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Late News
the markets
Cotton, spot —.— u to 15c
Cotton seed, ton, wagon.23.00
Cotton seed, ton, carlots-25.00
Warmer
Weather forecast for North Caro
lina' Partly clondy, probably a Ht
warmer tonight. Fair and warm
er tomorrow In northern part of
state.
New Premier
By UNITED PRESS
Parts, Feb. 7.—Gaston Doumer
*ue. ex-president of France, today
accepted the post of premier to
succeed Edouard Daladler "upon
conditions." government officials
said. The historic Place de la Con
corde has been abandoned by the
authorities to the milling, fighting,
mob of 10,000 rioters, as President
Albert UeBrun straggled to form a
new government.
No Delay
By UNITED PRESS
Washington, Feb. 7.—Postmaster
General James A. Farley promised
today that there would be no un
necessary delay by the post office
department In acting upon the sen
ate disclosures of airmail contracts.
Accuse Bruce
By UNITED PRESS
Washington. Feb. 7.—Chairman
Black, of the Senate Airmail Inves
tigating Committee today charged
that government specification! were
drawn np in 1931 In such a manner
that Frank Brace, Memphis manu
facturer, has a monopoly on wood
floor laying contracts In post of
fices throughout the country.
Taper Off CWA
Washington, Feb. 7.—Roosevelt
today reiterated that his decision to
taper off CWA activities after May
1st, was unchanged, despite reports
to the contrary.
The March
Of Events
Reign Of Terror
Just 121 years ago, In 1793, fur
ious Paris mobs began the first
French Reign of Terror and the
famed headsman, Sanson the
Great, ran the gutters red with
royal blood, Including that of King
Louis XVI and the proud Austrian,
Marie Antoinette. The Revolution
began In the spring of 1789. Yes
terday, another Reign of Terror be
gan in Paris as mobs revolted
against the government, but this
time there are among them many
who would have another King. They
want the Duke de Guise, pretend
er to the throne. Throngs battled
with police for hours, set fire to
the ministry of marines, and the
death toll may reach a score or
more. The Place de la Concorde
where the first revolution sprang
up, the Rue Rivoli and the boule
barrts blazed until long after mid
night as the mobs built bonfires.
Silver Gambling
Treasury agents sent to New York
to survey speculative silver stocks
will investigate reports that a vast
amount of the metal in bullion
form Is held by the Guggenheim
and other Interests, the United
Press reported this morning. Ap
parently, the belief is strong that
silver may be monetized, and the
speculators are said to be getting
ready to cash in.
Crop Control
Rigid licensing of farmers under
rigid compulsion is part of the bill
officials of the farm administration
have sent to the White House. The
proposed amendment to the farm
act would allow the administration
to enter directly Into marketing
agreements with the producers. If
these pacts were to be made effect
!'e, the administration would have
to be given authority to bind co
operators to observe their terms.
Crime Cost
Note on Civilization, American
*tyles. 1934: Anti-crime authorities
ast nisht revealed that during the
Past year kidnapers had demanded
*' 000.000 In cases reported to the
authorities. It cost the government
*1.00.000 to capture and convict the
‘ ®chine Gun Kelly gang which
kidnaped Urschel.
Wages
Said Henry Ford yesterday:
Wages have got to come back in
s country before we can say we
nave come very far out of the hole
e kest economy Industry car
Practice is to pay good wages ... I
r"ubt if the theorists can do muen
about it, but if the industrial lead
ers of the country would give it
'°me thought I am confident a big
forward step could be taken”
VOL. XL, No. 17
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SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7, 1984 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Shelby Merchants
To Establish NRA
Authority Here
Chamber Commerce
Foster Action
Code Authority To Regulate NRA
Activities Locally; To Be Es
tablished Soon.
The Shelby chamber of commerce
and merchants association through
the merchants bureau plans to es
tablish a local retail code authority
under the provisions of the NRA as
soon as possible. Cooperation of all
local retailers is desired in order
that such an authority may be set
up as soon a possible.
The following information re
leased by the NRA will be of inter
est to merchants and will show the
need as well as the advisability of
establishing such an organization,
which can be operated as a part of
the merchants bureau:
“Retail trade is to be regulated
under the National Industrial Re
covery act. The NRA is determined
upon this but wants self-regulation
through national and local retail
code authorities.
Small Towns Slow
“NRA intends that every com
munity of more than 2,500 popula
tion shall have its LRCA for ad
ministration of the retail code. In
many of the larger cities LRCA’s
have been organized and are func
tioning. But smaller cities and towns
have been slower to act.
"In those localities where code au
thorities have not been formed, or
are not in process, retailers of lines
of trade subject to the code should
immediately take action toward or
ganizing. They have the responsi
bility and the opportunity to choose
representatives for their respective
divisions and to make application
I to the NRCA for authority to oper
ate.
"Whether retailing is to have
self-regulation under NIRA or will
have imposed upon it by the admin
istration some other plan much less
to retailers’ liking depends upon
the alacrity of retailers to act with
a disposition and ability to enforce
the code.
“To gain maximum benefits un
der the code and to retain self-reg
ulation, act promptly to set up au
thority in your locality.”
Waldrop’s Brother
Dies In Greenville
Jesse L. Waldrop, a brother of
Rev. H. E. Waldrop of Shelby, died
in a Greenville, S. C. hospital Mon
day and was buried in Greenville
Tuesday. He was 42 years of age
and an employe of the Brandon
Mills. Rev. Mr. Waldrop attended
the funeral which was conducted by
Rev. C. C. Matheny, Rev. LawTence
Roberts and Rev. Mr. Webb
Mr. Waldrop is survived by his wid
ow, Mrs. Evia Waldrop, and by six
sons and daughters. He is also sur
vived by his mother. Mrs. Polly Ann
Waldrop of Spartanburg in addition
to the following brothers and sis
ters: the Rev. H. E. Waldrop, of
Shelby, N. C.; Latta J. Waldrop and
Willis Waldrop of Gastonia; Jose
phus ^Valdrop and A. J. Waldrop, of
Hazelwood; Mrs. B. E. Wood, of
Spartanburg; Mrs. E. M. Peterson
of Asheville, Mrs. D. L. Cody, of
Slater, and Mrs. E. L. Coats of
Charlotte Court House, Va.
Feb. 15th Deadline
For Cotton Sign-up
The final date for signing up in
the cotton reduction campaign wiil
be February 15, R. W. Shoffner.
Cleveland county farm agent, an
nounced this morning on his return
from Raleigh. He urged cotton
growers to be accurate in their es
timates of yield and acreage lest
they be embarrassed later when the
check-up is made.
Benefit From Success of Birthday Balls
Yoon gt tore
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Uncompleted returns on fnnds available from 6.000 birthday balls honoring President Rooeevelt assuring
more than $1,000,000, the trek of sufferers from infantile paralysis has started toward the Warm Springs
Foundation spa. The money raised in the celebration will be used directly to send patient* to th* watering
place and hundreds are preparing to visit the Georgia institution.
Jobless Tenants Return To Soil
Through Story In Cleveland Star
Gee McGee Says
dec* mr. edditor:
Old Dud tint always hen
pecked. even tf hU neighbors
do think bo. He's Just busted
that’s all. Keeping up with
the Joneses has caused more
divorces and suicides, murder:)
and frying-pan fights than
all other agencies combined
Whatever Mrs. Jones rides in
or walks in or sleeps in, Mrs
Yowife must have the same
thing or throw 26 fits per
minute till she either lands
in the insane asylum or the
hospital. Poor man! He ain't
got nothin’ now and never
will have.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd
corry spondent
Passion Play Here
Thursday and Friday
European Religious Play To Be
Presented Through The Auspices
Of American Legion.
The famous European Passion
Play, which originated in the re
ligious ceremonies of the 13th and
14th centuries, will be presented at
the high school auditorium tomor
row and Friday under the auspices
of the local post of the American
Legion and the American Legion
Auxiliary.
There will be a matinee and
evening performance each day
Sections are reserved from the
matinee performances, while the
entire seating arrangement will be
reserved at night. Tickets are or.
sale at the Suttle and Cleveland
drug stores, and may be procured
either by telephone or by applying
for them personally.
New Postoffice For Shelby Urged
By Bulwinkle In PWA Program
Washington. Peb. 6.—Possibilities
for new post office buildings to be
erected at Shelby, Oastonia and
Morgenton were heightened yester
day when Representative A. L. Bul
win£Je of the tenth district called
upon the Public Works administra
tion and urged that means be found
to include them in the federal pro
jects program.
Representative Bulwinkle found
the administration especially in
clined to take early action in re
gard to the proposed post office at
Morganton and was told that it
would be given early consideration
and that the projects proposed for
Gastonia and Shelby would be con
sidered soon.
The public buildings program out
side of the District of Columbia
proposed under the *415.000,000 au
thorization contained In acts from
1926 to 1931 allotted $210,000 for
the Gastonia project, *100,000 for
Morgan ton, and *85,000 for Shelby,
rhese were later reduced 10 per
»nt during the third year of the
Hoover administration.
Just when it appeared last winter
hat the projects would go through,
the post office program fund was
applied to the Civilian Conserva
tion corps, end the entire program
was later taken over by the Public
Works administration. The three
projects have been pending since i
aefore stabilization of the PWA.
which has not as yet included them
n the list of allotments made
As a result, of a news story in
The Star last week, which told
about the 100 Cleveland county ten
ant farmers who yearned to return
to the soil but couldn’t find any
land, J. J. Lattimore, director of
the Re-employment bureau here,
said today that he had received
numerous requests for tenants from
farmers in nearby counties. He has
had letters, he said, from Seven
Pines, Baden county, Mecklenburg,
Lincoln and Gaston.
The Re-employment office con
ducted an extensive drive to place
its tenants, but found no Cle.veland
county farmers with land for them
at present.
Mr. Lattimore said this morning
that his office was on the verge
of cancelling all applications for
work which had not been re-regis
tered, according to the federal pro
gram. This re-registration was un
dertaken in order to obtain an ac
curate usrvey of unemployment,
since many of the persons who reg
istered last fall have either obtain
ed work or have moved to other
communities.
Second Semester
Extension Course
Begins Tuesday
Dr. Morrison to Conduct School For
Teachers Sponsored by the
State University.
The second semester of the ex
tension work for county and city
teachers, sponsored by the Univer
sity of North Carolina, will begin
next Tuesday afternoon. The ini
tial meeting is scheduled to be held
at the court house at 4:30 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon, and each Tues
day until completed.
Dr. Morrison will conduct the
course. The meetings are open lo
any teacher in either the county or
the city.
Tabulate Reports
On Farm Survey
Attacking the amazingly detailed
task of tabulating reports on visits
paid to 2,825 Cleveland county
farm homes, Mrs. Ben H. Goforth
called in all her farm home survey
field workers today to speed the
work along in five-hour shifts.
Seventeen hundred tabulations
have already been made, she said
yesterday.
Lincoln Surgeon
Suffers Attack
Lincolnian, Feb. 5.—Dr. Lester
Avant Crowell, sr., prominent Lin
colnton surgeon, head of the Lin
coln hospital and a former presi
dent of the State Medical Society,
suffered an attack of angina pec
toris yesterday which gave cause
for alarm to members of his fam
ily and friends. Information from
the hospital todry is encouraging
as it gives his condition as much
improved today
Rural Districts
Pay Taxes Better
Summary Reveals
Examination of Comity Records
Shows That Greater Percentage
Of Delinquents In City.
According to Accountant Troy
McKinney’s records, the tax-payers
!‘in the ruin! townships pay their
taxes better than those in Shelby
and Kings Mountain. Of course,
there are a greater number of tax
payers In No. 4 and No. 6 townships
but the average percent shows the
rest far ahead.
A careful scrutiny of the record
for 1930 and 1931 shows the fol
lowing number of delinquent In
the county:
Township
1.
2..
3 .
4 .
5 .
6 ..
1..
8..
B..
10..
11__
1930
-,0
.3
-39
-10
.77
. 6
_6
—>
-0
-9
1931
0
8
21
94
20
lie
10
10
5
1
19
All untaxed property for the two
years 1930 and 1931 will be placed
on sale March 1st.
Masonic Officers
Are Installed Here
J. Claude Weathers to Worshipful
Master. Russel Laughrldge
Retires After 14 Years.
J. Claude Weathers was Installed
as worshipful master of Cleveland
Masonic lodge No. 202 Friday night,
succeeding J. D. Lineberger, retir
ing master. John T. Honeycutt is
the new senior warden, H. C., Wil
son, jr., Junior warden. J. F. Rob
erts, treasurer, George A. Hoyle,
secretary, J. L. Gaffney, senior dea
con, E. B. Shull, Junior deacon, J.
W. Osborne, senior steward, 8. C.
Weaver, Junior steward, James Tid
dy, tyler, George Dover, chaplain.
Russel Laughrldge retired as sec
retary of the lodge after continu
ous service of over fourteen years
J. F. Roberts has been an officer
of the lodge ever since he first
joined.
Gregory’s Brother
Dies In Chester
Augustus Gregory, meat cutter at
Keeter's market on West Warren
street. Shelby, received word this
week that his brother, Gill Means
Oregory, age 40 years, died In the
Veterans hospital near Columbia,
S. C. He had been a long sufferer
with diabetes.
Mr Gregory was a World war
veteran and is survived by his
widow, two sons and one daughter,
together with a number of broth
ers and sisters. His brother from
Shelby attended the funeral con
ducted this afternoon at I o’clock
In Chester, 8 Q
11 New Projects
ForCWA Workers
Ready To Start
To Begin At Soon At
Current Jobt End
4$ Projects Now Under W»j In
Gouty. Work Supervisor
Hord Hays.
Eleven now or supplementary pro
jecU have boon approved by Ra
leigh to occupy Cleveland county
CWA worker* aa fast as current pro
jects are completed. Robert Hord,
work supervisor, said today. The J
drop In the weekly payroll, which
was $7,130 last week, was due to
shorter hours, he said, and not to
any lack of projects to occupy hi* |
workers.
This week, M projects are going '
full tilt under Mr. Hord, who not
only has the Job of speeding these
projects along, but of supervising
the safety of the workers. The first
aid school finished Its oourse here
yesterday, hs said, and the 30 CWA
students took their examinations
So far, Cleveland has a remarkable
record-only 13 accidents reported
since work started last fall, and
these were only minor Injuries.
Compensation Is paid In cases of
serious Injury.
Project* have recently been com
pleted at Grover, Patterson Sprints.
Maple Sprints. Patterson Grove,
Mt. Pleasant, Oliffslde, and a num
ber of other communities. But as
soon as they are completed, new
plans are ready to replace them.
Many of these plans are supple
mentary. because complete data was
not available when they were sub
mitted by the board of education.
: From now on, however, full details
and blue prints must be submitted
i with all projects.
New Projects.
The projects ready for work now,
on which work will start this week
In some instances, are:
Repainting Ebenezer colored
school.
Draining, terracing, grading, etc..
at Bolling Springs.
Supplementary project for paint
ing schools and Improving grounds
at Piedmont Wgh school.
Grading streets, beautification at
Lawndale.
Improving road to Ramneur
school,
Improving grounds and road to
Beaver Dam school.
Painting all county school buses.
There are 85 buses.
Grading 11-acre tract for athletic
field, building fence, and erecting
stands capable of seating BOO spec- ■
tators at Kings Mountain school.
Painting nurses’ home at Shelby
hospital.
Painting building, grading, at
Ellis Chapel school.
Painting four county home build
ings.
Mr. Hord announced yesterday
that 40 men now engaged on main
tenance work would probably be
transferred next week, according to
Instructions from Raleigh, which
were to avoid the use of CWA work
ers on such projects.
Measles Continues
Unabated As More
Local Schools Close
Pallston And Grover Schools Re
open; Rings Mountain And
Dover Schools Close.
The measles epidemic continued
its raging path throughout the
county this week as two more
schools, the Park Grace school In
South Kings Mountain and the
first two grades of the Dover Mill
school, were forced to close. Fallston
and Grover re-opened this week,
after a shut-down of a week or two.
The epidemic shows little sign of
abating In Intensity, but It Is hoped
that other schools, whose doors are
now closed, will be able to continue
their work this week and next.
Swings to Repeal
aw
In i startling reversal of Ms dry
attitude of long standing. Govern
nor L C. Blackwood has askod the
Legislators of Sooth Carolina to
repeal the State prohibition law
and to submit its action to the peo
ple for ratification. The Governor
charged the State was becoming a
haven lot criminals because of its
„„„„ .dry law* _....
ProposedParkway
Is Finest In U. S.,
N.C.Board Asserts
Group Headed By Gov. Bhringhana
Goes To Baltimore To Lay
Plana Before Engineers.
Baltimore, Fob. A delegation
of North Carolinians, headed by
Governor J. 0. B. Khrtnghaus, to
day described to public works reg
ional officials amt federal land
scape architects and engineers "the
greatest scenic highway route that
could be built In America.”
The North Carolinians were giv
ing their proposed location of the
federal highway to be built be
tween the Shenandoah and the
Great Smoky Mountain national
parks. In brief, the argument is
where the 500 miles road shall run
from the peaks of Otter, In Bed
ford county, Va„ to the Great
Smoky Mountain park.
Virginians Split.
Yesterday Virginians, who were
agreed that the route should go
from the Shenandoah to the js'aks
of Otter, split on the question of
the route from there south. One
wanted the route connecting with
the proposed North Carolina route,
another the route connecting with
the proposed Tennessee route which
is to be presented tomorrow. Both
North Carolinians and the Tennes
seeans want the "main entrance"
to the park In their state and the
first scenic highway to be built
through their mountains.
E. B. Jeffress, chairman of the
North Carolina state highway com
mission today described the propos
ed route through his state. Con
necting with the "southern route”
proposed yesterday by one delega
tion of Virginians, it will run
"along the crest of the Blue Ridge"
he said, via the following route:
Roaring Gap, Glendale Springs,
Deep Gap, Blowing Rock, Grand
father mountain, Llnville Switzer
land, Buck Creep Gap, the Pinnacle
by Mount Mitchell—highest moun
tain east of the Rockies, Cralgles,
Down Elk mountains, across the
French Broad at Asheville, through
the Plsgah national forest and by
Mount Plsgah, to Jackson. Bald
mountain gap and through the
Cherokeen Indian reservation to the
park.
“That route offers the govern
ment a chance to build the greatest
scenic route In America,” said Jef
fress. "You can’t find Its equal.”
Moreover, he added, the route pro
posed by his state came near moun
tain resorts already developed while
the Tennessee route, according to
him, passed near no Important re
sorts after leaving Virginia.
Finish January FERA Totals;
Show Wide Food Distribution
1,681 pounds of.meat, 410 pounds
butter, and 642 dozen eggs—that Is
the story of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration's activities in
Cleveland county for the month of
January, according to Mrs. T. W.
Hamrick, who keeps the records for
this branch of the relief work.
Hie complete report follows:
1. (a) Number of resident families
removed from the relief rolls during
January because of employment in
CWA or Civil Works Service pro
gram—80.
(b) Number persons represented
in above families—3*4
J. Number of non-family persons
removed from relief rolls during
January because of employment in
CWA or CW8P 34
A. Amount of F. E. R. A. funds
spent during January for the Civil
Works program including wages and
salaries, materials, traveling expens*
es, and printing—197.48.
4. Amount of FJi.R.A. funds spent
during January for the Civil Works
service program including wages,
salaries and materials—42,568 47
The total payroll for the CWA
during the entire month was $35,
193.97, which averages almost $#,
WO W a week.
Three Identified
In Hold-Up Count;
Hearing On Friday
— a
AH Arc Recognized
By Victims
MW To Scare White Man. Rat
Later Took 111 From AH Negro
On Blanton St. San day.
Gharged with highway robbery.
Including the theft of SIS from an
aged negro, three white men w*>r«
arrested last night and into this
morning by Shelby police and aw
held for preliminary hearing Fri
day morning under bonds of $1,000
each.
The men arrested are Curtis Bar
rett, aged between 40 and 40. who
lives near the Southern depot;
Rvans Ross, about 10, and Arthur
Mode, about 10 All at them were
Identified this morning by B. B.
Frady. an employee of the Boss
Bakery, who was held up by them,
he says, on Blanton street about 11
o’clock Sunday night.
Mode was arrested last night la
a local pool room. The other men
were round at their homes this
morning by police, who had tnuMd
Mode’s progress last night.
Frady. In his account, said that
the three men stopped him about
11 o'clock and ordered him to hold
up his hands. Mode, he said, had
his hand in his coat pocket, pre
tending to have • gun, but Frady
said he wasn’t fooled by this pre
tense and grabbed Mode’s hand.
After a brier struggle, the men fled.
John Rippy, an old negro man,
was robbed of $15 by three men
not much later Sunday night. He
said he could positively identify
two of the men when confronted
with them this morning.
Out Goes A Fuse,
Out Go Workers;
1 Error, No Strike
Mlkiindrrstitndlnj: At Eton Mill
Cleared Up Today And Union
Doesn’t Have To Act,
Fifteen workers in the cotton
spinning department of the Cleve
land Cloth mill who left their loom*
yesterday morning were back At
work today and both (Idea explain
ed with a grin thla morning that
It was all due to a misunderstand
ing. It wasn’t, union men said, a
strike at all.
Trouble began to draw yesterday
when a girl operator said she was
being asked to do too much work.
Her overseer disagreed. She stuck
to her guns and had to quit Even
tually, the show committee called
on the management and all hands
In the department were idle while
the question was being thrashed
out.
Machinery Stopped
Then an uncanny thing happen
ed. Wouldn't happen again hi a
thousand years, said Earl Hamrick,
mill manager. In the middle of the
controversy a fuse blew out
And now it’s a question, whether
that fuse caused a walk out or not.
Some say no and some say yea. Any
way. all machinery stopped, and
some of the workers wen under the
impression the management had
shut down. And they walked out.
It wasn't a strike, really, for tht
union had not acted, and probably
wouldn’t have approved It, for th»
Eton mill has returned its machine
load pending a decision on the
Cleveland cloth case from the na
tional board. It wasn’t a walk-out,
or a firing. Well, It Just seras they
knocked off for the day, and a fuse
blew out.
Retail Meeting
Here Postponed
Insufficient Number Of Members
Present Te Properly Eleet
Officer.
Because of the small number of
the members of the merchants’ as
sociation present at last night's A
meeting, the election of a retail
chairman was postponed until to
morrow morning, when It Is hoped
that more members will be able So
| attend.
The meeting was held at the
courthouse last night, but conflict
ing engagements prevented many
from attending, and it was decided
by the committee to postpone the
election of a chairman until a fair
er representation would be preset*