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T I) c Lll c V r U N n AS I a f tate News the markets , 9.50 to 10.:. C°7n .oed ton. wagon ..... Frost Likely North Carolina Weather JTrt: fair tonight and Tuesday. *Tahlv Hght frost in west portion Z ^r on -oast tonight. War Talk Oyer Europe Again Bv imted press Geneva. Ort. 9-War talk over as a result of the complete LadUsk between France and Ger ST-PO" disarmament brought ,ronc indications today that the Irld disarmament conference sche Hnled nest Monday would be ad orned indefinitely after a brief meeting Britain Backs U. S. Warning Bv I’NlTED PRESS London. Oct. 9 — Brittain will like „ support the l nited States in warning Germany informally against rearming violation of post-war hiRb officials of the Brit ish government intimated today. Buying Program Open In Nation To Aid Business Nation-Wide Drive Begins Today Housewives Trged To Put Family Income To Work To Aid Re covery Move. Washington. Oct. 9 — Brightly dressed show windows, inviting ad vertisements and well-displayed pro ducts greeted America’s consumers today in the beginning of a mighty effort by government and business to stimulate buying to support the recovery program. In a statement last night, Gen eral Hugh S. Johnson. NR A admin istrator who is directing the "buy now” campaign, said: Industry and trade, co-opera Line with the government, under codes of fair competition or agreements with the President, have done and are doing their part. Hundreds of thousands of men, long idle, have (Continued on page nine!. Raleigh Cancels Relief Fund For City Of Shelby Mayor Mr Marty Hopes To Get Fund Reinstated Received $18,000 Last Year. Shelby’s allotment of federal re lief funds has been cancelled, says J. D. Lineberger, in charge of coun ty welfare and relief, because the city has not given notice of any ap propriation of relief funds for the coming winter. Last year Shelby received $18,000 from the federal funds, says Mr. Lineberger and the city made a liberal appropriation to supplement the federal fund, but this year no notice has been given the state re l,ef department and Mr. Lineber ?cr says no federal funds will be available. TtlP county's budget contains 120 000 l°r charity and relief for the coming year. Mayor McMurry says there is an appropriation in the 1833-34 budget of the city for char ity and relief but admits the state department has not been notified c this fact. The city, however, has •*en bus>' preparing the 1932 tax “f for advertising and Mayor Mc urrv says the office has been too J'Sy to fin out the questionnaire, c thinks -the matter can be ad JJ-tted. it has been the policy of the to take credit for water and ti, 's ^urn'sLied to relief cases and this has been accepted on the city’s quota. AH cities and counties receiving ederal funds are expected to put »P 13 for every $i contributed by me federal government. This also PPiies to foodstuffs shipped in by .,P edcrai department for distri , Sc!1 among relief cases. ^oy Hudson Is Cut In Saturday Fight ^' Hudson, colored, said to employe of the Southern Cott Plant here, is in the Shelby hi iia°^ ,'u2ferin& with a sever wrist and other laceratic ^ived Saturday night. Hudson was cut, officers alleg w ' K & s Redshirt.” vs m heavyweight boxer, who t ers apprehended. Several lef a,,, '' 1 cpdrons w'ere cut in I but surgeon worked for or more in sewing up 2J thought at , > use the lrws of a hand. 4 VOL. XXXIX. No. 121 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, OCT. 9. 1WW Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ny Mull, prr year, (In advance) _ »2 SO Ctrrlyr, wr yw, (In advance) „ 13 0# Suttle Moderator Of Baptists 21st Year Devenney Is Clerk Of Association Dr. Wall To Preach Introductory Sermon At New Prospect In Or tuber Of Next Year For the twenty first consecutive year. Rev. John W Suttle has been moderator of the Kings Mountain Baptist association. He was re elected Friday at Patterson Grove with Rev. W. A. Elam vice-moderat or and j. V. Devenny, clerk and treasurer. The offices of clerk and treasurer were combined into one with Mr. Devenny, the former clerk serving this year as both clerk and treas urer. Dr. Zeno Wall was chosen to preach the introductory sermon at the next annual meeting to be held at New Prospect church on Thurs day and Friday before the fourth Sunday in October, two weeks later than the meeting this year. Oppose Repeal A resolution was unanimously passed urging all constltutents of the 42 Baptist churches comprising the Kings Mountain association to vote against repeal of the 18th amendment in the election to be held Nov. 7th. Delegates were elected to the Baptist State convention. Each local church is entitled to a delegate to the Southern Baptist convention with an additional delegate for each $250 contributed to convention ob jects. The General Board which has been chosen to take the place of the executive board has been chos en to take the place of the Execu tive board of the association will meet on Monday Oct. 16th at the First Baptist church. Mr. Devenny has not compiled the church statistics from the church letters, but. about 600 baptisms were reported during the year just clos ed and unless there were more than the normal losses, by deaths, the membership of the 42 churches in the association will be about 13.000 Rev. C. V. Martin, newly elected pastor of the Second Baptist church will preach the doctrinal sermon at the next annual meeting to be held at New Prospect church. Dr. Hugh Black Is Dead At Age Of 78 Native Of Cleveland, Veteran Sur geon, Died In Hospital Sunday. Dr. Hugh Black. 78 years of age a native of Cleveland county and one of the leading surgeons in the Carolinas, died in the Mary Black clinic at Spartanburg Sunday aft ernoon at 4 o'clock. He died while undergoing an operation for the amputation of a leg infected with blood poisoning, relative's here were informed. Funeral services are to be held at the residence in Spartanburg Tues day afternoon and a large number Of relatives and friends from this section will attend. Dr. Black, a son Of Jefferson and Eliza Boyles Black, was born and reared in this county. He became a widely known surgeon in Spartan burg and two of his sons are sur geons. Surviving are two brothel’s and two sisters: Dr. W. G Black o! Greenville: T, C. Black, of Kings Mountain: Mrs. J. A. Harriil. Pat terson Springs, and Mrs. D. W. Gi mon, Chattanooga. Surviving ahe are three sons and two daughters’ Drs. Sam Orr and Hugh Black, ir. and Paul Black of Spartanburg Miss Rosa Black. Spartanburg, and Mrs. Mary Kate Huntley, of New York. Queen for Fair Attractive as a picture in her royal robes, the Queen of Black Diamonds, j officially “Lady Anthracite1’ and in i private life Miss Cecelia O'Neill, of Minersville, Pa., is pictured at the Chicago World's Fair, where she is representing the anthracite indus j try. She was selected from among hundreds of beauties for the honor i Compliance Board Is Completed With Membership Of Six T. W. Smith Is Selected To Repres ent Organised Labor. Board To Select Chairman. The selection of T. W. Smith, 44 Buffalo street, by the local textile union, completes tile membership of the local compliance board un der the National Recovery admin istration. As completed the compliance board is now composed of Joe Whisnant representing the legal profession, O. M. Mull representing industrial employers, T. W. Smith representing organized labor, Paul Kistler representing employees in the retail and Wholesale trade, John S. McKnight representing the employers in the retail and wholesale trade, and Mrs. Mary Yarbrough representing the con sumers. These six members will meet this week and elect a seventh member who will be chairman of the board. It is the wish of the department at Washington that the chairman be selected from the legal profession and be a man of good judgment, impartial and familiar with the purposes of the recovery act. Tire compliance board will hear all complaints, meditate any differ ences that might arise, grant ex ceptions from the agreement with the president which has been sign ed, pending the adoption of codes governing the various lines of in dustry and business. The local compliance board will have final authority in most mat ters coming before them and this is expected to relieve the Wash ington administration of problems that are largely local. Doctors And Little Hospitals In Battle For Control Of Nursing Raleigh, Oct. 9.—The lid was blown off the latest fight between two groups ol doctors in the state fighting far the control of nursing schools In the various hospitals, de spite tlie efforts of both groups to hold the lid in place and keep it from the public. Both factions have enlisted the aia of Attorney Gen eral Brunnnitt to try to hold the lid on. But indications are that the lid is now sailing in the direction of the attorney general and that he is likely to get his fingers burned be fore it is put back. Some think the attorney general is sitting on a hotter spot than the doctors In volved. since he is going to have to be the referee in the fight. I The situation is this. There are | two classes of hospitals in the stale the small hospitals and the large [hospitals, each with then ftspet - tive group of doctors. This newest fight within the ranks of the med ical profession is apparently be tween the doctors who practice in the small hospitals—and who own them or are financially interested in them—and the largei hospitals, for the control of the state board of standardization for hospitals and more especially for nurses training schools. The larger hospitals main tain that many of the smaller hos pitals are not properly equipped to maintain nurses training schools— and they are backed up by some oi the ablest of disinterested medical opinion. But the small hospitals and the doctors interested in them | want to keep their training schools, largely so they can continue to op iate them with student nurses, who (Continued on page niner. County Publishes List Of Un-Paid 1932 Land Owners j Tax Sale On Here November 6 __ „ I County To Sell Property On Which 1932 Taxes Has Not Been Paid On Nov. 8th. Today's Star carries the first pub I lication of the list of property be ing advertised for sale for unpaid 1932 taxes. This property will be' sold on the first Monday in Novem- I ber at noon at the court house. Many, however, are expected to pay before the sale day The list is not larger than a year ago, in dicating that business has had a turn for ‘better and tax payers are better able to meet their tax obli gation. It is estimated that between $35,- j 1000 and $37,000 is due the county from the 1932 list. Before the ad vertisement was turned over to the paper for publication, payments were made in Sheriff Cline's office at the rate of $1,000 a day for a week or ten days, but it slowed up toward the last. The No. 4 Township list is being published in the Kings Mountain Herald, while The Star carries the list of the other eleven townships of the county. Second insertion of the delinquent Shelby list will appear on Friday of ] | this week and the sale of the city ! property for unpaid 1932 taxes has been changed to Nov. 13th instead of Nov. 6th. Cleveland Negro Fair Will Open Here Wednesday Colored People Of Section To Have Enjoyable Four-Day Program. The four-day annual Cleveland County negro fair 1' all set tobpeti Wednesday of this week at the county fairgrounds east of Shelby Shows and concessions will start moving in tonight and tomorrow and the gates will be open to visit ors without charge .tomorrow even ing. The fair proper, however, will not open until Wednesday morning and will then continue through Satur day night with a regular program of attractions each day and even ing and special attractions every afternoon. School Day. Wednesday will be school day and all school children will be admitted free. The educational as well as the agricultural exhibits are expected to be interesting and entertaining A field day sports event and bi cycle races will be feature attrac tions Wednesday. A football game between Lincoln Academy and Hickory will be Thurs day's afternoon feature, and an other football game, between She! by and Lincoln, will be Friday’s fea ture. Auto and mule races around the speedy half-mile track will be spe cial attractions Saturday afternoon There will be a free-act program of thrilling acrobatics and comedy each afternoon and night and a col orful fireworks program each night. Ask Yourself About Our State Answers On Page Two 1. Are there more males or ie males in the population of North Carolina. 2. William Sidney Porter, who be came famous as a short story writ er under the pen name of 6. Henry was born in North Carolina. Where ;and when? I 3. Who is president of Duke Uni | versity? i 4. How many judicial districts in the state? 5. Which is the oldest town in the state and when was it incorp orated? 6. How many railroad companies operate In t,his state? 7. Howv many North Carolinians have served as Secretary of the Navy in Presidents’ cabinets? 8. Who named western North Carolina "The Land of the Sky?" 9. When did North Carolina rank as the third state in population in ,the Union? 10: More minerals have been lotuid in North Carolina than any other state. How many? 11. How many farms are there in North Carolina? 12. How much money did the ,tate pay the federal government n internal revenue receipts for the | j vear ending June 30. last? i Byrd’s Polar Bird in First Tryout The Byrd Antarctic Expedition’s giant seaplane, the largest craft of its type in the world, pictured for the first time on the water as it was given initial tests at North Beach Airport, New York. At top arc members of the crew who will fly the ship at the bottom of the world. Left to right, ft. W. Smith, Ike Schlossback, Chief Pilot Harold I. June, and Paul Swan. The plane is to be equipped with skiis later. Shelby Hospital On Approved List Again This Year Annual Lint Of Great Value To Pa tients When Choosing A Hospital. 'Special to The Star) Chicago, Oct. 9.—The Shelby pub lic hospital was today placed on the. approved list of standard hospitals at the sixteenth annual Hospital Standardization conference of Un American College of Surgeons; Tills annual list of approved hos pitals has proven of great value to the patient when choosing a hospi tal, to the prospective student of nursing and to the recently gradu ated physician. The Shelby hospital is owned by No. 6 township and Is under the control of a board of trustees. It has forty beds. To be approved by the American College of Surgeons, a hospital must have certain equip ment a»<l maintain a record of ef ficiency, accuracy and success in the treatment of patients. Hospitals A Vital "Tlie most vital force necessary for carrying out our program of national recovery Is the health of our people,” declares Dr. Franklin (Continued on page nine) Crop Estimate Is Put Higher Market Up Ten Points In The Face Of 414.000 Increase In Bale Yield. The census bureau raised the es timate of cotton expected to be pro duced, in the belt this year by 471, 000 bdles, yet the market was ten points higher than Saturday's close at 1:30 o’clock today. The estimate issued this morning forecasts a yield of 12,414,000 bales as compared with an estimate of 12,885,000 bales a month ago. It was expected that the higher estimate this morning would break the mar ket, but it held up well because of the prospect of currency inflation and the ten cents a pound advance which the government will make on this year's crop to farmers who will 4fn up reduction contracts for next year. Oct. at 1:30 O’clock today was 9.52 and December 9.54. Cullen Mull Not Filed As Candidate Geo. P. Webb Will Be Dry Candi date And W. J. Arey Wet Can didate In Repeat Eelection There will be only two candidates in the election Nov. 7 on the ques tion of repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. Cullen Mull who cir culated petitions as a dry candidate did not file his name wtih John P. Mull, chairman ol the board of elections for Cleveland county. Fil ing date closed Saturday night and this morning the chairman of the election board said Cullen Mull had not filed with him This, therefore, leaves the two candidates, one running as a dry and the other as a wet. Both Webb and Arey had petitions signed suf ficiently to entitle them to bccom" candidates Cleveland Farmers Get $28,939 More total Of 317 Morr Check* Arrive. Over 900 Checks Already Here. Cleveland county cotton farm ers, who plowed up over 14,000 acres of cotton in the reduction campaign, received 327 more government cheeks .Saturday, it was announced today by R. YV. Shoffner, county farm agent. These cheeks total *23,939 and bring the total amount received to date by county farmers to *87,352.46 Checks are to come to 2.048 Cleveland farmers and !HI3 have Already arrived. In other words, almost half of all the checks have arrived and approximately half of the *177,000 total in money to be paid Cleveland rot ton planters. Practically all of the checks ire scheduled to be mailed out Ity this time next week., Wash nffton reports state. Farmers are notified by A«rnl ■shoffner when their checks ar rive and should apply for them when they receive the slips of notification, but not before as these are necessary to serurc the checks. County Schools To Re-Open On Monday And Week From Monday Will Start Back To Work After Sit Weeks In Cotton Fields. Cleveland county school children several thousand of them, will be gin leaving the cotton fields this week and next to return to the school room after a six-weeks re cess. It was announced today that the county board of education had fixed Monday. Oct. 16. and Monday. Oct. 23. as dates when the rural schools of Cleveland may reopen. Those schools which closed Sept. 4 will open Monday of next week and those whoch closed Sept 11 will open the following week. At that time practically all of the schools will have been closed for six weeks, following an annual custom, to aid In harvesting the cotton crop. A large enrollment Is expected over the county when the schools resume their work after getting the fall farm activity completed. Some Pumpkins! Not to be outdone by the citron grower, Dr. J. R. Buff of Casar has two pumpkin vines that are reach ing out for a record. The two vines have forty pumpkins, alt rather large with not a “runt" In the lot. Shelby High Will Play Forest City i — ; looking Forward To Anolhrr Win After Beating Lowell Team. Tile' Shelby high football team journeys to Forest Citv Thursday of this week to meet her ancient rival on the gridiron. Forest City has al I ways had a strong team and invar - iably gives any opponent a run for their money. Shelby under the coaching of Zeno Wall, Jr., former Wake Forest star lias been working hard, and last Thursday defeated the Lowell high school team 36 to 0 The same lineup used against Low ell will start for Shelby and the boys are confidently expecting tc add another victory to their record Brother And Sister Have Picking Race Miss Grace Price, age 18. won a cotton picking race with her broth er, Hubert Price, two years young er, in the Polkvllle section last week Grace picked 407 pounds in a day and Hubert managed to get ^86 but there is a difference in their ages you know They are the chil dren of Billy Price Three Million Dollars Fund Set Up To Lend 10c Pound On Cotton I Grower Mast Subscribe To 1930 Ac reage Cat For Benefits. Present Crop Is eligible. —— Washington, Oct 9. — President Roosevelt announced today that the first concrete move in his latest effort to raise commodity prices and increase farm purchasing pewer would be the immediate creation of a credit corporation to lend to farmers on crop security. The corporation, whose person nel is now being considered, will have an initial capitalization of $3,000,000, and its first duty will be to carry oat the administration's promise to lend cot ion farmerr ten cents a pound on their present crop if they agree to join the campaign designed to reduct acreage bv 40 per cent next year Q The corporation will bate author ity to lend on other commodities, but cotton is the only crop now be ing considered for benefits. The agency will be responsible to the President, and Secretary Wal lace probably will be a member. Interest On Loans. Announcing the plan at his press conference, Mr. Roosevelt said the M,000.000 capital would come out of the farm administration's sur plus crop control fund, and money for the loans would be borrowed from the Reconstruction Corpora tion. The loans, to bear interest, at four per cent, will be made at the nearest acceptable warehouse on all cotton above low middling grade of 7-8 inch stable. Only the crop now in lire hand •Continued on page runer. George P. Webb Heads The Drys; Cooke, Chairman Cleveland Dry* In Meeting llr>ulf|iiartcrs Will Be Opened Far Campaign To Retain The 18th Amendment. George P. Webb was officially chosen in convention Saturday a* the "dry" candidate for Cleveland county and Robert H. Cooke •» chairman of the United dry forces. Well over loo njen and women gath ered Saturday afternoon hrv the court house to attend the conven tion, J. D, Morris. member of the board of county commissioners, act ed as temporary chairman and call ed upon Clyde R. Hoey to state the object of the meeting. A committee of which O M. Mull Is chairman placed Mr. Webb and Mr. Cooke in nomination after which Mr. Webb made brier acknowledgement of the honor and appealed for the coopera tion of the dry forces In the county to vote to retain the 18th Consti tutional amendment In the Nov. 7tl. election. "They say that if liquor Is legalised. It can’t be any worse than It is now. I and you rememb er the time when liquor was legally j sold and a disturbance developed at I every public gathering,” said Mr i Webb. He predicted that Cleveland will rematn dry even though every county in North Carolina should swing to the wet oolumn. Mr. Cooke, the new chairman Will select his secretary and immediately Inaugurate a campaign for the dry cause throughout the county. He will be in constant touch with the precinct chairman selected at Sat urday’s meeting as follows: Holly Springs, J, A. MeCraw: Young’s, B. B. Harris, Bolling Spr ! ings, M. A. Jolly; Ball, A. A. Bettis; East Kings Mountain. W. A Riden hour; West Kings Mountain. A A. Jolly; Grover, J. L. Herndon; Waco, Mrs. John Waeaster. Shelby No t, Thad C. Ford; Bhe'.by No. 2, Oh»s A Burnis; Shelby No 3, C. S. Young SheTby No. i. Lee B. Weather South Shelby. Marvin Blanton. Queen’s, a. M Hamrick; Double Springs, D P. Washburn; Lattlmore Aubrey L. Cal ton; Mooresboro, J, U. Rollins; Delight, Marvin Eaker. Fa list on, Everett Spurling; Fallston. John F Srhenck; Double Shoals, C M. Spangler; Cosar, J. C. Downs; Patterson 8prtngs, M. R. Btggers Sharon, J. D. Elliott. Gardner Invited To Make Address For Repeal Meet l-ormrr Members Of Governor’* Blblr Clam Ask Him To Speak. i —-. ! Former Governor O. Max Gard ner was today invited to return to Shelby prior to November 7 and make an address in the repeal cam paign. An invitation signed by around n hundred members or the Bible Clasi once taught by Governor Gardnei at the First Baptist church was mailed to him today, saying that he might select his own date. The invitation r»ad as follow. "We, the former members of the Gardner Bible class of the First Baptist church of Shelby, hereby invite you to deliver a public ad dress in Sheiby on the repeal of the 18th amendment, at such-'a date as may be convenient to you.” The class taught by Mr, Gard ner before he became governor and later moved to Washington was one of the largest Bible classes in the State. Although the former governor ha: taken no active part in the repeal campaign so far he is understool to favor repeal in that it Is a part of the Roosevelt administration program. Former Shelby Man Called To Gastonia Rev. J. Frank Davis, pastor of a Lutheran church at Concord and formerly of Shelby, has accepted a call to the pastorate of Chapel Lutheran church in Gastonia to succeed the late Rev. C. O. Lip pard who was killed as was also his wife in a motor accident in Chicago recently. Mr. Davis will assume the pastorate on the fifth Sunday in October Chapel church's new pastor is a native of Gaston county, a son of Mr. Frank Davis, former ly of Gas tonia but now residing at Cherry ville. He was educated at Lenoir Rhyne College and the Seminary at Columbia. S. C., and did poet j graduate work at the University of j worth Carolina and at Yale Unl | verslty ",
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