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HWCWMW the markets wton spot. »•» 40 12-*5 ^ *ed. ton. wagon-23.00 JSn seed. ton. carlots .... 25.00 Warmer forecast lor North Car Pair tonight and tomorrow. ~tnn„ lonlght In west and cen trt| parts of state. CWA Budgeted ’ Bv UNITED PRESS Washington, Feb. 2,-President " velt Is determined to stay the limits of the one billion .hundred and sixty six million dol * bu(Uet item for relief work, he today in response to the ques L if additional funds would be ,kfd for the continuation of the Works Administration. He is jdPring formation of a banking ^ration 1° establish the en dorsement of certain loans to Rus ”, it was learned authoritatively t#d»T Bank Held Up Bv UNITED PRESS Needham, Maas.. Feb. 2.—One po tman was slain and three other „fn wounded today as four younrr |B(1 nn masked bandits help up the Needham Trust Company In the hfirt 0f the city’s business district ,„d escaoed with $10,000 in cash. They kidnaped and later released Wo bank employees, whom they wi to shield their escape. Payroll Robbed By UNITED PRESS perms Grove, N. J., Feb. 2.—Four bandits robbed the Penns Grove National Bank today, escaping with Ibe $130,000 Du Pont Company pay toll Seek Air Data By UNITED PRESS Washington. Feb. 2.—Chairman Mack of the special senate com mittee investigating airmail con tracts today threatened to Impound all files from the law office of for mer assistant secretary of Com merce W. P. McCracken, after Mc Cracken testified he would permit removal of some of the files on re teipi of a subpoena from the com mittee. The March Of Events Golden Tide A heavy flow of gold from Europe I to America and the Immediate use of the huge $2,000,000,000 stabiliza Ition fund were predicted today in I Washington to counteract world 1 market responses to the new Am in dollar that generally fell far I short of expectations. At the price I of $35 per ounce of gold, it Is more I profitable to buy gold abroad and I ship it here, and it was reported I that foreign and domestic banks 1 were only awaiting the announce Iment of the procedure to short the I vellow flood across the Atlantic. I The stock market rose rapidly yes Iterday gs a result of the devalua tion of the dollar, but commodity I prices tailed to respond. Pulitzer Resigns Ralph Pulitzer, member of the I noted publishing family, last night I Announced his resignation as NRA I division administrator in charge of I the newspaper and allied codes. I Pulitzer's resignation came because I feel that the opposition to my I Appointment by the American News | paper Guild would cast doubt on |®y impartiality in any question | concern ini’ its members which |might co .ie before me." To See President 8enator Smith, South Carolina, I ‘HI cooler with President Roosevelt I today to take up the bill to con Ijcnue crop production loans through I*”* Ht will also place before the I President iris plan for purchasing lUoo.uoo bales of cotton, which is to I* converted into bedding and I clothing lor free distribution to the ■ beetiy. Senator Robinson, Demo jcratic floor leader, adjourned the I*** J'eHerday so as to give Smith lenity to bring up the crop |Produrtiori ]oan biU today. No Graft Her© 'ouw naval committee fco \J V8-rt an inquiry aimed at and ahplane contrac Ith fr°m ma*ln8 excessive profits E” the construction on the $570, 11/; °° nava> program begins. The |Z ■■ Was ordered because of dis 1,^ “rts before the house appro Iju 10r,s committee that one air laiari8 er‘s ne manufacturer had 1^ e a Profit of 36 per cent on his I of./ contracts. Said Chairman | n 11 Profits like that are be fosoe, we’ll stop it—even if it's l-ato til " for the government to go l e *u plane making nuisance VOL. XL. No. 15 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1934 ns ■r M*a p*» ;mi. o» a«raaee> _ W.H Carrier, oer rear, (la e4ranee) _ 13 M Chance Still Seen To Obtain Cotton Station In County Representatives Will Push Project* Bulwinkle And Bailey To Talk To Secretary Wallace About Matter Soon. Cleveland county still has a :hance to get the cotton experi nent station for which $45,000 fed ;ral funds are available, according o a letter received this morning 'rom Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle n Washington. Mr. Bulwinkle, learning that this federal cotton experiment station would be established in Piedmont North Carolina, recommended Cleveland county because of Its supremacy in cotton production. Reasons why Cleveland county is the logical place for its location were presented Mr. Bulwinkle who in turn will present them to Secre tary Wallace who has discretion in the matter. There is a cotton experiment sta tion at Statesville, supported by the state department of agriculture and Dr. R. Y. Winters of Raleigh ven tured the opinion that the federal station would be operated in con junction with the Statesville sta tion. However, Mr. Bulwinkle says ‘in this particular case, it may be oest to put up a separate station ind before any action is taken by the government, representatives will ;ome to Cleveland county to make m investigation. Mr. Bulwinkle and Senator Bailey nave conferred together on the mat ter and Senator Bailey is very much in favor of Cleveland oounty. Just as soon as Secretary Wallace re turns from a trip, Bulwinkle and Bailey have an engagement to call upon him in the interest of Cleve land county. "I believe there is a jood chance to get this station for Cleveland,” concludes Mr. Bulwin Ide. Second Baptflt Church Service* The services at the local Second Baptist church Sunday are as fol lows: 9:45, Bible School: 11:00 o'clock, Public worship, sermon by the pastor on the v subject, “The Broad and Narrow Way”; 6:00 p. m., B. Y. P. U. meeting; 7:00, ser mon by the pastor on the subject. “The Prophet With a Burning Heart.” Cleveland Supports Reduction Sign Up Three hundred and thirty two cotton reduction contracts have been approved in Cleveland county to date, it was announced in Coun ty Agent R. W. Shoffner's office this morning, and 1,084 contracts are in the office for approval. An unofficial estimate was that Cleveland would sign up at least 90 per cent. A Fair Question Stirred by the growing ten dency of his fellow townsmen to use the newspaper for everything but advertising, a South Dakota editor recently asked them pertinently, in a lage one box: “It a member of your fam ily died, would you send out the obituary in a circular let ter? If your wife entertained, would you run a slide on the screen of the movie show? If you were to enlarge yonr store would you tell folks in a hotel register? If you were to have a wedding at your house, would you tack the news on a telephone post? "Then why in heck don't you put your advertisement in the newspaper, too?” Wed Doug. Jr.,"Within Month?” Although the actress, herself, refuses to confirm or deny the reports, London friends of Gertrude Lawrence, British stage actress, insist that she will marry Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (inset) within the month. They say that the ring worn by Miss Lawrence was placed there by Fairbanks, Shelby Man Reunites WithMother WhomHe Thought Dead For Years Chance Exchange Of Letters Ends In Dra matic Disclosure; Eighty-Year-Old Woman Waits Return Of Son. J. W. Thurkill is the happiest man in Shelby today. Through a chance exchange of letters, he has located bis 80-year-old mother, and his sis ters after losing track of them for 35 years. Thurkill, an employee of the Ora Mill here, left his home town of Owls Valley, Alabama, twenty-five years ago, and since had not heard from any member of his family, who had moved from there. Several years ago, he started back home to visit his mother, but upon arriving at Atlanta, met a friend who told him that she had been dead several months. Thurkill returned to Shel by without seeing his sisters. Three weeks ago, his wife decid ed to write to one of his uncles to attempt to locate the lost family.! The uncle had been dead seven j years, but the letter fell into the hands of a cousin who answered it, giving the address of his sisters. A correspondence then developed, in Francis Child Dies At Shelby Hospital Martha Ann, the twelve day old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Francis died at the Shelby hospital i on Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock where it had been a patient for four days. The child had not been well since birth. Funeral services were held from the Francis home at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon with Dr. Zeno Wall in charge. Interment was in Sunset cemetery. The parents and one 3ister, Rosalyn, age eight years, survive. ! * I 'Veterans Falls Is Some Better Today J. Z. Falls, Confederate veteran j ! who is critically ill at his home on ; West Marion street ^as reported to: be somewhat better today. He has; a heart trouble and pneumonia in j one lung, but the lung congestion is i light, his temperature is not exces- ; sively high and attending physi- j cians report he has a fighting j chance in spite of his age of 86, years. Nation To Mark Boy Scout Week; j Gastonia Convention On Feb. 131 Shelby and Cleveland county, which led the state in scout activi ties last year, will take part In Na tional Scout Week beginning Feb 10, but plans for the local demon strations have not yet been perfect ed. Carl Thompson will be in charge. The national program calls for scouts to wear their uniforms dur ing the week, troops to stage dem onstrations of scoutcraft, window displays, observation of -it 3un day on February 11 by all churches church attendance by troops en masse, talks and demonstrations before civic clubs. In the Piedmont council, tt is recommended that in each county, the county vice president, or an of ficial appointee by him, will serve J as the chainrr*i of a celebration | committee for . ■ e purpose of ar- j ranging a special patriotic program | and in mobollzing the scouts and leaders of his county »nd in devel oping a program which will IncludeI ! the attendance of city and county government officials and the pub lic. the course of which, Thurkill dis covered that his mother was not dead, but was living with toil youngest sister in Alabama City, Alabama. , Overjoyed at- the news, ThurMll left Shelby this morning taking with him his four oldest children to see their long-lost grandmother Happy will be the reunion be tween mother, sisters, and son. Mrs. Thurkill wrote that she had never ceased praying for him since he left their home, and always had hoped to see him once again be fore she died. Although 80 yeans old, she has resolved to return to Shelby with him, saying that she packed her clothes immediately aft er hearing from him, and that It will be useless to try to dissnadr her. At any rate, even though the ground hog sees his shadow today, there won't be any more rainy weather for J. W. Thurkill and his family. Measles Epidemic Grows In County; Fallston To Open Cleveland county’s measles epi demic is spreading *-apidly. Super intendent of Schools Grlgg said last night. In addition to the five schools closed the early part of this week, the Mount Pleasant school was forced to shut its doors or Wednesday. The schools previously K*ed arc Kings Mountain, Faliston, Grover Bethlehem, and Elizabeth. No casec of measles were repotted in the Shelby schools this week. Id the Eallsto'.'. community the ^icemic is evidently nibsiding at W. R. Gary, principal, notified The Stay this morning that the Pallstor school will re-open on Tuesday February 6th. Kalarathea Staff To Present Piav Extensive Preparation On IJumorom Selection; Subject Bnilt Around School 50 Fears Ago, The Kalarathea staff cd Boiling Springs college will present a bene fit play In the college auditiwjum at 3 o clock tomorrow night. The, play is a comedy entitled the "District Bchool,” and is built around thl school of fifty years ago. The characters are. a school mas ter, Bruce ArroWood; visiting boy Sommers Collins; member of school committee; Bob Spratt. and a group of students. Extensive preparation has been made by the members of the cast and this along with an exceptional ly comically dialogue, should assure those attending of over an hour ol entertainment. The play is sponsored by the Kal arathea club. and is directed by Miss Mary Abies. Union Will Meet At 10 Tomorrow; State Head Here _ i To Discuss Probable Mill Walkout R. R. Lawrence, President Of State Ilabor Federation, And BeHek To Be Speaker*. , Paul R. Christopher, secretary et the Shelby texyie worker’s union announced this morning that a spe tal meeting of union members will be held In Union Hall tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock. R. R. Lawrence, president of the state labor federation, and C. W. Bolick, United Textile Workers Or gantrer and American Federation of Labor Representative, will apeak "This is a very Important meet ing," Mr. Christopher said, urging an members of the union to be present. "We will discuss the nego tiations in regard to the probable strike In protest against the stretch out system." Lang Holds Conference* It will be a closed meeting, he •aid. J. P. Lang, representatives of the state department of labor, who was Sent here on a hurry call to try to avert the strike, will confer with labor committees and mill execu tives today, but will not attend the labor meeting tomorrow. Mr. Bolick said this morning that he had hoped the situation would permit him to leave Shelby today at noon, but from present Indica tions he will be compelled to stay longer. Mr. Lawrence, who arrived early this morning, said he did rot know how long he would be requir ed to stay, "There’s trouble like thbi an over North Carolina" he said. *1 ought to go to Mt. Airy right now. They have a dispute there very similar to this one.” Reports that a strike had been called In Oreenvllle, 8. O., were abroad last night, but were uncon firmed this morning. County Map Plan Beyond CWA Woodson Is Told j!W*y Get ion Through Reynolds Or Balwinkle; Project Moat Be j Approved By Washington. The Cleveland county map proj ject, which was rejected In Raleigh (this week, was said to be "beyond I the scope” of the present set up In • the administration, Harry Wood 5 son, Cleveland county adminlatra j tor, said this afternoon on his re i turn from Raleigh. The map project, which vailed for a complete survey of the county to locate accurately every piece of property in It, would cost approxi mately $38,000, and the board of | county commissioners hoped, through i the unlisted property It would re I veal, to Increase the tax collections. Reverse English i There la still hope that the map ;be made, though. Mr. Woodson .said he was told that the plan would have to be submitted to I Washington, through Senator Rey nolds or Representative Bulwinkle. I If Washington approved, they ! might then reverse the process and submit the project to Cleveland county. Mr. Woodson reported one new 'project approved. This is for pav I ing the garage and the nurses home at the hospital. Delphic Groundhog Sees His Shadow Tour old friend the groundhog ! coked his sleepy head above ground 1 this morning after a warm winter | hibernation, blinked his eyes In | the brilliant sunshine, and predict : ed with delphlc authority that we’re i rn for bad, bad weather, j It's a tradition, you know. Hie i rnily trouble with the legend is that i tfs almost a certainty that the i groundhog will see his shadow. And Vs another certainty that tfierMl be at least some mean weather from now on. So It works, every t.irne. And that's the story of the ground hog for today. Methodists Shift Their Church Debt A campaign Is on thU week among the members of the Central Methodist church to secure note pledges for 135,000 to pay off the debt to an Insurance company for a dike amount. The sum Is owed on tlyj church building fund. Instead oHcarrying the debt through an tu sufcnce company, the congregation is Asked to give their Individual nofcs and $20,000 ol tlie amount wal pledged up until this morning U. S. Exerts Influence To Avert Shelby Strike; Not Sanctioned By Union Will Europe Fight?—He Knows! A modern Diogenes, Marching for signs of peace Instead of an honest man, H. R. Knickerbocker (inMt), Pulitser Prise winner and European correspondent of International News Sendee, traveled more than 6,000 miles along route shown by dotted line, through a Europe bristling with armaments, interviewing crowned heads, prime ministers end other* who hold the deciding word for wer or peace in order to preeont en accor-tte review of the sltuetion to the American people. Mill Offers More Emolovment. Cleveland Cloth Now Installing 200 New Machines And Will Use More Men, Ex ecutive Says; Offers To Arbitrate. "V Mm workers themselves don’t hold us up, ws’U employ more men on February 1 than we did on De cember 1,” O. II. Mull, secretary treasurer of the Cleveland Cloth mill said In an interview yesterday. He conceded the fact that about fifteen men would be eliminated on Monday If the plan to employ work ers on six looms Instead of five Is carried forward, but emphasised the fact that eventually more will be employed. Workers Still Protest It is against the six-loom plan that the Shelby union protests. They held firm in their declara tion today to strike unless they were allowed to continue on the five-loom scheme. Mr. Mull, In citing the mill’s side of the dispute, declared that the 9 loom plan was no Innovation, but was merely a return to the schedule In operation up to October 1 last year, when the Yiumber of looms was reduced because of bad yarn and because of heavier construc tion. The shop committee at that time agreed to return to six looms with good yam and spring weaving on lighter goods. Abrogate Agreement “The committee, which has two new members since then,” Mr. Mull* said, “does not seek to deny this agreement, but Insists that the workers will not abide by It. I am perfectly willing to submit the dis pute to the textile code authority, because I know what their answer will be.” "The Cleveland Cloth is one of the most sanitary mills I ever set my foot in,” says C. W. Bolick, lab or representative who formerly was superintendent of one of the big Marshall-Field company mills at Leaksvtlle. "The issue is a clear-cut one Involving the number of looms each weaver shall run—five or six. Of course a few minor grievances have been expressed, but they are beside the question at issue. Gen erally speaking the employees are pleased with the management, liv ing and working conditions, work hours, etc.," said Mr. Bollck. Doable Code Wage “As a matter of fact," Mr. Mull continued, "The same men who re fuse to run six looms now were running seven In 1932. Moreover, a good weaver at our mill can earn $25 a week on six looms, which is Just double the minimum set by the textile code for a forty-hour week." | I Gee McGee S&ytt dr. hubert green has return ed back from a medical meet ing at the county where the fissicans have organized, they will continue to do free work but they won’t do it on pur pose. folks who won’t pay for medical service rendered will receive only the very cheap est kind of medlson but good paying patients will get the best of everything, such as radlom,-x-rays, violet rays an soforth. dead beats will all hatter die natcheral deaths or pay something from now on. yores trulie, mike dark, rfd. Gee McGee’s column, “No body’s Business" appears on the editorial page of The Star. Ex-Tenants Yearning For Plows But Cleveland Land Is Scarce \ Finding nut) willing to to back to the farms w easy enough, J. 4 Lattimore, director of the re-em ployment bureau here uld yester day, but finding farms to put them on is the real problem, Mr, Lattimore has 100 experi enced fanners who’d give most any thing to get back to the soil, but after making two excursions over the county, and after sending out several hundred letters, he hasn't been able to find places for them. Some of the men are exceptional he said. One of them is a “six 1 bone former’' has an bu owe stock, and require* nothin* but good land. He oan stake himself. Others have one or two horses and equipment. There are more than 6,000 farms in Cleveland oounty, R. W. Straff ner, county agent, estimates, and many of them already have one or more tenants. Mane of them seems to feel that they need additional worker* now. Of course the cot ton reduction campaign may have ^Continued on Page 10/ Washington Moves To Settle Disputes In Local Mill Hops of sverting the immi nent atrike of Shelby mil] workers wan seen thin morn ing aa the U. S. Department !)f Labor exerted tremendous pressure from Washington and the American Federation of Labor, likewise trying to avert the walkout, announced that it did not support s strike hers. C. W. Bolick, American Federation of Labor's repre sentative here, states that if the strike matures, as he pre dicts it will, they will not re ceive any support from the national body. R. R. Lawrence, precedent off the State federation of Labor, rushed to Shelby laet night, arriving at 1 o'clock this morning, and told rw> rceentatlvea of The Star before breakfast that ha would call a meeting of the union Immediately He declined to oomment on the Shelby situation, but from hie at titude It may ba aaeumed that he la Interested in averting a strike V possible. Conferences Today. Jack Lang, representative of the North Carolina industrial board, conferred last night with Bolick and mill executives. Further con ferences were to be held this morn ing In an effort to Iron out dif ference* m mills here. In spite of all theae strenuous moves, however, the strike situa tion remains clearly tfcia; workers at the Cleveland Cloth mill win walk out on Monday unless their demands are met. Yesterday after noon. a committee from the union headed by Bollok, presented their demands to O. M. Mull, secretary treasurer of the Cleveland Cloth mill, and the mill superintendents J. A. White and Tom Kerr. In a written bill of complaint, the union demanded continuation of the flvt loom per man program Instead « the six-loom plan scheduled to start Monday. They admitted treaty that their oommlttee had agreed las) fall to return to six looms at fchii time of the year, but claimed that the bad yarn which was partly re sponsible for the five-loom piei had not been consumed. Mull Offers Bones. Mr. Mull has offered a bonus I* operatives on six looms who tur* out exceptionally good work, but the workers sniffed at this and df clared that it was the universal ex, pert cnee of mill workers that wher the shop went on. stretch-out, thcr piece-work rates frara eventually reduced. The union offered, Mr. Bohclt said, to lay the dispute before th* state labor board and abide by theU decision until an appeal could bs made to the national body. Bui they Insisted on continuing with five looms. Mr. Mull said he Was quite willing to leave the matter ft this arbitration, but instated on Ills part that tha six-looms begin on Monday. Mull Offers To Abids By Decision Of Cotton Board O. M. Mull. secretary-treasurer ol the Cleveland Cloth mill, this morn ing pasted s notice in the mill suc cinctly stating the mill’s position to the current dispute. Mr. Mull said The Cleveland cloth mill la being operated under the Cot ton Textile code. We am only ashing each weaver to care foi the same number of looms that he or she attended In duly, 19X3 when the Cotton Textile code was adopted. If any disagree with this, we wffl Join with them In presenting the dispute to the duly authorised board* under the Cotton TextHe code and the N. *. A., and will abide by the final seder ef said Each cm fierce mast bo per mitted to do as he er she pleases ahoat working at this aaSL Those who want to guM have the right la do so. Them who want to work have the right te work without torterfereaee. bat we expeet to do our heat to beep work for thorn ef ear em ployees who deelm to work at Cleveland Cloth min. CLEVELAND CLOTH MILL. hO-ll Mull.
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