Late News
the markets
Cotton, spot . 11-75 to 12.75
Cotton seed. t®n- wagon —... 23.00
Cotton seed, ton, csrloU-25.00
Fair Tomorrow
Weather forecast for North Caro
lina: Fair tonight and tomorrow,
flichtly colder in extreme western
jwrt of the state tomorrow.
Wet Amnesty
(By UNITED PRESS)
Washington, Feb. 5—More than
1* (WO prohibition violators who were
Indicted before repeal today won
amnesty frt>m the supreme court,
which held they could no longer
br prosecuted. •
Airmail Probe
By UNITED PRESS
Washington, Feb. 5.—Chairman
Black of the senate airmail investi
gation committee today read In the
senate a report setting forth the
testimony of Col. L. H. Brittin, vice
president of Northwest Airways and
other airway companies relating to
the removal or destruction of sub
poenaed files from the law offices
of former assistant Secretary of
Commerce William McCracken.
Admiral E. J. King, chief of the
navy’s bureau of aeronautics, dis
closed also today that the Pratt
Whitney company realized a profit
of 36 percent on aircraft engines
furnished the government between
1927 and 1933. He made his revela
tion before the house naval affairs
committee.
President 111
By UNITED PRESS
Washington. Feb. 5.—President
Roosevelt, suffering from a slight
cold in the head, cancelled all his
engagements today.
The March
Of Events_
Cuban Constitution
Cuba, instead of changing presi
dents this week, changed her con
stitution. Gathering in the palace's
cabinet room yesterday, President
Mendieta and the eleven members
of the cabinet joyfully affixed their
signatures to the new provisional
constitution, which consists of 99
articles and 14 provisions. This new
magna charta will remain in force
until the scheduled constitutional
assembly expected to meet late this
year or early next year, erects per
manent fundamentals of law for
the nation.
Viennese Brawl*
Viennese police were busy yester
day dispersing Nazis who attempted
demonstrations. Noise bombs were
exploded in the city's busiest com
mercial centres.
Peacemaker •
A heroic statue of General Ferdi
nand Foch, France’s great war
leader, shows him as a great peace
maker rather than a leader of
armies. The statue was unveiled to
Paris yesterday.
Air Crash
Just as people begin to become a
bit more air-minded and the pre
diction is made that we’ll all be
traveling in planes next year, an
other air crash scares off the cus
tomers. This time the crash was in
Norfolk, Virginia, where a stunt pi
tot, Frank Smith, and an electric
ian, were killed yesterday when
"■tug crumpled at 1,000 feet and the
plane fell Into a field near the city.
Better Business
Temporary stabilization of the
dollar in terms of gold has provid
ed a new confidence in industry
and business is definitely on the
upgrade, according to the National
Association of Manufacturers.
Grave danger of an international
currency war is seen, however. De
mand will gradually catch up with
supply, "it there are no labor trou
bles,” it was predicted, but the fear
was expressed that demand for the
30-hour week would be a serious
•kmd.
Elopes
Here's Daddy Browning m the
deadlines again, but this time it
was his daughter, Dorothy, who did
me trick. She eloped yesterday with
Clarence B. Hood, 20 year old Dunn
hoy, boarding a Coast Line train in
w'l«m for New York.
T. Mull Undergoes
^ Serious Operation
Ambrose T. Mull underwent a
huious operation in the Lincolnton
hospital last week. Reports from his
woside this morning are that his
condition is quite favorable. Mr
Mull who lives in No. 10 township
* the father of Judge John P., Carr
*nd Clarence Mull of Shelby He
^rved this County at one time as a
ember of the board of commts
•woers.
VOL. XL. No. 16
SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, FBB. 6, 1934 Publiahad Monday, Wadnaaday and Friday Aftarnoona.
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NATIONAL BOARD AVERTS TEXTILE STRIKE HERE
SpeedOnTheDraw
Saves Kendrick In
Kings Mtn. Battle
Deputy Kills Man In
Street Duel
Enraged Liquor Suspect Attacks Of
ficers With Shotgun; Kendrick
Turns, Fires, and Kills.
Luther Blackwell, Kings Moun
tain filling station operator was
fatally shot Friday night on a main
street in Kings Mountain by Police
man Bob Kendrick, after Blackwell
had fired one barrel of a shotgun
at Kendrick. Blackwell missed his
aim and Kendrick’s quick trigger
finger got his assailant before he
could cock the other hammer of
his shotgun.
Blackwell, fatally shot at the base
of the skull was brought to the
Shelby hospital by officers and hers
he died at 7 o’clock Saturday morn
ing, without gaining consciousness.
Home Had Uquor
Officers Kendrick, Harvey Har
relson. Clay Hicks, Chief of Police
Bruce Bryant. Charlie , Sheppard
and Highway Patrolman Allison had
searched Blackwell’s home for li
quor. They were armed with a
search warrant and in a trap door
of a closet, Kendrick found and
confiscated a gallon of Blackwell’s
liquor. He was away at the time but
his wife and children were at
home.
Upon Blackwell’s return home he
became enraged that officers had
entered his home and started out
in search for them. The officers
had searched another home in the
meantime and had gathered at a
restaurant and filling station in the
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Negro Man Killed
In Upper County
Ed Haynes Dies In Hospital As He*
suit Of Bullet Wound; Accident
al Shooting.
Ed Haynes, who lives near the
Lincoln county line was brought to
the Shelby hospital Saturday night
badly wounded by a bullet which
had struck him in the head. Haynes
lived only three hours after being
brought to the hospital, dying about
two o’clock Sunday morning.
The sheriff of Lincoln county, in
vestigating the shooting, told Sher
iff Cline that the shooting was evi
dently accidental, since he discov
ered a hole in the wall of the
house, caused by the progress oi
the bullet, and also blood inside the
house, which evidenced that Hayn
es had been shot accidentally.
The Lincoln county sheriff knows
who fired the shot, and is looking
for the suspect in order to question
him more closely. At present he nao
not been apprehended.
Lackey To Oppose
Constable Kendrick
Pink E. Lackey of South Shelby
announced on Saturday his candi
dacy for constable in township No.
6. He will oppose Bob Kendrick
who defeated him for the same of
fice last year.
Mr. Lackey, who has had police
experience in other states, has been
a resident of Shelby for many
years and is an employee of the
Ella mill.
As President Took Over Destiny of Dollar
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“This is the nioeet birthday present 1 ever bed,” re
marks President Roosevelt as he atone the gold bill,
that ghrea him power to devalue the dollar, on his
82nd anniversary. Left to right at ceremony are:
Two Angle Report
On High School
Building Is Due
Fact Finding Committee To Report
On New Building, Also Repair
Of Proeent Structure.
The feet finding oommittee, ap
pointed recently to ascertain the
cost of a new high school building
for Shelby and what benefits would
accrue in taking advantage of the
Public Works Administration grant,
will be made shortly and will alec
include an estimate of the cost hi
repairing and enlarging the present
high school building on West Mar
ion street.
This statement was secured to
day from Clyde R. Hoey, chairmen
of the board composed of John F.
Schenck, O. M. Mull, B. T. Falls
and J. D. Lineberger. Information
is being secured as to the probable
cost of a new high school building
and the advantage Shelby would
have if PWA funds were used. Also
an architect Is being consulted on
the estimated cost of repairing and
enlarging the 38 year old high
school building now in use.
So when the committee reports
it will report Without prejudice in
writing on both the proposed new
building and the repair of the
present structure so that the voters
may have full Information before
them.
Shelby Firemen
Called Out Twice
One False Alarm Friday Night;
Saturday Morning Fire Causes
Small Damage.
The Shelby firemen answered a
false alarm Friday night, when
dense smoke from the chimney of
Freeman’s shoe shop made it ap
pear that the place was on fire.
The smoke came from scraps of
awning and leather which were
burning in the stove.
Saturday morning, a root fire
broke out at Greene’s Own mill in
South Shelby. This blase was put
out after causing about $20.00 dam
age.
AmericanLegionPresents Famous
Passion Play Thursday And Fri.
The famous European Passion
Play, which had its origin in the
gorgeous and complicated religious
ceremonies of the superstitious 13th
and 14th centuries, will be presented
at the high school auditorium on
Thursday and Friday of this week
under the auspices of the local post
of the American Legion and the
American Legion auxiliary.
The play is little changed from
the text of centuries ago, and Is
the expression of the common peo
ple of that early era of feudalism.
This play, performed again and
again, was one of their few enter
tainments.
In the present production, no ex
pense has been spared to make it a
beautiful and elaborate spectacle.
Hundreds of costumes are carried
'by the company for the large list of
..
extra people used in the play. An
gels, water carriers, young girls as
followers of the Master and a non
descript crowd of men and women
dressed in the costume of the time
will appear on the stage here.
The play will be presented by a
well known group of players, who
have given it very successfully
through the length and breadth of
the country. Everywhere it has met
with instant response and approval.
There will be a matinee and even
ing performance each day. Sections
are reserved for the matinee per
formances, while the entire seating
arrangement will be reserved at
night. Tickets are on sale at the
Suttle and Cleveland drug stores,
and may be procured either by tele
phone or by applying for them
personally.
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dwr aar. sddltor:
I am supposed to rite some
flat rock news lor thla weak,
bat nothing has hapened that
soaada attal like news hi oar
little town for seworal days.
1 have tried to think ap
someth inf, but at I set give
ap the idea of riling any*
thing for pnblercation.
on my way to old mr. jadd
rob be rt son's funneral this
morning I told my wife that
news was getting so skace Hi
flat rock M looked like i
mought as well resign as
yore corry spondent and give >
ap. he was klflad by his wife
in a fight on tnesday morn- i
ing and she is now In Jail. ]
yores tralie,
mike Clark, rfd,
Corry spondent.
68% Back Taxes
Paid In County;
Balance $57,130
Delinquents Rush To Sheriffs Of
fice To Avoid One Per Cent
Penalty; Ahead Last Year.
Cleveland county taxpayers con
tinued their rush to Sheriff Cline’s
office last week to save the one
percent penalty which went into
effect Peb. X, and the amount now
due has been reduced to $57,130.10—
which means that 08 per cent ot the
total assessment for 1933 has been
collected.
This compares with a collection
; of 49 per cent at this date last year, !
| and is a gain of 19 per cent. The :
i total amount collected during Jan- '
uary 1 was $24,650.36.
On January 22, the records show
jed that the sum of $70,000 was due
:the county in back taxes from the
| total assessment of $179,415. This
!was regarded as a remarkably good
| payment, but with the announce
jment that the one per cent penalty
would be inflicted beginning the
| first of this month, the money b«- 1
|gan to flow into the treasury.
Next month, the penalty will be
two percent, in April three percent
and in May 4 per oent.
93 Year Old Native
Seriously 111 At The
Home Of Daughter
Mrs. Elva Borders, widow •< the ’
'late Capt. John Borders, and a na
j tiye of the Earl aection of this coun
!ty, is seriously ill at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. w. P. Gibbons,
of Gastonia. Mrs. Borders will!
celebrate her 94th birthday in Ap- j
rfl if she survives this illness.
Mrs. Borders is the mother of i
Mrs. M. D. Hopper of this city, and j
is also the grandmother of Mrs |
! Marion Camp and Miss Llssie Tur- j
jner, also of Shelby.
Mrs. Albert Wesson, also a na
tive of ‘Ids county who is living at'
Ennis, Texas, at present, is at her;
aged mother's bedside. Mrs. Borden
had only recently return fromj
Texas, and has made the trip fre
quently in the past few years, not- j
withstanding her age. j
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Launch Drive To
Depose Lawrence
As Union Chief
Greensboro Labor Groups Demon*
Resignation Of President; Ra
leigh Groups Natural.
Raleigh, Pet). 5.—The rift in Rm
ranks of the state federation of
labor caused by the administrator
of President R. R. Lawrence a
Winston-Salem who acted eat Rm
state board in settling the laba
dispute in Shelby yesterday hai
brought a demand from Oreensbort
labor groups that he resign ant
echoes of discontent from oth«
cities in the state.
Union members iu Raleigh. wh<
as yet, have taken no formal action
in the matter, said that Lawrence
is unpopular with a large elemenl
of organised labor, and that there
Is a general belief that he spend)
more time “pulling personal politi
cal strings khan promoting the wel
fare of labor."
Lawrence came out on tap of a
strenuous contest to defeat him al
the state convention last summer
and has given no indication that he
intends to relinquish the post vol
untarily. He is serving his fourth
term as president.
Here last month, he gave glowing
reports of union gains In the state
within the last year, referring par
ticularly to the progress of unioni
sation In the furniture and tobaccc
Industries.
The bitter oontest over the presi
dency last year was a radical de
parture from the usual procedure ad
state federation meetings.
Taking No Sides
A pokey of “hands off" is being
maintained by the Central Laboi
union of Raleigh. Although lta duei
are paid and it is a member of good
standing in the state organization
the Raleigh unit has adopted an at
titude of indifference towards Law
rence and his squabbles with vari
ous local units of organized labor.
As a spokesman said, “We don’t
believe In fighting among ourselves
and we’re taking no aides."
Ella Mill Will Adjust
Troubles Inwardly
In Casa Any Come Up
Following the report that laboi
troubles were brewing at the Bill
Mill as well as the Cleveland Clot*
mill. W. C. Campbell, chairman ol
the union shop committee of tha
Ella mill has Issued the following
statement:
“On account of some misunder
standing in the publicity in tha
newspaper? about confusion among
our people at the Ella Mill, we, of
the shop committee are asking you
to ssy through The Star that so fai
our troubles axe of a minor affaii
and we believe we are going to set
tle this, fair to everybody involved
within ourselves.”
Cotton Advances
Two Points Today
On the New York cotton exchange
at 8 o’clock today, March cotton
was 11.71 and May 11.85. up ten
points from Saturday’s close. Stocks
were strong all morning but were
somewhat easier in the afternoon.
Public Hearing
On Bond Issue
Set For Monday
Many Protest Against
County Issue
CMrir Had Planned To lew* Bond*
Vo Avail I Well Of PWA Orant,
Bnt People Proteal.
A atom ot proteat wee made thin
moraine bp delegation* from Noe.
1, >, t, 6, • and 10 townahlpe agalnat
the laauanoe of bond* bp the ooun
tp tor aohool buildings In Cleveland
oounty and the commlaalonera have
aet neat Monday, Pab. lath aa a
day for a public hearing, lor and
agalnat the taaue.
Hear Both Mdoo
AS aiUaena who favor or oppose
the proposed bond laaue are asked
to com# to the court house next
Monday at 10 o’clock and the board
will hear both aides of tba mattar,
remaining In session as long aa tax
payers wlah to be heard.
It will be recalled that the coun
ty authorised the Issuance of $34,
000 la bonds at a recent meeting to
get grant* offered by the Public
Works administration of the feder
al government. While this amount
was authorised, the commissioners
explain that they planned to Issue
only *18,000 In bonds to pay for re
pairs in Shelby aohool buildings,
and erect a new building at the
Dover school. The Dover mill would
I pay In oash for half Of the cost of
the Dover school, the olty of Shelby
would refund to the oounty the
amount It would get from the Issue
, and the oounty would assume an
, obligation of only $8,000,” stated
Troy McKinney this morning.
Only $8,000 County liability
r "There seams to have been some
► mleuwderetending aw tlw partbf the
« taxpayers. While $84,000 was au
, thorised, only $18,000 would be ie
, sued In bonds. The Dover mill and
I the olty of Shelby would pay ap
. proxtmately $10,000 o{ the Issue and
the county liability would be only
. 88,000,” stated Mr. McKinney, who
, added, “Borne people have the Idea
, that this oounty obligation would
; be an undue burden on other school
! districts. As a matter of fact there
, is a oounty-wlde levy now which
. pays one-half of all the district
. school bonds and interest. Each
district has a separate levy to pay
i the other half of their Individual
; school bond obligation.”
"There Is no Intention to put
anything over on the people. The
. commissioners want to do what the
, majority want done so the public
hearing has been set for next Mon
. day morning at 10 o'clock,” said Mr.
j McKinney for the board of com
, miasioners In session this morning.
' Dr. Walter Lingle
To Speak To Men
: Win Take Aa Subject “The Church
And The Modern Home." Oc
casion Regular Meeting.
f
Dr. Walter L. Lingle, president of
i Davidson college, will address the
I men of the Presbyterian church
, here Wednesday night at 8:30.
The occasion for the address is
• the regular monthly men’s meet
ing, at which time supper will be
served In the dining room of the
> church. After the supper, an Inter
, eating program, the feature of
which will be the address of Dr.
Lingle, has been planned.
Dr. Lingle will take as his sub
ject ‘"me Church and the Modern
Home.”
Workers To Stay On
Five Looms Pending
Washington Decision
East-West Romance
“My Prince at Indie in • men at ell
mCAv JpMt in whet Saudry Jiambo,
California dancer, hen to soy about
Prince Bishnu of Nepal, India, witli
whom the is shown, and whom she
In to wed in the near future in Lon
don. They met in Paris, where Mis*
Ratnbo appeared on the stage.
Merchants Meet
Retail Chairman
i'utnmiUec To Report On Closing
Days. NRA Board, And The
Problem Of Chech Passers.
Election of a chairman of the
I merchants section of the Shelby
chamber of commerce and mer
chants association will be held at a
meeting at the courthouse Tuesday
night at 7:30 o’clock.
The committee named at the last
| meeting of merchants will make its
! report which In concerned with
various matters of interest to re
tailer*.
Among the things to be referred
by the committee to the general
meeting for action are days for
j closing during the year, proposal
for trade days and events in the
city, prosecution of people who give
bad checks and the organization of
a local NRA compliance board.
Income Tax Helper Coming
A representative of the U. 0. in
ternal revenue department will be
In Shelby February 36th and 37th
to assist taxpayers In filing fed
eral Income tax returns. The final
date for making personal and cor
poration returns is March 15th.
To Elect
; Colored Folks Got To Have ’Em
■ A Union, Too, But Not For Strike
i
And now, balieve it or not, the col
ored folks have got ’em s union too.
This announcement comee from
Everett Houser, secretary of the
chamber of commerce, to whom the
colored labor!tec brought a docu
ment sealed with the great seal of
the American Federation of Labor.
Me. Houser said he was a litUe shy
experience In organising colored!
lounce
b it laJ
i blame
unions, and brought the announce
ment to The Star. And here
just as they wrote It, so don’t
the proofreaders:
To the Shelby C. of C.: Whereas
our chief executive have planned
the way to kill the depression and
have demanded the In tire nation
to fall in line with his program so
as to mantain purchasing power
and the necesity of stimulating a
living wage scale for all labors, and
requesting lor skill and unsklU a
very fair rating.
We have collected our selves to
the American Federation of Labor,
chartered on or about the 30th of
October, 1933, to be held tn the city
of Shelby, N. C. and to be known as
Federal Labor Unkm No. 19010.
And after rewiving the Intelllgents
of our leading citizens organizing a
chamber of commerce in the city,
we wish to introduce to you the
above name organization. Our slo
gan la not far strike. But to bar
gain collectively for mutual under
standing betwen employer and em
ployee and to stay in line with our
leaders. We have a large number of
skill and unsklll woman and men
with a raped increase each week.
(.Continued on pege eight.!
State Board, With No Labor
Member, Wa» H el pleas;
Googg Sava New Code
Ruling Expected. .
Shelby's threatened mill
strike, which union members
claim would have stopped the
Cleveland Cloth Mill this
morning and other local mills
later, was averted late yes
terday afternoon by a last*
minute decision of the Na
tional Cotton Textile Indus
trial Relations board, meet
ing at the Hotel Charles,
which ruled that workers
were to continue on their five
loom basis until a final decis
ion could be announced from
Washington later this week.
George L. Oooge, personal rep
reeentative of William Green, presi
dent of the American Federation of
labor, sat unofficially on the na
tional board as substitute for Major
Barry, its labor representative. Dr.
Robert Bruere, chairman, and Ben
H. Oars of Furman university were
the other members.
State Board Helpless
The North Carolina industrial re
lations board, headed by Theodore
Johnson of stats college, acted as
a fact-finding committee In the
dispute, but was unable to render a
decision because It had no labor
representative, E. T. Cornelius, the
labor man, had resigned, and diffi
vift*rn B twnt 4r- Hf ffiTfy
cedure of appointing a proxy.
This dramatic action erf the Na
tional Board, suddenly convened to
Shelby on Sunday, ended a dispute
of more than a wek which began
in the Cleveland Cloth mill when
workers refused to abide by their
agreement to take six looms on
Monday. \
It was the contention of O.
Mull, secretary-treasurer of the mill
and partner of former Governor O
Max Gardner, that ho was acting
under the textile code, and was not
violating It, In that he merely talc
ed his men to aocept the machine
load they had been accustomed to
last fall—which was, he says, ac
cording to the code.
Admit Agreement
The shop committee admitted
agreeing to return to six looms when
light weaving began, but challenged
the mill contention that all bad
yarn had been eliminated. This
(Continued on page eight.)
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