late News ^ 11IF. MARKETS 9.60 to 10.60 ton. wagon.1U«! f*V n sed t,,rt ‘,arlots. 1600 Cotton w" __ Heavy Frost T„,aT> North C arolina Weather 1 rt rair with heavy frost and Tnuite '0 cold in extreme west JIrtion tonight. Saturday fatr and tsrtnrr. _ Declare Seige For Havana Bv i \ITED PRESS tub*, Nov. 10,-Presi *nt Gran >.>n Martin today issued military order declaring all Ha _ t and anvit;. »»n» in a state of seige and ad vis it* all inhabitants to remain out of sight. fwo Kidnappings In California i By UNITED PRESS I/0I Angeles. Nov. 10.—George Olfixiifr. bootlegger, and wife were kidnapped by three men after a gun battle at Trona. small desert town, thf Inral sheriff s office was notified today. San Jose, Calif, Nov. lO.Brooke j Hart, 20, »’”> of a Promitlcnt lot-al | merchant, was held by kidnappers today for a S40.00 ransom. Four Dead In* Plane Crash By UNITED PRESS Portland. Ora.. Nov. 10.—Four (ert killed and five injured today then a southbound United Airlines trashed on a hillside in a fog three miles nest of Portland. Vets Of Spanish War Will Gather Here Monday Eve IjIUtr Commander Spanish-Amori ran War Vets To Attend Sessions. Spanlsh-American war veterans I of Cleveland county will meet In Ifte court house at Shelby Monday ■night of next week, it is announced [by B. 0. Logan, commander of the ninty camp. The chief guest of honor will be iW. Capus White, State commander,! md all veterans, whether or not j lembers of the camp, are urged to ittend also ladies who had close ■ lelatives in the Spanish-American ! The welcome address, of the pro i beginning at 7:30. will be by layor Mc.Wuny and the response |by Chas. G. Montgomery. Talks are i be made by the local American agion post commander, by Mrs. »ht, past president of the State dliary, by John L. Booth, past ate commander, by J. M. Mabrey. I iief of staff, and by State Com ander W'hite. iegro Dies From Iis Injuries; Hold wther In Case Pavn*' l>ifd Yesterday After noon. Hit On Head With Mattock. ®*ra Payru Shelby colored man. IJ^ ® the hospital here Thursday fftemoon about 5:10 from wounds I to have been Inflicted last Sun hv afternoon by Dave Wilson, also stored, at Wilson's home. *:lsotl is being held in jail to pai: a hearing on a killing charge Information given officers when were called to the Wilson Come Sundaj was to the effect rj Mv -ihat Payne and Wilson r°a dispute of some type, alleged Fover ;i : of Wilson’s wife Fa that Wilson struck Payne m L* hea<1 with a mattock. The im hent was found by officers who that it bore indications of *j’n« been washed, t M>e was unconscious when car .°.’h‘ hospital and little hope c‘d out for his recovery. Sisk Still In Hospital; Eye Out ' F Stsk. who had he; eye, amoved at the Shelby Sunday i& still a patient ii P!'r'! Her condition is som" p- nrsned. Last Saturday afK Sisk had removed £■ drink bottle from a n • placed it in the Ice box : exP^°ded and cut the Dai’ •' Mr- Sisk operates a re store in his dwelling Shelby mill. Since Mrs been .-in the hospital for ha* been" li dght P°und °een born and is doin„> slkvklacnd SEND « VOL XXXIX, No. 135 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Man, iwr year, (in advance) „ Carrier, )>er year, (In advance) _ S S Shelby Is Rival! For Reno; Grant Speedy Divorces 10 Divorces Here In 80 Minutes Superior Court Session Knd.v Con tinue Two Death Cases. For an hour or so yesterday aft ernoon Shelby rivalled Reno in "reno-vating" of matrimonial ties Just before Superior court ad journed Thursday afternoon 10 di vorces were granted in a period of 80 minutes, averaging around one | every eight minutes. Due to the fact that the crimi nal docket had carried over into the week set for the civil calendar Jucige Wilson Warlick announced that only uncontested civil actions ! would be taken up before court ad | journed. Lawyers then began mak | mg a rush to get their divorce cas es through. Eleven divorce actions were brought up and 10 of the H granted. Those Divorced The charges in the divorce effm plaints ranged from separation and abandonment to adultery. Couples securing divorces were: Dorothy Putnam Baber from C. A. Baber. Janie Sisk Spuriing from Ve'us j Spuriing. J. G. Brown from Annie L. Brown. T. S. Peeler f om Lueretia Peeler. John McDowell from Annie Mc Dowell. ^. - W. A. Davidson from Florence . vidson. Florence Sisk from Paul Sisk j Roberta Revets from O. D. Rev H. E. Green from Bonnie Ore n Buena H. Dover from Ben Dover : Of the 10 couples one was colored nd nine white. In one of the ac tions the divorced coupic had been I married for 35 years. The chav;.' preferred bv the husband whos -- wife had lived with him for 35 years was abandonment. Other Cases With the Kirc-Cha r murder tree uikkr- up several days only one of the three other death cases wa. disposed cr, two being conetn ned. Those continued were the ki" ing charge agnnst Zim Hamrick colored charged with fatally cut tine Charlie “Snowball” medicine Show trap drummer. The other was (Continued on page ten.) lass Officers At High School Elected Paul Bullington Heads Seniors. Clyde Williams Juniors And Ottie While Sophs. The election for class officers was he’d yesterday at Central High school. It was managed entirely by pupils who served as election of ficials. The regular booths and bal lot boxes used by the county and state were used. Following are the results: Seniors: Paul BulUngton unopposed, was elected president; for vice president Mildred Mc Ewain 42. and Paul McGinty 24. for secretary, Esther Ann Quinn 30 and Kathryn McMurry 30; for Treasurer Marshall Blanton 39 and Walter Fanning 27. Juniors: President. Clyde Will iams 53 and Will Arey, jr.. 31; for vice-president , 'Marion Bass 51 and Jeanette Beheler, 34; for secretary Kathryn Blanton 49 and Harold Bettis 34: for treasurer, Hill Hud son 55 and Willis Lowe 29. Sophomores: For president. Ottie White 57 and John Dorsey 55; vies president Annsbeth Jones 85 and Evans Lackey 8; for secret*T Jane Washburn 81. and Gwynn Davis 30; for treasurer Eleanor Hoey 60 and Charles Wra 52. HOME FOLKS OF SHELBY WHO ARE WORTH KNOWING (This is tho first of a scries of articles The Star will publish, with one each week at least, on the man hehind the scenes in Shelby and Cleveland county. The subjects will be selected at random and a brief career sketch given of each). By JOHN HOYLE Hon. John P. Mull, son of A. T. Mull and Mary McClurd, was born In No 10 township, in the year of 1888. During his high school days he won the first Clyde R. "Hoey ora torical medal to be given in the county. In this contest he compet ed with nineteen other young ora tors from every section of the coun ty. He taught school for two years while still in high school himself. Judge Mull cast his vote for the Democratic party for the first time in 1909 and has not voted any other kind of ticket since. He was a mem ber of the inter-scholastic debating team during his years as a student of Wake Forest college. Besides re ceiving his B A. degree in 1915 and his LL.B. in 1916. Judge Mull was also valedictorian of his class of '16 at W. F After graduation, he taught for one more year before being admitted to the bar. This true son of Cleveland began his law practice in Shelby in 1917. Mr. MuLl Informs us that he's married to one who was formerly known as Miss Kate Hoyle. They have- three chil dren and one dog named "Spot." His office is now- located in the j Miller block, between the Charles j (store and Austell’S barber shop. Hc j spends his time acting as attorney, chairman of the Cleveland county board of elections, attorney for the county board of education. United States commissioner, chairman of board of deacons of the First Bap tist church, Sunday school teacher, and secretary and treasurer of the Shelby and Cleveland Building and Loan association. College Grid Title May Hang On Bulldog Game In Shelby Saturday ! - '1' Rar Win Might Put Boiling j Springs Out Of Title Race. ■ j The football game In Shelby i omorrow the junior college ele ven of Bolling Springs and Lees McRae could muss up the championship race in the state. At present Boiling Springs is leading the Junior college conference race with Mars Hill practically in a tie and Lees McRae just behind. If Lees McRae ahboid win Wrmrfrow, Mars Hill would hold the undis puted lead with Lees McRae second! and the Cleveland county Baptists' in third place. Realizing this) Coaches Paul Mutchins and Bud] Raker are going to throw their full! strength against the mountain in vaders. Lees McRae has lost only one game, that to Mars Hill, which means that Saturday's game tn Shelby should be a close clash well worth seeing. Russell Rogers in The Charlotte News sums up the Junior college race to date as follows: Football teams of the North Car olina junior college conference are marking time this week—to a great extent—as Bolling Springs and Mars .Hill. the., two conference leaders, go up against, lower ranked foes on Saturday's league program. Paul Hutchens' Bolling Springs eleven is in the tougher spot of the two although it is being given i Continued on page ten.) Two Local Textile Mills Curtail; Others Full In Spite Of Markets ARMISTICE WILL BE QUIET HERE; NO FORMALITIES Banks. Post Office To Be Closed. No County Court. Americas 15th Armistice Day will be a quiet event in Shelby with no formal celebration or observa tion planned insofar as could be learned today. Although there will be no ce'e • bration here scores will go to pro grams to be held in neighboring towns and cities. Football Here. The main attraction of the day in Shelby will be the Boiling Springs Home Coming football name with Lees McRae at the Shelby park. As Armistice is a legal holiday, local tanks and building and loan offices and the post office will be closed for the day. Repeal Plans Include Drive Upon Big Bootleggers And Racketeers I’i esident And Cabinet Working To Fix Government Policy After Repeal. Washington, Nov 10.-A dispo sition to concentrate on revenues from liquors was indicated yester day by federal officials as the pol icy that would govern their actiom between now and the effective date of repeal of the eighteenth amend ment. At the same time, it was madt clear that p'ohibition agents would concentrate their activities on the rounding up of b g bootleggers and -acketeers. The drive for collection of rev enues would bring federal agents into action along the line that their duties will pursue afler re peal become1 effective on Dream fcer^.o. This would inch'd? n deavoi to collect revenues iromj moonshine distillers. The policy upon which fettera1-; officials were said to have agree:) would direct their activities toward collecting revenues from lVuor In stead of prosecuting small offend ers. In many cities of the country saloons have been opened wide to all comers. If such a policy as was outlined were folio-’ ed closely, It would put federal officials on the trail of revenues irom the liquors sold and after the big liquor hand lers rather than netting them on the operators of small liquor sell ing establishments. The policy was outlined about the same +ime that President Roosevelt .vent into a meeting witn a special committee of cabinet of ficers to fix government policy on •v multitude of questions affectine ' >peal. 1 i Many Mills Are Curtailing Over Country. Demand For Goods Has Slackened. Two local textile plants are on a curtailed schedule, but the others are still running full time. So far there has not been a very notice able slackening in trade channels as the curtailment haU been limited to two plants and has been in effect only one or two weeks. The Lily mill is now on three days a week due to a shortage of orders. The Byrum Hosiery mill is letting off from 50 to 100 workers for two days a week and is hoping that orders will come to warrant a return to a full schedule. All of the other mills in Shelby ^ are still on full schedule. but a check-up this morning reveals that conditions are very unsettled in the markets. An authority on textiles says many of the. fine comb yam mills and carded yarn mills in Gaston have been forced to curtail. Weave mills are running better but the gray goods and rayon mills are feeling the effect of the slackening demand. The curtailment, however, is not general but spotted. Over in Kings Mountain, several plants are working part time. Curtailment is due to several conditions. Prices have eased off, demand for goods has abated somewhat, while strikes in finishing plants and among gar ment workers in the east have in terfered with the orderly movement of goods. TTii- $21 a bale processing lax on cotton la also giving the manufac turers some, concern. Before this and other taxes went into effect, mills would venture to pile up stocks. but now many of them throughout the south do not have the money to InveRt in unsold stocks and take the risk also of the pro cessing tax being removed, leavinc them at a serious disadvantage Consequently, the general polley of executives in the south and east ic to make tin goads onlv when orders are in the bag. A meeting has b^en called ir. Nev York of many of the leading tex tile tnen making goods which are not having a heavy demand jus now, to discuss a :-vstematic con trol of utnut In -v ’ - to avoid over ■rocl’M a the market and a conse quent upsetting ot prices. Thinks Hoey Can Now Pick Office He Most Desires Either Senator Or N. C. Governor Says Shelby Man Only Has To Speak Mind. It Leader Party. •lulian Miller in Charlotte Observer Et/her the next governorship, or the next senatorship, the golden coronets of the Democratic party In North Carolina, Is Clyde Hoey'a for the asking. { Mr. Hoey is not saying which he j wants, If either of them. But hi the Imagination of the victorious crusaders of the state, his la the j magic name today. The rirys are out to do some | crowning as a follow-up of their crowing. Inescapably, Mr. Hoey Is their man. He emerges from the j confused and chaotic political lead , ership of North Carolina as tha in carnation of victory for the ascend-' ant forces in this contest. He is the flesh and blood and bones of the triumph and, un j avoidably, therefore, so far as the Democratic party is concerned, the personality upon whom to poui j honors. j Called over long-distance tele phone at his home in Shelby, Mr j Hoey continued his attitutde oi j having no definite commitment to' make, other than to add, with Rome I degree of relish, that "it is evident that many of niy friends who warn ed me against taking the field foi the prohibition amendment on the ground that it would blight my po I litlcal career were mistaken hi their estimates of what would hap pen in this contest,” Mr. Hoey will not, offend the clamorous crowd seeking to do him honor with some high nomination he may covet by dilly-dallying or shilly-shallying. He is face to face with a deci (Continued on page ten.i SHELBY FIREMEN TO COLLECT TOYS FOR POOR YOUTHS Want Dlwardrd Toy* To Repair And Paint For Christmas Gifts. AU youngsters gel a thrill out of seeing the red fire trucks go shriek- ‘ ing by and nearly every little fel low has the hope of some day be ing a fireman in or Repairing Bridge Road Across River A force from the state highway department Is making repairs to the bridge across the river between the Southern and Seaboard trestles and near the city water station two milers west of Shelby. A new floor IS being put down, the steel paint ed and the bridge otherwise repair ed. Contract was let this week for hard surfacing this road which connect Shelby and Polkville ahd after the work is completed, then detour Into highway No. 20 at the Dover Mill will be abandoned. Prohibition, Ended Now, Began In First In Kansas Nov. 2, 1880 Webb-Kenyon Law To Protect Dry Slates Came In During 1913. Washington, Nov 10;—Here are some of the most significant dates in America’s effort to control the use of intoxicating liquor, since adoption of the first state dry law by Maine, in 1846: 1880—November 2; prohibition written- into a state constitution for the first time by Kansas. 1883—May 24; Anti-Saloon lea gue organized. 1913—March 1; Webb-Keriyon law to protect dry states enacted. 1917—December 18; 18th amend ment submitted to states. 1918 -January 8: amendment rati-! fied bv first ste Mississippi 191S ’ 'nuiry 16: amendment ratified bjf 36th state, Nebraska . : " l July 1; wartime prohibition be came effective. October 27; Volstead law vetoed by President Wilson. October 28; Volstead law enacted over veto. 1920—January 18th; 18th amend ment became effective. June 7; Volstead law upheld by supreme court. 1929—March 2; Jones-Stalker law tightening enforcement enacted. 1932— November 8; President Roosevelt elected on repeal plat form. 1933— February 20; repeal amend ment submitted to states March 22; Volstead law amended to permit beer. April 3; first state. Michigan vot ed to ratify repeal. April 7; beer- became legal November 7; repeal ratified by. noth state. Lexington Firm In Low Bids On 2 Road Project? Polkville, Fallston Shelby Roads Will Muriate Shelby-Polkville Road And Kidkton-Polkville Road. BUU were let yesterday for the surfacing of two Cleveland county highway links, the low bids on the projects being submitted to the state highway and public works commission in Raleigh Wednesday. The roads to be surfaced are the newly constructed links between Shelby and Polkville and between Polkville and Fallston. connecting wild highway 18 north. They are h t»«rt of tlic Cleveland county road program approved some time ago by the highway commission and which were promised In the letting this week Low Bidder* Both projects went on low bid* to the Brown Paving company, of Lexington, The Bhclby-Potkville road, a dis tance of 11.6 mile* on route 1B0, call* for bituminous surfacing, and the bid whs $42,891.50. The Fftllston-Potkvllle link calls for the same type surfacing for a distance of 8.8 miles on route 183, and the bid was $33,073,50. The completion and surfacing of these two roads will mean much to traffic In the section north of Shel by as they will link four business centers Shelby, Polkvllle, Lawndale and Fallston, making a loop triangle of good roadway. According to reports from Ra leigh, contract for construction of the Bhelby-Sharon-Bolllng Springs road will In all probability be In the next state lettlog under the federal building program. Rutherford Road Among the other projects on which low bids were submitted, this week was on In Rutherford county, 2.22 miles on No, 30 at Bostic. This calls for grading and topsoil, and the low bid of the Wilson Con struction company, Asheville was *8,273.50. Letters Pour In To Noted Jurist, On Repeal Fight Crusader For Sobriety And Tem perance Predict* State's Mk Jorlty Will Be 175,000. Letters and telegrams of con gratulation have been pouring In this week to Judge E. Y. Webb, one of the nation's most outstanding leaders for temperance and so briety. The messages come from friends of the prohibition cause in other states, congratulating him for the part he took In the fight and for the handsome majority won at at the polls. Judge Webb stated last night that he believed the majority In North Carolina will reach 175,000 when official returns are gathered from the entire 1840 precincts of the state. Five months ago Judge Webb plunged into the fight Just because he Is devoted to the prohibition cause. He began making speeches and continued to 1111 engagements right on up to Sunday before elec tion. Most of his speeches, however were confined to the western par* of the state because lie had other pressing matters to carry on. Lack of time compelled him to decline many pressing Invitations, The Judge has been an advocau of prohibition all his life and while in the state legislature and In Con gress, upheld laws that would re move temptation of strong drink In Congress he was co-author ol the Webb-Kenyon bill which Is still on the statute books and prohibits the shipment of liquor from we* Into dry territory. It Is this lav that will protect the dry states against the Importation of liquor from the wet states, now that the 18th amendment is repealed. Presi dent Roosevelt has publicly stated that the Webb-Kenyon bill will be strictly enforced. Textile Workers Meet Textile workers who have joined the union" are called to meet 3at urdqy, morning at 10 o’clock in the Thompson building on West Mar lon street. All members are urged to uttend as permanent officer* are to be elected, it is stated, r - ; J