Late News the markets Cotton. Cotton Cotton spot __ 9f yd. ton. wagon - 11-50 yod. ton. carlots ..... 14 00 Fair Tuesday Today * North Carolina Weather Fair tonight and Tuesday. 3 Miners Die In Explosion By UNITED PRESS Pittsburgh. Sept. 11.—Three min >r, wore killed and more than a j jfO,, trapped today in an explosion | ^hkh wrecked the front section of , ,h»ft in the Hillman Coal < ok* Company’s Oakmont station. Bandits Get $100,000 By UNITED PRESS gt Paul. Minn.. Sept. 11.—Two ! small safes containing a hundred thousand dollars worth of currency ind securities were seized by eight gunmen who held up employes of a rathi-sv express agency here today. County “All Set”! For Picnic Event Here On Thursday H»fi To Be Chief Speaker At Big Get-Together At Fair Grounds Here, A!! over Cleveland county thir «eek; ham, chicken, cake, pies, pickles and other such picnic-din ner delectables are being prepared tor the scores of baskets which will be carried to the fair grounds east of .Shelby Thursday for the coun ty s big get-together day and picnic. The program, the first of its kind in the history of the county, will begin the morning and con tinue until 5 o’clock or later in the afternoon. The main features of the day will be the address at 11 o'clock by Hon. Clyde R. Hoey and the big picnic dinner immediately thereafter. Prom all sections of the county will come dozens of families with the proverbial “well filled” baskets for the county’s reunion and get-ac guSinted day. Among the numerous contests and entertainments planned are the following: horseshoe pitching, wat ermelon eating, pie eating, hog calling, greasy pole climbing, greasy pig race, pony race, sack race singing by "Heaven Bound" pageant cast, and a baseball game at 4 o’clock in the afternoon be tween the fast Shelby mill team and the strong Mooresboro Wild eats Officers To Help The county has declared an offi cial holiday Thursday and all coun ’v offices will be closed. Today Sheriff Raymond Cline requested that si! of his deputies who can possibly do so report at the fair grounds at 9 on Saturday morning. They will be placed under the di rection of Claude C. Falls *>r the purpose of aiding in the handling of traffic, etc. ”1 hope every deputy who can will be there and do their **st to make the day a big success.” Sheriff Cline stated. NR A Costs City In Revenue Loss Of Water And Lights Shwtfr Hour* Cuts Consumption Of Water And Lights By Blue Eagle Wearers. The city of Shelby is losing in ^enue from its water and light Department approximately $1,200 a month according to Mayor Mc '”urry This decrease in revenue is . ,0u Sorter hours that the busi „ ho,lses and industrial plants t,a'1 ”pen for business. Naturally snorter hours that consumers of ^ectrieity stay oppn, curtail the 01 water and “ebts th. decreases the revenue of tL ,r.h’ the operating expense of v,. ' °^s on thte account is much thlS helps make UP to a de8ree for the increase in to employees. ' financial report for the city sh^ - /Sady' a fpw days and .,h proflt on the water — -Sht departments of over $60, mu-ieV"^ *rom these twq m ^ny o^’ned utilities are used in'4 ieh»n8 th* operating expense tw ^ bf sm1c« account. Without Brin H lS P°inted opt that hD;:rm: wouW have to bear a rate Zf th*n 016 pre*ent raluation ^ the *100 pr^ertv Couole Is Married Saturday Nigl iv . B Allison. 31. of Wake eou Richland °nia Thompson, 21. Sa w ’ Were married in Shel eerfot-med^b'cj^® rPremony w ^-e ^ w by SqiHIP T- Cling Es f i, ' hU home o" West Mari VOL XXXIX, No. 109 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY. SEPT. 11. 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mill, per year, (In advanoel _ Carrier, par year. (In advene#) _ ■HB S 8 § 8 Judge ruts Ban On All Slot Machines All Must Be Cut By Wednesday Rfrorrl'r Says Machine* Still In County on Wednesday Will Be Seized. The slot machine drive, in augurated in Shelby last week, has been extended to include the entire county. Saturday County Recorder Joe M. Wright issued an order that all slot machines in the city and coun ty or any part thereof be re moved by Wednesday. Septem her IS. In a previous order, issued Friday he set the deadline for Saturday but moved the date up until Wed nesday. To Confiscate. "Those that have not been remov ed by Wednesday will be confiscat ed by officers upon orders of the court.,” Judge Wright said. In issuing the order the record ed stated that in his opinion slot machines cannot and will not be operated legally, therefore he de cided to abolish all. The clean-up drive in Shelby last: week was very successful and the court met with a commendable response on the part of operators, the recorder stated. There are, how ever. a number of machines still in operation at Kings Mountain and other points in the county and the order stopping all was more parti cularly directed at these, it was said. It is estimated that hundreds of dollars have found their way in the several score machines in the city and county during the period of a month or more in which they click ed merrily and steadily. One Trial. One operator was hailed in court Friday for operating a machine il legally, but the evidence failed to convict him. In this case. Recorder Wright explained, that the war rant charged the violation on a specific date. Eivdence. he said, did show that the law had been viol ated but not upon the ate specified in the warrant and for that rea son a technical verdict of not guilty was entered. "The outcome of that case," the recorder stated, "in no manner -n dicates the court's attitude toward the machines. The order requiring that all be stoppped bv Wednesday should be proof of that fact.” Rebate Or Not Court orders removing the slot machines will likely bring up a point of law which, according to reports, may be tested in the courts. The county of Cleveland and the city of Shelby issued licenses for all ma chines operated and this license fee was paid by operators. Now that the courts have ordered the machin es not to be played the question has arisen as to whether owners of the machines are entitled to ask *he city and county for a rebate of *he license tax paid. „ Eunice Sharpe Is “Miss East Sh^lbv” Petit Brunette Wins Beauty Con test. Vera Lyle. Zelma Dixon Win Honors. Miss Eunice Sharpe, diminutive brunette, was named “Miss East Shelby” in the beauty contest held Friday night at Jefferson school under the auspices of the Parent • Teachers association of the school The contest was limited to employ es of the Cleveland Cloth mill and Eton plants and around 30 of the most attractive girls in the town vil lages competed for the honor. Approximately 250 people wit nessed the contest Second place in the contest was won by Miss Vera Lyle. another brunette, and third place went to Miss Zelma Dixon, a blonde. “Mule” Proves Fatal To Woman In Shelby — Reported To Have Tanked Up On | “Alky" After Taking Typhoid Varrlne. Alcoholism—or to be more ex pliclt. "mule.” a favorite beverage with numerous colored people—re sulted in a death in Shelby over the week-end. Essie Gill, local colored woman, j died Saturday night, tn the Flat rock section, officers report, after having over-indulged in "mule ” She is said to have started on a “mule" drinking party with a man Friday and was too far gone when a physician was called in Saturday to be saved. A report today had it that the "mule” spree may have resulted in death because of the fact that the women had been vaccinated on Thursday for typhoid. Officers Round-Up Local Bootleggers Four Alleged Dispensers Of Fire Water Nabbed By Law On Saturday. Local officers staged a drive upon bootleggers here Saturday, nabbing four alleged dealers in whiskey. Several gallons of whiskey were nabbed in the four raids, the larg est haul being around two gallons found near the home of Joe Amos, at the so-called “tin-top” house just east of the city. Amos was ar rested and placed in Jail. Officers participating in this raid were Deputies Bob and Yates Kendrick, Policeman Paul Stamey and High way Patrolman George Allison. School Teachers To Chicago World Fair Cleveland and Catawba Teacher* On 10-Day Trip B* Motor Bn*. A party of 40 Cleveland and Ca tawba county school teachers, 35 being Cleveland teachers, left Shel by on three motor buses Saturday morning for a 10-day trip to the World’s Pair at Chicago. The closing of the Cleveland schools for several weeks to permit children to help harvest the cotton crop gave the teachers of the coun ty an opportunity to take in the big exposition. Minstrel Show On Here Thursday Eve Fire Department To Sponsor Bene fit Show At School Auditor ium Here. Hob's Dixie Minstrels and a Darktown Strutters Ball program will be given at the Shelby school auditorium Thursday night of this week under the auspices of the Shelby fire department. The minstrel show Is reported to be unusually entertaining and local firemen are expecting to present an unusually good evening’s program Gasoline Up l£c In Two Weeks Time Gasoline has advanced at retail in the Shelby district one and a half cent per gallon within the last two weeks. A half cent advance went into effect just before Sept. 1st and a cent advance on last Fri day morning. making the retail price for regular gasoline 23.4 cents. A representative of a leading pe troleum company stated this morn ing that “it looks now as if the price is headed for twenty-five cents." Bulwinkle, Back Home, Optimistic About Re-Opening Of Other Banks Reopening- Of AU Closed Banks In This District Predicted By Congressman. Gastonia, Sept. 11.—Congressman A, L. Bui winkle, who has been in Washington for the past several days attending to matters of inter est to his constituents of the tenth congressional district, returned to Gastonia in a highly optimistic mood and with encouraging news on several matters. One of the most immediate mat ters claiming his attention was that of taking preliminary steps to ward the reopening of the Cherry ( ville National bank, E. V. Moss conservator. W. W. Glenn of Lin colnton and Carl Rudisill of Cher ryville were in Washington in con nection with the proposed bank re opening. Major Bulwinkle express ed the opinion that the bank would open in the course of several weeks. He furthermore thought that it was only a matter of time until all the closed banks in his district would be reopened. “It will take two or three months, however, after the work is first started, to accomplish all that | (Continued on page eight.) Repeal Meeting Friday Evening In This County Cleveland county citizens fav oring the repeal of the 18th Amendment will hold their first organization meeting Friday night, Sept. 15. In the rourt house at Shelby. The meeting is scheduled for 8 o'clock and re peal leaders hope to have rep resentatives present from every precinct In the county. It was reported today that a representative of the repeal or ganization from Raleigh would likely be present for the ses sion at whirh preliminary plans will he made for the November campaign Hoey Praised In Dry Stand Taken Despite Opinion Esteemed By Both hides By Tak ing Stand Which May Not Be Popular. Clyde R. Hoey in taking an out and-out stand for prohibition in the November repeal fight has won the respect of both sides by exhibiting the courage to adhere to his con victions despite popular opinion, in the view of R. R. Clark, veteran ed itorial writer. Writing in The Statesville Daily Mr. Clark said: “That courage of conviction which does not falter in the face of popu lar sentiment, which stands out in the open and does not quibble nor hedge when adverse tide is running strong, calls for admiration even from those who do not agree with the conviction. A consplcious ex ample of that courage Is found in Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, who mak es public declaration against the re peal of the 18th amendment. In a recent newspaper Interview Mr. Hoey said: "I am opposed to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. I am not concerned over the popularity of the issue. I am lamillar with all the arguments against prohibition. It does not matter that 24 States have already voted In favor of re peal. I am strongly in favor of North Carolina's voicing her own sentiment uninfluenced by outside forces and without regard to the action of other States.’ Mr. Hoey has been a leader in prohibition ranks since that ques tion first came to the front in North Carolina. Because he was known as a militant advocate of prohibi tion he was much criticised for his support of A1 Smith in 1928. As a Democratic elector-at-large he can vassed the State for Smith and the sincerity of his support was unques tioned. In the statement from which the foregoing is taken Mr Hoey touched on this point: The question of repeal is not properly a party question. In 1928 (Continued on Page 8) Four States Vote Repeal This Week Maine Ballots Today And Three Others Follow At Polls Tomorrow. Washington, Sept. 11.—Maine, the nation's first bone dry state, votes today on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment and Tuesday citizens of Minnesota. Maryland and Color ado will ballot. The wets are claiming victory in all and if their predictions are real ized, 29 states will have voted to ratify the repeal amendment, seven less than the necessary 36, but the drys are disputing every wet pre diction of success. Interest Of Eight Per Cent After Sale Property on which the 1932 taxes has not been paid, will be advertis ed beginning the first week in Octo ber by the county and sold the first week in November, and in order to redeem property after it Is sold, the unpaid balance will bear an in terest rate of eight per cent, it is learned from Troy McKinney, coun ty accountant. The interest rate was reduced by the last Legislature from ten to eight per cent. Already there has accumulated a penalty of four per cent since May of this year on all unpaid 1932 coun ty tax. DEMONSTRATION OF SKIN CAKE THIS WEEK Miss Bickel is spending this week at the Cleveland drug store giving demonstrations on the care of the skin. Her work is without eo6t or obligation. In the care of skin, plenty of water, a good diet and right treatment axe advocated. Drys Here Begin Fight To Retain State Prohibition Plan Big Convention Here Later Nominating Committee To Select Officers. Want Webb A* l>ry Delegate. She.lby and Cleveland coun ty prohibitionists made the first formal move for the November repeal fight when a group of leaders gathered In Shelby Fri nlght and made basic plans for the campaign ahead and the organisation of all local dry forces. The meeting was held at Central Methodist church and was attended oy a score or more dry leaders who were enthusiastic tn their hope of carrying Cleveland county and the state for the dry cause in Novem ber. The gathering, In addition to nearing talks by a member of the United Dry Force organisation at Raleigh and county leaders, ap pointed a nominating committee which is to act as a general organi sation committee in uniting the dry forces of the county. Group Named This commltteee is composed of Mrs John Wacaster. Waco; Ben G. Logan and W. A. Ware, Kings Mountain; Odus Mull, Lee B Wea thers, J. D. Lineberger and George A, Hoyle, of Shelby. Tt will be the duty of the committee to name a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and other officials for a big county' wide dry rally to be held at a date to be fixed by the committee The group will also designate a leader In each voting precinct of the county to organize the drys in their sec tions for the November election. Just when this county-wide rally will be held will likely be decided this week or early next and dry lea ders will concentrate themselves up on the meeting. Two Candidates The gathering Friday night also recommended that George P. Webb former Superior court clerk, be no minated as the dry delagate, or can didate. in the November voting. The election law says that the name of one dry candidate and one re peal candidate must appear on the ticket. Previously J. Cullen Mull had announced that he would be a candidate for dry delagate and there looms the possibility of a contest between him and Mr. tyebb for the honor of representing the drys on the ticket to be voted. Rain Hurts Cotton, Helps Other Crops Not As Much Rain Fell A* Many Thought. Less Than An Inch. The rain and cool weather of last week delayed cotton opening In Cleveland county and handicapped the harvesting of the crop, but tbo same weather which proved dam aging to cotton aided late corn, soy beans, hay and peas. Although it rained for several days the total rainfall was not as heavy as many thought. The rain fall record maintained at the Shel by po6t offices shows that only .92 of an inch fell during the week This couplew with .49 of an inch on Sept. 1 makes a total rainfall for the month of 1.41 Inches. Two Mules Killed In Highway Crash One mule was killed and another so injured that It had to be shot in a highway collision on highway 20 Just west of Shelby last night. The mules, owned by Louie King of Shelby, were being led behind hack, en route to Forest City for trade day, when struck, officers say by an automobile ' which did not "top. The cre-K «• >. 1n fhp Beaver Dam section. Deputy Kendrick and 'HighlyPatrolman George Allison made an investiga tion, but today had not been able to determine the identity of the driv er of the car. One mule was instant ly killed and the other, which had a hind leg broken, was shot by Deputy Kendrick. FINDS COTTON BOLL WITH FOURTEEN LOCKS Claude Johnson, colored, who works the farm of Robert Oidnev has found a cotton boll on the Gid ney farm with fourteen locks. The boll, however, Is poorly developed Johnson says the crop is good on the Gidney farm, but this Is not true for the county as a whole. Reserve Officers Hal M Farris, of Shelby, and H S. Plonk, of Kings Mountain, have been commissioned first lieutenants in the R. O. T C. at State college this year. « * Direct Nazi s Recovery Program i ri Keeping: out of the limelight behind the government of Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany are these three men, who holdhninwtiona corresponding to our own NRA Administration. They are Frits Thyaaon (left), economic dictator, Dr. Kurt Schmitt (right). Nasi Minister of Economic*, ami Krupp von Bohlan (center), munitions magnate, who form the council steering Germany’s recovery program. Election Board Names Officials For Repeal Battle In November; Name Dry And Wet Judges Later Must Have Dry And Repeal Judge At Each Precinct In County Register One Day, A meeting of the Cleveland Coun ty Board of Elections was held lit. Shelby Saturday for the purpose of arranging for the November repeal election. Attending the meeting were: John P. Mull, chairman; Zem ri Kistler and Frank Glass. The election board re-appointed all the present registrars to serve with one exception. In this cast: G. T. Cabanlss was named registry. at Double Springs to take the place of Wilbur Simmons who has moved to another precinct. A list of Judges, two for each precinct, was not named Saturday and neither the dry nor the repeal organizations had filed a list for those offices The election law says that at each voting precinct, one judge must favor repeal and the other the retention of prohibition. As a result the election board ts asking that the registrar in each precinct file with the board the names of three drys and three re peal 1st* and from this group will be selected the election Judges. The board also went over the complete set of rules and regiiln tions governing the election and registrars may secure any desired Information from members of 'he board of Chairman Mull. No new registration will be nec essary for the election, but new voters, those coming of age or mov ing to the county since the last elec- j tion, may register on Saturday, Oct 2B. The registration books will be open only one day. Mr. Tom Abernethy Seriously 111 Now Mr. Tom H. Abernethy, well known Shelby citizen, who has been sick for some time with complicated heart and kidney trouble, continues right seriously ill at the home of his daughter. Mrs. A. V. Hamrick. Among relatives here over the week-end to see him were; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Abernethy, T. J Aber nethy and family and Lamar Aber nethy, of Gastonia;-Ches Aberne thy, of Vidalia, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bell, of West Asheville; and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cook, of Ruth erford county. Series Of Articles On “The Dixons” Of This County Beginning with thin issue. The ( level,I mi Star will print a irrira of article* on the Dixon family of Cleveland county. This series is written especially for The Star by Prof. W. K. White, historian for Cleveland county who has been studying for Ills Master's Degree at the University of North Carolina where he had access to the Hbrary In pre paring an interesting aerount oft his remarkable family. Each member of the distin guished family of the Rev. Tom Dixon will lie included in the series which will be print ed in installments over a per-' iod of several weeks. Can The State Tax F edera! Securities Question Is Taken Cp With Th Postmaster General. Mr. Far ley. By J. C. Elliott. Can the state tax federal securi ties? That is the question whfel Jas. C. Elliott of the Polkville sec tion is anxious to know and he ha made inquiry of the Postmaste General, Mr. James A Farley. At tax listing time in Clevelam county, the list takers in Clevelam county were instructed to list pos till savings for taxes. Mr, Elliot inquired to know by what author ity such government securities wer subject to state tax and his ques Won was answered by County At torney Peyton McSwain who citci him to an act of the last genera assembly of North Carolina Th law for listing postal savings Is 01 page 241, public laws of 1933. Mr. Elliott writes that the refer ence to the law clears the count; officials and puts the blame on th legislature, but he Is taking th matter up with the U. 8. govern ment to determine whether a stat can tax federal securities. Federa bonds are exempt from all ad val orem tax by states or cities. Pos tal savings may be ruled as not be ing government securities. No “Fight To Finish” Between Ford And NRA Is Thought Likely Detroit Motor Magnate Returns To Detroit Today After His Vacation. Detroit, Sept. 11,—'There will tie no “fight to the finish” between the Ford Motor Co., and the national recovery administration, it was learned from an authoritative source over the week-end, because the Ford company feels it is complying with the code and there is nothing to fight about. "The code doesn’t have to be sign ed in order to comply with its terms,” was the statement. "Nobody! has to sign anything as long as they j & observe the provisions of the NRA. Perhaps Henry Ford will sign tin code—perhaps he won't. Ford alow knows that. But whether or not hi does, at the company’s plant it wa said entire compliance with the re eovery act is possible without Ford'i signature "on the dotted line.” This was not Ford's own state merit, but, coming from a Hlgt source, it was represented as beinj the opinion of the Ford company since the inception of the national ecovery act 'If we sign the code we'd have tc (Continued on page eight). New Teachers In Shelby Schools Named By Board Majority Former One» Retained Hvr New Teacher* In High School* Iteplare Teneherw Who Have Resigned. The faculty for the Shelby school i system was elected at a special meeting of the ett.y achool board held Friday night A majority of the former teach ers were elected again and no new teachers were named except as re placements for teachers who have re signed or moved awny for one rea son or another. Five teachers were named as replacements in the while schools and one in the colored schools The five new teachers In the white | schools arc Mrs Conley Eskridge, of I Shelby; C. E. Rankin, who comes here from Kannapolis where he has I might Tor two years; Mrs. Matilda hattlmore Morris, Miss Mary Elisa beth Black and Mrs. Dorothy Mc Brayer Ragland, all of Shelby. The new teacher In the colored school* Is Earl C. Horton who will be prin cipal or the colored high school. He has been teaching at Shaw univer sity The list of teachers and an an nouncement by the school board *01 lowa: "The School Board was grieved at I Its Inability to take care of the many acceptable applicants who have indicated a desire to work in the local schools and to adequately snpply the needs to avoid congestion in the class rooms but they were compelled of necessity to limit *he number to that designated by the State School Commission and there fore to leave out many persons whom they would have liked t3 have had and to do without meet ing adrcmateliy the needs of the pupils. After most careful delib eration In considering the speck le needs of the various schools in completing the faculties, it was de cided to make a listing by school* as follow's Washington School Agnes McBrayer, Principal; Mrs. Marian McCord Nash. Mrs. Vtolm Dixon Tiddy. Ruby McDonald, Mrs. Emetine Thomas Kendall, Clark Edwards Marion School Laura Cornwell, Principal; Anne Hamrick. Mrs. Esdale Ramseur Blanton, Mary Crowell, Mrs. Ma*y N McCurry. Minnie Eddins Robert*. (Continued on page eight). Negro Leaders To Organize Section Rev. J. D Battle To Speak In Col ored Churches And School* Of Section. Rev J. D. Battle, representative ■ of the Religious and Missionary s Brotherhood, assisted by Rev. W. M. Nelson, local representative, be- ^ gan this week on a 30-day cam- | I paign of organizing the Negroes of I the Shelby section into a modern . and religious alliance to fight t against any and all forms of com . munlsm. • The brotherhood, founded 30 1 years ago by Bishop Joseph J. Higgs, D. D., ts to encourage the I i general advancement of the Negro I race and is a nation-wide move ment. During the campaign here i the two ministers will speak in the Negro churches and schools of this section. The principles of the bro i therhood are outlined as follows: 1. That the South is the natural =| > home of the Negro. 2. That the Southern w-hite man ' ts the Negro's friend. 1 3. That we need to know and to - understand and to appreciate this ■ fact and any man or woman or for- J ■ eigner who would teach otherwise (Continued on page eight.' Woman Who Killed jjj Her Man Paroled A Cleveland county colored wom an who killed her man “because he didn't treat her right" has been pa roled after serving approximately a year of her term in the State prison. It was announced from Raleigh Saturday that Florine Terrell Cleveland county colored woman was one of five granted puroles by Governor Ehringhaus. At the July 1932, Superior court term here she was sentenced to the State prison for a term of two to seven years after being found guilty of man slaughter. The woman, it was 4l ■ leged v the trial shot her husband 119 death star finding him m * room [with another woma?