! l i The WWMO ZWE ' -- 8 PACES TODAY I VOL XXXIX. No. 94 I .■—.. .1,1 SHELBY, N C. MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 193.0 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. V. ■" ,w “■ * 1 arrief nei reti iia aatanna in the markets 9H In *0' f'""- ..$25.0( Colton seed. t*”1 . L Cloudy Tuesday Toda' * North < aroftna Weathei ,rt Partly rloudy tonight anc SliffHtlv warmer In e* nrmr «H portion Going For Real Air Record n, l SITED TRESS 0r,, Iranre, Aug. 7.-Taul Codm „nrt Maurice Rossi. heading acros: uja Minor, today almost had a r„rld distancr flight record in theii •rasp They wirelessed at 8:47 a EpT. that they were flying 0Vcr Ka-sterloriw), southern Turkey ino miles east of the Island m Rbodev They hopped off from New v„rk Saturday morning and havi in the air since, dropping messages al Paris and other points Crowder Elected Head Of Legion Post In Shelby Succeeds Dorton As Service Leader siamcv. Gold And Hatnrrik Vir< Commanders. Convention Del egates Named. Robert D Crowder was electee commander of the Warren Hoylf American. Legion post at a picnit meeting of tire local ex service mer held Friday evening at Clevelanr Spring: Mr. Crowder will suceeec Dr. J. S. Dorton as head of the po«r Other officers elected were:. C Tom Stanley. Dr. T. B. Gold and C B Hamrick, vice commanders; Tho: H. Abernathy, jr„ adjutant; A. R Snyder, finance officer; W. S. Bean service officer; C H. Swofford guardianship officer: R. Lee Low man, sergeant-at-arms; B. L. Smith chaplain and Americanism officer J H. Grigg. historian and publicity officer; H. C. Long, athletic officer T H Abernathy, jr,. graves regis tration: J. S Dorton, employmeir officer; and Basil Goode, member ship officer. The new post commander and T H. Abernathy and A. R. Snydei were elected delegates to the Stat< convention at Wilmington on Aug 18-20 Alternates to the conventior will be named by the three dele gate* Vaccine Clinic Begins In County Thurs. Aug. 24 Trohoid And Diphtheria Vaccine Tr Be Given By State And Coun ts For Three Weeks. * fre* vaccme clinic will be giver to Cleveland county beginmnj Thursday, August 24th and con tinuing for three weeks on each Thursday, the inoculations against these two diseases to be paid for by the county and the state boani 0l health, it was announced this morn ing by Dr D F Moore. county phy lieian All physicians In the county are to-operating and have consented tr administer typhoid and diptheria °n Thursday August 24th Thursday, August 31st, and Thurs **r- Sept. 7th. The vaccines will be administer M at the offices of all physicians M the county on these dates from * tn. to # p. m Those who ex Wct to take the vaccine are askec *? s4n on the first Thursday as nree doses are necessary for *.y P n!d inorulation and two for dlp thena. Those who take the vaccine are JKI'Jired to begin on Aug. 24th and Pwtinue to go to the office of the e physician who administered we first dose. fre^nw* V!CCU1P *'» be giver f " fo children from 6 months ye*!* ***• The typhoid Peopi^T u1* administered free tc Pt pie of a]] ages, colors or creeds “«* literature are beim r„r J Jhp statp board of health ^ dtetnb.n.oo throughout th, Pnwr’to 8ttention of th« S/l of b «U!’CampalRD PT° and at th r0Sl 10 thf indiv1dua countv eXI*ns* of th« Litt^ Girl Badly Hurt In Collision ■ rdaU8hte tfon ,< ,n J'hp Lattimor tejured as tl®h,!lbv hospital cpllision i ,th re5Ult of fcfiVZ SanUrday afte Per,pH alv b cohision, which «;v8hhr-couid 1 today it T y but at the hi showing 'ZT the Uttle «* suffered "'pr.0Vement althouf 'he ,k„mr dcprcS, d fracti acaln ' 8n ^lacerations c I Weekly Industrial Payrolls Increase Here Around $7,000 Merchants Report Good Trade Crowds Of Shopped Swarm Street on Saturday, Rejoicing in Short Hours, Better Pay. I Industrial payrolls of the nin I textile and hosiery mills in Shelby j immediate territory 'have increase j between $6,000 and $8,000 a weel j according to the best informatio I obtainable from a survey made tc day by The Star. While thr textile code went int effect about a month ago, it re quired a week or more before th nay increases were made, as on week elapses in making up tim sheets and payrolls for the preceti ing week. However, the new textil code has been worked out and J being applied and textile employee are greatly elated over the shorte hours and pay increase which affec those under the minimum. The payroll increase has made it elf felt in the trade channels. O | Saturday the streets wore crowde ■with shoppers and merchants re j port splendid business. Severs Igrocerymen were contacted thi | morning and reported that thei Saturday sales were the best i ; years. Several department store j report an increase in Saturday sale I although hours for store openin j have been restricted, thus confinin ' the trading period to 12 hours o ' Saturdays. 1 Last, summer the mills were open ed only a short time because of lac of orders. • This curtailed the buy ing power of industrial workers s jin comparing this summer with las ! summer, the pay rolls are not onl larger than normal but the mill are working on full time, two shift of forty hours each. It is expected that fully 500 ad Iditional textile workers will be give jobs in the Pall when the addition to the Eton Mill and the Clevelan Cloth mill are completed. The base ment at the Eton Mill is bein converted into a weave room an new looms added. An addition being built to the Cleveland Clot mill where the looms will be addet so with 500 additional textile work ers to be given Jobs in the fall, th merchants are looking forward to business revival such as they hav not experienced in five years. Jessup Family To Leave Wednesda} Rev. C. H. Myers Of Mooresville Ha Been Called To Second Baptist Church. Rev. L. L. Jessup and family wii leave Shelby Wednesday of thi week for Newport News. Va.. wher Mr. Jessup will Decome pastor c the Ivey Memorial Baptist churcl He has been pastor nere for a num ber of years of the Second Baptis church and during his stay here ha added greatly to the church am Sunday scool membership and con tributed to the religious and civi life of the community. The church has issued a call t Rev. C. H. Myers 01 the First Bap tist church at Mooresville. Mr. My ers has not indicated as yet wheth er he will accept, but it is under stood that he will succeed Mr Jes sup. Beam Reunion To Be Held Aug. 17tl The annual Beam reunion will b held Thursday. August 17th at Net Prospect church ir. honor of Joh Teter Beam. All relatives an friends are invited to attend for days intermingling. The speakei name will be announced later. Hope To Hold Next Year’s Cotton Crop To Reduced Acreage Of 1933 Would Pay Cash Benefit For A Land Kept Out Of Cotton Tn 1934. Atlanta. Aug. 7. — The Georgi Cotton Control conference decide r last week that the crop of 1934 an . 1935 should be confined to the 19i r limits and pledged its prestige t > success of a reduction plan. The conference, attended by rep ■ resentatives from Georgia. Alabam ; and the Carolinas, said the mo: 1 practical way to accomplish am s age control is by a cash benef ; offer made to farmers on a pel r acreage basis, to be paid on a > lands taken out At a meeting of the Warrei Hoyle American Legion post hel< J Friday evening, the ex-service met i pledged their 100 percent coopera s tion in the NRA and re-affirmei j their loyalty “to our country and b . our President.” Commander J. S ? Dorton stated today that the pos j could be counted upon to do its par s in aiding in the recovery and "m i ployment program. I, One important item to be conoid - ered by the executive committee a e its meeting this afternoon will b a the establishment of an informa e tion and complaint bureau. It i hoped to have this bureau functio at a set time each week to give in formation needed and to pass upo complaints made by employes am employers. The general executive committe 5 (Continued on Page Si Deputy To Resign After Ten Yean 5 Deputy Sneriff J. Lindsey Dlxcn f announced today that he woul this week resign as deputy sherii - after serving in that office for 1 t years. 5 "In resigning," he said. “I hoi i no ill will at anyone, but am mak - mg the move for purely privat : reasons. I have enjoyed my asso ciation with other officers durini i the 10 years and also the coopera . tion given me by citizens in carry . ing out my duties. I merely fee . that with Uie fees of the offic . cut down as they are now it i . hardly worth taking time from m own business to continue in th office. If at any time I may b of service in assisting officers an others, I will be at their service.” I , Cotton Off Fifteen ‘ Points On Tradinj I Cotton dropped fifteen points o i today’s trading in New York, Oc s closing at 9.99 and December a 10.21 II years. “We believe," the conference saic ! "that cash remuneration should b offered, first, to farmers who signe or offered to sign cotton acreage re duction contracts during the 193 campaign. We believe the cottoi control administration should g further in its production-contrc measures, even to the placing of confiscatory tax upon all cottoi gins above a certain quota allowei each farm.” The conference in adopting a pro gram for reduction for Georgia sug gested that a camnaign be starte< immediately to put into effect ^Continued on Page 7> Papa and Mama : The happy smiles of John Gilbert 7 and his wife, Virginia Bruce, are even broader now that a visit from ; the stork has made them parents of a baby daughter in Hollywood \ttending physician said C was most difficult male pati ne ever attended. Certificates Off For First Checks In Acreage Slash : 50 To T5 Farmers Already Checked' i 100 Percent On Cotton Plow ing lip. 1 The first certification slips show thg that Cleveland farmers have l fulfilled their pledge to destroy a certain amount of the cotton crop were sent to Washington today in | order that checks may be mailed these farmers as early as possible. Around 50 to 75 were sent today i and when checks are returned to 1 these it will be possible to deter i mine here how long a time must . elapse between the mailing of the I certificates showing the cotton to , be .destroyed and the reception of checks. - t About 900 certification slips have t been sent here for committees to . use in checking up on acreage des troyed and committees will be able . to inspect more acreage as the cer i tificates come in. No Substitute. -j The agricultural department an s | nounced today, through the farm II agents and reduction committees. . that farmers may not substitute i other fields or other acreage for that 1 pledged for destruction In their contracts. In order to be paid they 2 must destroy the cotton In he same fields pledged and the exact amount pledged Free Three Negroes i In Killing Affair i C'rosby* And Reid Hamrick Turned 1 hoose. Seek Zim f Hamrick. ) --— Officers were still on the lookout i for Zim Hamrick, colored, alleged - slayer of a colored showman in s Shelby last night a week ago. Ham - rick escaped soon after it is said he [ stabbed and killed the other color ■ pd man in Preedmon and has since ■ managed to evade the law. 1 Three other negroes who were r leged to have participated in the 3 row which preceded the fatal stab ■ bing were given a hearing In coun ■ ty court Friday afternoon of last e week. Reid Hamrick, brother of Zim I was freed when the court could not find enough evidence to bind him over in connection with the death, and Frank and Jewel Crosby were freed under a nol pros with leave [ order. This means that they can be called back in as witnesses when and if Zim Hamrick, the alleged . killer, is located. Mull Is Director Of N. C. Hospital Odus M. Mull, of Shelby, former chairman of the Democratic party in North Carolina, has been re-ap pointed a director of the State hos pital for the insane at Morganton His appointment was one of the sev . eral appointments announced over > the week-end by Governor Ehring j haus j County Boards Hold * Meets Here Today II •— t The Cleveland county commts , donera and the board of education j were holding their regular monthly sessions here today. Up until noon the boards had de voted a majority of their time to the j dispatch of routine business, but it , was reported that several important items might be taken up during the afternoon session. , Four Negroes Are Hurt In Crash Of Auto And Engine Hazel Friday ,Shelby, Killed Other Three Are Not Serious. Ilul Two Are In Hosnttal At Rulherfordton. Pom negroes were Injured, one fatally at a railroad crossing at El lenboro about 11 o'clock Sunday night when the ear In which they were riding struck a freight engine that was backing at a crossing with some freight cars Hasel Friday of Shelby was kill ed, while Margaret Hunter, another Shelby resident is in the Rutherford hospital suffering with cuts and bruises. The two Shelby negro girls were ; riding with Clem Duffey and Ras- ‘ tus Scott, two negro youths said to i be from Rutherford,county. Both of the boys were cut and bruised, but their wounds are reported by fhe Rutherfordton hospital as not ser-! lous. Duffey was still a patient at 2, o’clock today but Scott had been dismissed. It is said that the auto plunged into the moving engine and struck about the driver wheels. The car ! was completely demolished and the j escape of the three with their lives I is regarded as miraculous. Just the nature of the wounds of the pas sengers could not be learned. The body of Hazel Friday has been brought to her home here in Free dm on. Construction Work Now Under Way Cloth Mill Brick Addition Goint Up Rapidly. Olfbnrn Luti Homr Started. Construction work is well under way on several large jobs in Shelby, one textile mill addition and three or more residences. The brick work is nearly eom i pleted on the Edition to the Cleve land Cloth mill plant. Fiske-Carter | Construction Co. has the contract ' and the steel girders for the roof | are being put in place. The plumb ing. flooring, roof and windows will be the next part of the job. Whet' i the addition is completed the bui'.d j ing will be 600 feet long and 112 | feet wide. The preparation room is 1 between the old and new parts and i the weave rooms on the ends The Hubert Jones two story brick 1 residence in the Cleveland Springs Estates is nearing completion. A new»residence is being erected on S. LaFayette street next to Mrs. W. E Mortons home and material Is be ing placed and excavation started on the Ogburn Lutz two story brick residence on West Marion street. Mr*. Wilkins Cut In Car Accident Mrs. D. D. Wilkins was cut by flying glass and spent last night in a Charlotte hospital as a result of an auto accident in Charlotte Sun day night. Police Chief D. D. Wil kins And Mrs. W'lkins were return ing from a visit with Mrs. Phillip Robertson, nee Hannah Washburn at Wades boro and in passing through Charlotte, Chief Wilkins telephoned last night that his car was struck by another and badly damaged. The chief was unhurt but his wife was cut by glass. __ Try Answering These Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. Has the moon atmosphere? 2. What are the political units of Switzerland called? j 3. To what general classification jdo hornets belong? 4. What is the chemical formula | for water? 6. Who is Fritz Kreisler? 6 Why are precious stones used in watches? 7 What is the densest substance? 8. Name the first President of the American Red Cross. 9. Give another name tor a Wat er Dog. 10. What is a Canuck? 11. Translate “Gotterdamerung." 12. Name the lightest metal. 13. What is the derivation of Boy cott? 14. Name the first woman United States Senator 15. In what Canadian Province is Ottawa? 16. Where is the city of Cannes? 17. What is a kraal? 18. What is the name of the fam ous German gun works? 19. What is c&nnonization? 20. Where is the University of Washington? Fliers Set New One-Hop Record By UNITED PRESS Paris, August 7.—Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi, French fliers piloting the plane Joseph l,ebrix, today smashed the world’s distance record for straight-line, one-hop flying when they landed their plane at 1:10 p. m.. EDT, at Rayack, Syria, the French air ministry announced. The two aviators hopped off from, New York Saturday morning and flew hv Paris across Asia Minor to Syria. If The Supplement School Tax Is Not Voted In Shelby District (Another of a series of articles prepared by the Shelby School board on the proposed 10c sup plementary tax levy, lection to be held Tuesday August Mth.) 1. The operating coot of the schools will be reduced about 30 per cent from 1932-33 and about 65 per cent from pre-depression standards 2, The number of teacher will be reduced to the state allotment.. 3 The number of pupils assigned to a room will have to average an enrollment of approximately fifty to a room. (This doe6 not Include the increase due to expansion of Ion and Cleveland Cloth mill.) 4 Many rooms with sections ot two grades will have to be 4. Many rooms with section' oj two grades will have to be tolerat '1 5. Sections of grades will probab j ly have to be switched from one j school to another. 6. The school term will he red* I Seaside Excursion Fad Hits Shelby; 500 Make Train Trip To Seashore in eight months after having bee.) ! nine for around 30 years. I T. There will have to be a oom J plete readjustment of the course of | Rtudy. 8. The annual salary of the teach* er whose grade made the greatest progress in 1932-33 will be less than the minimum wage of a laborer in a textile mill according to the in dustrial code. 8 We shall lose some of our best teachers as better opportunities .n other localities or Ir other fields of work come to them. 10, An increased number of pupil will fall of promotion; none of them will attain as much. 11 All our elementary schools will be lowered in accredited rating—>f Indeed, the congestion does not make impossible any rating. 12. Our high school will be reduc ed three grades in state rating and fContinued on Page 3> Trainload I .oral People Ride Two Night* For Day's Dip In Wright*ville Surf. Sunday must have been Shelby day at the Wrlghtsville seashore. Around 500 people spent the day there as the result of an excursion trip, the largest In the history of the section. It has been 510 years or so since the excursion "erase" was all the rage hereabouts, but over the last week-end It came bark—arid, as they say on the streets, with a bang, and how! Taking advantage of a $2 round trip rate from Shelby to Wrights vllle and back, approximately 500 i Continued on Page 8) I July Rainfall Leads In Year Following Uie rather dry montfc of June, in which crops and gard ens suffered from extreme heat anc drought, July brought the mosl rainfall of any month of 1933. The rainfall record maintained al the 8hclby post office by Johr Phofer shows that through July « total of 18.81 inches of rain feL here this year. July led with 3.91 Inches and February was seconc J with 3.74 Inches. Rainfall for the other month; ! was as follows: January 2.78 inches March 1 79, April 2.67. May 2.40, ant! June 1 63. Sales Tax To Cost Each Merchant $400, Each Man, Woman, Child $3 Will Hare To Brin* In That Much] A Year To Total Eight Million. (Star News Bureau) Raleigh, Aug. 7.—Assuming that there are 20,000 merchant* in North Carolina subject to the three per cent general sales tax. they will have to pay to the State an average of $400 a year to raise even $8,000,000, Division Director Harry McMullan pointed out, as he fingered a check and accompanying penciled report of one merchant for $1.56, of which, the sender noted, $1 was for the privilege of doing business The tax will be an average of more than *3 for every man. woman and child in the State. In a series of new rulings, Mr McMullan and Commiasoner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell hold that mixed feeds and feed ingredients hay and other feed materials, when sold in wholesale quantities, at wholesale prices and on a basis customary in the wholesale trade, and by a merchant handling such Items, the tax of one-twenty-fifth of one per cent, minimum of $13.50 for six months, that of a whole sale merchant, will apply, and 100 pounds or more is considered a wholesale sale. Merchants doing both wholesale and retail business • Continued on Page 7) Hold County And Allen Not Liable In Deputy Death Commission Rules Against Widow Appeal May Be Taken Before Full Indnatrlal Commlulim In Com penaatlon Caae. In a ruling handed down over the week-end the North Carolina Industrial Commission finds that the county of Cleveland and I M Allen, former sheriff, may not be held liable for compensation In the death of Deputy Sheriff E. W. Saunders In Shelby on last New Year's Eve Deputy Saunders was shot to death on the county jallyard hers on the afternoon of December 11, 1932, by a prisoner, Mark Connor, who was In turn shot to death by the officer before he died In an action brought before the Industrial Commission by the wi dow, Mrs. Ella Saunders, through her attorney. John P. Mull, compen sation whs asked of I. M. Allen, sheriff at that time; Joe E. Blan ton, chairman of the county com missioners, and Troy McKinney, county accountant. Hearing In June Evidence was heard her* on Jun# 15 before Commissioner J. Dewey Dorsett who ruled at that time the county would not, In this opinion, be liable for compensation to the widow in that Deputy Saunders was not full-time, salaried employe of the county but working for a fee under Sheriff Allen. No opinion was expressed then as to whether Allen was liable although Peyton McSwaln, attorney for the county and Allen, argued that Allen would not be responsible In that the Deputy was not carrying out direct orders from the sheriff In arresting the prisoner who shot him to death Finding A copy of the ruling, ax mailed to the attorneys In the case by Matt H. Allen, chairman of the commis sion, reads as follow*: "Upon the finding that the de ceased was not an employee of Sheriff Allen or Cleveland county at the time of the Injury on Decem ber 31, 1932, the claim for compen sation Is denied and th« case dis missed. Each party will pay Its own costs.” Judge Mull was not In position to say today whether the ruling would be appealed In that he has not further discussed the affair with Mrs. Saunders. The belief prevailes. however, that the ruling denying compensation may be ap pealed In case It Is the naxt pro cedure will be to ask for a hearing before the full personnel of tha In dustrial Commission. Should the ruling be adverse then, tha oaie could be returned to Superior court In Cleveland county, and an appeal. If desired then, could go on to the J State Supreme court. Mrs. Morgan Gets $3,682 In Death At Shelby Plant Family Of T. P. Morgan Win Com pensation Ruling. Appeal !■ riled. In a ruling handed down by the N. C. Compensation commission Mrs. Thomas P. Morgan and chil dren of Shelby are to receive com pensation totalling $3,682 plus ex pense and coat as the result of the accidental death near the Cleveland Cloth mill on February 13, 1933, of Thomas P. Morgan, an employe of the plant. Mr. Morgan slipped on the Ice and was fatally hurt while en route, it is alleged, to his work at the mill. The finding of the compensation commission, which would hold the Insurers of the mill liable, was ap pealed in open court. In handing down the decision the commission listed the plantiffs as Mrs. Margaret Webb, T. J Morgan Mrs. Mattie Bolin, and Vance Mor gan, children of Thomas R. Mor gan, and Mrs. Thomas P. Morgan widow. The ruling reads as follows: “Up on the finding that the death of the deceased was the result of an in jury by accident arising out ol and in the course of the employment on February 13, 1933, and that the de ceased left wholly dependent Mrs Thomas P. Morgan, widow, the de fendants will pay to the widow com pensation at the rate of $10.53 pet week for 360 weeks. Defendants to pay funeral expenses not to exceed $200. Defendants to pay costs of medical and hoepital treatment.. De j fendants to pay coats of hearing.