TM REMEDIES-W
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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.