I This Section s Biggest Event, The Cleveland County Fair, Opens Tuesday Sept. 26—Five Big Days
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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
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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
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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 <v
the city for the year Just ending
Cash received amounted to $239,
986, the bulk of which $100,000 waj
from the light department. Thi
next largest source of revenue wa*
from current taxes which amount
ed lo $71,740. The third largest
source of revenue was from th*
water department which amounts*1
to $36,906.
n.ki *•*_*_ i
Debt service which Includes bond;
and interest, called for the heavies)
single payment during the yea)
This required $115,431. The citv’;
largest expense was for clcctnr
power which costs $56,090, Elect ri<
power is purchased from the Du!;*
Power company and re-sold to 11
customers In Shelby and vicinity
City schools received the thin
largest amount from the city, thb
amounting to $26,830. The operating
cost of the water department war
$12,700 which the city received
from the sale of water $35,985 dur
ing the year ending June 30th
Officers Stage Two
Liquor Raids Here
del Total Of hToaOon. Booh la
Two Balds On
Saturday,
Two hauls made in Shelby Sat
urday by city and oounty officers
working together netted a total of
10 gallons of whiskey.
A search of the Graham Padgett
house on Llveoak street resulted In
the finding of three and a half
gallons of corn whiskey. The boose
was cleverly concealed, officers said,
is a hidden cabinet secreted behind
the panelling of another wall cab
inet. Fingerprints on the facing
gave the officers a tip as to the
secret cache, when the whiskey
was found stored in pint, quart and
half gallon containers. Padgett was
not at home when the raid was
made.
The other raid was at the log
cabin just beyond the Hopper park
bridge, northwest of town, where
six and a half gallons of whiskey,
put up in 13 half gallon jars, was
found. The family was moving and
nearly everything had been moved
away except the trunk in which the
whiskey was found. Two trap doors
were empty. George Childers, who
it is alleged to have been living in
the house, was arrested.
Officers participating in the
raids were Sheriff J. R. Cline and
Deputy Bob Kendrick and Police
Chief D. D. Wilkins and Police Cap
tain McBride Poston.
Mrs. Sallie Hamrick
Dies At 76 Years
Widow Of James L. Hamrick Passe.'
At Home Of Her Daughter,
Mrs. J. F. Moore.
Mrs. Sallie Hamrick, age 76 year.'
died Wednesday of last week at the
home of her daughter, Mrs J. F
Moore in the Beaver Dam communi
ty. Mrs. Hamrick had been in feeble
health for several years.
She was the widow of James Lewis .
Hamrick who died 24 years ago. For
seventy years she was a member oi
the Beaver Dam Baptist church and
was a consecrated Christian, greatly
beloved for her fine character. Be
sides her only daughter, two grand
children survive. 4?
Funeral services were held at
Rea' er Dam Thursday by Rev. John
w guttle and D. F. Putnam.