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10 Pages *L Today VOL. X.AXIX, Nr, I 'O SHELBY N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. F ■W By Mull, pr* year, (tn advane*) _ $3.50 Carrier, i»r yew. On Advance) «. $3 0< Late News THE markets . 9'» to 10^ rn-r “*"• .:i#t "„nn seed, ton, c»rlot»-13 0< Warmer Weather Carolina weather forecas ,rs "o' 5„ cold with increasini [0„dine*s and wanner. followed b jn fX|rrmc west portion in aft -noon or at night. May Prosecute Henry Ford t site nr HESS Washington, Oct. 27.—Gen. Hugl lohrMio -id ‘"day he would rec ' nri the prosecution of the Fori Motor company if it failed to submi _ „ doe »oon in the provision thr automobile code as provide! bT thc rode for the national auto p„Hlp manufacturers for reports o ,^rations ending Oct. 15. F. D. R. Saves Negro s Life B, IMTED PRESS Washington. Oct. 27.—Prcsiden Roosevelt's executive power reachci sot from the White House today ti iHe desolate condemned men's rov l„ thr District jail and saved fron the electric chair Chares Washing Ion. a trembling and frightened ne ,r(, sentenced to die for the alleg ri shooting of a taxi driver. Confesses He Killed 19 Bv IMTED PRESS MilledgevHle. Oct. 27.—Grad; Brooks. 19, a negro, confessed t< inthorities today, just before hi died in the state prison electri chair, that he had killed 19 person in his short life. 645 Auto License Plates Sold Here In Twenty Days Of This Number 321 Were Ncv Motor Vehicles, Says Carlos Hopper Of Bureau. They're buying 'em new and ol< sirs are coming back into service In the first twenty days of Oc. ober, 645 automobile license plate eere issued at the local branch o :he Carolina Motor club which is it tharge of Carlos Hopper. Mr. Hopper says he has neve: sxperienced such a rush to buy aut< icense plates except at the begin img of the year when new plate: ire issued. While this bureau doe: lot restrict the sale of tags to ca: wners in Cleveland county, hi lays practically all of them are fo: ae in Cleveland and Rutherforc sounties, with the great majority iowever, for Cleveland car owners license tags can now be bought fo: i quarter of the year, so this Is somi nducement. Out of the 645 new license tag: eld in the twenty day period, 32: 'ere for new cars and trucks. Au omobile dealers have enjoyed i [ratifying sale of new cars, the liki if which has not been experiencec ince b, D. 'before depression). Of course, in the lot of tags sold lulte a few are for vehicles tha iave been "garaged” or "ditched' iccause the owners did not havi be price of repairs and gasoline Wth money more plentiful, thesi ibandoned care are coming bad Bto use Mrs. Lee Lovelace Of Rehobeth Die; Rnihand And Three Children Sor rive. Buried Wednesday At Wall’s Church. Mrs Lee Lovelace died at he ionic In the Rehobeth community ™sday night at 11:55 o’clock fol o«ing an illness of several weeks. h Before marriage she was Omal rf®nw. na'ive of this county it !aC l ls widely known. Shi ' a host of friends to whom thi *s of ,ier death is of great sor , Survivin8 are her husband ant nrec children Marie, Ruby ant / ,v' '!‘rvn'tng are her mother ant "’P father. services were held a ' ' / ehurch near Ellenboro, Wed af-ernoon at 3 o’clock Jonas And Grigg To ^Pcak Against Repea Cl'a's. A. Jonas, forme ■ " congress from this i " ■ H Grigg, county supe: of schools are booket mmg engagements in Cle gainst the repeal ® amendment. krdr, ,0n ‘s wil1 sPeak at Ca 0 e'ening Noveml ; 30,c! school auditor! v?LGngS wUl speak in th 1 > * Raptist church o: 8th n 0.cl. Webb, Reynolds And Hoey To Speak Here j In Repeal Campaign \ Campaign Is In Its | Closing Days Three of State's Ablest Orators to; Diseuss Repeat in Shelby. November 1,4 and 6. j Three ol the state's ablest ora* I tors will be her id cn the repeal * j question in Shelby during the clos j ■ ing days oi the campaign, two speaking against repeal and one ; speaking for repeal. , Webb on Wednesday. i Judge E. Y. Webb, an ardenl and j i : ble champion of the cause of pro- j ; h bitlon and nationally known Ire. | 1 cause he was co-ant hoi of the i ■ Webb Kenyon bill which prohibit ed the shipment ol liquor from a I wet territory into a dry section, will i speak in the court house in Shelby i Wednesday afternoon November 1. at 2:30 o’clock. Reynolds November 4. Then on Saturday, sandwiched in between two dry advocates, conies > | Senator Robert R. Reynolds, chain ■ j pion of the repeal side who comes ■' on November 4 and speaks in the court house at 2:30 o'clock. Senator j Reynolds is the outstanding repeal j ist In North Carolina and his speech here will probably be the only one on his side of the issa" • At least no other speaker has been i announced. | Senator Reynolds, just back from a trip to Russia, has thrown him self into the battle for repeal which he championed in the primacy when he opposed and won out for i U. S. Senate over Cameron Morri son. Just as soon as he returned to America from abroad he came to North Carolina and accepted 21 I speaking invitations. In his hur ried tour of the state he will tra 'Continued on page ten.) 1 * nree .More Groups Shorten Sat. Hours Shelby merchants met in , The Star building yesterday morning to discuss features of the retailer code which has been finally adopted by the Washington authorities, A slight change was made in the hours of opening and closing for dry goods, ready-to-wear and fur niture stores. On the first five days of the week they open at 9 a. m. and close at 5 while on Saturdays they open at 8:30 and close at 8:30. Grocers and druggists have a longer schedule and make no change from hours heretofore fol lowed . Finance Company Pay* A Dividend The thirteenth quarterly divi dend of two per cent of the capital stock of the M. and J. Finance cor poration was recently paid to stockholders, together with inter est on deposits, the total cash dis tribution amounting to $2,500. it was announced today by Fred W. Blan ton. secretary-treasurer U*p Te»v Gas On Wor’ prs In ? C Fly UNITED PRESS Aiken S. C„ Oct. 27.—Tear gas and water were used by highway pohcemen at Bath, S. C„ today to disperse a crowd of 600 alleged strike sympathizer . purportedlv protesting the op eration of mills in Horse Creek Valley under 'he protection < r state police More Care TV Be Given Assigning Of School Teachers For Next Yeai Many Inadequate School Buildin* Yet Used. Local Authorities To Provide Suitable Houses. By M. H. DUNNAGAN I Raleigh, Oct. 37.—More care wil be exercised in the assignment c i teachers to public schools next yea : than has been the case so far, it wa predicted today by LeRoy Marttr ' secretary of the state school com I mission. Heretofore the commission ua not gone very far into the condi i tions of the public school building! : the seating and heating status, o : the crowded condition of the chil idren. Dut these matters will be con ! sidered more carefully in the fu jture. Mr. Martin thinks. Generally speaking, the countic and city administrative units hRvi j good school houses, some of then i even fine buildings, it Is pointe( out. However, in some of the coun ties, especially where consolidatioi has not progressed so far, there an 1 hundreds of small' one-and two 1 teacher buildings which have beei r In use for many years and haw s | reached an age and stage in delap j idation which makes them unfit fo ', use. It is stated, i Very few small school building '' have been erected in several year? ' j due ‘o the program of consolidation land those still in use are almost al 1 ! old and ready to be abandoned Many of these are not 'sanitary am are not economical as to the heat >ng conditions, it is stated. ■-j (Continued on Page lo> County Cotton Tops ’32 Crop By 2,000 Bales This year’s Cleveland coun ty rototn crop is still around | r.OOO bales ahead of last year’s j *rop. according to the last I ginning report. A report issued today b> Thamer Beam, cotton agent shows that 32,716 bales of cot ton had been ginned to Oct. 18, this year, as compared I with 30,116 bales to the same I date last year. This show the present crop to be 2,600 bales in front ot the 1932 crop, but more of the current crop had been ginned to Oct. 18, this year, than had been ginned to the same date last year and the total this year is not expected to reach that of last year. oAIm KUddEK 15 GIVEN A PAROLE; LIVED IN SHELBY Was Drunk At Time Of Robbery Solicitor Simnorted His Plea For A Parole. R D. Smith, convicted ot ban] robbery in Gaston county in Octo ber 1932 and sentenced from fiv to seven years in the state's prison was this week granted a parole b; Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus 01 recommendation of the parole com missioner. Edwin M. Gill. Smith, lived at one time In Shel by where he worked at the plumb ing trade. He was one of three mei who staged a daring daylight rob bery of the Bank of Dallas, In whicl Andrew Mauney the cashier wa blackjacked and locked in the vault Smith, originally from Kings Moun tain, was located several weeks aft er the robbery in Florida and wa brought back to Gaston county fo: trial. Together with the other twi robbers, Evan Carpenter and Wil Lingerfelt, Smith pleaded guilty ti the robbery charges. All were sen fenced to serve five to seven year: in the state prison, foil wing thei submission. The governor said in connectioi with granting a parole that he ha< received a letter from John G. Rut ledge, jr., cashier of the bank whicl was robbed, recommending clemenc; and stating that Smith was drunl at the time. Smith had enjoyed i good charter prior to the robbery Rutledge stated in his letter. Clem ency was also recommended by So licitor John Carpenter and the tria judge, Wilson Warlick. Rp’/iyal Continues At Second. Raptis The revival continues at the Sec ond Baptist church where Rev. C V. Martin, the pastor, is doing th preaching. Sunday is Tithe day am the pastor is asking all who will t tithe their week’s income. He ha set as the goal for the church $30C More than 100 members of th church have already pledged them selves to tithe. Tonight Mr. Mar tin’s subject is “The Prodigal Son. Services each evening at 7:3 o'clock. For Sunday the program i Sunday school at 10 a. m., preach '.ng b> the pastor at 11. B. Y. P. C at 6 o'clock. The Sunday evenim sub.jee* will be “Great Salvation " Divorced Her Prince i-—i i i Mae Murray, blonde screen siren, | who won her freedom from Prince David Mdivani (inset), of the Geor gian brothers, in divorce suit at Los Angeles. The actress waived ali mony and property claims rather than “engage in a bitter legal duel.” Cotton Loan No Cost If Cotton j Sells Under 10c Farmer Not Liable For Interest Or Storage If Cotton Sells Below 10 Cents. ! I Erroneous reports concerning government cotton loans of 10 ’ cents per pound to farmers who i still hold part of their 1933 crop have been circulated in Cleveland county, according to R. W. Shoff ner, farm agent. Mr. Bhoffner said queries eoni i ing to him indicate that farmers ■ who store their cotton and secure 1 loans are liable for considerable cast in the transaction. One report, . he said, is that farmers, will be lia . ble for interest on their loans and ; also warehouse storage and costs • of the cotton sells below 10 cents i This is wrong, the agent points I out. If the cotton sells under 10 i cents per pound the farmer will . not be liable for anything, i The only cost to the farmer at. ■ the time the loan is made and ih° cotton stored is 15 cents for filing , out the proper blanks. There will | be no other cost until the cotton ts . sold and then interest and storage i charges may be paid, but not if ■ the cotton does not sell for more ; than 10 cents. i Cleveland farmers are showing considerable interest in tire Roose . velt loan plan and in the first day . and a half in Shelby around 200 I bales were stored In the Shelby warehouse for loans. Just how I much was stored at Kings Moun i tain is not learned. One major requirement is that [ | farmers securing a loan of 10 cents per pound must pledge them selves to curtail cotton Bcreage in the next crop. , The cotton may be stored and j loans secured at any licensed vare j house. i MORE COUNTY BOYS ! TO GO TO FORESTS 5 Cleveland County Is Allotted 34. 51 Only Boys From Families On Relief To Go : Cleveland county has been allot ' ted 34 men to go bo the civilian ! conservation camps, to replace those youngsters who have been in camps during the summer. J. D. Lineberger, in charge of county welfare and relief. says these men will be recruited from families now on relief and that none , others need apply. They will re , ceive for their services $30 per I month, $25 of which will be sent home for family needs and $5 re , tained by the bov in the forestry , service. The state's quota Is 2,797 and it , is not likely that the entire number , will be enlisted until late in Novem ber. The state's full quota says . Ronald B. Wilson, assistant director | of relief for this state, is 6,000. The 34 to be selected in Cleveland will replace those now in camps in Western North Carolina Our quota I Is arrived at on a basis ot popula tion and the family case load for ] the month of September While Cleveland has a population of over 150,000. thf number of relief cases ■has been relatively small in mm I pari&on with other counties. i l I t ( 1 « •< 1 1 i r 1 f 1 1 1 1 1 t \ 1 1 i l t i ( I 1 i i I ( ! ( i ( 1 t l 1 i t t f I t 1 c s u Red Cross Sends MuchToCountyTo Help Relief Cases 3.192 Bags Of Flour Given «fnty Two Thousand Yard* Of i ('loth and S00 Down Garment* Sent To County. Cleveland county has been con rlbuting In a small way for a num et ot years to the American Red Jross society. but was fortunate In ever having a disaster that made : necessary for the Red Cross fco din blister relief In this Immediate ectlon until last year. Official records show that during he past year the American Red truss sent the following contrlbu ious, made from government wheat nd cotton, which were distributed mong the needy of the county 13.192 bags of flour 22,321 yards of cloth 500 dozen garments 82 dozen sweaters 270 blankets or comforts 135 yards sheeting This information Is being put out n a folder by the local Red Cross Chairman J. D. Mneberger and his usslstant Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey who re setting up the machinery for he annUv Red Cross roll call here j m Armistice day. Mr. Lineberger says that in view if the help which the Red Cross las rendered in this community, he eels Uiat everybody, from the hum ilest child to the most exalted man s familiar with the purpose of the led Cross and how it goes about iver the nation to relieve suffer ng when disaster and distress ome. A systematic campaign of coun y-wide proportions will be made j iround Armistice day and if the re- j ults are what the chairman ex acts, a whole time Red Cross icalth nurse will be provided for he county. Half of the funds noc ssary to maintain this nurse will ie supplied by an outside fund. Pointing out what the Red Cross Ltd in the entire state of North Carolina last year, Mr. Linebergevi urnishes these interesting figures: Sacks flour furnished (24‘i lb i ,694,954; yards cotton cloth fur ilshed. 2,735,650; ready-made gar ments furnished, 1,543,008: families j or which flour and cotton provid d. 180,115; expended by chapters or Red Cross services, *65,253. Home service cases handled: Service and ex-service men, fam- i Lies, 8,346; civilian families, 20,300; ublic health nursing: home visits, 0,951; school children Inspected,. ,570: members life saving corps! nrolled 1914 to date 10,079; lndi lduals completing first aid course, ,107; individuals completing home lygiene course, 449; members Ju lior Red Cross. 57,532. Present Red Cross adult member hip, 41,204; percentage adult mem iers to population, 1.3 percent; state oal this year, members, 73,000. Seaboard Reduces Its Fare To 2 Cents Mile St, Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 36,—Re- 1 luced passenger fares, on an ex- 1 >eriment,al basis, were announced 1 ►y Seaboard Air Line railway offl ials today, to become effective as tear December 1 as revised tariffs 1 clll permit. The experimental per od will end May 31. 1934. A flat two cents a mile rate re action will prevail over the entire leaboard system, including subsl- 1 liary lines, i Ask Yourself About Our State Answers On Page Two 1. What do Governor Ehringhaus’ , nitials, J. C. B„ stand for ? 2. What North Carolina river Is ailed the Pee Dee after H flows nto South Carolina? 3. How many Illiterate people in forth Carolina? 4. How many public school teach es in North Carolina this year? 5. Who preceded Cameron Mor ison as governor of this state? 6 Which city In North Carolina ;ads in the value of factory prod' cts? 7. When did North Carolina re nter the Union after its secession? 8. What are the three capes on he North Carolina coast which ; re noted for their dangerousness? 9. How many negro slaves in forth Carolina were declared free ! y President Llncolntons Emanci- 1 ation proclamation? 10. When was the state division I f the Daughters of the Confeder- < cy organized in North Carolina? I 11 What percentage of the feld- ( par production of the United I itates comes from this state? 12. How much of North Carolina's 1 mtllioti acres is classed as fnr st lands? Asks Railmen to Aid Farmers '-x-. ;re j Milo Reno (ripht). president of the National Farmers Holiday Aasocia lion, pictured at Chicago with A. F, Whitney, president of the Railway Trainmen, as he discussed the feasibility of getting the railmen's support in the farm holiday. Reno claims to represent 2,000,000 farmers in 27 states. 28 Per Cent Of City And County Tax Levy For This Year Paid Saturday Is Only Day To Register Registrars for the repeal election to be held on Tues day, November 7th will ba at •heir polling places all day ■iaturday, October S8th to , roister voters who are not (ow registered. No new registration la call d for in order to vole. Those a ho voted in the general late-wide election last year, ilready have their names or the poll books. The one da on which the books are oper for registration, is to girt those who have become ol age or moved from one pre i-inct to another, or were nni registered for the governor* election last year an oppor tunity to get their names or the poll books. reachers Off To Charlotte Meei Dlty School Children Get Holiday Some Rural Schools Close City .school children are rejolciiy ,oday Lhat there is a teacher neeting In Charlotte today fo hey are enjoying a holiday. Practically all of the city teach ns are attending the South Pled nont division of the North Caro um in Charlotte. Teachers from 1 icing held In the Armory-Auditor n Charlotte. Teachers from fifteei Piedmont counties are in Clmrlott intending this meeting which*end onight.. Some of the rural schools closet it noon where a majority of th eachers In those schools desired t ittend the Charlotte meeting. Present officers of the group are r. Eris Cassell of North Wilkesborc president; Miss Eloise Rankin o Charlotte, vice president; J. S. Ed vards, superintendent of schools ii Montgomery county, secretary ant reasurer. Boiling Springs Bulldogs Defeat Weaver College In Close Battle Innior College Eleven Undefeated As Yet. Touchdown By Connor. iOTHER SPORTS PAGE 101 Playing at Asheville yesterday in i football double-header, the Boil ng Springs Bulldogs defeated Weaver junior college 6 to 0 in a lard-fought and close gridiron >attle. By defeating Weaver the Bap ist junior college eleven maintain ed its undefeated .ecord and con inued its march toward the North Carolina junior college football itle. So far the Hutchens-Baker •leven has defeated Campbell, ’resbyierian. Wingate and Weaver mri tied Rutherford The lope touchdown of the game v was scored by O. C. Connor, former Shelby High star, following a neat, pass from Jimmy Raper to Ray Brown. Epps with u 35-yard run and Wnhnetah, the Cherokee fullback were backfield stars for Boiling Springs, while Capt. Jim Childers Butler and Brown starred in the line. Ebney furnished the major thrills for Weaver. Boiling Springs threatened again in the third quarter when the Bull dogs advanced the ball to the one Inch line but was unable to score Weaver's big threat was in the final half when they drove the ball to the five-yard line where *nr stubborn Bulldogs held for dm> :ia.! Bcvlinn Springs will meet Bel-! | mom Abbey next Saturday. , County Has Already Collected *60. BOO and City *20,888 of Thla Tear* Tat l-evy. They are paying taxes us it they like it In Cleveland county this year. At least, they ore getting their tax obligations out of the wuy and taking advantage of the two pur cent discount, allowed by the City and one per cent allowed by the county for payment before Novem ber 1. A check-up at me city nan and court house reveals the fact that the taxpayers of Cleveland have already paid 28 per cent of their 1933 tuxes. At the court house, 1933 tuxes are being paid at the rate of j $2,000 a day and at the city hull nearly $500 a day Is collected Of course It varies day by day. One large corporation in Shelby recent ly availed Itself of the two per cent J city discount and saved |90. County Collect* *50,000. I Troy McKinney, county auditor says that before the 1933 tax books were officially turned over to Sher iff Cline, the tax collector, there had been paid In *27,000. The books were turned over October 2 and since that time Sheriff Cltne has • collected $23,000 or an average of over $1,000 a day. Recently the pay ments have been corning In at the rate of *2,000 a day. The county’s total tax burden this ’ year Is approximately *175,000 which is a considerable cut from previous years because the legisla ture permitted the county commis sioners to make a horizontal cut of twenty-five per cent on the valua tions of real estate rather than pay ) the expense of re-valuatlon. * At the city hall, Mayor McMurry says *20,628 has been paid in 1933 tuxes, all of which gave the tax j payer the advantage of the two per i cent discount during October, lire 3 city's total tax levy for this year is approximately *75,000. Cotton Steady Today f Cotton is holding steady on to - day’s New York market with Dec. i selling at 9.63, Jan. 9.68 and May 1 10 at 2 o’clork. Stocks are show ing more strength today. Only Twenty Vets On Pension Roll; Also 48 Widows Confederate Lines Grow Thinner State lias No! Mon* Than 700 Vet. ernn* On Pension Roll. Cleve land Gets $11,800 Yearly. By 8*. R. mtNNAOAN Raleigh, Oct 27,—North Caro lina's "thin gray line' is getting thinner and grayer until today there are probably not more than 700 followers * of Lee and Jackson and all of them are approaching 85 years of age, aven It some were only 16 years of age at the end of the war Figure# mi the office of State Auditor Baxter Durham, chairman of (he state board of pensions, show that on June IS, the last date for which an accurate count could be made, there were only 733 veterans A more accurate check can not be obtained until reports are made from the 100 counties as to the number of veterans actually re ceiving checks from the state as of November 15. which will be In Jan uary. Tire semi-annual checks for these veterans amount to $133,723,50. At the same time there were 68 negro servants of Confederate soldiers who received $6,600 or semi-annual checks of $100 each. The class A widows, those who were made wid ows during the war, numbered 593 and received $89,950, or semi-an nual checks of $150. The class B widows, those who married Confed erate veterans after the war. and largely those who married before January 1, 1880 numbered 3,701 and received $135,050, or $50 semi-an nually. In this class are Included several who married after 1880, un der a law, later repealed, extending the time, and the 1931 law, which made those over 80 years old at the time and in need, if they were mar ried to veterans before 1899 Nine counties have no Confeder ate veterans. Camden, Chowan. Currituck, Graham, Hyde, Jones Perquimans, Scotland. Tyrrell and Washington. Buncombe lpads with 35, Surry has 33, Wilkes, Haywood and Catawba 21 each, Gaston 30 anti Mecklenburg 14. Catawba leads with 43 class A widows. Surry hav ing 26, Rowan 23, Wake 21, Lincoln 18, Iredell 17 and Buncombe 16 Guilford has 75 class B widows Gaston 62, Forsyth 59, Alamance 58. Robeson 57, Rowan 56, Robeson 54, Iredell 52, Buncombe and Surry 48. Davidson 47. Wake 46. Cleveland county had 20 veteran;, receiving $3,650 semt-annually; 1? clnss A widows getting $1,950 semi annually; 45 class B widows getting $2,250 semi-annually, and no negro servants. Anson and Union had five negro servants each, Vance four and seven counties three each. Mrs. Birmingham Is Buried Today Sister Of Misses Carrie And Annie Kendall And Bloom H. Ken dall Died In Lincolnton. Mrs. Sadie Kendall Birmingham died last evening at 8 o’clock in the Mncolnton hospital where she had been a patient for three years and her body was brought to her home here for funeral and burial this aft emoon 4 Mrs. Birmingham was born in Wadesboro, June 14th, 1859, the daughter of Benjamin and Sara Horton Kendall. She was married to John M. Birmingham and most of their married life was spent In Shelby. At the age of 14 she Joined the Methodist church In Wadesboro moving her membership to Central Methodist church here upon wan ing to Shelby. She was a kind heart ed wife, mother and neighbor a nr. a devout Christian character She was an invalid for many years but bore her affliction with courage and cheer One son, John M Birmingham, of Charlotte. tw< sisters, Misses Carrie and Annif Kendall and one brother. Bloom R Kendall survive. Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from the residence of her sisters on If Washington street by Dr. E. K. Me Larty and Interment was In Sunset cemetery beside her husband who preceded her to the grave m?nv years ago. Flertric Power To Off For Short While To pei mil the Duke Power Co to do some repair work on the transmission lines, the electric flow er will hr off from 2 In 2'40 on Sun cUy afternoon.