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l The Cllkvkkwmstak 10 Pages Today VOL XXXIX. No. 149 SHELBY, N C. WEDNESDAY. DEC. 13. 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mull. Mr y»«r. Un tdrUMl _ W.M Carrier, iwr year. (In advancal 13 M Late News THE markets Alton. 'P«‘. *• l9*c ^,„n seed, ton, wagon .— 18.0(1 Cotton seed. *«"• cwlot. —- 20 00 Rain Tonight Weather forecast for North Car |jrl l_( loudy today, with rain to (ht and powibly in extreme north nd west portions. Warm tomorrow siowlv rising temperature. Studies Merger Itv CNITED PRESS Washington. Dec. 13.—President Roosevelt Is today studying recom mendations calling for a national merger of communication systems, including telegraph, telephone and radio, it was said at the White lloose Hits At President Montevideo, Dec. 13.—Ignoring rumors of a conciliatory agreement in the L lilted States toward Cuba, Dr. Angel Oiraudy, chief delegate from the Grau government, today launched a bitter attack against president Roosevelt’s policies at a meeting of the economics commit ire of the Pan-American Confer ence. Vessel Burns Monterey, Calif., Dec. 13.—Coasl Guard cutters and other ships churned through storm lashed wav es on the Pacific in ever-widening circles today seeking traces of a vessel hundreds of persons on short saw hum to the wat* r’s edge. All that could be found of the uniden tified vessel was a piece of charred wreckage and three twenty-fivi gallon drums. The ship is believed to have been an oil tanker. Club Council Is Formed h Shelby To Sponsor Wholesome Recreation, Community Bloc Scheduled For Holidays. An Inter-club Council has been formed in Shelby among the social literary and music clubs to provide at a minimum expense, wholesome recreation for as great a number of people as possible, in the form of lectures, musical entertainment and other elevating and worth while forms of entertainment. Officers for the winter and spring are Miss Ethel Thomas chairman Miss Bertha Bostic, vice chairman Mrs Gene Schenck corresponding j secretary. Miss Rosina Pearl, re cording secretary, Mrs. George Blanton, treasurer. The first nubile presentation by die Inter-Club Council will be a Christmas cared community sing Sunday afternoon, Dec. 17th from | 4:30 to 6:30 o’clock. Details will ap [ pear in Friday’s issue of The Star. Clubs belonging to the Inter-Club Council and their representatives are Mrs. E. Y. Webb, Twentieth Century club; Miss Bertha Bostic, Cecelia Music Club; Mrs. Floyd Smith, Reviewer’s club; Mrs. Gene Schenck, Renaissance club; Miss Elizabeth Ebeltoft, Ishpenning club; Miss Carobel Lever, Community Players; Mrs. George Blanton, Chicora club; Mrs. Earl Honeycutt, Readers club; Miss Rosina Pearl, Bonne Heure club: Mrs. Earl Ham rick, Woman’s club; Miss Ethel Thomas, Contemporary club. Support For Duke Industries Urged By Alumni Speakei University Endowment Depends Upon Public Good Will, Say* Prof. Myers. Support for Duke industries was «rs?ed by Prof. H. E. Myers, of the Duke University school of religion, and the Cleveland and Rutherford countv banquet here Monday night. ( Professor Myers said the Duke in «rests deserved the support not or|!y the alumni but of the entire because the vast foundations, fducalional and religious, endowed ■ ■!"‘r Iste James B. Duke depend upon these industries for their Verv existence. t J R Davis, attorney, president Of association, presided at the dinner. officers elected Monday UH-ht were Capt. B. L Smith, nt; Claude Griggs of Kings 'fountain. vice-president; Mrs. y°v McKinney, secretary-treasur j" Sarah Kate Ormand of Kl”e? Mountain was named repre of the alumni council. «ilrt’.--ei(rht Duke alumni and two fuests attended the dinner. ^nt^tsjner WJ|| Appear Thursday UvrUe Thompson. well known ra broadcaster, will give an enter ‘Hient in the court house Thurs , y,f" ‘ning. Dec. 14th. beginning at o clock, she is a widely known entertainer and whites as colored iMiople are invited *tuU1 Emission charge. L 2,114 Unemployed In County Listed At Frazier’s Office Preference Given To Veteran* Applications Dropping Off Now; Department To Handle CWA Jobs From Now On. Indications last week that most of Cleveland county’s unemployed had been registered were confirmed yesterday at re-employment Direc j tor D. R. S. Frazer's office when only 45 persons applied for work. This brings the total registration in that office to 2,114. of which 450 were listed last week. Tenant farm ers, feeling the first sharp nip of winter, crowded into Shelby to look for jobs. One hundred and fifty seven men, with preference given to veterans, have been employed to date. To Place More Men. But more jobs will come from the re-employment office from now on. Cleveland’s Relief Administrator. Harry 8. Woodson, will this week complete his complement of 440 men on CWA jobs, and the re maining 440 jobs assigned to this county will be filled through Fraz er's department. So far, that office has been finding jobs almost ex clusively for skilled men, but with 1 CWA Jobs to assign, it will soon be jgin to give the laborer his chance, i Nine men were placed Tuesday | with private concerns. If You Need A Cook. Incidentally, here’s a note of in terest to housewives: there are scores of good houseworkers, clean ing women, washerwomen and cooks listed at Mr. Frazer’s office. Just telephone number 3. Bridge Trouble Delays New Road In Cleveland Co. Question As To New Bridge Or Moving One From No. 20, Says Mr. Jeffresn. By M. R. DUNN AG AN Raleigh, Dec. 13.—Trouble has arisen over a bridge on the Shelby Boliing Springs road which appar ently is preventing its being includ ed in letting of contract so far, and has caused it to be shunted aside in Washington for the time being, I Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the State commission, said today. Efforts are being made to work out the trouble, Mr. Jeffress said. There has been suggestion that a bridge be taken from Route 20 and placed on this road, or that a new one be built to take the place of the one causing the trouble, ap parently because it is not consider ed satisfactory. Chairman Jeffress said that the Shelby-Polkville and Polkville-Fall ston roads, contracts for which have already been let, probably will not be built until spring, ex pressing the belief that it will probably be better if the work is not done until spring. Meanwhile, he said, the contractors are requlr ed to keep these stretches of road in good condition until the work is done. Cotton Unchanged From Yesterd ay i Cotton at 2 o’clock on New York exchange was unchanged from yes terday, Jan. selling at 9.93, May at 10.24 and July at 10.38. In Royal “Dirty Linen” Case - ■ -ot» Condon court and society circles are considerably stirred by the case of Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon, 43-year-old engineer, who was recently arrested and held without bail charged with ‘‘demanding money from King George with menaces and without probable cause.” Gordon-Haddon claims he is a nephew of the king, asserting he is the illegitimate son of the Duke of Clarence, elder brother of King George, who died in 1892 Had the Duke lived he would have occupied the throne. In his letters to the king, Gordon-Haddon, who served with distinction in the World War. is said to have threatened that he would wash the dirty linen ox the royal family in publie if he were not given enough money to open n board ins house. With A Smile Doris Duke Shoulders Responsibility Of Huge Trust Funds Carolina Quint Will Play Here On December 23 An outstanding sports events for Shelby fans was announced this morning, by Jim If&rris and Paul. Weathers, who have promoted a game here between the University of North Carolina’s basketball team and the Stone Cutter Mill team, said to be one of the fastest semi-pro teams In the south. The game, which will be played in the tin can on the evening of December 23, was arranged through Cricket Weathers of Shelby, mem ber of the Chapel Hill team. The Carolina boys will play the Char lotte Y.M.C.A. team In Charlotte Friday night, and will come over to Shelby for the game on Satur day. Woodson And Staff Called To Raleigh Harry ("General Johnson") Woodson, with Mrs. T. W. Ham rick, Miss Alice Goode King and Robert Hord, members of his relief administration staff, went to Ra leigh yesterday to confer with Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state civil works administrator. They arc expected to return this afternoon. They made the trip on the tele graphic request of Mrs. O’Berry Court house officials said today they didn’t know why they were called, but thought it might have something to do with plans to es tablish Cleveland county’s relief of fices in the building in the rear of the post office. The court house quarters are overcrowded daily. I General Johnson Must Decide Cost Of Pressing U. S. Pants And Shelby Dry Cleaners Keep j i Eye Peeled For News As Comrades Debate. Proprietors of Shelby’s six dry cleaning establishments—not to mention all those affluent wretches who get their clothes pressed reg uiarly—looked to Washington this week for news on revised schedules of minimum prices under NRA as hearings on charges of anti-code price cutting proceeded. Four of the local pressers charge 85c, the state code minimum, for cleaning and pressing a suit. The two others are 25c under. NRA is making its first attempt at mass examination of persons charged with violating a code, and ■ Washington is chock full of pants ’ pressers today. Alternately, they I booed and cheered General Hwh S. ■ Johnson | Some of the complaint verei ! against establishments y }v, >er ated on a cash -and carry'- nd in-the-barrel-while-wop* ess yuui pants basis. They said they could make a profit at charges less than the code minimum. Mixed in with the testimony were charges of violence from hired gangsters, warnings that the code prices would bring about a revival of home cleaning with use of dan gerous explosives by housewives and threats that NRA’s officials were “going to live to regret” the price control. The minimum prices Involved were not fixed in the code but, un der authority of the pact, were established on a temporary basis by the trade governing committee after the code was adopted. They range from 65 cents to 95 cents de pending upon prevailing practices in various trade areas. The hear ing was to present the views of those charged with having under cut, alter the schedule if the com plainants "fluid show -ause or otherwise im over ’■> ■ ?ases to the fedei. > trade conn' ' on or de nar; • nt of justice for punative action. * Greenville, 8. C.. Dec. 12—Miss Doris Duke, in a happy spirit, yes terday shouldered her share of the responsibility of administering the huge endowment established by her father. It was a serious-minded, but fre quently smiling, America’s richest heiress who came from New York to participate in a celebration here of the ninth anniversary of the founding of the $40,000,00 endow ment and attend a meeting of the trustees. "I am having a wonderful visit enjoying every minute of it” she told newsmen in a brief Interview. “I hope that I may come back again." Visits Hospital allowing the same spirit of phil anthropy that characterized her multi-millionaire forebear, the late James B. Duke, power and tobacco magnate, she spent nearly an hour visiting youngsters at the Shrin ers’ hospital for crippled children, one of the participants in her fath er’s beneficcncies. Many of the children had writ ten her in anticipation of her visit. She thanked them for their thoughtfulness. As the tall, blonde and striking ly beautiful visitor prepared to leave, a score of the youngsters stood up and gave her and the other Duke trustees a cheer in col legiate fashion. Such lovely children,” she told her mother Mrs. Nanalinc H. Duke, as she left the hospital. "I enjoy ed my visit With them ever so much." After a brief rest at her hotel, the young heiress with her mother at tended the meeting of the trustees. She became a member of the board a fortnight ago, at the same time she came into possession of $10,000,000- of a $30,000,000 trust fund left her from her father’s millions. Police Escort Wearing a brown fur coat and a nat of the same color. Miss Duke stepped from her special car at the ■ailway station shortly after noon. \ motorcycle police escort roared ihead of her automobile to the lotel and accompanied her on the visit to the hospital. She remarked casually to a mem aer of her party that it was the first time outside of New York she nad had a police escort. Shortly after her arrival, she at tended a luncheon in honor of the endowment trustees. She planned to visit other hospitals and institu tions sharing in the endowment to morrow and leave during the aft ernoon on tfce return trip to New Vork. Mac Wilkin. Hurt In Elevator Fall Mac Wilkins, son of Chief of Police D. D. Wilkins, suffered a aroken arm last Frida v when he fell down an elevator shaft In the P tc M Warehouse in Greenville, S. C. Hr * nped into thr shaft in the da’ falling i •' the first floor ’ isement, a distance of out 12 leet. Commerce Body To Be Operating By January First Organization Rapidly Moving Forward K. A. Houser la Employed By Board A* .Secretary; Member ship Drive This Week. Organisation plana for tha Shel by chamber of commerce and mer chants association are fast mater ializing, , J. D. Linebergcr, chair man, said today, and every indica tion Is that It will be functioning by January 1, if not sooner. E. A. Houser, Jr., has been employed as secretary by the board of directors and temporary offices have been opened in room 84, Linebergcr building. Canvass of the city for members will probably be made this week, directors planning to meet prob ably this afternoon to work out de tails of classifications and other ■natters of similar nature. While the terms "chamber of commerce” Is being used, directors point out that one of the most Im portant matters to which attention will be given is merchants' prob lems, the office to be really a com bined merchants bureau and cham ber of commerce. While, naturally, efforts will be made to interest pos sible new lines of Industry that miif.it be logically located In Shel by the prime effort of the body Is to develop the town by the efforts of its own citizens rather than to spend time and money In an effort to attract outside Interest. Every effort will be made to make of the chamber of commeros a clearing house of Information of value to every business and pro fessional man of the city, practic ally every line of endeavor being represented on the board of direc tors. It ts believed that it will be possible to get active participation In community affairs by business men generally- through the organ isation. Board Of Directors Directors, In addition to Mr. Llneberger, include R. E. Campbell, O. M. Mull, Lee B. Weathers, J, 8. Dorton, J. r. Schenck, Jr„ J. R. Dover, Max Washburn, John P. McKnight, O. W. Neely, Harvey White, Dr. 8. 8. Royster and Thad C. Port. Junior College Champs Honored B. 8. Football Squad Banqueted Be cause of Their Victorious Sea son on Gridiron. Boiling Springs, Dec. 13.—A ban quet sponsored by a number of football fans of Bolling Springs and Shelby was given in the college din ing hall Thursday evening honor ing the college football squad who have recently won the Jr. College championship of North Carolina. Elaborate banquet plates were served to sixty-three which lnclud ed the members of the footbn; team their girl friends, the spon sors of the banquet and their wives The president of the college, Rev. J. L. Jenkins was toast master. Mr Zeno Wall, toasted Mr. Paul Hutchins, the coach. Mrs. J. L. Jenkins gave a toast to the team to which Mr. George Mauney re sponded. After the banquet supper the members of the squad were intro duced to the guests. The college community, county and state are justly proud of these boys who have worked so faithfully this season with their coach Mr. Hutchins They have made an enviable record not only in winning the champion ship but also in good sportsman ship. Hospital Receives Generous Gifts The 8helby hospital has received generous gifts recently from several individuals and clubs in the coun ty. Mrs. William Crowder and other women of the Lattimore Community club have given a quan tity of canned fruit and vegetables; and the Chicora and 20th Century literary c^ubs of the city have pre sented gifts of money. Officials of the hospital are very grateful for this assistance and similar gifts from other organiza tions of the city and county will be received with appreciation. HOLIDAY DANCE AT UNION HALL SATURDAY There will be a holiday dance at the Union Hall, Thompson build ing on Wes' Warren street, Satur day evening, beginning at 8 o’clock. The fiance is sponsored by the text;: mion. Music will b> furnish ed b ip ’’avvalis-’. Sere i a i.y, • <tion playing stringed instruments. Headed for Separate Goals . r SB* 1 Doua and Mary “After divorce-whatf* Hollywood gossips are asking, referring to th »uit filed aeainet Douglas Fairbanks in Los Angeles by Mary Pickford Piekfair will probably be sold and it is believed Mary may seek forget fulness in a return to the screen in an attempt to win back the plan she onoe held as “America's Sweetheart.” Doug, it is said, may become a permanent'resident of England, it being rumored that he may even become Sir Douglas Fairbanks. The American D’Artagnan has been organising a 15,000,000 film company in the English capital since last August In London, Doug is something of a social lion, his friendship with the Prince of Wales being his passport to the most exclusive drawing-rooms in the land. North Carolina Home Owner’s Loan Amounts To Almost Four Millions Man Loses $500 Unknown Friend Brings h Back Suppose you found $000. Would you look for the owner? Or would you keep the money and say noth ing? Somebody In Shelby had that temptation this week and over came It—more than that, wouldn't even reveal his name. It happened like this? S. F, Lee, Lawndale merchant, dropped a leather wallet containing $500 In the Webb theatre on Mon day night. He didn't discover the loss until his return home. At l a. m. he telephoned Floyd Willis, projection room operator, got him out of bed, and the two searched the theatre thoroughly. No pocket book. But when Bill Wobb, theatre owner, came down yesterday morn ing, the wallet had been thrust through the window in the ticket office. It wan Intact. Children Must Not Skate In Streets A warning to parents that chil dren win not be allowed to skate In the streets was Issued by Chief of Police D. D. Wilkins today. Chil dren are allowed to skate on side walks In residential districts only. Mrs. Stevens, mother of Mrs. Horace Easom, returned to her home yesterday after an extended visit with relatives In Wilmington and Wilson. Salisbury, Dee. II.—Approved loan* of the Home Owners’ Loan corporation In North Carolina reached a grand total oL 1,750 with a value of $3,007,888.18 at the close of the week which ended Decem ber 8, It was announced tonight by Alan S. O'Neal, state manager ol the corporation with headquarters here. During the week Included In the report to Washington, 300 ap provals were added with a value ol $433,830.04. O’Neal reported that 186 bond loans without reduction of the mortgage principal totaling $318, 733.48; 34 bond loans with reduc tion ol mortgage principal totaling $141,269.98 and S3 cash lonns with out reduction of the principal cash sum totalling $85,836.61 were ap proved. The saving to the home owners through reduction in mort gage principal, which was effected with the co-operallon of mortgage holders, was $83,070 05, he said. During the week, O’Neal reported $141,323.80 In cash and bonds wat (Continued on page nine). Taxi-Truck Drivers Form A Union Here A chauffeur and teamsters unior has been organized In Shelby, witl all taxi drivers and a number o: truck drivers reported to have join ed. The organization was perfectec Saturday night at the union hall West Warren street Larry Hogan will come here Sat urday and speak to the textlli workers Saturday morning at 10:31 o'clock in the Thompson hall ant at noon, will make a special ad dress to the seamless hosiery work ers. 3,000Farmers Hear Plan To Cut ’34 Cotton Crop; Parity Price 15c There Wae Some Fudging This Year On Plow-Up. Cul Out 15 Million Acre*. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 111.—Three thousand cotton turners from five states gathered here today fur an explanation of the government’s 1934 cotton acreage reduction pro gram by Oscar Johnston, finance administrator of the agricultural adjustment administration. Farmers filled the seats, the bal cony, the aisles, as Johnston, him self a southern cotton grower, spoke for two hours. County farm agents lined the platform as Johnston discussed the 10,300,000 acre plow-up campaign this year and the 15,000,000-acre cotton reduction plan of next year. He urged fanners to sign the new contracts within the next 30 days. Parity Price 15 Cents The parity price of cotton next ye;:'. i ee. the costs of produe fi Will be 11 cents .' dig thtu it Wot ; the aun or tne administration to give the farmers 16 cents a pound minimum as a parity price. Thus is contingent, he asserted, upoi; the successful co-operation ol farmers with the government in th< 1934 acreage control plan. Johnston explained that the gov ernment's estimate last spring wai a parity price of 12.4 cents a pounc and that the $160,000,000 paid ou in plow-up money and cotton op. ttons was sufficient when dividcc by the 13,177,000-bale crop, t( make the 2.4 cents difference be tween 12.4 and the market price a 10 cents. “Twelve-point-four cents was th< goal for the present crop, and how well we succeeded through youi co-operation is shown by the fig ures," Johnston asserted. Charges Fudging “We don’t think you plowed up the best 10,000,000 acres. There was a certain amount of fudging, but with all we prevent! !ne pro duction of 3,500,000 bales \rid that tConuuued on page umej. Fanners Organize New Credit Body; Serves 3 Counties To Replace All Other Loan Agencies - ..... Chrrryvlllr Association Formed Bf Men From tirrftand, till rnln end C>eiitun More thun thirty farmers, repre senting Cleveland, Gaston and tin coin counties, and their county farm agents, met .it Cherryvllle on Monduy night to organise the Cher ryvllle Production Credit assoclr. tion. This new credit association will after January 1, replace all other | farm credit bodies, operating under 1 the Commodity Credit corporation , J, W. Johansen, representative of the corporation, was present to help effect the local organisation. County Directory. The following directors were al ec tad. For Cleveland county, T. C. Beam of Waco, Yate« Spurting of Oher ryvllle, R-2, and Wayne L. War* of Kings Mountain. For Gaston county, R. K. Raker and L. A. Barbee. For Lincoln county, T. A. Wa* - llck and O. T. Wise. These directors will elect a trt county secretary. Later on, each county will establish Its own office and name a committee to pass on loans. County Agents. The county agents present were R. W. Mhoffnsr for Cleveland, L. B, Altman for Oaaton and 2, CL Mor rison for Lincoln. The new credit body will replscv agencies which disbursed tlflO.OOU to Cleveland county alone urtng 1933. Junior Red Cross Sends 1,000 Cards Loral Chapter Varnishes Chriaiu... t anU To Vsteran* At (Hern HaaplUl. ■ , More than 1,000 Christmas eat:., were sent by parcel post yesterda, to United States veterans at Oteen near Asheville. It will be remem bered that recently the Junior Red Cross In the six elementary school here adopted 100 of these U. 8. vet erans. Adoption of United States government hospitals Is one of the most popular national services of the American Junior Red Cross. The South Shelby school and the Marion school led the other schools In the number of Christmas card: sent in. Miss Selma Webb, chairman oi the Junior Red Cross appreciates very highly the cooperation oi prin cipals and juniors In the splendid response which they made to this request for Christmas cards for veterans. The veterans at Oteen will send these cards back home Christmas to friends and loved ones Thompson Takes On Chrysler-Plymouth Rush Thompson Takes Agency For Two Makes To Sell At His Warren St. Place. Rush O Thompson has secured the agency for the Chrysler and Plymouth automobiles which he will handle at his place of business ' at the corner of McBrayer and Warren streets. Mr. Thompson says the new models for 1934 will be en the market shortly after the first of the year. Walter P. Chrysler now makes the Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth cars. The Dodge and Plymouth Is hand led by the Keever Motor Co., and the Chrysler-Plymouth by Mr. Thompson, thus giving two dealers for the Plymouth ^ Shelby, $900 Contributed For Memorial Hal’ Almost $900 has been conUibuu | .so far to the American Legion fun for the erection of a Memorial Hut on East Warren street, canvasser ; announced this morning. Tlies. additional contributions were an ; nounced: Henry Edwards, »2A0, Dj D. F. Moore, $10; Mrs. E. A. Hou ser, $10; Woolworths, $5; Dr. H. B. ' Plaster, $2.50 and Oscar O. Palmer. ; *>■ Members of the post and of the auxiliary will appreciate your con tribution. !>txciypittg tffc ’Hit