- TM L I W M O Z W , Late News the markets ... 9H to 9*4 Cotton. sP°‘. ^ M •eed. ton.*1600 Cation Rain Thursday T„d*'> North Carolina Weather Rain tonight and Thurs Roosevelt To Consider Ford By UNITED PRESS Washington, Sept. 6-President | Roosevelt will take up Henry Ford's j failure to < ome under the NRA at a , conference tonight at the White J Hnu«e with General Hugh John-j s„n. il learned today. The ad- i ministration would not say what steps, if any, may be taken. By UNITED PRESS Washington. Sept. 6.—President Roosevelt said today he contemplat ed n« intervention in Cuba, but he ordered two more warships to Cuba and also ordered the Seventh Regi ment of Marines to concentrate at the Quantico. Va., base, ready for instant movement to Cuba. Havana. Cuba, Sept. 6.—Cuba's n,w revolutionary government sat unsteadily in the seat of power to day, its fate still to be determined. * i nited States destroyer rode at anchor in the harbor and two more were steaming in. American Ambassador Welles declined to corn mil himself regarding the executive committee of five, supported by the army. navy, police and rural guards, which vpsterday overthrew the pro visional government of De Cespe des. Young Man Taken For “Ride”; Gets Beaten, He Says Two Men Bound Over On Charge Solon Roberts, Jr„ Says He Was j Taken For "Ride" In Ruth erford And Assaulted. A touch of Chicago and the big- j time underworld invaded the Cle-! '■eland county court room here yes-! terday when two men were given preliminary hearing on the charge of taking another man for a “ride" and assaulting him The defendants were Ben Dover and Joe Patterson, of No. 3, and the prosecuting witness was Solon Pat terson, jr. ■ Patterson claimed that on last Saturday night he was persuaded to enter a car with the two and carried to a point above Mooresboro, in Rutherford county, and there assaulted Dover was charged with the direct assault. The trouble, officers think, arose I from the fact that Dover may have euspicioned that Roberts had squealed" on him In connection *'ith a recent whisky case. Both defendants were placed un der $1,000 bonds each to Superior court on the formal charges of con spiracy to abduct, abduction and secret assault. Dover was also plac ed under a $1,000 peace bond. h'o session of county court was held on Monday, which was Labor Dl>’ *nd as a result the court had « heavy grind yesterday. Lincoln Men Held In Assault Case Lincoln ton. Sept. 6—Carl and czar Pook. twin brothers and Bryce Ba„ard. charged with criminal as *ault on two Mt. Holly girls a few *T a*° were ordered held with bond for superior court. One of H * frls assaulted is said to be un oer 16 years of age, Don t Borrow lour neighbor’s paper. Y< neighbor buys his paper ™ own family use. Constj Writing may break friendship. ,f you are hot now si bribing for The Star, let 'end vou a trial subscript! *7 TOfl new subscript!, “ded within the last thi ^ks. Ce*rnty farrt'r boy* < r the Paper each aft n of publication day j®" *• Tour door in She! M suNrbs ,nd ^ prlce . ->c a month. _ C»rrlpr, p*r y«>*r, On adrtno*) „ 3 3 Cloth Mill Addition Is Nearly Completed Automatic Shuttle Change Looms Setting Of Machinery Will Start Next Week 224 New Looms Will Be Installed. Within a week's time, the brick addition to the Cleveland Cloth mill will be finished by Fisk Carter Con struction company and the setting of new machinery will be started according to Information secured this morning from O M. Mull, of ficial of the mill. Floor Space Doubled The brick and steel addition tc the Cloth Mill plant is 12 feet wide by 300 feet long and more thar doubles the floor space of the plant One portion of the addition is twc stories high and this section will be used as the preparation depart ment where rayon and celanese are put through certain processes be fore going to the weave depart ment. Two hundred and twenty-foui new Compton and Knowles loom? will be installed. Several machines have already arrived and the set ting up of these machines will be gin next week when the building is finished. Mr Mull says, however that the placing and “tuning” up will require four or five months be fore all of the new machinery will be in production and all necessary additional labor will be employed. Automatic Looms The new looms are of the very latest design, The most important improvement on the looms is an au tomatic shuttle change. Old model machines stop when a bobbin gives out and the operator has to insert a new' shuttle. This stops produc tion. The new looms have four oi five shuttles in a sort of cartridge and when one gives out, a new one is automatically inserted without stopping. The Cleveland Cloth mill bought a few new looms early this year tc test out. When they were found tc be satisfactory the expansion ol the plant was decided qn and con tract let for the 224 looms and a quantity of preparation machinery Sixty days ago the contract was let for the brick and steel addition and the contractors have made unusual progress is being able to turn over the job the last of this week ot early next wek. Mr. Mull says It is not the inten tion of the mill to erect any more houses in the villages, but that the employees to be added will live about over Shelby wherever houses are available. This has made a de mand which has filled every va cant house in or near the city. It is expected that, investors will begir erecting new houses for rent. City Will Advertise 1932 Taxes In Oct. Delinquent 1932 city taxes will be advertised for sale the first week in October and sold the first ol November, it was decided at the regular monthly meeting of thi board of aldermen held in the citj hall last night.. Since the 1933 tax rate has beer set at $1.05, the city's tax receipts are now being printed and made out and a two percent discount will be given for payment during the first thirty days. The state law pro vides for this discount, according to the city attorney, D. Z. Newton First Check Has Arrived In Lincoln Lincolnton. Sept. 6.—County Ag ent Graham Morrison received bj registered mail Monday morning the first cotton check from the fed eral government. The check ii made out to Earl O. Hartman anc is for $144.00. representing the re imbursement for plowing up twelve acres of coton. Mr. Morrison is expecting othei checks to follow at anytime now {County Holiday Here For Event 1 At Fair Grounds i -- Contract For County Audit Awarded To Lenoir Firm. General Busi ness Handled. Official Cleveland county will ob | serve a holiday on Thursday. Sep tember 14, the occasion being the big j county-wide get-together day at I the county fair grounds. The holiday was declared at a • meeting of the commissioners this ! week and means that all county j offices will be closed during the ! day. ! Mayors of Shelby and Kings [ Mountain have also been asked to declare a holiday In orier to add impetus to the big gathering ex pected to assemble there for a pic nic dinner, sport events and a gen eral county reunion. Another act of the commissioners was to award the annual county audit to the Leslie A. Kimble fi^m of Lenoir. In addition to these two items and the fixing of Monday, November 6, as the date for selling property for unpaid 1932 taxes, the commission ! ers devoted their session to routine I business. i Judge Webb Speaks In Hickory Sunday ' Shelby Jurist Will Make Prohibi tion Speech To Gathering There. Hickory. Sept. 6.—The Hickory I Ministerial Association will fire jthe opening gun of a Catawba county fight to keep North Caro lina in the dry column, when Fed | eral Judge E. Y. Webb, of Shelby, j comes to this city for a union meet ing of all local churches next Sun day evening at eight o’clock, at the | auditorium. All churches represented will dis , pense with their regular Sunday evening services and unite in an effort to make the coming of Jud ge Webb a big event The Shelby jurist is regarded as ■ one of the most able advocates of ' prohibition and well qualified to I speak, because in his position he knows the evils of booze. The men and women of the state who are organizing for a de termined stand against repeal, are | undertaking to hold meetings in all j counties It is stated Several such j meetings were held Sunday, and it | is reported that great crowds are ! turning out to hear the men of I note who are representing the dry ! cause. For that reason, local drys | believe that the Hickory auditorium j will be well filled w’hen Judge j Webb makes his address next Sun | day evening. | Dir Cupid Helped | Bv NR A In County Nine Couples Secured Marriage Lie ense In August And Five In September. Dan Cupid is one fellow who will eadilv admit that the NRA has put new wife in his business In August, the first month of the Roosevelt recovery program, a to tal of nine marriage licenses were sold at the Cleveland county court bouse. That’s a record for the ye°r September promises to do as well, if not better. So far this month licenses have been issued to five ; couples, as follows: Albert L. Grif : fin and Josie Mae Hollifield; W. D. Poston, jr.. and Mandie Hull: John Harris and Bessie Mitchell; Forrest | Hamrick and Lois Blanton all ■ white; and George Gordon and Vei Itiece Byers, colored Roosevelt Plan To Aid Every Class Is Praised In Europe British Labor Leader Sees American Program As Model For The World. Brighton. Eng., Sept 6.—President Roosevelt's NRA program for recov ery within the United States was held up to delegates to the Trade Unions Congress here this week as a model for the world to follow in its groping for a safe road back to prosperity. A. G. Walkden. president of the Congress, in his welcoming address praised Mr. Roosevelt's “unorthodox tackling of the depression." He said he felt the President had shown the way for the rest of the world, and added: President Roosevelt has taken de cisive steps to show that econom'e individualism, both in theory and practice, is played out.” “Capitalist interests," he said, 'are •low plainly fighting for their lives |- fighting in the last ditch. "I am uot going to say that Amer ica has been converted overnight to .socialism—but I do say on the evi dence available that America has turned to a policy which organized labor has long advocated as a so'u tConunued on Page 8) Hundreds Pledge Support For NRA Drive In Shelby Over 1,200 Signed First Day Volunteer Worker* Carry Blue Eagle Inlo Home* Of City. Drive Continues. By the end of this week it la es timated that the Blue Eagle will be flying in more than S.000 Shelby homes where the occupants have pledged their cooperation to the NRA program In the first day's canvass yester day in two sections of the city vol unteer teams working in two sec tions of the city, under the gen eral direction of Mai Spangler, chairman of the drive, secured the signatures of 1,200 people to cards pledging their whole-hearted co operation with President Roose velt's program. The drive continues today, cen tering in the east Shelby section about the Eton and Cleveland Cloth mill villages, and tomorrow. Thursday the drive will be put on in uptown Shelby. Yesterday's cam paign in which 1.200 signed NRA cards was in the South Shelby and Shelby Mill section and in Freed man colored section. Contact Everyone In the canvass the workers are contacting everyone, individuals and firms. From individuals they are securing pledged cooperation to the drive and from firms the esti mated increase in number of em ployes and in wages. "So far.” those in charge of the drive yesterday said,' 'we have met with an excellent response. The people of Shelby appear to be 100 percent behind the recovery pro gram and they are anxious to pledge their every effort; to help President Roosevelt and General Johnson carry it through.” Uptown Drive The uptown drive will be In the general charge of Mrs. H. T. Hud son, lieutenant-colonel under Mr. Spangler. Territory and divisions in the uptown section will be divided by her under the various teams Working under Mrs. Hudson arc three majors, Mrs. T W. Hamrick Mrs. Grady Lovelace and Mrs. D. H. Cline Team captains working un der them are Mrs. Paul Webb. Jr. Mrs. Henry Edwards. Mrs Pitt Beam. Mrs. D. R Yates. Mr* Cohn Hull, all under Mrs Hamrick: Mrs. John McCiurd Mrs Charles Young. Mrs. Rush Hamrick Mr* John Lovelace. Mrs Pans' T .t< r all under Mrs. Lovelace Mr* D W Royster. Mrs. Frank Hoe% Mrs. Flay Hoey, Mrs Basil Goode. Mrs (Continued on page eight*. Ginners, Farmers Farmers and ginners are scheduled to meet In the court house tonight at 8 o'clock for the purpose of gettin; together, if possible, on a cotton ginning price for the season. A meeting was held Saturday of last week at which time the farmers pres ent agreed by resolution to pay $3 per bale, the price to include bagging. However, the ginners rode provides for a charge of 25c per hundred pounds for seed cotton and 75c for bagging and ties. Since this meeting is to be held to confer on the gin prices for the season, R. W. Shoffner wired Coun ty Commissioner Joe E. Blanton this morning saying that the proposed | plans for cotton reduction for next ! year would also be discussed at to i night’s meeting. Representatives ‘from the cotton growing states gathered yesterday in Atlanta and Memphis to discuss crop reduction plans for next year as proposed by the Federal govern ment and Mr Shoffner, county agent, attended as a representative from Cleveland county. North Car olina's largest cotton producing county. Mr. Shoffner returned from At | lanta today and will present tonight I at the farmers-ginners meeting the i cotton reduction plan as proposed 1 at the Atlanta meeting. | The government's tentative pro j gram, presented to the conference I by J. Phil Campbell, state agricul j tural extension director, called for ! an acreage reduction plan which I would reduce the land devoted to cotton to about 5,000,000 acres In each of the years 1934 and 1935, or a cut to about 60 per cent of the I e-year average acreage. ' The Bankhead plan would re [ s tribe the crop, through a ban on I tinning from each farmer above an i allocated amount to between 8, Discuss Ginning J Reduction Plai 1000.000 and 9.000.000 bales Scene of Tombs Prison Break ; Herr U the spot at New York’* historic Tomb* Prison wall where three convicts made a smooth, bloodlees eaeape via the improvised rope shown hanging from the roof. The rope, shown in hands of Investigator (Inset) was fashioned from sheets hound with wire from bedsprlngs. The fugi tives, James McNally, Henry Simmons and Gerard Simonson, were waiting trial on charges of burglary and gun-toting. Horshoe Pitching Contest WiH Be New Feature Cleveland Fair No Cotton Checks Have Arrived For Cleveland Farmers ! Some May Be In Mail CM Count) Agent Who Will Return To City Tonight. Although Gaston and Lincoln fanners are already receiving government checks lor the cot ton they plowed up, no checks have been received as yet by Cleveland farmers insofar as could be learned today. Checks began to arrive Mondaj and Tuesday in the neighboring counties and are expected to stall coming in here within a few days. There is a possibility that sotm checks may be in the mail of R. W I Shoffner. farm agent, at the post , office here, but Mr. Shoffner is ir Atlanta attending a cotton meet ing and will not return to the citj until tonight. Cleveland farmers are scheduled to get approximately $177,000 lr cash from the government for cot ton they plowed up, Cleveland plowing up more acres than an) other county in the state. ‘Slot ’ Machines Silent In City As Drive Begins j Machines Which Have Clicked Mer rily For Weeks Are Silent Today. i Scores of ‘'slot” machines, which I have clicked merrily in Shelby for | weeks, were silent today as the deadline ended for the removal o! machines which were listed as il legal by C. C. Horn, county court solicitor, and Recorder Joe E Wright. An announcement was made la ~t week that all machines which die not meet the qualifications of thf law would have to be removed b\ today, and in making the announce ment legal and illegal machine! were defined. As a result 50 to 75 machine' were missing in the city this morn ing, or they were turned facing tht wall, which is the "no play” sigr for the machines, which, if thi player is lucky, throw2 checks 'o> ! pennies, nickels and dimes. So far as could be learned thi: morning only one machine was stil in operation today. This one, it ^ said, will pay off in gum for eact play and checks which come fron: the machine will not be cashed Heretofore the machine operator! have been paying off in cash fat checks which fell on lucky numbers pennies for the penny machines nickels for the nickel machines, ant dimes for the dime machines, witr gold coins of either *5 or $10 going to those who hit the big strike oi the gold seal numbers. The "slot” machines have been !r operation here for several month: and as their popularity increased more and more were installed Silver f%p To Be Awarded Coun ty's Beet Plteher. Elimina tion Contents. One of the new feature* at the Cleveland fair this year will be an | old-fashioned oontest, which it is believed will prove one of the most interesting attractions-a horseshoe «pitching oontest. Pair officials announced this week that they would award a sil ver cup to the county champion using any type of shoe and also a loving cup to the winner uerng reg ulation shoes. Each township and town in the county is urged to conduct elimina tion contests and select the two best pitchers from each township. These two will enter the champion ship contest at the fair, on* Wed nesday morning, Sept. 27 at 9 O'clock. Each township will be al lowed two entrants and Kings Mountain and Shelby two each, a total of 26. The contest will be In charge of a committee headed by W. J. Arey and composed of the following: T H. Abernethy, Jr., Renn Drum Hague Metcalf, John Bunk Bor ders, Ernest Costner, H. O. Clark, Jesse Jenkins, John Blanton, S. A Crisp, Dr. Dwight Bridges, Ed Lipscomb, Claude Bridges and Plato Costner. Each township is asked to get the name of its en trants in to Hie committee as early as possible, and it is hoped to start i elimination contests early next J week. Over the city and county dozens of horseshoe-pitch ig fans are al ready getting in a trim for the matches. A list of rules and regulations (Continued on page eight). Gastonia Beats Trenton Outfit Coach Casey Morris' Gastonia American Legion Junior baseball team defeated the Trenton. N. J.. team in Gastonia yesterday 4 to 1. The Trenton team, which was run ner-up for the national champion • ship, defeated Gastonia in Spring field to eliminate the North Caro lina team when the youngsters on the outfit temporarily cracked un der the strain. City Sets Tax Rate At $1.05 As Before i Negro Fair To Be HeidOct. 11-14 At The Fair Grounds Will Hun For Four Days. Midway In Charge Of Roberta And Roberta Show*. Cleveland county's negro fMir will be held this year on October U, 12. 13 and 14th, according bo an announcement made this morn ing by Rev. A. W Foster, secretary. This county is the only or one oi (he few counties in North Carolina to hold a negro fair. It has been successful for several years with splendid attendance and exhibits from the negro school, farms and homes of the county. Rev. Foster and N .1 Pass, the president, expect a wider range of exhibit* this year than ever before arid in order to make it educational, nil negro *ch