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Late News THE MARKETS fotlnn. spot ..— --- 10.75 to 11.75 Cotton seed. ton, wagon- 17.00 Cotton seed, ton, carlots .... 19.00 Warmer and Fair Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Fair tonight and fair and warmer tomorrow. To End Strike By UNITED PRESS Chicago, Jan. 10.—The federal fovrrnment is determined to end the Chicago milk strike immediate ly. the United Press learned today, regardless of whether striking farmers vote to accept the govern ment's suggested solution to end the conflict. Wynekoop Trial By UNITED PRESS Chicago, Jan. 10.—Dr. Alice Wyne Itnop is scheduled to go on trial to morrow in connection with the strange death of her beautiful daughter-in-law, who was today described by psychiat-ists as “Quite normal and above the average.” Refinance Loans By UNITED PRESS Washington, Jan. 10.—President Roosevelt is working on a plan to recommend the re-financing of two billion dollars in home loans, it was learned today at the White House. The president today asked con gress In a special message to au thorin' governmental guarantees of the principal as well as the Interest of two billion dollars worth of farm credit administration bonds. The interest guarantee provided legisla tion which merged nine finance agencies, the president told congress today. The moral obligation to guarantee the principal should be recognized by law, he said. Airmail Probe By UNITED PRESS Washington, Jan. 10.—Senator Black, chairman of a special senate committee, today charged that every airmail company in the Unit ed States” was prevented from ob taining airmail contracts from the postoffice department In 1930 be cause of a ruling by Postmaster General Brown which required night flying. Aged Mooresboro Citizen,A.L.Smart Dies At 81 Years Former Merchant, Postmaster And Teacher Is Buried This Morn ing at Concord Baptist Church. Mr. A. L .Smart, long-respected as one of Cleveland county’s fore most citizens, died at his home in Mooresboro January 8th, at 4 o'clock P. y. Mr. Smart, father of Mr. Gary Smart of Shelby, died at the age of 81 years after a lingering illness of several months. Born in Rutherford county near Ellenboro, Mr. Smart married Miss Polly Ann Walker on September 17, 1878. After several years service teaching in the public schools, he entered the mercantile business in Bostic, continuing for 15 years, and serving as postmaster 13 years dur ing this period. In 1901 he moved to Caroleen and worked in the Caro leen Company store, and was also the efficient postmaster of Caro leen in the years from 1908-1912. In 1818, he moved to Mooresboro where ho n>n« J_lei ii_« m__ HWWVtHWU W ivti UUC lUWiW boro oil Mill until 1929. From this date until his death, he was re ceiving agent for the N. C. Cotton Growers’ Co-operative Association. Not only active in civic affairs of his community, Mr. Smart served the Sandy Run Baptist Associa tion both as clerk and treasurer, W4S a deacon In the Sandy Run Baptist church, and served as Sun day school superintendent for 50 years. Mr. Smart is survived by his wife and the following children: E. E. S'nart, Cheraw, 8. C., Gary Smart, Shelby, John Smart, and Mrs. J. w Greene, Mooresboro; four bro thers, Seth Smart, Forest City, George and Will Smart, EUenboro, 8nd Dr. joe b. Smart, Marble, this State; one sister, Mrs. J. E. Bos ti( Charlotte, and seven grand children. -•.Funeral services were held this morning at 11:30 o'clock at Con corcj> Baptist church, near Bostic. The services were conducted by Dr. 8 E Welchel and Dr. Zeno Wall. Pall bearers were: J. A. Kiser, J. c Rollins, A. I. Jolley, E. G. Wtait Rker. D- R. Philbeck and V B Lovelace. Flower girls were selected from the Mooresboro school. 1 il-LSTON’ WOMEN MEET AT CLUB FRIDAY P. M. ^he Palis ton Woman's club will mcet at the club room Friday aft I "l n,,on at 2 o’clock with Mrs. E. G SnurJin Mrs. D. F. Hoyle and Mi', hloid Hamrick as joint hostesses I The Newwa SEND VOL. XL, No. 5 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10. 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday Hnd Friday Afternoons. Hr M»ifc ivr >»»r, do odvooMt _ U.M Cnnrlar, »*r I»»r, (In advance) „ |]N Dpens G.O.P. Attack I The demand by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, of Michigan, for a complete analysis of emergency ex penditures “covering every one of our alphabetical commissars,” is seen as the opening gun of the Re publican attack upon the Roosevelt program and marks the start of the list concerted attack upon the Ad ministration. j Blease To Speak iAnd Red Men To jParade Saturday j Former Senator Cole Mease on the Program. Red Men to Parade In Uniform Saturday. Former South Carolina United States Senator Cole L. Blease will be the principal speaker on a pro gram to be presented by the Sek onee Tribe No. 23 Improved Order of Red Men of Shelby to be held in the Textile Union Hall Saturday night January 13th. In adition, Eugene Grayson, the Great Sachem of North Carolina will deliver an address The meeting will be attended by Red Men offi cers from. North and South Caro lina. The full program for the evening is as follows: At 6:30 a dress parade by the members of this tribe; and at 8 o’clock a musical entertain ment by two string bands, followed by the addresses. The general public is cordially invited to take advantage of the opportunity of hearing two such noted speakers, and all guests will be welcomed. There will be no ad mission charge. __ » Postal Workers Hold Quarterly Meeting Here Regular Quarterly Meeting Held. Hon. Clyde R. Hoey Delivers Address. The Cleveland County Service council of the post office depart ment held its regular quarterly meeting in the basement of the Central Methodist church last night at 7:30 p.. m. Hon. Clyde R. Hoey delivered the principal ad dress of the evening. Dinner was served the members of the council by the D. Z. Newton Sunday school class. The meeting was attended by postal workers from all over Cleveland county. Officers Elected To Head Chamber OfCommerceHere To Continue Canvass Of Business Men Lineberger Is President. Controver sial Matters Will Be Tabooed. How To Join. J. D. Lineberger was electee president and Dr. J. S. Dorton vice president at the organization meet ing of the Shelby chamber of com merce and merchants associatlor held Monday night at the hlgl school building Election of bott officers was unanimous. Director were instructed to name a treasurer The board of directors was in creased to 16 and Boyd Propst anc C. H. Reinhardt were named as ad ditional directors. No Controversies Policies of the organization weri discussed Informally by a number o the members present. It was the consesus of opinion that the or ganization should take no part ir controversial matters but should foi the benefit of its members and the general public endeavor to discov er the facts as nearly as possible ir any matters of general Interest thal might come up and that the secre tary is empowered to secure anj facts he can upon any matter de sired by a member, but without an; recommendation as to action. Upon motion of D. W. Royster, t resolution was adopted that upor any vote on a matter before th< organization all members pledg< themselves to abide by majoritj rule gracefully and to suppor heartily such majority decision ir order that the organization may al all times find itself working whole heartedly on any problem tha might arise. It war announced by Mr Line berger, who has served as tempor ary chairman prior to his electlor as president that the canvass foi members has not been completed because members or tne can vassing team are busy with per sonal affairs. The canvass will be continued until completed. In the meantime, however, it was polntec out that any person not yet seer can become a member and secure membership card by seeing Mr Lineberger. or Everett Houser, th< secretary. It is believed that prac tically every business firm and pro fessional man ip Shelby will b< numbered amon| the members. Lander McBrayer To Seek Gerkship Has Been Scouting Around Foi Two Tears. Definitely Decides • To Run For Office. Lander F. McBrayer is the first candidate to announce for a coun ty office. He authorized The Stai j this week to say definitely that he is in the race for clerk of the court a four year term of office now held by A. M. Hamrick. Mr. McBrayer has been scouting about for the past two years, sound ing out the sentiment of the peo ple and he says the encouragement is such that he is already running "If elected, I shall give the very best service I am capable of giving; if defeated, I will have no ill will or malice toward any one,” said Mr McBrayer. Mr. McBrayer is a na tive of Cleveland county. widely connected with family ties and ac quainted throughout the county The Democratic primary will be held in June at which time all county offices are to be refilled Nominations will be made in the Junes primary and election take place in November. Houser Reports Steps To Be Taken For A School Building Two Way* Of Getting Money Ti Erect New Building. Question Of Election. The method of approach to se cure federal funds for the erectioi of a high school building is dis cussed in a report to members o the Chamber of Commerce ant Merchants Association made toda; by Everett Houser, secretary of thi organization. Mr. Houser was asked at Monda; night’s meeting of the organizatioi to get all information he couli concerning the project on a fact finO'iv t* v. thr ( i n i Commerce and Met chants As.**. i* v ► tlon taking the position that recom mendation either for or against bj it is not in order. The statement prepared for mem ■ bera of the association follows: i "I have been directed by the • membership of the Chamber ol ' Commerce and Merchants Associa I tion to get all available informs ' tion about necessary machinery tr “ secure a new high school building for Shelby with the use of Federal ; Emergency funds. Two Avenues Of Approach. 1 After consulting several peop lio apparently haic nv .(ii. j iCununued on pagt eiguu. | Thomas Dixon Speaks On His Birthday Here Thursday; Also 93rd Anniversary Of County Author To Speak At High Schoo About “This Nation Of Ours” I'ndrr Women's Club Auspices. ... Thomas Dixon, whose highly plotted oolorful novels about th< South have been best sellers foi almost half a century, returns to morrow to his home town to mak< a speech to the home folks on hi. birthday and the birthday of hi; county. Mr. Dixon will be 70 year old tomorrow; Cleveland will be 93 He will speak on “This Coufttr; of Ours” under the auspices of thi evening division of the Women'; Club at the High School auditor ium. Tickets have been sellini rapidly, and only the seating ca pacity of the auditorium will be ad mitted. “The Birth Of A Nation." Mr. Dixon’s most famous novels as every Cleveland resident knows are “The Klansman," “The Leop ard’s Spots,” “The Sins of the Fa ther”—and who has forgotten th< 1 eerie thrill of • that grand movini picture, “The Birth of a Nation?' There are old timers here now wh< rode with the Klan. The author has steadfastly main THOMAS DIXON : mined citizenship in his native state, voting in Frultville Township Currituck county, although Mrs , Dixon is a citizen of New York. He has just completed a tour ol the United States as speaker foi the National Aecovery Admlnistra ! tion and has received tremendous ; ovations. His speeches have bristled ' with so many references to his na i tive state that newspaper writer* dubbed him "The North Carolina Spellbinder.” Two Road Projects Let To Cost $70,000 In Cleveland County Shelby-Boiling Springs Road And Bridge To Cost $60,000. No. 20 Widening $10,500. Two road projects for Cleveland county were let in Raleigh yester day to cost a total of $70,000. One project Is for the widening of highway No. 20 from the Hickory bridge on the eastern edge of the city limits, a distance of slightly over a third of a mile. The present asphalt surface will be taken up and the surface of the road widen ed from Belvedere Heights to the western edge of the bridge. When this road was put down, the as phale surface seemed to have crawled and become rough and un even. It has been repaired several times but fails to stand up under the heavy traffic. J. S. Bowers of Whitevllle has the contract to put down the new asphalt surface am concrete widening at a low bid oi $10,511.60. Sharon-Boiling Springs At last the contract has been lei for the Shelby-Boiling Springs roae which leads off from highway No 18 at Zoar Church through Sharor to Bolling Springs. This road hai been pending for twelve to eight een months, held up because of thi bridge across Second Broad river A new structure will be put In a Weaver bridge to cost *27,403.10. J 8. Bowers of Whlteville has the contract. The grading of the road way was let to Nello L, Teer of Dur ham at the low bid of $32,593.15. II is understood that contract for th< surface treatment of this road wtl be let next summer after th< grading and top-soiling has beer done under the contract awardee yesterday. Lions Pledge Roosevelt Support; Ask C. W. A. Census For N. C. Blind Chamber Works On Better Express In And Out Of City Effort Being Made To Speed Up Shipments By Express In And Out Of City. As a result of efforts being made by the chamber of commerce and merchants association to secure better express service for Shelby officials of two motor express serv ices and of the railway express agency are working on plans to speed un service or rather to give deliveries more often than the one now offered Shelby merchants on shipments from out-of-the state points. The railway express agency, which ; operates into Shelby over the Sea board road, states it can do noth ing to give additional deliveries un til the Seaboard adds another train, which is believed possible. Two motor services, one an interstate line having dally service into north ern points, the other doing a local business in this and adjoining states, are now trying to formulate a Joint service which will speed up ; package shipments into Shelby and this entire territory from northern points. Refuse Permit For Negro Dwelling* The board of aldermen in their 'neeting last night refused to issue permits for the erection of several , negro dwelling houses on East Warren street, between the Will Hoey home and J R. Osborne's. Petitions were signed and submlt ~d by a hundred or more white ,, ipgr this «oct.|r>r t be, restricted to white people. ZOO Attend Conference And Banquet Here As Guests Of Shelby Club; Dance Follows. ■“Vigorous and enthusiastic supporl of the Roosevelt recovery progranr was the keynote of the 31st distrlcl Lions club /conference here Iasi night, attended by more than 20( members, who enjoyed a lively pro gram of music and dancing a* guests of the Shelby club at thi Hotel Charles. District Governor John Barela; of Wilson, in the main address o: the evening, urged full support o the administration during the nex1 few trying months, as did O. Le< Horton, who responded to thi speech of welcome by the Shelb; president, J. W. Osborne. Ask Survey Of Blind The Lions cheered the announce ment that their directors, who me late in the afternoon, had passed i resolution urging a census of th< blind in North Carolina. Mr. Bar clay made a point of this in hii address, saying that such a surve; could be made by CWA workers and that it was a humantariai move imperatively necessary now. Mr Osborne, in address of wel come, cited the civic activities « the local club, which has growl rapidly in the past few years. Music was furnished during din ner, and afterward for dancing, bj a colored orchestra. Miss Bett; Eskridge won applause with a piani accordian solo and later with a taj dance; Colbert McKnight played i piano solo, and a colored quarte sang. Lions were present, many of then with their wives, from Wilson, Mur phy, Durham, Asheville, Raleigh Morganton. Statesville, Gastonia Charlotte, Salisbury and Concord. The state directors are B. J Asheborough. Zack L Roberts. Jo seph Day. E. W. Davis. Rufus John son, W. M. Fain. J B Reynolds am Much Mitchpll Tile * stair r ntion wil hr held in Salisbury Ur June Cotton Reduction! Drive In County To Start Monday! Sheffield To Address i 60 Committeemen Stole Muuk|tr To Instruct Worker* j At Meeting Tomorrow Morning. Charles A. Sheffield of Raleigh, j state manager of the Cotton Re ductlon program, will address mem bers of the Cleveland county reduc tion committee at the high school tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock. He will give them Instruction about the campaign to begin In this coun ty on Monday. The Cleveland committee la com posed of more than sixty members, representing each township, who will canvass every farmer In the county. This, however, does not prevent fanners from signing up at the court house. Call For Options County Agent Bob Shoffner said this morning that many options had i not been called for, due, he thought, to failure of many growers to re ceive their announcement cards. He asks that all farmers due to receive options call at his office, whether they have received a card or not Farmers asking for the 4c loans were strongly In the lead as against those 'who sold out their options this week. Yesterday, 73 borrowed and 42 sold out. Monday. 78 bor rowed and 36 sold out. Bank Re-elects Old Officers In Annual , Meeting Tuesday ; Hit Over A Million And A Half i Dollars On Deposit. Good Six Months Showing. The First National reported a good showing for the six months period of last year at the annual meeting held Tuesday tn the di rectors’ room. During the year, the bank underwent a reorganisa tion and assets not considered col t lectlve were charged off. All real es tate held by the bank was taken out and the bank started off tn fine cash position. It was shown Tues day that It has no borrowed money and no bills payable. C. C. Blanton was re-elected pres ident, John F. Schenck and George Blanton, vice president: Forrest Eskridge, cashier, Roy Sisk and Clarence Mull, assistant cashiers. Directors are as follows: C. C. Blan ' ton. John F. Schenck. Clyde R. Hoey, O. Max Gardner. J. F. Rob erts, Paul Webb. R. T. LeGrartd, Lee B. Weathers, George Blanton and Forrest Eskridge. Mrs. S. F. Tussle, 18 Year Old Mother Dies At Hospital Young Wife’s Death Result Of Three Weeks Illness. Survived By Family. Mrs. 8. F. Tuggle, age 18, died yesterday at 1 o’clock at the Shel by hospital, where she had been a | patient for ten days. Her death | came as a result of three weeks , sickness. Surviving the young mother are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Proctor of Lowell, her husband. Ray Tuggle who is employed at the Eton mill here, and her two-year | old baby daughter, Mattie Carolyn Tuggle. , Furieral arrangements have not , been definitely decided. It is plan ned to hold the services and burial | at Gastonia sometime tomorrow. Bui winkle Favors It For Largest Cotton County In Carolina Slayer of Three John Pletrowslrl, 19-ye*r-old CWA worker, of Chicago, who became so enraged when he found hie wife In the arms of John PanfUld, a roomer at their home, that he slew Panfleld. hie two children, John Jr., and Betty, and beat hia wife so badly the is expected to die. Farm Labor Asked To Register With EmploymentOffice Provision Will Be Made To 'Run' Needy Tenants, Hays J. 1. Lattlmore. J J. Lattlmore. manager ol Cleveland county re-employment office anounced today that his of fice is now ready to register land lords and farmers who are In need of any kind of farm labor. Like wise. families desiring to rent e farm and unemployed farm laboi are urged to register. It Is through the efforts of Majoi A. L. Pletcher, state commlsslonei of labor. Mr. Lattlmore stated, that whs new nee employment service is offered farmers. There may be some families ap plying for work on the farm whe do not have enough food and cloth ing to "run" them until the crop Is made. Under certain conditions provision will be made to extent! help to such families, he said. Families, who in the past left th« farm for work in town or factors and now realize that they shoulc be back on the firm, are urged tt register, Mr Lattimorc, says anc give the government an opportun ity to help find the employmenl they prefer Surprise Bouts At Armory On Fridaj A surprise card will be featuref at the company K armory Fridaj night, it was announced today. Tin fight will be resumed Friday, aftei skipping a week, but none of th( names of the fighters were disclos ed. County Salaried Officers Cost Cleveland Only $3,188 In 1933 , Auditor McKinney's Report Shows , Bit Saving Over Ud Year; Fees, Fine* Increase. In a summary of the salaries of i Cleveland county officers published In The Star today. County Auditor . McKinney shows—if you’re slick \ . enough to read between those longj figures—that the county ended the! calendar year with a net cost to the j taxpayers of only $3,188.86. That's one way to look at it. A little more figuring, and you arrive at the con ’ elusion that the county made a irotit or *2.003 39 I Last year. Uir net cast oi srled officers to the county wai 118,333.96. In other words, during 1933, al jfflees except the commissioner! snd the tax office collected fees fines, forfeitures, etc., over anc rbove the salaries paid the offi :ers. The grand total of all Cleve and county salaries was $25,247.35 rhe fees, fines, etc., amounted t< 122.058.49—difference, $3,188.88 Itemized, these collections wen ike this: Tax refunds and collection com nissions collected by T. V. McKin ley, county auditor, from the Nortt iContmued on |wgc cighu Congressman Acts To Locate Experiment Office Here Information to South! Ob Prod ac tion. Acre ate. Condlttew Of Parma Me. Thera la to ba established to Piedmont Carolina a $45,000 Cotton Agricultural Rxpcrtment station, the money to be allotted from the Pub lic Works fund, according-to a tala gram from Congressman A. L. Bid winkle of thla district. As soon as the possibility "erf atatton being located In Cleveland was learned. The Star wired Mr. Bulwinkle urging that he recom mend Cleveland county and thla morning ha answered, "Am at tempting to secure station for dis trict and have recommended Cleve land county for its establishment.” Gathering Pacts A few days ago Mr. Bulwinkle wrote to The Star saying he had the matter of establishing this ex periment station In this congres sional district and asked that in formation be sent to him at once, j Re la gathering facts on the num ; ber of bales of cotton produced ; within the last few years, the I amount of acreage, condition of the farms, etc. Thla Informations will be presented to the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Wallace. Cleveland county ha* mainUmfri supremacy as a cotton production county for eight or ten years, the crop ranging from 47,000 bales this year to 64,000 in peak years. Will Make Tests It Is understood that the cotton experiment station would make tests to determine what seed and fertilizers are best adapted to the Piedmont toil and make other ex periments that would be of value to cotton farmers. It Is not known yet whether the government would buy or lease land for the station and how many, acres would be re quired. Letters recommending that the station be set up to Cleveland county are going out from the chamber of commerce and mer chants association, O. M. Mull, J. S. Dorton, R W. Shoffner and others and if necessary a delegation will go from the county to Washington to place the county's case before the department of agriculture. i !14-Year01d Girl Implicates Click In Assault Charge Witnesses Examined Before Jury In Crowded Court Room; Negro la Guilty. A crowded courtroom leaned for ward this morning to hear scrap* of evidence in the only sensational case to come before this term of superior court so far. that of Creed Click. Shelby mill worker, who 1* charged with assault upon a four teen-year-^d girl. Doctors, charac ter witnesses, and a servant who worked in 4he little girl’s home were examined by prosecuting and I defense attorneys, j The assault Is alleged to have oc curred last September and the case ! Is continued from recorder’s court. Dave Wilson Guilty A true bill against Dave Wilson, colored, charged with the murder with a mattock of Sam Payne, also a negro, was returned by the grind Jury yesterday. Judge Oglesby, find ing the facts in the case, found Wilson guilty of manslaughter Robert Webb, pleading guilty to a charge of assault, was given 60 days on the roads. Eight true bills were turned In yesterday and 10 prohibition cases disposed of. Seven true bills were found on Mondnv Prohibition Cases The court rapidly disposed of a number of prohibition cases and petty larceny charges, withholding judgment in most instance*. This week* jury Is composed of r G. Adams. T. M. Ware, Waynu i Brackett. F A. Greene, A. G Rara jsey. H Lee Beam. S. Lee Cook. Mll ! let' Sparks. E. C Kiser, Charles ; Rhinehardt Wilbur Cash end A T> | Harris
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