Late News
L THE MARKETS
Cotton. spot. 11M 40 12-2i
Ootton seed, ton- wagon 17.00
Cotton seed, carloU 19.00
Fair Tonight
Th* weather report for N. C. to
oiyht and Tuesday is as follows:
Slightly warmer Tuesday and in !
jouihwest portion tonight.
Money Message j
Washington, Jan. 15.—Presi
g,nt Roosevelt today sent a
message to congress asking for
legislation limiting the revel
ation of the dollar at a point
between fifty and sixty cents.
He also asked specific legisla
tion to vest in the government
the title to all American owned
monetary gold which amounts
. „„rn,|n.&telv S3.5fifi.00A 000.
now owned by the Federal Re
terve banka. The president also
Miked authority for the secre
mrv of the treasury to deal in
foreign exchange. He suggested
tw0 billions from the potential
profit in gold be utilized to es
tablish a fund for the purchases
and sales of foreign gold in ex
change for government securi
ties. Roosevelt asked for an
amendment of the existing leg
islation relating to the purchase
and sale of gold and monetary
matters in general, in order to
make handling Of problems
more convenient.
Markets Swing Up
On Gold Message
After the president’s special
message to congress today deal
ing with his currency inflation
policy, all markets took a sud
den advance.
At 2 o’clock cotton on the New
York exchange had advanced
thirty-five points above Satur
day’s close, wheat was up three
and three-quarters cents per
bushel and stocks were up an
average of three dollars a share.
Eskridge Youth Of
Double Shoals Dies
Of A Heart Attack
Died Yesterday At Age 18. Funeral
At 2 O’clock Today. Nine
Brothers And Sisters.
J. D Eskridge, 18 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Eskridge died
at the home of hia parents at Dou
ble Shoals Sunday afternoon at
{.30 o’clock following & heart at
tack. He had been sick for some
time and quit school during the
Christmas holidays because of heart
leakage. For the past two weeks he
had been confined to his bed.
Young Eskridge was a popular
young fellow and well liked by his
comrades and grown-ups. Funeral
services were held this afternoon at
fj o'clock by Rev. John W. Suttle
and interment took place in the
cemetery of the Double Shoals Bap
tist church.
Surviving are his parents and
asters: Mrs. A. L. Spangler, Mrq,
Ed Spangler, May, Muriel, Sam, jr.,
Sherrill. Carl, Arnold and Elbert.
Arnold lives some place In Califor
nia. while the others are all resi
dent* of this eounty.
H. H. Boyles Of
Lawndale Passes;
800 At Funeral
Muter Mechanic Of Cleveland Mill
And Power Co. Sucnmbs To
Heart Attack.
Hill H. Boyles, master mechanic
with the Cleveland Mill and Power
Oo. at Lawndale, died suddenly
ftiday evening at 9 o’clock follow
ing a stroke of paralysis which he
received about S o’clock that after
noon He was 54 years, nine months
and five days old.
Mr. Boyles had been in the em
ploy of the mill at Lawndale since
he was a boy. He Was promoted in
‘he service of the company until he
became master mechanic. His fel
low workers and employers held
him in the highest esteem as was
evidenced by the enormous display
of flowers and a crowd of 800 or
more people who attended the fu
neral service Sunday afternoon. He
wae s competent workman, a lov
character and trusted employe.
About a year ago Mr. Boyles’
health declined and he spent
•ometime in a hospital undergoing
*n operation and treatment. He
•eemed to improve and resumed
hi* work about a month ago. Mr.
Boyles Is survived by his widow
who before marriage was Miss
Alice Towery and the following
children: Wilbur, of Lawndale,
George, of Washington, D. C.. Mil
dred of Shelby, Madeline of Lawn
dale.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon from the Lawn
h*le Union church by Hev. Mr
Tr°xler. assisted by Rev. E. E. Snow
"J Charlotte. Interment took place
* the cemetery at Palm Tree Meth
ehurch.
The GENUde Stark
8 Pages
Today
VOL. XL, No. 7
S^SHPPSS
SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JAN. 15, UKty
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
Ilf Mali, par y«»r. (In adrenee) _
Carrier, par year, (In advance) _
83
KINGS MOUNTAIN TEACHER FOUND DEAD IN LAKE
In Federal Toils
I Arrested in Easton, Pa., by Federai
| agents who charged her with broad
| casting counterfeit bills, Jessie Han
| ley, eighteen and pretty, tearfully
l told of finding the bills at the Eas
ton railway station and spending
them, unaware they were phony
She identified herself as the daugh
ter of a socially prominent New
York family.
Deputies Capture
ThreeMoonshiners
In County Raids
They Bring in Ninety-Nine Gallons
Of Liquor and Sixty Gallon
Still and Condenser.
Ninety-nine gallons of moonshine
and three prohibition violators were
brought in last week by Sheriff
Cline’s deputies.
The largest haul was sixty gallons
in a copper still, with condenser
captured in No. 4 township, off^he
York road, on Friday. Four depu
ties and Policeman Hicks of Kings
Mountain watched the operators
run off three and a half gallons
before making the arrest. They
brought in Charlie Heavner, who
gave bond, and John Wells, colored
who is In jail. The deputies were
Sheppard, Powell, Cordell and Wliis
Twelve gallons were seized in Nc
4 township in the home of John
Good, who was arrested and ga* e
bond.
Twenty-seven gallons were cap
tured Thursday in No. 2 by Depu
ties Whisnant, Powell, Jolley, Ken
drick, Morehead, Sheppard and
Cordell. The liquor was found in
two houses near the Sharon
church. No arrests were made.
Two On Honor Roll
At The University
Of the total of 331 students who
made the roll of honor in scholar
ship for the fall quarter at the
University of North Carolina are
two Shelby students, Ralph Gard
ner and R. E. Weathers.
To make the honor roll a student
must average a grade of “B” or 90
for all courses.
Twenty-six of the honor students
made a grad of “A” or 95 or more,
the highest mark attainable on all
course. Ralph Gardner was one of
the twenty-six oij this special honor
roll.
Shelby Will Get
$27,000 Projects,
McMurry Reports
Mull Get* Approval
Of New Road
Two Other CWA Projects Are
Promised From Patterson To
S. C. Line.
O. M Mull and Mayor McMurry
brought back good news for Shelby
and Cleveland county Saturday
concerning the approval of $27 000
in work projects In Shelby and $18,
000 CWA on the grading of a new
road from Shelby to Patterson
Springs with the promise that two
more projects will be made up—one
for the road from Patterson Springs
through Earl to the South Caro
lina and another for a road from
Patterson Springs to Grover.
Mayor McMurry went to Raleigh
to press action on Shelby projects
U> cost about $27,000 which had
been in Raleigh for several weeks
but had not been acted upon, Mr.
Mull went fo Raleigh to press the
Patterson Springs, Earl and Grover
roads, application for which was
; sent to Raleigh in early December,
but which had been buried in the
mass of papers in one of the busy
offices. After searching for an hour,
the project was found, the approval
of the several departments was se
cured and brought back to Shelby
for action on the part of Relief Ad
ministrator Woodson’s office. Men
will be assigned to the Shelby
Patterson project this week and
they will work under the supervi
sion of the highway department
probably W. A. Broadway, county
road supervisor.
Two More Projects
Messrs. Mull and McMurry then
called upon Chairman Jeffress of
the highway department and urg
ed the completion of the road and
Ho rtmmisoH fr.Hot. tHo turn hrnnrhPK
I will be made up Into two more CWA
[projects. One project will be from
Patterson through Earl to the
South Carolina line while the other
will be from Patterson direct to
Grover where it will connect with
the National highway. Mr. Mull says
he has every assurance that the
contemplated roads in the lower
section of the county will be grad
(Continued on page eight.)
Shelby Rotary Club
Broadcast Sunday
Addresses By W. E. Abernethy And
Dr. Hugh Plaster: Musical Num
bers On Program.
Taking its turn in the broadcasts
of the various Rotary clubs of this
vicinity, the Shelby organization
presented an interesting 15 minute
broadcast over station WBT in
Charlotte yesterday afternoon at
1 o’clock.
The program was featured by the
addresses of Walter E. Abernathy
Shelby High School principal, who
delivered an interesting talk, bring
ing out certain fact of interest
about Shelby and Cleveland county
and Dr. Hugh Plaster club presi
dent, who briefly reviewed the so
tivities of the Shelby club.
Several musical numbers ided
to the attractiveness of the pro
gram. One, an accordion solo irc
isented by Miss Betsy Eskridge, and
the other a tenor solo by Mr. is B.
Hill of this city. Mrs. Plaster r.c
companied the musical presenta
tions at the piano. _
Still another attraction was a ne
gro quartet from ihe Cleveland
Choral singers.
Cleveland’s Little Divorce Mill
Frees Twenty Couples In One Day
But Three-Fourths Granted Were
To South Carolinaians Under
2-Year Residence Law.
The machinery of Cleveland s lit
tle divorce mil lspun swiftly Friday
afternoon and twenty couples were
loosed from the unwelcome shackles
of matrimony.
None of the cases was contested,
all but two were brought by women,
and all of them were granted on
the grounds of two years’ separa
tion What tragedies or quarrels .
sorrows or incompatibilities inspir
ed the desire for freedom were in
no instances revealed, for the North
Carolina law requires no more than
a plea of two years seperation and
two years residence. This was the
unanimous plea.
Judge John M. Oglesby, who con
cluded his term of superior court
here with the divoice hearings,
commented from the bench that
“the state might as well have a law
granting divorce by mutual con
sent.”
A. M. Hamrick, clerk of the court,
said that he believed at least three*
^Continued on page tigblj
Mr. Walker, Age 94, Only Surviving
War Officer Here Recalls Wild
Life And Early Habits Of People
I,iff Was Hard Thfn Compared lo
Now. Helped Survey County
Line. Reared Large Family.
(By W. E. White.)
For the benefit of people inter
ested in the story of the only ex
Confederate officer now living in
either Cleveland or Rutherford
county, I shall try to write a sketch
about Captain J. M. Walker. Capt
Walker was born in Rutherford
county near the Cleveland line on
the 11th of February, 1840, almost
94 years ago. He now lives about 10<">
yards over the boundary line in
that portion of Rutherford adjoin
ing the New House section o'
Cleveland. While Capt. Walker is
not a native or a citizen of this
county, 1 trust that we are doing
no injustice to our good Rutherford
neighbors by insisting that we do
have a partial »laim oh him, es
pecially since he was born and
raised within sight of the boundary
line between us and married one of
our best Cleveland county women.
The subject of this sketch comes
of one of the foremost families of
Rutherford county. An uncle, Col
onel Elijah Walker, was a militia
officer, while two of his cousins,
Martin and Noah Walker, each
served terms as sheriff of their
county.
Enlisted Before Secession. .
Capt. Walker had just passed his
21st birthday when the Civil war
broke out. As he had been accus
tomed to attending militia muster
Near Ninety Four
Ca.pt. J. M. Walker, oMeat Confed
erate officer living In this section.
in Rutherford county he was morn
or less familiar with the routine of
military drill at the beginning
hostilities between the stakes,
immediately following the oall
President Lincoln for volunteers to
suppreaa the rebellion, he enlisted
(Continued on page eight.)
a Ss.
Nearly SMillion Paid InXC
On Rentals To Cotton Growers
T. H. Abemethy
Buried Sunday;
Died Suddenly
Well Known Machinist Succumbs
At Home Of His Daughter,
Mrs. A. V. Hamrick.
Tom H. Abemethy was found
dead in tne room of the home of
his daughter, Mrs, A. V. Hamrick
on West Marion street Saturday
morning about 8:30 o'clock. He died
from a heart attack as he was re
turning from the bath room to his
bedroom. Mr. Abemethy was 73.
For the past year or more Mr.
Abemethy had been suffering with
heart trouble and came near dying
last summer. He was a machinist
by trade and a good one. His deal
ings were fair and honest and all
who knew him, respected him for his
fine character. Mr. Abemethy was
born in Hillsboro, this state, and
married Miss Ella Mundy of Den
ver, Lincoln county. His wife died
about 17 years ago and his body
was laid to rest beside hers in Sun
set cemetery Sunday afternoon, the
funeral being conducted from the
Hamrick residence at 3:30 o’clock
by Drs. 7.eno Wall and E. K. Me
Larty.
Surviving are the following chil
,dren: Chess of Vadalia, Ga., Qhar
! lie of San Mateo, Fla., Lamar, Ben
and Tom of Gastonia, Mrs, Robert
Bell of Asheville, Mrs. A. V. Ham
I'iek and Paul G. Abernethy ol
Shelby.'- Also surviving are two
brother:;. W. -V Abernethy of Shel
by, Jim Abernethy of Huntersville
'and one sister, Mrs. Clara Cook of
j Connelly Springs. All of the chll
jdren were here for the funeral,
i Active pallbearers were Georgf
and Frank Hoyle, O. V. Hamrick.
R. R. Black, Lee Dover, Ben Stroupe
Tom Webb and C. A. Morgan. Hon
orary pallbearers were S. A. Wash
bum, E. A. Wellmon, Ed Laughrtdge
W. Y. Crowder, M. W. Tiddy, John
P. Mull, George Putnam, A. K New
ton and R. L. Hendrick.
CWA Funds Asked
Fo' Countv Home
A projec for labor and materials
;or painting the Cleveland county
liome war submitted to the CWA
this mornlny. The r >t?.t i .' is er
timeted . S’ p'-er ii tc
paint all the buildings on the prop
erty, including the new barn.
1422,897 Acres Oat Of Prodwtloni
HriMtl Payment Of IN Per
Bale Now Available.
Figures available from Washing
ton, as of the latter part of Decem
ber, reveal that a total of $4,737,023
has gone into South Carolina alone
in the form of rental payments on
89,080 contracts accepted, covering
422,897 acres removed from produc
tion. South Carolina producers also
hold options on 181,721 bales of cot
ton at six cents a pound.
The initial payment of $20 per
bale is now available cm these op
tions and $3,634,430 is now being
distributed in South Carolina. Thus
South Carolina cotton producers
have received or will receive a total
of $8,371,530 as their compensation
for taking 422,897 acres from pro
duction in 1933. A remaining crop of
742,000 bales has been harvested
and, at an average price of at least
9 cents per pound, should bring to
South Carolina cotton farmers an
Income of at least $33,390,000, mak
ing the total income to South Caro
lina fanners, exclusive of cotton
seed $41,761,453 for the 1933 season.
In view of the excessive supply
situation, it is conservative to esti
mate that a 17,600,000 bale crop
! piled upon « carry-over of 11,600,000
.bales undoubtedly would have de
pressed cotton prices to five cents
per pound. This would have result
ed In South Carolina cotton farm
ers receiving around $23,950,000
for the poten* :• crop of 958,000
bales
5 Fin a Report Made
‘ County Bank
> Final rtpor: has been made on
the settlement of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Mooresboro
which closed its doors on April 7th,
1930. The report comes from the of
fice of Gurney P. Hood, commis
sioner of banks %t Raleigh and
shows that all secured claims 'were
paid in full and depositors with
unsecured claims received fifty
cents on the dollar.
The capital of the bank was $29,
! M00. Unsecured claims amounted to
I $134,917.39. secured claims $33,500
and deferred claims $16,794.63. All
preferred claims were paid in full
except $10.20, a single claim which
was no: presented All secured
claims were paid in full and a divi
dends of fifty .per cent was paid to
, depositors.
Recreation Center
Near Fairgrounds
Planned By County
Will A»k CWA Funds
For Project
Plans Include S-Arre Lake. Play
grounds. Club House*. Athletic
Field And Camps.
Plans to uss the Cleveland coun
ty] fairgrounds and adjacent county
property for a Rural Recreation
Centre are being drawn up by the
county commissioner* and will' be
submitted to Mrs. Thomas O’Berry,
state Civil Works Administrator
this week, Chairman Joe Blanton
announced this morning.
Thla project, which Mrs. O’Berry
has already Indicated would be ap
proved, would turn the fairgrounds
Into a playground lor all Cleveland
county. It will Include a six-acre
lake, to be constructed by erecting
a dam across the creek In an ad
jacent hollow, an athletic field, 4-H
club houses, farm demonstrator
buildings, a community centre
building, a vocational agricultural
building, playgrounds, camps foi
school children, boat houses sec
dressing rooms.
Dr. J. 8. Dor ton. seoretary of .’.be
Fair Association, was In Raleigh or
Saturday to confer with Mr*
O’Berry about the project. She iz
enthusiastically In favor of It, he
sold.
The project would follow Mu
plans of Rural Recreation Centre!
being constructed in other Morfcl
Carolina oounties.
Mr. Blanton said that a full
tup* supervisor would he placed U
charge and that the supervising
committee would be oompoeed c
the chairman of the oounty com
missioners, the superintendent oi
education, the county agrtcultura
agent, the superintendents of pub
lic welfare and the secretary of ttx
fair aaeociation.
C. Of C. Offices
Established Here;
Add Credit Bureau
Organisation Takes Room No. 10 Ii
Lkneberger Building; To Make
Uat Of Slow Payers.
The Shelby chamber of commerci
and merchants association is toda;
establishing itself in room No. 10
in the Lineberger building. Thii
office is almost directly over th<
Western Union /office and can b
reached by stairway* either Iron
Marion or LaPayette streets. Thi
telephone number assigned to thi
association is 23.
Merchants interested in the credl
bureau feature are asked by the or
ganization to furnish it with list
of delinquent accounts. The firs
efforts of the credit bureau will b
to compile a list of habitually delin
quent people. Later an attempt wil
be made to classify good as well a
slow payers.
Cotton Reduction
Campaign Starti
Sixty committeemen started thi
morning to make the rounds of al
Cleveland county farms to assis
cotton growers in filling in form
for the reduction campaign. Farm
era were asked to have thier five
year averages ready in order t
save time.
Pearl Fulton Drowns
In Montonia Waters
Movie land
: Hollywood's ns west newlyweds, Mr.
i and Mn. Ricardo Cortes, ara pic
tured just after their marriage at
I’hoenfx, Aria. The bride is the
: former Mrs. Christine Lee, at New
| fork, which also is the home city at
the screen hero groom.
Five Typewriters
Stolen At Night
From High Schooli
Thieves tinier Window, lake Old
set Machines. Leave M New
Ones.
Chief of Potter Wilkin* te qwes
ttonlng North Carolina pawnahop
operators and comparing finger
prints in an effort to trace the
thieves who on Friday night stole
five Underwood typewriters from
the Shelby High School.
| Clear fingerprints wtre left, he
said, on the window through which
, the machines were taken. Tracks or
an automobile were found under
the window and imprints in the
soft ground showed where the type
writers had been lowered out of the
room. It would have required more
than one man to do this, Chief
Wilkins said.
The machines were stolen from
the commercial department and
were the oldest ones in the room.
Twenty-five newer typewriters
were Ignored.
Supreme Court May
Release Prisoners
On Liquor Counts
Washinton Jan. lb—The Supreme
court Is expected to announce to
day whether it will consider a case
brought in an effort to open prison
doors to all violators of the federal
prohibition law now serving sen
I fences.
Alfred R. Nerbonne, now serving
5 a sentence in the Northeastern pen
i itentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., started
t habeas corpus proceedings to ob
» tain his freedom on the ground
that he could no longer be held a
■ prisoner as the law under which he
) had been convicted had been re
■ pealed
Employment Bureau Surveys
County To Get Jobs For Tenants
| Canvass Begins Today Under Honey
I cult: Seek To Place Town
Workers Back on the Soil.
A survey of Cleveland count
farms to list those which might ta
in need of workers or tenants wf
start this morning, J. J, Lattimon
director of the Re-employment Bu
reau here, announced Saturday. Th
canvass will be conducted unde
the supervision of R G. Honeycuti
Urge Tenants Register
Workers Rnd tenants are »*kr
] to register at- the office on We*
• Marion street. Families who left
farms for employment in mills or
factories are urged to list their
names.
* A total of 3,018 unemployed per
e sons have registered at the bureau.
1 419 of. these re-registrations, ac
i. cording to the recent ruling by the
federal administration. Unfortun
ately. Mr. Lattimore said, the coun
s ty quota has been filled and there
r are no jobs to be given immediately
He said projects were ready for cm
(iloymeni of 150 men and that an
1 additional allotment had been re
t quested.
Ill Health Said To
Have Been Cause
Of Her Action
PoMoe rind No Ttmw Of Violent r:
Daughter Of Late tie*#
Senator.
The ooki water of Lake Moulonia
thia morning yielded the body of
MIm Pearl Fulton, Klnga Mountain
school teacner, who apparently
committed suicide by throwing her
self In the shallow waters of the
lake.
Birthday Today
She was the daughter of the late
H. T. Fulton, former state senator
and member of the board of eoun
ty commissioners, and would have
been S3 years old today.
Her body, attired only In night
clothes, was discovered at day
break by Mr. Arwood, a caretaker.
He saw a flutter of white and a
woman's hand above the water
about fifty feet from shore. Un
able to reach the body, he hurried
to oall the police.
No motive, other than HI health,
could be discovered this morning.
Doctors who examined the body and
police who carefully searcaed the
grounds around the lake could dis
cover no signs of violence which
might lead them to believe the girl
had been murdered.
Left Room At* Night
Her family said she had retina
between 13 and 1 o'clock this morn
ing. When her mother entered hei
room at about jeven o’clock, sl»;
found har eioflung fin flic "iHgiT
I pine* and the bed untouched.
I Neighbors near the lake where
she was drowned said they heard an
am nubile horn blow about mid
night, and believe It was from Miss
Fulton's car.
Drove Her Own Car
Circumstances Indicate that she
quietly left the house sometime be
tween 1 and I t m., took her owr
'Continued on page eight.)
Mrs. Williams Is
Peumonia Victim;
Funeral Sunday
Death Re auk Of Measles Ami I*lieu
mania. Funeral Herrlew Held
Yesterday.
Funeral .servloes for Mrs. Dovti
Williams, 30 year old wife of Alvir
Williams of No. 1 Township, wer<
conducted at 3 o'clock Sunday aft
ernoon at Sandy Plain* church b:
Rev. W. A. Elam assisted by Messrs
Z. D. HarriU, J. D. Bridges and Rust
Padgett. Six of Mrs. Williams
nephews served as pallbearers. The?
were the Messrs. Wyatt Martin, Ly
man Martin, Luther Walker, Joi
Walker, Hall Williams and Oth<
Williams.
Mrs. Williams death resulted frou
10 day’s illness with measles follow
ed by pneumonia. She died Satur
day night at 8 o'clock at the She!
by hospital where she had been i
patient for a week.
Surviving are her husband, AlvU
Williams, her father. D. J. S. Wa»k
er; three children Katherine Bea
trice and Billy; three brother *
Ceatufi. A. C.. and Rev. F. G. Walt
er of Castalla, this state; and on<
sister, Mrs. J. C. Martin.
Mrs. Williams was the daugh'v
of Mr. D. J. S. Walker, one of M •
county’s best known citizens, ar«
the late Fannie McKinley Walkc
She was a faithful member of thi
Sandy Plains church, a oonscien
tious mother, and was loved by al
who knew' her.
CWA Payroll Here
Amounts $10,846
Cleveland County CWA worker
received $10,848.78 last week, Misi
Goode King, assistant disbursmt
officer, said on Saturday. Of thi*
sum, 810A50.&3 was for actual labot
on county projects.
Last week. 83 women workers un-,
der the direction of Mrs. Falls were
given employment as clerical help
ers In the court house, at schools,
nurse in Uie hospital, and janir
tresses. All mid. 837 person.', were
i employed.