I This Section s Biggest Event, The Cleveland County Fair, Opens Tuesday Sept. 26—Five Big Days LMO SEND Late News ' [HR MARKETS _9 to 9t4c *,d. ton. wagon. H-50 ^d. ton, rarlots- M OO Fair Tuesday Cotton, »Pot Cotton Cotton Todsv’o North Carolina Weather R,port Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. _ Storm Toll In State Is Up To 14 Now BT I NITED PRESS Nfwbern. Sept. !*• North Caro hurricane death toll was in ,.Mod to 14 or more today when the coast guard cutter Pamlico ad ^d that a fishing sehooner had gone down In Ratan Bay near Sea [oVf| with Captain Jones Hamilton •nd three sons. Nelson, Ralph and Charlie, aboard. Raby Blown Away ( fro,,* tragedy occured below Beaufort, Carteret county, when a soman's baby was blown from her trm. The ehild has not been found Calls For Help «to communication today with Msnteo. Roanoke Island, brought the fear of widespread damage and privation there In the face of radio rills for help last night. Ship Damaged By l NITED PRESS Norfolk. Sept. 18.—The Diamond Shoals lightship off the North Caro lina coast was badly damaged by the storm and the captain wounded nith flying glass In a battle with the hurricane Friday night and Saturday, according to radio re port* pieced together today. Boiling Springs Grid Outfit Now Shaping Up Well New Backs. Including Cherokee In dian. Add Punch To College Eleven. With their first game scheduled for Saturday week. Coach Paul Hut rhms' junior college grid squad at Boiling Springs is practising with the Ohffsfde High school. Although several of the outstand ing players on last year's eleven •re not in school this year the ar rival of a number of promising high school and prep school stars has given Coach Hutchins prospects of » good eleven, one that will make a strong fight for the Junior college title Scoring Punch itcyv jj.aycio JO a JU'i" berk who should add plenty of col pr to the Bulldog outfit. He is Le rov Wahnata. full-blooded Cherokee Indian, whose football experience “as secured at Haskell preparatory srhool. Battling Wahnata for the fullback berth is “Nub" Epps, of Greenville, S C., for two years an All-State player in South Carolina Two men, one a veteran and the other a newcomer, are leading the f'kht for the job of field general They are Johhny Hendrick, former Shelbv High star, and Jimmy Rap w' of Lexington. Just now the lead ing contenders for the half back berths are Geirge Baker, forme” ^Continued on Page 6) Revels Child Dies Of Diptheria Here Bobbie Gene Revels, son of David Revels who works at the Lily Mill ied at the home of his grand Mrents on the Fallston road Sat Wday morning at 7 o’clock. The enikl ns* e victim of diphtheria »e "as three ypars montb& u His mother died about two vears sgo and since that time he as been living with his grand parents. ^Funeral services were conducted n e' ' L Jenkins Sunday morn ,.'** ** o’clock at La Fayette street V rLurch and interment “ 3unset, Cemetery. Judging Contest On Tuesday, 11th t.^jc U|tsing contests which were « have been held at W. W. Mau tember1'n Horn’S Monday’ ^ wr li, but was called off due be Prof’ D11Ungham. will dJl d at Hthe same Places at 5 o’ AlTbcn afternoon. SePt- 19 weed *ls,hlng to take part are thflJ prese?lt as this will be The twnlh8"Ce to,hold the congest resent Pr,i1^",scoring bo*8 will rep iutem/ kl Ue in the Vocational boantv ,ontest t0 be held at the « Tbe -wo '•nuntv f1 3 wtU g0 to Rutherford ^nWdaTw^11 uMr Du,in«ham il»«storl{ h * h* wiH ■!udge the VOL. XXXIX. No. 112 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 18, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By P*r y«»r. (In tdvnnee) _ UM C»r»iKr, P»r y«*r. (In kdvana*) „ t.l County To Vote Dry By 5,000, Webb Says Shelby Jurist Leads Dry Battle Author Of First Nation-Wide Pro hibition I,aw Fights Against Repeal. “Cleveland county is going dr by at least 5,000,'' Federal Judge E. Yates Webb declared here In an interview over the week-end. As militant and undaunted as in the days of 1908 when he threw his influence toward making North Carolina dry and in the days of 1917 when he wrote the Webb Kenyon bill and authored, in con junction with Senator Morris Shep herd. of Texas, the 18th amend ment to the constitution of the United States, Judge Webb has thrown himself into the fight to defeat the proposed repeal of the 18th amendment in the election to be held in North Carolina, Novem ber 7. Instead of using his vacation per iod between sessions of federal courts for rest and recreation, he is taking the stump for prohibition. “And North Carolina can be car ried by the drys by a large major ity, if the friends of prohibition be stir themselves," he added. "In my opinion the great majority of North Carolinians are still in favor of prohibition and against liquor and all its evils,” continued the judge. A few nights ago, one of the hottest nights of the summer, Judge Webb addressed a crowd that pack ed the city auditorium at Hickory. He has addressed other crowded auditoriums in this section. Asked as to what the effect would be on our present dry laws, in event the wets carry North Car olina November 7, Judge Webb said, “If the voters of North Carolina on the 7th of November vote to repeal the 18th amendment, within a year from that date a wet legislature will be elected. That legislature will destroy all our prohibition legisla tion and in a short time there will be open barrooms and legalized distilleries In many if not in all the counties of the state.” “Constantly for the past three years,” said Judge Webb, "this country has been flooded with propaganda favoring the repeal of the 18th amendment. Never before (Continued on Page 6' Big Casar Rattler Add* 3 To Family A. M. Pruett, of Casar, was m Shelby Saturday exhibiting quite a deadly collection of reptiles. In a box he had a large rattlesnake and three young ones. The old rattler, with seven rattles on her tail, laid seven large eggs Friday night and three of them were hatched out in to young rattlers by Saturday morn ing. The four other eggs were still in the box with the old rattler and her young ones. The snake, Mr. Pruett said, w'as brought to him by Hugh Hunt, who captured the rattler at one of the conservation camps about three months ago. Since that time the snake has come to be much of a pel about the Pruett home, two of his sons extracting two of the snake s teeth recently. That it is a deadly rattler was proven when a toad was placed in the box and died within three minutes after being bitten by the snake. Fair Only Week Away Now; Much Activity Going To Have Big .Soil Booth. Dog Show Promises To Be Best Yet. With the opening of the an nual Cleveland County Fair on ly a week off the fairgrounds was beginning to hustle with activity this week. By mid-week it is expected that the big fair tract will be teeming with workers preparing exhibit hall booths, stands, etc., for the section s premier event. Around 15 horses have already been entered for the daily horse races and the first horses are ex pected In Wednesday and Thursday Among those entering horses are Mayer brothers of Cincinnati, E. T. Cannon of Concord and others. Shows, Stands The main amusement features will be furnished by the well known Rubin and Cherry shows, and all confession rights have been sold to Max Goodman, of Toronto, Can »la and all money games will be barred from the midway. Farm Exhibits One of the most interesting agri cultural exhibits promises to be the comprehensive soil booth being pre pared by 8. S. Mauney. This vdlt show the various types of soil it: the county and crops and fertilizers adapted for each type. Another in teresting exhibit will be the Grange (Continued on Page 6> Fair Tickets Ready , For School Children Dr. Dorten. Fair Secretary, Gives Places At Which They Slay Be Obtained. Free tickets for Cleveland county school children for admission to the first day of the Cleveland coun ty fair which opens Tuesday. Sept. 26th may be obtained from Dr. Dor ton at his fair office in the Line berger building, from County Sup erintendent of Schools J. H. Grigg or from the school committeeman in the various school districts of the county. These tickets should be called for by the school heads or the teachers and not by the pupils. Tickets will be issued in quantities sufficient to supply each child enrolled in the public schools of the county. School officers will make the distribution to the children themselves. Roosevelt Has A Cold, Temperature By UNITED PRESS Washington, Sept. 18.—President Roosevelt is suffering with a cold and is running a slight temperature it was announced at the White House today. MASONIC NOTICE Cleveland Lodge No 202 A. F. and A. M. will meet in regular com munication Friday night. Members are urged to attend, visiting breth ren cordially invited. Law-Breakers Get Sick As Court Of Judge Yates Webb Draws Near Lot Of Sickness Anticipated In Wes tern North Carolina Soon. Charlotte, Sept. 18.—A great wave of sickness that will almost amount to an epidemic, with many of the cases booked for hospitals, is ex pected to hit western North Caro lina during the next three months There will be one or two charac teristics that will probably be true of each case. One of these symp toms will be the fact that each “vic tim” will be booked for trial in fed eral court on charges of violating the prohibition law. Another peculiar characteristic is expected to be the fact that each “victim” will recover as soon as the court over which Judge E. Yates Webb will be presiding is adjourned 'No doctor will be required to de termine the cause of the disease It is well known. The disease will be caused by the fact that this fall terms of court will probably be tb? last before prohibition is repealed Bootleggers and rum runners are taking heart and hoping that it they can get by the fall term.; of court, repeal of the prohibition act will enable them to dodge termr in federal penitentiaries. Such has been the case in some courts, but the hopefuls are reck oning without a proper knowledge of Judge E. Yates Webb, who is to preside and deal out justice and judgment. Judge Webb has no love for law breakers of any type. His least love is probably for the violators of the prohibition law—for in trie pro hibition law does the honored judge believe with all his heart. Some judges take the view that as manufacture and sale of intoxi cating liquors is about to be legaliz ed, they can let present violators go. Judge Webb is expected to ad here to the letter of the law until it is repealed. Even after repeal, violators who committed their acts prior to the repeal will be culpable and subject to his stern rulings, the sternness of which is not expected to abate Repealists Pick Candidates Here; To Get Speakers Arey To Make Race In November McKwaln Campaign Manager For County. Prohibition Termed Costly Failure. A repeal candidate was named, an advisory committee appointed and an outline of plans for following the leadership of President Roose velt who has asked for repeal of the 18th amendment was discussed Fri day night by Cleveland county citi zens who favored repeal. W. J. Arey, retired Shelby busi ness man, was unanimously select ed as the repeal candidate. Peyton McSwain, attorney, was named as manager of the campaign and the following central advisory comm't tee was selected (other names are to be added from other sections of tin county) : Committee Named The names of the advisory com mittee were turned in to The 8tar office by Attorney Peyton McSwain and will be published when the committee men signify their oon sent to serve. P. Cleveland Gardner, who presid < Continued on Page •) Morris Went To Meet As Fanner; Not An Official County Commissioner Issues State ment Relative To His Attend ance On Gin Meeting. Rev. J. D. Morris, member of the county board erf commissioners and R. W. Shoffner, County farm agent attended a farmers meeting in Mem phis, Tenn. last week at which time the farmers made protest against ginners’ code. The report has gone out that he went in an official ca pacity from the Board of County Commissioners which has prompted him to issue the following sworn statement attested before A. M. Hamrick, clerk of the Superior Court, which says: ‘T am informed that some men in the county are circulating the news that I attended the meeting ir. Memphis, Tenn. In an official ca pacity. This is false from the core All I ask of any man or set of men is fair play. Now to the facts I was elected to represent the farmers in this meeting in Memphis at a Mass meeting in the courthouse, Septem ber 8th because I was a farmer. Therefore I do solemly swear that no one knew me only as a farmer No one knew I held office of any kind, I registered as a farmer. No one knew I was a minister. The office I hold was not known to any man, nor the government officials I furthermore solemly swear the weight of the office I hold was not used for nor against ginners nor farmers." J. D. Morris Cleveland County, N. C. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of September 1933 A. M. Hamrick, c. s. C. All Slot Machines Now Out Of County County Officers Slag* Perfect Clean-Cp Of Machines In County. Cleveland county lis this week without slot machines due to the successful clean-up staged last week by officials of the county recorder’s court. First orders stopped the opera tion of all machines in Shelby and then the order by Recorder Wright and Solicitor Horn was made to embrace the entire county. By Wednesday of last week, the dead line set by the court, It is reported that all machines were out of op eration and it was not necessary to confiscate any as was threatened if they were not removed and taken out of operation. Lions Club Meets On Wednesday Eve In order to avoid a conflict with another meeting, the Lions club has decided to have their regular meet ing on Wednesday evening. Sept. 20 instead of Tuesday evening. Due to the fact that several matters of Vital importance are to be brought up every member is urged to be present. Actors in Kidnap Trial Drama four of the principal figure* in the trial at Oklahoma City, Okla., of Harvey Bailey (top right), notorious badman, charged with kidnaping Charles Urschel, oil magnate, and extorting $200,000 for his ransom. Top left, U. S. Judge Ea. S. Vaught, presiding judge; below, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Shannon, at whose farm in Paradise, Texas, urschel is said to have been kept prisoner while ransom was being negotiated. Shelby Schools Open; New High Enrollment 1 «fob» Found For t6 People Here Week?. Time The national re-employment office located In Shelby found jobs for 226 unemployed peo ple last week, according to Dan R. Frasier, manager of the office. This is one of the best rec ords made by any of the of fices throughout the State. The 226, almost half of all the 571 unemployed people registered at the office, were placed at various types oF work, such as farm laborers, stenographers, cooks, truck drivers, nurses, clerks, road workers and housekeepers. The office now has calls for cotton pickers, cooks and road machine operators. Shorter Hours Approved By Ex Gov. Max Gardner Says Character Of Workers Is Wov en Mill’s Product. Will Hear Complaints. ‘ The management of this mill is in hearty sympathy with the shorter hours of labor Invoked by the Nat ional Aecovery Act," Said Ex-Gov ernor O. Max Gardner as he spoke Saturday night at a barbecue given in the new addition one hundred and twenty feet wide and three hundred feet long which has just been completed and is now ready for the installation of 224 new looms. It was a sort of house warming, tendered by the mil) owners to the employees and their families. Some 600 people were served barbecue, drinks and Ice cream. Mr. Mull, manager of the mill extended a wel 'come to the party and Introduced Mr. Gardner. “The product of this mill Is not (Continued on Page fli Call Meeting To Aid Cotton Price By UNITED PRESS Washington, Sept. 18.—A meeting of cotton planters and Southern legislators to speed further action to aid growers was called hpre today to sup port resolutions introduced by J. S. Wanamaker, president of the. American Cotton Associa tion. urging currency Inflation and abolition of the cotton pro cessing tax Ov*r MOO Students Bnroll First l>*y. Ohan|«i Made In Faculty. The She**- otty schools opened the fall teem Mile morning with Its largest initial enrollment, a total of 3,004 pupls. The LaFayette, Gra ham and Jefferson schools went considerably over last year’s record. The enrollment by schools was as follows: Central High .. _ 465 (classification incomplete) South Shelby _ __- 306 Marion _ _ 353 Jefferson . ..._ 327 LaFayette . _ 285 Graham . 314 Washington . ......._..... 202 Total White.. 2,322 Colored Schools Zoar _ ...... 86 C. C. Training school _ 506 (estimated) Total Colored _ 682 Grand Total.... 8,004 The following teachers have been lost from last year’s faculties: Mrs. Margaret Cooper Parker, Mrs. Elizabeth Eskridge, Mrs. Maude Gardner, Mrs. Nancy Buttle Pendleton. Miss Isabel Hoey, Mrs. Luclle M. Smith, Miss Victoria Young, Mrs. Ethel Elmore Hartl gan, Mr. Ovid B. Lewis. At the suggestion of Mrs. Beuna Bostic, she was relieved of the prin clpalship of the LaFayette school. (Continued on Page 6) City Trims Budget $30,932 Next Year Baptists Meeting Oct. 5th And 6th AtPattersonGrove Annual Kings Mountain Association Will lluld I to 83rd Meeting Near King* Mtn. The Kings Mountain Baptist as sociation meets In Its eighty-third annual session with the Patterson Grove church near Kings Moun tain on Thursday and Friday, Oc tober 5-6. This la the first time In the 83 years of Its history that the body ha* convened with this churoh. A full delegation from each of the 43 churches composing the associa tion U much desired and expected. The exercise will open at 9:30 a. m. on Thursday and close around 4 p m. on Friday. In case the clerk of any of the churches has not yet received a letter blank for his annual report he should write at once to J. V. Dc venny, Lawndale and such blank will be supplied. It will greatly, fa cilitate the work If these blanks are filed out in full and mailed to the above address not later than Bept. 25. The present of the pastor of each church at each session of the body will be of much help as well as great encouragement to the work. ’ The program follows: First Day—Forenoon Session 9:80 devotional and organisation; 10:00 religious literature, W. G Camp; 10:30 woman’s work, Mrs. John Wacaster; 10:50 Mills home, D. G. Washburn; 11:80 Introductory sermon, T. L. Justice; Alt., D. G. Washburn; closing announcements. Afternoon Session 1,80, Co-operative Program and (Continued on Page 8) Two Auto Crashes Sunday, Two Hurt Brominer City Woman Injured In Shelby. Colored Man Hurt Near Town. Two people were painfully Injur ed and Iwo other* lew seriously hurt tn two auto accidents ta or near Shelby Sunday. At the Lafayette-Warren street corner, where a woman was fatally Injured on Sunday several weeks ago, Mrs. Nancy My era, of Bessemer ! City, suffered lacerations and bruis es when the car In which She was riding with her daughter hit the 1 rear of a Carlotte car at the stop light. She remained in the Shelby hospital last night but was able to leave for her home this morning. In a collision In the Hicks section northwest of town a colored man, Lum Hardt, was painfully injured and J. P. Panther and Joyce Pan ther, the latter a small girl, received slight Injuries. They wfere hurt when a car driven by a colored man by the name of Poston, with whom Hardy was riding, and another car, said to have been driven by Panther | collided. A cloud of dust is report ed to have been one cause of the crash. The colored man. lacerated about the body and with a bad lac eration of the leg, Is still In the hospital. The others were able to leave after receiving first-aid treat ment. Over 145,000 Workers Back On Job In Textile Plants Since Last March Estimated Payroll Of Cotton Tex tile Industry Sept. 1 Put At {26,000,000. Washington, Sept. 18—Employ ment In the cotton textile industry increased by 145,315 workers during the period from March to Septem her, according to a report snade by George A. Sloan, president of "he Cotton-Textile institute, t« Gen. Hugh Johnson, national industrial recovery administrator. General Johnson expressed sat isfaction at the report. The report showed that 320,000 persons were employed by the ‘n dustry in March, 356.000 iu May, and 465,915 on September 1. This carries the average number of em ployed 20,000 beyond the 1926 ave rage. Monthly payrolls increased *J3, 200,000 during the period from March to September In March, the oavroll was *12.800,000. and in Mny the payroll was $15,300,000. The.e figures had jumped to an estimate? ♦26,000,000 on September 1. Mr. Sloan said that, while the economic and credit position of the industry had improved from its disastrous situation of the early spring, the mills had not yet rea ched a position where interest on investment is assured He also explained that this in dustry had taken the risk of as suming the increased coat occa sioned by the N. R. A. in advance of other industries and must look to tire general application ol the act and a consequent, increase o' the nation’s purchasing power for a maintenance of the present rate of employment. The results of the activities of General Johnson and his associate5 in their efforts to increase general purchasing power, in Mr. Sloan’-, opinion, justifies the cotton textil industry's position in its promp' co-operstion in submitting and v I curing from the President indor#f -nent of the first code. Budget Open For Inspection - «, Audit Of Past Fiscal Year Show City Paid Out $258,110. Water And Mrhta Profitable. A uut of $30,932 has been mad' in the city’s budget for this fisca year, under the budget of last year It Is revealed by figure* avallablt at the city hall. The budget lor the fiscal ye* ending June 30. 1934 has beei made up and approved by the gov ernment bureau In Raleigh, amount, to $248,773 as compare with $278, 700 for the year ending June 30 *> this year. The budget la not pub llshed In full In today’s Star but thi City issues notice that the budge has been made out and tax payen are at liberty to inspect It th de tali at the city hall. W. and L. Profits $87,800 Auditors have also completed thi audit, of the city’s finances for th< year ending June SOt.h and this re veals that the water and light de pnrtments, both owned and operat ed by the city, made a gross profit of $07,000 last year. In (his issue o The Star appeared a condense! statement o fthe financial affairs