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TI» WWM »Zka Late News the MAEKET8 f«t»on, spot. #*c *o Wfce Colion ton- w»fon .... 18.00 CotMto seed, ton' r,irlot8- 10 00 CfAJCDY AND COLDER forecast for North Caro partly clondy, slightly colder Ib ssst portion tonight. Fair to ^nrrnw, slightly colder on the coast. Kidnap Livermore In New York H, I'NITED PRESS pe* York, Dec. >0.—Police offl ||f|i. announced this morning that .Bthorltie* believe Jesse L. Liver ^ famous Wall street plunger, * |n thr hands of kidnapers. He Disappeared at the close of the jtork market yesterday, and his nlff told police he had had an Inti mation that he had been marked by criminals and had been telephoning Imr at regular Intervals as a safe —jrd. The last call was at four o'clock. She became alarmed when ho failed to make another call. Two sons had already been threat oned. The department of Justice at Washington was formally notified lh»t Mr. Livermore had been kld nspped. Bank Robbed St. Louis, Dec. 20.—Two bandits hiding in Hie Creve Ooeur bank held up the cashier, R. F. Bloom when he opened the doors this ovirnlng. rifled the bank, and es tspfd with between four and five thousand dollars. Spies Accused Ports. Dec. 20.—Two Americans, Robert Gordon Switx of East Gfangv N. J., and Miss Marjorie Tilley, 22, of New York, were ar rested here along with fifteen other persons charged with being spies. The arrests followed exposure of an illeged pot to obtain secrets of French military defenses. Lindys Home New York, Dec. 20.—The Lind bergrs flew home today, In time to nuke a merry Christmas for their baby Jon. They dived low over the Morrow home in Engelwood yester day, saluting their son, and. then dropped their big red monoplane to s perfect landing In Flushing bay. i Must Get ’34 Tag By First Of Jan. Or Face Arrest Coantv Mid City Authorities Told To Stop Drivers Who Refuse To Pay Heed. hwriKKions have been received by all peace officers, county and city. Instructions were received yester day by all peace officers, county and city, to arrest persons who drive automobiles after January 1 without 1934 licenses. The order was sent by L. S. Harris, director of the Motor Vehicle bureau. So far, Cleveland motorists are ahead ot last year, having purchas ed 1,012 tags up to yesterday. In 1932. the tags went on sale on the 15th. two weeks later than this year and only 196 had been sold by the JOth Between seven and eight thousand tags are bought here yearly, according to the Carolina Motor Inn, only place in the coun ty where they may be obtained. Stores Stay Open Later This Week Grocery and department stores of 8hclby in order to give their pa trons opportunity to shop during the evenings this week In prepara tion for Christmas will remain open •ater than usual. Wednesday and Thursday nights they will be open until 8 o’clock. . Friday night they will remain open until 9 p. m. Saturday night, the last chance for buying before Christmas, they ^ keep their doors open until 10 o’clock. ^ P. Spake Breaks Collarbone In Fall A P Spake of Cleveland 8prings foad was taken to the Shelby hos Pj'at Monday morning suffering "°m a broken collarbone. Mr. SPakr who is 75 years oWj feI1 last J^ek. but did not realize that he ™d been seriously injured. He had been in declining health •or several years, and his condition ■ critical. FIRECRACKERS to be SHOT ON THE STREETS Firecrackers may only be fired on “e court house square or in your >ard, Chief of Police Wilkins Jkhied this morning. He said he “tended to put a quick stop to the. v^ctice of exploding the crackers ® the streets, and that arrests 'ouici be made for violations after' ♦“Plication of this warning. B VOL S\XIX, No 152 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20. 193:5 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, "y MMl nor j»»r, (la *dvan**l — H.M C»rrt»r, per year, ttn advene*I _ |3.to Jeffress Tells Plans Fo rHighway Program In Cleveland County r<> Build New Bridge Over Broad River Plans For Patterson Springs. Earl, Grover And Polkville Highways Are Revealed In letter Encouraging news concerning j Cleveland county’s highway pro gram was received yesterday in a letter from E. B. Jeffress, chairman of the highway commission to Lee B. Weathers, editor of The Star. Definite information concerning plans for the Shelby-Boiling Springs road, plans for the Patter son Springs, Earl and Grover road and the Shelby-Polkville highway : are all included in the letter. The letter in full follows: Dear Mr. Weathers: I appreciate yours of December fourteenth. Those of us who work with the federal government become accus tomed always to unexpected delays at the last moment, but in the end things usually work out all right. I hope to make Cleveland happy with the lettings we hold in Jan uary and February. The Shelby-Boiling Springs pro ject was delayed temporarily by a consideration of the bridge over the Broad river. The bureau of roads will not permit the, old bridge and the question was whether to build new bridge on route 20 west of Shel by and move that bridge to Boiling Springs road or build new bridge nn Boiling Springs project and let No. 20 alone for a while. In order not to complicate matters we have decided to go forward with the new bridge on Bolling Springs project and consider replacing the bridge an route 20 at a little later date and when removed the old bridge will be good on some other lighter traf fic road. I have turned over to CWA head quarters for approval an allotment of $18,060 for the first section of the road from Shelby to Patterson Springs. Mr. Walker will send for ward two other projects on this route, that is, Earl project and Gro ver project, as soon as he can fin ish computing the quantities from the survey. We are going at this matter to obtain the very best road we can for the money and a con tinuation of CWA funds will enable us to do a good deal of very good work. i iihu nopea umi pruuaoiy tne 3helby-Polkville-Pallston work could Set under way this fall but It is the responsibility of the contractor to maintain the road and to com plete the surfacing as early as pos sible in the spring. I was particu larly anxious to get this project let so there would not be any possibil ity of a slip-up in having the sur facing completed even though mudh work cannot be done this winter. There arc also municipal projects planned in Shelby which include the reconstruction of some bad pavement within the eastern city limits and also completing the other route on western end of the Brdad river bridge. I am very hopeful that a con tinuation of federal aid highway projects will be authorized by the next congress. If we just knew another program was coming we could make much better progress on the present one as we would then know definitely how to plan. Poll Tax Evader* To Be Prosecuted Names of persons not listed for poll tax by January 8 will be turn ed over to the grand jury for prosecution, it wa? anqounced at the county treasurer’s office yes terday. Local Textiles To I SuspendFridayFor1 Christmas Week _ i Enforced curtailment of Twenty- I five Per Cent. Hosiery on M Hours Week for ! Months. Textile plants of the county will close on Friday December 22nd and remain shut down all next week to give their employes a vacation for Christmas and conform to a cur tailment order which compels them to reduce production 25 per cent during the month of December A recent order issued by the code commission to the hosiery in dustry calls for only 24 hour week operations during the months oi January and February, except in coarse hose and infant’s knit wear on which there is said to be a short age. The twenty-five per cent curtail ment in the textile industry is gen eral over the South. The mills are under orders from the Industry's national committee enforcing its NRA code to reduce production in December at least 25 per cent. Many thousands of em-, ployes are being affected by this order, which was issued as a mpans, according to the committee’s recent announcement in New York city, of preventing the accumulation of a burdensome surplus ’of textiles. Production at the Carolina mills generally has been rather steady since March, with the employes in operating departments drawing larger wages since adoption of the industry’s code. This extended pe riod of steady employment has greatly improved the financial posi tion of the greater part of the op eratives. While each mill's executive is privileged under the code commit tee’s order to adopt a schedule of curtailed operations best suited to the plant’s requirements, most of them, the reports indicated, will work this week on a part-time ba sis and give employes a period of full holidays during Christmas week Various forecasts indicated that many plants will work on a part time basis during the first several weeks of January. Mr*. Martha Franklin Die* At Age Of 74 Mrs. Martha Franklin, 74, died at the home of her son-in-law, Dock Wesson, on route two, Shelby, Wednesday morning at 6 o’clock following an illness of several days. Funeral services will be held some time Thursday afternoon at Zoar church, the hour not having been set. Surviving are the following daughters, Mrs. Dock Wesson, with whom Mrs. Franklin lived, Mrs. Worth Newton, of Shelby, Mrs. Hester Blanton, of Shelby, and a son, Charlie Franklin, of Clifton, S. C. Funeral services will be held at Poplar Springs church tomorrow at 1 o’clock, and interment will take place at the Zoar church at 2 o'clock Holy Men Muff Chance Says Cash Boiling Spring’s iconoclastic his torian of morals and manners of the Confederacy, W. J. Cash, con tributes an article to January’s American Mercury entitled "Holy Men Muff a Chance.” The Mercury will be on the newsstands Dec. 22. Clear Decks For Changes In State School Boob; Grigg On The Board Changes Loom In Elementary His tories In Use For 13 And 28 Years. Two commissions cleared decks in Raleigh this week for the annua; state textbook adoption. For the elementary textbook com mission, this year will mark the end of the first complete cycle since the state adopted the plan of revising its textbook list gradually instead of making sweeping changes every five years. The year marks for the high school commission the beginning of a cycle, as heretofore there has not been a uniform state adoption of high school texts. The high school Commission was ci rated by the 1931 general assembly and is just begin ning its task, which will follow the same general lines as that of the elementary commission. History Change j The elementary subjects up for change are history and music. The present United States history in use is the Waddy-Thompson book pub lished by D. C. Heath and Co It has been on the list for 13 years The North Carolina history, Hill's, has been on the list for 28 years. Both texts have been revised in that period, but it is regarded as prob able that there will be changes. The high school subject to oe adopted is social science. Neither commission will actually dopt the books, but viU ubmit a ^Continued on Page 10) Tribute to Wright Brothers . former Senator Hiram Bingham, of Connecticut, president of the National Aeronautic Association, and Mrs. George Gray place a wreath on the Wright exhibit in the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, during ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the first airnlune light by the brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Mrs. Gray’s husband was a pupil of the Wrights. Irvin S. Cobb Selects His Vittles; Wants Greens And Hog Jowls CWA Gets Pint In Court House, But You Can’t Relief administrator got a legal pint of liquor yesterday afternoon by just stepping across the hall from his court house office. But don’t get excited, he didn’t drink It, he won’t do it again, and you, reader, wouldn’t have a ohance in the world of doing it. The liquor was obtained from the sheriff's office for a relief emer gency case in which alcohol was recommended by a doctor. Many odd requests have, been made at the relief office, but this was the first one for liquor. Jeffress At Work On New Highway N. C. Commissioner Goes To Wash ington To Promote Park-To Park Drive. Washington, Dec. 19.—The pro jected park-to-park scenic highway primarily designed to link the Shenandoah and the Great Smoky Mountain national parks, received the attention today of the officials of the good roads bureau and the park service. Callers today on the federal of ficials, to consider the park high way proposal, included Representa tives Doughton of North Carolina, and Burch of Virginia, E. B. Jef fress, chairman of the North Car olina highway commission, and H, G. Shirley, chairman of the high way commission of Virginia. Nationally known landscape ar chitects are soon to he assigned to this great park highway project the builders of which will be ex pected to keep ever before them such considerations as beauty and altitude. Men are already engaged in a preliminary survey, and will probably have a report ready for study in the early spring! Mr. Jeffress Is accompanied by Mrs. Jeffress, and they are staying at the Willard hotel. *900 In Rack Taxe* Jn Month A windfall of *900 in back taxes which the county had long de spaired of collecting has been turn ed into the treasurer’s office this month by deputies and collectors assigned to each of the clever townships. These collections were for poll and personal taxes foi 1930, *31 and '32, and would have been written off the books along with $9,000 due in back taxes if the special drive had no* succeeded Office? Capture Near Ca*a* OfUsers Downs’ and Parker ol No. 11 township captured a 15-gal ! Ion '•haert !ron stil’ with copper i worm and cap In the' woods resu 1 Caaar Tuesdn". hut were nnalWe K catch the op-rafor. who fed a! I fhe -iT" oa-h- ot i'v: cf-f1 BCTS' p-.u.-d *:• ?0C gallons ol j the approach ol the officers. I 'shine. « Nation’s Foremost Eater Telle What He Wants For Christmas Din ner; Asks Toddy. Americas premier eater, Irvin 8. Cobb, of course, has made out his Christmas menu, and Houston newspapermen put K on the wires yesterday to whet the appetite of a nation. He wanted turnip greens, smoked hog jowl, black-eyed peas, combread and fresh buttermilk. “I've written a lot about fancy food in my time, but those are the world's best vlttles," the rotund au thor said as he sat in the horns of hit friend, Mike Hogg, and looked over his list of desires for dinner a week off. Wants His Toddy “A couple of old-fashioned Bour bon toddies beforehand and a glass of good egg-nog after” were further suggestions. “I guess if we've got anything approaching a national drink, it must be egg-nogg," Cobb said. "There ought to be a law entitling every man In the country to a glass of egg-nogg on Christmas day, ex cept a man with a drooping black moustache." Uneducated Tipplers Cobb has hopes of, the nation learning to drink properly, but thinks that It may take a genera tion. "Under prohibition we raised a generation with the belief that the purpose of drinking was to get drunk,” he said, “and it will take years for drinking again to become a fine art.” While he Is waiting for his Christ mas dinner, Cobb will be “out In the country engaged In the noble and uplifting pastime of bustin’ ducks— provided I can hit ’em.” Cobb has Just returned from a two-weeks hunt in South Texas .and Mexico and expects to tramp over Fort Bend county where “it’s open season for quail and closed season for Republicans” before he begins writing again. | He is weary of shooting deer, tur j key and quail in the wilds of Mex ico and Texas, he said, but thought of his duck hunting in the marshes around Eagle Lake brought a wist ful smile. Of all places he has visited none compares with that vicinity, Cobb vowed as he puffed smoke rings ceilingward from a big cigar. "I don’t believe you could pick a day of the season at Eagle Lake when a man couldn't get his limit of ducks or alibis,” he opined. Funeral Services Held For Malachi Rhoney Valde.se, Dec 19.—A large crowci attended the iuneral last week at Bethlehem Baptist church, Hilde brand, of Malachi Rhoney, former Cleveland county man. who was killed ir, an automobile accident here. Mr. Jlhoney was walking along side his wagon on the highway when struck by a passing car Sur viving widow, three sons and two daughters, five sisters, three broth ers and a host of other relatives and friends. Mr. Rhoney, who was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Pinckney Rhoney, was 48 years old. He was prominently connected in Cleveland county, his mother, before mar riage. having been Miss Nancy Mull. An uncle, J. C. Mull, lives ir I Shelby. Goes Hunting Measles Epidemic Rages In County; 4 Schools Gosed 165 Cates Reported During December LsUtlmorr, Mooresboro, PollUUIe And Beam* Mill Shut Hoorn ” Will R-open Jan. 1st. Cleveland county's measles epi demic was described this morning by County Health Officer Dr. D. F Moore as "raging." One hundred and slxty-flve cases have been reported this month, but this doea not give an accurate pic ture of the epidemic. for more j than half of the cast's have noi been reported. The disease Is wide-spread, he said, and no community Is hit hard er than any other, the doctor said, but Superintendent of schools J. H Origg said this morning that four schools had been closed this week and last on account of the disease The schools are I.attimore, Moores boro, Polkvllle and Beams Mill. None of these was closed on the order of the health officer, who •said he hadn't deemed It necessary j beoaus# "they would go to moving j picture shows anyway." Postoffice Open Until 8 O’Clock For Holiday Rus Four Bxtra. Men Put On To Handle Barrage Of FaokafN) Expert Peak Day Tomorrow. The poet office will be open daily from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. until after Christ, Postmaster Quinn announc ed this morning. The post office will be closed Sunday and Monday, Christmas day, and nothing will be delievered except specials. Pour more men have been added to handle the holidays rush of packages, one to act as clerk and three as carriers, and an additional truck haa been put Into service. The mailing rush started earlier this year, the postmaster said, He expects the peak mailing day to come this afternoon or tomorrow. Court House Closes Monday For Holiday The oourt house offices will be closed from Saturday noon until Wednesday noon, It was announced this morning by .Joe E. Blanton chairman of the county board of commissioners. This time Is taken out In order to give the county of ficers and employees some time at home with their families. 380 Families Get Relief In County Three hundred and eighty fam ilies hi this county are now receiv ing aid from the relief administra tion office here. Harry Woodson, administrator, said yesterday after non. They do not receive money, but groceries and fuel are allotted to them on the recommendation of a case worker, 271 Men To Work On 4000 Privies Definite approval of the con struction of 4,000 privies In Cleve land county has come from Raleigh, and Relief Administrator Woodson will immediately assign 271 CWA workers to the task. Recommendation of the project was made by the state board of health.| Sanitation of the privies will be compulsory, and will be sup ervised by experts. Lineberger Proposes New Hi Schoo l Here; Sees $120,000Saving ' “Smiling Through” A charming close-up of Mary Pick ford, wriwn star, as she pound with a bouquet presented her by adtnir ers on her arrival at New York from Los Angeles, where she recontly filed suit for divorce against Doug las Fairbanks. She may appear on Broadway stage after sno wins h«r Mrs. Falls Named Women’s Director ForCWA Projects Probably W, White and Colored, WIH be Nmpioyed In Cleveland Comity. Annotmoament was made yester day from Raleigh of the appoint ment of Mrs. O. O. Falls, of Kings Mountain, as supervisor of women employed under the civil relief pro gram. Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, .date relief administrator made the ap pointment. It is presumed that Mrs. Falls, who Is held to be eminently quali fied for the position, will assume her duties Immediately. Informa tion from county relief headqusr ters would indicate that about 13 women, Including both white and negro, will be employed. All will be selected from lists of those who have registered at the local unem ployment office. Negro women, it tv believed, will be used largely as char-women m Janltresses at schools In the town and county. White women will be employed In various capacities. Ef forts will be made to assign cleri cal help to school principals and other officials needing such assist ance and any nurses who might is1 registered will likely be assigned likewise to work In the school sys tem. Efforts will be made to put this number to work immediately, it Is believed although no definite information has been received from the Raleigh office. Mr$, Fall’s headquarters will be in the Relief office here. Union Workers Call Meeting For Tonight A called meeting of Shelby tex tile workers will be held at Union hall tonight at 8 o'clock. A meeting will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning for night workers, O. P Allen, president, announces. Yes, Ehringhaus Too Would Like To Be Senator, Newsmen Predict But R. E. Williams, Raleigh 'Ob server. Notes That Not Since Jarvis Has One Been Named. Belief In the capilol city that Governor Ehrtnghaus plans to make the race for senator against Sena tor Bailey seems to be growing Several Raleigh newspapermen have been mentioning this possi bility in political stories. In the Hews and Observer this week R. E. Williams notes that not since the days of Vance and Jarvis, well back hi the last century, has a North Carolina governor been elected to the United States senate, and with the exception of Cameron Morrison, whe was defeated for re election, none has been appointed to that office. j ■ But, not since the days of Vance and Jarvis has any man been given a four-year lease on the governor’s mansion that his friends did not immediately begin boosting him as an actual or potential candidate for the senate. And few, if any, have failed to at least toy with the idea. Governor Aycock, the first Democrat to hold the office after the brief Repub lican rule in the late ’90s. had ac tually announced his candidacy when he died unexpectedly. Gov ernor Glenn, his successor, did not live long after leaving office. Kitchen Defeated Governor Kitchin. the next to hold office actually did enter the .Continued on page len.i Would Ask Federal Aid On Projects darae $ too,000 Building Cm Hi* llractad With Local Outlay Of Not More Than MO,OH. Belief that Shelby should imme ,mtely build a new high school mlldlng and quickly make plan* i or playgrounds and other neccs -ary lmprovemeika while federal money la available waa voiced em phatically today by J. D. Llneber ger. prominent Shelby business man. "My understanding,” said Mi. Unebcrger, *'ls that under the CWA works program and the federal al kitment of funds for permanent buildings we can build a 1300,000 diool building for a total local utlay of about $80,000 We know without any question whatover that vc are going to have to have a new high school building within fivi ears. Why not build It now whet vc can get it with such a email out ay rather than to wait five yeart ad pay the entire $200,000 or what* -r the coat might be?" Free CWA Labor | .Us figures are arrtVffa at by Moment* from federal officiate tc * • effect that if such a project as ohool building la approved all lab will be given free of charge by 4 /A employes. This would amount ughly, It la eatunatel, to about if-third of the total coat or $60,• 00. Then an outright grant will tw made by the government of 30 pm cent of the total coat or anothei $80,000, a total of $120,000. leaving $80,000 to be raised locally. Mr, Line larger believes oltiaena should Im mediately get busy on this project and try to get It through on the basis of raising $80,000, for he points out that if this la not done, the entire coat must be shouldered by local people within the next few years. Pay Taxes Anyway He also declares that people of this section are going to be forced to pay the federal government their proportionate part of taxes to pay for work being done In various sec tions of the country and that if th< share of funds Is not used in ttab section Cleveland county will hav« been taxed without having received any benefits, Mr. Llneberger also think* a com prehensive program* of needed Im provements should be set up am, applications made for this work. H« believes playground* are a necet slty now and that delay in provid ing them will result In added cost In later years. He does not, ha says favor securing federal money foi building things not definitely need ed but believes that Shelby 1* paw ing up a splendid opportunity ol getting things abeolutely necawary at low cost and he think* all dtt aens should be giving these matters serious consideration. Among other things he suggests that for a local outlay of about $10,000 It would be possible to en large the city hall on property al ready owned by the city, thu* re lieving congestion there as well as providing an auditorium, now badly needed. He suggests that citleens who are interested In such a program of building discuss the matter with city officials and business men of the city In order that opinion of the people generally may be known. School Projects Create 50 Jobs For Unemployed 223 Have Been Placed To Date By Re-employment Bureau; Slow Registration Now. Fifty men will get job* Saturdd' through the Re-employment Bureau D. R S. Frasier, said this morning They have been assigned to work on the Shelby and Kings Mountain school projects under the CWA. The total number of placement to date Is 223. Registration has slowed down to not more than 30 a day, Mr. Frasier said. Teacher Has Measles Miss Earcie Dellinger of the Polk vllle school faculty is confined to her bed at home on Cherryville R-l with measles. Jb t cornu JJhopptno 9*§» m Christmas
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