North Carolina Newspapers

» L M V M N M Mk VOL. XXXIX, No. 140 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Bv Mail, per year. (In advance) _ 13 SO Carrier. per year. (In adrancei _ ».»on Cotton Cotton Cotton mi MARKETS 10c to Ilf | «.,d ton. wagon —1800 to” c.arlots- 20.00 -t" Cloudy, Colder r^"hfr Correas! for North Car , Mtnt'lv cloudy and colder to *ilD. ' an(t Thursday. Probably liisht l in west portion of state Disarmament Conference --^“t SITED PRESS Brneva. Vov. 22—The steering emitter of the international Lrmatnrnt conference. meeting * t„dav voted to adjourn the ,,rtfv until the middle of January, 1934. Largest Plane Crashes By | SITED PRESS Moscow. Nov. 22.—The world's Urj„st airplane, just completed, nulled at Kharkov yesterday, kill in, fourteen persons, according to incomplete dispatches received at Mown* today The giant plane, all metal, with motors, was built lo farh 120 passengers. 11.250.851 Bales Of Cotton Ginned (rnp Is A hr.Mi Of hast Year. North ( arolina r>ins 622.974 Bales. : :.k , Nov. 21 —Cotton of inis 'ear's crop ginned prior to November 14 was reported today by the -census bureau, to have totaled 11.30.851 running bales, counting 475.401 round bales as half bales, incSudn -• 3,318 bales of Amer ican-Eeyptian. ' ( ;. To that date last year 10.533,684 including 474.442 round bales anti. 5.073 bales of American-Egyp t;an had -been ginned. The crop fhi> Tear has been fore ran by the department of agricul ture,a; 13,100,000 bales, as compar ed an !i 13.002.000 bales last year. Guuung to November 14 this year by states have been: Alabama, 913.056 bales, Arizona ti998, Arkansas;. 896,009, California 99,514, Florida .23,245, Georgia 1, 043.072 touisiana 459,014, Missis sippi 1.073.328 Missouri 174,229, .Netr. Mexico. 62.363, North Carolina .622,974. Ofclah ma 1,039,926, South Carolina. 679,156. Tennessee 346, 168 Texas 3,735.353. Virginia 30, 182. all other states 8.744. ttPCOTTONlOAN OF FIFTEEN CENTS Additional Financing: Will Be Nee essarv, However, If This Is Done. Washington, Nov. 21.—.The na tional cotton parity price commit 1(111 after a conference with farm «dm:nis'ration officials announced tonight It wo.ttld withdraw its sug ■gestioh th;n, the. government in crease loans on cotton from a basis of in i ••• to approximately 15 cents a pound. C O. Mo.,m. vice president of the Amrricaiv Cotton Co-operative as Kvwtmn mid a parity committee official, said • in a statement that this course did not, mean the com had abandoned its efforts to drem a parity price for cotton. He explained the increased loan proposal .would require additional nRtmce corporation end that it *oui(i bi necessary for the cor P»r:> ii'.ukt- financial commit ®ent beyond .January 21. 1934. the ri' t!li' f?.- t' C automatically •?“‘l °ut. c.f existence unless its life prolonged by congress. Charlotte Advised To Request Big Sum Raleigh. . N!'". 22 --Attorney Gen ai Df:i!iis G. 'Bnnnmitt this aft wi,i advised a delegation of ope and Mecklenburg county so "ahead with plans to h “"u S4°(,-WlO in federal funds to "fused to erect city schools. Harding, superintendent of tfip scbools, in announcing atiwaev general’s decision, also iJ . 1 1 • MitcheH, a New York toan anurney., had agreed to the Jb* county of Mecklenburg will toT tne ‘‘^plication for the loan car'/'* r'1ty schools as the city under state law. j i: said it is also proposed to •adi-' ?4n r)(^ *n federal funds for ^nonttm additions f.o county Mr k, h.’> c ar taken hi ring the nigi Kpr J'v’ d roadster of Mr. Charlie »as -, r ' pc °P*r4or of The Star jib „ ' 1 Ih;;| night from its park ton= te aln fr0nt of W- A- Poodle strep.. on South LaPayette to u? theft has been reported Lleveland barmers To Get $165,000.00 On Cotton Options Government Will Give $48,000,000 7,807 Bales In This County Jumped Four Cents Pound. Ginning Code Approved. Cleveland county farmers have options on 7.807 bales of cotton as a result of the plow-up movement launched in the late spring of this week, which options have a value of $156,140 above • the six cents a pound basis which prevailed at the time the options were granted by the government R W Shoffner, county agent, stated this morning that farmers may soon exercise their options by selling their option cotton or hold for any advance in price. Today the increase in the value of option cot ton held in Cleveland amounts to $20 a bale or better. This is in ad- j dition to the $177,000 farmers re-j reived in full Settlement for plow ing up their cotton in the acreage reduction campaign. Oscar Johnson, director of finance for the farm administration, an nounced on Tuesday the Immediate distribution of forty eight million dollars to southern cotton farmers who are to receive options on 2, 400.000 bales of government cotton. Mr. Shoffner announced this morning that he has not received instructions as to when these op tions may be exercised. He is awaiting instructions from Wash ington and will notify the farmers later. Washington, Nov. 21.—A cotton ginners marketing agreement was given tentative approval yesterday by Secretary Wallace. It provides for schedules of maximum service charges, creates a system of state and national control, insures bet ter quality of ginning through equipment and handling require ments, eliminates unfair trade prac tices. and provides machinery through which commercial ginners may regulate ginning facilities to the requirements of particular gin ning communities. The agreement will be submitted to the ginners for their signatures and then returned for final aproval and to become effective on a date to be fixed by the secretary. Any license which might be issued will apply to all commercial ginners equally. Approximately 14.000 com mercial gins are affected by the agreement, Washington Will Approve Rate. In initialling the agreement, Sec retary Wallace appended a state ment in which he called attention to the fact that under its terms farmers are not directly represented on state committees except in so far as they are members of co-op eratives and that while the ginning! rates to be established in each com munity are subject to disapproval by the secretary, “should it not be stated that rates would not go into effect until after approval here?” The secretary stated that he dj# not believe that the present provision for establishing rates should be continued after the 1933' 34 season. He also pointed out that the agree ment; made no provision for super vision, either by public agencies or j by farmers' representatives over the drawing of cotton seed samples. •Should there not be definite pro vision by the industry for public inspectors under the department, paid for by the industry, under de partment supervision?" Secretary Wallace suggested. Secretary Wallace suggested that if enough farmers agreed with his conclusions on the points noted, a public hearing should be held be fore the next ginning season in or der to amend the agreement. Shufling May Be Hurt By Delay In Picking Successor To Max Gardner Greensboro Man Seems To Many To Be Man Fitted For National Democratic Chairman. Raleigh, Nov. 22.—Washington hints that the delay in choosing a successor to tormer Governor Mas Gardner, who recently resigned as national Democratic committeeman may have an adverse effect upon the chances of Leroy Shuping, of Greensboro, get confirmation in Ra leigh though nobody has any in formation about it. Newspaper men who are none too enthusiastic for Mr. Shuping inter pret the recent meeting of Chairman J. Wallace Winborne and Governor Ebringhaus to mean that there will be no hurry and that all delays will be dangerous to Mr. Shuping. Just why there should .be any fight on him never has been explained and why there should be a postponement of the call to the executive commit tee to name a successor is equally as uncertain. ■ Mr Shuping must be acceptable to most Democrats. He supported Governor Ehringhaus and Senator Cam Morrison and of course won no favor from Governor Dick Foun tain and Senator Bob Reynolds But there is no disqualification In that support. It is commonly known that Senator Reynolds was greatly displeased with Mr, Shuping’s con ‘'Continued pn page Nine) Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanov sky, former Ambassador to Japan, who has been appointed first Soviet Ambassador to the United States. A Bolshevik from his early youth, M. Troyanovsky served the usual martyrdom in Siberia and as an exile in Europe before the revolu tion lifted him to power. Boy Scout Council To Convene Here Tuesday Evening Piedmont Executives To Plan An nual Meeting: Set Goal Of 2,000 Members. A stenographer's error—it must have been that—was responsible for an incorrect announcement in state papers this week about a meeting of the Piedmont council, Boy Scouts of America, executive coun cil in Shelby. The meeting was an nounced for last night, by error. It will be held at the Hotel Charles on Tuesday evening. Nov. M. This will be the last regular meeting of the board for the year. Plans will be made for the annual meeting of the council shortly aft er the close of the year. The annual meeting of the Piedmont council is one of the outstanding events of the organization at which time hun dreds of business a,nd professional men of the eleven counties of the area who direct and lead the work of scouting in their respective com munities gather to hear reports and to plan for the program of scout ing for the boys of the district. A goal of at least 2,000 members by the close of the year was set by the organization at its meeting during the latter part of September Splendid progress is being made ac cording to available figures. New troops and new memUcrs are being steadily added according to the re port which shows more than 100 troops and close to 1,900 boys en rolled. Knoxville Seeks $3,250,000 Loan Nashville. Tenn., Nov, 22.—George H. Wells, public works administra tion engineer for Tennessee today announced an application from the city of Knoxville for $3,250,00 pub lic works money with which to con struct an electrical distribution sys tem for the use of power from the Tennessee valley project. The application as presented by Major J. T. O'Connor and City Manager W. W. Mynatt, calls for a complete lighting system for Knoxville. $20,000 Federal Funds For Road Work In Shelby Mayor - Goes To Raleigh Today List Of Several Projects Which Ctty Hopes To Do From Free Federal Funds. Shelby will likely get $20,000 for .street, and road improvement from federal funds allotted to the North Carolina highway commission. The municipalities of North Car olina are to get $778,700 for forty three towns and cities, this amount to be a part of the federal road fund already allocated to this state. The road work to be done in these towns and cities is to be on proj ects connecting or feeding state road already built and cannot be spent for roads which do not feed or connect with state roads already finished. Mayor McMurry has known for sometime that an allotment would be available for roads In Shelby but had been Informed that Shelby's quota would be $35,000 based on the city's population. Therefore, he left yesterday for Raleigh where he is in conference with authorities to day. In all probably, anothei amount will be made available later to bring the total to the $35,000 quota. Proposed Roads Out of funds available for Shel by, it is proposed that the road leading off N. Washington street at Rev. J. W. Suttle’s resident be pav ed out by the Cleveland Cloth mill via Jefferson street school and connect with No. 18 at Andy New ton's residence. West Marion street through Lover's Lane to highway No. 20 at the River bridge will be paved out of this fund. It is also proposed that Dodd and Broad streets which lead off of No. 18 in South Shelby be paved for a few blocks. None of these projects, have been definitely passed upon but hold the attention of the city fathers. May or McMurry’s visit to Raleigh may result in more information on defi nite projects In Shelby which may be Included. Gift Of 500 Boob To Boiling Springs Mrs. Carme Flam Makes This Do nation To Junior College Library. Five hundred volumes have been contributed to the Boiling Springs college library by Mrs. Carme Elam who with her husband during his life-time was a loyal and generous friend of the Institution. This is the largest single gift of books th® college has ever received and in ap preciation, Rev. J. L. Jenkins, president, has issued the following statement: "Permit me to express my deep appreciation of the magnanimous gift of over 500 volumes donated uue uuucge uuitu.y uy ivur>. v^nimr Elam of Lawndale. The college the trustees, the faculty and stu dent body all join me In expressing our sincere gratitude to A^rs. Elam for this valuable addition to our present library, "Throughout the years of the ex istence of this school Mr. Elam has been Its devoted and liberal friend He never failed to help in a financ ial way every time he was called upon, and he did it cherfully. “Such friends encourage us to carry on, and now that he is de ceased we invite others to take his place. In fact, we~>solicit the pray, ers and help of alj the good people in the great county of Cleveland. REMOVE DANGER AT BUFFALO BRIDGE i Two Dangerous Places On State Roads Being Eliminated. Scene Where Two Died. The dangerous approach to the Buffalo bridge at the old Buffalo j cotton mill on highway No, 150 j where two young people from Statesville were killed two weeks ago, is being eliminated by the highway department under the sup ervision of Capt. W. A. Broadway. At this spot, two men missed the bridge and plunged fifty feet into the creek on the following morn ing. The attention of the danger ous approach was called to the state highway department and im mediately the local force set about to put up a fence and bank the out- i side of the curve on the approach. A dangerous curve just east of the fairground on No 20 is also be ing eliminated by banking the road on the outside and putting up a fence. Several accidents, but no fa talities, have occurred at this point No Back Seat Driving Here •mm President Roosevelt at the wheel of his auto takes Sumner Welle*, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, for a sightseeing ride about Warm Springs, Ga by way of an interlude in their discussions on Cuban affairs. The Ambassador flew from Havana to confer with his chief at the "Little White House,” where the President is spending a short vacation. Sixteen Per Cent Of Elementary Children Here On Honor Roll Honor Roll of Shelby Elementary Sehool System For the Second Month of School. The following names represent. Mi per cent of the children enrolled m the elementary schools of the cltv who attained the distinction of be ,ng on the honor roll the second month of school. LaFayette School. First grade. Dorothy Costner Louise Jones. Thelma Bramlett, E>u jene Stuart, Nellie. Runyans. Melvin Kale, Albert Huggins, Billy Sisk, Janet Wilson Second grade Martha Champion, Pauline McSwain, Shirley Moss Anthony Towery, G. W. Bivins Aaron Earl. Third grade. Dorothy Queen,, Ralph Glenn, Edgar Webb, Hay wood Bridges, Weldon Mr Knight Helen Morrison Fourth grade. Yates Pearson, Er line McCluney. Dorothy Ann Mr, Whirter, Ethel Lowrance, Ruth Stewart, Katherine Wilson. Fifth grade. None. Sixth grade. Ealise, Putnam, Mar garet Joe Me Whirter, Margaret Smith, Marie Smith, Bob Dorsey. Seventh grade. Mary Glenn, Mae Jolley, Joanna Finklestein, Paul Martin, A. Willis McMurry, John Schenck, Rush Hamrick, Margaret Elliott'. Louise Mauney, Grace Nob. litt Washington School. First grade. Sara Cline, ‘ Loretta Freeman, Mary Boyce Maflhey, Carolyn Short, Mary Suttle, Pitt Beam Jr., Clayton Francis, Jr Har din Lee Jr. Second grade. Jimmie Weathers, Betty Costner. Jane Dudley, Jac. queline Huskey, Safa Lou Johnson, Doris Lipscomb, Doris McBrayer. Aileen Spangler. Third grade. Phillip Clark. Oph. lia Jackson, Martha McClain. Ma. be! Spangler, Mary Henry Wolfe. ■ (Continued on page Nine) Negro Steals Cow For Second Time During Six Months Peculiar Affinity For This Heifer Was L’ndampened By Half Year On The Chain Gang. City and county officers are searching today for Booker T. 3imms, negro, whose affinity for a certain cow belonging to Willie Jewel, another colored man, led him to steal the animal twice i.n six months. s-*- - Booker T. stole the cow when she was a heifer, about half a year ago. He was apprehended, given six months on the road, and the heifer was returned to Willie Jewel. At liberty again, Booker T. just wouldn't resist the lure of that cow, i good-sized milk-producer now. Monday night, he visited Willie, n fact, stayed all night with him it Henry’s home on L, C. Bowen’s plantation neat Double Shoals. In -he morning Booker T. and the »w were gone. He took her to Henry 3reen, another negro, who lives on J. B. Smith’s land, asked him to teep her for him and to milk her egularly. Deputif«■ recovered the cow y«s .erday, ..it they haven’t found 3ooker T yet. DORIS DUKE GETS FORTUNE TODAY Richest Girt In The World Is Daughter Of J. B. Duke, Native Of North Carolina New York, Nov. M—Doris Duke come* to age today and with her twenty-first birthday omnes part Of the Duke tobacco mahout whit* have earned for her the title of “the richest girl in the world.” To the blond heiress, who at the age of 14 had a private railroad coach named “Doris,” the occasion will be simply another day There is to be no formal procedure. The law will Officially declare. Miss Duke the lawful owner of some mil lions of dollars. Won’t Estimate Amount Attorneys for the estate refused to estimate the amount bhat goes into her name. When her father, the late James Buchanan Duke, died in 1935 the es tate amounted to about $101,000,000, but two-thirds of this wept, into ttn dowments and oharltyi One third of tne remaining third —now thought to be close to $30, 000,000—is Miss Duke’s at 31. An other third passes into her hands when she is 35, and the remainder when she is thirty. One of the attorneys for the fif teen trustees said an estimate of the current third would be difficult "because a change in the market may alter it, materially b; tomor row.'’ Has Carolina Estate At present the heiress to the Duke tobacco millions owns a large house Just off Fifth avenue In New York City valued at $1,600,000; the Duke farms, a 6,000-acre estate at Som erville, N. J.; Rough Point, a man sion at Newport; a large estate in North Carolina, and a small place at Antibes. James Duke, in sharp contrast to his daughter, accumulated the for tune which is gradually being dis tributed in many ways by tilling the tobacco fields which led to the formation of his great tobacco com pany. Instead of a mansion he lived in a small cabin. Teams Start Out This Morning On Annual Red Cross Roll Call Here -otrV“ ed This Morning At Hotel Charles. Goal Is $2,500. Inspired by pep talks from their leaders and fortitied with a piping hot break last of bacon and eggs, more than 60 Red Cross workers met for breakfast at the Hotel Charles this moiling, received their instructions, and set out to put Cleveland county over the top with a bang. Their immediate objective, as their part of the National Roll Call, Is to raise $2,500 to be used for the employment of two Red Cross nurses for tju; count' "But the np v is ut you< .... "bjective," Roll Cail Chairman J k u. Lineberger reminded the work ers. "You are working to help suf fering humanity. Prom two years’ work on relief in Cleveland coun ty, I have learned this: forty-one per cent of the people on the relief roll are on that roll because of present or previous sickness, and 19 percent of them have either cur able or preventable diseases. Other measures of relief, while laudable, are experiments; the Red Cross ol fers constructive relief, rehabilitates these distressed, unhealthy families. •‘If we can put this Red Cross drive over as it ought to be put over; get pur two Red Cross nurses, and keep up the good work, we cri« f ■G' jConUnued on page Nine; Four Roads Of County Under Civil Works To Get Federal Labor * . Jobs For 880 Men Are Created Here; Start December 1 Seven Iwal IToJi-oU (k>naliinrr4: Preference Given Men Now On The Relief Rolls Under th* new net up f«w* the civic worlu program m North Car olina announced yesterday by Mrs Thomas O’Berry, stole administra tor, Cleveland county will receive' 8B0 job*. Half of the men assigned to these jot* must go to work by December 1 and the other half on December 16. Those jobs nee tor nwn wow wt> employed and on the relief roll; Such men will be given Meet prefer ence. Harry Woodson of Kiel by, ooun t.v civic works administrator, told Star reporters this morning that a number of worthwhile projects for the county are being considered, but none of them has received a final o. k. W works Mils way! towns, schools county commissioners, ate., offer their projects to the local adminis trator, who In turn submits these plans to the stats administrator Federal funds pay only for labor; materials must bs paid bp the city or county. Seven local projects ars being considered They are: Gymnasium and athletic field Improvements for Mooresboro High school. Similar Improvements for Waco High school, • Repair work, painting, athletic field development for all schools in the city of Shelby. improvements at the Rings Mountain school. Improvements at the BoHtag Springs school. The Shelby Lions stub, at a meeting last night, urged the city to promote Improvement of the playground east of the square, a special Lions club project Another tentative project Is that of painting the court house Inside and sanding exterior^ Sixty-eight thousand jobs will be created by December t In North Carolina. Fourteen thousand per sons on reliof rolls were transferred to civil works projects yesterday. Mrs. O'Berry announced, and by Dec. l, an additional 20,000 now re ceiving direct relief will have been given jobs. Buying Cotton After Dark Law Violation No. 8 Township Fanner 1* Fined And Three Negroes Rent To The Roads. » It is a violation of the law to buy cotton after dark and a farmer in No. 6 township who says he was ignorant of the law, was fined $50 and costs In yesterday's county court. Three negroes had sold him small lots of cotton after dark. An inves tlgatlon proved that the cotton her! been stolen at various places and converted into cash after dark. The three negroes were sent to the roads and the farmer was forced to pay the minimum fine of $50 and costs. A prominent attorney says this is no new law but has been on the statute books for forty years or longer. Chief of Police D. D, Wilk ins says this Information should bc published In order to prevent other buyers of small lots of cotton from violation of the law Jo Start Grover Road Grading Will Hr Kenirfii'Ml With Maud And (’lay And Properly Drained, (trover lit tad Prospects. Pour road projects l»av« been ap proved in Cleveland county under the Civil Works administration, these roads to be graded and top sotled with sand and olay and drains and culverts put In without cost to the county. The work will be on* under the recent order by President Roosevelt, to put four million men to work in • the United States, half of them by December l«t and the remainder by December 18th. Seventy percent of the cost of these four projects will be spent for labor and thirty peK cent for drains, culverts, sto. Hop* For Grover Rood There Is a ray of hops for Win i Shelby, Patterson Springs, Bari and Grover road which was promised b0 K. B. Jeffreys, state highway chair man who authorised last night by telephone that Instead of repairing old highway No, 18, that the new survey he taken between Shelby and Grover and that a start be made on the propoeed new road. When the four projects came *or approval by Harry Woodson, local relief administrator, one of the proj ects called for work on old No. 18 sooth. The Star Immediately got In touch with Mr. Jeffres* In Raleigh by telephone and suggested that whatever work Is done by the CWA In this direction, be done on the survey of the new road. He imme diately agreed and raised the ap propriation from *8,000 to 415,000 and stated that the Shelby-Grover road would be divided Into several projects In the hope that it will eventually be built as promised Other Read Projects Other road project* In the coun ty Include the Tattlmore to New House road, the Waco to Fallston road and the New House to Polk vllle road. These road projects In clude regrading where necessary, resurfacing with sand and clay and putting In necessary drains and culvorts. Relief labor will be used and the rate of pay will be 45 cents per hour for unskilled labor and *1 10 psr hour for skilled labor. Back-to-the-Farm Move Will Solve Dig, Lions Hear Ptriwr 'Asserts Influx Vo OHIm Mi Unemployment Cxumi Club Aska Development Of Playgroaod. Tlit* only solution for tbs ooo nomlc ills of this oountry is in the Back to the Farm movement, J. M Parker of West Virginia, Back to the Farm worker, told members of the Shelby Lions club last night tot their semi-monthly meeting at the Hotel Charles. Mr. Parker blamed ths great in flux of population to the cities for the majority of our present unem ployment problems. If theee people can be induced to get out of over crowded population centers and go back to the soli, he believes, the depression would soon be licked. Robert Cooke, chairman of the city directory committee, reported rapid progress, and said the direc tory would be one that the city could be proud of. J. W Osborne, president, announc ed that Shelby would entertain the western district Lions club, tnclud' ing all the clubs west of Raleigh here in January. - A resolution was passed urgm? the'city to take advantage of Fed oral grants for improvement of ‘hr playground east of the square. Two new membeis. James On of the Kendall Medicine Co., and Haywood Spurllng, cotton gin op erator, were received into the club this week. The membership la n 56. Fiddlers Contests In Hollis Nov. 30 Good old mountain music, played by competing hill-billy bands, will be heard in Hollis ' Thanksgiving night in the annual fiddlers con vention, Tips event draws music ians from all parts of the stale and will be largely intended. A ten doialr prize will be awarded tor the best baud, with a second prize of S5. For the. best vocal solo with guitar accompaniment, a prize >1 *2.50 is offered, and for the best mrteile. with string music sut . hits v is $6.^, A small admittance will be charged.