The Clrvrlzmd Sij l Late News the markets Cotton, »P«t .9W Cotton wed, ton . *1600 Fair Saturday Today’s North Carolina Weather F»por*' Fair tonignt and Saturday Mf<.pt possibly light shower* In ex 4rfme southwest portion. Bryant Stone Die* In Chair Bv UNITED PRESS Si'eifh. Sept. 8.—Bryant Stone, 45 Wilkes county farmer, was elec trocuted at the State prison here thto mo mint: at 10: SO. He was fj,irfod with the ambush murder ef bis son-in-law, Wayne Norman P't refused to make a final state ment, hut had previously confessed. King Of Irak Died Today pv UNITED PRESS Berne Switzerland. Sept. 8.—Kin? Trisa! of Urak died today Of heart disease after a brief Illness. He wav , descendant of Fatima, the onlv surviving rhild of the prophet Me hammed Probing High Price Bread By UNITED PRESS Washington, Sept. 8.—The agri culture! adjustment administration today demanded an explanation from the American Bakers Associa tion of high bread prices in At lanta, Charleston. Mobile. San Francisco. Savannah, Scranton and Seattle Mrs. 0, J. Hi Is Buried This P. M. At Mooresboro Was Miss Hattie Martin And For merly Lived In Shelby. Hus band, Mother Survive. Mrs. Hattie Martin Hill, wife of 0 J Hill died Thursday morning a! 7 o'clock in the Shelbv hospital where she had been a patient for treatment for ten days. Mrs. Hill formerly lived in Shelby where her husband was manager of the Shel by Creamery. They had been mak ing their home at Newton for sev ' era! rears. Mrs Mary A. Martin and the late John A Martin, who prior to hi death thirty years ago was one oi the county’s most prominent eitt kns and merchants in Sheltw and Mooresboro. Deceased was a love!’ character and highly esteemed b' her host of friends. She was grad uated at the N. C. C. W. college a Greensboro. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Sandy Run Baptist church and interment ’as in the cemetery' there. Services fere in charge of Father Mack. Episcopal minister of Rutherford ton Mrs. Hill had been an Episco palian for many years. She was 46 years of age. Surviving are her husband, moth er one brother Hal Martin of Bal timore and one sister. Mrs. Frank Row-ell of Hamlet. Comwe!! Buys Home: Blanton Is To Build Real estate is showing some act 'dty since business has perked up Tom Cornwell of the Austin-Corn y1-* Drug Store has purchased the Bill McCord house in Belvedere from Equitable Life Insurance Co Sowe improvements will be made in t-e house and he and Mrs. Corn ,6!' move in the latter part cf - if month Mr. Cornwell recently "so.ed Miss Huffman of Morganton and at present they are living in Zpb Weathers house on North Washington street. Rred Blanton of the M. and J Finance Corporation has let the contract for the erection of a twc brick home on South Wash 'nrton street to Lutz and Webb, instruction work started this week ? nou.se is going up on the lot m t0 the L. M. Hull residence. Sells Two School Sites Here Gn Third School Property Rejected. Two Bids Are Approved. lie Scho°1 bb«dlnss and sit< * ...... j_ j._ . ..... tier "hfer in use due to consolida v at auction here thi by thp county board of edu 1 n. and the high bid for a thin rejected nri" fortner Ricks school buildin tht., S waa so’d to the Hicks bro neis lor $200, while the form* S'es school and site above Fa’ sten — u aoove ra Sh,HS;sold t0 H-8 Gri** f°i- «« ri for the County Line scho< i’c’ected. being considered tc i... t ■1 8 Pages Today VOL. XXXIX. No 108 SHELBY, N C, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ■1 ....J-.J-JJ1LHB B? Mull, p«r y«»rt (In iitnnul _ uit C*rrl«r. p«r jr**r, (In »dvinc«) „ 13 M Farmers, Ginners To Protest Gin Charge Send Delegates To ! Memphis Meet Will Be Unable To Pay Ginning Priee Fixed Bv Code Meeting Here Deride* Cotton farmers and ginners cf j Cleveland county are uniting to send I delegates to Memphis. Tenn., Mon | day to protest the ginning price • fixed in the government agreement j and code for the cotton industry At a meeting held in the court I house here Wednesday night farm ers and ginners agreed that with cotton selling at its present price farmers would be unable to pay the original ginning charge fixed by the agreement which may bind the en tire Cotton Belt of the South This price was approximately $4.50 i ver bale with an additional charge ; for bagging At a later meeting | held here by ginners of this county .they agreed to gin cotton this year for 25 cents per 100 pounds of seed cotton with farmers paying 25 cents per bale above actual cost for bag ging. This would have resulted in an average per bale ginning price of around $4. At a later meeting of Cleveland farmers, the farmer* present expressed the opinion with the price of cotton down they would be unable to pay that price for ginning and passed a resolution asking ginners to gin for $3 per ; bale. Following this meeting the | joint meeting of ginners and farm ! ers for Wednesday night was called iuau,y * icacm At Wednesday night's meeting a | large group of farmers was present j along with a representative number ! of county ginners. Numerous ta'ks I were made by farmers who declared ; that they could not afford the blan ket ginning price fixed in the cot ton-belt agreement Ginners pres ent concurred, it is said, in that opinion and stated that if not pre vented by the code and agreement they would gin for the $3 per bale cha~ge agreed upon by local farm ers. But before they can do so the general ginning agreement must be changed or gins can be ordered to close up by the government. With this in view farmers and | rinners present decided to send a i delegation to Memphis. Monday at which time the ginning feature of the cotton code wkl be discussed. News dispatches indicate that farm ers and ginners from several States will protest the first price picked and the local delegation will join | in this protest. It is doubtful, how (Continued on page eight). No Sales Tax For County Purchases Purchases made by the county are exempt from the three percent general sales tax, it was announced today by Troy McKinney, county accountant. In last month's bills, he said, several merchants had in cluded the tax and likely forward ed that amount to Raleigh. The announcement is made to save ! merchants any more trouble of the type. Second Baptist Has Call For Rev. Martin The congregation of the Second Baptist church extended ? call on Sunday to Rev. C. V. Mar ~f An derson. S. C , to become i: : astor, succeeding Rev, L. L. Jesr- who resigned over a month ago to ac cept a call st Newport News. Va. It has not been learned whether Rev. Mr. Martin will accept the call ex tended to him Over 3,000 Sign NRA Pledge Here To Support Drive Co- -rs Of Shelby Pledge Co c 'ion To Campaign. Drive Continues Today. — At the close, of yesterday's cam paign more than 3,000 Shelby peo ple had signed pledges assuring their cooperation with the NRA re covery program, it was announced today by Mai A Spangler, who heads the drive. Beginning Tuesday scores of vol unteer workers started carrying the pledge cards to every home and place of business in the city and al most everywhere they have met with a fine response, it was said. The uptown drive did not get un derway until yesterday, but In one day between seven and eight hun dred people pledged their alleg iance to the recovery program. Expect 5,000. The drive is continuing today. in the uptown section and other sec tions of the city, and Mr. Spangler stated that Indications are that by the end of the drive between five and six thousand will have pledged themselves to do their part in mak ing the program successful. Will Select “Miss East Shelby” Tonight Beauty Contest To Be Held This Evening At Jefferson School. Around 25 attractive young wom en, all employed at either the Eton or Cleveland Cloth plants, will compete tonight for the honor oi being classed as "Mias East Shel by." East Shelby’s most beautiful girl is to be selected this evening at a beauty contest to be held at the Jefferson school under the auspices of the school Parent-Teacher as sociation. A partial list of the en trants already filed today is as fol lows: Misses Nellie Price, Elvaree Lail, Marcel Dendy, Lula Belle Huskey, Dorothy Bridges, Zelma Dixon, Lena Price. Alice Walker. Vera Lyle, Claudia Martin, Tessi Lail, Frances Carswell, Poal Price, Dorothy Mundy, Eunice Sharp, Mildred Littlejohn, Ottie White. Mildred Cobb, Vonnie Wilson, Ruth Walker, Trulay Mae Dixon, Louise Gardner, Edna Dendy, Mary 8ue Martin and others. Grover Rural Routes Combined Into One The two rural routes of Grover have been combined and Mr. V. J. Hardin has been given the one combined route which operates out from the Grover office. Mr. A. F. Collins, formerly a carrier from the Grover office has been transferred to a Kings Mountain route. May Sign Contract* ^or Slash In Wheat R. W Shoffner, county fvm agent, today announced that all county farmers desiring to sign governmental wheat reduction con tracts should see him as early as possible. Only farmers who have been growing a surplus amount of wheat are eligible to sign contracts “Serious” Winter For South Unless Price Of Cotton Takes An Advance Finds Relief Work On "Starva tion” Basis. Not Enough For Families. Washington. Sept. 8.—Relief Ad ministrator Harry L. Hopkins ap pealed to the South this week to discourage unemployment relief "on a starvation basis.' and warned that unless cotton prices soon rise | Southern states would be faced with a serious problem” this win ter. Hopkins said a recent airplane trip through Southern territory re vealed that the "whole picture from top to bottom represents in adequate relief.” “In the South," he said, 'if we could get a decent price for cotton, our problem would be solved. ’ He indicated that anything under | $10'per month for each family onj j relief rolls was inadequate, and I _ . presented figures showing prac tically every Southern state spend ing less than that amount. "We didn't intend that relief money should be used on a starva tion basis.” he said. Relief administration f!gures showed expenditures throughout the country for relief last June amounted to $66,107,779, compared j with $59,000,000 in July. The num-1 ber of families receiving relief in, June totaled 3,779.000. compared ■ with 3,464,000 in July Hopkins said he thought the $500,-, 000,000 relief fund probably would! last until next May. More than $150,000,000 has been spent thus far Hopkins told newspaper men that -mall towns throughout the Soutn were iust b; ginning to feel the ef fects of the recovery administra tion's reemployment drive, and said people in the territory had a "real (Continued on Page 8; --- Cleveland Will Lose Lead For Cotton Growing -! Cleveland county, for four or five year* North Carolina'* lar gest cotton-producing county, will In all probability lose that rating this year to Robeson county. In the acreage reduction cam paign Cleveland farmers plowed up over 14.000 acres, or consid erably more than any other county in the State. Further more, cotton season in Eastern | Carolina and the Robeson coun ty section has been better than in this county and as a re sult the crop there will have a far better per-acre production, according to reports. Recent visitors to the eastern section of the State say that the cotton crop there Is unusually fine and that two or three large eastern counties will likely make more cotton this year than Cleveland. Cotton Sags On Crop Estimate First Ii Goes Up Then Declines. Estimate. Is Raised 100,000 Rales. The census bureau of the govern ment raised the estimate on the 1933 cotton crop today by 100,000 bales from the first estimate made in August, but the market advanced in spite of the increase in the fore cast. However, near the close the New York market was five points below yesterday’s close: October selling at 8 96 and Dec. at 9,16. Today the bureau estimated the 1933 crop at 12,414,000 bales as compared with an estimate of 11, 310.000 at the corresponding time a year ago. However, the 1932 crop turned out above thirteen million bales, which added to the carry over from previous years and the generally bad business conditions, caused the price to slump to around five.cents, the lowest in many years. Although nearly ten million acres are supposed to have been taken out of production this year, the census bureau estimates this year's crop at nearly twelve and half mil lion bales. Sinclair Is Music Head At Greenville Former Music Instructor In Shelby Takes Position In Green - ▼tile, S. C. W. T. Sinclair, former director ©f music at Shelby high and for the last three years teacher of instru mental music and director of the Charlotte school orchestra. has been elected supervisor of music of the Parker school district of Green ville, S. C., L. R. Sides, director of music in the Charlotte schools, an nounced yesterday. Mr. Sinclair ac cepted the position. Last spring Mr Sinclair's or chestra won first place in the state contest at Greensboro. He was pop ular with the pupils and with the community generally. Mr. Sides declared he was "one of the out standing instrumental teachers in the south. His pupils .are well train ed, he is a good disciplinarian and an excellent instructor.” In his I new position Mr. Sinclair will have the music supervision of about 7, 000 children. Aged Lincoln Man Divorced And Wed Newton. Sept. 8.—T. J Bradshaw, 70-year-old farmer of the lower part of the county near the Lincoln county line, was granted a divorce in Catawba county superior court here Wednesday. Immediately following the decis ion of the court. Bradshaw went downstairs to the clerk's office and after paying the cost for the action he walked across the corridor and secured a license to wed again. Register of Deeds Carpenter Is sued him the desired permit and the aged man was thought to have beem married later in the afternoon. The license was granted for T. J. Bradshaw aged 70. and Mrs Mamie Greeson, aged 40. New Traffic Rules Will Be Enforced Effective immediately no "U” turns and no turns to the right on red lights will be per mitted at the uptown traffic -orners in Shelby, It was an nounced today by Police Chiei ». D. Wilkins. Signs informing that sucl> turns are illegal havi been erect ed and the new regulations will be 'strictly enforced,” Chief Wilkins stated. Premium List Of Cleveland Fair Has Been Issued j Ninth Fair Program One Of Best Prises Offered And Various Con - tests Outlined Along With Other Attractions. Hundreds of copies of the prem ium list, of Cleveland county’s ninth annual fair were being mailed this week to citizens of this section of the state. The premium list, embodying a complete summary of fair events and Information concerning ench department and attraction, Indi cates that the fair beginning Tues day, Sept. 2fi and running through Sept. 30, will be one of the best staged. The following announcement, made by the fair association In the booklet bespeaks the optimism of t.hoae behind the South’s outstand ing county fair: "With a feeling of optimism and renewed confidence In the advance ment of the agricultural and edu cational development of this sec tlon of the United States, we pre sent our ninth annual premium list, heralding the approach of North Carolina’s premier agricultural and educational exhibition; exemplify ing In Its every detail and depart ment the ’New Deal.' "Wp continue fn our desire and effort to interpert your wishes to have this fair measure up to your ideal In all of its phases To fur nish if possible some small inspira tion to the thousands who annually honor us with their presence, to the end that we may all be benefitted by this Annual Get-Together Fair.’ "This, your fair, la dedicated to the people of Cleveland and all ad joining counties, that we are privi leged to serve. We have but one ambition; and that, ‘to better serve you, and to act as the mirror to re flect your accomplishments, and to furnish for you a variety of dean wholesome amusement.* "When we fall In this, our days Of usefulness will have passed. With your continued support and co-op eration we will not fall." roil UIIHIAIS A E. Cline is listed as president of the fair association with Dr. J. 8. Dorton as secretary-treasurer and George Blanton, J. L. Hern don and .William Lineberger as vice presidents, R. W. Shoffner is sup erintendent. of the men's depart ment. Mrs. Ben H. Goforth is sup erintendent of the women's depart ment. Eldridge Weathers is mana ger of the exhibit buildings. Dan Frazier is race secretary and V. O Cline is chief marshal. Directors of the various depart ments are as follows: agriculture. Boyd Harrelson; honey, Claude Bowen; horses, Bass Buttle and Dr. E. B. Lattimore; ponies, V. O Cline; mules. V. O. Cline and Louie P King; cattle. Tom Cornwell and Walter Davis; swine, Joe E. Blan ton; poultry, John W. Buttle and Louie W. Sellers; education, J. H Grigg; canned fruits and vegetables, Mrs A. P. Falls and Mrs. C, C. Mc 'Continued on page eight.) B. F. Turner Buried Thursday Afternoon 5.1-Year-Old Fanner Died Wednes day In Hospital After Illness Of Three Weeks. Funeral services for Mr. B F. Turner were conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Friend ship Methodist church, Fallston, by Rev. Mr. Shelton assisted by Rev. H. E. Waldrop Mr. Turner, well known and highly esteemed farmer who lived a few miles north of Shelby, died Wednesday morning about 11 o'clock at the Shelby hospital fol lowing an illness of three weeks. He is survived by two sons, Mur rell and Edgar Turner, and by the following brothers and sisters: J. S Turner, Lincolnton; O. P. Tur ner. Mrs. Will Costner and Mrs. D. L. Wallace, of the county. A large throng attended the fu neral and the pallbearers were: Thad Allen. George Spurling, Henry Botts, Ham Costner, Bloom Cost ner and J. P. Hoyle. Geo. Webb Suggested As A Dry Candidate Geo . P Webb who served for sev eral years as clerk of the court for Cleveland county and is now a prominent Sunday school teacher and farmer, is being urged to rue as a dry delegate to the state con vention In Raleigh which will vote on the Eighteenth Amendment. Mr Webb is known to be giving con sideration to the suggestion, but has not indicated as yet whether he will allow his name to stand. Spotlighted by Cuban Revolt Following revolt of Cuba’s armed forces that resulted in unseating gov eminent of Provisional President do Cespedes, these two men havi entered the spotlight in the turbulent country. At left Is Carlos Mendietu said to be favored by the revolutionists as next President. At right, Dr Ramon Gras San Martin, member of the Revolutionary Junta of five, which now controls Cuba. Name Officials For County Repeal Vote < 'Its eland KlecMnn Board Mooli Tomorrow To Arrange For November Election. A meeting of the Cleveland coun ty board of election will be held at the court house in Shelby Satur day morning at 10 o’clock for the purpose of arranging for the repeal election on November 7, it was announced today hy Judge John P. Mull, chairman of the board. The meeting will name precinct officials and make other arrange ments lor the November vote Other members of the board are Zemrt Kistler, secretary, and Frank Olass, of Kings Mountain Mr. Mull advises that the elec tion is for the purpose of voting on the proposition of ‘convention” or "no convention” and for the elec tion of delegates thereto. Each county may have as many dele gates as each county has members in the house of representatives. Therefore, Cleveland county Is en titled to one delegate. Section 7, of the repeal act, pro vides that delegates shall be nom inated by getting a petition signed by two per cent of the voters In the county according to the vote cast for governor In the last election and file such petition with the county board of elections thirty days be fore the election. Such petitions must be filed with the county board by midnight of Saturday, Oc tober 7, 1933, to be filed in time Each petition must show whether the candidate is for or against re (Continued on page eight). Cotton Picker* Enroll Employment Bureau Dan Frasier who Is in charge of the Federal Re-employment bureau stated this morning that scores of workers have enrolled their names to accept work that is offered to them. Many of them are cotton pickers and now that the picking season Is on. farmers who need pickers may get In touch with them at the em ployment bureau There is no charge for this service. The employment burpau is In the Llneberger build ing on W. Marlon street. No Checks For Farmers Arrive At noon today no govern mrnt chteki hail arrived lor Cleveland county farmer* who Mowed up their cotton In the eduction pro*ram. No Information has been received by Farm A front .'hoffner Indicating when lo oal checks may be expected t»ut alncc checks have been arriving this week In neigh boring counties H Is hoped that Cleveland checks may lie In noon. Cleveland farmers are to receive more than any county In the State, over S177.000. Ella Mill Starts After Close-down To Make Repairs Floors And Hoof Repaired During The Paat Ten Days. Machin ery Starts Again. Machinery In the Ella mill or South LaFayette street resumed operation on Wednesday of tills week after being closed down ten ten days to make needed repairs. The Ella Is a division of the Con solidated Textile corporation which operates several textile plants In the South. During the close-down new floors were put down In the weave shop, new floors In the alleyi of the spinning room and a new roof on the slasher room While there repairs were going on, II was necessary to close down the mill but operations were resumed on Wednesday, according to Infor mation secured from the superin tendent. H. B. Miller. SPORTS—page 3 SOCIETY—page B. OTHER LOCAL NEWS—page *. U. S. Ready To Land Marines fat Cuba To Protect Americans There Will Not Permit U. S. Citizens To Be Attacked By Mobs In Riots. Washington, Sept 8—With its attention focused on the Cuban crisis, the United States govern ment last night stood ready to land American marines or bluejackets on an instant's notice if its nationals should be attacked by rioters or mobs While latest reports to the stale department from the Island gave hope that no such contingency might arise. the administration mapped out a carefully planned course of action and ordered 16 ad ditional warships to Cuban waters These brought to 30 the number of armed vessels converging upon the island or standing by a few hours , steaming distance away. The administration was m def initely opposed to armed interven tion u it had baen from the out set, but the landing of fighting men to protect Americans was viewed in another light. In the history of Cuba's inde pendence the United States has ac tually intervened but once—under the Theodore Roosevelt administra tion in 1906 to 1909 But on other occasions its warships have put landing parties ashore, taking them off again as soon as American life and property were safe. Back in 1912 the American gov ernment landed bluejackets at sev eral sugar wharves on trie northern coast when the properties owned by Americans were attacked by mobs and rioters. Again in 1917 armed men were landed at Santiago on ft similar errand In these Instances announcement was made that the action had hpthing to do with the general in ternal affairs of Cuba and that the men would be withdrawn just as soon as American interests were safeguarded. Outline Program For Big Day On Thursday, Sept. 14 Program Will Begin At 10 O’Clock Get-Together Dag Pmtram Continu re I’ntil 4. Hoey Will Ha Chief Speaker. The program at the big Cleveland County Oet-Togathar Day at the county fair ground* on Thursday, Sept 14, will begin at 10 o’clock to the morning and continue until aft er 4 o'clock In the afternoon. The main feature of the day will he the address at 11 o'clock by Won. Clyde R Hoey and the picnic din ner on the ground at 13. But the entire morning and aftamoon will he filled with contests and amuse ments. The complete program, as given | <>ul by Claude C. Palls. steering committee chairman, follows: 10:00 A M Horse shoe pitching contest, tn charge Jno. Bunk Bor ders; prise given by Oeorge Wash burn. t0;!0 A. M Water melon eating contest, In charge Tran Swsesy; prise given by A. V Wray As 6 Sons 10:10 A. M. Pie eating contest, In charge Johnson Bridges, prtse given by Carl Thompson, lo ao A. M, Hog colling contest, in charge Loss Blanton and Bast Buttle; prise given by D. Rum Oltne 10:30 A. M, Climbing greasy pole, In charge Tom Cornwell; prise watoli (placed on top of pole) given by Bob Bhoffner. 10:40 A. M. Catching grassy pig, in charge of Bloom Costner, pig given to person who catches and holds him. CMven by Bloom ©ow ner >r,( 10 50 A M Choir--In grandstand "County Wide" directed by C. P. Gardner, assisted by Horace Easom and Dale Kalter. (Plano furnished by W. A Pendleton Music Co,) Introduction of speaker, J. D. Mor ris Invocation Rev. J. W. Buttle 11 00 A, M. Speech by Hon. Olvda R, Hoey. 12:00 Noon dinner, everybody bring full baskets and ehooae your own parties for picnic spread In *he grove l 00 p W Pony race, in charge V. O. Cline; prize given by C. C. and George Blanton. ; 1:15 P. M, Back race in charge ai i Merman Beam; prize given by Patfl i Webb and Prank Hoey. 130 P. M. Tug O’ War. in charge Ttlden Palls; prize given by Evans E. MeBrayer. 2:00 P. M. Heaven Bound Play, in front of grand stand, 4:00 P. M. Baseball game, beat of the season, between 3 of county’s fastest teams, played in Infield in front of grand stand; in charge of Casey Morris and '‘Bill" Ooodson. (Continued on page eight.) Sitter Of County Resident Is Dead Bessemer City, Sept. 8.—Mr*. Ce lestla Origg. 04, of Oastonia, died here yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. P. Waldrop, after an iUneus of several weeks. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at Palm Tree Methodist church at Lawndale. Mrs. Grigg is survived by her husband J. R. Grigg; one daughter, five sons, W T., B. D„ Carl and Earl Grigg of Gastonia and C. R. Grtgg of Burlington; one sister Mias Lizzie Ledford of Lawndale; and two brothers, Joe Ledford of Bessemer City and C. M. Ledford of Lawndale. Special Rate To Students A special rate of $1.50 for the nine months of school is offered again to Cleveland county students going away to the various colleges. Since this is a reduction from th< regular price, the $1.50 must be paid in advance and a subscription for a shorter term than nine months is not icceptad at this rate. Parents and students are reminded that a subscription to The Star keeps the student away in college, in touch with folks and affairs back home, tt saves letter writing and postage. When a subscriber’s name is on our mailing list, the paper is mailed the same afternoon it is published and promptly reaches Its destina tion Then, too, a subscrip tion Is much cheaper than ! the parent re-inailing the home paper after the famil< has read it. *

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