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fTO V Ell M Mm O SEND r he markets _„i ... 9 to 9V fotton- spot --- 4. (pile' r„,wn sed. ton. wagon . .... u se [0„„n seed. ton. carlots ..... 14.00 Cloudy, Rain ~ > North Carolina Weather o.ppH Mostly rloudy ir south ami afV) -nrt1 rain in east and north Iprtinns tonight and Saturday probably heavy rain in east portion ^(}1 shifting gales and winds of hurricane force along the coast. Hurricane May Hit N.C. Today By I SITED PRESS Wilmington Sept 15.—The Coast Guard Cutter Modoc, anchored !,srf announced just before noon that latest reports indicated the tropica! hurricane moving toward Wilmington had veered northward sod would strike the Carolina roast ground Cape Hatteras. By UNITED press truth port, Sept. 15.—Southport *nri Brunswick dug in today in preparation for the anticipated tropical storm. By l.NTTED PRESS Norfolk. Sept. IV—Residents of Willoughby Beach and Ocean View, hard hit in the August hurricane, sere warned this morning of an other approaching storm and began to vacate their homes. City Schools To Begin On Monday, Teachers Arrive Mfptlng Of Teachers Tomorrow. Classify Students Tomorrow Afternoon. This is the last vacation week for tround 3.000 Shelby children who vvll return to the school room on Monday. with two preparatory meetings set for tomorrow, everything was practically in readiness today for the re-opening of the City school tystem Monday morning. Out-of-town teachers are already arriving, in the city and the major ity of them will be here early to morrow as the first meeting of teachers is scheduled for the high ‘ehool auditorium Saturday morn mc at 9:30. At this time the school program for the term will be out lined and the teachers will arrange schedules for the year. Tomorrow, Satuiday, afternoon a'1 new students in the city , and others who desire to make any change in their work will assemble n the high school to be- classified and assigned by Principal Walter F Abernethy, With additions being made to two oca! textile plants and with every hotise In the city occupied it is be loved that attendance this, year «l! be larger , than ever before. SHelby Students To -Meet On Saturday fflgh School And Elementary Stud ents Not Enrolled Last Year, Asked To Report. All high school pupils who were 501 enrolled *n either the local high Khool or the seventh grade of one oi the elementary schools of Shel • at the close of school last June tre urged to report to the Central high school Saturday afternoon. ' ‘ principal and several teachers , ** °n duty to enroll and class i v these pupils. If the pupils men tioned above report on Saturday, , v will be saved from much de 8V and confusion when school opens Monday morning. A!! children who to have the ewner^hip of ^elr bookg certified vruld come to the high school ‘ dav afternoon between the noijrs of one and six. May Have Music In ( !ty School System ‘ Hnuw>r May Direct Orchestra If Prof. Lewis Does Not Return. Sespne the lessened income Shel , will receive this year cf'pt E **. Smith k making every ■,0! to maintain music activities ‘n ;he event Prat. o. B Lewis. _r taught music last year, can rctuJn under present arrange Z ' oUpt Smith will endeavor Mrs- D«'ight Houser to "w, 'F school orchestra and lj?act 3 Private violin class. J'* Houser, who is a graduate r-hi f American Conservatory at and who studied two years pt„! ‘ rofessor Von Holstein at ^body Institute, Baltimore, will * 0ufh?01 suPennUndent believes ( ,j ‘e Piatataiii the high musi _ standard the school has had in 2* ln »he event Mr. Lewis ■* •*#. return. VOL. XXXIX. No. Ill SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1938 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ---. . .. . _I_JH ny Mii11, ivr jf»r, (in *rtv»noet _ W.W t urrlrr. iw.r vr-»r. (In arlvunc*) „ »3 oo Contests, Speaking Feature Big Picnic At County Fair Site Hoey Urges Support Of Government Singing And Negro Pageant "Hea | ven Round" With Many Con tests And Sport Events. i Between 1.000 and 1,500 people at i tended the first, annual county wide get-together picnic at the Cleveland county fair ground Thursday when Hon. Clyde Ft. Hoey "inoculated them with optimism," [contests were held and sporting 1 events were enjoyed, together with ‘the presentation of "Heaven Bound". ; a religious pagent by negro talent. The fine spirit of comradeship | that is characteristic of Cleveland county people was in evidence on | every hand. Friendships, were re i tiewed and everybody enjoyed the | contests in which mainly the young ! -tors of the county took part. There ' was an abundance of good things I to eat and at the noon hour, the ' lunches were spread in groups of families and friends, but invitations | were unselfishly extended to visit ors to join in the repast. U ourt House Holiday The county commissioners declar-: rd a holiday for the county offices and the court house was closed. The rains of last week and the t.reat ening rain on Thursday morning kept some away, but. as the sun came out later in the day, the crowd grew in numbers, Hoey Urges Cooperation Rev. W. A. Elam delivered an in vocation before the large audience assembled in the mammoth grand stand and Rev. J. D. Morris of Fallston introduced the speaker for the Occasion. Mr. Hoey, who point ed out the great resources of the country and bid his hearers look the future with hope and comfort. He urged the people to cooperate with the government in everything that is being done to restore condi tions. He commende dthe govern ment's processes for uniting our people and bringing us out of the depression that has hovered over the nation for the past four years, i "In these recovery measures, some: lines of business will necessarily! suffer but only temporarily and in the end. we will reach our objec tiv, if not one way, then by some other means." Contest Winners During the day, the contests fur nished. amusement to the great! throng of people as they looked on from the grandstand. The water melon-eating. contest was won by Roy Lee Connor who was awarded a prize given by A. V. Wray and Six Sons George Gaskey made the quickest disposal of a huge pie and was awarded a prize given by Carl Thompson. Scores of boys met their Water loo as they tried in vain to climb the greasy pole in their attempt to reach the top and a watch, offered by R W. Shoffner. county agent. They worked for hours trying to wiggle up the pole, one boy at a! time, then standing foot on should- i er. Finally the lard was absorbed by I the clothes and skin of the boys whoj tried in vain so it was left to Jul-1 ian Morehead to reach the top and the prize. Thomas Gladden proved tire j swiftest on foot and the surest with; (Continued on page ten .* -:—■■■—-—j Washington Worries Over Cuban Trouble Bv UNITED PRESS Washington, Sept 15.—The .State ! department received disquieting re- j ports from Ambassador Welles in Cuba today, causing officials to [ view the general situation in the' island as becoming increasingly un- 1 certain. New Convicts At Local State Camp, More Are Coming AH prisoners Now trc Negro l ong Termers. Move Whites Away. Fifty-two new convicts have al ready been brought to the local State prison camp, just east oi Shelby, in the move to change the camp from a mixed camp to ora for long-term negro prisoners. Camp Supt. Clyde Poston said yesterday that approximately 100 prisoners will be in the camp when the change is complete. All the new c'onvk'ta, he states, are serving terms for felonies, which means long terms. Of those already at the camp the terms range from two to 40 years, but so far no "lifers" have been brought here Heretofore the camp has been mixed with both white and colored prisoners, the majority of them br ing short-termers, sfnt up from this and nearby sections. The white prisoners were moved in the change to the Burke camp and other camps. “Were not particularly worried about the camp being changed into a camp for long-termers." Supt. Poston and other officials stated. “Some of them may be hard-boiled but usually it is easier to handle a group of negro convicts than a mix 'd gang." Barbecue Saturday At Cleveland Cloth Ex-GoVemor Gardner Coming To Celebrate Completion Of Addi tion To Building. There will be a house-warming and barbecue Saturday evening at 7 o'clock at the Cleveland Cloth mill in celebration of the comple tion of the addition to the building; Ex-Governor Gardner, one of the owners with Mr. O. M. Mull is com ing'down from Washington and will probably speak to the employees, their families and friends. Messrs. Burgess, Garmise and Phillips, rep resentatives in the sales office of the cloth mill in New York are also coming. The barbecue and exercises will be held in the large brick and steel addition which measures 112x 300 feet and has just been complet ed by contractors and is now ready for the installation of 224 new looms and other machinery. Wreck Victims Of Grover Improving Gaffney Ledger. Mrs. Reba John. of Charlotte, who was severely injured in an au tomobile wreck near Grover, N. C., Monday afternoon. was reported slightly improved yesterday at the City Hospital yesterday at the City Hospital here. T. B. Stevenson, of Greenville, a former Gaffney resi dent, who was driving the automo bile in which Mrs. Jones was rid ing, and who was less seriously hurt, was also reported better. . Mrs. Johns and Mr Stevenson were injured when their automo bile collided with another car driv en by A. W. Love of Kings Creek, prominent merchant and farmer. Mr. Love escaped unhurt, it was said, but both cars were badly dam aepfi Reports Show Total 27,714 Now Jobless In 38 Counties Of State Biggest Unemployment ' Found In Larger Cities Of State, Raleigh. Sept 15.— Unemploy ment figures for 38 counties of North Carolina. Including the more thickly populated centers, were fix ed at 27.714 in reports received from those communities for the past week by Capus M Waynick. state director of reemployment. Mr. Waynick pointed out that the figure could not be taken as an exact index of unemployment in those counties because it is prob able that jobless persons who al ready were registered with local re ■mHi lief agencies did not register with the state reemployment commit tees in their respective counties. It is as good an index of unemploy ment, in -those centers as could be reached now. however, he believed During the past week, registra tion in the 38 counties increased by 4,347 to bring the total to 27,714 Reemployment committees are now ;at work in 57 counties while 76 counties have been organized. Def iinite reemployment work in the counties organized but not yet working in that respect is being held up pending location of federal i 'Continued on page ten.) Speedy Justice in Michigan Convicted in record time of kidnaping and slaying Joe Nesbitt, Detroit automobile executive, Robert Fraser (left) and Robert Huff a are shown i manacled as they were takin from Me Comb County jail to Michtgnn Prison to begin their life sentence. With two other men they Blew Nesbitt after robbing him. There is no capital punishment in Michigan, Find Men Not Fired | Over Union Activity : Case Of Discharged Textile Work | er* Taken Cp By NR A Com plaint Board. | Three men said to have been 1 discharged in recent weeks at Shelby textile plants were nol discharged for activity in com reection with the organization of textile labor unions, hut "for other reasons," the Shelby NR A complaint board ruled at a meeting here yesterday. The three workers—two for merly at the Cleveland ("loth mill and one at the Eton—ap plied to the board, it was stat ed, for re-instatement, eontend ing that they were discharged because of thetr connections with the reecnt textile union organization activities in Shel by. In recent week* several hundred textile workers in the. city have enrolled In the Unit ed Textile Workers union, the union program being directed here by a representative of the national organization who Is al so an official of (he Stale Fed eration of Labor. j In passing upon evidence in the ease, the NKA complaint j board made the entry that “we find these men were disrharged i for other causes.” First Year With No Football At Shelby High In Over Two Decades More County Game Than In !0 Years License Cheaper This Tear Dove ! Reason Now On. Others Open Nov. 20. j • A good fall hunting season is in prospect for the nlmrods of Cleve land county in view of the fact that, game Is said to be more plentiful in the county than at any time in 10 years and Hunting licenses are also cheaper. The dove season is now tin. Coun ty Game Warden H. C. Long says opening the first of this month and continuing through the 30th. This year the open dove season is split, coming on again November 20 and continuing until January 31. The main hunting season for this section, however does not open un til November 20 That is the date for the open quail and rabbit sea son, continuing until February 20. Rabbits may be hunted at any time with dogs but only from November 20 to February 20 with guns. The o’possum and raccoon season opens October 1 and continues to Derem ber 31. Hunting licenses are on sale, the game warden states, at Washburn's and Clark’s hardwaio stores in Shel by. at the Stamey store at Fallston ; and by Chas G. Dilling at- Kings Mountain, L. S Herndon and Gro j ver, and R. A Warlick at Lawndale County hunting license costs only 60 cents this year as compared with S1.25 last year: State license costs $2.10 this year as compared with | $3.25 last year; and the combination ; license, considered the best bargain S of all by hunters, is $3 this year as I compared with $4.50 last year. Lie i ense is required to hunt quail, fox f squirrel, rabbit and deer. Cuba Revolution Flares Up Again | Revolutionary Government Starl ing Counter Revolution In Cuba. Bv UNITED PRESS Havana. Sept. 15.—The revolu t tionary government fighting to put ! down a counter revolution in Pinar I Del Rio province surrounded the ; Nacional hotel in Havana today j with light artillery and machine I gun troops to prevent an outbreak l of 300 rebellious a: my officers quar 'ered in the hotel. With No Supplement For Athletics Grid Team Not Likely Here This Year. I OTHER SPORTS PAGE TEN) When school opens in Shelby next, week it. will be the first, fall in more than a score of years In which Shelby high has not had a football eleven. Due to the defeat of the special school tax there will be no supplement for athletics and Coach Casey Morris will be paid only as an instructor. There is some talk of a team: be ing coached by volunteers, but in view of the expense this prospect ts unlikely. Shelby high first put out a foot ball eleven, some of the players of years ago. say about 1812, The first coach was Prof. R T. Hower ton and he gave first training to a number of local youths who later starred on college gridirons. In the last decade and a half most of the coaching has been done by two men. Dick Gurley and Casey Morris In these years Shel by high came to be known as one of the best football schools in the state. winning several western championships and playing on one or two occasions for state titles. For five to 10 years the local grid teams, competing with elevens from larger schools like Charlotte and Gastonia, were the biggest sport drawing card in the city. In the 20 years football has been played at the school dozens of Shelby boys have later attained gridiron fame at State, Carolina. Duke. Wake Forest and Davidson. Physician Goes To Sunshine Section Rutherfordton, Sept. 15— Dr. Knight of New Orleans, La., medi cal missionary to India eleven years, has located at Sunshine, ten miles east of here and now lives in the house formerly occupied by Dr. Mai Andrews. That section has not had a physician since the death of Dr. Andrews some time ago. Dr Knight is busy and doing much good. Strength Shown In Cotton Market Following the rise of cotton yes terday, strength was shown again today, although the close was only five points above yesterday’s close. Oct. closed at 9 42 and Dec. at "pot cotton is bringing from 9 to 3 1-2 cents. ■ Postal Savings Are Taxable Says P. 0. Department Mr. Elliott Gets Reply From Capitol Question. However, Has Never llerii I'hshciI On Hy The Courts Writes An Official. ’*11 is believed that postal mv iiigs deposits and the interest accrued thereon are subject to thr taxing power of the states unless states In some manner have expressly exempted them from taxation. However, the question has never been passed upon by the courts," This in substance is the reply which' Jos C. Elliott got from the I Third Assistant l'ost master General j in Washington when he inquired i: l>ostnl savings are subject to tax by ] Cleveland county. It will be recall ed that, tax listers were instructed In Cleveland county to list, postal savings undeT a law enacted by the last General Assembly making them subject for the tax. Several coun ties in the state did not so Instruct their listers, but County Attorney Peyton Mir Swain says there Is a I law for listing postal savings In | North Carolina, henre It was done | in Cleveland W. T. Hollins, directed in the Post office department adds in bis letter to Mr. Elliott that ‘‘postmas ters and postal employees must, not disclose the name of any Postal Savings depositor, nor give any in formation concerning a particular account, to any person other than the depositor himself, unless spe cifically authorized lo do so by the Third Assistant, Postmaster General "Postal Savings deposits when converted into Postal savings bonds become exempt from all duties or j taxes of the United States' as well as from taxation In any form by or under Stub* municipal or local authorities, a provision to this ef fect being containing in Sect. 10 of the Postal Savings Act of June 25th 1910, However, postal Savings bonds are subject to Federal and state in heritanoe taxes, based on the doc trine that an Inheritance tax Is not a fax upon United States bonis comprising or embraced In an xs tate but a tax upon the transfer privilege of property regardless of its character." Mr. Elliott's Comment, Commenting on this reply, Mr Elliott says, “The legality of taxing Postal Savings is admitted to be questionable, not having been pa.; sed on by the courts The regula tions allows the small depositors to secrete his savings in the postofflcc When tax listers ask a tax payer if he has Postal Savings he may reply that that is none of his busi ness. Prove It, If you can and he goes free with the big depositors When a poor man gets a little mon ey and lets It be- known, some one will soon take It away from him The postoffice has been his safes) refuge and now ho Is smoked out of that. I don't, think states that would encourage thrift among wage' earners would do that. The wage earners should spend his money as fast, as he gets ft to keep the busi ness that employs him going.” ohaw Buys Interest Of Jacobs In Store W R. Shaw has purchased the interest of his partner, George Jac obs, in the men’s clothing store of Shaw and Jacobs and will continue to operate the business at the same stand under the name of Shaw Clothing Co. Dr, E C. Cooper, in charge of promoting evangelism in the Lu theran Synod of North Carolina, has during the past two weeks con ducted night-conference on evange lism for pastors and laymen in the following cities: Burlington. High Point, Salisbury, Concord. Char lotte, Gastonia, Lincolnton and ; Hickory. Cotton Checks Start Arriving In County 1*1 Giiinan Preaches It’s a fairly big step from a night Hub to a pulpit, but it doesn't far,*! Texas (iuinan. originator of the “Hello Sucker 1" greeting. The na tionally-known nightclub hostess if shown in Angelas Temple, Los An geles, wado famous by Airoee Sem ple McPherson, ns she addressed the congregation. Morris and Shoffner Back From Meeting Of Cotton Ginners Say Government HepfrM-ntative To Consider Protest Against High Charge. COTTON HOI,II>AY STOKY— p.ilfe right. R W Shdffner county lain, iigeiif. and J. D. Morris., county [:commissioner, returned Wednesday ! tiighi from Memphis where they at i ended a meeting of Southern coi ton ginners and farmers. The meeting was held for the purpose of repining a rode for rot ■ ton ginners and also for fixing « standard ginning price. Messrs Shoffner and Mori it, were sent bv liie farmers of this- county to pro lest against the Jilgli ginning charge lixed In the code submitted by gtn tiers They were joined in their protest, by W A Graham. State commissioner of agriculture, and representatives of other fanners in the South. The farmers told the meeting and tin- government code representative present that they could not afford the first price ■■fixed; particularly in tlie two (barolinas and Virginia. Thev were willing, they told the confer ence, to pay lH to 23 cents per lot) pounds of seed cotton, which would make the cost, run around $3 per bale. The government representa tive said that he would consider the plan advanced by ginners and also the proposition made by represen tative* of the farmer before fixing a definite price In the code. The Cleveland representatives are hope ful of having a code which will hold the ginning cost close to S3 per bale. Graham's View. The following Raleigh dispatch gives Commissioner Grahams views on the conference: "W A Graham, State Commis sioner of Agriculture, has returned to his office front Memphis where 'Continued on page ten.) Commissioner Morris Tells Of Ginners, Farmers Memphis Meet Explains Lower Ginning Price Sought By Himself Anri Agent Shoffner. i By .1. D. Morris, County Commissioner.! For the interest of Cleveland county cotton farmers and ginners I desire to give my Impressions of the Memphis meeting on Sept. 9 At a meeting of ginners and farm ers held in the court bouse here R. W. Shoffner, farm agent, and i were elected W attend the Memphis meeting held by government au thority and government represen tatives. We attended this meeting ■ and did our best to fairly and im partially represent both farmers and sinners pf Cleveland county and North Carolina, The chairman plainly and em phatically said the-e Is no govern ment code. He further stated we are here to find out if the farmers and ginnws want the secretary of agriculture to enter into a ginning and marketing agreement, or in other words, enter into a code, T!>.. was not objected to because the southern and western farmers were as anxious for a just code a« ? he tonne rs, saying they had not re I (Continued on page ten.) - Around $10,000 Ha* Arrived Here I'Mitl Of UK Cheeks Received Far Cleveland Farmers. Others Coming In. (Mvrmmfnl mom\r, mpm anting payment for notion plow* ed up by ('levHand rounty farm ers, In-sail arriving In the coun ty Wednesday night. and It was estimated this morning b* Farm Agent Dhoffnar that ap proximately *10,000 has already arrived. The first cheeks came In Wed nesday night and others came in yesterday. No other checks had been received by noon today, but It Is thought that thy will continue to - arrive every day tuiMI the total of $117,000 y, paid to farmers of the county.. 110 Chirks Through last night a total of 118 i cheeks, averaging around $00 aach, Imd arrived. These checks an- being [ distributed as rapidly as posaible by I Agent Shoffner. He announced to day that farmers should not coma for their checks until notified. As each check is received he will send a notice to the fanner asking him to come in for it. Thu government, originally an nounced that it hoped to have all the checks mailed out by a week from today, but tills is hardly con sidered possible. It Is believed, how ever, i hat the full $177,000, more than will go to any other county in the state, will be here for distri bution by the end of the month. The arrival of the checks is al ready evident in the pick-up of business, and with more coming in I each day should quicken trading ! activity in view of the fact that it is the fall buying season, that the lair is just a week and a half off, ' and that farmers ore trying to hold | the cotton not plowed up until they ! can get a better price, Mrs. Ferree Dies i In South Shelby Had Been III For Several Weeks. Funeral Here Today And Bur ial In Rutherford. The funeral of Mrs. Florence Hennessee Ferree was held at two o'clock today at the South Shelby Methodist church Mrs. Ferree died Thursday morning, Sept. 14 at 3:28 at her home in South Shelby, where she had been ill for several weeks. Mrs, Ferree was the widow of the late John N. Ferree of Rutherford county, and was the mother of ten children, Walter R, of Polkton, this state, Bert M of Ciaroleen, Frank F. of Utica. N. Y., Ernest and Newt, of Shelby. Mrs. Mirtle Ferree, Mrs B. C Hamrick of Shelby, Mrs. W. H. Radon of Atlanta, Ga„ Mrs, Grover Harrill of Caroleen, Mrs. J W. Webb of Red Springs. Four brothers survive, M. H. Hennessee and Dnn Hennessee of Glefi Alpine, Russel- H Hennessee of Bostic, Joe Hennessee of Winsboro, S. C. Burial will take place at Pleas ant Grove church. Forest City. Shelby Store To Have An Art Shop Kclk-Stevens To Have Only Depart ment Of Type. In This Section, Bclk-Stevens company of Shelby announces the opening Monday of a useful modern addition to their store—an art shop, to be called the Art Shop of Belk-Stevens coippany I located on the left balcony of the main store Mrs. Anne D. Snapp, designer and instructor and art-shop operator at Knoxville, Tennessee has been en gaged to personally direct the new | nrt, shop. It will be the only shop I of its kind in this vicinity, the | nearest being in Charlotte and i Asheville, and will render a wel come service to women in this and surrounding communities. The ser vice will feature new and individual designs in garments' for fall and winter and instruction in the use of various yams for knitting and crocheting garments and bed spreads. The public Is cordially invited to attend the opening. Monday, Sept 18th. Textile Workers Meet Saturday Shelby textile workers are called to meet in the Thompson building on West Warren street Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Albert Beck of Lenoir is the speaker. <> . .
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