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the markets Cotton, *pot -. 9*c t0 »*• cotton seed. *"• wa*on —- U0° Chiton seed. ton. carlota .... 20.00 Warmer, Cloudy Heather forecast For North Car jin#_ Partly cloudy, slightly warm ’ tonight. Tomorrow, partly cloudy ,nd colder In west portion. By UNITED PRESS Kountie. Tex., Dec. 8.—The body , David Gregory, negro ex-convict accused of attacking and murder , , white woman, was burned in the negro section here today after ,n angry mob had torn out the hf,rt and wrangled for hours be (orf tossing the mutilated corpse on a huge pyre. The negro, who was hunted for the brutal slaylny ^ Mrs. Mcllie Williams on Satur di¥, was shot down from a church jt^plc by officers late yesterday and died enroute to the Jail. The KounUe mob blocked the highway and seined the body. Mothers, Children Die In Fire Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Dec. 8. _Two mother* and their five chil dren were burned to death here to day when fire destroyed the home „f Ernest Hlblen. Mrs. Erline Orr, 19, and her small daughter, and Mrs. Genevieve Hlblen, 31, and her five children, were trapped in the home, said to have been fired by overheated stove pipes. Their hus bands were at work. Hotel Heir Dies By UNITED PRESS Tucson, Ariiona, Dec. 8.—Milton S taller, heir to the estate of his father.- Milton Statler, New York hotel magnate, was killed and his wife Injured when their car over turned last night near the Mexican border. H was learned today when Mrs. Statler was brought to a local hospital. Lindys Fly Home Rio de Janiero, Dec. 8.—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are homeward bound today, flying along the Brazilian coast toward Para. They took off at 6:15 this morning, Eastern Standard Time. The Mndberghs landevf^in Brazil Wednesay, completing a 1,860 mile hop from Africa to South America Mutual Exchange Opens Warehouse To Help Farmers Farmers Exchange Secures Ware house On West Marlon Street For Stock Of Feeds. A warehouse and sales room lo cated in the Harris building oppo site Rogers Motors on West Mar ion street, has been secured by the Cleveland Fanners Mutual Ex change lor the sale of poultry and fairy feeds, flour, poultry supplies end various kinds of ingredients for feeds and fertilizers. A R. Snyder Is manager in charge of the warehouse, while G w°lfe. S. S. Mauney and B^.Aus ’eh compose the executive board R W. Shoffner, county farm ag<*nt, “•vs that the Farmers Mutual Ex change sold over $12,000 worth of •eeds and flour to farmers ’est ’ear through the farm agent’s of lfe. saving them considerable money. The exchange also operates Poultry cars through Shelby at wated Intervals to give the farm ^ a cash Market for poultry. Now at the warehouse has been open ed and a stock of merchandise Is aept on hand, it la expected that e business will grow. Farmers do 0,have to be a member of the ?c ,arwe to buy or sell through organization. Lights To Sparkle On Square Saturday I C1V"'stmas tree lights will sparkle he court house square after Saturday, Mayor McMurry •nnounced this morning. Renew For Star; Oet Free Almanac * few subscribers *ho receive their Star by mail *'* not renewed daring the f»". This is pay-up time. Re tw now before we revise °“r mailing list for annual c|reulation audit. afit08* Wh0 rwiew wil1 * 1934 Blum’s Almanac FREE »» long as they loot. No more valuable premium wUl be of ”**• Neither wlU there be ^n> adv»nce In the subscrip "n price, but subscriptions ** have expired must be or those in arrears wil) * tak*" from the list. I TM Lll EVEN nd ZM 10 Pages Today VOL XXXIX. No. 147 SHKLBY, N. C ■—11 ■■ m&sgfgmmmmmmmm FRIDAY, DEC. 8. 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Bjr M«ll ptt j«r, (la idruM«> _ U.» C«m«r. prr MU, (in b4vbbmi _ (IN Cline And Dorton Again Fair Heads; Make Enlargement $10,000 It Realized In Prosperous Year. Net Operating Profit $10,000 This Year. Will Enlarge Grand stand. Exhibit Hall. A. E. Cline of Kinfgs Mountain was re-elected president and Dr. J. S. Dorton, secretary-treasurer of the Cleveland county fair associa tion at the annual meeting of stockholders held yesterday after noon in the office of the secretary In the Lineberger building. Twenty-five or 30 stockholders were present and after hearing the financial report, gave words of praise to Dr. Dorton. the secretary and other officers for their vision and enterprise in conducting the fair in such a successful manner. This was the most profitable yeai the fair has ever had, showing net profits of $10,000. The gross re ceipts were $24,000. exceeded only one time in the nine years the fail has been organized. Has Cash Surplus The association has no debts and a cash surplus of $5,200 in bank This fall the crowds w;ere so large the grandstand would not accom modate them. The expensive race horses and other show stock were housed in dilapidated quarters that have almost rotted down in the nine years since they were built. Sanitary conditions are not amp^ and the board fence along (Continued on Page 10) Directors Chosen For Chamber And Merchants Body Fourteen Directors Accept, Elect J. D. Lineberger As Chairman; Membership Drive. About fifty merchants and busi ness men gathered last night in the court to hear a report of the nominating committee on a board of directors for the chamber of commerce and merchants asso ciation, now in formation here. 14 Directors Interest is keen in the organiza tion and each member of the board of directors was contacted before nomination and agreed to serve, giving the organization moral and financial support. The board is composed of Harvey White, O. M. Mull, John Schenck, Iliad C. Ford, John McKnight, Max Washburn, G. W Neely, J. D. Lir.cberger, Dr S. S. Royster. Dr. J. S. Dorton. D.| R. Yates, R. E. Campbell and Lee B. Weathers. Linebergrr Chairman Following the election of direc tors they met and chose J. D. Line berger as chairman. A list of pros pective members will be made up immediately and a campaign made for funds with which to carry on the work for a year. The directors will draft a constitution and by laws and when the memVrship is secured, a president and secretary and various committees will be se lected. It was revealed by Mr. Linebor ger that the old chambet of com-: merce which ope:ated here a num-i ber of years ago. has a desk, type writer, table and chairs to fit up the new office. When the preliminary work is completed for membership which will^be county-wide, teams will so licit membership and subscriptions. In the meantime, the directors are giving consideration to a suitable man to serve as secretary. They have decided that he must be a lo cal man, thoroughly familiar with the affairs of the city and county and who knows something of the objective of an organization such as this. Where Lindberghs Landed After Ocean Hop if Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh were welcomed to the beautiful airport at Natal, Brasil, after flight across the South Atlantic from Bathurst, Africa. Mrs. Lindbergh roused enthusiasm of wireless men by her prompt and efficient radio reports of the progress of their plane throughout the hop. 36 Jurors Drawn By Commissioners Representing Eleven Townships, They Will Serve Here When Court Opens Jan. S. Cleveland's county commission ers, meeting at the court house yes terday, drew a panel of 36 jurors representing 11 townships for the term of superior court beginning here January 8. It is not yet known who the pre siding judge will be. The jurors follow; No. 1, Richard B. Earls. No. 2, A. C. Ramsey, Wilbur Cast and C. C. Pruitt. No. 3, Kenyon Blanton, M. G. Latham and Forrest Turner. No. 4, R. M. Dover, Jr, Fuller McGill, F. B. Glass, B. ft*. Payseur, W. Hinckle McGinnis and R. C. Gold. No. 6, H. Lee Beam, and T. M. Ware. No. 6, W. N. Dorsey. A. W. Mc Ginnis, Elmer Price, Charles Rhine hardt, E. C. Kiser, A. H. Padgett and J. F. Ledford. No. 7, R. G. Adams, Wilbur L. Simmons, F. A. Greene and C. C. Walker. No. 8, Dwight Whisnant, B. M. Lackey, Laurence Turner and O. Z. Wilson. No. 9, O. Miller Sparks, Wayne 8. Brackett, Wheeler Costner and Co lumbus M. Ledford. No. 10, S. Lee Cook. No. 11, George K. Newton. Epidemic Of Measles Spreads In County A mild epidemic of measles is spreading in Cleveland county, and County Health Officer Dr. D. P. Moore urged all parents to take every precaution with their chil dren. Forty-six coses were report ed in November and 32 cases have been reported this month, “Keep the children at home ” Dr Moore advises, and if your child shows the slightest symptoms, call your family physician immediately All cases of measles must be re ported to the health officer for quarantine. Cant. Smiths Speaks j Recovery Program: Capt. B. L. Smith, superintendent of the Shelby public schools, spoke on "The National Recovery Pro gram” at a meeting of the Forest City Kiwanis club Monday night. Deposit Charges Will Be Fair, Eskridge Tells TheKiwanis Club Clearing House Code Details, Now Up To Washington. Can’t Be Announced Yet, He Says Forrest Eskridge, president of the State Bankers association, spoke to members of the Shelby Kiwanis club last night, explaining the rules and regulations of the Qlass-Stegal banking bill, the rules of the North Carolina Clearing House association, and the code of fair competition adopted by the clearing house, which has been submitted to the National Code committee, and will become effec tive January 1 if approved. Details of this code, particularly the points affecting deposit chs-ses. cannot now be made public, Mr Eskridge said. “The service charge will be ab solutely fair," he said, “and a cer tain number of checks will be al lowed the customer each month ir respective of his balance. No charge will be made against the account if the balance is adequate to cover the expense of the ac count.” “The National Code committee Instructed the N. C. Clearing House in adopting its code, that no ac counts were to be carried at a loss to the bank, or at the expense of other depositors.” The expense of insuring deposits under the federal deposit insurance plan will be borne by the bank" not the depositors, he declared. i Sign Language Used In Wedding Of Deaf Couple Lover* have preferred the sign language to the spoken word since love first began to make the world go ’round, and Mr. and Mrs. Car lus A. Canady of Cumberland coun ty, of all people, believe its better The sign language brought them together, and the sign language married them. Mrs. Canady, who before her marriage was Miss Georgia Block, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Block of Cleveland county, met her future husband at the North Caro lina School for the Deaf at Mor ganton, where both were students. They were married on Dec. 1 at the home of the Rev. A. C. Miller, Vt., on South Washington' strict Mr. Miller is an evangelist to the deaf, one of the few if not the only one in the United States. The cere mony was performed in the pres ence of the bride's father and mother by Mr. Miller, who used the manual sign language throughout the oeremony. ESTIMATED YIELD OF COTTON IS UP Government Placed Crop At 13, 177,000. Ginned 12,100,202 To Dec. 1st. The census bureau of the govern ment estimated the cotton crop this year at 13,177,000 bales, raising the estimate 77,000 above the esti mate made two weeks ago. The market remained unchanged at 2 o’clock today from yesterday’s close, Jan. being quoted in New York at 9.93, March 10.11 and May 10.24. There had been ginned to Dec. 1 this year 12,108,292 as compared with 11,250,851 up to Nov. 15th. North Carolina's crop Is estimat ed at 890.000 bales, while that of Texas which makes a third of the entire crop made In the south is ’sttmated at 4,400,000. Two New Members For Tall Story Club Yarn-spinners are asked to take notice while Mooresboro nominates two new members to the Tall Story club. They are Sam Greene and Rex Brooks, who went 'possum hunting this week. The two were passing a clump of bushes in their car wljen right In front of the headlights scrambled a fet ’possum. The hunters had no ticgs with them, but they went aft er the game, madly In pursuit with a flashlight. Through underbrush, over logs, fighting their way through briars, the hunters pursued the ’possum, and finally chased him up a spindling refuge. Mr. Greene went right up after him. A couple of shakes, and the heavy animal fell to the ground. Mr. Brooks threw his overcoat on It. Spanish War Vets To Meet Monday Night The Junius T. Gardner chapter of Spanish American War Veter ans will meet Monday night in the court house at 7:30 far the purpose of electing officers for next year. All Spanish American war veter ans who are not members of the i chapter are urged to attend and join. The ladies auxiliary will meet at the same time, says B G. Lo# an. commander. Burglars Take All Ward’s Cigarettes Braak In Tesaeo Wiling Station, Bat Ignore Tires To Steal Candy And Smokes. Burglars, believed to have been boys, broke through a window In Ward Arey jr.'s Texaoo filling station on South Washington and East Graham streets early Wed nesday morning and took merchan dise worth about $35. The robbery, according to the po liceman who patrols the Graham street beat, must have occurred about 4 a. m. Every package of cigarettes In the place was taken, along with a quantity of candy. No tires or au tomobile accessories were touch ed, and only a small amount of cash was mfeslhg • * * High School Gass To Sponsor Paper Junior* Revive Publication, Elect Will Any, Jr., Editor. With Staff Of Assistants. With a complete news and edi torial staff elected by student bal lot, the Junior class at Shelby High school will begin publication of a school newspaper shortly after the holidays. This will be the first time the school has had Its own paper for about five years. Members of the class chose their editors at a special election yester day. They elected Will Arey, Jr., editor-in-chief; Maryln Smith and Hill Hudson assistant editors; Woodrow Wall business manager, with two assistants, Harold Bettis and Robert Wilson; Keith Shull advertising manager, assisted by Jack Palmer and Roy Lee Connor; Bill Dellinger circulation manager assisted by C. B. Putnam and Jam es Gilmore; Charles Broadway news-editor, assisted by Estelle Hicks and Nancy McGowan; Lewis Robinson boys’ sports editor, as sisted by Clarence Smith; Marion Bass, Oirla’ sports editor, assisted by Helen Wilson. The plan is to print 500 copies of the paper. Holiday Shopping Hours Lengthened Department And Grocery Stores To Remain Open Longer As Christmas Approaches. Holiday shoppers will have long er hours In which to do their trad ing as the Christmas season ap proaches, according to a decision on the part of the department store and grocery merchants at a meet ing In the court house this week. Department stores in Shelby, now operating on a uniform open ing and closing schedule, open at 9 a. m. and close at 5:00 p. m. These hours will be continued until Thursday, Dec. 31st. The opening hour will continue at 9 o’clock, but on Thursday the department stores will remain open until 8 p. m., on Friday to 9 p. m. and on Saturday, until 10 p. m. Grocermen adopted the «un» schedule except that they now open each morning at 8 and will continue to open an hour earlier than department stores. On Thurs day, Dec. 21st they will remain open until 8 p. m, on Friday to 9 p. m and on Saturday to 10 p. m. Drug and hardware stores maki ' no announcement. Local Mills Run Shorter Hours On Scarcity Of Orders Textile Factories Go 3-Day Basis hfinl MUU On Thne D»j Rune. Cat Of BB Percent Authorised By Hugh Johnson. Textile mills in Shelby have al ready eurtailed production beoauae of a lack of order* and an uncer tain future, due to the condition of the good* market. The Dover and Ora mill* are running three day* this week, the Eton is operating its rayon depart ment three days and the cotton goods department a full five day week. The management of the Eton says “business Is the slowest it has been since the Eton took over the old Eastside.” The Shelby mill Is running five days this week. Last week it was on a three day schedule. Mr. Le Qrand oould not be reached to find out the plans for the future for that plant. The Ella mill i* on full schedule this week an doperated the full five days last week. A report from the office of Mr. Miller, the manager, says orders on hand to justify full operation next week, but beyond this, he could not say. The Bynim Hosiery mill is run ning fifty per cent of Its knitters five days a week and fifty per cent oh a three day schedule. Mr. By rum states in a check-up of the lo cal textile plants that "ws look for two or three days next week. Mar ket conditions are very unsettled and we do not know what to look for. Some regulation of production is expected to be announced from Washington on Monday that will determine the next two months.” The Lily mill has been on a three day schedule for several weeks. Motor trouble this week, upset op erations for awhile. The Cleveland Cloth mil), oper ating on a different class of ma terials from the other local plants, Is on full schedule, but Mr. Mull anhotmced this morning that the plant would close on Dec. 33nd and remain close for a week during the Chrlatmas holidays. U Per Cent Cut George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, says that Hugh Johnson. NRA administrator has approved a recommendation of the textile industry code approv ing a 36 per cent cut In December. The adopted recommendation reads: "Resolved, that pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of the Cot ton Textile code. It is recommend ed to meet emergency conditions now prevailing in the Industry and to preserve an equitable sharing of present Inequitable business and employment among concerns en gaged In tbe industry, and the communities and employees de pending on Its activities that dur ing the month of December, 1933, productive machinery In the cot ton textile Industry shall not be of the hours otherwise permitted operated for more than 76 per cent by the Cotton Textile Code." Court House Brighter Under CWA Brushes While scrubbers brightened the exterior of the old court hdlue, painters mounted tall scaffolds and freshened the Inside of the court room yesterday during the absence of Judge Joe Wright in Kings Mountain. The whole court house is being done over by labor supplied by the Civil Works administration. EK> far, the workers on the outside have cleaned the stone surface up to about ten feet from the ground, but this gives a good idea of the splen did appearance the building will make, white and stately, when the work is completed. Offices and corridors are also being painted. Writing Dry Obit Acting Secretary of State William Phillips, pictured as he put hi* sig nature to the proclamation which officially declared the Repeal Amendment had “become valid as a part of the Constitution of the united States,” a few momenta af ter telegraphic notification had been received at Washington from Utah ■" ' the Mormon stronghold had rttfcmed that New Government Plan To Be Heard On Radio Tuesday Governor Urges All To Listen To Program; Asks Public Gather ings In RUte. Details of a governmental pro gram mapped out by the Institute of Government and said to be of f&r-reachlng importance to North Carolinians will be broadcast in public meetings all over the state on Tuesday at 1:80 p. m. All county, state and city offic ials and employees, groups of pri vate cltlisens and all high school and college students are urged to as semble at designated meeting places to receive the message, which will be on the air in a state-wide pro gram. Governor Khrlnghaus has Issued a proclamation calling upon people of the state to comply with the Insti tute's request, asking officials to gather for the broadcast In city halls and court houses and for stu dents to meet In their assembly halls. \ Note On Modesty Of Shelby’s Youth Two Cleveland Star reporters watched a crowd of boys and young men In front of the Webb Theatre for twenty minutes yesterday. The crowd was beguiled by three-sheets and pictures proclaiming a daring film and lecture on birth control. The young men walked up and down, guffawed at the posters, and looked a little embarrassed. None of them went Inside. There may, of course, have been lots of people In the theatre. The reporters didn't go In either. Patterson To Open Flower and Gift Shop Patterson Flowers will open a flower and gift shop next week In the Nash old stand between Woo! worth and Buttle Drug stores. Mr Patterson says his plan is to make I this a permanent location and will J handle not only flowers, but pot tery, seeds, Imported bric-a-brac, gifts and novelties, such as are not now sold In the city. School Sanitation Inadequate, Supervisor’s Survey Reveals Francis Deplores Condition In CO Schools; Board of Health Asks For 4,000 Privies. The state board of health has submitted to the Civil Works ad ministration a project calling for construction of 4,000 sanitary privies for Cleveland county public schools, it was announced at Ad ministrator Woodson’s office this morning. This request was made following a report of County Sanitary Sup ervisor J. B. Francis, who, after a county-wide inspection. said that more than B0 schools were inarlr 'inattrty equii d. The project submitted calls lot j employment of 30 foremen, a sup ervisor, 10 sanatariane, and 271 laborers. ' The following projects have been approved for the county. It was learned this morning: Kings Mountain school, three un skilled and 12 skilled laborers, Bel wood school improvements. Philadelphia colored school, one unskilled and three skilled. Bethware school, Kings Mountain, one unskilled and three skilled. Moriah school, Casar. 10 unskill ed and two skilled Grover gymnasium ■ iaht unskill j ed and eight skin Other -ilv .'s c iounly, six') unskilled and ux skilled. j Volstead Act Void, Says Judge Webb; Upholds Own Law Federal Jurist Won’t Try Dry Cases Co-Author Of Webb-Kenyon Act Call* It Only XtfttuU For Prohibition State*. . Conforming with the opinion o Judge Johnson Hayes of the U. 8 district court, Judge S. Yates Wobt of Shelby, co-author of the Webb Kenyon act protecting dry itatei age) net Importation of liquor fron wet neighbors, declared yeaterdaj that he believed he had no pow# now to Impose punishment undei the Volstead act. "I can hardly paaa Judgment un der a law whtoh la dead,” he aald “I feel, therefore, that I am with out power to alt on caeca chargtni violation of tha national prohibi tion laws. While without doubt many persona In caaee now pend lng committed the crime with whtoJ they are charged, the Slat amend ment, to rtiy mind, automatloaUj removes the machinery by whlol they might be tried and punished.’ ■Manilas Pending Caaee Holding this opinion, he believes that all pending oases charging federal liquor law violation should be junketed, but he added that th« change In law will not afefet per sons already aervtng sentences “They were duly tried end sen tenced under a law then evicting Theirs Is a legal and Just punish ment,’' he said. i ■ 1 1 i 3 I 1 - .J-... Indictments for offense* com mitted In the future will be drawn under the Webb-Kenyon act, Judgt, Webb said, between now and th« drafting of a general revenue bill by congress covering the whiskey situation. The Webb-Kenyon las and the old liquor revenue laws art | still In force and now become thi prevailing means of protecting drj states from illicit liquor making) within Us borders, and from trnns- | portatlon from wet states. 200 Men To Hear n ^ Rev. Melvin Trotter Tomorrow Evening j Presbyterians From > Counties Ts Meet At First Baptist Chureh In Shelby. Two hundred men of the Kings 1 Mountain Presbytery will meet at ‘I the First Baptist church here to- | morrow night to hear the Rev. Melvtn E. Trotter, superintendent of Missions at Grand Rapids, and m one of the most remarkable flgur es In contemporary church history. The Rev. H. N. McDlarmid, pas tor of the Shelby Presbyterian church, said this morning that ha regretted a general Invitation to the public could not be extended to hear M:r. Trotter, bat the meeting, he said. Is the annual meeting at the Presbytery representing five counties. A turkey dinner will be served at 6:30. with Mr. Trotter win be nag leader Homer Hammontree and pianist Paul Beckwith. More Contributions For Legion Hall Additional contributions to the American Legion fund for the erec tion of a Memorial Hall on Past Warren street follow: Lily Mill and Power Co.. $25.00; Byrum Hosiery Mill, $15.00; C. C. Blanton. $1000. Mr. and Mrs. Bay Allen, $10,000; X. V. Webb. $6.00; John A. Weaver, $1.00; Bee Hive. $2.00; 8. X. Hoey. $1.00; Chas. Burrus, $5.00; Mrs. A V. Hamrick. $5.00; O. M. Mull and O. Max Oardner, $25.00; D. H Cline, $10.00. Mr*. Doggett’s Uncle 'i Passe* In Georgia O. E. Torrey, uncle ol Mrs. Jolm W. Doggett died suddenly Mondn\ night at his home in Elberton. Gu from a heart trouble Mrs. Chat Moss, mother of Mrs. Doggett auo Miss Mattie Torrey, aunt of Mrs Doggett who were visiting In Shel by at the time, left Immediate!' for Georgia, accompanied by Mrs Doggett, her brothers, Charles Moss of Gastapia and Harold Mos« of Spartanburg, S. C. to attend the funeral which was held yesterday at Stone Mountain, near Atlanta Mr. Torrey whs 64 years of age. 1 i I
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