f The levkllzmd III S PAGES TODAY VOL XXXIX. No 99 SHKLBV N. L. FRIDAY, AUG. 18, I93i’> Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Man oat v»at tin 'arrt'tt n*» vrai it* *(1*anc#» a«lTtn «• u.u 13 f* Late News (oltoiV'P1' fotton ‘red. ,on CHE MARKETS , .. to ny, $16 00 Shower* Likely T-vt^ ‘ vortb Carolina Weather Import Prnhahlv showers tonight •nd Saturday Blame* Hoover About Banks p7~| \ITF.O PRESS pf(roit Aug- 18.—Expressing Ihe -ra, hoitef that the Hoover adffiin !S«rat»on> Prosperity is just around the renter' led Federal officials to „rmi, banks to continue operation jInst Hie letter of the law. Sen ,trr fourens. of Michigan, told the pi)nd jurv probin? bank failure- fr Detroit today. Cotton Acreage Control For Two Years Is Planned pop* T" Announce C ot ton f ontro irheoic Bv Sept. l-V. tlold Back Planting Wash ii:ton. Auc 13—The farm idimmy-hat-Urn is planning a reply in September to present, declinin'' crices through announcement of a ipnc time '-program to adjust -h supply of cotton to the dr; < nri. ' vet through with the nte.n R-f effort which resulted in i educ tion. of more tan 4,000.000 bales in (hfe vear's- crop, the farm adminis tration hopes..to have a reduction plan for 1934 and 1935 ready for. an nouncement by September 15, o shortly thereafter. Leaning back in hir chair yester c- Secretary Wallace said he hop ed the program would be a stimulus to prices this veat and that. the 'growers were, just as anxious as farm officials to decide on somc ■ thing and put it into effect as quickly as possible. At the same time, the secretary said only about $10,000,000 of the approximately $110,000,000 to be paid cotton growers this year for plowing up their acreage would be affected by the ruling that debts due the government on previous loanv fCnntinued on Page o' Two Defendants Get Road Terim In County Court White youth Sent I p For House Breaking. Colored Man For Assaulting Female Tvo defendants were given road •erms in the tfwning session of county court here today and two others were given sentences sus pended upon ..good behavior. Zeno Wright, and Pete Wright *ere charged with house-breaking and theft, Zeno being given seven months on one count and four months oh another. Pete, due to his youth, was given a four months tentence in each case, the sentences Peing suspended for two years, con ditioned upon good behavior. The charge? centered about breaking in n' toe homes of Dougins Downs and Glenn Mead in No. if) township ec ■v this mom - Tom Lucas, colored, who. was charged with assault upon a female eod 3ttemp»ed lape, oled guilty to Assault on a female and was given 1 W*ommhs sentence. The vietlirt the ®Meged assault, •* i.ich took P.ace Tuesday evening, was a mar ejed colored woman of No. 1 town ihip In another case a 16-.vear-old youth, charged with stealing * coet ^longing to -Dad" Cavas, as given a seven-months sememe? suspended upon good behavior lor years. Sacred Concert At Mull's Chapel 19th A '"oncerl of sacred music, feat ; * ,arce chorus choir, w .11 »• m nat" uav ll.*3h.t,. of chit, w I Mulls Chapel. This will brim n «ul the singing sctv.v ta. JreKbv Prof: c. P. Gardner. r,;’h.° ■njo'; sacrrd muse, are Pted to attend. Shelhy Man Seeks Divorce At H enc Nev M Aug la Dlvoru ftlprf WerinesCjay includ Ohve'TiTi Worth William^on . vs. M ShP;b " t\-D- Pr’est Williamson ^Ptember 2 «hUd c * married Shelby. 1922: erueltv; one I'AOK BURBANK of the L"iiy vi,ia8£> W S v V exhibitin* « >n« much m thef whlch- was bI°om m ~inn ,,n ma*inet:flff a morn ' patch Nu»"erous vines in his a« aaid °°m'ns in like manner, nope Wanes For Early Work On Post Office Shelby Office Lef'. Off 1st \M Wa« On Orieinal l.isl Fr Far) Cnn'Otirfion But C!nU" * Madp. Hope uanr ' tona.. fc ar rail; art oil the const ruction ■ ,Vri or ''re enlarged'Shelbv pov , v. it became known thal the . project i> • included .. the projects which. hr*. bee: approved so Jar in *h government? ■public works program This re' > mat tor. proved disap pointing in that i* uas announced [from Washing tern a month or so [ago that the Shclb' office would be among, the first, building projects :n this State, and shortly thereafter la movi. • .war. started to secure tem [porarv quarters for the post office with the hope that construction work would begin in 90 da vs • Not Included Yesterday, however. Postmaster •I. H. Quinn received a letter from the acting supervising archeteet of the public works program informing him to notify owners of buildings submitted for temporary quarters that no immediate action would be taken about temporary quarters in that the Shelby office "has not yet been included among the approved public works projects.” On July 28 bids were received for temporary quarters and four Shelby buildings were offered. At that time it was believed that tem porary quarters would soon be: se lected and that construction work, would start at an early date. Why Delay Postmaster Quinn today was un able to explain, from information he has received, why the delav was brought about. It.is his belief, how ever. that the Shelbv office was not included in the first list: because of a change in plans whereby a third story for a Federal court room 7r s , the irn ' errDrie. tion was made months ago that a > be iii. ’u t’s' Far - ■ ..v ! that plans in Wash ington did not cal! for a court room. It was about that time that the Shelbv project was listed among the first to be .approved in construction work which would get underway this year. Later architects cam" here and decided, since there was a strong urge for the court room, that it would be possible to include the court room in the enlarged building. It i.s figured perhaps that due to a change in plans the local office was removed for . the first approved list in order to alter the plans, and, t'y■■ it riiav be included in the next list approved. The news that owners of build .•igs submitting bids for temporary quartets be notified rba’ ’no im mediate action will be taken” brings the fear, however, that work on the •m'areed office may no* be started t'nic year. E!a»"n 1*5 l ’rinsed To Sell Tnsuw? ,^ce Raleigh. Aug. 18. Onlv fi" • c « of 90 applicants for licer ■ r insurance in North Cfrokr: 'J to pass the examirMio;"' the insurance denar*me>'! a period alnio®' covr-ed ■■ ■ iff July. Insurance Comm Dan C. Boner repoih F x ~ i! successful applicants were r . Mrs Ms reel1 he T’ Co’.cv ■ rid >.»• Psa>i Howard. FalcTh; Miss *nr.> Apper. n. Wins n-Salem, and Mr Marv 'i. i.lcT e-a. Farett—’iHe. a -jj. | ♦K- v pacs*rfr the tests •id rec :.;ag license was Roland B Cam. She!1.' '■ i Large Throng At Reunion Of Beam Family Yesterday 'I'Morl 7i Or KOO \t S>u prohpff* Finer Beam FFparH (tan Between seven and eight hundrer pendants of John Teeter Bean' , • Baum i gathered yesterday for tin annual reunion of the clan at New Prospect church this county. It Vai the largest family reunion in ‘hi history of one of the larges! anc most outstanding families in tht> ectiori of the stat The program, featured by the en I io.yabie dinner, began around 10:3(1 j In the morning and continued until alter 3 in the afternoon Present foi the occasion were members of the | Beam family from Cleveland. Ruth erford. Lincoln and Gaston count in as well as other: from more dis tant sections of this state and ad joining states. Family Ground ! The gathering was held on ground | which has been ' home" to memliers | of the Beam family for almost twe centuries. In 1764 John Teeter Baurr : came to America and settled in the i New Prospect set lion, at one time j owning the propeity where (hc [church is located and that sur I rounding it. Many years ago he built the first church there, s | Lutheran church, and the original forbear of the family and his second wife are buried there. Elect Officers Attorney L. Beige Beam, of Lm l In county, was re-elected presi. dent of the clan. J. E. Beam, of El I lenboro. was elected vice president land Ruth Beam, of Shelby, secre j tary-treasurer. D. Z. Newton. Shelby attorney was the. principal speaker at the re union yesterday. | Among the oi'.-.cr business trans acted at the reunion was the ap I p. nnrciu. oi a committee to make j plans for bringing the history of j the family up to date. 'The history 1 of the family from its original tor i' bear in this country down until a i decade or so ago has been compiled and since that time other data has been assembled which it is. hoped to combine in a complete family his tory. Shelby Lions Take In Big Mardi Gras Around 15 Shelby couples, repress cnting the Shelby Lions club, were m Spartanburg yesterday afternoon and evening for the big Happy Day Festival and Mardi Gras staged there by the Spartanburg Lions. If is estimated that around 50.000 peo ple witnessed or took part in the parade, street dances and other features of the festival. Miss Annie Ruth Dellinger represented thr Shelby Lions as “Muss Shelby1' 'in the. beauty contest. in which M ■; Virginia 'rodd. of r ,i-rr'S •>”'r '■rowntd “Mis' P *' . Mr ’Von-: TV Pws.RcIt On T'r Wyman F. .Wood, of Al^xan wil1 fulfill the pulpit again Son 'iv nv'rn nc and evening r. the Second Baptist rhu---h. The urorn ine subject will he "The Thrisiian'r InheritanceP’ and the eveidn.r sub >ct “The Gospel: in One Word Sunday s-hool at **:45 with w. M. '! Surry superintendent ind B. V P. U. at 0:30 with W. T Brown as irector Prayer meeting Wednesday .■nine at 7:30. Farmer > Will Not Have Seed Loans Deducted From ’Their Cotton Checks .Sums Facme. Ow>' tlr.vcinment For Loans >\ 1 Not Re Taken Out. Washington. Aug. IS. Mi'hora ol ■lillara in oenr",t payments to cot on ami wheat farmers for agree-1 men-,; to cun; . heir production will be freed’ under a policy made public this week b lie r.v Mc-rgen thau. Jr., governor of the farm credit administration, after approv al by President Roosevelt. Under it, payments will be. inacit-! cotton farmers who agreed to plow. up from 25 to 50 per cent of theii growing crops without requiring de ductions for amounts they owe the government, for seed and crop pro duction loans Also would 1 deluded feed pane inf the regional agricultural redit [corporations which do not bear indorsements by third parties and have not been discounted by federal intermediate -'(edit banks. Morgenthau said a sinjiiar policy will be pursued in the case of pay ments to be made this fall to wheat farmers for agreements to reduce their acreage planted for harvest in 1934-35. .About $90,080,000 is scheduled foi distribution to wheat farmers and $110,000,000 to cotton farmers check for the latter having been held Up pending the outline >f policy. Morgenthau said, however, hat he ts not authorized to Waive tens upon crops given the federal and banks and rediscounted by the fed eral intermediate credit banks, or in cas^s of loans made bv he rrg local agricultural credit torpor' tion= .tearing ;nrio owsis of th' parties and redist u ted by the in termediate credit banks. L It s Spreading It seems that the fad for a southern 1 exposure in milady's apparel is I spreading from bathing beaches I further inland. The picture above , was made at a race track outside j I/ondon recently. The fair bang i tail fan displays t he newest creation in decollete sports clothes. Unemployed File AtRe-Employment Office In Shelby Around 100 Workers List Names Here Today. Calls Made For Help. — The Federal re-employment office which opened here today listed the names and qualifications of close to 100 unemployed people during the first day's work The office is located in the building on the cor ner of West Marion street and ; Trade Alley and was filled practic | ally all day with unemployed peo j pie looking for an opportunity to i work. Dan Frazier, who was put in charge of the office by Capus M Waynick. State director of re-em ployment. is being aided by two assistants and all three were rush ed today. Hereafter the office will j register names and qualifications I of unemployed only In the mornings | from 8 until 12. while the after j noons will be devoted to Indexing | and assembling the names secured i and seeking work for applicants All unemployed men and women in the county are invited to register with the office, but should go there dur ing the morning'. Among those listed today were all classes of workers, white and colored 1 farm hands, day laborers, skilled j laborers, cooks, chauffeurs, etc I White the registration was going oh this mornin calls am® in for several workers among ‘he requests being two for. coot;.'- This is in no•-oration with the - government's ■>l?.n whereby the office will act as i laecment bureau for private -'irh’s. or individuals as well as for ,-hbiic nrniects Efforts will bo ■nodo to r’aoo as many of th un employed as possible with firms >>• employers hero or near here, while i- s nope ft ro secur wort , for the others upon public work j protects ?s they open up in the ! State. Full qualification's and in I formation are secured about each I unemployed person who registers j and this data may be secured by | prospective employers. Need Wheel Chair For Child In City — Here's an r.ppoitunity to give a dese’ving ynwit^ter a break In Shelby tbp-p ir. * youngster who '•ecentlv underwent an opera tion at. the orthopaedic hospital in Gast-nia. for some time one limb must remain in a east end the youngster has no wav of getting about. The loan of a wheel rhm; for a few weeks or months would do much to brighten :p life for the child, and anyone ‘>ho has such a chair not in use Is asked to get in touch with Mrs Harry Speck at the we''are e'fice in the court house. Poultr3T Car Here 1 On Wednesday Morn j A poultry c, will tv> at the Sea board sta1 a in Shelby Wednesday morph g it tv- . week for th» pur pose of lut'i .ia .ng poultry front r; uni county fat The ca1 •tei'ng pe:a;°d b uv Clcyelanc ,;eis Mutual JExei tenge, a coop t he 01 ganiidtion of county farm •: i ei5‘ I All Cotton Must BeUp Wednesday, Checks En Route Practically All Up Mere Now [ ■ - i— Farmer* Mum Destroy Pledget Arreage R\ Wednesday To Receive Chock*. In * iwss.ur sent to Farm Agent R. W. Shoffner today Cleveland county farmer* were warned that all cotton pledged for destruction in the govern ment’s acreage reduction pro gram must be plowed up or dew troyed by Wednesday of next week or fanners will not be paid for the cotton pledged In compliance with the order Mr Shoffner today urged that farmert who have not plowed up their pled ged amount, do so at once, or bo ton Wednesday. He added, however that reports made to him by com mittees checking on the reductlor program indicated that practlcallj all of the 14,264 acres pledged foi j destruction in this county had beet plowed up. "Very little remains In this count; to be plowed up." he said, "and ! feel sure that alt of our acreagt will be plowed up or destroyed b; Wednesday. In fact, I would esti mate that close to 14.000 seres havt already been plowed up.” Checks Kradv Dispatches today from Washing ton and Raleigh informed that checks for farmers will be "mriilec at once" for distribution. Nortt j Carolina farmers will receive ap proximately *2.898.000. and of tbli amount *177.000 will come to Cleve | land farmers, more than to farm ers of any other county In thi State. Just when the checks wll start arriving here is not known but it is hoped that some may comi in over the week-end as numeroui verification certificates, showing thi cotton pledged to be plowed up have already been mailed to Wash ington. At least half of the pledged acre age of 14,260 acres has already beei inspected and checked by loca committees, it is said, and almos that amount verified and sent t< Washington so that checks mlgh be made out: Come To Agents Raleigh, Aug. 18.—Franklin Roose Veit's Washington government las night announced that governmenta rental benefit checks aggregating *2,898,038 for North Carolina's 229. 427 acres reduction, will be mailec to county agents for distribution a1 once, Ail cotton which shares the bene fits of this philanthropy must bi plowed up by August 23, Dean. I. O Schaub, director of State college said on the advices which he har received from the national capital The farm credit administratior has reached an agreement thal farmers will not be required to re turn to the government any part ol (Continued on Page :ds? > Which vice president of the U war tried for treason? in. in which couhtry are the Car mel Mountains? Try Answering Shelby At Peak Population As Industrial Plants Broaden Out Tammany and Fusion Rivals MAYOR JOHN P OBRIEN FIORELIO LAfoUARDIA Wtih the selection of former Congressman Kiorello LaGuardia as Fu sromst candidate for Mayor of New York, Tammany Hall is faced with the hardest tight it) has been called upon to encounter since the day* of Boas Croker. The Tammany Tiger is on the spot this year with a ven geance, for never before has there been such an outcry amon^ reformers to wrest the city from control of the dominant Democratic machine. Mayor John P. O’Brien, the incumbent, is selected to carry the Tam many standard in the tight. LaGuardia, an inveterate Tammany foe, is a former President of the Board of Aldermen, a World War aviator and a former unsuccessful candidate for Mnyor. He was beaten by James J. Walker in the 1929 election. Find Irregularities In N. C. Revenue Dept By UNITED PRESS Raleigh, Aug. 18,—Irregular ities In the MrnunU of certain former employes of the State Revenue Department have been discovered and are now in the hands of the attorney general, it was announced today by Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., executive assistant commissioner of rev enue. . ^-— The announrement In believed to hem Id the developments rumored in the houae-eleanlng promised by Ehrlnghaua during the campaign. The amounts Involved are not large, it was learned, ranging between five and ten thousand dollars. No further announee menta will be made until the attorney general art*. Gen. Johnson Calls For Showdown With Oil Industry About Code Givi-s OH Magnates I" Hours To Mne Up Behind President In Drive. • 1 Washington, Aug. lfl General Hugh S Johnson, national recovery administrator, submitted his oil code, calling for control of prices and production, to leaders of the industry gathered herd yesterday and he gave them only 17 hours to state their objections. After that, the code will be hand ed for formal approval to President . Roosevelt, who already has approv ed it tentatively in its present form Dressed in a white linen suit, beads of perspiration dripping from . his forehead, Johnson faced reprp i sentatives of the petroleum industry . and stated his plans simply. "This is the code that; in my ■ capacity as administrator I am go I ing to recommend to the President " ■ * (Continued on Page rf> One More Day To Register In City School Election Tomorrow, Saturday, will be the last day for clUn-iM to reg ister tn order to participate in the special school tax election which will be held in Shelby on Tuesday, Aug, 2fl. Interest is Increasing In the election and it is believed that between 1,000-1,200 have already registered. The registrars, who will be at their respective voting places tomorrow, are: Ward 1—Zrmri Mistier Ward 2—Herbert Toms Ward 3—1,. 7,. Huffman. Ward 4—Annie Smith Long. South Shelby—Marvin Blanton. 400,000 Return To Work In U. S., But Food Prices Lead Payroll Gain 1 Retail Sales Workers Drop Off Dim To Decline In Sales. Food i Prices I'p. i Washington. Aug 18 -Secretarj I Frances Perkins yesterday prided uj figures to show that while retai food prices in the nation increasec 8 1-3 per cent during the month ending July 15 factory pay rolls ex panded 7.9 per cent, or a total ol $7,500,000. during the same period. ; The labor secretary interpreted | the massed statistics as encouraging j particularly figures she presented tc 'show that 1.100.000 factory employes ' had returned to work between j Marcl. and July. If the pay roll index, the highest since March, 1932, continues to climb at Its present rate, she said $390,000,000 would be added to the pay rolls of manufacturing plants this year Reports furnished h> the bureau of labor statistics ,)rd Miss Perkins to estimate that 400,000 additional b workers got factory jobs in July compared with June. The latter month, she said, showed a similar re-employment over May. Further she estimated that the purchasing power of the workers had been in creased $29.000,00() in July over March. Another 300,000 employment gain was cited for July over March in 16 non-manufacturing industries, but this was interpreted by officials as largely seasonal. The only discouraging sign seen by the labor secretary was a reces sion In employment of 4.7 per cent in July under June in the retail trade group. This indicated, she said, that retail sales had not been sufficient to give employment in added numbers on a par with other Industries. Miss Perkins analyzed the depart ment's latest indices with the aid of a hugp chart Rhowing employ- i merit and pay roll curves since 1915* bo date. 1 No Empty Houses In City Now Numerous People Unable To Uenl Homes. Huibling Pro gram Likely. .Shelby is now facing a. house shortage for the first time in years, and a survey among real estate and rental agents today indicated that • he city's population is likely larger than ever before. rhe shortage of houses, particu larly rent houses of all types, is true to a certain extent to an expansion program in local industrial plants, but rental agents state that empty houses arc not to be found in any residential section of the city One rental agent said today that "I have five or six calls daily for houses and am unable to get them Yesterday I had one man who said he had been here for two month* without being able to secure a house." Another indication of how diffi cult it is to find a vacant hottsa Is that one man who has been em ployed at a local industrial plant for six weeks has been unable to* move his family to ahelby because he does not have a house It was retried today, although definite announcement is withheld for the time being, that construc tion work may start soon on a half r dozen or more residences of sev eral types In the Eton mill village, where the size of the plant, Is now being enlarged, the village homes are be ing generally repaired and painted and other houses have been leased or are being leased by the mill. Around 80 of the 104 new loom* being installed there are said to be up and in operation and the entire plant Including the expanded por j tlon is expected to be In full opera tion by October 1. In the mean time construction work continue* In the enlarging of the Cleveland Cloth mill, and the main portion of the new structure is now near ing completion. The expansion program at these two plants has donj much t» fill what, vacant houses there were In the city: In uptown sections vacant houses and apartments are said to be Just os scarce. Every day there are applicants for apartments and hom es in uptown sections, and it, was said today that there are not over two or three vacant apartments in the city Shelby Coach Wins Regional Title In Junior Legion Ball Gastonia Juniors Advance To Bast rrn Finals. To Springfield Ohio. (Othrr Sport* Ps|r 9) The Legion Junior baseball team ' of the Gastonia American Legion, coached by Casey Morris, Shelby high athletic director, yesterday de feated Spartanburg, South Carolina champions, to the regional cham pionship of region 8. The game was played before 8, 000 fans at Gastonia and the Gas tonia team won by the score of 1! to l. By virtue of their victory the Gastonia boys and Coach Morria will leave Sunday for Springfield, Ohio, where they will compete with five other regional champions for the campionsip of Eastern America. The winner there will go to New Orleans to play the Junior cham pions of the west The hard-hitting young Gastonia team, trained by the Shelby coach defeated Belmont, Charlotte, Ham let and Elizabeth City to win the North Carolina championship. In the regional series played this week at Gastonia the Morris team de feated the highly-touted Memphis club. Tennessee champions, 7 to 3 In yesterday’s final the Gastonia juniors ran away with the Spartan burg team which had defeated Rich mond, Virginia champions. In the first day of the series. Quite a number of Shelby and county fans witness the games and were highly Impressed with the Gastonia youngster, particularly J. K. Lewis, heavy-hitting third-saek er, who secured a single, double, triple and home run in the Memphis game, and a single, double and tri ple in the Spartanburg game IMPROVES NOW Will King. Shelby aalesman, is improving at his home here after sustaining a head Injury to a fall several days ago at a Mt Holly cafe. 1 a