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W StdnD } VOL. XL. No. 22 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY. FEB. 19. 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ■ 1 MnU Mr r**r. (la adraaaai _ UK Carrier, oar r»»r, (in adranaa) _ UK Late News the markets Colton. spot . t*tt *® 13V<i Colton seed, ton, wagon .... 28.011 Cotion seed. ton, carlota -30.011 Cold Wave Fair and much colder with a cole „avf tonight. Tuesday fair and colder in east and central portions Denies Frauds By UNITED PRESS Washington, Feb. 19.—Walter groan, former postmaster general during the Hoover administration, appeared voluntarily before the senate air mail committee today and denied charges of collusion and fraud of contract awards during his administration. Brown attacked Far lev's recent cancellation of domestic air mall contracts calling it a “co lonial Injustice,” and said that the action would destroy the nation's air lines. No Telephones By UNITED PRESS Vienna, Feb. 19.—Telephone serv ice with a number of west Austrian towns was severed at noon today, and it was feared that some ab normal disturbance had occurred. Officials said that they were sure that there had been sabotage. The March Of Events Army Flies Mail The army flies the air mail to day, making Its debut with the handicap of dirty weather. The new pilots were faced with The “practical impossibility” of flying •Hell's Stretch.” as the Newark Cleveland run is called by airmen. Brigadier General Oscar Westovei has been appointed commander ot the newly-established Army Air r.nmx Mail Orterations with head quarters In Washington. Prom there Mill be controlled the three nation al zones in which the Army will carry air mail. New Belgian King Popular King Albert of Belgium, beloved of his subjects and well liked by all the world, was killed yesterday on a mountain climb in his own realm. As Belgium mourns, there is joy in the thought that his successor, too, is popular, and is a student of government. Leopold III. 32-vear-old prince, to a democrat, a soldier and a sober student. He vol unteered as a common soldier in world war at the age of 14 and he married Princess Astrid of Greece in a wedding that was a real love match. Austria Kills 5 Five members of the Socialist rebel Schutzbund were put to death by the bayonet yesterday during iso lated skirmishes as government troops continued mopping up in the drive to suppress Socialist up risings. The rebels were bound by a home-guard squad manning a ma chine gun. Shooting broke out in other quarters, but the country as a w’hole was reported quiet yester day. Billions For Homes The Roosevelt administration ftas begun a long range study of mass housing, designed to direct the ex penditure of from 30 to 40 billion dollars of private funds within the next 10 years. These huge costs are beyond government scope, the president says, and he has appoint ed four members of his cabinet to make the survey with a view to ftnnding out how private capital might be stimulated in this field. Recovery Speeds Recovery in both industry and trade continued briskly during the past week, according to reports from many parts of the country. Large crowds flocked to stores on Lin coln's birthday sales. Dun and Bradstreet said. In industry, an in creased number of scattered fac tories began to work overtime. The largest increases have been report ed In areas benefittsed by CWA and P,,A forces, the statisticians said. Lindy Denies Gift Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is *ued a statement last night saying *s total profits from stocks and warrants, exclusive of reinvestments them, have been $187,838.55 roe Colonel denied that he had ever received a gift of stock, stock options or warrants. He is technical **?riser for Pan-American Airways * ose contracts have not been can ? ®d, and Transcontinental and western Air, which did lose its contracts. Cleveland B. And L. to Hold Annual Meet am'ual meeting of the Cleve 'Building and Loan association be held Wednesday afternoon ebruary 21st at 3 o'clock in the di -etor*- room of the Union Trust Cotton Sign-Up I Ends Wednesday j Says Mr. Shoffner Extension Is Acorded For This County Acreage Increase Is Forbidden And May Canse Checks To Be 1 Withheld. Two important statements were is sued this morning from the office of R. W. Shoffner, county agent, bearing on the cotton control cam paign. In the first place, the sign up will not close until Wednesday evening of this week. In the sec ond place, farmers who sign con tracts are warned against planting more acreas than is allowed, other wise their checks might be with held. Mr. 8hoffner’s statement reads as follows: “This is to give to the farmers the official notice that the time for signing contracts closed Feb. 15. However, due to some unfinished contracts in the county, we have extended the time in this county only through Wednesday, Feb. 21; and this will be the “dead-line” for receiving contracts in the office. The campaign has been in progress for some time and everybody has heard of it and had plenty of time to make h4s application. "There are some points that I would like to stress that might cause misunderstanding in regard to the signed contracts. Any producer who signs a contract and receives his quota to plant for this year can not go to another farm and plant additional acres or can he rent ad ditional land and plant it. Before anyone goes to this trouble and ex pciioc ui puituiK in ttuuiuuuni acres, please investigate the matter; be cause your payments on your con tracts will be withheld due to this violation of your contract. The acres planted to cotton this year should conform to what your ap plication calls for. Do not take a chanoe on increasing your acres on your farm a(bove your quota. You will be sent a copy of your contracts n a short time.” AUP.T.A. Groups To Meet In Joint Session Tonight Presentation Of High School Proj ect By J. D. Lincberger To Be Feature. i. D. Lineberger will present the project for a new high school build ing as the feature address of a Joint meeting of all parent-teacher groups in Shelby to be held at the high school auditorium tonight at 7:30 o’clock. The meeting will be held as an observance of National Pound- i era day. The meeting will be presided over by Mrs. B. T. Palls, president of the city council of the Parent Teacher association. Music will be furnished by Horace Easom, accom panied by Mrs. Hugh Plaster and Mrs. B. M. Jarrett. A complete program has been arranged for the evening. It will be opened with the song “America” followed, by a devotional led by Dr. E. K. McLarty. The heads of the various P. T. A. groups will make their respective reports, followed by the main address of the evening, the new high school building presenta tion by J. D. Lineberger. Merchant Group Seeks To Check Forged Check Tide Approximately A Dozen Spurious Checks Passed To Merchants In Past Two Weeks. The merchants association is ask ing merchants tor their own pro tection not to cash any checks un less they know the person present ing the check. This is being done as a last resort for stemming the re cent tide of forged checks, of which there have been more than a doz en passed in the last two weeks The checks are made out on local people, local firms, and or the state. Mr*. Plaster Write* On Music In Schools In the current issue of the North Carolina Teacher, appears an in teresting article written by Mrs.. Hugh Plaster of Shelby, the title of which is “The Importance of Music in the Public Schools.” This maga zine circulates largely among the teachers of North Carolina and is devoted to educational topics. Mrs Plaster is an authority on music, especially as it relates to public schools and her article is receiving great praise I IsaamT 7 . / t tockSprA Denver SAN KAHC/l Kansas 01 WidtiMt/ us Vegas Daytons taatk Army Birds Take Postal Oath as Mail Carriers A striking scene it Mitchel Field, N. Y., m Post master Tnomas J. Hartnett, of Hempstead, L. I* under authority of Postmaster General Farley, swears in a group of U. S. Army fliers as mail carriers. This group will operate from Newark, N. J„ airport. Man at top shows the routes, from coast to-coast, which will be covered by the army’s flying postmen until such time as new contracts are awarded. \ Junior Class Leads Scholarship InHighSchoolMid-TermReports; GrammarGradeHonorRollIssued Gee McGee Says flat rock, a C., Febby It, 1934 deer nr. edditor: pine pardon me asking yoa again to correct come mis takes In my coll am, bat yoa almost mint me last ttiesday. i said that a fine baby boy had benn homed to mr. and mrs. jhon hay; printed that he had benn horned to mr A mrs jnle hay. Jnle has benn dead S yr. I stayed ont of town X days onner count of this. the shower was hell for miss dessie mae lummox; not miss bessie may lemmons, and it was hell at the ressidence of the late mr. bob robbins, and not at the dobbins homestead by his widder. she is married agin and ancera to the name of mrs. arch bowmens, yores trulle, mike Clark, rfd. eorry spondent. (Read more of Gee McGee on the editorial page). Wray To Occupy Shaw Clothing Co A. ▼. Wray and Six Sons havi purchased the fixtures and takei over the lease on the store roon occupied by Shaw Clothing Co. it the Blanton block. A removal salt of men’s furnishings will begin tht week In preparation for the occu pancy of this separate store roon by Wray's men furnishing depart ment. Frank Morris Out For Gaston Sherifl Frank Morris, well-known Gas Ionian, and brother of Casey Morri: of this city, has announced his can dldacy for sheriff of Gaston coun ty in the June primaries. Mr. Mor ris is the only new candidate to an nounce for the nomination. 19% of Shelby High’s Students Make Honor Roll Shelby high school’s junior class led the school last month in schol arship, according to the honor foil released yesterday. Twenty-seven per cent of this class made the mid term roll, while only 20 per cent of the seniors. 17 per cent of the sophomores and 10 percent of the freshmen were listed. The sen iors fell behind one per cent from last month, and the frosh gained one. The average for the entire schools is 10 percent. Honor rolls were also issued for the Graham, Jefferson, LaFayette, Marion, Morgan and Washington schools. Beginning with the high school, here are the best scholars for the term: Shelby High School Seniors: Paul Bullington, Paul McGinty, Horace McSwain, J. M. Vaughn, Walter Panning, Louise Austell, Betsy Eskridge, Margaret Lee Liles, Esther Ann Quinn, Mar garet Thompson, Mary Wells, Mary Sue Whitaker, Sara White. Juniors: Harold Bettis, Jeff Con nor, O. V. Hamrick, Jr., Hill Hud son, Keith Shull, Marlon Bass, Jeanette Beheler, Margaret Ham rick, Prances Hughes, Helen Sue Kendrick, Marie King, Louise Ly brand, Nancy McGowan, Mary Rachel Parks, Marlyn Smith, Mar garet Tedder, Catherine Wilson, James Gallimore, Robert Wilson, Prances Blanton, Gaynel Duncan, Inez Gaskey, Helen Wilson, J. D. j Cash. Sophomores: N. C. Blanton, John 'Dorsey, Richard Jones, Eugene Fos | ton, Louise Brown, Ruth Byers, Helen Carrick, Ruth Cline. Gwyn : Davis. Mildred Greenway, Elizabeth Harris, Ruby Morgan, Jeanette Post, Jane Washburn, Ottie White, .; Louise Whitener, Gladys Bland, ' i Germaine Gold, Eleanor Hoey, Dovie Logan, Kathryn Morgan, Carolyn Whitaker. Freshmen: Carl Gallimore, James j (Continued on page eight). | Local Man Named State President By Textile Union P. I. Christopher, Secretory Of Le eel Union, Is Honored In Meet ing In Salisbury. P. R. Christopher of Shelby, sec retary of the local textile union, was elected president of the North Carolina federation of Textile Workers at a meeting to Salisbury yesterday. The session put in full time hear ing reports, electing officers and hearing an address by Oeorge L. Googe, southern representative of the American Federation of Labor, who explained section seventeen of the textile code and gave instruc tions about proper channels through which to make complaints. Promote Labor Paper. Resolutions adopted included call for establishment of a North Car olina newspaper for textile work ers. The establishment immediate ly of a regional labor board in North Carolina, condemning use of window cards showing merchants to be fair to labor except cards furnished by union label depart ment of A. F. L. calling for a five day, five hour work week and gov emnment insurance for unemploy ed, sickness, old age, accident and maternity, abolishment of the stretch-out system In industry and a ban on company stores, villages and company unions. Officers elected inncluded: 8. Davis, Burlington, first vice-presi dent; Paul Hill, Asheboro. second vice-president; J. D. Buie, Belmont, secretary-treasurer. A resolution was passed sympathizing with the workers of Austria in their struggle with fascism. Cotton Off Eight Points From Saturday At 2 o’clock today cotton on the New York exchange was quoted March 12.14 and May 12.28, eight points below Saturday’s close. It was expected that the market would bound upward since President Roosevelt has approved the Bank head bill calling for compulsory con trol of this year’s crop Farm Home Survey Reveals How The Other Three-Fourths Live— And That Their Greatest Need Is Better Sanitation, And Screens In a detailed report made publii this morning, Mrs. Ben H. Goforth director of the farm home surve; recently completed here as part o a national research designed to bet tr farm living, gives a mass o facts and figures about how inon than otje-half of this communit; lives. Mrs. Goforth’s assistants visitei 2,871 homes, In which 15,405 per sons live—in 14,576 rooms, only 8, 270 of which are bedrooms. In om home, she said, there were 14 per sons in a single room. A questionnaire was part of th survey, and one of the most im portant questions was this: “Sup : pose you could borrow WOO on easy terms, would you take It, and what ] would you do with it?” Only 384 householders thought they could E afford such a loan at 3 percent ■ over ten years. 8;x hundred and f twenty-four said they wouldn’t take ’ It. The others skipped this question. ' The greatest need In these seven townships, which may be taken as 1 a fair index foi conditions in the whole county, is better sanitation. In the township surveyed, there ■ are 1.248 outdoor privies, only 347 of them unproved, and there ought to be 2.302 good ones. (The CWA is • now building them, 4,000 of the • most modern calibre, to be exact) • Of the most needed improvements. all householders agreed upon sani tation. The next moet necessary thing, in which they all agreed, was screen ed doors and windows—only a few indicated a desire for better light ing facilities. Third on the required list was improve outdoor walls for their houses, and fourth was the desire for an additional room. Of the homes visited, 1,900 are un nalnted. 797 painted, four stucco, 78 built of logs, two of stone and one of dirt Five hundred and ninty houses are under 10 years old. There are 478 homes more than 50 years old Of all these. 2.398 are one story homes and 473 more than one. Mrs. Goforth's assistants found that 84 new houses are planned for construction within the next three years, which would mean an addi tion of 153 rooms. She estimates that 1.170 more bedrooms and 1. 091 more living rooms are required now. The cost of the new homes to be built would be $32,050. On Im provements contemplated within the next 18 months, $108,451 In 324 Instances, householders said, money available from local credit sources If money were made available by the government at 3 per cent for a ten year period, the amount that would be borrowed In Cleveland county comes to $136,581, the report shows Cleveland Paid $49,099 Sales Tax First Sir Months Properly Levy Relief Partly Made Up Estimated That Stirs Tax WUI no $56,941 Lm Than fifteen Cent Property Tai. (By M. K. DlINNAOtN) Raleigh, Peb. 1#.—Property tax relief of 111.461,505 granted by thn ten general assembly was on'y partially made up In the sales tax collections, which, on the basis of actual collections for the first six months of operation of the tax. in dicate the aalee tax will be $6,635. 566, which would still leave $4,826, 009 in total relief, according to ta blet Issued by Director Harry Mc Mullan of assessments and collec tions of the revenue department Expect Fall Inereaat. The sales tax total Is twice the amount collected for sales In the first six months of the operation of the tax. or $3,317,745, which, of ficials says, may be somewhat In creased when collections for the full 12 months are recorded. Included In the property tax re duction are four Items: 15-cent state-wide ad valorem tax; current expenses for special charter schools special tax districts and for county wide levies. The first three were eliminated entirely and the last, item except for charges for main tenance of plant and fixed charg ss, for which some of the counties made levies. Reports so far receiv ed Indicate that two-thirds of the county-wide levies tor current ex penses was eliminated. Also Mr. McMullan points out, the table does not include supplements vot ed in a few counties since the 1B33 legislature. Also, he states, taxes on sales for chain stores, paid at one point inside or outside the state, an prorated to the several counties in which sales were made. Mecklenburg paid the highest tax in six months, $280,098; Out I ford paid <323,341; Forsyth $186,896: Wake $148,767; Buncombe $143,384; Durham $118,843; Gaston $102,007. Clay paid the least, $1,180: Camden tl.wa: elites $1,988. How Cleveland Stands. Durham receives highest poten tial reduction, the property tax re duction, less the sales tax to be paid, the saving being $427,933; Guilford received a $377,812 reduc tion; Forsyth $374,373; Buncombe $329; Wake $387,980; Mecklenburg $218,870. Cleveland county’s sales tax for six months amounted to $49,099. That amount doubled would ' be $94,198 for a year. The property tax reduction for 1933 should have be»n $181,139, by which it 1s seen that this county should pay $86,941 less in sales tax than the total reduc tion in property tax afforded by the 1933 general assembly. In only two counties, Caldwell and Pitt, is the sales tax shown to be greater than the property tax reduction. Mrs. Towery Dies In Golden Valley Buried Friday At First Broad Bap tist Church, Husband And Seven Children Survive. Mrs. J. E. Towery died Wednes day at midnight at her home in Golden Valley township of Ruther ford county. She was 61 years of age and had .been sick with pneu monia. Before marriage Mrs. Tow ery was Miss Ellen Blankenship. She was the mother of eight chil dren, seven of whom still live, to gether with her husband and par ents. Mrs. Towery was married 44 years ago last December. She was a kind hearted, devoted wife and mother and a faithful member of the First Broad church. Funeral services were held there at one o’clock Friday afternoon by Rev. G. M. Gold and Rev. Z. D. Harrill. CWA Here Will Drop 225 Workers Friday; To Re-Adjust Wages Fights for Dollfuss Prise* Ernst Rudiger eon Star hembcrg, commander of the Faacist Helmwenr, who is supporting Chan 1 eellor Englebert Dollfusa in hi* fight against Socialist revolution aries that attempted to via aosM Union Chagrined By Defeat, But Accepts 6 Looms Men Back At Work At Cleve Cloth, And Willing To “Take It On Chin”; Organiser Here. Disappointed, hot “willing to take it on the chin," union members workers at the Cleveland Cloth mill returned to their looms this morn ing, operating six to the man in stead of five, according to the de cision decreed against them by the National Cotton Textile board last week. The workers met In Onion hall last night and heard an address by O. W. Bollck, United Textile Work ers organiser, who came on from Salisbury and will confer with un ion men here a few days. Mr. Bo Uck said the workers were bitterly disappointed by the decision, but would abide by their agreement to accept the terms of arbitration. O, M. Mull, secretary-treasurer of the Cleveland Cloth mill, said today that the natural turn-over In em ployment and the necessity of em ploying more men to tune up new machinery made It doubtful that the shift to six looms would necessitate discharging any men at all. ----—■— Florence Jones Is Improving Slowly Louis Sentell In Jail Awaiting Out come Of Her Injuries Before A Hearing. Florence Jones. Byrum Hosiery mill worker who was shot Thursday at noon by Louis Sen tell, Is "doing very nicely” at the Shelby hospital where she has been a patient since her injury. Miss Jones underwent an operation for the removal of the shot from her body. Sentell is in Jail awaiting the outcome of Miss Jones before he will be given a hearing Sentell was free only seven hours before he was caught near Columbus In Polk county. Sheriff Cline and Chief Wilkins were in pursuit when they overtook Sentell in his car. headed westward. A tire had blown out and he was on the rim, chugging up a hill at slow speed when overtaken by the officers. Sentell did not re sist the officers. He had with him his shotgun which he had used in firing into the girls walking to their boarding house in South Shelby during the noon hour. i Home I» Burned Sunday Afternoon The home of John Dyer who liv ed on the Hamrick place near Sa lem church on the Shelby-Kings Mountain road was destroyed bv fire Sunday afternoon. The home was completely destroyed and prac tically all of the nousehold goods Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have eight children. All members of the fam ily except three children were away from home at the time the fire was discovered. The children say the fire started from a heater in one of the rooms Least Needy Will Be Laid Off First, Woodson Says Home Project, Will End, Bat Sani tation, Fairgrounds And Rmn Will Be Completed. Approximately 236 Cleveland county workers will lw dropped from the payroll Friday, Harry Woodson, administrator oald thl* morning, in line with the Federal program to "taper off" on thia kind of relief work. Mr*. Thomas O'Berry state administrator, has received in structlons from Washington to die mlee 20,000 workers on Friday, at that the state OWA quota ehall not exceed 66,000. "We will lay off those who need the work the least." Mr. Woodson said. “First to go will be those workers in whose family somebody else Is on OWA or la gainfully em ployed. There can be only one work er to a family according to the pro gram. It applies to women as well ns to men.” Drape 11% Per Week, Instructions have been to dismiss ten per oent of the workers each week In this gradual lay-off, and the greatest number of dismissals will be made in oommunitiea which offer a "seasonable" opportunity for employment. This affects Cleveland county, which hoe a cotton crop coming along. Co-Incident with the instructions to dismiss workers, an order was received here from state headquar ters to disregard the revised sug gested wage rate schedule, which was published in The "'Star last week. Wage rates on all projects will remain the same. Moreover, in* structlons have also been received to adjust these rates to conform with the prevalent rate paid In the community far the same type oi work. This Is to become effective not later than Match 3. But in no instance is the rate to be put below 30c. an hour, Mr. Wood son said. ( WA Service Ends. Further instructions received this morning were to place all Civil Works Service employees, which Includes the special projects devis ed to employ women, such as cleri cal jobs, under straight CWA. In the tapering off process, it will be necessary to drop some projects entirely, Mr. Woodson said. Thi least necessary ones will be aban doned, he said. “And be assured, the really needy workers will be the last to go." he added. In no Instance wlU projects liks the Cleveland county fairgrounds the county sanitary project, sewer and water projects be dropped until completed, Mr. Woodson said. The sanitary project has* made rapid progress recently. A total of j 400 privies has been built, 64 of them last week. American Legion Meets The American Legion will meet j tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock at i the legion hall. Bureau Aides Here Transferred As Reward For Work ; ' ™ _■ ■■ . State Supervisor Lauds Work Ol B E. Weathers’ Local Bureau Of Federal Project. Earl H. Lutz and Kendall Beam assistants to B. E. Weathers, were ordered to report to Oastonla and Asheville, respectively, according tc a telegram received by Mr. Weath ers from G. W. Forster, state sup ervisor of the Federal Bureau of Farm Tax Dellnqulncles, Lane Values and Foreclosures. Mr. Forster was through Shelby last week, and highly praised the work of the local bureau. The transfer comes as a reward lor the efficiency of the work done here. Mr. Forster also offered to transfer Mrs. Annie Smith Long and Mrs Jamas Harris, the other two assist ants, but they prefererd to remain here. Beam will take over the super vision of the Asheville bureau am Lutz will aid the Gastonia branch In getting started. For the time be ing. no one will be appointed to fiH the vacated posts, as it is believed that when the work of the two as sistants la completed, they will re turn here. Mr. Weathers has re ceived no authority to fill the posta. and the two remaining assistants and the supervisor will carry on the work.