘ boro- llenboro section. Miss Witherspoon Passes This Morn '”! Will Be Held Tuesday From! Lutheran Church, Grandmoth er 101 Years Of Age. Thss morning at 7 o’clock. Miss rilhe Witherspoon died at the some of her sister, Mrs. H. E. Par ts m the Ross Grove community, following a protracted illness. Miss Witherspoon was 35 years of age and vas borr! in Catawba county. She Tas educated at the Cullowhee nor »a! and taught public schools for a number of years in Catawba coun ty In early life Miss Witherspoon Joined the Lutheran church and was * -S-ittifui member, taking an ac tn'e part as long as her health would permit, she underwent an operation in March of this year Surviving are two full sister, Mrs - t Parris of Shelby, Mrs. Herbert Bigmon of Newton, two half sisters, O. H. McGee of Newton and if*, Charlie Swift of Washington, D C one half brother, J. c With arspoon of Charlotte. Her grand tnothei Mrs. Rosa Ann Lutz, also survives m Catawba county at the *ge of 101 years. Hr E C Cooper, pastor, conducts ?U,*ra‘ at the Lutheran church 11 °’clock Tuesday and in ™nt Wll! follow in Sunset ceme Publir Accept* Sales M -Ti Good Humor ^’though there is consider; ewtfusicm among the merchants classes of merchan teles tav* 5®thod ot aPPlying __ a* the public accepted ii K?®8® Saturday, the first vhe^'Lf the customers laug *a«c tiv ' P8'!d the three per ( tv,* „ . lnd seemed to underst chairs State la*and ^tan Sd in !n The sales tax was ^ whStd °f the 15c 'onsuSS nSbeentaken off’ sc [state SSaTof re!,nue into enj "ad of only property o 5e,1h McCarley, of del* r~;„bTathe- Mt r -hu Mrs. Carley. Several Changes At City Hall, Others Rumored This Week Several Badly Hurt In Sunday Fights, Accidents In County Most Merchants Use Schedule 3 To Levy | Consumers Sale Tax j Shelby Merchant* J Met Friday Majority Fa!! In One Of Four Class ifications. No Tax Under lSe Purchases. Several methods of passing the new sales tax on to consumers un der the new North Carolina law were put into, effect here Saturday, but most of the retail establish ments are operating under schedule 3 which does not require the con sumer to pay on purchases under 13 cents. A meeting of merchants was held in the court house Friday afternoon and after a thorough discussion of the various schedules, they divided themselves into groups of hardware, general stores, drug store, furniture, and grpcery stores in order to de cide on which classification their particular kind of business would fall. There was considerable confusion at first but by today each store has adopted a schedule under which ft will operate and indications are that so far as the managers are concerned, it is clear in their minds, but customers will be slow* to un derstand why one store charges a sale tax and another does not. In es’ery instance, however, the sales tax is passed along to the custom er, either in the price of the mer chandise or a separate tax levy shown on each purchase ticket. The merchants present voted un animously to show the sales tax separate from the price of merchan dise, in the hope that the system will become so unpopular that it will be repealed when the general assembly meets again While merchants are not allowed to advertise that they will absorb the sales tax, they may mark up their merchandise to include the tax and It is understood unoffi cially that this will be the system for a majority of the chain grocery stores The schedules under which stores (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT i Rev, M. B, Woosley, Newton Passe* Today A telephone message this morn ing to C. S. Young of Shelby from his brother at Newton announced the death m a Statesville hospital at 7 o’clock of Rev. M. B. Woosley, age 39 years. Mr. Woosley was a son of Rev J. E. Woosley who served the Belwood charge for about six years. He is well known in Cleve land county where he spent several years of his younger life. He was married to a Miss Warlick of Gran ite Falls who survives with two children. Funeral services will be held Tues day at Newton and interment will take place at Granite Falls Meteor Over County On Saturday Morn Residents of the county report j hearing an unusual noise, something I like a rumble or a blast, in the air overhead Saturday morning and it was thought the noise may have been caused a falling meteor. J. W. Hartgrove. rural mail carrier, says that citizens in the Beams Mill and other sections heard the strange noise around 10 In the morning Later it was reported that a meteor fell some time Saturday in the Spartanburg section. Cleveland Far men Which To Sip Signing Fairly Good To Date Bui Must Be Rushed Along This Week. Cleveland county cotton farm ers have the remainder of this week in which to sign contracts that they will reduce their cot ton acreage 30 per cent accord ing to the government’s reduc tion program to boost the price signing has been fairly good ' so far bet the desired quota has ; a net been reached and the work { Company K. To Entrain July 8 ForEncampment Six**- Trust Men Under Cxet. Peyton McSwain Go To Morehead City On j Saturday For Two Weeks Final preparations are under way! for the annual encampment of Co j “K", local unit of the 120th Infantry j The company will entrain at 5 00 j P. M, on Saturday, July 8. This. ! year’s encampment will be held at j Camp Glenn, Morehead City, the usual site for Infantry companies from this state. An advance detachment will j leave on Thursday, July 6, It will be their duty to have the mess hall and kitchen in readines for the com pany when it arrives on Sunday morning. This detachment will be composed of Second Lt. Andrew W. McMurry, Mess Sgt. William Huff man and First Cook Kendrick Jack son, The company is all set to carry off first honors this year. Much time has been spent on rifle marksman ship and drill regulations. An ex cellent baseball team will again take the field in an effort to retain the Camp championship which they won last year. Entrants have been picked for the boxing and field day activities, and it is expected the company will again rank high in these contests. Capt. Peyton McSwain and First Lt. Henry C, Long will be in charge of toe company as it leaves here 64 strong. Besides the officers the following men will make the trip: First Sgt. Lawrence Runyans, Sgts.; Dweila. L. Grant, Loy S Hoffman, George B. Peeler, Forrest R, Warlick, Brooks L. Williams, Willie B. Wright Corporals Ray E. Brown, William G. Duncan, Forrest J. Grayson, Thompson M. Grigg. Everett W. Howell, Odus Irvin, Clarence G. Queen, Alfred R. Ward: First Class Privates Claude E. Allen, Purvis Barrett, Earnest Carter, Bynum P. Cook, Joseph T Curtis, Jap Dayberry, Paul C Eddins, Paul S. Gibson, Ray E. Gibson, Kendrick Jackson, Raymond Lewis, Horace O. McKee, Coren H. McSw'ain, Mar vin Turner, George W. Upton, Ben nett D. Wright; Privates Eugene Black, Gordon W. Blalock, Wilburn A. Byers, Paul Carpenter, Oliver C. Connor. Robert. E. Crosby, Woodrow H. Davis. Tom S. Ellis, Rlirvin W Oamhlp TTukor* Wnff. man, Ray H Hoffman, John C Humphries, Wayne B. Hunt, Obie Irvin, Paul Irvin. Gene A Johnson, David P. Ledford, Osborne W Lee. Harlin W McSwain. Palmer Y. McSwain. Clayton N Newton, Harry S. Putnam. William N. Quinn. Otlia W. Roberts, Earnest W. String fellow, Norman E. Taylor, Willie W. Williams, James, B. Wilson, Guy H. Wortman, Lawrence W Wortmar., Lawrence V. Wright Cotton Up Today Cotton advanced on the New York exchange today from 13 to 20 points, July closing at 10.25 and Oc tober at 10.62. Stocks were also strong, many of the leading issues registering gams of from one to four points. With steel production1 on, U. S. Steel advanced to $62 e share, a gain of $3 » Have Week In Cotton Contract: must be rushed In order to get enough signed by Saturday. There will be no farm to farm solicitation and all who desire i to sign are urged to see the committee in their township or visit the office of the farm agent at the cop* house here. Unless the requMM number sign (be program for Increasing the price will not be carried out > Which means that the definite outcome of the plan rests this week in the hands of the cotton farmers Huffman Shot By Davenport; Youth! Breaks His Neck Youth In Critical Condition Now Beiwood Boy Breaks Neck In Div ing. Grover Man Suffers Fracture. Three people are in the Shel by hospital today suffering with more or less serious injur ies and one may die aa the re mit of several fight* and acci dents in Shelby and the county Sunday and Sunday night. The injured are: | Bill Huffman, well known young Shelby man. who Is suf fering from gunshots in the left hand and forearm said to have been tarfbeted by Clarence Davenport. Edward Hubbard. IS, of Bel wood. whose neck wa* broken when he dived into shallow wa ter Sunday afternoon. G. W. Rogers, of Grover, who ha* a compound fracture of the skull as the result, It is said, of a fight with John Plummer. Seriously Hurt. Young Hubbard, son of Noah Hubbard, well known Bel wood citi zen. is in more serious condition than the others. He dived, it is said, into shallow water In a pond along Maple. Creek near Belwood yesterday. The water was only about two feet deep according to reports, and his head crashed against the bottom with such force that his neck was broken. He was conscious when brought to the hospital late yester day afternoon but was reported as being unconscious today and para lyzed from the waist down. His con dition was described at the hospital as critical. Shooting Affair. According to Police Chief Mc Bride Poston, Huffman was shot . around 9 o’clock last night by Clar ence Davenport at the residence on South LaFayette where both families live. Some family trouble Is said to have developed between the two and the climax came, it was said, when Davenport secured a shotgun and entered a room where Huffman was The later is alleged to have picked ( up a stool Just before Davenport fired. The load of shot tore through the stool and struck Huffman in the ' left hand, wrist and forearm. The stool may have saved his life, ac cording to officers. Huffman was rushed to the hospital where it, was reported today that his condition t was considered as satisfactory. Some ( time after the shooting Chief Pos ton and Policeman Sparks, Stamey and Hardin caught Davenport in a ! cornfield near the home He was < lodged in jail charged with an *s CONTINO'EU ON PAOI CIO Hi ■ I ; ---- • —i i Try Answering These i i Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page 2 for the answers. 1. What is bullion? 2. Has Mussolini ever visited the U. S.? 3. Who wrote the ballad "Kath leen Mavoumeen?” 4. Where is the city of Johan nesburg? 5. Who was Philippe De Rigaua, Marquis of Vaudreuil? 6. What is the origin of the quo tation, “Such stuff as dreams are Aiade of"? 7. Name the. first important bat tle of the Civil war? 8. Name the capital of Norway? 9. Of what U S. territory is Ko diak island a part? 10 In Scotch dialect what does the word "kirk” mean? !!. On what river is the famous watering place of Carlsbad’ 12. What city in the U. S. leads in the production of iron and steel? 13. What is the principal ingred ient of vaseline? 14. Who wrote "Pride and Pre judice”? 15. In what part of Europe is the Balkan peninsula? 16. How old is Greta Garbo? 17. On the site of what ancient Egyptian city is the modern village of Karnak? 18. Name the largest river ir South America. 19. Who resides in the Palace q the Vatican? 20 Name the governor of Pa. -t>i ( i £ i 1 1 I 1 1 r ( t i e i 1 \ 1 S « ! c Shelby Used More Water In June Than In Any Month, Record Shows :Hv Consumed Over M Million Gal lons Of Water In Hottest Month In Yean. Shelbv rtttiens consumed more '■ater during the last month than n any one month since the est.ab lfthment of the city water plant, ac ordlng to the record of R. V. Toms, uperintendent of the elty water lepartment. According to Mr. Tom'* record a otal of 30.432.000 gallons of water ra* used by the city during one of he hottest and driest months on ecord here. This was approximately » million gallons more water than used in one month heretofore. The record month In the past was In the summer of Mttfi when something over 19 million gallons were con sumed. Despite the record consumption In June, the last, month of the city's fiscal year, the total conaumptlnn for the year ending June 30. 1933, was not very much more than for the previous year, ending .June 30, 1933. For the year ending Friday night, the total water consumption in Shelby was 196.0S9.000 and for the previous year 196.071,000 gal ' loris Garibaldi Speaks At Lions Clab Ladies Night Banquet And Dance Two-Cent Stamp* In U*€ On Local Mai! Here Again The old two-rent stamp h»> staged somewhat, of a eonw back In Shelby—staged ft Sat urday, July 1. A reduced pontage rate on first class local Shelby mall went Into effect Friday mid night. Letters handled by the Shel by postoffice atone will coal two cents to mall, instead of three. That Is to say. any tattei mailed h» Shelby for local de livery may carry a two-oenl •tamp. The same applies te mall to and from rural routes served by the local poatofflce Any letter addressed for de livery through any other post offloe will be returned to the sender amd not forwarded to Its destination for postage due. 88 Delegate* At Presbyterian Meet ^tB.S.Last Week fating People Conference With Delegates From Five Counties Came To Close Friday. The Young Peoples conference of he Kings Mountain Presbytery omprising Gaston. Lincoln. Cleve snd, Rutherford and Polk counties nnual session at Bolling Springs ollege came to a close Friday. Rev. W. M. Currie of Belmont 7as In charge, of the conference. He ras assisted by Rev. J. H Dultn «stor of Armstrong Memorial ‘resbyterian church, of Gastonia, halrman of young people's work n religious education, and Miss larah Gardner, secretary of rellg 3Us education. The teaching faculty was com osed of: Mr Currie, Bible; Mrs. V. M Eaker, of Mebane. young eople’s methods; Rev. Willis 8. Vilson, DD, of Lincolnton, church ilstory: Rev. A. R. Craig, of China, lisslons. Rev. J. H Renderlite, D.D., of iastonta, delivered brief vesper alks Tuesday and Thursday even ngs. On Wednesday evening the ntlre conference attended services t the Presbyterian church In Shel y. The evening message on Tuesday ;a& In the form of an Illustrated icture on mission work in China, iven by Mr Craig. On Thursday vening Rev. W T Smith of Unity 'resbyterian church In Lincoln ounty made the address. This i CONTINUED ON PaGME EIGHT i Vi!l Name Manager County Home Today A manager for the Cleveland county home will likely be nam ed by the county commissioners here this afternoon. The place Is filled each year In July, and John T. Borders Is the present manager of the home and farm Around 10 or 12 men are under stood to be applicants for the lob. and reports Indicated that the place !s bet wen “two or three" and will be filled today. | Osborae Installed As President HsJ’vwy Will* PtsmbM With Mirter Key. Th« high spot tn the histoiy of the Lion* oluh was touched here Friday night at the annua! ladies night program when 125 or more Suests and visitors attended the banquet and dance at the Hotel Charles at which Hon. Joe Garibaldi of Charlotte was the principal speaker President. Harvey White presided over the banquet tn a gracious man ner and announced that during the year the, two outstanding achieve ments of the club were an Increase in membership from 17 to 80 and the sponsorship of the children's playground on the B. T. FeMs prop erty near the court, square. Guy Bagwell, district trustee of the »lst district presented keys to the members who had performed faithful service In the drive for new members while a master key was presented to Harvey White, presi dent of the club during the past year when its growth was most marked. Bill Osborne was installed as the new president by Mr. Bagwell as well as the other Incoming officers, Lions B B Matthews, H C. Dixon, Tom Cornwell, J. C. Bowling, Jesse White. Joe Wright and B. H. Ken dall The Lions club ts the youngest civic, organization in America, yet H has a membership of 80,000 in five different, countries. The member ship In Shelby during the past year was larger than any other club In this territory. Speaker Oaribaldi was Introduced icoHTWtrED on rsor eiam • Prices Raised By The Dry Cleaners Loc^l Cleaning Plants Agree to Price Increase Dae to Taxes. Dry cleaning price* went up in Shelby today approximately 25 per cent. The dry cleaners of the city have It Is reported, agreed upon a price scale and increase which is attrib uted to an increase in taxes and the demand for higher wages. Legion Will Meet j Here Tuesday Night The Warren Hoyle American Le gion poet will hold a meeting Tues day night at the Legion hall on West Marion street. J. S Dorton post commander, urges that all members be present A number of Shelby and Cleve land county veterans are in Winston Salem today attend the reunion of the 81st ^Wildcat) division Production Unable To Keep Up With Orders Dining Last Week Upturn Is Business In Nation Con tinue* At Vigorous Face. New York, July 3.—Major events Business has rebounded from Its all time low levels of three months ago,*’ asserted the agency, “doubt less is without parallel m the his tory of the country.” in the business and trade situation during the past week indicate that the upturn is continuing in a vig orous way “and reaching all parts of the country in its irfcluslvene&s,” -»id Dun and Bradstreet review to day •'The momentuuxn which general “Prom a position where mer chandise could not be moved at any price, the nationwide buying wave has gathered such force that an actual shortage of goods now Is becoming apparent in some trades with orders in excess of current pro joaNiwuiiB on real noitu Wilkins Police Chief, Harris City Manager City Manager Will & Barris. former iwal MUtf and Insurance Agent, and a new member of the Shelby city council, war named city manager at the find ROMlnn of the new hoard of aider men Saturday. Thta la the fleet time the city haa taken up the city man ager plan. No Hilary waa fixed for the office when It waa filled hut thla and other detaMa will probably he attended to at a meeting of the board Tueeday night. Mayor Pro Ton Seriously Sick In Shelby Home 3. P. Austell Became 111 Yeeterday During Church Service. No Change. J. P Austell, one of Shelby’s new aldermen who took office Saturday and was immediately thereafter named mayor pro tern, la seriously sick today at hJs home on Went Warren street. Mr. Austell, veteran Shelby bar ber, became 111, It Is said, while at tending church yesterday. Reports today had it that, he had suffered s hemorrhage but this could not be verified. It was said today that he was about, the same and that he was considere dto be seriously sick. The nature of his ailment has not been determined definitely, but x ray photos are to be made within the next day or so when he regains some strength. Rev. D. F. Putnam 111 At Hi* Home Here Rev. D P Putnam has been 11! for a week or two at his home on West Warren street, suffering in tensely from a long standing trou ble. Some years ago he underwent an operation, but the trouble has. returned and he has been having hemorrhages. Mr. Putnam Is a pop ular minister serving several rural churches and his many friends ere hoping for a speedy recovery. Roosevelt Headed Back To Hi* Job By UNITED PRESS Annapolis, Md July 3 —The cruis er Indianapolis with President Franklin Roosevelt aboard anchored in Annapolis Roads today. The President Is returning to the Job after his first brief vacatton. Board Meet* Again Tu and a y Ere Former Rhertff Nncwb MeBrMe P onion. New AMmutf C% Manager. The rumored shake-up the Shelby city hall with t.he change m administrations came with llght nlng-Hkc rapidity at, a meattng of the Ingoing board ahortly after members thereof were sworn tn Sat in rley morning Debrn T». Wtlldns, former sheriff and State revenue official, wu nam ed chief of police to succeed Chief McBride Poston, and Will C. Har ris, new alderman from Ward Four, was named city manager, an ofllce heretofore unfilled aa a separata unit. J. P. A us tall, new alderman from Ward Three, was named may or pro tarn to Mayor MeMurry. suc ceeding z. J, "Thompson, mayor pro lam of the outgoing board, Other Changes* These were the major changes of the Satuday morning shake-up hut general reports over the week-end hinted that there might be several other changes tn city three* at or following the first regular meeting of the new board Tuesday night The present, board is composed of R. O. Holland, Ward One aider man; D. W. Royster, Ward two, re elected alderman; J. P. Austell, Ward Three, and W, C. Harris, Ward Four. The news of the naming of a city manager came somewhat at • sur prise to the city at large, and al though a ohange. in police chleft I had been rumored there was no definite knowledge that such would he done. The new chief, Mr. Wilkins, is one of the city's best, known cjtl zen* He served for si* years as sheriff of Cleveland county and has been oonneeted with the State revenue department for d* and a hsff years, his position with that department ending Friday night, the night prior to his election a* police chief How Named. A record of the minutes of th* uunru incrbujK the change* were made shows that Aldermen Austell was nominated for mayor pro tern by Alderman Harris and seconded In- Alderman Holland. One AgaisMt. Alderman Harrte was nominated for city manager by Alderman Hol land and seconded by Alderman Austell. The record shows that three I CONTINUED ON SAGE BSOfTI «, PoUcrfMe Yoju^u On Lake Trip 10th A meeting of the PdkviUe chap ter of Young Tar Heal Fanners Mil be held Wednesday n%bt to make plans for the annual trip to an en campment, at Whit* Lake. All who plan to make the trip on July 10 are asked to be present as the exact number must be known by Wednesday night. Members of the chapter will be given preference but other youths may be taken. The transportation cost of the trip will be $2, the camp fee $228 plus the food quota. The trip Includes four days at White Lake, one day at ! Carolina Beach and a sightseeing : tour of Raleigh, the State capital. I on the return. Baptists Raise $3,100 On Building Fund i In a collection taken Sunday at the First Baptist church on the building fund, a total of 13,100 was realised. A total of $4,000 is being sought and It Is. expected that the remainder of the amount necesaarv will be raised this week. The First Baptist owes on church and personage, a total of $58,000 which Is considerable 1ms than was owing when the building was fin ished. Court House, Some Store* Will Close The county court house will be closed all day tomorrow fur the Fourth of July, It was announced today. A big percentage of the local stores and business houses will also be closed for the day. Some at the hardware, grocery and other stores expect, however, to remain open but l majority at the department stores will ha cloaea far the day
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