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Shelby Trade Jubilee Three Days Next Week -Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday i T DIE-TM W E EM ! VOL. XXXIX, No. 102 r* SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST, 25. 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mml, tier year, (In advance! „ Currier, ner year, (in advancat „ 8 S Late News sPot — Cotton seed, ton 9H to 9« ...... $1600 Cloudy, Warmer Today's North Carolina Weather Hfport Slightly warmer In extreme WMt portion tonight. Saturday pjrtlv cloudy. Storm Death Toll Reaches 47 By UNITED PRESS The known death toll from the ,Wrm and hurricane which swept the eastern seaboard from North Carolina north stands at 47 with property damage of 15 million dol lars Today the violent storm had diminished to a high pressure area In Canada over Lake Ontario. Warn ings of a new storm were up today on the Maine coast where one life was already lost. Roads to Nags Head and Manteo were still under water but there were no deaths in North Carolina. J. M. Gillespie, Shelby s Oldest Man, Dies At 92 Funeral This Afternoon At First Baptist Church. Two Brothers, One Sister Survive. J. M Gillespie, commonly known ss "Uncle Mac", died yesterday morning at 7:45 o’clock at the home of his brother Summie L. Gillespie on Grover street where he had been making his home for eleven years. Uncle Mae was Shelby's oldest male citiren. celebrating his 92nd birthday in T ily. In the last few months he suffered breakdowns but because of -his fire habits of living and his strong constitution, he usu ally staged s come-back. The end came quiet'- and without struggle. Mr. C- lie was a tall up-stand ing soldif'- under Capt. O. P. Gard ner in Co I 38th Rpg. Infantry and later In Co. I. 1st N. C. Cavalry Confederate army where he served with valianee and honor for three tears. In his younger days he was and. enterprising farmer. He join ed Zion Baptist church at the age if lfi and always loved his church With the weight of years bearing lowri his shoulders; he had great lor in att ‘ndinr religious services. Born on Grogg Crpek, now in Rutherford county on July 16th 1841. moved to Cleveland and was Harried to R tth*- .Tone Ledford on Dec. 2nd I8C9. Pbe died on Christ mas day 1904 Surviving are twc mothers, Stnrmie L. Gillespie oi Shelby. J. j Gillespie of League Stv.' Texas and one sister, Mrs 4mos H CorffT.'Pl! who is now des perately i't at the acre of 83 years Mr. Gillespie held his membership >t the First Baptist church here tnd there tb» funeral was held this ifternoor at 2 o'clock by the pastor Or. Zeno Vail assisted by Revs 0 G Washburn and John W. Sut de. Interment took place In Sun ‘et Cem t n wi*h Paxton Elliott Rov Propd, R Sisk Paul Webb Fates Spa ne'er and Oscar Spangler active pall b : . r-rs. Wheat Meetings To Begin Tuesday Over The County CoantT Agent Will Explain Govern ment Control Plan For Wheat. 'r*',p Federal government's wheat production control campaign will be inaugurated in Cleveland countj next. week. R. w. Shoffner, farm *?ent announced today. A series of seven meetings will be held over the county during the aeek by Mr. Shoffner and at each meeting he will explain the wheat production control plan. Even armer in the county is urged to at end at least one meeting so that h< may hear the plan explained In ie ttl‘ and understand how it is to op erate. The first meeting will be held * court Mouse in Shelby Tuesd evening, Aug. 28. at 8 o’clock. Ot J meetings will be held as follow .. g? Mountain school Wednesd lfUO; Waco school Wednesd «ternoon at 3; Boiling Sprit Pot nWedneSday evenln8 « “L11001 Thursdayat 10 , , sch°o' Thursday afternr '"8 at 10'sT" 8011001 Frlday m°’ Westminster Choir Singers In Shell Phn-6 Westm>niser choir singers, Pnnceton, N. j„ will appear*ln 'hurcTthi °f Central Metho< of'l?*1S evenin8. in a progi Pbblir and secular songs. r tho* ,,, c°rdially invited to h ^!nted artists. The r i>egins promptly at eight. 2,000 Attend Kadesh Cen tennialA nd. Hoyle Reunion At Belwood Ample Food For Over 5,000 Church History Read By J. B. Ivey, Hoyle History by Mrs. Rucker. 5 States Represented. Between 1,500 and 2,000 people attended yesterday the Kadesh Cen tennial and Hoyle reunion held at Kadesh church at Belwood which is said to be the largest gathering of people in several years for an oc casion of this kind. i Five States Represented. The occasion was perfect in every respect, although the weather was a bit hot. Descendants from fam ilies of the Kadesh community and friends were there from five states other than North Carolina: Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia. South Carolina, and Virginia. Many of them had not seen each other for ye.vs and faces had been forgotten but a re ception committee was on hand to introduce and identify old friends. The social side of the occasion in the afternoon was therefore most enjoyable. Some 500 or more automobiles brought people from near and dis tant points and courteous traffic officers saw that there was an orderly parking of cars. There was no confusion in the program which had been carefully planned for i months in advance. Two Histories Read j Devotional was conducted by for ! mer pastors of the church under the leadership of Rev. W. L. Scott, j the present pastor. Hugh Hoyle de | livered a short address of welcome I which was responded to by Hon. R. IM. Gantt of Durham. J. B. Ivey, prominent merchant of Charlotte who began his successful business career at Belwood and married in that community, read the history of the church which he had prepar ed with painstaken care and re (Continued on Page 10) College Opens Sept. 5; Pres. Jenkins On Vacation for Awhile With everything in readiness for a record opening of Boiling Springs j College on Sept. 5, Pres. J. T. Jen I kins has taken time out for a much ' needed vacation. He left Thursday I for an unknown destination and I will rest until Thursday of next I week. I The only work he will do this ! week is the filling of the pulpit at i the First Baptist church at Clinton, I S. C. This is a return visit to that I city as Mr. Jenkins held a revival 1 in the First Church there several (seasons ago. All services at other I churches will be called off to allow 1 the members to attend Mr. Jenkin’s jservice. Will Close Court House On Tuesday Court house offices in Shelby will be closed all day Tuesday due to the special school election, it was an nounced today in order that those who have business to attend to should look s-'ter • Monde" nr Wed nesday. Four of th! .,. '.’ins booths are lo ’V d in the curt house and be cause of this it Jr rc^essa v to close the office-- for regular work. Cotton Up 25 Points On Exchange Today Cotton made a gain of 25 points on the New York exchange today October closing at 9.65 and I>rem ' ber at 9 87. NRA Violators In por Tough Sledding Says Gen. Johnsoi ' Bureau To Act On Chislers. John son Warns Withdrawal of “ Blue Eagle” Means Death. Washington, Aug. 25.— Vlminis r trator Hugh S. Johnson’s waroini that withdrawal of the blue ?agl< fj would mean economic death t< e • ‘‘cheaters and chiselers” focused at t tention today to a new NRA bureai a ret up especially to handle com f plaints and check on viola t o - s i re-employment agreements. Although the bureau has oeei j operating only a few days, desk Shelby Man'Head N. C. Bankers VVrightsville Beach, Aug. #5.—For rest Eskridge, cashier of the Firs National Bank of Shelby, was yes terday elected president of the North Carolina Bankers Associa tion at the convention of that grou] here. Mr. Eskridge had prevlousl: served as second vice president an< for the last year as first vice presi dent. He presided over the presen convention in the absence of R. N Page, retiring president. Mr. Esk ridge has been in the banking bus! ness since youth and Is highly es teemed in banking circlet. Absentees May Vote On Tuesday City Attorney Rules T^hal Specia School Tax Elec^on Is Under General Election Law. City Attorney D. Z. Newton, hav ing been asked to render an opto ion as to whether absentee vote may be cast in the special 6choc tax election to be held Tuesday, rul es that absentee votes may be cas and are legal. i Upon investigation of the law h finds that this special election i held under the general election la\ governing all elections, so any on who is sick or absent from the cit on Tuesday, election day, may ex ercise the voting privilege in th usual way prescribed by law fo absentee voting. Therefore, those who are sick an unable to go to the polls of thos i who are out of the city, may secur the absentee voting forms from Joh P. Mull, chairman of the count board of elections. -When these ab sentee toalints are properly filled on they must be delivered to the reg ! istrar of the precinct in which th voter resides. Ample absentee vot ing forms are on hand at the offic of Judge Mull, together with envel ■opes to'be sealed until opened b I the registrars. Truck Owners Meet Here Next Tuesday Mr- i’aiiey Groome of the Nort I Caro.-na Truck Owners associatio | will be at the court house at 8 p. n | ; jf-rday night. August 29th to ad dress and to help organize the true l - v-i'Frs of Cleveland county. A ! truck owners are urged to atten j especially the for hire operators. a,reaay ;ire piled with complaint 3epo-‘-s of violations are coming i by th? thousands from all par of the -ountry. To single out ‘rom these cas< one violator for the sentence i [ economic death which Johnson si; 8 wcri'd be the . ’suit at -emoval i ) the ue eagle 'nsignia, presents "'task which even Johnson, forcef 1 and ’'-‘ennined as he is. probab o’ild hesitate to undertake. On he other hand, there 's U q' l'iti'm of playing fair with tl >i ^Continued on Page 10) ... ' . . . Johnson Endorses Trade Days Put On By City Merchants Three Day Jubilee Sale Planned Gen. Johnson Says "Buy Now" Movement Will Help Restore Conditions. Gen. Hugh Johnson has given his endorsement to the big trade jubilee which Shelby merchants WIT! observe on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day of next week. A trade jubilee for all of Western North Carolina was suggested by the Asheville Tlmes-Cltlzen. Letters and telegrams went out to mayors, chambers of commerce and mer chants asking that they hold three bargain days before the first of September when the governmental processing tax will go Into effect. This processing tax compels the merchants to advance the price of certain goods on hand, so in order to give the public the benefit of bargains, the jubjlee sale days have been set for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, the last three days In j nuguoi. Advertise Monday Special bargains will be offered and some twenty or more merchants gathered in the Counrt House here Tuesday night to make plans for the three big days. Extensive ad vertising will be carried in Monday’s issue of The Star and already mer chants are reserving space. Copy for advertisements must be in by noon Saturday. Gen. Hugh Johnson in endorsing the three bargain days has wired > as follows: r “My congratulations to North l Carolina on its step toward good times. Those who do their buying now will not only aid in the gen-j . eral movement which is the purpose ] of the national recovery act but will advantage themselves. Por with the recrudescence of prosperity will come the natural corailary of high er prices, through higher wages will enable higher prices to be paid if the people of your section buy now. and buy under the Blue Eagle they will be in step with the whole I nation. Por from every quarter comes the news of recreated confi dence.” Dr. Chas. Gidney j Native Of Shelby And Son Of Late I ('apt. J. W. Gidney— Was Prominent Physician. Relatives have received news of ; the death of Dr. Charles C. Gidney 3 In Plainview, Texas, yesterday after j noon. Dr. Gidney was the son of ; Capt. J. W. Gidney and Mary Mc f Parian Gidney, pioneer citizens of . Shelby. He was born in £helby, » May 17, 1867 and spent his early r life here. He received his educa tion at the University of N. C.. and j Eastman Business College, Pankeep 5! sle, N. Y. afterwards graduating P j from medical college. After graduation, he located in Y Granger, Texas, later moving to _ Plainview where he spent the re t mainder of his life. Dr. Gidney was . eminent successful as a physician e and business man. He had for _ many years been president of the e‘ First National Bank of Plainview. . He was an active and life long y member of the Methodist church. In 1894 he was married to Miss Margaret Keliehor, who with two sons and two daughters survive. He also leaves two brothers, Dr. W. f Gidney of West Texas and Atty. E E Gidney of Muskogee. Okla. •1 Well Known Hollis * : Man Dead: Funeral Saturday Afternoon _ J Mr. J. B. Harris, prominent farm |er and highly respected citizen oi i the Hollis community, died in the j Shelby hospital this morning about 6 o’clock Mr. Harris was 76 years . of age. I Funeral services will be held at | Big Springs Baptist church Satur s,! day afternoon at 2:30 and will likely n | be conducted by Rev. D. F, Putnam ■s The deceased, an esteemed leader j in his section. Is survived by his ss! widow and three children: Mrs. >j | John Swofford, of Hollis; Elijah ,s i Harris, of Cliffside; and George ,f i Harris, of Aztec, Arizona. a' --- j) Masonic Meeting. Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. ie M. will meet in regular communica ie tion tonight, Friday, at 8 o’clock All members are urged to attend and visiting Masons are invited 4 In Reported Wilson Romance ■...s A recent picture of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the war-time Freni dent, whose engagement to Edward N. Hurley (also above), wealthy < h’ragoan and Former chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board and Federal F ade Commission, will shortly be announced, according to intimule i tends. Hurley’s former wife was killed in an auto accident last Sept. What Will Be The Result If The Special School Tax Is Defeated? (Final appeal for the special school tax made by B. L. Smith. The special election will be held Tuesday, Aug. ZPth.l If the 20c school tax does nol carry, amazement alone the follow ing lines will many times be ex pressed: What, no audit! No, the people did not providt I the local tux by which to have It made. I What, no record*! No, the tax for buying the foriw failed. What, no aeat work! No, tt ifi true you need it worse than ever, but, the people voted tt < Continued on Page 10) Over 10,000 People Vaccinated Thursday There are hundreds of sore arms over Cleveland county today as the result of the county-wide vaccination campaign yesterday In which be tween 10 and 11 thousand county people were vaccinated for typhoid ana cupmneria. A score of Cleveland county phy sicians and their nurses were kept busy all day yesterday vaccinating the record number of people. Phy sicians were reporting the number of vaccinations today to Dr. D. F. Moore, county physician, but with several physicians at Kings Moun tain, Boiling Springs and Toluca not heard from the total was already well above 10,000. At noon today Dr Moore said a total of 10,821 vacci nations had been reported. Of this number, 9,500 were vaccinated for typhoid while 1,321 children were given the diphtheria vaccine. Such was the rush upon all phy sicians in the city and county that the vaccine ran out yesterday after noon and scores had to be turned away. The vaccine is furnished by (Continued on Page 10) Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. Give the altitude of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. 2. Does the President receive his salary In cash? 3. Can the President of the United States resign? 4. What is the largest inland body of water in the world? 6. In what general group of islands are the Bahamas? 6. Where is Westminister Abbey? i 7. Who wrote the “Essays of Elia?’’ 8. Who was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence? 9. How much did the United States pay for Alaska? 10. How many children has Pres ident and Mrs. Roosevelt? 11. Is Finland one of the Scandi navian countries? 12. How is the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives chosefi? 13. What famous General said “Face the other waf boys, we are going back?” 14. Who were Alice and Phoebe Cary? 15. Where is the Welland Canal? 16. Who wrote the poem "Casa blanca?” 17. Is the Chief Justice of the United States a Republican or a Democrat? 18. Where is Ukraine? 1®. Who was "Leatherstocking? 211 What is Hello" in Spanish'1 Try Answering Mr*. Gantt Will Be 99 Monday; Dinner Sunday Mr*. Mary Gantt, Shelby’* oldest cltlMsn,* will be 08 year* of age on Monday1, Aug. 28. The birth anniversary will be observed, however, on Sun day at Mrs. Gantt’s home in West Shelby. Fifteen Year Old Youth Dead Hen Alton Rector Humphries, age 1 years, died in the Shelby hospitt Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock an was burled Tuesday afternoon at o’clock at Zoar church, just be!o' Shelby. He Is survived by his parents, M and Mrs. W. M. Humphries of She! by R2, one brother and one siste: Funeral services were conducted b Revs. J. W. Suttle and Rush Pad gett and the pallbearers were hi school mates of No. 3 township hlg school. George Robert* Cut A* Hi* Car Wreck George Roberts who has bee working at Rogers Motors and wit a chemical company in Charlotl suffered bad cuts about the fat and bruises on his body when h car locked wheels with another ci passing head-on on highway No. I near Beth-Ware School Monda afternoon. Mr. Roberts was throw through the wind-shield and seven ly cut, but he is able to be up pai of the time. , Checks Being Mailed To Farmers For Plowing Up 10 Million Acres Deadline Reached Wednesday. Rani Of Prices Paid From *6 To $20 An Acre. Washington, Aug. 24.—The tin lor Southern cotton farmers wh participated in the reduction can paign to plow under their acreage expired at midnight Wednesda with government insistent that cor tracts be carried out to the lette Since all but 9.000 of the 1.034 0T offers to reduce had been accepts .. . , .r- • ■ 'k--. Hoey And Falls Plead For Adequate Schools In Mass Meeting Here First Cotton Of Year Is Ginned In This County Toy Webb Ctrows, (ilni Mml Bale, E. E. McKinney Second. Bolh Hold. Cleveland County's first bale of cotton on the 1933 crop was picked and ginned Wednesday aftarnoon by Toy Webb, well known farmer and ({Inner. The hale was tinned two days earlier than the first bale of last year, ginned on Aug. 36, and last year's first bale was the, earliest Ini 10 years. The first bale last year was grown by C. J White on the W H. Patterson place in the Pat terson Springs section and was sold to J. J. McMurry A Co for nine cents per pound. , Auctioned Off This year's first bale, grown and ginned by Mr. Webb weighed 000 pounds and was auctioned off at the court house yesterday, being purchased by Mason Carroll at 10:35 cents per pound Mr. Carroll rep resents tlie J. R. Lindsay, Inc. Cot ton shippers, Greenville, 8 C. The grade was middling and §ie staple 1 1-32. While the Webb bale was being auctioned off Thursday a bale was picked and ginned on the farm of E. F. McKinney, well known Bhelby business man and farmer. Mr. Mc Kinney's bale weighed 004 poundR and was sold to Moser brothers for i 1040 cents per pound. 5 1 1 2 tr f s h 11 i n tx e e 5 r 0 y n ■t W. M. U. Meeting At Boiling Spgs. Aug. 31-Sept. 1st "Launch Out Into The Deep" h The Theme. Address By Rev. Jacob GartenhauH. The following program has beer prepared for the W. M. U. meeting of the Kings Mountain Baptist as sociation to be held at Bolling Springs, August 31st and Sept. 1st. The theme of the program is "Launch Out Into the Deep" with a special message to be delivered by Rev. Jacob dartenhaus. 10:30 devotional, Mrs. L. C. Toms; organization. address of welcome. Mrs. O. P. Hamrick; response. Mrs H, C. Royster; roll call of churches, recognition of new societies, visitors and pastors, report of superintend ent, song, Jesus Calls Us; repeating of watchword, sermon, Dr Zeno Wall; announcements, lunch 1:30 devotional, Macedonia; ad dress, "Launching Out with Out Young People,” Prof. I. O. Greer; special music, New Hope; "Launch ing Out In State Missions,” Dover; "Launching Out in Home Missions" Sandy Plains. Night session: devo tional, Rev. J. L. Jenkins; “Launch ing Out in Christian Education,” Boiling Springs. Friday, Sept. 1st. 10:30 devotional. Mrs. D. B Hughes', minutes, "Launching Out in Foreign Missions,” Kings Moun tain First, song, address, Rev. Jacob Gartenhaus; announcements, lunch 1:30 devotional, Mrs. A. D. War lick; dramatization of a Mission Study Book, Waco; report of Mis sion Study Superintendent, Mrs. J. W. Wood; address Mrs. Edna R. Harris; personal service, Elizabeth; reports, minutes. e e o y o a and some of these still pending may be, this meant virtually every one of the 10,304,000 acres under con tract would be destroyer!. Aug, 8, the crop reporting board estimated that 10,304,000 acres were affected by reduction agreements and that 3,247,000 bales would be taken out of production. The farm administration announ ced yesterday it would take steps to have the cotton turned under if farmers refused to carry out their; contracts. . ivcr >00 Attend Rally In Onar Houki- They Answer All Argu ment* Against Special Tax. DuUiders Watch The Outcome Clyde R. Hoey and B. T. Falls, wo champions of education, mads ippeals last night at a mask mast ing In the court house for an ade I&iin' school system that will be provided If the special taut eleeflon carries In Shelby dietriet No. 33 on ruesday. Some 300 or more people attend ed the rally and many who had tone to the meeting opposed to the tax were heard to remark that they had been converted to the tax. Mr. Hoey was the principal spea ker and was introduced by Judge Falls as “a man who lends his sym pathies to the average cttlarn, a man to whom the town and county owe mitre as a Just and righteous leader than any man or woman In my day.” Cltisene Are Fair The only serious objections to the special tax has been financial, so Mr. Hoey devoted much of his time on meeting this objection. He ex pressed the firm conviction that every eitisen would be for an ade quate school system if they would only take time to get the facts. Analyses The School Tax. "Prior to 1930 the county levied from 30 to 40 cents cm property for schools and the city SO cent, fn 1081 the county removed all school operation tax. leaving nothing but the school debt service tax, and a 16 cent tax by the state on property for six months term. This, left 15 cent by the state for six months and 30 cent by the city for extend ed term. The last legislature pro vided for a uniform eight months and removed the 16 cent. School Costs Reduced 66 % “In the last six years, the school cost in Shelby has been reduced 66 per cent. Last year city property was assessed at 10 millions and car ried a 30 cent school tax levy which raised *30,000 approximately. This year property values were out to 'Continued on Page 10) All Cotton Now Plowed Up Here; Look For Check* No Hlaebero, No Trouble. Obcmfca Leaving Washington Not*. Every farmer In Cleveland oonnty lived up to his word and his pledge to the government in the cotton acreage reduction campaign, R. W Shoffner. farm agent, announced to day. "All the pledged amount of cot ton was plowed up In the county by Wednesday, the deadline day,” ha said, "and the committees in their check-up didn't find a single msn who failed to take up every stalk pledged. I think it is an excellent record and a tribute to our farm ers for In carrying out their con tracts they destroyed more cotton than any county in the State around 14,000 acres.” Mr. Shoffner said that with the campaign concluded he desired to express his appreciation to members of the committees and all who ren dered valuable service and loyal ro operation. Just when checks will start com ing to this county, the agent did not know. He has been notified that th government started mailing ou* checks Monday night of this week and about 50,000 checks are bein'! sent out of Washington dally. Al this rate it should not be long until checks start arriving here as the government has stated that V! checks will be delivered by Septem ber 22. The checks for this count* will be sent to Mr Shoffner for dis tribution Rev. Call B. Craig of Suffolk, will fill the pulpit at the Shelby Presbyterian church Sunday at If o’clock, ii was announced today. Rev. Mr. Craig has supplied here before lor his friend. Rev> H. N, McDiarmid. and Is well known la the congregation.