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Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, *pot .. 10H to 11«4 Cotton seed. ton. wagon- 18.00 Cotton seed, ton carlots . 20.00 Weather Cloudy Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably occasional rain in west on Saturday. Colder in northeast to night. Returns Mills Havana. Jan. 5.—The Grau San Martin Government yesterday pre- J pared to return to the Cuban Am •riran Sugar Company, an Ameri ,.n Corporation, the sugar mill properties in the Oriente Provinces j tt confiscated two weeks ago. A decree commanding the return of the mills was being prepared to day. Asks Billions Washington, Jan. 5.—President Roosevelt has asked Congress to approve the biggest peace time spending program in the history of the United States. He requested an expenditure of 916,629,805.667 over a period of two years to further his national recovery plans. Enrollment Rapid! As C. Of C. Drive Gets New Members Many Shelby Firms Take From Four To Eight Memberships; Canvass Continues. Enthusiasm on the, part of busi ness agd professional men of Shel by is being encountered by can vassers for memberships in the Shelby chamber of commerce and merchants association. Not a sin gle firm or individual approached has declined to join. From four to eight memberships are being tak en by business firms, in addition to the individual memberships being taken. The canvass will continue during this week and probably next. Mem bers of the canvassing teams have themselves been busy with personal affairs and have been unable to give any great amount of time to the campaign but are planning to complete the work within the next lew days. Is Already Active Immediately upon completion or ganization of the association will be finished and it will be ready to formally begin its activities. In the meantime, however, the asso ciation is at work on various proj ects, such as roads, CWA program for the town and county and var ious other such enterprises. Firm Membership Individuals and firms who have already joined include: Ideal Serv ice station, T. W. Hamrick Co., J. R Mclntire, J. Reid Misenhelmer, William Hagley, K. & 8. Trucking Co., Henry B. Edwards, Dr. T. B. Gold, Dr. Ben Gold, Clyde R. Hoey, L. R. Comevin, Robert U. Woods, Survey S. White, J. L. Buttle, J. S. Willard, Frank L. and George A. Hoyle, Dr. A. Pitt Beam, C. C. Horn, Peyton McSw&in, W. A. Pendleton, D. A. Beam Co., Belk-Stevens Oo„ Sterchi Bros., O. E. Ford Co. Shelby Printing Co., Star Pub lishing Co., Cleveland Hardware Co., Clark Hardware Co., Efirds Department Store, U. L. Patterson, Julius A. Suttle, Anthony and An thony, Cleveland Drug Co., Paul Webb, Kester-Groome Furniture Co., Royster Oil Co., J. C. Penney CS Carolina Fruit and Produce Co., B H. Kendall, John P. McKnight, Kendall Medicine Co., McKnight »nd Co. Mrs. Suttle’s Father Passes In Atlanta * E. Pierson, Former Railway En rineer Dies At 80. Father Of Mrs. John W. Sattle. A P. Pierson, father of Mrs. John w Buttle, died Tuesday evening at * o'clock in Atlanta, Ga„ • following an illness of two weeks. Rev. and Mrs. Suttle left Wednesday for At lanta to attend the funeral which | was held there Thursday afternoon They expect to return home to-! ’ night. Mr. Pierson formerly lived at Blacksburg, 8. C., where he was an engineer on the Southern running on the division between Marion and Rock Hill. He is survived by his wife, four sons and three daugh ters. one son is dead. Mr. Pierson well known in railroad circles and loved by a wide circle of friends in several state*. ^ojrcM Rapidly On City Directory Rapid progress on the new Shel by directory being compiled by the “ans club with the assistance of CVvA workers is being made, offi eers of the club said yesterday. The '*ook will be issued between the; , and tenth of February. J a llkvkllajjm »Es-Mk i£8 Pages Today VOL. XL. No. 3 SHELBY. N. FRIDAY. JAN. 1931 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ."■■■■'—I ■ "U1 iff111.. w Hr Mali, iKir yr»r. on »drnno*l _ Currior, p«r row, On »«v»oeei _ s s f is U. S. ORDERS UNEMPLOYED TO RE-REGISTER Nine Historical Spots Of County Designated For Granite Markers Civic Clubs Will Ask CWA Aid; Need Fund Of $500. Seven of Nine Places Bear on Revo lutionary War. Others Where First Court Was Held. Nine of the outstanding histori cal spots of the county are sug gested for granite markers, seven of the nine sites having historical interest bearing on the Revolution ary war while the other two would mark the place where the first court was held in the county and the other would mark the birth place of Thomas Dixon, playwright, author, lecturer. The sites are declared by P. C. Gardner, authority on genealogy and Cleveland county history, to no the most outstanding points of his torical Interest in the county. With aid from the CWA. It is felt that large granite boulders with bronz\l tablets could be erected at the ivne points If $500 were raised locally the balance of the cost to be paid by the government. An effort will be made to enlist the support of civic clubs, the DAR and other or ganizations in marking these spots. The nine points' of historical interest and the proposed wording on the tablets are as follows: Colony of Carolina. No. 1 To be erected at three coui ty comer on State highway 18, be tween Shelby and Morganton. This sTone marks: First: The northern boundary of that part of the colony of Carolina conveyed by seven'of ‘ the tffght Lord Proprietors to the British crown in 1729, and the southern boundary of* that part of the co1 • ony of Carolina retained by Lord Granville, one of the eight Lord Proprietors, which share was laid Off to him in 1743. and known as the Lord Granville line. Second: The northern boundary of Tryon county created in 1768 and abolished in 1779. Third: The western boundary of Lincoln county and the eastern boundary of Rutherford county from 1779 to 1841. Fourth: The three county corner of Cleveland, Lincoln and Burke since 1841. Army of Sumter. No. 2 To be erected at Fallstan, intersection of old Lincolnton Rutherfordton stage coach with state highway 18. First: The Lincointon-Ruther (Continued on page eight.) Lion’s Conference Here On Tuesday Delegates from all Lions clubs in North Carolina west of Raleigh will meet here for their regional conference at the Hotel Charles Tuesday evening. John Barclay Wilson, district governor, will be the guest of honor and principal speaker. More than 100 out-of-town Lions are expected, and many of them will bring their wives. Preceding the banquet at seven o'clock, the state directors will hold a meeting. Operatic Prodigy After several years’ absence from the footlights, Marion Talley, once more appears in the role of “Gilda," in the opera “Rigoletto," as she re turned to the stage. She is shown enjoying a light snack in her dress* ing room during her comeback per formance with the Chicago Grand Opera Company. President 0. K.’s [Loan Of $11,000 For Negro School Money Will Be Spent For 9 Class rooms And Fire Escape; Expect Funds For Central Hi. A loan of $11,000 was approved by the President yesterday* for 1m proveifaentf cm the 8helby colored schools, Congressman A. L. Bu! wlnkle announced this morning in a telegram to The Star, The money will be spent. Superintendent of Schools Smith said, for six addi tional classrooms, a stair-tower fire escape, and improved toilet facili ties. Another application for funds has been made, Superintendent Smith said, for funds to construct an ar cade connecting the Central Hign school building with the anns.':. This loan is expected to be approv ed soon. Mrs. Ida Robbins Dies Of Pneumonia Mrs. Ida Wood Robbins, died in the Shelby hospital this morning of pneumonia. She was 52 years old. Funeral services will be held to morrow at the Camp Creek church, with the Rev. Mr. Walker of Boll ing Springs officiating. Mrs. Robbins is survived by her husband, Elijah Robbins, seven children and twelve grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Jane Emory, and a brother, Peck Wood. First1934Baby Born In County Is Black Boy From No. 4 Township Second Baby Is Born To Mr. And Mrs. Isaac Guinn Of Bonnie Mill, Kings Mtn. The first 1934 baby born in Cleveland county it not the white child of Mr. and Mrs. Roland C. Tate of Grover as announced in Wednesday’s issue of The Star, but a black boy born in the Roy Bell family in No. 4 township between Grover and Kings Mountain. The mistake in making the announce* ment that the Tate child was the first child bom in Cleveland in 1934 was due to a misunderstanding over the long distance telephone. Dr. George Oates of Grover has sent in a birth certificate for the Tate child and instead of being born at 2:30 a. m. on Jan. 1st. it was born on Jan. 2nd. The boy baby was born to the Roy Bell colored parents at 3:30 Mona a * -mine January 1st. hence the pr offer ed by the Shelby merchants will to this child. The second child born on Jan. 1, according to the best information obtainable by The Star was a boy in the family of Mr. and Mrs' Isaac Guinn at the Bonnie Mill, Kings Mountain at 12:3g p. m. Monday, January 1. The attending physician was Dr. J. E. Anthony of Kings Mountain. This child will receive a $2 savings account given by :he Union Trust Co., of Shelby. When sufficient proof is present ed to The Star office that the Bell child was the first and the Guinn child was the second born on Jan uary 1st in Cleveland county, an order will be issued by The Star for the parents to get the prizes of fered by Shelby merchants. Un less births from other sections of the county are reported to have oc curred earlier fian the hell nnd Quinn chilrtrVu, h p_’. > j; g0 o these new-born in No. 4 town hip. J.J.McMurryDies Today At Age 84; Funeral Sunday ... .. .. Prominent In Cotton Circles Here One Of County's Moot Prominent Citizens Succumbs. Father Of City's Mayor. Jesse J. McMury died at 12:30, this afternoon at his home on West J Marlon street where he Hiad bee« sick and confined to his bed for several months. His death was ex pected for he was 84 years of age last May and had been In declin ing health for a year or *two. Burial At Sunset Cemetery Funeral services will be held Sun-1 day afternoon at 2.30 o'clock from the First. Baptist church of which he was a devoted member and In- I terment will take place in Sunset cemtery. Services will be in charge of Dr. Zeno Wall, his pastor. TVo sons survive. Mayor 8. A. McMury and Avery W. McMurry, both prominent in the business, of ficial and social life of the city. One daughter. Mrs. Hannah McMurry Washburn died a number of years ago. One brother Pink B. McMurry and one sister. Mrs. D. D. Wilkins, six grandchildren and nine great I grandchildren survive. Wed Governor’s Slater Mr. McMurry was born a few miles west of Shelby, the son of John W. and Elizabeth Mcurry. He was married to Margaret Hamrick j by which union the three children ; were born. She died in 1885 and he later married Hessie Gardner, a sister of former Governor O. Max Gardner. She died six years ago. No more highly esteemed and in fluential citizen lived In the coun ty than Mr. McMurry. He was an authority both a* a farmer and a# a textile ptiantrtftnturar Ibr-M -»wa»s. he was in the mercantile business here and dealt largely In cotton. In more recent years he and his sons were cotton brokers and had large farming Interests. His acquaintance extended Into many states and all who knew him loved him for his kind, gentle manner, his sound judgment and his generous spirit. He was devoted to his church, his county and to his friends and was always generous and considerate of the poor and unfortunate. Cotton Mill President Mr. McMurry was not only a large i land owner and authority on farm ing, especially cotton, but he was interested in textile manufacturing and was president of the Belmont Cotton mill and vice-president of the Shelby Cotton mill. Ho always gave his support to movements which made for the larger town and coun ty and for a happier and more con tented people. During his illness, the two sons and his granddaughter, Mrs. Tom Moore and Mr. Moore who lived with him in his last days, showed the love, patient attention and de votion that always marked the fam ily. Trip From Texas In Covered Wagon Takes 3 Mond' 'Rutherford roti;?!* M^ke M:'<’ Trek. Returning Home After Absence Of 12 Years. -- A covered wagon drawn by wo weary mules crept into Forest City last week, ending a dusty trek of 1.800 miles from San Antonio. Tex as. Three months was required to make the journey. Mr. and Mrs. R, C. Noll drove the wagon, and they ram? to visit Mrs. Nall’s parents of the Tanner Grove, community. They were returning' to their old home after an abserfee of twelve years. Their m ■ \? c-nippcd with stove, cooking utensils and beds, and was followed b” 'he'r wo dogs. At nia^t. Mr. and M Nall Tent in j the wagon. They 'reporod thetr meals at camp firBs. Th? ’dp was nn-rrntful. Mr Nall said. The onlv trouble they had was :en *he mule' "sbeb,.! >d when thev eaw -atiro"d *r"lns for the hrst time. 1 •i a T'" mart * ^ . * I H G ., * ' 'h f>— c I A total of 742 cotton 'firmer* have ailed for their options at County »ver thoffner’s office in the court V"-v\ ^hree hundred and twenty mo '■ a sold out and 420 have bo; rowed, it was announced this morn ing. t Passes Today Jesse J. McMurry, prominent M vearold Shelby citizen who died at 12:30 o’clock today. Funeral serv ice* will be held Sunday at 2:30 o’clock. Seaboard Officials Formulating Plans To Better Service Rutherfordton-Charlotte Road Be Inf Considered, Shelby Cham ber Is Informed. Pomtbility of better passenger and express service for Shelby over the Seaboard railroad Is seen In the • nr f letter to the Shelby chamber of commerce and merchants associa tion In answer to a request that ad ditional service be established. While nothing definite is prom ised, C. H. Gattls, general passen ger agent says that the road from Rutherfordton to Charlotte is un der consideration. Gas Electric Experiment While the railroad Is not now considering use of a gas-electric train as suggested by the local or ganisation, Mr. Gattis states that tne road is experimenting between Lumberton and Charlotte and Nor lina and Portsmouth with addi tional trains to see if these trains with frequent local service will at tract sufficient business to justify making them permanent on the greatly reduced fare schedule of one and one-half cents per mile. “After this has been demon strated we of course are going to consider additional service between various points of the system and of course local service between Ruth erfordton and Charlotte in the morning and back in the afternoon will be given consideration. Lack Motor Equipment ‘ Just at this time we have not the motor equipment to provide eh service but you may feel as ured we will keep the matter he re us with the hope we can ace our way clear to later on try out a train between Rutherfordton and ^harlotte ” ' " orison Speaks Tor*»r^t In Place Of R. W. Sh of frier iaud County Agent -tick In Brd. Acreage Reduction Plans To Be Discussed. Graham Morrison, county ugent tor Lincoln, will speak to the farm ers in the court house tonight at 7 o’clock, explaining to the Cleveland county farmers the 1934 cotton acre age induction program. R. W. Shoffner, agent for" this < iunty is confined to his bed with laryngitis- and is unable to meet his engagement. However, rathe: than call the meeting off o’ post pone it until a iateT date, he has ecured the services of Mr, Morri son from the adjoining county of Lincoln. Mr. Morrison is well known In Cleveland, having married a daughter of Mrs. J. T. Gardner. He is one of the most wide-awake agents in the State and is himself a large t.rair. and cattle raiser. T *m" ano acreage iwli.e-! on i • huve bean receiveo o.v UMe lr ji ■ • -nt's o ftqe and arc no :, ready foi distribution l Prohibition Cases Dominate Docket For January Term Three WilTBe Tried For Killings Superior Court Opens Hen Tues day. With Jurist- Oglesby Presiding. Prohibition eases dominate the docket for the January superior court term which begins here Tues day with Judge John Oglesby of Concord presiding and L. 8. Spurl ing of Lenoir as solicitor. There are 91 cases all told, all of them crim inal. Three murder cases, in which first degree charges will probably not be pressed, will come up for trial. • *fTm Hamrick, colored, is charged with killing a negro iden tified only by the name "Snowball' last summer. "Snowball” wap trav eling with a medicine allow which stopped in Shelby and got the worst of a knife fight with Hamrick. "Self-defense will be the defend ant's plea. Held In Child Death B. A. Martin will Rppear on charges of killing a child on the Fnllston road last autumn. His au tomobile struck a truck in which the child was riding. Dave Wilson, colored. Is charged with having killed another negro with a mattock last November. There are several cases of lar ceny and more than a dozen di vorce cases. Uncontested divorce cases will be heard on Friday, Jan. 12. Negro’s Contempt Of Court Earns -—3fr Days hi Jail RefuM To Answer In Uqaor Trial. Pint Instance Of Kind in Two Yean. A sentence for contempt of court was imposed by Judge Joe Wright in recorder's court here Wednesday for the first time in more than two years. Jim Hamrick, negro, of No. 7 township, on trial for drunkenrss and assault, refused to obey the order of the court to answer a question asked by the prosecuting attorney. The question was, "Where did you get the liquor?" Hamrick Insolently answered that he wouldn’t tell anybody where he got it. Judge Wright gave him 30 days in jail. He was given 90 days on the assault charge and appeal ed the sentence, "The court, and officers of the court,” Judge Wright said after the trial, "welcome visitors at all times, but we do expect proper conduct at all times both from witnesses and visitors. It is not my Intention to be severe, but I must remind the peo ple that failure to observe the proper respect for the court will be punished to the limit.” * Negroes Sentenced On Gambling Charge Nine negroes arrested on gam bling charges in the Delight com munity last week were given sus pended sentences of two months and oosts on payment of $1S each by Judge Joe Wright in recorder’s court here on Wednesday. 2,000 Jobless Here To Be Re-Classified At Frazier*s Office Census Supervisor Renn Dram, former new* editor ol The St»r who has been appointed eensuR supervisor for fifteen coun ties In the Charlotte territory. ' ) -!-_!-U... Renn Drum Heads Emergency Census For 15 Counties Opens Offices la Charlotte. Will Use T* Enumerators In Mate • Ini Daily Reports. Renn Drum, former news editor of The Star has been appointed district supervisor of the federal emergency buslnest) census to be conducted In IS North Carolina counties and has opened offices in the Mecklenburg hotel in Charlotte. 72 Enumerators Mr. Drum has entered upon hh duties and work will go forward at once looking toward the naming oi the 72 enumerators for the IS coun ties. These will be selected from the existing rolls of persons registered in the respective counties for em ployment on CWA projects. These names will be drawn at the gov ernment offices in the various coun ties. Mr. Drum's territory does not include Cleveland but does include Mecklenburg, Gaston, Iredell, Row an, Catawba, Alexander, Davidson Stanly, Montgomery, Union, Anson Richmond, Scotland, Lincoln aud i Cabarrus. Not Over 943 Weekly The CWA rates of pay will pre vail, also, Mr. Drum explained. This scale provides a minimum of 92.7C a day and a maximum of $43 a week. Specific rate for the censut work will be based on a unit pay ol 18 cents per schedule completed No enumerator can druw more thfin *43 a week, however, no rnattei how many firms he sees in a week Tiie minimum wage per day proj ' Continued on page eight.) Ante-Bellum Days Recalled By Faded Book Of Accounts Ox Cart Sold For 1254c In 1855, Wheat Was *8.50 A Bushel, Negro Brought *4,400. Faded pages. Inscribed with the firmly-shaded flourishes of S Wil liams, probably Cleveland’s first clerk of the superior court, were examined with Interest In the clerk's office this week when painting and repairs by CWA workers necessi tated changes which brought old documents and books to light Back, with quick fingers, you turn the pages of time to the eight een-fifties, when Jenrfy Lind was in the height of her operatic glory in New York, when Henry Clay's fugitive slave law was passed by congress, when gold was discovered in Australia. and a Worlds Fair opened in the Crystal Palace. New York, and Cmtunodbip perry made Japan on n l'< r i nor.- to the world, and the c\-i.r-.u war'ended. And toward the end el the area, John x, Brown raided Harper’s Perry, and they hanged him at Charleston, West Virginia. And what was the price of beans in Cleveland county then, In the decade Just before the Civil War? Well, things were cheap in the county just fourteen years old in 1855. According to the Record ot Estates, you could buy a good mattock then for five cents, an axe for 27c, three barrels for 25c, a pair of hames for 13c, an oven for 26c, o woman s saddle for $3.66, a sow and pigs for $4—and an ox cart for 12 !-2c—it must have been a poor one. You could get a good plough stock for 64c, a singletree for 21c, a blind bridle for 90c. a sptnnn'np wheel for 50c—oh, that was long before there was a popular song about such a prosaic thing as a spinning wheel A spider no«. (Juki t but Hi, tCon United on pag' eight). Mutt Sign Up Again If They Want To Obtain Work. Sudden R«-('hwMn| Asked By Fed »r»l Authority In Order To Secure Accurate Census. Every person tn Cleveland county who has registered mt the Re-em plpyment Bureau on Weet Warren street in the hope o( getting a Job must come In and re-regUter or n« Jobe will be forthcoming, D. R. S Frailer, director of the bureau, an nounced today. Mr. Fraser is act Ing on orders received yesterday from the National Re-empioyment Service in Washington. More than 3,000 persona in Uu.; county are affected by the order, Mr. Fraser said, 350 of them women To Show True Picture This sudden demand, which plac es a severe burden on the Cleve- > land county staff and tnconven • iences so many Jobless persons, war promulgated because the govern ment wants an accurate, up-to-the minute census of the unemployed. Mr. Fraser explained that hundreds of persons who registered tills win ter have been placed or have found Jobs, and that many others may have moved away. The re-rorlsi ra tlon will show a true pioture of the number of unemployed now. In the re-reglatralion, the npph cants will be classified according U< a new system, being listed under 'Industrial Heading as well as national. ’ - - —■ . . MO Now Placed. The Re-employment office, ..It Frailer said, has placed lt^ mu <Continued on page eight, > Cleveland Drivers Flout Tag Ruling; No Arrests Made i nut me only Keiuun .Seems To tin That The One Patrolman Wm Busy Elsewhere. Nobody was afraid of the big, bail motorcycle patrolman in Cleveland this week, and tardy license buyers, continued to ride with 1933 tugs on their cars. Nobody was arrested, so far as could be learned this morn ing. This wasn't because the law was being lenient, or that it had backed down on its threat to arrest all dr ivers who did not have ’34 tags. It was simply because Cleveland has only one state patrolman and he was too busy collecting revenues and attending to truck licenses to go out and nab violators in private cars. He was in Marion all day yes terday. No arrests were made, eith er, by city or county officers. 4.181 Tags Purchased Four thousand one hffndrcd and elghty-one tags have been bought so far, Carlos Hopper of the Caro lina Motor Inn said this morning Seven thousand tags were pur chased through him in 1932. • Bitter complaints came from all over the state this week as other counties did arrest their offenders in Charlotte, motorists were so in censed because an extension was not grunted that they called a ma,. meeting, to be held next week, to excoriate tire high tax on gasoline and Governor Ehringhaus. Grigg Is Installed As Kiwanis Head La«t Three Presidents Of Kiwanis Have Lived In Same Block On West Marion. West Marion street is "presiden tial avenue'' as far as the local Ki wanis club Is concerned. The last three presidents have been selected from the same block on the street | Forrest Eskridge was president in 1932, Henry Edwards tin 1933 and last night the club installed its new president for 1934 when the gsval was tinned over to Horace Grigg. A resume of the year’s work as prepared by Chas. A. Burnt secre tary was read hv the n tiring V,; Diet-idem Henry Edwards after :i President Grigg appointed >r committee* tor Uw ensuing ' PHI. k
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