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M vaumd SM 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIX, No. 86 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, JULY 19, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Hj Man 0*1 '>rrl»i n*t mi iln adyariMl ui. »a»i, iln «f|T«no*. on. Itate News XHK MARKETS _11 to ll'%t Cotton, spo- . 1K Of, Seed Ht^on. ton . ”«■ g^d (car) ton .—. J Rain Thursday Todays’ North Carolina Wealher B^pnrt; Occasional showers tonight *nd Thursday. By UNITED PRESS The wet parade rolled on today' _#h the additional momentum ofj uo more States which have voted for repeal- The voters of Arkansas >nd Alabama, the first Southern states to vote on repeal, yesterday voted for repeal of the prohibition amendment by substantial margins. Although an official count was not; available both States were safely in; (hP repeal column. Arkansas by aj ratio of five to three, and Alabama bv three to two. This makes 18 oul nf is States voting which have voted for repeal, or half of the 36 neces- j vary to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment. Tennessee, another Southern State, is voting today. Post Continues His Flight By UNITED PRESS Irkutsk. Siberia, July 19.—Wiley post took off at midnight. EOT. to day for Blagoveschensk, continuing his effort to better the round-the world flight record set by himself and Gatty two years ago. He was sighted over Verkhneudinsk. 130! miles east, at 1:55 this morning. Over 300 Income Tax-Payers Listed j For This County Mecklenburg County Has More Pay- i ing Income Tax Than Any Other County. A total of 342 citizens of Cleve-; land county paid income tax dur-j ing the calendar year of 1931, ac-; cording to a report of the treasury department from Washington. In the State of North Carolina as a whole 24.822 filed individual income tax returns. This was ap proximately 2,000 less than in 1930. Taxes paid last year by indivi duals in the state amounted to $2. 363,679 for 1931, while payments for the year 1930 were $2,954,558. Meck lenburg County, where 7,764 per sons paid, including 3,285 in the city of Charlotte, led the state in the number of persons paying in come taxes. Charlotte led the cities. The internal revenue bureau sta tistics of returns filed by individ uals in the counties and cities of the state ncluded: Buncombe County, 1.638: Asheville, 1,457; Cleveland Conty, 185; Kings Moun tain. 45; Shelby 112; Gaston Coun ty, 491; Belmont 77; Bessemer City, 4; Cherryville, 9; Dallis, 12; Gas tonia, 324; Lowell, 19; McAdenville, 3; Mount Holly, 30; Stanley, 4; Henderson County, 142; East Flat Rock, 7; Hendersonville, 121; Mc Dowell County, 103; Marion. 87; Polk County, 61; Tryon, 47; Ruth erford County. 112; Caroleen, 6; Cliffside, 7; Forest City, 28; Hen rietta, 5; Raitherfordton, 33; Spin dale, 19. Stolen Watermelons Get Boys 3 Months ^wo Nagro Yonths Sent To Gang For Stealing Watermelons From Patch. tt’s a chain gang offense to steal watermelons—provided those who do the stealing are reluctant about working. Pn county court here today Wil burn Sander and Willie Diggs, col ored youths, were given sentences of three months each on the state gang for stealing watermelons. They were charged with stealing around 25 melons from the patch of Garland white In No. 3 township. Watermelon stealing isn’t regard ed as any more serious offense these days than in the past, it was Inii mat'd m court, but testimony fought out was that the two youths _ n'P PVer worked and were not' to ered particuIarly good assets to the community. More To Take Exam por Cotton Job Here Without any explanation as to charge abnadge Gardner who has in tho °f C1Vil serv'ce examinations to how C0U,ltJ’ has been instructed 't “0ther exarnination of ap tS ^°r “llector of cotton sta at 9 ,'5^ morning July 20th Mr the Shelby postoffice. took thoardner Rays 34 applicants ago hp ehxamination a few weeks egtV ml hat been instructed that cxaminS^6 haVe apPlied and the Thursdav ° W'U ^ Riven to tbe™ PUwnu w °rninR’ makin« 43 aP* PbwnLs for cotton statistician. Shelby Post Office On Preferred List t View 3 Temporary Locations Here Bids Should Re Submitted To Post master Quinn By Friday July 28th. Washington, July 19. — The proposed new postoffice at Shel by has been placed on the pre ferred list by the supervising architect, as among those listed postoffices which will be built from previously appropriated fund as soon as the President issues an executive order lifting the previously made order. The appropriation for the Shelby postoffice building is $76,500. The supervising architect, in anticipa tion of the President at a near date lifting the stop-order, has advertised for bids to be submit ted by July 28. for new temporary quarters for the Shelby postoffice. It was stated at the office of the supervising architect that these bids would be received and that the contract would be awarded to the most satisfactory bidder as soon as funds were made avail able. The treasury department has also advertised for bids to be re ceived until August 1 for special lighting fixtures in the new Greensboro postoffice building. ' Three locations will probably be offered as temporary quarters for the Shelby postoffice while the gov ernment building is being enlarged When inspectors were here a few days ago they looked over what lo canons they thought would meet the requirements and so far the three locations which might be of feed are the Arey Building oIT South Washington street, the J. N. Dellin ger store room in the Hamrick Ar cade building on West Marion street and the old Farmers Hard ware Co. building on S. LaFayette street now occupied by Schneider's store. The specifications are rather rigid and call for the expenditure of con siderable money at any temporary location, but it is understood the (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE t Fight With Hoes Aired In Court Negro Boy And Girl Bound To Court Over Injury Of White Girl. After a hearing in county court this morning Odell Hudley, colored youth, and his sister. Laura, were bound to Superior court on a charge of assault with deadly weapon. Alex Swink. white man. was fined $15 and the costs in the same case. The case developed from a fight said to have been staged between the two young negroes and Swink and his daughter, Fannie, in a cot ton field on the V. A. Pow'ell place on May 30. Fannie Swink was struck on the head with a hoe and severe ly injured, being in the hospital in Shelby for three weeks. The Hud leys said they were in a field they were working while the Swinks said they were in their own field when the mix-up took place. Hie color ed girl was alleged to have been struck by a rock thrown by Swink while Swink was hit by a rock thrown by the colored boy. The wbAte girl who was injured said she was hit with a hoe by the colored boy, but the colored girl testified that she did the hitting and not her brother and her broth er gave the same testimony. All were tenants upon the Powell farm. Call Off Game On Here Today The game between tht Cleveland Cloth Mill and tht Chester team seheduled foi the Shelby park this after noon was railed off this morn ing because of rain and wei grounds. The Shelby team will not play another game until Friday when the Ruth erford Owls comes here for the deciding game In semi pro championship series. (Other Sports on Page 9) Employment Bo art Is Selected Here Five Men To Act In Advisory Ca parity. Will Select Director For The County. Five men have been named as th re-employment bureau for Clevelan county to act in an advisory ca pacity with a director to be name by them to supervise labor employ ment under the public works act c the recent congress. This bureau is composed of J. t Llneberger, A. E. Cline, Joh Schenck, jr., S. A. McMurry and be B. Weathers and will be separat and apart from the relief offic which will continue to operate a heretofore. Mr. Llneberger sent the names c the above committee to Raleig this week but has not stated jus what the duties of the board will tx They will select a director who wi handle all of the work, seeing tha unemployed men are put on all puo lie works carried on under the na tional recovery act. They will se that there is no unnecessary sViil of labor from one section to th other, that labor hours on puMi work jobs are adhered to and kee a record of available unemploye and the qualification for any parti cular kind of work. At all times the unemploymen bureau will work in co-operatio with the relief department whici will continue to dispense aid to re lief cases as long as funds are avail able. Two Bus Loads Of Boys Return From Chicago ExpositTor At 10 o’clock last night a true! load of school boys and eight adul men from Shelby and Belwood re turned from the Chicago expositio] after an absence of ten days. The. went under the direction of Alvii Propst, scoutmaster, on a truck own ed and driven by Mr. Peeler of Bel wood. There was not a single mis hap and the boys report a most en joyable time. Tonight, another bus load of boy in the ’teen age, most of them fron the Shelby high school, are ex pected to reach Shelby. They spen last night in Charleston, W. Va according to a telegram receivei from THden Palls, of the Shelb; school faculty, who was in charge c the boys Roosevelt Is Kept In His Room Todaj Washington, July 19.-A sligh illness President Roosevelt sufferc during his week-end cruise along th' Potomac kept him in his room agah today for the second straight day. Textile Mills Start Cautiously In 40-Hour Per Week Work Program uAWHtiTKo tu vmciiaiii t* hi Have To See Later Whether They Can Take Workers. Charlotte, July 19. — Starting cautiously because it has never be fore been regulated by Federal law, the Carolina textile industry this week joined cotton mills of the na tion in putting into effect the new code of fair competition. Operatives worked only eight hours, and they got more for their time than heretofore, but only one mill in the two states reported ad ding new employes while another discharged 65 persons because of the 80-hour limitation on operation of productive machinery. Most mills, however, were inclin ed to wait until the change in op erations can be given a trial. Ex ecutives said they were at aij “un certain stage’ and would have to see whether more workers were needed. Virtually all mills state they expected to "add a few" em The Elizabeth City cotton mill; which started "absorbing all experi enced workers” in that city and th Klumac mill at Salisbury, whicl discharged 65 employes as it ha been running three shift*, were th only ones to report any immediat action under the code. The Erwin cotton mills, with employes in plants at Durham. Coo leemee and Erwin, which have bee operating more than 100 hours tael week, met the 30-hour limit on th productive machinery by nnnounc ing it will be idle on Saturdav as well as Sundays. The Woodside and Brandon rattl in Greenville, S. C., said they wout “probably add a few but not manv new workers while the Foe mil there said it wou’d rot reed an more employes. The 104 textile plants in Go toi county, which make it the ‘combei yarn center” of the nation, report*! I CONTINUED OW PAG* NINE.) Cleveland Loses 13 Teachers From New School Plan Shelby Has Total Of 112 First Tut Down 15. Committer* Is sued Orders About Operating Schod! Buses. When the rural schools of Cleve land county begin operating next week they will have 13 less teach ers than they had last year despite an enrollment increase. Under the former school plan the county would have been entitled t< four additional teachers this year | but under the new state-w'ide eiglh - months set-up the anticipated ad ditional teachers were not secured I and the county board was notified I that 15 others would have to be cui off. J. H. Grigg. county superintend ent, made a trip, however, to Ra leigh this week, explained the hard ships that would be necessitated bj . a cut of 15 more teachers and had the reduction lessened to 13 Instead of 15. Last year the county had 304 teachers in the rural schools and e this year will have only 191. How Reduced Those of the 16 new districts, un 1 der which the schools of fhe coun " ty are now operated, lost teachers - as follows: Fallston 3: Boiling Springs, 2; and No. 1, Mooresboro 1 Beth ware, Waco. Casar, BelVood 3 Lattimore and Piedmont one each 5 All the rural schools in the coun ? ty start Monday of next week with - the exception of Lattimore which s opens tomorrow, Thursday. Supt Grigg stated today that the state f school commission had ordered that 1 the committees in all the newly out f lined districts meet some time be • fore Monday to arrange their truck 1 or bus routes. Definite instruction'; t were issued to eliminate the trans • portation of all puptls who live ■ within a radius of two miles of the e school they attend. The committees t are also instructed to eliminate all f 'CONTINUED OK PAGE NINE I i Hoyle Is Deputy Collector In N. C, , Robert A. Hoyle, of Shelby wbj , listed among the 62 field deputtei announced from Raleigh as the force tfhich will have charge of the collection of the three percent salei tax in North Carolina. Mr. Hoyle was formerly gasoline inspectoi with the State motor vehicle de partment. 1 Local Youths Will Take Exam For Bar Three Cleveland youths, on* al 1 whom still lives here, will take the r August law examination for license i to practise in North Carolina. They ■ are Reuben Elam, son of Mr. and ■ Mrs. George Elam of Shelby; Clyde • Putnam, of Tarboro, a son of Po ■ liceman and Mrs. B. E. Putnam, of Shelby, and Hermit Ross, of Cha~ 3 lotte, son of Landrum Ross of Shei i by. ,• Try Answering - - These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. r 1. Name the most famous Haitian soldier and statesman, t 2. Where is the town of Ketohi I kan? . 3. Name the capital of New Mexi { co. 4. Where did the term "bush ranger” originate? 5. Who wrote “A Forest Hymn?” 6. Name the largest city in the state of Mississippi. 7. Where did the U. S. Govern ment erect a monument to the memory of Wilbur and Orville Wright? 8. In which state is Keuka Lake? 9. Who is Isham Jones? 10. Which ancient people wor " shipped the God Osiris? " 11- Who wrote, “Plain Tales from 1' the Hills?” al 12. Name the beautiful and ac ' coti.piished daughter of Aaron Burr. 13. Where is Buckingham Palace? | 14. Name the narrow street In 1: Jerusalem which, according to tra '! dition. Jesus carried his cross to II Calvary. ' | 15. Where was Kate Smith, radio “ ■ .Ingsr, barn? "! 16. In what part of* Ireland is ; ‘ County Kerry? j 17. What American revolutionary ’■patriot and statesman wrote in his * | biography a definition of a one , hundred per pent American? 1; 18. What is the Spanish name for donkey? IP. What Ion did Raymond ' Hi .'Dim hold in Russia at the time ' of the Bolshevik Revolution? '; 20 Who wrote the novel, "The j Vicar of Wakefield?” Four Thousand Jars For Relief Gardens People Responded Well To Cell For Jan homed By The Relief Department Here. There was a ready and witting re sponse to the call for unused jars from the relief bureau, according Ic Mrs. Harry Speck. She says over 4, 000 Jars were made available as a re salt of this appeal through The Star. The county's requirements was 17,500 and a quantity of Jars was bought by the relief bureau to f«ar nish those who were encouraged to plant their own garden* and not de pend on the relief department for their food. Many gardens were planted and ki each community there was appointed a woman ex perienced in canning and preserving who taught others In her commun ity who had not had the experience Thousands of jars of fruits and vegetables have been and will be conserved as a result of the encour agement, the relief bureau ha* given •to families not accustomed to stock ing their pantry with supplies. To Post Fees From County Court Cases Should lie Called For Within 90 Days Or Money Goes To Oowrty Fund. Unclaimed witness fees in the Cleveland County recorder’* court since May, 1931, will be posted at the court house tomorrow by Wil liam Osborne, deputy clerk. These fees will be posted for 90 days and If not called for within that time will be turned over to the county’s general fund. All who may have or think they have fees which have not been claimed should call at the court house fbr them within the 90 days. Take Finger prints In D«r A ffaMi — J Burrus Johnson. colored, ateo known as Burrus Macy, was taken to Charlotte today by Deputy Bob Kendrick and Policeman McBride Poston to have his fingerprints made In connection with the robbery last week of William Halley’s Shelby tailor shop last week. Several suits and an overcoat were taken from the shop, entrance being made by a window. Shortly thereafter Johnson was arrested by Deputy Kendrick on sus picion and since fingerprints were found at the scene of the robbery he was taken to Charlotte to deter mine if they were made by him. Big Break Today In Cotton And Stocks — j There was a shake-out In the i over-bought cotton and stock markets today. Cotton closed 40 points or $2 a bale under i yesterday, Oct. at 11.48 and Dec. at 11.66. < Stocks turned weak around > noon and losses at as much as < 811 a share were chalked up. i Practically every stock on the ( board sagged a point or so and ?4 to $5 a share declines were , 1 numerous throughout the list. \ It was the most drastic decline t the stock market has experienc ed in several years. i City Licenses Nearly Complete Will Br AnnniHcMl Nut Week. No Mention Made Of Reducing bights And Water. St, the macting of the board Of aldermen last night, the city's 11 oense schedule was considered and practically agreed upon. Several schedules are being given further consideration by Mayor McMurry and will be published early next week. The city raised last year about $'1,200 from privilege license taxes, whereas at one time the revenue was about *6,000. Rt the schedule, a privilege tax Is placed on certain classes of busi ness. entertainment, dogs. etc. At the meeting the budget for the fiscal year wrs discussed. The audi tor Is now engaged In auditing the city’s books for the past year and when this is completed, the auditor will go over the budget and assist the ctty officials in completing it for submission to authorities in Ra leigh. Adi board members were present, D W. Royster. Boland Holland, W. C. Harris, wtcept J. P, Austell who continues sick at his home . No mention was made of revision or reduction of the water and light rates which was an issue in the pre election campaign. Mayor and Mrs. McMurry left this afternoon for Wrlghtsvflle Beam where he will attend a meeting of the Municipal association Several important matters concerning the cities and towns of the state will be discussed May Sell Million Bales Cotton Soon To Russia, Reported By UNITED PRESS Washington, July 19.—The Recon struction Finance corporation re ported today that the body was con sidering proposals to finance the sale of a million bales of cotton to Russia. Well Informed quarters said the transaction had the endorse ment of persons close to the agri cultural adjustment branch of the administration. Public Recovery Drive Turns Upon Methods Of Putting Others To Work - /iir awTivi'O A« Campaign In Nation I* Outlined. Washington. July 19.—With al nost a million mill workers tack ing their jobs under the stimulus )f higher pay, plans were fashioned it the industrial administration this veek for summonihg the whole orce of public opinion behind the lational endeavor to open more jobs ind fill additional salary envelopes Hugh S. Johnson, the industrial idministrator, called in his staff of id visors to check 0'’er every detail >f the preparations for a campaign nodelled after the liberty loan Irives of the World War days to inite the citizenry behind the re overy efforts. Closest secrecy surrounded the ormulation of the plans but there ,ere indications they were almost eady to be made public. Higher pay than they received iaturday was the inducement that. worsers ui nundreds of cot ton, rayon, silk and knitting mills to work under the new 40 hour week schedule that was formulated by the cotton textile Industry. TTie rayon, silk and knitting man ufacturers will operate under wage, hour and competitive limitations of their own after they have been com pleted. Meanwhile, more industries were submitting, tentatively or formally, additional codes of fair competition which form the basis of the indus trial recovery program.” Indiana limestone men. who earl ier had submitted an unacceptable draft, brought in a new one which, first of all the codes so far pre sented, called for the entire industry to be put Immediately under Fed eral license. Also, it called for a strict price control by the industry Itself, a provision which may be questioned iharply by the administrators. The; lew code raised minimum wages to! (15.50 for a 40-hour week. May Start To Plow Up Cotton Next Week Polkville Youths To State Contest Held In Captial Charles IUmiii To Compete In Two Umlfiti. Other Youth* Are Offtceni. P<>ui members ol the PolkvtHe chapter of the Young Tar Had Farmers organisation, accompanied by Prof. E. L. Dillingham, agricul tural teacher, left yesterday for Raleigh to attend the State mold ing of the organization and to com pete In several State-wide contest Those going were Charles Beam Ben Jenkins. Jr., Oaylon Covington, Erastus Orlgg, and Hugh Lee War lick. Young Beam will represent Pied mont North Carolina. In two con tests. One will be the State-wide "speaking contest, and the other the State-wide livestock and mint Judg ing contest. In the speaking con test he will compete with six youths from other sections of the State and the winner wtll be entitled tc represent North Carolina at the national contest. In Kansas City In the livestock Judging contest hr Is a member of a team of threi which will compete for the right tr enter the national contest also held at Kansas City. Hi addition to participating In tht two contests young Beam will at tend the State convention of Younf Tar Heel Farmers, being secretarj of the organization. Ben Jenktns Jr , Is vice president of the organi zation and as a delegate to tht national convention last year wtl give a report on his trip. Coving ton and Orlgg are official delegate) from the Polkville chapter to thi oonvention. Prof. Dillingham will in all prob ability stay In Raleigh until n#x1 week to attend the State Farmer: convention and the convention ol vocational agricultural teachers Although the Polkville school wtl be opened next week he will bt given an extra week In that thr agricultural teachers are required to attend fehe meeting which will be addressed by Secretary of Agri culture Wallace, Mr. Morgenthau ol the farm board and others. No WwkTNoFood; Gets Term On Gang Man Who Accepted Charity But Would Not Work On R.F.C. Job* Get* Term. Jr> oounly oourt this morning Jefl Cogdell, white man, was given a 30 day sentence on the State road force for vagrancy, According to testimony Cogdell had been living on charity agencies and R.F.C. aid for sometime but had refused to work on the street' and other projects being conducted by the RFC. with the aim of giv ing work to unemployed. Revial To Start At Latthnore July 30th A revival meeting will begin at I the Lattmore Baptist church on the I fifth Sunday in July. Rev. L. L. Jee sup wfll assist the pastor. Rev. Rush Padgett. All members of (he church are asked to meet Tuesday. July 26 at 7 a. m. to clean off the grave yard, haul dirt, clean the well, etc. Bring tools To Issue Orders Late In Week Offlrial Approval By Loral Com mltl«oi All Norrsnary To Bffln Plowing. More tlian 2.000 Clevplnnd county farmer*, who rtgned the govern ment's cotton aorsage reduction con tract*, may .itArt plowing up their cotton early neat week, or several (lay* earlier than had been antici pated R. W. Slio/lner. farm agent, who ha* churge of the reduction program In the county, wa* notified last night that farmer* will not have to await formal order* from Wash* ington tx> begin plowing up the cot ton pledged for destruction. Whan their contracts are officially passed upon and approved by the township committees and the county commit tee then farmers will be notified that they may start plowing up their cotton This notification will be In the form of an approval cer tificate signed by the farm agent and no farmer should begin plow ing until that Is received. It wa* first announced that no plowing could be done until farmers were officially notified from Washington. It was, however, decided to speed up this plan in order that the cot ton might be plowed up and other crops put in before it was too late. Coming Friday Although a majority of the con tracts have already been approved by the township and county com mittees, plowing orders cannot be Issued until the certificate blanks are received from Washington, Mr. Shoffner said today that these would be sent by Friday and that in all probability he could begin mailing them out by Saturday. AH certificates which will notify farm ers that their estimates, etc., have been approved by the committee* will be mailed out and it will not be necessary for farmers to apply at the agent* office. With the cer tificates likely to be mailed out Saturday and Monday it is ex pected that early next week farm | crR may begin turning under close • CONTINUED ON PACIE NINE . Webb’s Orchard Has Big Peach Crop Now Buffalo Mtn. Farm Ha* 3,600 Bear ing Fruit Trees. Crop Up To Normal. The peach crop on Tom Webb* Buffalo Mountain farm is up to normal this year and the harvest is on. The Buffalo Mountain farm is located near Toluca where four counties comer—Burke, Cleveland, Lincoln and Catawba. Truckmen haul the peaches to the nearby county seat* and Industrial oenters within a radius of 35 miles over a fine system of roads. Toluca has more roads radiating from that point than Shelby and the highway commission is considering the pav ing of the highways from Toluca to Newton and Toluca to Hickory. Mr. Webb has 3,600 bearing peach trees and the Georgia Belle and Kl bertas are now in their prime. Other varieties ripen later. The Buffalo Mountain farm is in the Isothermal belt where the frost never nips a crop. This year that particular sec tion has had more ratn than most section* Mr. Webb bought the unproductive mountains in that section and has developed one of the largest com mercial orchards in this section. Aside from peaches, be has a vine yard. 300 apple trees and a quantity of pecans Just beginning to bear, makes 36 bales of cotton and about 500 bushels of com. Te««neer Child Die* Of Whooping Cough On Saturday afternoon. July 15 Ruby Mae. age three months and 24 days, child of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tessneer died, following an attack of bronchial pneumonia. About four weeks ago the child war seized with whooping cough which developed into pneumonia, * Funeral services were conducted Sunday and interment took place at Union Baptist Church. Surviving are the parents, one sister, two broth ers and many friends and relatives Miss Hoey To Tell Of Chicago Fair Trip Mis* Isobel Hoey, daughter of M» . and Mrs Clyde R. Hoey will be the guest speaker at the Kiwanis club on Thursday night Mias Hoev, • member of the Shelby school fac ulty, has just returned from Chi cago and will tell of what she saw it the Century of Progress.