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SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, JAN. 17, 1984 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Colder Tonight
w>all,cr forecast for North Caro
ls: somewhat colfler in east and
,nlra> portions tonight. Tomorrow,
increasing cloudiness, possibly light
^,n j„ afternoon in extreme north
west
New Trial Angle |
By UNITED PRESS
Chicago, Jan. 17.—Attorneys are
poping to save Dr. Alice Wynekoop
from death in the electric chair as
demanded by the state. It was
hinted in cross examination today
that Bheta Wynekoop might have
died by her own hand.
Air Data Gone
By UNITED PRESS
Washington, Jan. 17.—Airmail
contracts and correspondence from
the files of former assistant post
master general Clover in charge of
the airmail bureau was removed
Irom his files and “disposed of”
jnst before Glover left office, the
„nate ailmall contract investiga
tors told today.
Hits At Lawyers
By UNITED PRESS
Washington, Jan. 17.—President
Roosevelt today struck sharply
against the custom of national
committeemen establishing them
selves as lawyers In the shadow of
the eapitol. The president is op
posed to the practice it was reveal
ed at the White House. Revelation
came close upon the action of Sec
retary Ickes forbidding certain
prominent lobbyists to ply their
trade with persons In his depart
ment.
Student Editors
Ask New Building
Issue Monthly Newspaper, Ablv
Edited and Full of News; To Be
Printed Each Month.
The first edition of the Shelby
High Times, monthly newspaper
edited by students of the Shelby
High school, was off the press yes
terday. It is a bright and ably put
together newspaper. published iii
five column tabloid size and sup
ported by a number of local adver
tisers.
On page 1, the student editors
emphasize the plan for a new high j
school with CWA labor, new book' j
for the library, a junior class stunt
night, mid-term exams and attend
ance records. Editorially, The
Times comments: “The CWA will
soon be abolished and a new build
ing will cost much more, and yet
no enthusiasm has been shown in
the city. Why can't the student
body help the citizens to realize j
how badly we need a new building
and need it now?”
The Times shows remarkable
restraint for a student paper in re
fraining from printing column aft
er column of wise-cracks on who
carried who's books home last week
It is essentially a newspaper.
The editors are: Editor in chief
Will Arey. Assistant editors—Hill
Hudson, Marlyn Smith. Business
manager—Woodrow Wall. Assistant
business managers—Harold Bettis,
Kathryn Blanton. Advertising man
ager—Keith Shull. Assistant adver
tising managers—Jack Palmer, Ma
rie King. Circulation manager—3ii!
Dellinger. Assistant circulation
managers—C. B. Putnam, Jame'
Gallimore. News editor—Charles
Broadway. Assistant news editors—
Nancy McGowan, Louise Lybrand
Hoys sport editor—Roy Lee Conner
Girls sport editor—Marion Bass.
Tickets Go On Sale
For Roosevelt Ball
^av Bf Obtained From Mayor Mr
Murry, Lindsay DaiL or From
Presidents of Womens Cinbs.
Tickets for the President’s Birth
r a; ba]1- to be held at the Charles
note1 the evening of January 30.
®re now °n sale and may be ob
wined from Mayor McMurry, Line'
»av Dail at The Star office, from
e drug stores, or from presidents
' c ub* and civic organizations
Ponsoring the event. The price is
and proceeds above expenses
111 be donated to the Warm
^Prings Foundation for children
■_e.ing from infantile paralysis
yie dance, which will be tnfor
,.a. ,,s expected to be the mo3t
^ I attended °f any such event
®r elt* 1° the city. Special loud
P'sker apparatus will be Installed
H f audience may enjoy a na
vhirl broadcast program, for
h a11 radio stations will be
ared, and the voice of Presidin'
Roosevelt will be heard at 11:15
OPTIONS uncalled for.
^tton options belonging
r.i, !veland county farmers are un
f01' at Couhty Agent Shoff
■' s office, although two notices
h*v« been sent out.
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V. E. McDANIR COMMITS SUICIDE AT ASHEVILLE
At Wynekoop Trial
One of the most interested listeners
at the trial of Dr. Alice Wynekoop,
at Chicago, is the Rev. John Henry
Hopkins, close friend and spiritual
adviser of the physician accused of
murdering her daughter-in-law,
Rheta Wynekoop.
Seeks to Double
CWAJobsThrougl
'‘Stagger” System
Administrator Hopkins Would Re
duce Hours To Employ 500,000
More Men.
Washington, Jan. 16.—-The plac
ing of two CWA workers where one
CWA worker worked before was
the announced goal today of the
civil works administration for de
creasing unemployment in small
communities.
Harry L. Hopkins, the administra
tor, said that without spending
much if any additional money, he
was authorizing a sort of stagger
system whereby workiirg hours
would be reduced from 30 to 15 a
week in rural areas and towns ol
less than 2,500.
In this way, he said, he hoped to
provide employment for 500,000
more people, although the earnings
of all concerned of course would be
reduced.
Hopkins reported statistics from
140 larger towns and cities for De
cember showing a reduction of 21
per cent as against November in
the number of families receiving
unemployment relief, but that 1,
256,825 farnUic; remained on the
list.
Measles Epidemic
Over In Schools
Cleveland County's measles epi
demic has faded away, SupCr nten
dent of Schools Grigg said +his
morning. All schools are now open
and attendance is good.
And there won't be another epi
demic. either, if preventative meas
ures can avoid it. CWA nurses have
been assigned to the Shelby, Kings
Mountain and county schools, and
the State Nurse is here now, exam -
ing all the school children and
recommending treatment when
necessary.
Miss Fulton Is
Buried Today At
Kings Mountain
Was Drowned In Lake
On Monday
Suicide Theory Is Accepted And j
No Inquest Is Held. Ill Health
Attributed As Cause.
A great throng attended the fu
neral this morning at 40.30 of Miss
Pearl Pulton. 32 year old daughter
of Mrs. H. T. Fulton which was
conducted from the Pulton residence
at Kings Mountain.
Body Found Monday
The lifeless body of Miss Pulton
was found floating on the surface
of Lake Montonia early Monday
morning, several miles from Kings
Mountain, where it is thought she
drowned herself. She left her bed
room late at night, and drove her
own car to the lakeside, carrying
with her a blanket from her bed.
The body was found by a Mr. Ar
wood, caretaker of the lake, a sum
mer fishing and bathing place,
owned by a club composed of citi
zens living at Kings Mountain,
Gastonia and Shelby. .
Had Poor Health
The suicide theory is generally
accepted as the cause of death as
no inquest was held and there was
no evidence of foul play. Miss Pul
ton had been in bad health but
| she was a bright spirited girl and
(kept her physical ailments to her
jself, rather than worry her mother
!and friends. She was one of the
most popular young ladies in Kings
Mountain and from a prominent
(family, her late father having serv
ed as chairman of the county board
-of commissioners for a number of
(years and later as state senator
from Cleveland.
Died On. Birthday
! Monday was her 32nd birthday
land also that of her mother. She
had gone to Charlotte last week
with a party of friends and bought
favors for a Joint birthday celebra
tion. No peculiarities were noticed
in her conduct as she was an un
usually bright and cheerful young
i woman. She taught a Sunday school
| class in the Methodist Sunday
; school and rarely missed in her at
tendance. She did not attend , on
i last Sunday, however. Also she had
■ an excellent voice and sang In
I church and at other public gath
erings.
Beautiful Floral Tribute
Her tragic passing, cast a gloom
;over the entire city of Kings Moun
tain. Many beautiful floral pieces
jwere sent by friends to the funeral
| this morning and a throng of peo
i pie attended. Services were con
; ducted by the pastor. Rev. W. O.
I Goode, assisted by a former pastor,
! Rev. J. R. Church.
Her mother, a sister. Mrs. N. F
Gill and a brother, Tom Fulton,
prominent undertaker of Kings
Mountain survive. Serving as active
pallbearers this morning were J. A
i Neisler, J. L. McGill. E. W. Griffin,
, W. L. Ramseur, Otis Falls and
! Charles Dilling.
Interment was in Mountain Rest
cemetery.
State To Collect
Bootlegging Tax
Raleigh, Jan. 16—The federal
' government expects to collect taxes 1
I on whisky from any spirits found j
in legally dry North Carolina.
Asserting that bootleggers, speak
jeasies and other handlers of illicit
alcoholic drink were subeject to the
j government floor tax, Charles H.
; Robertson, state collector, said thp
i international revenue department!
would undertake to collect it.
The tax is $2 a gallon.
Deputy’s Widow To Get Pay For
Husband’s Death In Shooting
Ruled That Deputy Sanders Was
In Employ Of County; Insur
ance Company To Pay.
In an opinion that went deeply
into legal aspects of the case, Chair
man Matt H. Allen, writing for the
full state industrial commission,
yesterday awarded workmen's com
pensation to Mrs. Ella Saunders for
the death of her husband who.
while acting as deputy sheriff in
Cleveland county, was shot to death
in Shelby while taking two drunk
en men to jail.
$7 Week Foe 350 Weeks
The commission reversed an
award of C mmi.*- ■« J Dewey
Dorse tt, who denied compensation
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i Under yesterday s opinion, Mrs |
Saunders and her 11-year-old
• daughter will get the minimum al
lowed In the compensation act for
j death, $7 weekly for 350 weeks.
The defendant carrier, the Trav- j
elers’ Insurance company, also was;
ordered to pay funeral expenses not
to exceed $200 and to pay accrued
compensation in a lump sum.
Deputy Sheriff E. W. Saunders
was killed instantly on December
31, 1932, in the yard of the county
jail when an intoxicated man he
i had arrested shot him with a nis- j
rol. He worked entirely on a fee
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Ex-Irish Mentor in New Job
Apparently happy in “fresh fields and pastures new,” Hunk Andersop,
former grid mentor of Notre Dame University, ia pictured as he got
acquainted with members of the North Carolina State College eleven,
whose destinies he will guide in the coming season. Anderson will
introduce the Rockne system at the Raleigh, N, C., college.
Cleveland Cotton Farmers
Favor Reduction Program;
Bankhead Bill Supported
Seek More Jobs
For Farm Workers
Drive To Find Humes For Tenants
Continues. Desire New
Allotment.
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The drive to find homes for ten
ants on the farms in Cleveland
county is being continued, J. J,
Lattimore, head of the national
Re-employment Bureau here, said
yesterday. Canvassers are visiting
the various farms throughout the
county, attempting to find places
for tenants, in order that they
might be removed from the pay
roll, and others be put in their
places.
Cleveland county received an ori
ginal allotment of 800 men, and
this allotment has been filled for
Lhe past two weeks, Mr. Lattimore
said. It is not permitted to take
anyone of the original 800 from the
payroll and substitute another un- I
less someone already enlisted should ]
find a job in a private concern. In
that case, another worker could be
put in his place, and be assigned
the old number. Until Cleveland
bounty is allotted a new quota, it
[H'l be impassible to employ any
new laborers. ;2.ye Mr. Lattimore.
The re-registering continues, the
total registration being 3,034, 470
3f which are re-registrations.
Cotton Campaign
Must Be Success
By January 31st
If Not. It Will Be Called Off And
All Contracts Revoked, Says
v Secretary Wallace.
Raleigh, Jan. 16.—If the cotton
reduction campaign now being wag
ed in the state is not completed
successfully by January 31, Secre
tary of Agriculture Wallace may
sail it off and revoke any contracts
which farmers have signed, Char
les Sheffield, state campaign direc
tor, said today.
The cotton drive leader pointed
iut that increased vigor should be
shown in the campaign now as the
tobacco reduction program nears
its close. The tobacco drive will
ind Saturday.
Sheffield said no reports on con
.racts signed were yet being tab
alated but reports of progress made
n some counties “augur well for J
;omplete cotton sign-ups in the,
icar future."
E. Y. Floyd, leading the tobacco j
•ampalgn, continued to predict
hat better than 90 per cent of the !
, is will sign reduction agree- j
non is, .
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Would Take 20,000 Acre* Out Of
Cultivation Here; Watch New
Measure With Interest.
Scattered reports this morning
from the sixty committeemen work
ing with Cleveland county farmers
on the cotton reduction campaign
indicated that growers here are
favorably disposed, If not actually
enthusiastic toward the program
and that a large acreage will be
taken out of cultivation.
The deadline for JoiningjUhe re
duction program is Jan. .Strict which
time, If the reduction is not enough,
the plan will be withdrawn, accord
ing to Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace. But Cleveland is more than
likely to sign up for its quota of 20,
000 acres, R. W. Shoffner, county
agent, believes.
As the campaign started here this
week, growers watched with keen
interest the progress of the Bank
head bill, which would limit pro
duction and bar sales of cotton over
that limit, excluding growers who
did not agree to reduce.
Senator Smith of 8outh Caro
lina, chairman of the senate agri
cultural committee, said yesterday
that If the cotton farmers wanted
the bill he would support it as an
emergency measure. Appearing In
support of the measure were the
agricultural commissioners of North
Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and
a representative from Alabama.
Commissioner William A. Graham
of North Carolina haki he had ori
ginally opposed legislation restric
tion of productin in favor of bring
ing about the reduction through edu
cation or diversification. But now,
he said, something must be done,
“and this bill is the best way.”
The bill proposes to give to the
farmer a gin certificate for every
bale he can have ginned, with the
number of certificates to each
farmer based on the previous pro
duction of his land, or on the pro
duction if all his acreage were plant
ed to cotton.
Putnam Died at Houi
Hand - Made Grand
father Clock Stopped
When Everett Putnam died one
night last week, the end came at
exactly the same hour and minute
his handmade grandfather clocked
ceased to run, ten days before his
death. Mr. Putnam was a cabinet
and pattern maker and had made
a grandfather clock for his home.
Some ten days ago, the weight
cord broke and the clocked stop
ped at 10:40. Mr. Putnam died at
this very hour and minute last
Thursday evening
Another strarer coincident In
the life Vf Mr P o'*is*that his
other h. i r < ied on the
saint* day, six years ago.
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Survey Of County
By CWA Is Asked
By Commissioners
Delegation Off Today
With 2 Projects
Blanton. Dorian, Fraser, McKinney
And Mayor Herndon Leave For
Raleigh.
With two of the biggest projects
yet submitted by the county to the
Civil Works Administration, the
county commissioners headed by
Chairman Joe E. Blanton, Dr. J. 8.
Dorton, secretary-treasurer of the
Cleveland County Fair Association
Mayor Herndon of Kings Mountain,
D. R. 8. Fraser, engineer and Troy
McKinney, county auditor, left
mrly this morning for Raleigh for
a conference with Mrs. Thomas
O’Berry, administrator.
They took with them plans for
the construction of a Rural Re
creation Centre at the Fairgrounds
a project virtually certain of Im
mediate approval, and another plan
believed unique In the state. This
Is to employ a corps of engineers
and linesmen In making a complete
map of all the properties In Cleve
land county—almost 400,000 acres,
many of which, It is believed, are not
now on the tax books.
Would Cost $38,000.
This project, according to Mr.
Frazer, woul entail the employment
of at least twelve engineers and a
supervising engineer, 48 chainmen
and six draughtsmen .would require
six months work, and would cost
approximately $38,000.
The acreage listed for taxation
varies largely from year to year,
Mr. McKinney said, and hks In the
past, varied as much as 30,000 acres.
A complete map would mean great
ly increased revenue for the coun
ty, the commissioners believe,
Map Flan Unique.
This map would be the first of
its kind In North Carolina, Mr.
Frazer believes, for no such elab
orate survey has even been under
taken by any of the 100 counties
though many of them have consid
ered the plan as a means of in
creasing revenue.
It would Include not only a sur
vey of actual property, but a soil
survey, a road map, a topographical
survey and a sanitary survey and
would provide for all time a work
ing basis for county. Improvements.
Blue prints would be made for
each township, of which there are
11. and bound in separate volume^
for easy reference.
Proponents of the plan said yes
terday they expected early approv
al because the project does not en
tail much expense for materials
Most of the cost would go for labor.
2 Year Old Child
Pneumonia Victim;
Funeral Tuesday
Billy Dwaln Camp DIh After Two
Week* Illness. Funeral Rites
Tuesday Afternoon.
Funeral services . were conducted
Tuesday afternoon for Billy Dwaln
Camp. 2 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Camp of 206 Shan
nonhouse street, who died Monday
morning at 11:25 after a two weeks
lllnesa with measles and pneumonia.
The rites were eoa.f ucted by Rev C
V. Martin and CrawT0fd-G*U2pb'd1
at the Second Baptist church ift
Shelby. The body was burled at
rleasant Hill cemetery near Pat
terson Springs.
The child is survived by his
ther and mother, two brothers, one
half-brotheT. and four half-sisters
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Shelby Man Buried
Here Today; Started
Federal Job Recently
Male for Wellesley
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At the ratio of 1,600 girls to one
boy, Wellesley College, exclusive in*
stitute of learning for young ladies,
at Wellesley. Mass., has gone co-ed.
Here’s the first and only boy ever
to appear on student roll. Ho is
Apostolos Athanassion. Greek art
student, and is here making friends
with Jean Brownell, of Pittsfield,
No Extension Of
Mail Service Is
Planned For City
Renumbering Of Houses la Not A
Move on the Part of The
Poetofflce Department.
Renumbering of houses is not
being done by the postoffice de
partment and has no connection
with extension of the city mail
service. says Postmaster J. H.
Quinn in a statement Issued today:
The statement by Postmaster
Quinn is as follows:
"Since the beginning of the re
numbering of the residences of our
city there seems to have been a
misunderstanding on the part of
our citizens. some thinking the
postoffice department is interested
In the movoment. One citizen call
ed at this office recently and said,
T paid a man the other day to
number my house so I could get
city mail service but Have heard
nothing further from It. When will
we get it?" Another citizen said.
"All the houses on our street have
been numbered at our expense with
the understanding that we would
get city mall service but we haven’t
got it. When is it coming?"
"I understand all houses in the
city have recently been numbered,
or renumbered. While I do not think
those who did numbering intend
Jo leave the impression that the
numbering dJ their houses would,
necessarily, give them l.*T' mST
service, but, no doubt, they were
correctly informed that the num
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Cleveland Got Just A Taste;
Now “Repeal" Beer Is Barred
Attorney General I'ilet Turlington
Act' A* Stopping Sales In
Excess Of 3.S.
They say a little of that • Repeal'
beer, salt} to contain more than 3 2
alcohol, trickled into Shelby the
paat few weeks, but hold your sell
back, Jerry, Attorney General
Brummitt has just ruled that It’s
got to stop. He delivered a state (
opinion yesterday barring the sale
of beer with more than 3.2 In it, (
acting because he had been asked j
so frtrjiterrly for an opinion—indi- (
eating f''•* something ha^ br-en go- (
•jv i stab
The old Turlington act re
lerred to by the Attorney General
In citing his decision. He said it
was broad enough to cover the sit
uation.
The Greensboro News, in a story
from Raleigh, says today:
Mr. Brummitt has not been jf
ficially apprised that boer with a 6
per cent kick has appeared in great
luantlties in Charotte and at last
las arrived in Raleigh. Good drtnk
>rs tell the Daily News bureau that
t is here. The scientists tell the
Irinkers that 6 per cent is lees booz
ng than 3.2, a very difficult reus*
ming to follow, Bui they cover it
n a mil's of ny r** 'omenis
'.Co*y<uuH'CJ on page cignt >
Had Brooded Over III
Health And Hard
Duties
Kverett McDaniel Shoot* Hlmaalf la
Bathroom. Wu Comas
Snporrtaor.
V. Everett McDaniel, M year old
widower, ahot himaelf in the bead
In an Aahcvllle hotel early yeater
day morning and hie body waa
brought to Shelby yesterday after*
noon. Funeral service* took place at
the Palmer Mortuary on Sumter
street this afternoon at S o’clock
with Dr. E. K. McLarty In charge
and his body was burled beside his
wife In Sunset cemetery.
Mr. McDaniel had left word In
the hotel office to be called at 7:10
o'clock yesterday morning. When
the clerk called him by telephone
and got not answer, a bellboy was
sent to the room. On the floor of
the bathroom lay the dead body of
Mr. McDaniel with a .90 automa
tic on the floor. He had shot him
self through the temple.
Note Is Left.
Mr, McDaniels left a note, ad
dressed to Mrs. Fannie Putnam of
Shelby. This note revealed little,
merely saying that he hoped she
would understand his action. Mrs.
Putnam was granted a divorce here
last Friday from her husband. Orln
Putnam.
Asheville papers this morning re
ported that Mr. McDaniel had In
tended to marry Mrs. Putnam next
month, and this report was alter
nately denied and affirmed"’Tjj
friends In Shelby. Mrs. Putnam ii
employed In a local beauty parlor.
Had Entered New Job
Mr. McDaniel had lived In Shelby
about seven years. He operated a
filling station on West Warren
street until his wife died three yean
ago, after which time he moved to
the Hotel Charles. Since Democra
tic victory, Mr. McDaniel had been
trying to get a federal appoint
ment through his friend Senator
Reynolds. He was appointed some
months ago to a deputy marshal
ship, but could not qualify because
of hts age. The last of December he
was appointed by Senator Reynolds
as census supervisor In the Ashe-,
vllle district and had recently ee
(ubJJfShed headquarters there. Hun
dreds applied for Jobs under him
and he was called upon to speed up
the work of gathering a force of
about fifty men who would work
under his direction. All of these
appointments had been made and
the work was ready to start, The
strain, however, caused a nervous
breakdown. His health was not so
good and he had brooded over the
death of his companion for the
past three years.
Sister-In-Law Neatest Kin
Spurgeon Hewitt of the Hotel
Charles whore Mr. McDaniel lived
for several years, went to Asheville
yesterday and had the body brought
to Shelby for burial. One sister-in
law, Mrs. Gaff Lattltnore survives
and a cousin who lives In Platt,
Kansas. Before corning to Shelby,
Mr. McDaniel lived at Ellenboro. He
had a host of friends in the two
I counties and was highly esteemed.
He was a Mason and a member
I of Central Methodist church here.
(Active pallbearers today were J. F
Roberts, Will Arey, J. L. Lackey, P
. Henry Mills. James Sbnp
! pard.
! Funeral $<*vices
For Henry
> llenry Granger Passes After Elvbl
Months Illness With Stomach
Trouble.
JHenry Wright Oranger, 47 year
old. died at his home on Highland
Avenue Tuesday afternoon at 3:SC
his death resulting irom a protract
ed Illness of stomach trouble of ap
proximately eight months, dignng
which time he had been unable to
work.
He Is survived by his wife, Min
nie Jackson Granger; eight chil
dren. Mrs. Alma Morrow, Shelby,
James, Howard, May Belle, Odell,
Bertha, Tommy and Ralph Grang
er; and one sister Mrs. Sarah Wal
lace of Cliffslde.
Funeral rite* v conducted at
Ellrav 'W today at mvo
o’ch • He. B E Waldrop ss
isied by Atotwo I>werj.
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