Newspapers / Shelby Daily Star (Shelby, … / Jan. 1, 1934, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Shelby Daily Star (Shelby, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Late News the markets cotton, spot .. 10 to 10.15 Cotton seed, ton, wagon - 18.00 Cotton seed, ton carlots.20.00 Fair Tomorrow Weather forecast .for North Caro lina: Continued cloudiness today in „rst; fair and slowly rising temp erature tomorrow. Possible rain in extreme west portion. New Secertary By UNITED PRESS llenry Morgenthau. jr., acting secretary of the treasury, was today iWgm In as secretary succeeding VtUlMbn H. Woodin, whose resigna tion affective January 1 had been in the president’s hands for several days. Secretary Woodin, now in a sanitarium on doctors’ orders, ask ed to be relieved on account of his illness. Held In Murder Bv UNITED PRESS High Point, Jan. 1.—Past Norman, 22. unemployed, and his brother, Blaine Norman, 26, CWA workers, were arrested today charged with the murder of Miss Oday Childress of Elkin. Past denied the criiqe. He was formerly employed by the girl's father and was her suitor. Radio Education To Be Discussed At Meeting Here National Committee To Sponsor Conference; Listeners Also WiU Be Represented. A conference on the use of radio for educational and cultural pur poses, sponsored jointly by the Na tional Committee on Education by Radio and the American Listeners society with the cooperation of lo cal groups, will be held In Shelby in the private dining room of the Hotel Charles on Friday afternoon, January 5, at 3 o’clock. The National Committee on Edu cation by Radio, an organization supported by a non-commercial private foundation, has headquar ters in Washington. This commit tee is seeking ways in which radio can be used to the formal educa tional program of schools and col leges and also to the comparatively new field of adult education. Other objectives of the committee Include a general Improvement of radio programs and such regulation of radio broadcasting as will Insure more educational and cultural pro grams. , The American Listeners society is committed to the development of a nation-wide organization of lis teners devoted to the improvement of radio to America and to the sup port of radio broadcasts according to the needs and demands of lis tener groups. The purpose of both organizations are educational and cultural and to no Sense commer cial. Eugene J. Ooltrane, field repres entative of the sponsoring organ izations, will conduct the confer ence. In addition to study to Col umbia and other universities, Mr. Ooltrane has had many years of experience in public school admin istration. Within the past year he has conducted similar conference m more than twenty states. Educators, ministers and laymen, leaders in parent-teacher associa tions, members of men’s and wom en’s civic clubs, and others inter ested in the better use of radio are cordially invited to attend the con* ference. HRS. WALKER OF GIBSONVOXE DIES Formerly Lived In Shelby. Several Children Live Here. Boded At Spartaabnrg. Mrs. 4. O. Walker, formerly of Shelby, died Dec. 39 at the home of her son, J. H. Walker, of Glbson rille. She had been ill several years. Ten children survive, Mrs. Char lie Hicks. Mrs. L. C., Parris, O. M. Walker and Arthur Walker of Shel ly. Mrs. Jocie Gerald and Mrs. Johnson of near Spartanburg, Mrs. T. P. Givlns of Avondale, Mrs. Minnie Anderson of Lompoc, Cal., H. Walker of Glbbsonville and E D. Walker, whereabouts un tnown. Her husband preceded her •° the grave 13 years ago and a son 10 years ago. Funeral services were held Bun lay in Spartanburg and Interment ^as in the Thaxton cemetery in Spartanburg. Rev. Henry Sisk of Shelby had charge of the service insisted by Rev. Smith of Spartan )l,rR and George Truelove of Shel ly who knew her and made a beau Ihil talk about her life. Mrs. Walker was 75 years old. She VEus a devoted wife and mother lr-d lived a consecrated Hfe. She lK'*ys bore up bravely over her nauy sorrows. She was known by many In North ;r‘fi South Carolina. For a number lf 'ears she had made her home v'n her daughter. Mrs. Jocie Ger 11 V . . T M Ell k v k IN UDZ I U k - 4 VOL. XL, No. 1 SHKLBY, N. C, MONDAY. .IAN. 1. 1934 .!*! '.V Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoc ms. fly Mull. nor >o*r. (1* •dYMMrtl - U.*»t Orrlyr, nrr yy.r, (in Mvuimi .. U.H ' 9 New CWA Projects To Start New Year; $29,375 Paid In ’33 i Schools Receive Big Share Of Labor 7J# Unemployed Men In County Have Been Given Work So Fur Under Woodson. With the announcement this morning that nine new projects had been approved by the Civil Works administration for Cleveland coun ty, Administrator Harry Woodson and his staff started the new' year in their new quarters in the Hoey Building ,back of the postoffice The new projects promise more work for more men, but a back ward glance is appropriate at this time. To date, since the office opened here in the latter part of November 720 unemployed men have been giv en work and a total of $29,375.51 has been paid them. Last week. 596 men on the payroll received $8,155 These men have been working on every conceivable kind of jpublic project, from repairing school houses to grading streets under the charge of Robert Hord, work super visor. Nine New Project*. The new projects include: Four additional statisticians to re-number homes in Shelby. Repairing and plumbing in Shel by schools. Nurses for the city schools ot Shelby, Kings Mountain and rural schools. Grading and repairing streets in Lawndale. Additional repairs at a rover school. Grading athletic field and build ing gymnasium at Mooresboro. Work on grounds at Bethlehem school. Work on building and grounds at Waco school. New Job For Hord. Mr. Hord was notified this morn ing that he has been appointed, in his capacity as work supervisor, as County Safety Director for Cleve land, under the recently-appointed X. O. Padgett of Winston-Salem. Squad Car Lures Noisemakers Off, Square Is Quiet Police Ruse Tricks Crowd In Wild Gooee Chose To South Shelby As New Yeor Tolls. One reason why last night, tradi tional evening for noisemaking, was so quiet in Shelby was because three officers on night duty pulled a fast one on the would-be fun makers and lured them out of town. Officers B. E. Putnam, R. E. Sparks and W. L. Hardin were cruising the square near midnight when the first fleet of hom-tooters appeared. The officers stepped on the gas ,and with siren going full tilt, headed for South Shelby. Everybody followed. The police car distanced the pursuers, wound through obscure streets, and disap peared. The noise-makers were scattered by that time and as mid night struck, the square was com paratively quiet. LaGuardia Rules New York, Jan. 1.—Piorello H. LaGuardia, independent Republican, victor in the New York mayorallty race on a Fusion ticket, becomes chief executive of the nation’s greatest eity today. Quiet New Years For City Officers; OnlyTwo Arrested But Sheriff And Deputies Break Up Blackbird Gambling Nest In Delight Community. One of the quietest New Years in Lhe history of Shelby was passed Here last night, from the point oi view of Sheriff Cline and Chief of Police Wilkins. The city forces ar rested only two persons, a below the-average week end quota. The sheriff's office arrested two an Saturday and one yesterday. Catch Negroes In Barn But in the Delight community, near Poikvllle, Sheriff Cline and Deputies Kendrick, Powell, Whis nant and Cordell raided a black bird nest—a bam full of negroes Intent on experiments with the laws of chance, using ivory cubes as their instruments. When the offic ers surrounded the building, ne groes went frantic tryihg to es cape, but there were only two doors and they all leaped into the arms of the officers. Nine were brought to the jail. Sheriff Cline complimented the Delight community for their aid in breaking up the den. Large Membership In C. Of C. Seoi Teams Report Success in First Lap Of Drive; To Complete Can vass This Week. While bo tabulation has been made, members of Chamber of commerce soliciting teams report they are meeting with much inter est on the part of Shelby citizens and believe a large membership will be obtained. On account of the holiday period solicitation has not been hurried and will continue through the ear ly part of this weeS, during which time It is believed it will be com pleted. Those joining now are coming in as charter member of the organi zation. Jack Smith, Student In Morgan School Is Dead, Age Fourteen Jack Smith, fourteen year old son of Mrs. Alfred Smith died at 8 o'clock this morning at the Shel by hospital where he had been a patient since last Thursday. He was suffering with a peculiar head trouble. Jack was a pupil in the Morgan street school. He is surviv ed by his mother, five sisters and three brothers. Funeral services will be conduct ed from the home at 2 o’clock Tues day afternoon by Rev. C. V. Martin and interment will take place in the Zoar church cemetery. Studying Taxes Washington, Jan. 1.—Taxation and appropriations, twin trouble makers for the ensuing session of songress, will be discussed tonight by the president in a White House conference with congressional lead ers. Eight or more Democratic leaders will confere with him. Two Road Projects To Be Let For Cleveland County January 9 Shelby-Boiling Springs Road In The Letting. Widen No. M On Eastern Edge Shelby. Two road projects are In the next letting to be held January 9th by the State Highway department. News of these lettings will be re ceived with joy by many Cleveland county citizens, especially the road leading to Boiling Springs which has been promised for eighteen months or longer. Contract will be let for gratQng, structures and top-soil on the road leading off from No. 18 at Zo&r church two miles south of Shelby through Sharon and on to Boiling Springs. It is understood that a new bridge will be erected at Weaver? bridge across the river near Sharon, the new bridge to be double width to conform to new state and federal specifications. After the road is graded and top-soiled and has prep er time for seasoning, it is under stood that contract will be let later for a hard surface treatment. Thus part of the road, however, will not come until next spring or summer The other project is widening of Highway No. 30 from the long bridge on the Cleveland Springs road to the top of the hill at Bel vedere. When this road was first built, the asptialt surface crawled and left the surface in an uneven bumpy condition. Twice, it has oeen repaired, but fails to stand up un der the heavy traffic. The road will be widened and a new surface pu' down. The cost of this will be tak en from the Federal appropriatim' for citv irids and o" from fori'"-» funds set aside foi county roads, j 1933 Says Farewell The 8waddling 1934, played by Baby Leroy, infant movie star, takes over the helm from Old Man 1933, as the zero hour strikes and the curtain risdfe on a New Year. MillsResumeWork Today But Future Hours Uncertain Carded Yarn Mills On 48 Hour,.: Cotton And Rayon Mills De pend On Orders. Thousands of textile workers in Cleveland county went back to their machines this morning after a week’s holiday During December there was a uniform twenty five per cent cur tailment among all the cotton milk of the county, and for January the carded yam mills and hosiery mills will be on curtailed production. Carded yarn mills in Cleveland will operate only 48 hour? a week, hos iery mills will operate on sixty per cent production In order to 'reduce the surplus. Cotton and rayon mills have some accumulated orders In which to run and all resumed operation this morning. The future hours , have not been settled by tHe cod' enforcement committee so until then, this class of mills will oper ate two forty hour shifts a week as long as they have orders. Thpre is talk of curtailment among all ot the cotton textiles, but no an nouncement has been made as yet. All of the carded yarn mills in Gaston county are on a curtailed schedule, while the silk mills have been ordered to reduce their out put twenty five per cent during January. 1 New Store Hours Set By Merchants Department and Dry Goods Estab lishments to Open at 8:30, i Close At 5:30. Department and dry goods stores will be open week days from 8:30 i until 5:30 and on Saturdays from 8 i until 7 p. m. and furniture stores 1 will be open from 7:30 to 6 o’clock week days and from 8 to 7 o’clock on Saturdays, it was decided at a ' meeting of merchants on Friday These hours. unanimously agreed upon, go In effect today and will continue throughout the year. While definite arrangements were \ not made by hardware stores It is l understood they will keep th? same i hours as those observed by fumi- < ture dealers. t There has been nt. meeting of ) grocery owners but it is under stood that they plan to observe the c same hours that have been in ef- f feet recently: 8 a m to 6 p. m on g '■■rrk da's and 8 a m to 9 p m on r Saturdays ., No Extension On ’34 Tags Beta ted Cleveland count uitoinobilc owners drove car? with 1933 licenses through the rain fhis morning and crowd ed the Carolina Motor Inn to rapacity buying their 1934 tags. Word went out this morning that no leniency would be shown drivers who did not procure the new tags. * Carlos Hopper, who is in charge of the license sale, said this morning that up to .Sat urday night three thousand and seven licenses had been sold. All law enforcement offi cers have been instructed to arrest drivers who do not have the ’34 tag. The fine, il is understood Is $10. Shoffner To Speak Friday On Cotton Reduction Plans L'ounty Agent Will Tell Cleveland Farmers How 1934 Plans Will Affect This County. Just what the 1934 cotton leciuc lon acreage program is and what t will mean to Cleveland county armers will be explained by Coun y xami agcm rv. w . ouuimn jii a meeting at the courthouse Frida j light at 7 o’clock. All interested persons are invit :d to attend. Farmers who wish to get a 4c oan on their options, Mr. Sholfr.ei aid, must do so before Jan. 15, and ill those who obtain the loan will >e required to sign up for the 1934 ■eduction program. Cards are being mailed this week o the Cleveland farmers whose op ions have arrived, and all will have >een notified by Wednesday of this veek. rwo Road Projects Approved for County The state highway and public /oiks commission has called for lids to be opened January 9 on 14 lighway projects, including two in Jleveland county. It is estimated hey will cost between $375,000 and 400,000. The Cleveland projects are coa rete widening and asphalt restir acing of route 74 in Shelby, and ■rad’n-r structure and top soil on a 'd from route 18 to Boil ng bptlltgs. Measles And Rain Handicap Schools; Fwo Fail To Open iooresboro And Ml. Pleasant Shu! Doors On Account Of P.pidrmlc; Attendance Is Low. Maesles and bad weather Lodaj handicapped school opening in Cleveland. The city schools opened with poor attendance, and Moores boro and Mt. Pleasant stayed dar ed on account of measles. County Superintendent ol Schools J. H. Grigg said this morning that some of the other county schools might also stay closed on account of the measles eptdeihic. Principals were told to use their discretion 3 New Principal. Capt* B. L. Smith, superintend ent of city schools, announced the appointment today of J. C. Eakes of Wake Pftrest as principal of the South Shelby school. succeeding Miss Selma 'Webb, who has been given leave of absence during the spring term to attend the Univers ity of North Carolina. Mr. Grigg announced that the county-wide teachers meeting, pre viously set for Jan. 6, had been postponed until the 20th on account of the measles. State School Nurse. He also announced the arrival of a state school nurse, Miss Birdie Dunn, who will serve all the school in the county for the rest of tha school year. Miss Dunn will exam ine the children and notify parent;: in cases where medical treatmenl is required. Bank Deposits Goes In Effect Delay Service Cha Lincoln Student Dies In Car Crash; Hog Blocked Road l.incolnton Youth I* Third In UK Family To Mori Tragic Death Hy Auto. -_ Lincoln ton, Dec. 31,—Funeral ser- ] vices for Ralph Crutuihaw, 30, who was killed in an automobile act i dent near Columbia, 8. C.. Friday night, was held here Sunday after noon at 3 o'clock. Young Crenshaw, a former Duke student and a jun ior at Catawba college this year, was chnperojjing a group of lou young Llncolnton btrya on a tour of Florida during Christmas and on their return home lost night the group met with an accident as their ear turned over when they attempt ed to miss a hog that erosaed the road ahead of them. Jimmy Gamble, aon of Dr and Mil. J. R. Gamble, received a frac tured Jaw, Paul Rhyne, jr., and Ralph Mullen received broken legs and arms and Hugh Putnam receiv ed facial cuts. Crenshaw was dead when passing motorists, who pick ed up the party, arrived at the hos pital. Young Crenshaw is survived by his mother, Mrs. D N, Crenshaw, a brother, Earl Crenshaw and a sis ter, Mrs. G. R. Hartman, all of Lln colnton. The youth Is the third member of his family lo die from injuries received in automobile ac cidents. Mr. Putnam, the least hurt of the party is a son of Mr, and Mrs. I James Putnam and a nephew ol : Mrs. Pink Riviere of Shelby. Pay Farmers 335— Thousancl on Cotton Plow-Up In County ’;iUon* Were Delivered Last Week. Mh jority Will Take Loan Of Four Cent*. More than $335,000.00 will be paid a iton growers of Cleveland conn-* ty as a result of the cotton reduc tion campaign last spring, report County Agent R. W. Shoffner. Of this amount $175,000 was paid as rent for the land taken out of pro duction and the remainder will be paid on options taken by the grow ers on government-owned cotton. The options were delivered last week and the growers can either sell outright or borrow four cents a pound on all cotton covered. A ma Jority of the farmers will take the loan, Shoffner says Mr. McMurry Sinks In Health At Home J. J. McMurry, one of Shelby's oldest and most beloved citizen > who has been quite sick at his home on West Marion street is gradually weakening. He is unable to recog nize members of his family at ht3 bedside and takes v^ry little nour ishment. The attending physician thinks he cannot live much longer L..E. Ligon, former city clerk and Southern Railway agent who ha: been very 111 at his home on N Washington street with heart trou ble is much improved his many friends will be glad to learn. Hamrick’s Archives Yield Scrip Issued By State In Civil War Currency, In Bills From One Cent To Two Dolars, Found In Courthouse. Faded mementoes ol the Con federacy, recalling the days when inflation was so real that a bushel of corn cost about $60, were dis covered In the archives of Clerk ol the Court A. M. Hamrick by Pe corder s Court Clerk J. W. Osborne on Saturday. Money, real money, is what he found, just 68 years too late to d» anybody any good. He discove-r.ti a double-handful of notes issued by the stale of North Carolina, to denomination from 5c to $2, ‘pa’-; able on or before Jan. t, 1866 They were issued under an ac ratified Dec. 20 1862—war-time— when all the Cr derate state* were IV r ' *• •* — idr a stabl i currency loj then people. Thfe notes are on white paper printed in black, signed by Henry Catdie "for the public treasury Some of them are elaborately en graved. others cheaply printed and smudged. They bear various pictur es, sometimes a sailing vessel sometimes a building. No clue was found as to the own ership of the bills, which were dis covered when CWA workers canr to make repairs. American Legion To«Hold Meeting a meeting of the local unit ol the American Legion will be held evening at the Legion halt at .7; JO, » All Banks In County Qualify K. F. C. Take* $100,000 Preferred Stock In Union I ruat (In, Sere Irr Charge Postponed All Cleveland county bank*. in cluding Llir First National of Shel* by, First National of Kings Moun tain nnd the Union Trust company of Shelby with Its branches at Fa Us ton, Lawndale, Forest City and Rutherford! on have qualified for Insurance of deposits beginning with today and announce that there will be no service charge to customers other than that heretofore been made. All Insured Banks in the county received sev eral days ago their certificates from Washington allowing that they had qualified In every way for deposit insurance, giving their depositors one hundred per cent coverage up to $2,500 under the temporary or ganisation set up. The government is working out a permanent insur ance fund which will Insure por tions of deiwsits that exceed $2,500. Preferred Stock Issued Vp»» the recommendation of uiuiKuiB aumoriues me union Trust Co. has issued $100,000 preferred stock to the Reconstruction Finance ' corporation, falling In line with tha request made by banking author!. * ties Many bonks throughout the country hove ovntled themsoTM of this government money to strength en their capital structure, qualify for deposit Insurance and better serve the need* of their commun ities. Neither the First National nor the Union Trust company has any borrowed money or rediscounted paper, thus placing them In strong cash position. The $100,000 prefer red stock to the RFC was unani mously approved by the director* and stockholders of the Union 1 Trust company at recent meetings No Hervice Charge The Cleveland county banks and tire Rutherford branches of tha Union Trust did not put Into affect today the service charges as pro 1 weed by the North Carolina Clear ing House association. It Is probable however, that service charges will be put into effect February 1 after a study by Administcator Hugh Johnson in Washington, D. C. A bankers' code was drgwn for North Carolina, providing for service charge to customers and regulations governing fair practices, but there was a tangle in Washington ahd everything relating thereto has been called off by General Johnson It was thought for awhile that a nation-wide code calling for a "metered charge” to customers would be put Into effect today, but General Johnson says the proposed charges were unfair to the public and he consequently postponed the code until later. Forrest Eskridge, cashier of the First National and the Union Trust ! Co. stated this morning that he ex pects the clearing house rules, when adopted tn Washington be nearer In line with the N. C. code than with the nulional code. The interest rate on time deposit* is already efectlve. having been set by the Federal Reserve board some weeks ago. MR. HASTING DIES IN SPARTANBURG Was 40 Years Of Age. lived Around Shelby And Owned Farm Near Mootesboro. J V. Hasting, well known in Cleveland county where he lived, died Wednesday morning at ® o'clock in the General Hospital Spartanburg, s. C., which he had entered lor treatment. Mr. Hasting was 46 years of age and had .suite, - ed continuously with a brain trpu ble for more than a year. On Tues- , , day morning he entered into a coma ^ from which he never revived. Pnc; to his illness he was a prosperous farrper in Cleveland. While he Hv- ' ed around Shelby he owned a farm near Mooresboro. He was an hor.-^ est, hard-working man, always go ing about his duties in a most cheerful manner. Surviving ary his wife and the following brothers and sisters: Jo* Hasting. Clint Hasting, Mrs. John Hudson, Mrs. Dargan Greene, Mrs Os to Peeler, Miss Minnie Hasting. A brother, George Hasting, killed in Prance in 1918 while ing his country In the World Funeral services were held Clover Hi'. Method ehureh > III .1 ■■ 1 I he Krv. Mr. Gibbs, being in
Shelby Daily Star (Shelby, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 1, 1934, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75