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the markets Cotton, spot . »*« to 19%c rntton seed, ton, wagon .... 18.00 Cotton seed, ton, carlota .... 80.00 Partly Cloudy North Carolina partly cloudy to ^rht and Saturday. Not much rh»n*r in temperature. Seek Air Mark By UNITED PRESS Miami. Dec. 22.—Frances Harrell B(1 Helen Rickey are today near in£ their fifty-four hour mark in gtfir attempt to set a new endur anee record for women aviators. •Choir plane was successfully refuel f„r the sixth time this morning;. Two Killed gt. Louis. Dec. 22.—Charles J. Abrl. 44. and his wife, also 44. were killed today bya lone bandit who attempted to hold them up as they (merited from an Abel tobacco store after collecting the day’s receipts. Abel died instantly. His wife died on the way to a hospital Police fired on the bandit who escaped. Business Halted Philadelphia, Dee. VI.—Philadel phia's food supply was threatened and practically all commercial ac tivity was halted today by a strike of 27.000 delivery truck drivers. Millions of dollars worth of mer chandise, much of which was due for retail stores for Christmas shop ping. was piled on loading plat forms and could not be moved. A few trucks were operating un der special arrangements to han dle supplies for hospitals. Truck drivers are soliciting employes at car barns, subway yards and bus terminals to join the strike. No serious violence has occurred but hcaw police guards are being main tained. Will Remembor Mill Employes Employes And Members Of Their Families To Receive Fruits, Nuts And Candies. The several thousand employes of Shelby textile plants and mem bers of their families will be made happy this week by the annual distribution of a "treat” by the mill managements. Everybody in the mill villages will be remembered, it is announc ed by mill managements, by gifts of fruits, nuts and candies. Mills taking part in this annual distri bution as an Indication of their interest In their employes are the Shelby Mill, Eton, Ora and Dover Mills, Cleveland Cloth, Belmont and Lily Mills and the Byrum Hosiery mill. Kiw&nis Club Asks Work On Cemetery Committee Named To Have Confer ence With City Officials. Other Projects Considered. A committee to work with city snd county officials with a vi?i> t,e securing more CWA funds for ne Pessary work was appointed at the Thursday evening meeting of the Shelby Kiwanis club at the Hotel Charles. J H. Grigg, Dr. J. S. Dorton and Henry B. Edwards were appointed members of the committee which plans to ask a meeting with city officials in reference to beautifyipg the Shelby cemetery and to do such other work as might improve the sppea ranee of the city. Thf sum of *50 was raised by the dub to provide Christmas toys fo’ children who otherwise would nof he remembered during the ho’J Oeorge Wray, Max Washburn snd C. R. Webb were named to handle this fund. No meeting of the club, it was an nounced, will be held next week. No Issue Monday Christmas Day Following our custom to *ivp employees of The Star Publishing company a brief holiday to spend with their families, there will be no b »oe of The Star on Christmas <»a.v, Monday. Dec. 25th. The business office will be open on Saturday, bnt the me chanical departments of the newspaper and job office will he closed mi Saturday and Monday. The Star appears regularly three times a week through °nt the year, omitting only one issue during the Christ mas holidays. Our next Issue "HI be Wednesday, Dec. 27. Wishing all our friends and Patrons a Merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous New 'ear. we are Yours very truly. Star Publishing Co., l*e B. Weathers, Mgr. Pages Today 1 VOL. XXXIX, No. 153 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, DEC. 22. 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. *7 feiftU* Ki >«r, on tdrtnMI - C»rri»r. p»r j»»r. (in ndvnnMI _ i 8 5 Alumni Speaker Robert B. House, Executive Sec retary of the Univei'sity of N. C, who will speak in Shelby next week. — Robert B. House, U. N. C. Executive To Address Grads Cleveland Alumni To Meet At Hotel Charles On Dec. 27; J. M. Saunders To Speak. Robert B. House, executive secre tary of the University of North Carolina and J. Maryon Saunders, executive secretary of the general alumni association, will address a meeting of the Cleveland county Carolina alumni at the Charles hotel on the evening of December 27. The Cleveland grads, who num ber more than 150, extend a cordial invitation to Rutherford and Lin coln alumni to join them. Served Overseas Mr. House, who will be the prin cipal speaker, is a graduate of the class of 1916. He took a master's degree at Harvard in 1917, and vol unteered for service overseas. After the war, he became archivist for the North Carolina Historical com mission, succeeding Dr. R. D. W | Conner as secretary of the asso jciation in 1921. He came to Chapel I Hill as executive secretary of the ! university in 1926. Aged Pastors Get $28,000 Gift From Duke Endowment Checks Mailed to Them Ilf Time For Christmas By Presi dent Few. Durham, Dec. 21.—Christmas checks totaling $28,000 to. the 249 superannuates and families of of superannuates and families of North Carolina conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, have been mailed by President W P. Few of Duke university in be half of the Duke Endowment and the university. The superannuate fund is a part of the trust established. by James B. Duke in 1924. As in past years the amount that goes from this fund to a conference claimant is in proportion to the amount al lowed by the conference board of finances. There are 100 claimants in the North Carolina conference and 140 in the Western North Carolina con ference. Mr. Young Returns. H. Fields Young just back irom the St. Louis shoe market, where he has spent the past few days, states that the feeling throughout the shoe industry is that 1934 will be the best year since the beginning of the depression. Yule Festivities Announced By All Shelby Churches Plan Music Programs For Sunday First Baptist To Hold Their Annua' “White Christmas” Service; Special Sermons. Shelby churches today announced their special programs for Sunday celebrating Christmas. All of them will hold these programs Sunday, there being no services planned for the 25th. “He Could Not Be Hid.” will be the subject of Dr. Zelio Wall, in the service at the First Baptist church, on Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. This will be a mes sage which will exalt the Christ of Christmas and show how the world and even death had tried to hide Him. but like the star which stood above Bethlehem, he has stood out pre-eminently as Saviour ana Em manuel. The day’s services and activities at the church will open with the Sunday school at 9:30 o’clock. All are asked to come at 9:00 o’clock on next Sunday morning and enjoy a period of fellowship between 9:00 and 9:30 o'clock. White Christmas Service. The White Christmas service, which Is an annual event at the church, will be observed In the church auditorium at 10:10 o’clock All departments and classes will bring gifts to be used by the church in ministering to the needy during the hard cold months which follow Christmas. In the evening at 6:45 O'clock the twenty training organization will meet for their programs. T'r Young People’s Unions and Adui Unions invite every member of the church to be present. For The Children At 7:30 o’clock a special Christ mas program has been arranged The elementary departments of the Sunday school and the church choi1 will give a program, which will consist of scenes around the Nativ ity and several splendid musical numbers. Mr. Easom announces the follow ing musical program for the day 11:00 a. m.—Anthem—“Emmanuel. Dale, by the choir; Offertory num ber—“O Night of Holy Memory,” Wilson, by double mixed quartet 7:30 p. m.—All numbers appropriate for the special Christmas program The public l|s invited to all services of the church. Presbyterian Church The following Christmas program will be had at the Shelby Presby terian church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock: Opening chorus. “Hark the Glad Sound,” Stults; doxology and invocation; carol: "Silent Night, Holy Night”; reading of Christmas story; carol: “O Little Town of (Continued on Page 8) Boy Scout Filling Christmas Packages | Shelby Mill Troop Preparing 1100 Packages Of Fruit And Candy For Employes. Boy Scout Troop No. S of the Shelby Milt is today busily engaged in preparing Christmas packages for all employes and members of their families of this big mill. The arrangements have been worked out on a very complete sche dule by the mill management. A complete census of employes and their families has been made everybody over two years of age be ing listed and a card Issued bear 'ng his or her name. Yesterday and oday members of the Boy Scout troop have been preparing the pack ages and Saturday morning at the club house all holders of cards will be given a package in exchange for their cards. Around 1100 packages containing fruit, candy and nuts will be distributed. Shelby ’sFiremenAnd3Civic Clubs Play Santa For Destitute Children Rotary. Kiwanis And Lions Clnbs To Distribute Toys In Scores Of Homes Here. Children whose parents for one reason or another are unable to provide them with the things Christmas really requires to make the hearts of children gay will be provided for through the joint ef forts of civic clubs and firemen of Shelby. Firemen have been busily at work for several weeks repairin’ old toys for distribution. Regular packages will be provided along with the repaired toys. These pack ages will contain fruits, nuts and candies. Similar packages nave been provided by Kiwanis, Rotarvl and Lions clubs and while there has been no conceited effort be tween these various organizations lists of those to whom presents wl'l be given have been compared to the end that there will be no du plications. It is believed by those in charge of this distribution that practically every child in 8helby, who other wise might get the idea that the entire Santa Claus idea is a child of the imagination of adult minds may be completely and totally con vinced of the actual exisctence of the jolly saint. While conditions have undoubt edly improved and the CWA pro < Continued on page eignij Surprise Meeting on Xmas Morn “Baby” Leroy, famous infant movie star, poses in ad ■e in the scene he hopes to enact on Christmas morning, ‘catchirg Santa in the act. , \ Prose Poem: ‘Keeping Christmas instead of a Christmas poem in verse this time, we present u ijrose poem—Dr. Henry Van Dyke’s little classic, which was read to members of the Twentieth Century Club by Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey. This Is the poem: It Is a good tiling to observe .hriatmas day. But there is a better thing than the observance of Christ mas day, and that is. keeping Christmas. Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other pie have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the back ground, and your duties in the middle distance, . and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for Joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the manage ment of the universe, and to look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness—are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the desires of little children; to re member the weakness and lone liness of people who are grow ing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough; to bear in mind tr« things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to try to understand what those who live In the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it In front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open—are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. And If you can keep It for a day, why not always?—Henry van Dyke. Anglo-American Anti-War. Treaty Urged By Briton Former Labor Minister Foresee; Conflict Unless We Join In Outlawing It. Gastonia. Dec. 21—The menace of war is seen by Sir Arthur Steel Maitland, former British minister of labor, as a hindrance to the con tinued upswing of world business. Addressing a chamber of com merce luncheon in his honor here yesterday, the Britisher jjrged an anti-war pact between the United States and England, which he said would serve notice upon aggressive powers that there must be no war. British Business Up Business in England and on the continent is definitely on the up swing, the speaker said, and the only thing that could halt the progress cf business would be an other war. The former British cabinet mem ber is studying economic conditions in the United States under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller foundation. Pastor And Family Receive Pounding Members of the Rev. J. W. Sut lle's Double Shoals Baptist congre gation gave the pastor and his fam ily a generous pounding last night More than 160 packages were brought to the beloved minister v' - • •• .served this church over I IS years Old Issue Of Star Recalls Details Of Dixon Murder L ___ *';iper of December 15, Mil, Is Unearthed by Reader; Cotton Was S 1-2 Cents. Squire Sylvan us Gardner yester | isvy brought to The Star office a ropy of the Issue for December 16, 1911, an Issue almost entirely con cerned with the Dixon murde1 which occurred near Fallston on December 13 of that year. Other items of interest Included a report of a teachers meeting w hich was held at the courthouse and during which Supt. J. Y. Irvin made an address; a story concern ing a monazite exhibit George L. English had arranged In his office, and an article about the comple tion of a new church at Sandy I plains. ' Cotton was quoted at S and one ■ half cents per pound and cotton seed at 24 cents per bushel. Advertisers included: R. E j Campbell, Wray-Nix company, Esk ridge Jewelry company, Evans E. McBrayer, George L. English. Cleveland Drug company, T. B Washburn,<JW. L. Saunders and i W. Ebeltoft. An interesting adver tisement also was that of the Car olina and Northwestern railway which Included the schedule of trains, two each day each way, one of them a mixed train, between Chester, S. C., and Edgemont. Hams, Cakes For Employes Hams and fruit cakes are being distributed to employes of the By rut.. Hosiery mill today, hams to u led employes and fruit cakes to nose enjoying single bleesed |nes*. Rev. C. F. Sherrill Is Taken By Death After Long Seige Hold Funeral Today At 2 O’Clock Motel Methodist Minister Was Three Times Presiding Elder; Served 45 Years. The Rev. C. P. Sherrill, one of the best-loved Methodist ministers In the state, died at his home on East Marlon street Just after mid night yesterday morning alter an iffneaa of about two years, during the last several months of which he was critically til. Funeral services are being held at the residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon and interment will be made In the Shelby cemetery. The Rev. K. K. McLarty, pastor of Cen tral Methodist church Is conduct ing the services. Surviving, In addition to his widow who before marriage was Miss Nannie Jane Swain of Ran dolph county, are two daughters, Miss Ollle Sherrill of Greensboro and Mrs. J. D. Llneberger of Shel by, three sons. Prank O. and James Sherrill, of Charlotte, and Charles Sherrill, of Roakoke, Va., and a brother, J. B. Sherrill, of Concord. 3 Times Presiding Elder For 45 years Mr. Sherrill was a member of the Western North Car olina conference of the Methodist church, having been superannuated during the past nine years during which time he lived In Shelby. He had served pastorates in all sec tions of the central and western sections of the state and was one of the best-known and best-liked members of the conference, popu lar and respected alike by ministers and laymen. During hta pastorate he three times served as presiding cider of the Waynesvtlle, Morgan ton and Shelby districts respective ly. 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Il.-—U11Uons oi tolks IU over th- woklü Mond-»z Wm Col-but- Chtlstmu-. but there is one plm met thut is m Not-eh Cuouas where the occuwn Um not do obs-W on December Is. Melan of nottut-the on atmet Rom-I nun-I sko Methodhts They number los- msn soo. They Its dessem-at- ot est-IF Its-list somet- vho name to the oosst dar-ins th- Iixteqnm dont-um The aliud-on W up then stocktuss ins tteos us displayed but It sll tappen- on January h Oltl Christ-mit u the kesldents there all the day. It I- - onst-um html-s Lom- tok mny jenen nost 3 Young Men Killed In Auto Accidents; Charles Dover Dies Minister Dies The Rh. O. f. Sherrill. • beloved Methodist putor, who died at his home In Shelby on Thuraday morn ing. _ Dry Geaners Cut Prices 20 Per Cent Under New Ruling Suits To Be Pressed For 15c In Shelby Area; Special Blue Eagle Is DwIpM. Hhelby dry cleaners said yester day that Information from Wash ington indicates prices for dry cleaning here will be reduoed from 85 to 70 cents in cdhformance with the reduction In the dry cleaners code. General Johnson announced Wed nesday that difficulties In the cleaning and dyeing industry had been settled and made public a new schedule of prices, The NRA administrator also dis closed that a special blue eagle in signia would be given cleaners who render service of a higher quality than the “cash-and-carry" oper ?(l% Cut. The new schedules • arc approxi mately 20 per cent under the pre vailing code rates. Johnson announced that a price study board had been created tc keep tab on the operation and ef fect of the new schedules. This board will be authorized tc hold public hearing In any ‘localitj on petition of 60 per cent of the cleaners In the locality, to de termine and recommend whethei the schedules should be modified. Effective Today. The new price list effective to day supplants schedules approvM November 22 for a 30-day trial pe riod. William H. Davis, national com pliance director, praised the plar promulgated by the administrate and announced that “violators o; the new schedules will be prosecut ed to the fullest extent of the law.' He states that violators woulc be deprived of their blue eagie in algida " if there Is any persistence o violation of the code, which la nov the law of the land,” he added "the national compliance dlvtsloi (Continued on page eight.) Arrows In The Blue Eagle’s Fist Pat There By Cupid,Records Show At Least, There Were More Mar riages In County After NRA Began To Work. If you're willing to take a record of the marriage licenses issued in this county as an index to Increas ing prosperity, Cleveland is far and away ahead of last year, and the arrows in the Blue Eagle's fist were put there by the boy named Cupid In 1932, only 84 marriage licenses were issued in Cleveland, A. P Newton, register of deeds, reports But so far this year, he has issued 134 licensee. This large increase is noted in the face of the increasing popularity of Cherokee County’s i roaming Judge Lake w Stroup wlio ■ r TTf > h C cou j pies in his South Carolina two I wick, than are married here. “If it weren’t for all this runnlni over to South Carolina to get mar ried,’’ Mr. Newton said yesterday ’’we’d issue about 350 marriage li censes here every year." Asked why so many went to the neighboring state, he said it war largely because boys and girls un der 21 years of age could get mar ried there without parental con sent. A girl of 18 can be married here, he said, but only with her parents’ permission. Then too, the license costs $4 here as against only >1.25 in Cherokee. The medical ex amination is no longer required in this state Oddly enough, (lie most popular tCuuuuueo on page eight.i Two Fatal Accidents • In 24 Hours Hnrfc* County Boy* Turn Ow On Highway ll; Cleveland Tonth Dim In Truck Cpcct. Three young men. Charles Dover or Sharon, and two boys from Burke county, were killed In auto* mobile accidents during the past twenty-four hours. • Charles Dover, lg-yean-oM was killed last night about t o’clock on his way home from the Dover Min. He was driving a mill track, and turned over when he attempted to turn out of the road to avoid a large piece of wood which blocked hla way. Pinned under the ear. toe was breathing his last whan help arrived. Santos Huffman, M. of Burke county wee killed instantly, and Vernon Pruett, M, also of Burke, died In the Bhelby hospital early this morning as the result of an accident early Thursday morning on Highway 18, near Toluca. Oiris Left Car. As the story came pleoemeel to The Star from polios and hospital, the two boys wore driving from Un ■ coin county accompanied by two girls. The girls, however, Insisted on getting out of the ear at a am*n store near the county Hne. A little farther on. the boys, who were mid to have been drinking, turned their car over. Pruett was brought to the Shelby hospital at S a. in. suffering from Internal Injuries and a broken arm. Charles Mitchell Dover was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. DoVTi and was eighteen years old. He is survived by Ms father and mothei and by four brothers. Carl, Floyd Ralph and Mitchell He was a faith ful member of the Sharon Methd diet church. Funeral On Sunday. Funeral services will be held at his home church Sunday evening at Bunday afternoon at 3:M. Hlr pastor, the Rev. J. N. Wise, will of ficiate. Funeral services will be held for Vernon Pruett at his home In Burke county. Services for Santos Huff man were held this morning at 11 o’clock at the Zion H1U ohuroh. Booth Gillespie Is Hurt In Car Crash Former Kings Mountain Mill Man Hurt In Collision Near Bed Springs, Booth W. Gillespie, former Cleve land county man, wu seriously in jured in an automobile acctdeht near Bed Springs Thursday after noon and was still unconscious In a Laurlnburg hoapital Friday morn ing, Mr. OUlesple, former superintend ent of the Ollling Cotton Mills, at Kings Mountain, is manager of the Charles Mill at Red Springs, a mill owned by Shelby people. The accident occurred when Mr. Gillespie’s car collided with a truck. The occupantB of the truck a man and a woman were slightly Injured. Mr. Gillespie’s injuries are confined to head, according to in formation received here and it 1* * feared he suffered a serious oon cuBslon. 1 Both Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie are weft known in the county. Mrs. Gillespie Is the daughter of the ’ late/Walter Dllllng of Kings Moun , tain. I ----- - - -., ’ Seek Members For New Organization Complete Canvass Of City Per The Chamber Of Commerce And Merchants Association. A complete canvass of busines firms, professional men and othti people who might be Interested *vil be made sometime next week bj committees from the Shelby Cham her of Commerce and Merchant. Association to start the roster oi charter members of the organisa tion, it was learned yesterday at of fices of the association. Several teams have been selected and plans are to complete the can vass In a very few days. Definite date for beginning will be set early In the week. Members of the team* are R, E. Campbell, J D. Llneberg er, Thad C. Ford, t/tui Spangler, John P. McKnight. Hartey White C. R. Webb, Paul Webb. Charles A ! Hoe?, J. R. Dover, O. M. Mull. K. T leOrand snd John F. Sohenek A
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