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TIw* North Carolina Weather
Beoort’ Generally fair tonight and
SSUdav except probable showers
Wednesday afternoon in extreme
*nd extreme north portions.
jJU warmer in west tonight.
Seek Escaped
Convicts
Bv UNITED PRESS
Michigan City, Indiana, Sept. 27.—
Hundreds of vigilant possemen.
jrmMi with shotguns and squirrel
rifles, tramped isolated woodlands
h(.r» today hunting 10 desperate
(flnns who escaped from prison yes
terday and possibly killed a sheriff
„h„ «as their hostage.
Prison Outbreak
Quelled
By UNITED PRESS
Philadelphia, Sept. 27.—One of
the most desperate outbreaks in the
historv of the Eastern State prison
»a* quelled early today by guards,
state police, city officers and fire
men Warden Herbert Smith was
Injured by a prisoner.
Cotton Crop In
County Will Be
Far Below Usual
Highest Estimate
40,000 Bales
norland Crop Likely To Be Low
est In Almost Decade.
Lose Lead.
Tfn-«nl cotton or 15-cent
rotten. it appears ms if Cleve
land fanners will this year have
less cotton to sell than in any
year in almost a decade.
At the same time it is likely that
the county for six years the lead
ing cotton county in the state will
lose that honor to one of the large
Eastern cotton counties.
The decrease in the cotton crop
here is accredited to three things:
1. Less acreage than is usually
. put in cotton.
2. A total of more than 14,000
acres plowed up in the government’s
reduction drive.
3 A poor cotton season.
Estimates Vary
Some farmers and cotton men
believe the crop will go little beyond
30.000 bales, while the highest esti
1 etc made is that the total crop
may range around 40,000 bales.
Even at. the larger figure it will be
the county’s smallest crop in more
than five years.
While this section experienced a
poor season the eastern part of
North Carolina had an unusually
good cotton year and reports would
indicate thst such counties as
Robeson. Johnston, Harnett and
others will make from 40 to 60
thousand bales each.
That the crop here is behind that
of last year is shown • by the fact
that only a little more than half
as much cotton was ginned up to
September 16, this year, as to the
same date last year. This was due
m part to the rainy week which
delayed picking and also to the de
lay about a ginning code, but the
drop itself is considerably below
that of last year and previous years.
Gin Price I* $3.00
A Bale In Clevelar
This Charge Seems to Be Uniforir
Throughout the County And
a Compromise.
Thf price for ginr.ing cottor
Cleveland county is $3 a bale,
, mg the bagging and ties. A
7 bu>'Pr who makes a roun<
7 county gins, says this pric
uniform and he does not knov
mher or lower charge.
*3 rhar*e for ginning
_ $hg and ties seems to be c
H* Tt' 18 higher than last j
in fhan the price called
not v^ntatiVe code' Pr°P°sed
Wt approved in Washingtor
'-^rned that the bag,
a better^ 8innerS USe this yea
k a grade than heretofore.
41tiJrked baggfhg, but Its (
aS caused no compli
2 87d goners seem reai
co h , 1 led wlth tha charge,
'•inabfe. ° th* ***' ‘"formation
C°tton About Same
As On Yesterday
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today at 2
dose. At 2
10.02,
rt*terday.
8nd wheat
"Ushtl.
as only slightly
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o’clock Oct, was
five points do'
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8 Pages
Today
VOL. XXXIX, No. 116
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SHELBY, N. C.
WEDNESD’Y, SEPT. 27, 1938 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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By MaU. dtt year, <ln advanot) ..
Cartlar. p«f y»ar. on advance) _ |3 on
Record Crcwd Of 42,000 At Opening Day Of Cleveland Fair
Six Long-Term Convicts Escape Here; Two Are Captured
Death Case Hearing
In Court Saturday
Chandler Is Buried
On Tuesday
County Court Will Hold Preliminary
Hearing In Death Textile
Worker.
Additional light is expected
to he thrown on the mysterious
death of James Chandler, mys
teriously stabbed last Sunday
evening, at a hearing in county
court here Saturday.
Chandler, a Shelby textile work
er, was stabbed in a somewhat
mysterious manner late Sunday aft
ernoon in the southeastern section
of the county. He was brought to
the Shelby hospital but found to
be dead when placed on the opera
tion table.
Officers have been working stead
ily on the case since. Some of those
with Chandler reported, officers
say, that he fell on a knife, but
this statement is discounted by of
ficers who cannot understand how
he could have fallen so as to stab
himself twice right under his heart,
bther Evidence
In the investigation officers have
found, it is said, other evidence
which would indicate that Chan
dler was fatally wounded in a brawl
of some kind. One of their finds
would indicate, they believe, that
[ more than a knife may have been
used.
rioyi rung ana nee maimer, also
of Shelby, were arrested late Sun-!
day night or early Monday morn
ing in connection with the Chan
dler death and another placed un-!
der bond as a material witness.
There is a probability that offi
cers may spring some new evidence
at the trial Saturday, and there is
considerable interest in Shelby, par
ticularly among acquaintance of the
men involved, as to what may or
may not come out at Saturday’s
preliminary hearing.
Funeral services for Chandler,
who was 24 years of age, were held
yesterday at Salem church in the
Buffalo creek section. The young
man was employed at the Dover
mill here but his parents lived be
tween Waco and Cherryville.
Mayor Gets Message
From Plane Flying
In From Morganton
Asked To Take Part In NEA Parade
Thursday Night—Dropped
By Parachute.
Morganton will stage an immense
NRA parade Thursday evening at
7:30 o'clock and Mayor McMurry re
ceived an invitatior which came to
him by Mr. Kistler’s privately own
ed airplane. The plane flew low
Monday afternoon and dropped a
parachute with the invitation.
The parachute was made from a
red bandana handkerchief to which
was tied a cloth bag. weighted dowu
In the bag was the invitation for
the Mayor to attend the NRA pa
rade and bring with him ten or
more representative citizens who are
expected to have a part in the
parade.
The plane made visits to a dozen
or more towns and cities within a
radius of fifty miles of Morganton,
and the trip was made in about
two hours time. It is the first time
an official invitation has been ex
tended in this manner.
Dutch Driver
For Races
Bert Hellmueller, of Louisville.
Ky., known on the speedway as the
“Flying Dutchman," will be one of
the drivers in the fast auto races
at the Cleveland County Fair Sat
urday. Hellmueller intends to do
some of his most daring driving to
win the 1933 dirt track trophy.
Car Drivers To
Compete For Big
Trophy Saturday
Daring Drivers To Seek Hankinson
Quinland Trophy In Auto
Races Here.
Sped will be the watchword at
the first A. A. A. auto race of the
Southern circuit Saturday, Sept.
30, when the Cleveland County Fair
will come to a bang-up close with
six events.
From far and wide the drivers
will hie to the fast track at the fair
grounds to compete for gold and
glory and the Ralph Hankinson
Willlam L. Quinland $1,000, 1933
titular trophy m championship
points.
Time trials will start shortly aft
er noon hour, the first race will get
underway at 2:30 p. mfl as a ten-lap
race with six drivers entered, to be
followed by two more five mile
races, a five-mile semi feature race
and the 20-lap Cleveland County
Sweepstakes final. The latter race
will have eight drivers in competi
tion.
Drivers from five states have al
ready advised the management they
will be in the races Saturday, the
first big-time speed program in
this section when the fair w ill
open the gates to a thrilling speed
spectacle.
Sensational Bert Hellmueller,
king of the tracks, in Tennessee
and Kentucky, will be on hand tc
give the boys a run for their money
The field is expected to be so large
that officials announce that it will
be necessary to start the qualifying
trials shortly after noon in order
that all drivers will be placed be
(Continued on Page 8)
129 Banks Have Been Reopened
Over Nation In Last 6 Weeks
Roosevelt Hears Reports Of Improv
ed Conditions, But Credit
Still Slow.
Washington, Sept. 27.—In the last
six weeks, President Roosevelt's
campaign to rehabilitate the na
tion's banking structure has re
opened 129 institutions and made
$398,134,000 in previously frozen de
posits available to the depositors of
265 banks.
The result is that 14,080 banks
are operating on an unrestricted :
basis with deposits of $31,930,175,
000. and 2,575 holding deposits o'
$1,765,669,000 are still unlicensed.
The reorganization plans of more
than 200 have been approved and
they will be permitted to resume op
erations as soon as they make re
quired additions to their capital. In
the reorganizations, many of the
old banks are being absorbed.
This picture of progress was laid
before President Roosevelt at a sig
nificant White House conference.
Similar reviews of other aspects of
the chief executive’s problem in re
storing purchasing power, getting
needed bank credit to NRA indus
tries. and raising farm prices were 1
(Continued on Page ttj
Surround Others
On Mountain Top;
Get Guard’s Gun
Escape At Polkville
Tuesday Morn
Jump On Guard D. J. Mom. And
Take Two Guns. Four Do
Not Escape.
SI* long-term negro convicts
at the state prison camp here
jumped on a guard in the Polk
vllle-New House section early
yesterday morning, seiced the
guard's guns and made their
escape. Two were captured yes
terday by a posse of officers
and others were reported at
noon to be surrounded on top of
Cherry mountain just across
the Cleveland line in Ruther
ford county.
The escape was a daring one and
by late yesterday afternoon around
100 officers and citizens were comb
ing the Rutherford-Cleveland moun
tain country in an attempt to round
up the convicts, several of whom
are said to be dangerous charac
ters, among them being one or two
killers.
10 On Truck
The break for liberty was made
around 7:30 yesterday morning. Ten
convicts were taken on a truck
from the camp just east of Shelby
to a road job near Polkville. Just
as the truck stopped, preparatory
to unloading the convicts for work,
several of the convicts leaped upon
Guard D. J. Moss, of Shelby, over
powered him and seized both his
shotgun and his .45 calibre revolver.
(Continued on page eight.)
Football Games
Here On Friday
And On Saturday
Shelby Highs Play Cherryville.
Boiling Springs Meets
Rutherford.
Sport fans of the Shelby sec
tion have more attractions than
they can see this week with the
daily races at the fairgrounds
and two football games book
ed.
On Friday afternoon the Shel
by highs will play their first
game of the season when they
meet Cherryville at the Shelby
park.
On Saturday Coach Paul
Hutchins’ Boiling Springs col
lege eleven will play the Ruth
erford College Ramblers, coach
ed by Blainey Rackley. This
game also will be played on the
Shelby gridiron, beginning at
3:30.
Few Veterans
The Shelby high outfit is be
ing coached this year by Zeno
Wall, jr„ former Wake Forest
quarterback, and he stated to
day that his boys are in fair
shape for the opening clash. He
has four veterans back in the
line—Thompson, Spangler, Led
better and Summey. Just which
youths will start in the back
field is not certain, but more
than likely Roy Lee Connor, the
fourth of the Connor brothers
to play at Shelby high, will be
at quarter; with Clyde Wiliams,
veteran, and Ralph Kale at
halfback posts and Flay Kale at
fuUback. The team will use the
famous Notre Dame shift and
have been working hard to get
the hang of the new system.
College Game
There will be plenty of riv
alry in the Saturday clash be
tween the two junior college
outfits. Rackley, Rutherford
coach, Is a former Wake Forest
star and once coached at Boil
ing Springs. Hutchins is anoth
er Wake star and the two will
be pitting their coaching prow
ess against each other. Football
fans here particularly interest
ed in one new player on the
Bulldog team. He is Wahnetah,
a full-blooded Cherokee Indian,
who prepped at Haskell. Several
former Shelby high stars will
also *•» 'n the Bulldog lineup
Saturday.
.
Chosen Queen of the Air Waves
Mia* Diana Chase, of Station WINS, New York, pictured with the
trophy emblematic of her selection as “Radio Queen of 1933” after she
had been crowned at the National Electrical and Radio Exposition In
I Madison Square Garden, New York. At left is Leah Ray, WEAF
I candidate, and at right, Rosemary Lane, of WABC, runners-up.
Dick Reynolds, Sally Rand Fan
Dancer, Nudist Colony Furnish
Whoopla For Fair Pleasure Group
Young Millionaire Drives Hate
Horse. World Fair Stun! Is
Imitated.
The whoopla crowd, those who go
to the Cleveland county fair for all
the galty and merriment they can
find, had a wow of a time at the
fair yesterday and last night.
A dashing younp millionaire, will
ing to risk his neck for a thrill; a
take-off of Chicago’s World fair
dancer, Sally Rand, and a nudist
colony were the big attractions for
the boys and girls who go to the big
farm exposition to see things and
make whoopee.
Young Reynolds, heir to the vast
Winston-Salem tobacco fortune
drove one of the horses of his un
cle, W. N. Reynolds, in yesterday's
race and did a good job of it, win
ning the first heat, placing second
in the second heat in a thrilling
home-stretch run, and losing in
the third when his horse broke ctn
the back stretch.
The crowd seemed to get quite a
thrill out of seeing the wealthy
young fellow pilot his horse and a
majority pulled for him to win
over his veteran opponents.
Down on the midway one tent is
capitalizing on the fan dance Sally
Rand made famous. Sally is the
beautiful young thing who dances
at the Chicago fair wearing very
little more than the fans she so
gracefully gestures. Of course, it
isn’t Sally herself, but the act i3
(Continued on Page 8)
Ask Yourself
About Our State
Turn to page 3 for the answers to
these questions.
1. How many square miles in
North Carolina?
2. What is the highest peak in
the state?
3. How many North Carolinians
have been associate justices of the
United States supreme court?
4. Who is state treasurer?
5. The first cotton mill in the
entire south was established in
North Carolina. Where?
6. When did the first colony set
tle on Roanoke Island?
7. How many Indians in th>*
state?
8. Who were the governors of the
state during the Civil war?
9. What is the maximum length
and maximum breadth of the state?
10. Where does North Carolina
rank in area among the states of
the Union?
11—A North Carolinian was the
first American to be killed in ac
tion during the Spanish-American
var. Who was he?
12.—When was the battle of Kin:
ountain fought?
Medical Society
Meets In Shelby
Charlotte Doctors Discuss Charity
Cases Before Cleveland
Group.
The handling of charity eaaes
was discussed by several Charlotte
physicians at a meeting of the
Cleveland County Medical society at
the Shelby hospital Monday night.
The Charlotte men reading pap
ers or talking were: Drs. J. M,
Northington, Andrew Blair, j, 8.
Gaul, Claude Squires, and R. B.
McKnight. The general discussion
centered about medical economics,
the workmen's compensation law,
hospitilization and financing of
charity cases. The visiting physi
cians explained that in Charlotte
the doctors are not required to at
tend charity cases without remun
eration but are paid from relief or
public funds for their work.
Among visitors present in addi
tion to a good attendance of coun
ty physicians were Drs. L. A. Crow
ell, sr., and L. A, Crowell, Jr., of
Lincolnton; Dr. Pitt Beam, Shelby
dentist, and J. D. Llneberger, re
lief official.
Refreshments were served follow
ing the business meeting.
Federal Court
Adjourns Today
The term of federal court which
convened here Monday adjourned
today after completing the docket
set for trial. A grand Jury from the
entire district was in session during
the three days, passing upon bills
for trial at this term at coming
terms at Charlotte and Statesville
Judge E. Y. Webb presided and
moved the docket along at his cus
tomary speedy pace.
Thousands Children
Take In Big Event
Display Winners
In Fair Booths;
Bethlehem Best
Beulah Wins Club Booth. Boiling
Rprings For School*. Other
Winner*.
Declaring the exhibits and en
tries to be the best yet Judged In
past Cleveland county fairs. Judges
yesterday completed their work In
several departments, Including
home demonstration, community
and school booths, horse and mules,
dairy cattle and poultry.
The Beulah club won first honors
for home demonstration booths
with No. S taking second place and
Boiling Springs third.
The winner of the Individual farm
booths was R. B. Dixon with W. L.
Sutherland second and N. O. Self
third.
Farm Booths
In the community farm booth
class Bethlehem was first with No.
3 second and St. Paul third.
In school booths Bolling Springs
was first, Lattimore second and
Orover third.
The fruit and household arts de
partments are being Judged today.
Horses And Mules
In the horse and mule deport
ments the winners were as follows:
Best pair of horses under 1,000
pounds, Dr. X. B. Lattimore,
mtween 1,300 and 1.400
V. Clin*.
Best pair over 1,400 pounds. Otho
Cline.
Best pair of hones in show, otho
Cline.
Best single horse op to 1,000
pounds, c. R. Doggett.
Best single horse, 1,000 to 1,300
pounds. Tom Cornwell.
Best single horse, 1,300 to 1,400
'Continued on Page 8)
Best pair I
pounds. TSri
Averages Over Four
Bales An Hour At
Post Road Gin Co.
What Is thought to be a record
for speedy ginning of cotton was
made on Friday of last week at the
Poat Road gin, three miles east of
Shelby when Paul Poston, the mnn
ager of the gin put through 78 bales
in 17 hours. This is at the rate of
four and a half bales of cotton an
hour and is said to be a record for
a four-seventy saw gin plant.
Picks Four Times !
Weight In Cott i
Edsel Mull, who must have been
named for Edsel Ford, the son of
Henry, picked 240 pounds of cotton
in a day one day last week. Edsel
is the eight year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ivey Mull of the St. Paul, R4
Lawndale and the amount of cot
ton he picked in a single day is four
times his weight.
Pastors To Meet
Here On Monday
Pastors of the Kings Mountain
Baptist association will meet in the
young peoples’ department at the
First Baptist church Monday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. Rev. J. L. Jenkins
of Boiling Springs will speak. Vis
itors invited.
New Invigorating Methods Are
Sought To Stimulate The NRA
Studies W*yi To Extend Credit,
Help Farm Price*—Spend
75 Millions For Hungry.
Washington, 8ept. 27.—President
Roosevelt turns homeward today to
develop in the quiet ot his Hyde
Park residence new tnvigoration lot
the government’s manifold recovery
efforts.
Ways to expand credit and lift
farm prices topped the chores sched
uled for even more intensive study
by Mr. Roosevelt after three crowd
ed weeks spent canvassing every
phase of the federal push toward
economic betterment.
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These tasks have received the
President’* earnest attention from
the hour of hi* return to the White
House after Labor Day from a brief
yatching holiday. New order* seek
ing to boost farm incomes and aid
NRA Industries have been issued
rapidly ,and demands for currency
inflation apparently rejected few the
present.
Will Bid On Bail*.
Newest developments in an inten
sive credit-expansion program was
a promise given the President by
steel executives to submit compel
*'' bids on a 700,000 tonnage ord»
(Continued on Page 8>
Exhibits Classed As
Fair’s Best
Ifvndred* View Display*. Booth* Ac
luddite Hrgln* Feature*
(food.
Decpite the beaming rays nt a
regular August sun a record throng
of 42,000 people attended the open
ing day and night of the ninth an
nual Cleveland county fair here
yesterday.
Swelling the attendance to a new
record were thousands of school
children of Cleveland and adjoin
ing counties who were admitted
free as guests of the fair for achool
day and the educational exhibits
The peak of the day attendance
came In the afternoon for the races
and thrilling free acts, while the
high attendance for the entire day
and night was around 8 o’clock last
night for the fireworks program
and galty along the merry midway
To Break Record
"With so many school children
here yesterday who will return
home and boost the fair, we now
believe that the attendance for the
entire week will set a new record,”
Secretary J. S. Dorton stated to
day. “Visitors to the fair, Including
Judges In the various departments
say that as a whole the exhibits,
displays and general attractions arr
the best we have ever had, and that
Is particularly pleasing to us In
that we announced In advance that
we hoped to make this our best
fair."
In the exhibit halls, where even
inch of space is taken, all exhibit*
and displays are excellently ar
ranged.
The various farm shows. Includ
ing the poultry, livestock, swim
shows, etc., have more and fjighei
class entries than ever before.
The various divisions In the
women’s department exhibit sec
tlon, supervised by Mrs. Ben H, Go
forth, are being highly praised and
Mrs. Goforth says that all the var
ious clubs and organisations work
ed hard to make their department
a success this year.
IMIUtTHJ VI IHIMill
The entertainment angle of the
fair measures up In every respect
to the educational phases and other
departments. The midway, along
which thousands seethed In search
of mirth and merriment last night,
offers an unusually good program
of fun and frolic for old and young.
The horse races each afternoon
continue to be the attraction they
have heretofore with the grand
stand packed before the first heat
is run.
The free-act program includes
thrilling and daring acrobatics and
considerable comedy, thus offering
a mixture that keeps all entertain
ed. The fireworks program at night
is considered by fair officials the
best they have yet presented
Program Ahead
Today the field trials, featuring
the Western Carolines Kennel club
(Continued on Page S)
Frazier Dog Wins
In Field Trial
Trials Held At Cleveland Pair Her*
This Morn. Other
Winners.
Dan Frasier’s dog Unomoni
Chicks Lady,” won first place in tin
field trials of the Western Caro
Unas Kennel club dog show at tin
Cleveland county fair this morn
Ing.
Around 14 dogs were entered an
LeRoy McCall, professional han
dler of Clover, S. C. acted as judge
"Bob,” owned and handled by J
R. Robinson, Shelby fire ehiei, wor
second place, and "Tip Top Bob.'
owned and handled by S S (Boots'
Summey won third.
200 Year Old Loom
Shown At The Fair
A very interesting exhibit at ihc
Cleveland county fair this week if
an old loom said to be 100 years old.
It is owned by Mrs. John Beagle of
Lincoln county who is here each day
assisting her daughter, Mrs. Luis
Rhyne of Vale in the dally opera
tion of the loom. The machine is
weaving blue and white wool cov
erlets. This Is one o! the old-si
looms ui the state, it is said.