« The L ll W r W n O - S M f r,IE MARKETS , .9 1-4 t« 10c -°!wn ^ ton‘ wa*°n. 1100 SS -ed. ton. carlo*. 13.00 Fair, Colder T7^> North Carolina Weather Lri Fair. *,'8htlv ro,der to* frht. probably liRht frost in cen r,! and west portions. Hand* Off 1* Hitler Order B> UNITED PRESS u-Hin Oct. 18— Germany is to ttend no conference, join no al adhere to no convention, sifm ithirix" not'1 STanted eqnality by fr nations. Adolph Hitler told f varis of Germany today. Still Hopeful Gf„eva. Oct. 18-Sir John Sim , report lays a new foundation r nPgotiations on world peace if [tinns agree to resume their par , October 26 with the hope of rrmany retumint? before the Riech rtiselte November 12. Kill* Husband, Ha* Prayer By l SITED PRESS Memphis. Tenn.. Oct. 18.—Mrs. ais, storie hacked her jobless lUand to death with an axe while r was sleeping early today, held imi|v prayer over his body, then illed officers and showed them the lf She said the family was starv 138 More Checks Come In, Brings Total Of $11,000 1,652 Check* For Cotton Here MM.MS of 5177,000 Total Already Rfr». Somf Not Called For. A batch of 138 more government check? came in yesterday for Cleveland county farmers who ployed up a portion of their cot ton tn the government reduction program. The checks totalled $11, *06.71. This makes a total of 1.652 checks, amounting to $153,233.17, received so far by farmers of the county. Only about 400 more checks »re yet to be received, or about 134,000 in money as the county was to receive approximately $177,000 in cash for cotton plowed up, plus profit on 8,000 bales of cotton op tioned from the government at six cents per pound. lTncalled For That there are some farmers Apparently not In dire need of money IS Shown hv thp font- that a number of checks received weeks s?o have not as yet been called for dthough the recipients have been notified two times. Three checks ''hich have been in since Septem 27 anti 14 which have been in since October 4 have not as yet twn called for. Those to whom toey are supposed to go are asked lr> comp by the office of R. vv. *offner, farm agent, as soon as possible. One Pastor Likely To Be Moved Here Jenkins Is Serving La bette Church Fourth Year. Conference Soon. Only one Methodist pastor in th£ nurches of Shelby and Clevelanc unt> will likely be transferred w to the unwritten four-year rule ' the Western North Carolina con nee when the conference meet! Charlotte on November 15. of i *1 ,,a‘'’lor is Rev. W. R. Jenkins, LaFayette Street church, Shelby 0 » now serving his fourth year fn'i~S°rI,C timp the conference ha; eh* Policy of making £ , ?e after a four-year pastorate Mr,ePPrXima,'ely »-2°0 leaders ir M from the western pari Wrr wi|l attend the confer Dteepn-" h ,i!1 ^ the eighth suet rvD?Sided over by Bishop m t D Mou*°n of Charlotte. II ltc« t rndPrt by 600 Official vis h'lterc' Clty antl 600 unofficial 4 h T L■ SherriU <* Charlotte W f en sccrptary oi the con be ^ pi f? 39 year5, m expected tc Rce * t0 hu 40th term of of Pectfd ? TCh lnterest « also ex of rtpU„ ** sh°wn In the electior ^nern*14 *' 10 the Quadrennia EEL T™6 to held ir Ten iav’ ^““Mssippi, next year * egates and 10 minister* % wiU be elected fro.r epnf,!r" bresrding elders of tht lo new '- ^ !tr* sched«l«> to mov( Wf /“'i, es 'bis year and a num t- - lumMers who have served a: years in one pastorate IW.n, ‘n ,r> ^ sent to new VOL. XXXIX, No. 125 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 18, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mull, per year, (ln .dvilnc*) Orrlfr. p»r yr»r, (in «dv»nc«i »a so Government Will Be Ready This Week To Lend 10 Cents On Cotton i ; Goes To Farmer On Unsold Cotton Cotton Growers Must Agree To Curtail 1934 Acreage Before Getting Loan. More cheering news came to Cleveland county cotton farm ers this week when it was learned that the government has completed the organization / for Its Commodity Credit cor poration and will he ready within a week to lend 10 cents per pound on cotton to farm ers who desire to hold their cotton for a better price. This news came just as farmers of Cleveland, the State’s largest cotton county were receiving their j final checks in the $177,000 being, paid them by the government for j plowing up over 14.000 acres. In Current Meek. The organization completed yes terday, at the direction of Presi-1 dent Roosevelt, are, according to* Washington dispatches “preparing to make available loans of 10 cents per pound to cotton producers on the unsold portion of their crops.” The corporation, chartered in uuanaic, wtu> ui gauia u Uy U1 r secretary Of agriculture and the governor of the farm credit ad ministration, and is empowered to make loans of purchase agricul tural or other commodities that | may be designated by the Presi dent. At the first meeting yesterday Lynn P. Talley, assistant to the di rectors of the R. F. C.. was elected president; Oscar Johnston, director of finance of the A. A. A. vice president and J. E. Wells, jr„ as sistant Co-operative bank commis sioner of the farm credit adminis tration, secretary-treasurer. Directors include the president I and vice president of the corpora tion, Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture; George N. Peek, ad ministrator of the agricultural ad justment act; Henry A. Morgen thau. jf., governor of the /g,ym r.red it administration; "Vanley P. Reed, general counsel of the R. F. C.; Herman Oliphant. general counsel of the farm credit administration and E. B. Schwulst. special assist ant of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. To Use Federal Funds The entire capital stock of three million dolars was subscribed by the secretary of agriculture and the governor of the farm credit admin istratibn with funds allocated by the president from the Bankhead I amendment to the national recovery act. An initial loan of 250 million dol lars has been procured from the R. F. C. for the purpose of making (Continued on Page 10 > Mr*. Rush Stroup Is State U.D.C. Official Mrs. Rush Stroup of Shelby was elected second vice president ot the United Daughters of the Con federacy at the state meeting held last week in High Point, Another honor came to Shelby when Mrs Graham Dellinger, president o! the local chapter ol Children oi Confederacy, brought back with her from the High Point meeting a loving cup won by the local chapter, ^frs. Zeb Mauney attend- ' ed the state meeting with Mrs Stroup and Mrs. Dellinger. ‘Bedsheet’ Dollars Coining Out Again The "bedsheet” dollar bills and five-dollar bills of other days are getting in circulation i again about Shelby. ] During the last week-end, in l the big shopping days Friday and Saturday, local merchants ] say that they saw more of the < old large-siw dollar and five- 1 dollar bills than in months. < Always Enough Money To GetThings WeDon’tHaveToHave, Says McGee Humorist Writes On Politics—"Talk" —Cotton, Red Tape And Many Things. (Read McGee Daily In The Star.) By GEE McGEE 'talk, talk, talk.taik. Talk, talk, talk, talk. Talk, talk, talk.taik. Talk. talk, talk, talk. Ii is not true that Washing toil intends to make her redtape out of cotton. We aim got enough cotton tor that As hard as tunes have tarn dur ing the past 4 years, hot one les; cigarette below normal has beer smoked, not a single chew of tobac co has been gone without, nor hat anybody sopped out a snuff car twice. There’s always money enougt in sight to buy what we don’t have to have. I sorrow with the president of tht Pennsylvania railroad who has re cently had his salary operated upon i Henceforth the poor fellow wit | have to try to get along on only S60.000.00 per year. I had my salary cut Inst wpc)c to *<>00 oo a year anti iContmuid on page lcu.» Gas Drops Near One Cent Here Good news for motorist?' ri.id automobile owners. The gasoline priee in this territory dropped almost one cent per gallon this week. The exact decline In price was nine-tenths of a cent per gal lon. The former selling price was 23.4 cents per gallon and the present one is 22,5 cents. Local gasoline dealers say that the sale of gasoline has increased considerably In the last fortnight, particularly last week. City Now Saving Around $4,000 On Electric City Tax Federal Tax Of Three Percen Taken Off. Was Discount Here. The city of Shelby s income i around $4,000 per year better ol than it was. A little over a ytar ago the Fed eral government piaced a three pe cent tax upon all power consumer the tax to go on the consumer. Las month a ruling by one of the Fed era! departments was that the ta was not applicable to publicly own ed or operated power plants. Will the Shelby plant, municipally own ed, coming under that classifieatioi the tax was discontinued last montl It amounted to around $350 pe month all told, or $4,000 or $4,20 per year. Although the tax w as intended to the consumer the city has been tb sorBliig*iT'ffy a discount method fo patrons of the city plant who pai< their bills promptly. The city ha been allowing a three percent die count for prompt payment of wate and light bills and thus patron paying promptly never felt the tax During that time, however, it mean a decrease of around $4,000 in thi city revenue and now that the ta: las been discountinued the city f hat much better off, 3ne Of Walker* Is Given Bond Toda> One of the two Walkers beini held in jail here for Superio court in connection with a falsi pretense charge 'n the King Chandler death case secured bom nf $500 today. He was Hcrmai Walker, charged with aiding an< abetting Arthur Walker. They were charged at the pre liminary hearing with ottemp'ini io secure $50 from T N. King up on the claim that they could ic cure the release <-f King’s son Hoke King, from jail. King is be ing held to court in connectioi with the death of James Chandler young textile worker, fatally stab oed several weeks ago. Surgeon Fellowshin Conferred SchencV Dr. Sam Schenck of the She lb; lospital staff has just returnee rom a two weeks stay in Chicago where he attended a convention o. lurg’eons. Dr. Schenck was honore< >y having been admitted to th< American College of Surgeons wit! he degree of “Fellowship of Sur :eons.-’ This is an honor of whici he Shelby hospital and the man: riends of Dr. Schenck are veri jroud. It means that he has me ertain requirements as laid dowr >y the society and attained profi iency in the field of surgery. Two Stolen Cars Located In City; One Man Is Held (iillrspir C ar Found At Rcsacmei City. White Man la Sought. In county court this morning C'lav, or Kendrick, Barney, col ored, and Henry Tate, white, of Rutherford county, were placed under bonds of S500 each In connection with the larceny Monday night of the Fred Btan ' ton auto in South Shelby. Tate was arrested late yesterday upon information given by the colored man, arrested earlier In the day. | Two Stolen cars were recovered j by officers here this week. One was stolen on September 26, the first day of the Cleveland fair, and the other was stolen some time Mon t day night, and located before noon yesterday. ■Monday night Fred Blanton, em ployed at the Shelby mill, left his * ear, a Chevrolet, parked there. Ycs f terday morning it was gone. While he was reporting It to Police Chlcl D. D, Wilkins a rail came from Deputy Jim Robinson, of Caroleen r Rutherford county, stating that he had the car and that the negro L who was driving it was in jail at . Rutherfordton. Deputy Yates Ken drick and Spurgeon Whtsnant * brought the car back here yester - day afternoon. Blames White Man The colored man, who gave his j “ante as Clay Barney, contends he 1 did not steal the car but that he was given a ride by a white man c before it wrecked. Caroleen re > ports have It that a white man was seen in the car, and now' offtc r ers are on the lookout for him, us inc a deserintinn u]inn Kv.WaxnAt r The other car recovered was thr i property of S. L. Gillespie of Shel by. It was stolen from near thr fairgrounds on Tuesday. Sept. 26 It was found Monday in the woods about four miles from Bessemer City and brought back here by Mr Gillespie and Policeman Marshall Mcor?. The ear had been stripped of bumpers, gas and radiator caps. Shelby Girl Cheer Leader At College Miss Elizabeth LeGrand. known n her many friends as “Peg” was ! recently elected cheer leader at • Meredith College. Raleigh, where > she is studying this year. Miss Le~ . Grand was cheer leader vvnen she i was in the Shelby high school and i by her pep and enthusiasm, made I the fellow students do their best rooting for the home team. Mis.; • LeGrand is active in many phases ; of school life at Meredith. She • is an active member in the Little Theatre, the International Rela tions Club, Student League of Women Voters and is Art Editor i of the 1933-34 Annual. Crawley Now With Shaw Firm In City W W. Crawley, son of S C. Craw ; ley, Lattlmore, is now with the Shaw Clothing company, of Shel by. w. D. Lackey, young Shelby I man, was added to the Shaw cleri cal staff some time ago. Ask Yourself About Our State Answers On Page Two 1. When was the supreme court established in the state? 2. The two figures on the Great Seal of the state are emblematic of what? 3. When does North Carolina vote on the repeal of the 18th amend ment? 4. Which county in North Caro lina has the most population? 5. What were the counties in the state called previous to 1738? 6. How many hotels in North Carolina having 25 or more rooms? 7. When and where was the first newspaper established in the state? 8. How many physicians in the state? 9. What is the state flower? 10. Who is commissioner of rev enue for North Carolina? 11. Which county in North Caro lina is named for a celebrated Eng j lish statesman and orator? ! '".1.2'. The first systematic forest work jn the United States was start ed In N*’t t h Ciuolina When1! when land by whom? I Hoey Will Open Dry Battle With Charlotte Speech To Make 10 Speeches Over State Judge Webb Sneaks In Shelby Nov ember 4. Hoey May Speak In City. Clyde R. Hoey, counted upon by the drys of North Carolina as their big gun in the November repeal campaign, will open his speaking lour with an address in Charlotte Friday night of this week. The hour is 7:30 and the Mecklenburg dry forces hope to bring out a large throng to hear him. After speaking in Charlotte Fri day night Mr. Hoey will go on to Raleigh for an address there at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Others laiter Altogether the Shelby man Is scheduled to make 10 speeches dur ing the campaign. Other dates have not been definitely decided as yet. He will speak, however, when dates are arranged, at Asheville. Greens boro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Wil mington and Kinston. "I may speak in Shelby before the end of the campaign,” he said today, "but that has not been de termined. Webb Here So far only one campaign address is definitely booked for Shelby. That will be made by Federal Judge E. Y. Webb in the court house at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, November 4. or just three days be fore the repeal election. Judge Webb co-author oi the Wcbb-Kenyon act, early national prohibition law. is making a strong fight against repeal and will on that date attempt to keep his home county, considered a part of the re peal battleground center, in the dry column. None Booked So far the repealists have not scheduled any speeches definitely. It is understood that leaders of the repeal forces hope to bring Senator Bob Reynolds here.. but have not been able as yet. since he Just re turned from Europe, to get togeth er on a definite date. Efforts are also being made, it is said, to bring Judge Wilson Warltck. Walter Murphy and others here before the campaign ends. Barn And Mules Burned At Night Fire Thought To Have Been Set. Property Owned By I.ower.v Brothers. Fire, thought to have been set, burned the barn and four mules at the Hogue place, three miles south of Shelby, just below the Lily mill shortly after ijiidnight this morn ing. Claude Philbeck lives on the farm owned by Lowery Brothers of Pat terson Springs and when he reach ed the barn, the flames had made too much headway to enable him to get the mules out. Some one had moved the wagon from the yard where he left it the evening before and put it in the barn hallway, W'hich leads to the thought, that the barn was set afire. The mules be longed to Mr. Philbeck. while Low ery Brothers owners of the farm, owned the barn. The barn was part ly covered by insurance. In addi tion to the building and mules. Mr. Philbeck lost his feed, cotton seed and tools. LaFayette School P. T. A. Is To Meet A meeting of the LaFayette Par ent-Teacher association will be held at the school Thursday afternoon at 3:16. There will be an interesting program, including songs by the children, and all parents and pa trons are urged to be present. Crawford To Address Cleveland Doctors - i Dr. R. H. Crawford, of Ruthei - fordton, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Cleveland County Medical Society to be held at the Hotel Charles in Shelby on Monday night at 7:30. BETH-WARE SCHOOL TO OPEN MONDAY, OCT. 23 Beth-Ware school of which Mrs. Neal is principal, will open Mon day, Oct. 23rd at 8:40 arter being closed for cotton harvest. Mrs. Neal expresses the wish that ali pupils will be present so that class work can begin without rlrla\ •SrOKT NEWS ON PAOi; 9. Holding Four In Slaying Of I Aged Rutherford County Man I Parted by Hawaiian Tragedy Tragedy of the famous Hawaiian “honor-slaying” case in 1931, which put them in tne international spot light, is believed responsible for wrecking the marriage of Lieut. Thomas Massio and hi* wife. I halia. Mrs. Massie is reportod planning to seek a Reno divorce. I [ “Buy Now” Drive Brings Sharp Rise In Business Of Nation New York, Oct. 18.—Dun A Bradstreet said this week that (he most Impressive pickup ol I fhefall season occured {fi» week i in general trade movement*.” “The first full week of sea sonable weather,” stated th< agency's review, "brought re ports from all parts of the country of sharp Increases in retail distribution, particularly pronounred In rural communi ties, with tire strong drive of the ‘Buy-Now1 campaign prov ing a powerful stimulus to the .spread of the demand for mer chandise. "The reports were accompani ed by advices of labor difficul ties being straightened out rom Huffstetler Also Has Fracture Of Skull; Is Serious Cloth Mill Employe Partly Delirious. Injured Colored Woman Improves. Dan Huffstetler, 23-year-old em ploye of the Cleveland Clotli mill, has a fractured skull as well as a fractured leg as the result of an auto-motorcycle collisiorr Saturday night, it was learned at the Shelby hospital today Huffst,offer's motorcycle collided with a car at Kings Mountain. When first brought to the hospital it was found that he had a frac tured leg and bruises, and x-ray ex amination later revealed the skull fracture. He was said to be partly delirious today and his condition Is rather serious, it Is understood. Mary Strong, colored woman, who suffered a broken right teg Satur day afternoon when struck by an automobile between Shelby and the fairgrounds, was reported as im proving today at the hospital Cam Morrison, Max Gardner Lined Up Against Each Other Once More Veteran Campaigner Announce* He Will Fight For Prohibition Now. O, Max Gardner’s announcement in favor of repeal, published Mon day, may not have had anything to do with it. but yesterday Cameron Morrison came out against repeat and thus two rivals Of a decade are once again lined up against each other. Morrison's announcement that he would refuse the national comma teemanship rather than favor re peal was carried as follows bv Thr Charlotte News ycslcrday. , The Morrisonlan sword flashed today against "friend or foe" as the former senator prepared to do bat tle with his ancient enemy, the Demon Rum—-and declined preof fered support for the national com mltteemanship that he might more elfectually wage war on these wets who seek to control North Carolina Democracy Senator Momapn's first declar.i tion concerning the national com mittee vacancy, also his first utter ance which might be construed as having a bearing on the present wet-and dry fight, estne today tn a Continued on Page Ten) pletely in mm industries, and partially in other*, removing one of the most serious hand! "“etffcu lb progress during the last few weeks. binanrlal conditions have be come noticeably easier, with work already under way to re movr the last lingering tracer of the almost complete cessa tion of banking facilities last March. "The ejitent of the business uptrend since .lune, accompan ied by the steady rise of em ployment and increase in pay rolls, has developed a new pub lic psychology, which is now one of spending rather than hoard Ing." Registration On One Day In Vote For State Repeal There will be only one day 'or registration in the November re peal election, John P Mull, chair man of the Cleveland county elec - tion board, reminded today. This date is Saturday, Oct. 28. Citizens already registered and who have not moved from their former precincts will not. however: be required to register again in order to vote. They are already eligible, Only new coiners to the county or voters coming of age and those who have changed precincts will be required to register on October 28 in order to vote on November 7 Due to the fact there will be only one registration day. Chair man Mull requests all registrars to come In and get their poll books prior to that date so as to be pre pared for the day’s work in that it is believed registration will be heavy. Missing Gun Found; Inquest Today Grandson And Three TrimnU Ol Watson Owens Held por Questioning Today. Four persona being held In connection with brutal murder and robbery last Saturday of .1. Watson Owens, 8,1-year-old cit tern of the Harris seetlon of Rutherford county, may talk enough at an Inquest being held at Rutherford ton this aftemoor to five officers better clues upor which to solve the, mystery ol the ase and shotgun slaylnf. Those belnf held for question Inf are Robert Searcy, middle are tenant farmer on the Owens farm; his two stepsons, William and Wilbur Couch, afed about ‘ and 15; and a grandson of the slain man. Wofford Owens, aged about 20. Talk Little Sheriff a C. Moore told The Star ut noon today that Searcy, the Couch brother* and Owena have talked very little so far, but “w» may be able to get more out of them this afternoon.” Sheriff Moore said that he had heard there had been trouble of some sort between the slain man and Searcy. Gun And Tracks I'm -stngle-barfol shotgun missing from the Owen* home, and with which it Is thought the aged man was shot before being battered to death with the bloody axe already found, has been located. Sheriff Moore said. It was found on the bank of a creek near the field where officers have believed Owens was shot about the head and shoulders before he struggled to his house and bathed his wounds, as sailant or assailants finding him there and finishing the gruesome Job with the axe Another find by Sheriff Moore and his officers may prove the fine needed to get the person or person* who killed the Harris man and ap parently robbed him This wm tracks about the field where K H thought the shooting occurred and to the creek where the gun was apparently tossed away, perhaps with the Idea or throwing It In the creek, Conflicting Evidence secured from the four being held for questioning today lias been a bit conflicting so far. Sheriff Moore said. For that reason it is believed something of a worth while nature may develop at the In quest this afternoon before Coroner Carl Huntley. Funeral Held Owens was burled yesterday aft ernoon at. Trinity church near Ches nee, S. C. He Is survived by one daughter. Mrs W. O. Waters, of Gaffney, and several grandchildren HLs body was found In his home Sunday by a young granddaughter It was lying near two chairs and a wash stand where he had apparently been hammered to death with the axe after washing the wounds made by the shot and lying down on the chairs Legion To Start Drive For Large Membership Here R. I). Crowder Installed As Com mander. Other New Officers Go In. At an enthusiastic meeting last night the Warren Hoyle post of the American Legion launched a mem bership drive with the goal set at 350 members for 1934. Basil Goodr was elected major in charge of the drive with Tom Abernetby captain of the blue team and A, R. Snyder captain of the reds. A determined effort will be mad' by the teams to increase the pres • ent membership of 105 to the goal set, and more if possible The los tng team will entertain the win ners at the close of the campaign The following officers were in stalled for the year 1934: Comman der. Robert D. Crowder; vice com mander, C. Tom Stainey; vice com mander. Dr. X. B. Gold; vice com mander, c. B. Hamrick; adjutant. Thos, H. Abernethy; finance officer. A R. Snyder; service officer. W. S. Beam: guardianship officer, Oh as H Swofford: sergeant at arms, R Lee Lowrnan; chaplain. Capt. B. L Smith; historian. J. H. Grigg; ath letic officer, H C. Long; child wel fare officer. Chas. H Swofford; Americanism officer, Capt. B. L. Smith: graves registrar Tom Aber nethy: employment officer Dr t. S. Dorton; publicity oHioer. .1 H Grigg

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