Late News the markets Cotton, *pot to mtf totl 'n seed, ton, wa'orili Carolina fair, slightly folder in east portion tonight. Thursday cloudy, slowly rising tem perature. Nearing Record By UNITED PRESS Miunii. Fla., Dee. 27.—Only about 40 niore hours refrain to be flown until Frances Marsalis and Helen Riihev equal the world's record for endurance flying. They have been sloft nearly seven days. Chance For Child By UNITED PRESS Baltimore, Md„ Dec. 27.—Sur jeons at .lohns Hopkins hospital here hold out high hopes for the recovery of five-months-old Sue Trammel, who was brought here for a delicate brain operation from Texas by Speed Pilot Jimmy Wed eii. tVedell made the night trip through storms and fog. Banker Hostage By UNITED PRESS Marlin. Texas, Dec. 27.—Four men today robbed the First State bank here, obtained about $40,000 in currency and forced Vice Presi dent M. V. Bradshaw to accompany them in their car as a hostage. The car was last seen speeding from the city. Cotton Reduction Will Begin Jan. 1 Government Aims At Restricting Acreage To 25 Million Acres In The Year 1934. Washington. Dec. 27.—The cotton reduction sign-up campaign will be gin January 1. This announcement today by Chester C. Davis, farm adjustment administrator, who said he would join Secretary Wallace in request ing governors of cotton-producing states to issue proclamations desig nating the first week in January as the time for all agencies In the South to unite in the drive to ob tain farmers’ signatures to contracts aimed at restricting the 1934 crop to 25 000,000 acres. Davis said approximately $125, 000.000 would be paid to planters next year under the adjustment program in the form of land rentals and a parity paymei* of not less than one cent a pound on farm allotments. The decision to start the cam paign was made by Davis after a conference with Cully a Cobb, chief of the cotton production section of the farm administration. ‘'We are prepared to begin the campaign in the south,” Cobb said. "Every state in the cotton belt has an ample supply of contracts and each of the directors of extension advises me that the state organiza tions are ready to begin signing contracts January 1.” The rate of rental payment for —each acre rented to the secretary of agriculture will be 3 1-2 cents a pound on the average yield of lint cotton an acre for the farm in the years 1928-32, inclusive, with a maximum rental of equal install Mcnts, the first to be paid between March 1 and April 30, 1934, and the second between August 1 and September 30, 1934. John D. Weathers Dies At Age Of 77 Prominent Zion Farmers Passes At Home of Son In Stanley, S. C.; Had 16 Grandchildren. John D. Weathers, prominent ■armer 0f tlie Zion community, ~,led at the home of his son, Dr. B. G Reamers, in Stanley, on Dec. 24, aftcr a long illness. He was 77 years old Funeral services were held yes terday at the Zion Baptist church, of which he had been a member *mre the age of 27. The Rev. D. G. Washburn officiated. Mr Weathers, who married Miss ™ary Styers, now dead, had ten children, five of whom are now llv'ing. and is also survived by one “rather. B. G. Weathers of Shelby. Jrr children are Dr. Weathers of Stanley, John P. Weathers, H. A. ^'•“ethers of Shelby, and Mrs. W. wellmon of Kings Creek, S. C. *“fre are sixteen grandchildren , Shoffner To Study New AAA Program County Agent R. W. Shoffner will 8° to Raleigh tomorrow to join °rtu Carolina farm agents in a of the 1934 program mapped o ■ the Agricultural Adjustment •dhiinisiration The ENDer Stand r »' WWW 8 Pages Today VOL XXXIX, No. 154 SHELBY, N. C. WKDNESD’Y, DEC. 27, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Hr Mall. per year, (in advance I _ Carrier, per year, (In advanael _ S 8 ss State Bankers Act To Put N. C. Code In Line With NRA Deposit Charges Set By Clearing House Adoption Of Provisions Places The State On Sounder Banking Basis Says. Mr. Eskridge. Final action on the bankers code for North Carolina and the provis ions of the code relating to fair and uniform practise were taken at a meeting in Greensboro yesterday of officers and directors of the state Clearing House. Association. The uniform practise code was adjusted to conform with the mini mum requirements set forth in the national banking code, which has been approved by the NRA admin istration. Provisions Of The C ode. The provisions of the code relate to banking hours, interest rates or time deposits, analysis of accounts. 1 service charges on certain types o! checking accounts' and uniform charges for trust services, safe de posit and other miscellaneous ser vices rendered by banks and trust institutions. At the Greensboio meeting it ; was found that the North Carolina code was in substantial agreement with the national requirements, but lhat it was necessaiy to raise some of the schedules w’hich had pre viously been set in order to insure profitable operation for banks which is a basic requirement of the National Code, not only for banks but for all businesses. 3% On Time Deposits. The code provides that no inter est shall be paid on demand de posits and sets a maximum of 3rt which may be paid on time depos its, thus bringing all banks under the provisions of the Glass-Stea gall bill passed by the last session of congress. The code also requires banks to make a service charge on checking on deposit is not sufficient to re imburse the bank for the service rendered. In place of the flat charge which has been made by most banks throughout the State in the past, the code requires the banks to inaugurate what is known as the metered or measured service charge plan. This plan provides for a sliding scale of charges, and in tended to base the amount of ttv* charge on the activity of the ac count as related to the average balance maintained. In this wav an account which is not self-sus taining will be required to pay in accordance with the cost necessary to haasdle it, which is regarded as a more equitable method of basin'1 the charge than the old fiat serv ice charge system. The Metered Charge. Under the metered charge plan in North Carolina a checking ac count will be allowed one free transaction for each tw^Jve dollars of collected balance and all trans actions in excess of this will be charged for at a rate of 4c each. It was pointed out by the bankers that service charges would thus rot apply to those who maintained balances in adequate proportion to the service rendered. Furthermore, it was stated that the service charge Schedule would be applied to all accounts, both large and small, where the activity was ir, excess of what the balances justi fied. Banks will be required to ana lyze all accounts having a reason able amount of activity, and if th? analysis shows that the account is not self-sustaining, then a charge ! must be made, irrespective of the I size of the account. Sound Basis, Eskridge Says. In commenting on the code. For ! rest Eskridge of Shelby, president of the North Carolina Bankers as sociation, said today that. un doubtedly, the adoption of the cod» (Continued on page eight.) . --- • -• -- - ... ... - i Silver Program —New Deal For U. S. Mines Stiver Miner ai^oRtO SlWE&KlNE in Utah The ratification of the London silver agreement by President Roosevelt, which raises the price of the pre cious metal from 40 to 64.6 cents an ounce ir regarded by silver proponents, including Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, who proposed the agreement in London, as a big step towards prosperity. Among the advantages expected to result are a large increase in foreign trade, world stabilization of the silver price, an increase in foreign buying power, consequently a greater market for U S. products, a boost in commodity prices and a new era of prosperity for our Rocky Mountain silver mining area. Mines that have been shut down in Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Idaho, because silver did not pay cost of production, will once more go ahead full blast, creating new jobs and putting more money in circulation. Yuletide Payroll For CWA Workers Comes To $8,513; 637 Men On Cleveland Projects; Office Will Move To New Location Tomorrow. The county's 637 men working on CWA projects received a Christmas! payroll of $8,513.33 on Saturday, j the largest weekly sum yet paid. The CWAdministratlon here has now filled its quota, and furthei employment will come from the Re-1 Employment office on West Marionj street, directed by D, R. S. Frazier, j New Offices By tomorrow, the CWA hopes to have moved its offices from, the courthouse, where cramped quarters are a handicap, to the building be hind the postcffice on East Warren street. These new projects were announc ed yesterday: Painting and repair ing building and gymnasium at No 3 township school; painting and repairing at Trinity school, Moores boro; repairing and painting at. Casar school, completion of gym- j nasium at Lattimore. A telegram has been received J stating that all alterations, repairs j and new buildings must, from now i on, be submitted to Dan C. Boney; of Raleigh, state insurance com missioner. ' Santa Was Generous To Shelby Hospital Santa Claus was never quite so generous to the sick folk as he was. I his year. Miss Ella MacNichols superintendent of the Shelby hos pital. said yesterday. Each patient in the hospital was remembered, not only the children, but all of the grown-ups and old people a." well. Miss MacNicbols wishes par ticularly to thank the Shelby clubs for their thoughtfulness. “RooseveltMoney”Booms Trade To ’29 Level In Holiday Period Shelby Merchants Enjoy Sell-Out As Holiday Crowd City Streets. Christmas trade in Shelby was the best since 1929. Merchants agree to this. In all stores practically all stocks of Christmas goods were cleaned out by holiday buyers. "Roosevelt Money" Recovery is here, is the belief of many Shelby merchants. They are strong for Roosevelt. One mer chant today declared that the money spent in Shelby during the holiday buying season was Roose velt money. The difference, he pointed out, between the price of the county’s cotton crop and what it would have been had ii not b'*en tor Roosevelt’s program, plus the* CWA money, made up the differ ence between practically no Christ mas purchasing and a big two weeks in Shelby retail stores. Rarely if ever has there oeen such a crowd in Shelby as there was Saturday. During the early part of the week, Monday and Tuesday, buying seemed slow but as the week wore on each day the crowds grew larger, ending up Sat urday afternoon with streets and sidewalks filled with shoppers. Stores were rapidly cleaned out of Christmas goods and by 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon toys were hard to find. Complete Sell Out Good reports were received from all retail merchants. Grocers re ported good sales n~ did hardware vContinued on page eignt.i ToShowerGifts On First Baby Showers of gifts await ieveland county’s first baby of the New Year. Continuing a custom of three years’ - -landing. Shell* v merchant* are today announcing their presents for the very first lit tle boys and girls of 1931 The frst baby will receive sev • cn gifts, the mother w'tll re ceive one, and the second I baby will receive one. The New Year’s babies • oust be reported to The Star md the birth certificate must be signed by a physician, j The name of the baby and the parents’ names and ad- j dress must be given. Reports ’ must be made to The Star by January 2, and the winner* will be announced in the edi tion of Wednesday, January 3. Two Fires Mar Holiday Period " out *2,000 Damage To Jims Tiacc, Near Panic In Theatre. Fire At Pink Riviere’s. Two fires (luring the holidays used firemen some work, Saturday alternoon while the streets were jammed with people ire broke out in Jims cate next to the Webb theatre, some gasoline used ior cooking having ignueo Damage estimated at about $2,3*1 was done. A near panic occurred among people in the theatre next door when smoke began to seep in to the theatre but the crowd got out without any injuries. Monday afternoon fire of unde termined origin did considerable damage at the home of Pink Riviere on North Washington street. The blaze was confined to the room in which it caught, damage being to the interior of the room. A consid erable amount of clothing war de stroyed. Thomas Dixon Speaks In Shelby January 11 Thomas Dixon noted Southern novelist and orator, will speak In Shelby on the evening of January 11, under the auspices of the even ing division of the Woman’s club He will talk on "This Nation of Ours.” Mr. Dixion is a native of Cleveland county. The lecture will be given at the high school audi torium. Correction The pounding given the Rev. J. W. Suttle and family last week was by members of the Double Springs Baptist congregation, not by the Double Shoals people. as The' Star reported in Friday’s is sue 35 Fanners Sign To Give 35 Acres To Raspberry Crop Arkansii Firm Contracts To Buy All Berries They Can Grow For Nest Five Yearn. County Agent R. W. Shoffner an nounced yesterday with a broad and satisfied grin that his rasp berry project for Cleveland had gone over the top by a margin of three acres. Thiriy-nvc farmers have signed contracts to grow the berries on 28 acres for five years, he said. All the berries they can produce will be purchased by an Arkansas distributor. The farmers who have agreed to experiment with this new crop are: G. H. Roberts, W. W. Mauney, C. A. Bridges, D. H. Spangler, C. L. Putnam. J D. Lineberger, Mrs. C C. Whisnant, Truman Blanton and Robert G Gidney of Shelby; J. D, Morris of Fallston; A. A Richard, A, A. Parker and Dr. J. T. Buff of Casar; Edncy Willis of Vale, Dr. R. L. Hunt of Lattimorp. R. W. Wil son of Lawndale, C. L. Putnam, J. M. Moore, Wayne L. Ware, Allen II. Herndon. Boyd Harrelbon, C. F Stowe, Grier Plonk. Dr. J. E. An thony and L. M. Wolfe of Kings Mountain; Jasper Y. Hamrick of Boiling Springs, H. M. Gantt, of Lawndale. Clifford E. Hamrick and O. P. Hamrick of Bolling Springs. J. C. Downs of Casar and Mrs. Bertha Beam of Lawndale. Chapel Hill Grad* Meet Here Tonight | Members of the Cleveland Coun ty University of North Carolina Alumni Association will meet to night at the Hotel Charles to hear Robert B. House, executive secre tary of the university, and J. M. Saunders, secretary of the alumni association. A dinner will be serv ed to more than 150 members and guests. Wood* New Manager Of Insurance Division Robert U. Woods of Shelby left yesterday for Chicago for a week's business trip. He has recently been appointed southeastern manager of the group division of the Conti nental Casualty Co., and the Con tinental Assurance Co., of Chicago for the states of Virginia, South and North Carolina and Georgia. He will continue to make Shelby his home. Negroe* To Celebrate Freedom Of The Race Exercises celebrating the emanci pation of the negro will be held at the court house on January 1 at 1 o’clock. The Rev. Moore, recently of Wir ton Salem, will speak, and ►e ' • '■ and colored are inched to attend. 1,775 Cleveland Fanners Receive Options On Cotton Would Be $160,000 In This County Growers May Clear Out, Or Obtain 4c Loan: County Agent Urge* The letter Conrw County Agent R. W. Hhoffner will today begin mailing notices to 1. 775 Cleveland county cotton farm ers informing them that their op tions have arrived. If the farmers close out these options, or exercise their right of borrowing 4c a pound on them, more than $160,000 would be immediately unleashed In the county, Mr. ShotTner said. Must Bring Cards In announcing the arrival of the options. Mr. Bhoffner emphasized this point,: due to the volume of detail work required In handling them, they cannot all be delivered simultaneously, He is. therefon notifying a number of farmers each day to call for them. It Is ueec sary, he said, to bring your notifi cation card with you, and It Is use less to call at his office until you have received your notice. A landlord need not bring his tenants to the office for the option If It Is made out In his name According to the set-up of the AAA, the farmers may close their options now, or they may obtain a 4c loan. The county agent strong ly recommends the latter course, believing that cotton prices will rise, and that fanners will profit more by holding thetr options. If they take the loans now, a great deal of cotton Is kept off the mar ket. tending to bolster the price. Rum Investigators Are Now “Collectors” James A. Clifton, Jr., investigator in charge of the alcoholic beverage unit of the department of Justice, has been notified that he and hi* 20 or more Investigators In the two Carolines have been appointed deputy collector* of internal reve nue. Notice of the appointments was contained tn a telegram from John 8. Hurley assistant, administrator of the alcoholic beverage unit. According to the telegram, the appointments Will not affect the status of the men as Investigators and will not carry Increases In salary, Tlie appointments were made, Mr. Hurley wired, ‘in order to fa cilitate and properly clothe you with authority to enforce those provisions of the federal revenue laws which relate to the manufac ture, transportation and sale of non-tax paid or strictly Illegal liquor " Closed Banks Pay 8 Million In Year Raleigh, Dec. 2« -North Carolin ians and others who had funds tied up in closed banks in the state during the past year received divi dends of $8.030,379 83, including $381,486.20 which Is being paid 19, 489 depositors In 38 closed banks this month. Gurney P. Hood, state bank ex • ,'iminer, announced the figures. The disbursements Included pay ment!; to 78,930 common claimants of the banks, who got -3,040,284.67. The number of claimants who share in other disbursements was not given out but the totals were: Secured claimants, $5.444,801,39; preferred claimants, $492,854 72; preferred expenses In the way of insurance and preferred claims In the way of taxes. $52,379.05. Misses Lillian Crow and Mary Faye Dellinger of Shelby are among the 116 students at Appalachian State Teachers college who were on the honor roll for the fall term. " in.. ii .. ' .. it . Five Persons Injured In Holiday Accidents; Two Youths Are Held Up Naval Ladder Captain Norman II. Smith, of th» Naval Engineering Corps, for foutQ years public works officer of th< i First Naval District and Boston Navy Yard, who has been designated Chief of the Naval Bureau of Yardc and Docks. The position carries the rank of Rear Admiral. 4 Homes Saddened By Child Deaths At Christmas Tide Three Babies IMe Of Pneumonia; Ollum Runs, 16. Succumbs In Shelby Hospital. Four homos in Shelby and neigh' boring communities were saddened this Christmas by the death of children, three of them babies, who succumbed to pneumonia. Shirley Lea Shettey, 2-year-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. F. Shetley of North LaFayettc street, died on Christmas day of imeu monla after an Illness of several days. Funeral services will be held today at Lowell. Mr. and Mrs. Shetley hiyve anoth j er little girl, several months old Ollnin Lee Kush OUftm Lee Rush, lfi-year-old won of Mr amt Mrs, P, T. Russ of route 4, Shelby, died in the Shelby hospital on Christinas day, suc cumbing to a kidney ailment which ’ he had suffered for about one year. He is survived by his parent* and by five sisters and brothers. Funeral services and burial were held at the Handy Run church yes terday agernoon. The Rev. John Walker officiated, Harold <’. Grigg j Harold C. Grigs, Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Evans Grlgg, died at Ids home in the Sharon commun ity the night before Christmas. He iwas their pnly child, succumbing to | pneumonia after an Illness of one week. Betty Bean Hawkins Funeral services were conducted ■ on Christmas day by the Rev. Mr. : Wise at the Sharon church. The child was the grandson of Durgan i E Grigg of route 2, Shelby. Betty Dean Hawkins. 0-months i old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil | bur Hawkins of Lawndale, died of ! pneumonia the day before Christ | mas. Survey Under Way In Cleveland In Program Of Farm Improvement Mrs. Ben H. Goforth Heads Work ers Here As National Plan | Gets Under Way. i Cleveland has been designated as 1 I one of ten North Carolina counties ' in which the federal government 1 will conduct a rural home survey, t making a preparatory study so that a farm improvement campaign can i be launched with full information l to back it up. t Heading a corps of 14 workers, g eleven of them field Investigators, Mrs. Ben H. Goforth of Shelby t has been named to conduct the c survey in this county. They will not u go to every rural home In the coun- C ty. but will attempt to visit thoee in which » tnu piciurt of comll v lions here may b* obtained. c One of their main objectives^ is 0 determine the willingness of ru al home owners to improve their iroperties if some sort of aid were iromised them. The government dll use the information as a basis, or financing the upbuilding and mprovement of farm homes and heir equipment. Marion Grigg, contracting engi ieer, will make estimates 'of coats 1 homes and on farms which seem be most adaptable to this pro rani The program 1* in accord with lie electrification program advo ated by Governor Ehrlnghuus hich has the approval of the state frange. It is, of e»uv>- a national sur* py. iiictu: Ofii' -tenth of the mnties in each state. Messenger Boy Killed By Negro Driver Cov I’age In Hospital With Right Leg And Arm Brok* en In Accident. Two Shelby youths are held in jail on.hit and run charges tnd five persons are in the hospital as the result of auto mobile crashes over the Christmas holidays. One boy, the 15-year-old grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Smith, was killed in Charlotte by a negro driver Sunday morn ing. The usual holiday quota at too* Joyful celebrants found themselves behind the bars as the Yule bells Lolled. Twenty-four were looked up this Christmas, Sheriff Cline aald. One negro, Grady Shade, of Lawn* dale, was shot In the hip by an* other colored man, Colon Withrow, during an altercation, Withrow Is In Jail charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Man's Leg Broken. Lamer C. Petty and L. O. lakei‘ both of Shelby, are held on hit-end run charges for running down Ooy Page, almi of Shelby, on South La Fayette street Christmas night. Page la In the hospital with his right arm and leg broken, and his condition Is serious. Baker, owner of the car, told Chief of Police Wil kins that Petty was driving, and that he leaped out of the car when he saw he was going to hit Page Baker wm cut and scratched abmi the face. AfUr striking Page, Petty went on and crashed Into an aui mobile. Family In Crash. Mr, and Mrs. F. A. Broome an < three-year-old daughter of Chat lotte were driving to AahevQlt where they are to make their home In a car loaded with Christina r presents and the child's toys when a taxi driver side-swiped them at the long bridge on the Bhelby Klngs Mountain rood, Just outsld* the city limits. Their car overturn ed. fell thirty feet down an eir bankment, but the three passen gers escaped without serious Injury They are In the Shelby hospital. Child Is Struck. Martha Jane Walker, six-year old child, was struck by a car driv en by Jamos Eskridge Saturday aft ernoon and suffered head Injuries, the accident occurring in front of the child’s home near George Sper ling's store two miles north of Shel by on Highway No. 18. Information today from the hospital Is that the little girl is improving rapidly. Boy Is Killed. Roger Hamburg. 15-year-old grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W. 8 Smith, of Shelby, was killed about 8 o'clock Christmas morning when his bicycle was struck by a car driven by a negro, the accident oc currlng in Charlotte, where the Hamburg family lives. Young Bamburg, a Western Un ion messenger wan gotng south on Tryon street while the car driven by Moore was proceeding west on Park avenue. The accident occur red about 8 o'clock Monday tnorn snd Hamburg rill'd about six hours Inter in the Charlotte Sanatorium from a fracture at the base of his skull anil other tnturles. Hurled From Bicycle. The youth was hurled from *he bicycle by the forces of the Impac’ witnesses said. Funeral servicH for Hamburg, the son of Mr. and Mrs Fred Bamburg, 123 Hill street wen* held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Chapel of Douglas and 8 -s Rev. William Harrison William pastor of Pritchard Baptist chnrc-: officiated and burial was In fclm wood cemetery. He is survived by his parent.* grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. W. K Smith of Shelby, two brothers, Jack and Louie Bamburg; five sisters Misses Helen, Edna. Louise and Vera Bamburg, and Mrs. I. P. Thornton, all of Charlotte. Firemen Thank All For Christmas Toys Members of the Shelby fire de partment yesterday expressed their gratitude to the individuals, stores and clubs which helped them make Christmas merry for the children in many destitute families. They took four earloads of cheer, c&ndv, nuts toys, to the children on Sunday evening, and found many a famflv in which nothing had been provid ed Tor the children They are ex uuviih . ' fn! for the generous donations of toys.