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TM REMEDIES-W r tate News ' THE markets pair And Cooler To Lose Their Jobs »• s district attorneys and mar .. o nrl mtrifilp Methodists Fight Repeal Bisltop Edwin D. Mouzon and all presiding riders of the Western yorth Carolina conference have ■»lled upon the pastors “to assume a place of leadership in the move ment to prevent the repeal of the 18tl, amendment by North Caro lina’s vote.” Upheld In Death Case Bond Move Hoke King Remained To Jail With nut Bond In Chandler Death The Cleveland county recorders court was upheld Wednesday after noon in the Chandler death case ruling in which Hoke King, held in connection with the death, was denied bond until Superior court, After Recorder Joe M. Wright of die county court remanded King to jail without bond following a pre liminary hearing, Maurice R. Wea thers, King's counsel, took a habeas corpus proceedings before Judge Wilson Warlick in Superior court at Newton with the hope of Securing bond. Judge Warlick after hearing an affidavit of the State evidence at the preliminary hearing ruled that the county court was right and ord ered king back to jail. It was contended by Attorney Weathers that the prosecution had not, put. up enough evidence in the preliminary to hold King without bond. The recorder held, and in his decision was upheld by Judge Warlick, that enough evidence had been introduced and that the prose cution should not be forced to in troduce full evidence which would enable the defense to build its case. King was arrested and is being 1 held in connection with the1 death Sunday afternoon a week ago of James Chandler, 24-year-old textile worker. Chandler was fatally stab bed In some manner, allegedly while on a party with King and others in the southwest section of the county. He was dead when brought to the Shelby hospital. King is also ] a local textile worker. Attending the hearing In Morgan- 1 ton before Judge Warlick in addi- 1 tion to Attorney Weathers and his 1 ruent were Recorder Wright Solicit- ; or c C. Horn, Sheriff J. R. Clin'- : "id Deputy Clerk Wm. Osborne. marMK" „hen his time expire*. Is Case. Pendleton Leads Selling Contest f’mther proof that business Is on ,lp and up ln the Shelby sec W A- Pen^leton firm of if, \ recently won a selling con st of Westinghousc electric re mgerators over agencies at High Greensboro and Charlotte, endleton, of the local force, ;„'u' 'ieh man of all the salesmen ln the contest. Cotton Declines On Today’s Market Following yesterday’s decline of ,n !‘.t5 Points In cotton, there was tiv m ' !<XSS of 15 P°ints today on to n i 'l0ric exchan8e. according sen o , ° Cl0ck quotation. Oct. was •mg for 9.33 and Dec. 9.52. Stocks also weak. Results Plenty my penny column *> I can get to • wa« ‘he wail of R. H. dson this week. Wilson advertised a rm ,t>r eent. He had 22 per '''n.iI rails and a number of r cp one calls as a result of ■ K penny column advertise ment. '«u will be pleased with ?ults ul penny column ^vertisemonts. Everybody *a * ‘hem. If you have ooms or a house for rent. L*“*° buy’ **‘1 or exchange, I he Star do the work. VOL XXXIX. No. 120 SHELBY. N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 6. 1938 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Br Mall, prr y'tar. (In advance I .. |jy> Carrier, per year. (in advance! .. UM Compliance Board Is Selected Here To Handle All NRA Complaints Six People Representing All Groups Will Select A Seventh To Serve As Chairman. An “N. R. A. Compliance Boa1 cl is being selected in Shelby to handle complaints of violations of the blanket agreement with the Presi dent and adopted codes, hear pe titions for exceptions and mediate differences that might arise between employer and employee. Col. Henry Edwards, N. R. A. county chairman, called represen tatives from various groups together yesterday in the court house arid five members of the Compliance Board were selected in accordance with the wishes of the administra tion in Washington, To Hear Complaints Heretofore, complaints have been heard by an information and com plaint board appointed from the legal profession, but the first stage of the recovery movement is over now and Washington has instructed every community in the nation to organize "Compliance Boards" whiel; will be more representative of the various groups and at the same time have triore authority than the information and complaint board. Joe Whisnant will represent the legal profession, Paul Kistler will represent the employees in the re tail and wholesale trade, O. M. Mull industrial employers; John S. Mc Knight employers in the wholesale and retail trade, Mrs. Mary Yar borough the consumers. Orcrani'yn/* 1aW nn resentative but the unions will hold a. conference this week or early nest week and appoint their representa tive. When these six members are selected, they in turn will chose a seventh from the legal profession who will serve as chairman. It was the expressed wish of the authorities at Washington that the ‘Compliance Board" be composed of seven members chosen two from thn ■etail and wholesale lines, two from industrial, one from legal, one from sonsumers groups and one from or ganized labor. > Joe Whisnant will act as tempo rary chairman until the Compliance Board selects' its seventh member *nd he is expected to call the first meeting of the board early next week. Now that “Compliance Boards” ire functioning in practically every sart of the county, complaints, pe itions and mediations will be se eded locally, thus relieving Wash ngton of many local problems. Dr. Peeler Shows His Trip In Pictures Dr. Clarence N. Peeler of Char otte and a native of upper Cleve and county, gave a lecture on his ecent trip to the Kiwanis Interna ional convention in Los Angeles >efore the Kiwanis club in Its week - y luncheon meeting last night. Dr. 3eeler had made pictures along his rip across the continent and in California. showing the beautiful cenery, Indian villages. Grand Can non, farm lands and the colorful invention. He was gone with a rarty of 16 for 17 days, traveled 7, 100 miles and reached an elevation >f 8,063 feet in the Rockies. Picks 400 Pounds Cotton A Day Dennis Sain holds the record for ;otton picking in the Toluca section :t is reported that he averages 400 sounds of cotton a day and has mough strength at the end of the lay to haul his cotton to the gin at right. The Toluca Gin is running lay and night, as well as the other ;ins in the county. 62 Cotton Checks All By October 15 ; Sixty-Two Cotton Checks Received Yesterday. No Mistakes. $124,000 Yet To Come. Sixty-two more cotton checks were received in Shelby yester day for a total of $5,000 to be paid to farmers who plowed up their cotton during the sum mer. Approximately $124,000 is yet to | come and Dean I. O. Schaub of the J state extension department says he has a letter from Washington say ing all North Carolina cotton checks are supposed to be mailed by Oct. 15th. Tile letter to Dean Schaub says the Washington administra tion is mailing 31.000 checks per day to farmers in the cotton belt and that this number is being increased every day. In the office Of R. W. Shoffncri Cleveland county agent, it is learn ed that the checks do not come in the order that the farmers signed their plow-up contracts. The first farmer to sign and the last farmer to sign contracts received their checks In yesterday's batch of sixty two. The cash vouchers are re-check ed three times with the contracts in the office of County Agent Shoff ner before they are turned over to the farmers and never yet has he found Washington in error. Fur thermore, not a single check re mains in the office uncalled for, except a portion of the 62 checks re ceived yesterday and these farmers have just been notified to call. A total of 2,048 farmers signed plow-up contracts in Cleveland county and are to receive $177,000. The bulk of the money is to come yet, but as all checks are to be mailed by Oct. 15th from Wash ington, there win be a nood or money poured into the county within the next week. This is ex pected to be a great stimulus to business. In County; Ask Yourself About Our State Answers On Page Two 1. Two native North Carolinians have served as speakers of the na tional house of representatives. Who were they? 2. How many residents of the state were born in foreign coun tries? 3. How much of the state's total area of 52,426 square miles is under water? 4. When was the present constitu tion of North Carolina adopted? 5. When was the state property tax discontinued in North Carolina0 6. Which county in the state is called the “Hundredth county” be cause it was the last one to be created, 7. Which is the oldest church in the state? 8. How many mountain peaks aie there in the state more than 6,000 feet high? 9. How many of North Carolina's 3,170,276 population are negroes? 10. Who wrote the state song “The Old North State?” 11. Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye, fa mous American humorist is buried in this state. Where? 12. How many former United States senators from North Caro lina are still living? Another Big Circus Coming To Shelby Wednesday. October 181 World Brothers Circus Featuring Oaring Lion Act Is Scheduled. Fletcher Smith, general agent of :,he World Bros, circus combined with the Bud Horhe Wild West and he Buckley Equine Paradox, the whole forming the largest popular priced circus on the road, was in Shelby Wednesday making the pre liminary arrangements for the com ing of the big circus here on Wed nesday, October 18. The circus man who has been joining here for the past twenty years or more as press agent with the old Sparks circus secured the ;ircus ground used by the other jircuses this fall and states that the show will come here from Gas tonia. The World Bros, was com ained with the Walter L. Main cir jus the past summer and is mak ing its first tour of the south this fall. The three combined shows travet by trucks and form a mam moth aggregation of circus, wild west and trained animals. The big special feature is Capt Walker who enters a large arena with a group of monster Nubian lions and the appearance for the first time in the east of the popu lar western screen star. Bud Horne, who comes direct from Hollywood with a full acting company and his favorite picture horse. Other advertised features include the Buckley clog dancing and cake walking horses, the Youseppe troupe of whirlwind Arabs, Dorendo as somersault wire walker, the Melton sisters, and trained elephants, ponies, dogs and even camels. Two performances will be given j her£ and the prices have been re- j duced to 25 cents to all. J PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ATTENDS WORLD SERIES (Spec ial To The Star.) Washington, D. C.., Oct. 6.—Reading left to right: Marvin McIntyre, secretary to the President; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Joe Cronin, manager of the Washington Sena tors; Bill Terry, manager of the New York Giants and Clark Griffith, owner of the Wash ington team as the President opened the first game of the world series in Washington Thursday (yesterday) by throwing out the first ball. The first two games of the World’s Championship series were played in New’ York. Baptists Meet Next At New Prospect Ch. About 600 In Attendance At Patter son Grove Where 82nd Annual Meeting Is Held. Six hundred or more delegates from the 42 churches of the Kings Mountain Baptist association were in attendance yesterday at tile 82nd annual meeting and indications were today that the crowd would be large* On WnTthe final day This is the first time the associa tion has met at Patterson Grove and the people of that community are entertaining the delegates and visitors in a royal manner. Patter son Grove is located a few miles northwest of Kings Mountain and has a handsome brick church. In the grove surrounding the church, long tables were laden yesterday and today with good things to eat. To Meet Later New Prospect will entertain the association in 1934, it was decided yesterday. Pleasant Grove and Elizabeth churches put in invita tions but New Prospect was decided upon and the date of meeting was changed two weeks later in order to give the churches ample time to make up their letters and get stat istics in to the clerk, J. V. Devenny, In time for compilation. Hereafter the association will meet on Thurs day and Friday before the fourth Sunday in October. At Prospect 34 Years Ago The association met at New Pros pect 34 years ago when E. Y. Webb, now Federal jurist was moderator of the association and his beloved father, Rev. G. M. Webb, preached the annual sermon. In the Prospect church building hangs a picture of Rev. Tom Dixon, another pioneer Baptist minister who served that church so long and his body lies j buried in the cemetery there. Changed Constitution A change in the constitution of the association was recommended yesterday and will be authorized to day. The executive committee will be enlarged to a general board con sisting of all pastors in the associa tion, president of the W. M. U.. the general Sunday school superintend ent, general B. Y. P, U. superin tendent and one member from each local church. This change will en able every phase of the church and Sunday school work to be repres ented. The board will meet month ly or quarterly. Every Church Represented. Every one of the 42 churches in the association was represented yesterday at the first day's meeting. The reports were very gratifying and showed remarkable growth of the churches and Sunday schools during the past year, although the total figures have not been compiled The church membership is approx imately 12,500 and the Sunday school enrollment about 11,300. M. A. Hug gins, general secretary, J. S. Farmer, editor of The Recorder, D. K Ma- J son of The Recorder, R. C. Coving ton of the Millt Home orphanage j and other visitors were recognized j in the .large audience. Mr. Flay Weatehrs of Forest City! is in a Charl<jtte hospital where he ] will undergo an operation for the1 removal of a kirlncy stone ; Leads 20 Years Rev. John W. Suttle who has been moderator of the Rings Mountain Baptist association for twenty years. Mr. Suttle is presiding over the Kings Mountain association at Pat terson Grove today. He always keeps the program up with schedule and has the good will of the 12,500 Bap tists in Cleveland county. Dry Forces Meet Here On Saturday Dry Candidate To Be Selected And Organisation For County And Precincts. Dry forces will meet in Shelby at the court house Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock to select a dry dele gate to be voted on for the conven tion in the election to be held Nov. 7th throughout North Carolina. Geo. P. Webb, has been recom mended as dry delegate and Rob ert H. Cooke as chairman of the executive committee. Their names will be offered before the mass meeting for confirmation. At the Saturday meeting an executive com mittee will be selected from each township in the county and it is hoped that men and women will attend from each precinct to help perfect the organization. The call for the Saturday mass meeting was signed by Mrs. John Wacaster, Lee B. Weathers, O M Mull, George A. Hoyle, W. A Ware, J. D Lineberger and B. G. Logan. Thousands ol voters have signed pledges to support the dry cause In the Nov, 7th election. COMMUNION SERVICES AT CHURCH OF GOD At the Church of God tabernacle on Soulh Washington street tonight we will have communion service and feet washing. There will be string music, good singing and a wonder ful time People from Belmont, Gas tonia will be there Everybody is in vited. Negro Fair Will Begin Wednesday For 4-Days Run _____ Football tinmen, Races, Firework*, Big Midway To Feature Event. The annual Cleveland county negro fair, one of the outstanding events of the year for the colored people of this section, will open Wednesday, Oct. 11, for a four-day run at the county fair ground* east of Shelby, ^ ^ Various types or entertainment; amusements and educational ex hibits, have been arranged for the week and officials are expecting one of their best fairs. The major at traction will be Reid's greater shows along the midway with thrilling free acts twice dally and a colorful fireworks program each night from Wednesday through Saturday. 8chool children will be admitted free on opening day. It is also an nounced that the rides and amuse ments will be running Tuesday aft ernoon and night and that there will be no admission charge to the grounds on Tuesday. Another feature of opening day, Wednesday, will be field sports and a bicycle race. Thursday’s afternoon feature in addition to the regular attractions will be a football game with Lln colyn Academy playing the Hick ory high team. Friday there will be another football game between the Shelby and Lincolnton high school teams. Saturday's big attractions will be a mule race and a model T Ford race in which there is already con siderable Interest. The twice daily free acts will in clude "Timbu,” the human ape; the Rosards comedy acrobatics, and aerial acts. The nightly fireworks will include “The Battle of the Spas,” with two big battleships in action and also cannonading and the sensational bombardment. All in all the program outlined for the fair assures a very interest ing week and many exhibits of ag ricultural. home and school life In the race In the county will be de picted in the exhibit halls. Plight Of Farmer Says Gee McGe '■feature Writer Points Out That l.aborin^; People Better Off Than Farmer. |. — Due to the NRA program the in dustrial workers are better off than the farmer. So says Gee McGee, feature columnist for The Star whose articles appear in each issue. The average industrial family can make, he explains, the equivalent of 75 bales of cotton per year, while the same family on the farm would do well to make 10 bales. But let Gee relate his own tale of the farmer’s plight. Four months ago. a bale of cot ton could be sold for $35.00, or 7c a pound, and $35.00 would then buy 10 barrels of flour. Today, a bale of cotton can be sold for $45.00, and *45.00 will buy 6 barrels of flour A cotton mill operative who earns I ■* ‘Buy Now ’ Campaign Urged By Johnson --I — Thi» Man Grows Record Citrons 1. C. Bowen, who live* wuthrHt of Hhelby on route 7, hu plenty of proof that hr I* this section's rhamplon ci tron (rower. He waa In Shelby yesterday with 38 citron*, weighing more than 700 pounds. which grew on one vine at hi* home. The citron* ranged In weight from 10 to 45 pounds. He ha* another vine with practically aa many citron* on It and If anyone doubt* that a carload of citron* ean grow on one vine he Invite* them down to *ee H. On three vine* he ha* ap proximately 100 citron*. Can anyone beat It? City Advertises Land For Sale For Unpaid ’32 Taxes Total Of 114.000 Worth Being Ad verUaed Today. County Uat To Appear Monday. The city of Shelby 1a advertising property for sale for unpaid 1032 taxes in today'* star and the coun ty will atart Its list on Monday. A total of $14,000 I* due from last year's city taxea and according to the law muit be offered for aale. The list la rather long, but the amounts are small in comparison with the county Hat to appear Mon day because there are more small property owners In the city than In the county. The city will cell property at 11 o'clock on Monday, Oct. 8th at the court house and the county will start one hour later at noon on the same day. Last minute payers have been the city Dali and the toier Iff’s office for the paat ten days. In the sheriff's office collections have been running around $1,000 a day. Leaves School For Business TtIUrn Kalis Goes With Eton Mill. It Swetedtd By Mrs. Troy McKinney. Tilden Falls who for six years has been science teacher and as sistant athletic director at the Shel by high school, has resigned from the class room to take up a busi ness career. Mr. Falls has accepted a clerical position in the office of the Eton Mill and enters upon his duties this week. Mr. Falls gives as his reason for leaving the teaching profession the reduction of teachers salaries and the shorter school term. He is suc ceeded by Mrs. Troy McKinney who entered upon her duties this week as science teacher in the Shelby high school. Mrs. McKinney is a graduate of Duke university. For several months she has been doing investigation of relief cases for the welfare department of the county. Electric Power To Be Off On Sunday To permit workmen to do some necessary repairs on the Duke Pow er lines, the electric power will be off from 2 to 2:30 in Shelby and on all of the Southern Public Utilities lines throughout the county. A Tough One, e, Who Tries It 114.00 a week (and that is little enough) is paid at the rate of 15 bales of cotton per year—with no fertilizer and feed and plow-tools to buy—which is nearly twice as much as a farmer-family of 5 (all working) can make in a year A iainUy of 5 working in a cot ton mill at *14.00 per week will earn enough to buy 75 bales of cot ton in 12 months: the same family living on bread and water and an sccasional slice of fatback meat snd a few sops of gravy—on a farm, HI working—can possibly produce 10 bales of cotton, but must give rail of it to the landlord as rent ind pay its living expenses besides Trying to grow cotton at 8c per »und under present conditions— 'Continued on Page 10» I Plan Good Event For Week Administrator Johnson Moves To Put Money In Circulation And Credit In County. Washington, Oct fi Hugh 8 Johnson directed the power of NRA's influence today toward a "buy now” campaign to speed the Circulation of money and credit. He addressed manufacturers and advertisers throughout the country, noting the and of the "flat wallet era" and urging full co-operation In the "now Is the time to buy ’ drive officially set to start Monday. Increase Credit Johnson s move to increase credit velocity was Intended chiefly to help industry meet NRA’s higher pay rolls, but It blended smoothly with President Roosevelt's determined ef forts to expand credit end T5S5St farm prices. Further, It coincided wtth the coming to Washington of Henry Bruere, president of the Bowery Savings- bank of New York, who boarded Mr. Roosevelt’s train as it headed toward the White House from New York City. Bruere was expected to co-ordinate the entire credit expansion campaign. Ask Steel Bids Another step with the same atm was the government’s request Jo* bids on 844,520 tons of steel rails for 47 railroads. The public works administration will lend the $25 - 000,000 or more buying price to the carriers. United States, Bethlehem and In land Steel and the Colorado Fuel and Iron company were the con cern! to which Joseph B. Eastman railroad co-ordlnator, adressed re queets for price*. Later, a number ^Continued on Page Ten > Mrs. Sullivan Dies In Bessemer. Ala. Of W. D. And T. J. Babin* Son Of Shelby Who Formerly Lived Here. He we wee received here by Meaere W. D. and Thoe. J. Babington of th« death of their sister, Mrs. Lee M Sullivan, in Bessemer, Ala. Mrs. Sullivan, before marriage, was Mrs. Eva Coker Babington daughter of the late Benjamin B. and Mrs. Babington of Shelby. Mrs. Sullivan was born In Columbiana. Alabama in 1868, she was therefore 65 years of age. In 1892 she was married to Lee M. Sullivan, who la a son of the late Or. J. W. Sullivan. To this union seven children were bom—four boys and three girls, five of Whom still survive and are Morris Sullivan, Paul Sullivan, Mrs. (Marguerite) Howe Price (newspaperman), Mrs. (Helen) William Bumgardner, of Bessemer, Ala., and Oower Sullivan of Chattanooga, Tenn.; also two brothers, w. Davis Babington and Thoe. J. Babington of Shelby. Mrs. Sullivan was moved to Shel by in 1872 when her father, the late Benjamin B, Babington and Mrs. Babington, came to Shelby from Columbiana by wagon teams (being six weeks on the road) and settled here. During her younger days Mrs. Sullivan was one of Shelby's uni versally popular young ladles, hav ing a host of friends. After her marriage she and Mi Sullivan remained In Shelby for s short while, later moving to Blacks burg, S. c„ where Mr. Sullivan helc a position with the Three C’s rail way shops, later moving to Char lotte, and for last twenty years they have made their home in Bessemei Mrs. Sullivan visited her brother? here last summer, and was In fin? health, but later after returning t< her home she was stricken with triple neuritis, and a genial com plication, which finally claimed he? in death Wednesday Funeral was held and interment took place in Bessemer Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Sullivan was s membei of the Presbyterian church. Song Feast Oct. 8th At S. Shelby School Stagers will give a program at tht South Shelby school building Sun day afternoon, October 8th, begin ning at 1:30 o’clock, so announces J. C. Bridges director. The pro gram will be for the annual singers convention and singers are expect ed from Gastonia, Hickory, Lenoir Shelby. Cramerton. Spindale. Cher okee Falls. Gaffney. Spartanburg and other pieces. The public is in vited.
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